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  1. 5 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

    No I’m saying most WRs keep a gear until the  ball is in the air. They do not run full speed during the route

     

    they reach full speed once the ball is in the air... you run a go route at 85-90% and when the ball flies you kick into that last 10%

     

    i coached  and scouted and played D1 ball. I know for a fact the best deep ball receivers accelerate when the ball is in the air

     

    they don’t lose speed they gain it

    You can see that this is true on many long throws; just watch the WR.  More often than not, if the WR is going to get to the point where the ball is going to come down, he needs to accelerate, not slow down.  As he reads the ball in flight and realizes that, he accelerates.

     

     

     

     

  2. A lot of those look good and make the school recognition pretty easy.

     

    Get the NCAA and NFL owners to sign off on this and it should be good for merchandise sales in both venues.

     

    And to make it better, after you do the Detroit Lions as U Michigan Wolverines, you can do it again as the MSU Spartans in a green scheme so as to keep the folks happy in East Lansing.  

     

    Lots of combos and permutations here, all equaling $$$.

     

     

  3. 26 minutes ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:

    So that makes sense. You generally like homers. Sal and Murph fall into that category. 

     

    You don’t like Schopp, and I’d guess Jeremy White, because they actively challenge the Bills and Sabres decisions and logic. 

     

    I have no idea who Cynthia Frelund is. 

    Sal is generally a homer. He doesn’t fit with fans who criticize the team. 

     

    Generally he swoops in to defend the Bills. 

     

    Dickerson was a loud mouth, but part of his schtick pulled you in because the debate was spirited. 

    I don't think a lot of posters here understand that Murphy and Tasker are paid by the Buffalo Bills and represent them in a positive light (for the most part) for that reason.

     

    You have to love someone who dislikes an independent voice exercising critical thought and prefers a propaganda driven show.

     

    I think a lot of fans associate themselves with the team and confuse the two identities. They project themselves onto anything team related and therefore, take personal offense when the team is criticized. 

     

    These people need to work on developing their own identity a bit more IMO.

     

     

     

     

  4. 34 minutes ago, NoHuddleKelly12 said:

    Speaking of WWI, Peter Jackson of LOR trilogy fame, has completed a labor of love restoration project to bring old B&W footage of that war alive--interesting read:

     

    http://www.historyinorbit.com/peter-jackson-is-restoring-colorizing-wwi-footage/

     

    Haven't see it yet but I'm sure he's done a great job

    You beat me to this; was going to mention it here.

     

    Some of the before/after film is absolutely creepy.  This is going to be really interesting to see.

     

     

    On 11/29/2018 at 4:08 PM, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

    A guy in Buffalo was rummaging through his garage and he found his grandfather's World War I diary, and put it online.

     

    Article:

     

    https://buffalonews.com/2018/11/28/wwi-war-journal-discovered-in-garage-reveals-buffalo-soldiers-life-in-trenches/

     

    Diary online:

     

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mJVKFdJfcdIG2p9cjem2C2cqUOIJ-SNJ/view

     

     

    Thanks for posting this!

     

    I will spend some time with this and pass it along to a couple of WWI related history forums I frequent.

     

    :thumbsup:

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  5. Knight is a classic bully and ego-driven psychopath.  Guys like him are a dime a dozen in the business world.

     

    And yet he was also an enormous doer of good and involved in a LOT of charity work and money raising efforts for all kinds of worthy recipients.

     

    A very complex fellow.

     

     

  6. How odd.  A little fellow slightly shorter than 5'6" going around as "Luke Sky Walker" and even seemingly wearing the right haircut...but on probation for something or other.  

     

    As George Carlin wisely pointed out, when you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show.

     

    When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. 

     

     

  7. 1 hour ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

     

    My wife and I have guidelines about buying Christmas presents for our two children.

     

    Something you want, something you need, something to wear, and something to read.  Of course, we always throw in a couple other small gifts from their wish lists.

     

    My favorite Christmas present from childhood was the original Nintendo.  I recall wanting it so badly.

     

     

    Your guidelines remind me of the saying about what a bride needs to have on her wedding day...

     

    Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

     

    :lol:

  8. 10 hours ago, fan_in_tx said:

    If we want to compete with the big boys, he will be cut.  RB's are a dime a dozen now and most teams look at it that way.  Patriots would cut him, Dallas would as well (ie Dez),  he should be thanked for his service and shown the door.

