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The Red King

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  1. Something I wonder...Josh Rosen is impressing, Josh Allen is impressing, TT is impressing...everyone is impressing.  Keep in mind teams want to build up their players, so of course a lot of positive comments will come out.  Would we really get any negatives?  I mean if Rosen was struggling, would there really be public reports saying "Josh Rosen disappointing coaches.  GM orders crate of Pepto and ponders his life choices."?  Of course not!  So be it Rosen, Allen or anyone else...take comments that prospects are impressing with a grain of salt.

  2. 5 hours ago, #34fan said:

     

    Why have a report button at all?

     

    Get rid of it.

     

    No one's gonna want to use it anymore, anyway.

     

     

     

    It's not all or nothing.  Once in a great while there will certainly be a post that should be reported.  Something legitimately offensive or such.  The point of this post is some people are a little overeager.  Just because a few people report far more then they should doesn't mean nothing should ever be reported.

  3. I still hold to another 9-7 year following the same template as last year, lean hard on an improved D, hope the O can scrape enough points up to win.  I think the O will be on par with last season, growing pains offset by a QB that will throw breaking opposing Ds out of stacking the box.  I see, overall, a slightly improved team, but hold to 9 wins because I think the schedule is rougher.  Got a funny feeling we steal one from NE this year, though.

  4. 1 hour ago, YoloinOhio said:

     

     

    Um...what?  O.o

     

    ...if...I read this right...the whole point is...racists get away with being racists on ABC shows...so...Roseanne...should have been allowed to get away with racist tweets in real life?  Please, please someone tell me I misinterpreted this.  Please tell me they didn't actually try and make that argument.  Please, for my own sanity.

  5. 42 minutes ago, JPP said:

    It does seem like we always had problems with depth on this team......just making a comment on the running back position though.....we are currently in a much better place now compared to last season with our "outstanding" # 2 in big mike tolbert (sarcasm of course) that we had last season........I think the addition of chris ivory will be welcomed addition plus hopefully cadet will continue to progress (hopefully he's fully recuperated from the injury that is)......Not too much worried about our defence compared to our O-line and again lack of WR's.......

     

    Not always.  The Comeback was spearheaded by backups.  ?

     

    When you're a bad team, you have a hard enough time filling the starting spot with quality players.  Very rarely does a team fill in the backups until their starting 22 are solid.  At the moment the Bills are...well...not solid.  Too many holes still in offense starter spots to worry about backups.  Now, if Buffalo can stabalize their starters in the next year or two, expect the staff to start padding the roster with quality backups.  Until then, yeah, we're gonna have very shaky depth.

  6. 29 minutes ago, formerlyofCtown said:

    How full was the stadium.

     

    Honestly, no idea.  I think packed, but not every seat taken...typical for the '90s Bills when playing a team of NE's (at the time) calibur.  BUF/NE games back then weren't exciting draws to Bills fans then...much like the same is currently true to NE fans.  Definately through a mirror darkly there.

  7. This is why we can't have nice things.  People quibble over every rule, want everything quantified down to the last pixel when common sense should be enough.  I used to be a mod and then admin on a board a decade or so ago and I know I only stepped in when I had to.  From what I can tell, staff here seems the same.

     

    Simply put, we're not idiots.  We all know how to behave and what we should be doing.  If a staff member says something, one of two things happened.  You got carried away and got a private nudge to settle down, or you did something you didn't realize was wrong, and got a private poke from staff letting you know.  When that happens, the staff isn't out to get you!  Most likely they just want the issue done and corrected so they can go back to doing almost anything else.  If people listen, learn and respect that...there shouldn't be further problems.

     

    Sadly, one or more people are not listening, and so we have this thread, one I'm certain the staff would have much preferred not writing.  It's a blanket statement, because the goal is correcting the behavior, not shaming the offender(s).  So, to support the staff, let me be blunt.  Please realise the staff are human, and staff duties are rarely fun.  If a staff member messaged you privately, it's not because they are bored, or a jerk.  There was behavior disruptive to the forum taking place.  Please pay close attention to what is said, and make any adjustments requested.  Good staff members will drop the hammer when need be, for the good of the forum.  But good staff members will usually feel terrible when they have to.  Don't put them in that position.

     

    Listen when the staff tells you something, and just use some common sense when posting.  That's really all it should take.

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  8. 1 hour ago, formerlyofCtown said:

    It's amazing the fan base and support for the Bills with how long they have been bad and mediocre.  We are everywhere.  If the Pats had a 5 year bad stretch their stadium would be empty I believe.  I know that's the case for the Panthers.

