SirAndrew
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21 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
Games tonight at 7 & 10pm Eastern Time. The NFL is trying to kill me. They really expect people to stay up until damn near 2am ??
Not that the NFL cares, but I actually watch fewer games now that they play more times and days. I don’t always keep track, and find myself too tired to care more frequently.
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22 minutes ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
I don't follow college ball much anymore.
Yeah, I know a lot of people don’t, especially Buffalo fans compared to other regions, but McCarthy just didn’t have any special attributes imo. It seems like most successful QB’s have superior athleticism and strong arms these days.
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8 hours ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
McCarthy looks like trash
McCarthy never looked like an NFL QB at Michigan, so I’m not sure what people saw. Every time I’ve said that people tell me he’s a champion. That’s great, but he seems closer to AJ McCarron than Joe Burrow as college football champ.
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8 minutes ago, HIT BY SPIKES said:
Wrong.
I go to the local bars in Hamilton and my neighbour is Indian and they all love them some NFL football.
They sure have embraced the NFL
What is there not to love?
The truth is that if Toronto had their very own NFL franchise the demand and the sheer wealth in Toronto (corporate and individual) would mean ticket prices would be more than 3 times the price of Bills tickets.
Hating on Toronto is petty.
I don't live there but I went to law school and had a career there and it is an elephant of a city compared to Buffalo currently being a flea on that elephant's ass.
Not hating on Toronto, just saying they’d have a fickle fan base. There’s a huge difference between a city being “great” and being a great sports city. In reality, none of it matters because sports are really about corporate money anyway. As far as Buffalo is concerned, we’re all aware that Buffalo is smaller than Toronto.
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8 hours ago, HIT BY SPIKES said:
BRILLIANT!!!
I went to 3 of the games and it was pure crap.
Attendees were wearing all sorts of NFL teams unis even though they were NOT playing.
Terrible atmosphere.
I regretted attending.
If however, Toronto had its very own NFL team, they would support it like flies on poop.
Would Toronto support an NFL team? They only show up for other non hockey sports when the team is a winner. Also, population isn’t everything. It’s almost like people forget that a HUGE part of Toronto’s population is first and second generation immigrants, many people who likely have yet to develop any appreciation for American football.
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Butker with an awful onside kick.
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1 minute ago, Process said:
Defense looked awful last week. Let's see how they look when they play a QB capable of throwing the ball more than 5 yards.
True, but Hurts burned them in the Super Bowl. Then you have the refs coming in now too.
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Just now, muppy said:
an 0-2 start is Not insurmountable but its not good
ask the fighting irish about it
Definitely not good, but easily surmountable for a championship caliber team. A good divisional opponent in Brazil, and the defending champ is a tough way to start the season. It doesn’t necessarily indicate who KC is this season. I hope I’m wrong, but it’s a long year.
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I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but I’m not ready to write off KC. That defense still looks really good. That’s important in the playoffs.
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Just now, Stads said:
Eagles getting away with a lot of false starts on these tush pushes
The Eagles definitely get to play by a different set of rules on short yardage from everyone else.
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Not a KC fan obviously, but the Eagles are given a lot of special treatment on their short yardage plays.
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3 minutes ago, DapperCam said:
We have the technology to accurately knock green potatoes off of a production line at 200 potatoes per second, but we can’t tell where a football is on a football field.
Agreed, but more potatoes equals more money, the NFL has decided a more just game doesn’t equal more money.
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25 minutes ago, Kontagious1981 said:
The Chiefs remind me of the Cowboys the year after their 96 Super Bowl when they lost to the Panthers in the playoffs. You could tell age and their time had passed. They were always yelling at each other and celebrating small gains to get their team going. Seeing Kelce act crazy after that catch to fire up the team and crowd shows how far they’ve fallen. They’re not gonna go down easily, but I think this is it…
I’d like to agree, but I also just think Kelce and the Chiefs see themselves as main characters in popular culture at this point, and sadly they’re correct.
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Franchises need to give the rookie QB a chance right away. Playing old washed up QB’s like Russ Wilson does nothing for anyone involved.
