The Red King
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2 hours ago, Thurman#1 said:
"The other thirteen they did wonderfully"?
That's a real overstatement, "wonderfully."
Yeah, except for those three games they were pretty decent, better than most people have given them credit for. "Great"? Nah.
Is it? Points surrendered...the three terrible games bolded. Keep in mind the defense did this even given the number of 3-and-outs we had. That was one tired D that could have thrown the towel in, but didn't.
vs. Jets: 12, Panthers: 9, Broncos: 16, Falcons: 17, Bengals: 20, Bucs: 27, Raiders: 14, Jets: 34, Saints: 47, Chargers: 54, Chiefs: 10, Pats: 23, Colts: 7, Dolphins: 16, Pats: 37, Dolphins: 16, Jags: 10
Aside from that three game collapse, the D gave up an average of 16.7 points a game, despite being stranded out on the field by our ineffective offense. First Pats game was 9-3 at halftime, second was 13-13. Those three games aside, you don't think that defense played wonderfully?
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Oh, to be clear, while I still predict 9-7, I openly admit there can be regression and do not attack/insult people who suggest there might be (people who say there will is another story...I hate opinion states as fact). I fully respect people that put them around six wins even if I don't agree with them. Two wins, while technically possible, is just silly (and if they win two or less games I'll openly admit I was wrong). Buffalo plays Miami and the Jets twice, and those two game alone are normally worth 2-3 wins. So, the argument is either Buffalo will win two against those two teams, and fail to beat any other team...or Buffalo won't even win two of four against those two. Now, I realize the Jets drafting a rookie QB automatically makes them a much-improved, better then Buffalo team by default (wait, did I forget /sarcasm tag?), but still...
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Click-bait idiocy. This year's "The Bills season is over before it started."
Seriously, did a Buffalo Bill pee in this guy's cereal or something at some point? ?
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1 minute ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:
...have your dog take you for a long walk to calm you down.......rarefied air on that high horse of yours is having an adverse cerebral affect...good Lord........
You took a shot at me, as if using common football terms were akin to using quantum physics. So I simplified it. No high horse here. Good lord, indeed. *shrugs*
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47 minutes ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:
...AND at the end of the day, take the square root of your kid's birthday, multiply by your weight, divide by your license plate number, times the length of your dog's tail and somehow the result was....PLAYOFFS.....go figure......well beyond my pay grade............
...heaven forbid I use something confusing like common football terms to explain. Lemmie try again...
Our QB will throw the brown thing deep this season. That means the people in football uniforms that don't match Buffalo will have to play further back. That means less of them at the line of scrim...sorry...that line the ball stars on each play...and that means less people right on top of the runn...sorry...the Bills player that carries the ball. This will make it easier to run.
Better? I can draw a picture if it will help, but I hope this is good enough. No square roots or dog's tails.
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5 hours ago, SoTier said:
Actually, Blake Bortles played pretty well most of the year, so your statement is dead wrong. Moreover, why do you think that the Bills will be able to run the ball? They weren't nearly as good running the ball last season as they were the season before, and they've lost their 3 top OLers. They've added only 1 veteran lineman, and the prospects of finding decent OLers off the waiver wire are between slim and none. There's also no guarantee that the QBing will be an improvement over last year, either.
FTR, the Bills didn't have a "great" defense last season.
Look at points surrendered. There was a horrific three-game stretch, the other thirteen they did wonderfully. They held the Jags to ten points in their own stadium. They kept the Bills in both NE games for a full three quarters when the offense did absolutely zilch. Nine points surrendered in a loss to Carolina, another playoff team. You still want to claim it wasn't a great defense?
Shifting gears to the run game. Yes, the running game had hiccups. That's to be expected when your QB refuses to throw deep allowing the defense to stack everyone in the box like a poker player pushing his chips all-in. Regardless which QB plays this year, they should at least stretch the field, forcing opposing defenses to play more honestly, giving our running backs something other then a brick wall to run into every down.
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Still appreciate what they did, and will continue to pull for them until they get in our way. ?
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Rodak said the Bills' season was over before it started last year and has yet to eat a feather. There will be no crow, as there is no accountability.
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It seems like an easy enough job if all the other media outlets are an example. Predict Buffalo to go 4-12, mention trading Tyrod as a positive, yet penalize the team. Question Allen no matter what he does...exaggerate the negative, question the positive. Generate click-bait by simulating contraversy and rile up fans.
...that about covers it, right? XD
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Utterly absurd.
The Bills went 9-7 last year with a new head coach. They went 9-7 thanks to the strong play of their defense. They leaned hard on the D and prayed the O put up enough points to win. That defense has a year under their belt in this system and personnel changes have only made the unit stronger. The crutch the team leaned on is all the stronger, yet we're somehow going to drop from 9 wins to 2? Defense alone will win us at least four games this season, if not more.
