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His value is greatly overrated in this thread by this board, but that's par for the course.
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This is WONDERFUL for me...they made a thursday night game a Miami game...so I will get to see it on TV for free down here in FL.
I WILL NOT PAY FOR AMAZON to watch a football game! Or anyone else.
The problem is a lot of idiots will.
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20 hours ago, Chas56 said:
I like Knox and have been a fan; however, I also acknowledge that Kincaid is the better player. Knox has a large contract to be a #2 TE. In addition, there are only so many balls to go around. I don't know if Brady is designing some diabolical two TE sets or whatever. Also, I'm aware that Knox and Allen have a good relationship. I just have a suspicion that something like a trade is going to happen. Am I nuts?
The moment we drafted Kincaid, I said "knox on his way out long term" and I got TONS of thumbs down and negative responses from the Brain Trust here.
You watch! Knox is one of the worst Ks in the game, it is untradeable, and he is now the highest paid blocking TE in the league.
We will cut bait and move on from him the moment we can.
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Toledo, Akron, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Windsor, Ont., there are a million places like Buffalo all over the country.
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I would say I am. It's a really complex thing, isn't it? Being nostalgic.
Try to program that into an AI robot and you'll see what I mean.
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I want both guys from Miami, but I don't think Miami will want to play ball.
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1 hour ago, BillsFan4 said:
I absolutely hate this because I don’t think Lindy chose any of these coaches, except maybe the video coach. The rest were all Kevyn Adams IMO.Lindy said he wanted to put together the best assistant coaching staff he could. Then he doesn’t make any changes outside adding Kevyn’s boy Seth Appert to the staff? Come on now.
Does anyone actually think these are the people Lindy chose? I don’t.
edit - video coach is from Rochester staff, so even that wasn’t a Lindy hire. Appert gets to bring one of his assistants, but not Lindy. Makes no sense to me.
Lots of people have suspected for a while that the whole master plan here was to bring up Appert to the big team, and have him be tutored by Lindy for a year or 2. Then Lindy retires and Seth is named the HC of the Sabres.
Appert has done really well in the AHL and this may not be a bad thing at all.
With this news about Appert coming to Buffalo, I have no doubt this was the plan from the beginning, going back to Adams' PC announcing the firing of Granato. Right then, he KNEW he would hire Lindy as the HC, tutor Appert, and then segue to Appert longer term as the HC.
Continued failure will see Adams fired anyway, and then anything he has planned will go in the toilet when the new guy comes in, so this is no big deal. Now we have to see if it will actually work!
On a related note, I watched the Boston/FLA game last night. Boston is light years ahead of the where the Sabres are now as a gritty, structured, defensively aware playoff team...and they are just straight up getting outclassed by the Panthers.
We have SO FAR TO GO, it is kind of daunting.
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Interesting comments from Brian Ballinger on rookie minicamps in general, and how immediately you can tell who is a bust or not.
https://www.audacy.com/wgr550/sports/baldinger-you-know-right-away-if-rookies-can-make-nfl-team
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Watched the whole Amerks game last night; a boring, disappointing affair.
Syracuse has a veteran team of older minor leaguers and it was too much for the kids in Rochester.I thought Levi performed well though, given the goals that were scored.
Oh well, losing in WNY is what we know how to do! I took this one squarely on the chin and will keep going.
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On 5/6/2024 at 6:01 PM, Jauronimo said:
Salt your steak liberally hours before you intend to cook it or even the night before
Lots of people will tell you this is incorrect. Most chefs would season 15 minutes or so before you cook.
Salt draws moisture out of the meat and it will be too dry if you salt it forever.
Use crushed sea salt; any other type of salt is just a scam.
I would NOT buy meat "infused with bourbon" or whatever it is you have there. You can't control that and if you want to soak meat in bourbon, do it yourself where you can control the process and the quality of the bourbon.
The key is to crank up the heat really, really high, and sear the sides to build up a crust that will seal in juices.
I'm guessing you have a thick cut of meat there, once you have a good crust lower the heat and finish cooking so that you have medium rare at the center, which is the ONLY way to enjoy a gorgeous steak especially if thick.
One of the most important parts of the process, totally ignored by most backyard grillers, is to let the meat "REST" for a solid 15 minutes especially if it's a big thick steak. It relaxes the meat and all the juices go back into the tissue of the meat. Makes each bite noticeably more juicy and delicious.
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On 5/9/2024 at 12:33 PM, Mark Vader said:
I'm still not concerned about Bass.
Let's see how he does this season, then go from there.
We don't have endless seasons to piss away with Josh in his prime, you know.
The window is closing as I type. Not this year, not next, but it's closing.
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Interesting analysis, Mr. OP. Further evidence indicating why we'll be looking to move on from McD and possibly Beane, hopefully at the end of the upcoming season.
I've always liked Beane, I think he's a solid guy. But if he is going to emphasize the wrong positions and neglect receiving in 2024, and can't even consistently get us to an AFC championship game, move on!
So far Beane and McDermott have drastically underperformed given that we have a difference maker only a few teams have.
They'll get it just about right...but not quite...in the last solid year of Josh's career. LOL.
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12 minutes ago, Gregg said:
Toronto Maple Leafs on X: "Sheldon Keefe has been relieved of his role as head coach. The organization will immediately begin the search for a new head coach." / X (twitter.com)
This has been widely reported for several days now as being imminent.
The more interesting thing will be if Shanahan gets dumped too.He's scheduled to publicly speak tomorrow with the other guys, so maybe he's going to survive.
It's always a joy to watch chaos consume Leafs Land!