     

    Don't forget, during the Super Bowl years the Pats were us.  I remember being at the stadium for those games.  I felt truly bad for one Pats fan who was drunk out of his mind by the second half.  The Bills were crushing the Pats and scored yet again.  During the 'Fight!' song this poor guy barely managed to slur out..."The Bills make me wanna puke!" in rythem to the song.  I couldn't hate him, just...pitied him.  Some Pats fans need longer memories I think, remember their franchise history pre-Brady.  Might make 'em a lil more humble.

  9. 10 minutes ago, THE SLAMMER said:

    Maybe its me but in the olden days, fans of the same team rarely fight about anything

    It was more about who is buying the next beer....

     

    In the olden days when you said something to someone it was to their face.  Internet anonomosity lets people be jerks.  Just Google "John Gabriel's Greater Internet F***wad Theory".  ?

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  10. Still another year to The Process.  Too many holes to fill.  This year the D got beefier and we nabbed our QB.  We're going to follow the same plan as last year, lean hard on the D and hope the O can put up enough points for the win.  After this upcoming season we'll recover a ton of salary cap room.  Next off-season we'll completely overhaul the O through free agency and the draft, custom tailored for our QB.

  11. 1 hour ago, benderbender said:

    That seems to be the point of contention. They seem to think that we already had a QB that could get us to the playoffs, a “veteran” backup, and a developmental rookie. It’s as if they found the need to get a QB superfluous. 

     

    Makes sense, I suppose.  But that's why these early draft grades are just as meaningless as pre-season power rankings.  All comes down to guesswork and opinion.  Could get something just as accurate by rolling a Magic 8-Ball over an Ouijii board.

  12. 51 minutes ago, H2o said:

    This is a prime example of what I am talking about as well. Does anyone here HONESTLY believe that Tyrod is the #12 QB in the NFL? 

     

    NFL QB, or Fantasy Football QB?  As noted earlier by HaplessBillsFan, that site focuses more on FF.  I'm guessing TT's style of play lends itself wonderfully to wracking up FF points, ergo #12 QB.  Likewise, our draft did more to bolster the defense then offense, leaving a ton of questions about taking any Bill in upcoming FF drafts, so I could see how, looking from a more FF mindset that someone could see it as a bad draft.  Me, I still more care about the actual NFL games. ?

  13. 26 minutes ago, Peter said:

    If the the Bengals/Ravens play were repeated 100 times, how many of the 100 times would 4th and 12 from the 49 result in a TD? One of 100?  Two of 100?

     

    If the refs had not thrown the controversial late flag on the Colts on the two point conversion (on a play the Patriots never get a penalty), would the Bills have made the playoffs?

     

    It is great that the Bills made the playoffs, but if you think that there was not some luck involved, we disagree. I am actually happy that we had a bit of luck given that we have not seemed to have had any luck for so long.

     

    The 2018 version of the Buffalo Bills (at least on paper) is not as talented as the 2017 version (which actually performed worse than the 2016 version in point differential and relative offensive and defensive rankings).  As a result, I am going into this season not expecting the team to be in the playoffs so that I will be pleasantly surprised if they do and not overly dissapointed if they do not.

     

    Getting some luck is not the same as them lucking in.  I've said this multiple times.  My gripe is people that attribute it all to luck, belittling the effort and accomplishment of the team.  As for your earlier example...end of the Carolina game, replay it 100 times, how many times does Buffalo make that play, go 10-6 and make the playoffs while Carolina doesn't?  Luck was in play, yes, but it was not the main reason the Bills made it, as some claim.

     

    I also disagree about this year, but that comes down to opinion.  Thanks to offseason moves I see our defense (the main reason the Bills made it, and main reason the JAX game was close) as being even better.  I think the O-line is weaker, but our new starting QB will stretch the field better then TT preventing opponents from stacking the box shutting down Shady and the short passing game.  I think the Bills defense will be better then last year and the offense will at least be on-par with last season resulting in a slightly better team overall.  I still predict another 9-7 season with a week 17 Wild Card birth, this time without help this time...but that's my opinion, we'll see what happens.

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  14. Trying to conclusively grade a draft before anyone takes a snap in a regular season game is akin to judging someone on buying a pack of trading cards before the pack is even open.  All you can judge is...did teams adddess points of need.  You cannot judge how well they did so.  Buffalo got a high-pick QB...their most glaring need.  They nabbed a linebacker, also high need and a defensive tackle which is will be a need with Williams retiring soon.  As such, I think it looks like an outstanding draft.  As to how well these specific players will actually fill the holes...that's impossible to tell right now.  Too early.

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