I know the offense has people nervous and doubting, but let's be honest, the offense wasn't our strong suit anyway last season.
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Regarding Gronk, a soldier can still kill a man with a combat knife or his bare hands, should someone knock the gun out of his hands. I still like my chances a lot better if the soldier doesn't have the gun. Saying the Pats can still win without Gronk is akin to saying a soldier can kill without a gun. Yes, technically true, but a hell of a lot harder to pull off.
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Let's get daring...
1) Edmunds is DROY.
2) AJM is the starting QB unless injured or the Bills are eliminated from playoff contention, at which point Allen will step in.
3) The Bills win one of two games against the Patriots.
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Help is there, he had the opportunity to take it, and instead mocked the idea (and one person offering help) publically on Twitter. So, I see both sides. I can give him a bit of a pass based on mental illness, but can still fault him for rejecting the help so many offered.
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Still the same owner, still the same coach. Really, nothing more any of us can say to sway the others at this point. We all have opinions, time will tell who is right. Regardless, this will be a fun thread to revisit halfway into the season. I hold to my earlier prediction. Cleveland wins six, Buffalo wins nine.
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Nothing new here. D is improved...offense, that comes down to QB, the ultimate ?. I don't think we downgraded. I think AJ will at least be on par with TT. But that's the crux. I don't know for sure, nobody does. Your opinion on past and current QBs make all the difference here. Personally, I see an improved D and an offense at least on-par with last year, and younger faces to boot...so I see a better team. But that's my opinion, nothing more.
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4 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Rodak is a paid journalist. You may not like his take, you may not like his depth of research or lack thereof, but that hardly makes him a troll.
No, his bias does that. He is a known Pats fan who takes every opportunity to take shots at the Bills, especially after choking on the crow he was forced to eat last season when he said the Bills season was over before it started. If he ever actually says anything positive about the Bills in an article, you better believe there is just as much negative in there as well.
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27 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:
The bold is where we disagree. Less than half of the guys that started on those 1-31 teams are starting now. Every year is a different year and a different team. The 2016 Browns record has absolutely no impact on the 2018 Browns record. In the same manner the 2016 Eagles record has no effect on the 2017 Eagles.
I’m not saying that the Browns are a Super Bowl contender. I think that they win 8 games. I don’t think that the Bills win 8. By 2019 though, both teams have a chance to be threats in their division (if the rookie QBs can play). IMO, the Browns are further along than the Bills though. They are better at OL, QB, WR, pass rush, and LB. The Bills should be better at DB and RB but the Browns are good there as well. The Bills have better coaching and should have a more stout run defense.
Again though, they are a year ahead in their rebuild. They had the cap space and a ton of picks. The Bills had picks but not a lot of cap space. By next year the roster should be pretty stacked.
We'll have to agree to disagree. Time will tell which of us was right. This is going to be a fun thread to revisit halfway into the season. I have never seen anyone, nonetheless so many people, pick an 0-16 team to win 8+ games the following season.
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1 hour ago, Kirby Jackson said:
It’s just a different team. The 2018 Browns look nothing like the 2017 Browns.
QB - They turned Kizer into Tyrod and Baker.
DB - They added Gaines, Randall and Ward.
WR- They have a healthy Gordon and added Landry.
OL- They added Corbett and Hubbard.
RB- They added Hyde and Chubb.
LB- They added Kendricks
They are pretty much better everywhere. Usually when a team goes through a transition phase they improve in some areas and get worse in others. The Browns are better across the board.
Which is another area of concern. You add that many players, it takes time for everyone to gel. That's why I see them as a force in 2019, not 2018. Drastic, one year turnarounds are incredibly rare. I won't pull a Rodak and say it can't happen. All I'm saying is that in my opinion it's all a bit premature, wishful thinking. The Browns are a 1-31 team until they show they're not. People seem ready to christen them a legitimate threat in the AFC already based solely on offseason moves.
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6 minutes ago, grb said:
So much babbling, but it's really not that complicated :
- 2015 : Taylor was on a team with a good (not great) offensive cast. He was a little raw but played well, with a passer rating ranked 7th in the NFL, an average of 8yds an attempt, low interception rate, excellent deep ball, and over 500yds on the ground. If you look at Taylor's games when he actually had Watkins and Woods playing, his numbers become stellar : 63.6% comp. 8.25 ypa 27 td passes. 6 ints in fifteen games over two years. That's his ceiling with good (not elite) offense support coupled with a mediocre to bad defense. People come up with their loonnngggggg lists of TT's crippling flaws, but somehow never explain the simplest of facts : When the Bills put a decent level of talent on the field with Taylor, he played well.