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I was anxious to watch that video clip to see how well he is doing. I was kind of surprised as he's clearly very functional, but it's still not good. So given that this news comes as a result of his poor health, it's sad.
Having said that, from a purely professional perspective, moving on from him is a huge improvement.Although, the guy who has been filling in (Greg Brown) is getting rather annoying with his deliberately over-the-top high pitched squeaky proclamations. "And it was CAUGHT by Stephon Diggs for a TOUCHDOWN.
He sounds like he is deliberately mimicking real announcers as he plays announcer.
Time for Pegula to pony up some coin for a real, permanent, play by play guy with some talent.
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2 hours ago, DCofNC said:
Back to hearing how Lamar has no weapons..
Real talk, Miami should be really good this year.
Miami gets it!
Love their approach. If we could just swap coaching staffs, we'd be a much more serious contender than we are.
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2 hours ago, Sweats said:
I'm actually ok with this
These are nothing depth signings. Nothing to get excited about here.
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20 minutes ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
They want BIG and Athletic. Speed is good, don't get me wrong, but they are seeming to push for big, physical WR's and that is what Joe Brady had his year as OC with HIS offense down at LSU. No more getting bullied at the LOS, and hopefully a lot more contested balls. It also brings a greater Catch radius for Allen to hit on when his passes are slightly off.
Look I get it, Fans want splash they want exciting and we tried that with smaller, faster WR's and it didn't work. I am excited to see this new approach to be honest, and if we get the running game going, then we are going to see somewhat less exciting 8, 10,12+ play drives that eat the clock and keep guys like Mahomes and Kelce on the bench and hopefully lead to more TD's.
There is no substitute for speed.
Elite speed adds a dimension to any offense that is difficult to stop, and catapults the offense to a higher level than one without it.
I wish we were building a more fully developed offense.
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Unlike almost everyone else, I did NOT read the magazine for the articles.
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All time favorite in the day was Galaga.
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16 hours ago, Gugny said:
Easily one of my least favorite players of all time. Scum bag.
GREAT player; definitely a cheap shot artist though.
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On 5/1/2024 at 8:37 AM, Wizard said:
When Beane said the team is "in transition" what does that look like for you in 2024-2025.
For me, it means four (4 things).
1. Bills will be 10-7 and get a Wildcard
2. Bills will offload Miller and Knox and will have more cap space heading into 25-26 season
3. Bills will focus on finding a new punter and kicker. A #1 DE and #1 WR will be key components to move forward with their 1st and two 2nds.
4. All eyes will be on OC Brady to see if he can have both a solid passing and running game that is consistent and not too predictable.
The fact that they moved on from Diggs THIS YEAR and not next year tells me they decided to right the salary cap situation all in 1 season. Take the hit once and be ready to go forward with a Josh Allen led version 2.0 team next year.
So I don't expect much to happen this year, as apparently the organization doesn't either.
The problem with that is when we fail to achieve anything yet again, Beane and McDimwit can sell it as "part of the plan".
If McD is NEVER going to get on the hot seat and get shipped out of here, forget about having a winning program in place during the useful portion of Allen's career.
A real shame and waste of a historic opportunity.
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I wouldn't offload Josh to suit our stupid game plan, I would modify the game plan to suit Josh.
It is VERY fair to criticize this organization for having made it this far into the off-season, without have a replacement for Diggs.
I honestly do not think they intend to replace him...THIS YEAR.
OR, they incorrectly think they have his replacement already on staff.
The fact that this has transpired in a historically WR laden draft makes it worse.
We emerge from a draft like THIS with 1 guy? And he is very much a controversial guy at that.
If we end next year about the same as normal, McD and Beane should be for sure on the hot seat, and maybe both fired....
I've said this for like 3 years now....the day will come when McD is FIRED for failure to get it done. It's basically just a question of how much of Josh's career you want to piss away first.
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7 hours ago, CapeBreton said:
I've said it before, I don't trust the Bills wide receiver scouting and this looks like a questionable pick to me. Obviously the 40 time is pretty scary, but I also don't see this "play speed" that everyone is claiming he has. He looked great in the gauntlet drill at the combine but I don't see that on the field. I also wanted Worthy because his tape looks so much better than Coleman, hope I'm wrong. I am keeping my expectations very low with this guy.
Also, it's going to suck when McConkey crushes it this year with Herbert, he'll get a ton of targets in that offence.
Clearly you are not alone! Just listen to me or other fans, listen to NFL scouts and GMs, many of whom had this guy dismissed as sort of a "broken" prospect. Then others saw the magic deep inside him and think they can get it out of him.
Obviously the Bills were in that latter group, wanting to take a chance on him but believing in his size and hands (I would guess...that seems to be his 2 big strengths).
I think it's more than fair to label him "boom or bust" as of right now.
No one will know anything about this guy until we watch him play for a year, and even then, he still might excel beyond that.
20 minutes ago, Bruffalo said:I thought 3.49 was the over/under on how many plates he got at the Golden Corral.
I have mentioned this here before, but back during the SB years, my sister worked as a waitress at a restaurant in Amherst, where many of the Bills would eat at. She served House Ballard and other big guys who would sit with him several times; the House would find what he wanted on the menu and then order the entree x 2, for himself of course. For real!
I'm surprised it was only 2. I'm sure he could put down 3!
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Interesting analysis here suggesting Coleman's game will transfer to the NFL as a big slot receiver and not a classic wide out.
Struggles mightily with separation against man and press coverage.
Zay Jones signs with the Cards
in The Stadium Wall
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That's not saying much.