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7 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:
But I don't think you intentionally redline it "for the duration of the game" if the game script goes as intended: attacking and scoring to establish enough of a lead to make your opponent's offense more predictably pass-heavy/one-dimensional. I don't love any of this prescriptive or compensatory game-planning, but we have to admit our defense needs help against the better offenses.
The real question becomes: can the current Bills DL/pass rush actually capitalize on such an advantage? We don't necessarily have a Dwight Freeney/Mathis (Colts used this model--ahem, Polian) or a Bruce Smith/Seales/Bennett (Bills also under Polian) pass rushing tandem who can consistently/quickly pressure the QB in obvious passing situations.
I agree, there’s no urgency in play calling early in the game. Things turned around immensely once we stopped throwing passes behind the line of scrimmage, and Ray Davis runs on first and second down. I’m also aware that a softer second half Baltimore defense changed the game, but we took the ball out of Allen’s too much early on.
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2 hours ago, Charles Romes said:
A disgrace to cover up those mountain views.
Very true, I’m not trying to mention domes in Buffalo, but I wouldn’t have cared if I had to sit in a dome in OP. You wouldn’t be missing much. Denver better at least have many areas with glass to showcase the mountain views. Denver’s not a horrible place to sit outside in the winter anyways. Sure, they get the occnasty cold front, but the average winter day feels much better under that western sun.
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Caleb Williams doesn’t give Ben Johnson much to work with, but I can’t say I’m impressed with his first game as HC. I haven’t seen any of this genius creativity, and he’s been out coached.
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Just now, mannc said:
Caleb Williams, not McCarthy, is the one who reminds me of Zach Wilson.
I might not be completely sold on McCarthy, but I agree that Williams seems to be a lost cause as franchise QB.
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Wow, that was bad. Williams looks every bit a bust.
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1 minute ago, billsfan89 said:
Williams got sacked 68 times last year, I don’t think I’m gonna give up on a guy because he paints his fingernails. These guys are professionals if you can play they will respect you. Doesn’t mean Williams isn’t a bust but it’s only his second yearThat sack total is insane, but it doesn’t look like he makes accurate passes from a clean pocket, even the most simple throws.
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Maybe Ben Johnson should have stayed in Detroit. Caleb Williams might derail his head coaching career.
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JJ McCarthy consistently looked bad against decent competition in college. I’m not sure what scouts saw in him.
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1 hour ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
I saw that in real time— that was near the end of the game. His last TD run. I think the taunting I saw was going on starting in the early 3rd quarter, well before that.
you might be right though that it was going both ways. but still— it was a lot of cocky fan engagement from the ravens, when the game was far from over.
I texted some friends during the game about how there was so much time left and the ravens are going to look like major choke artists with all this early celebration. Didn’t think it would actually happen!
I think Harbaugh is a great coach. But even his head seemed to be more in the celebrating and revenge stuff, instead of closing out the game.
The Harbaugh brothers are phenomenal coaches, but also a bit unhinged. I think that part gets in their way sometimes.
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1 hour ago, Buffalo716 said:
I was telling all my friends when we signed prater he might Wally pip Bass
I think hes definitely a better kicker.. especially from 50 in
The difference is he probably isn't hitting from longer than 55 now
When you get to January February and the winds are swirling.. if you need the chance to hit a 58 yarder he might not be able to do that anymore
Tyler bass can hit that
So I'd stick with the hot hand for now but if he can't hit from 58 in Winter wind we probably have to go back to Bass
And I'm pretty sure they said in the One direction his longest and warm-ups was 54 and it wasn't exactly windy
I’ve had the same thought, but is the potential of a 58 yard field goal more important than consistency? We could lose a playoff game due to Prater not having the strength of Bass, but Bass could cost us when he starts getting weird with extra points.
Guelli says Bills “would absolutely consider” playing games in Canada again
in The Stadium Wall
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Has something changed since the Bills last Toronto series? I only ask and make these assumptions because the Toronto series didn’t have great attendance. The other international series games don’t seem to have this issue.