- 2016/2017 : Each successive year the Bills gave Taylor less to work with. Granted, much of it was injuries; but some was front office priorities. Taylor's passing rating reduced to 17th/18th with one of the worse receiver situations in the league, no deep threat, spotty (at best) pass protection, and a running game which declined from '16 to '17. Given that mess, isn't it amazing the worst quarterback in the entire history of the universe only fell to the middle of the pack? That apparently is his floor. The two QBs immediately under Taylor's rating last season were Matt Ryan and Jameis Winston. Imagine what Taylor could do with the weapons either of them have, huh?
It doesn't matter what receivers he would have had if he never threw to them. He didn't have the best receivers last season, true, but even when they did get open he'd often still fail to throw it. Unless his receiver was 100% open, in the clear, he wouldn't throw to them. It's a fear/limitation I hope he overcomes in his time with Cleveland, as that fear played a large part in his ineffectiveness last season.
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I still love how some people are so quick to buy into a team going from 1-15 to 0-16 suddenly becoming playoff contenders after a few "sexy" off-season acquisitions while still under the same head coach. Isn't this the same thing I've heard about the Browns the last two years? And how did that work out for them? Do you really expect them to go "zero-to-hero"?
Going from zero wins to 4-6 wins would be an accomplishment, a solid season. 7-8 wins would be a stunning turnaround. 9+ would be a miracle. I do see the Browns contending for a playoff spot...the season after this one.
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6 minutes ago, aristocrat said:
it's so stupid cause the nfl gives the guys taxi cards that give them rides if they're drunk. on top of that uber. so many ways to not do it that it blows my mind people still do it.
It's ego. The players know they have options. It's just the typical "What? You think I'm a f'ing lightweight? I can drive!" *crash*
Hell with taxi cards, if I'm an owner I'd install breathalizers in the ignition of every players' car. >.<
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14 minutes ago, JoPar_v2 said:
Ok fair enough we are arguing semantics then at this point. I don’t see that bolded quote as backhanded but I can see it being interpreted that way. Like I said I don’t like Rodak especially either but there has been so much grave dancing recently with the Buffalo News stuff that I think everyone needs to chill a bit. It’s not cool when people lose their jobs simply because you don’t like their opinion.
I f****d with Sully all the time on twitter, for example. Most of my friends have been blocked by Harrington for similar antics. No one actively lobbied for anyone to be fired however. I don’t want a cadre of beat writers and columnists just reinforcing my opinion all the time, especially if I had (which I don’t) homer tendencies. i would rather have professionals do their jobs and challenge my opinions on our teams.
Never said I wanted him to lose his job. We're talking about people making a living here. However, I simply maintain that the man is extremely biased, and what he says has to be taken with a grain of salt, that's all. I don't just want good news, or people pandering to me. The truth though, is that in Rodak's articles on the Bills, there is always as much negative, if not more, then positive. It's more then a trend, it's a constant. I quickly learned to take absolutely nothing he says at face value as a result. Then when he stupidly went out and said the Bills' season was over before it started last year...not presented as an opinion, no "I think..." or "It looks like..." ...nope, the season was most definitely over, any respect I had for him or anything he wrote, went out the window. I remember telling myself, "Man, I really hope the Bills make the playoffs this season so I can use this to smack that smirk off your face!"...and lucky me, exactly that happened. The Bills made him eat his words and look like an absolute tool. I giggle more then I should every time I think about it.
If the man wrote a few positive articles, I wouldn't mind the negatives. But let's be honest, at this point the Bills could go 19-0, win the Super Bowl 52-0, and Rodak would still criticize the Bills for something asinine like putting the second string in too early, or not early enough. It's just who he is...and my point remains, you need to keep that in mind when reading his articles. I said nothing about the man losing his job. Not sure where you got that from.
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If he quit because of Allen, he's an idiot.
...that being said, I don't believe for a moment this was because of Allen. The draft is simply an excuse. He had to have other reasons for wanting out.
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2 hours ago, JoPar_v2 said:
Pardon? So if that’s your take then where’s the backhanded negative from the piece here? Seems pretty straightforward - allen was inaccurate and bad, then tried again and did better.
QuoteAllen's off-the-charts arm strength has been evident in the velocity of the passes he has thrown; the accuracy seems to be a work in progress. -- Mike Rodak
Bolded it for you. Basically, you will never find a Rodak article about the Bills where the positives outweigh the negatives. He's biased, moreso now after looking like a chump for his "over before it started" prophecy. In this case, I was shocked to see an equal mix of pro and con, rare for him.
Who Will Be The Buffalo Bills Comeback Player Of 2018-2019
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I think Benjamin, really. He's had a chance to heal, and there was zero chemistry with Tyrod. I was at the Saints game, and it was like night and day when Peterman was throwing to him. Regardless of our starting QB, I just have a hunch Benjamin's going to surprise people...including the OP, since he wasn't even on the list. ?