    Don't disagree.


    Which is why he should have been traded at the deadline.  Another mistake made by McBeane.

     

  9. 13 hours ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:

    The end of the first half was so badly butchered, and we saw this same exact nonsense go on last year. Why are we not calling timeouts with almost 2 minutes left with the Dolphins having the ball inside our 10? You can not give up possessions like that. That’s losing football. 

     

    No matter what they did there, we should’ve had so much more time than the 40 seconds we were left with after we didn’t call anything. And then of course we run the ball on the first 3 plays before finally passing, and then are completely indecisive with 5 secs to go and end up burning the timeout when we could’ve tried to run a quick play to get us a little closer. 

     

    And then the 4th and 2 from past midfield that EVERYONE knew we weren’t going to actually snap and just try to “bait” the D into Offside. 

     

    I just don’t understand it. Isn’t the point to try to win the game? Not just to stay close? Especially when you have a QB that was making plays. I will never blame a coach for being aggressive to try to win the game if it doesn’t work out. But giving away possessions and being conservative is not winning football. 

    This point was brought up in the post-game radio show with Schopp & The Bulldog.


    Perhaps that was you calling in?

     

    The answer as to why we do this is what Schopp said: it's the way McDermott wants to play football.  He wants to slow the game down to a crawl, shorten it, play tight defense, and win every game 10-7.

     

    I am of the opinion that this philosophy absolutely does not work in the NFL in 2018.  We are possibly THE MOST conservative/cautious team left in the league at this point.  Not good, if you're a Bills fan.

     

    I couldn't agree with you more; we threw away that possession at the end of the half and that is losing football.  Which makes sense, given that we lost.

     

    McDermott's penalty flag challenge was also bad, as almost ALL of his challenges have been since he arrived here.  We clearly do not have a competent system in place to ensure proper challenges and eliminate poor challenges.

     

    It's another sign of bad coaching/lack of organization.

     

     

    13 hours ago, Bill_with_it said:

    This is an ll around bad thread. Too much hindsight. There is literally no way any of you questioning the end of the first half decisions by Sean thought the team would make it to the 40 considering the first half. Too many penalties and struggling to move the ball. Alot of the last call there was on the OC; numerous times theough the game Josh is looking to the sidelines motioning that the call needs to come in quicker. This game isnt on the HC.

    The highlighted is totally wrong. 

     

    If Bill Belichick was watching the game today sitting next to you, he would have asked why the Bills aren't calling timeouts, as the OP did, in real time.

     

    No hindsight there at all.

     

     

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  10. 11 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:

    Let's not go overboard Priscilla.  We usually have 11 players on the field these days.

     

    :lol:

    10 hours ago, mattynh said:

    Hughes is passionate.  I like that but this was completely stupid.   Nothing good could have come from it.  Focus on what you can control Jerry.   

    Is this part of the process too?

     

     

  11. 6 hours ago, row_33 said:

    That’s on Clay

     

    as it was on Ronnie Harmon

     

    live a little 

    love a little

    learn a little

     

     

    Just watched that throw again about 10 times.

     

    I estimate the ball was under thrown by something on the order of 13 yards.

     

    When the ball leaves Allen's hand, Clay is near the end line, in the back of the end zone.  He ends up having to get his hands to ground level on the goal line to get to the ball.  I.E., the ball would have hit a receiver "in the numbers" probably around the 3 yard line or maybe even further out.

     

    The ball was horribly thrown with a wobble that suggested it was tipped; it was not tipped. 

     

    The whole thing seems more spectacular than it was b/c the game was on the line and Allen had to run around in circles avoiding a sack before the throw.

     

    In the end, it was a horribly thrown ball and Clay failed to make a really nice catch to bring it in, which perhaps he should have, but he did not.

     

    The Ronnie Harmon incident in Cleveland is not comparable IMO.

     

     

     

     

     

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  12. 43 minutes ago, ColdFront_USAF said:

    It's cool to see how other teams view our players. Especially rivals. You tend to get more accurate assessments from people that aren't emotionally tied to the player. Good find Yolo. 

    Neither team is set up at QB for the future at the moment IMO.  As time goes on this will be more obvious.  

     

    The rivalry with Miami died many years ago.

     

     

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