Dr.Mantis_Toboggan
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Just now, BillsSbSoon said:
Feels like Marty schottenheimer
Don’t think I could come up with a better comparison honestly…
Hell of a coach, will always be well respected, but could never just get to the top of the mountain.
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McDermott getting out coached against the elite teams is becoming a common theme unfortunately…
It’s great to be relevant, but is relevant good enough for everybody here? When you’ve got a talent like Josh?
He’s obviously not going anywhere, but how many times can he fall short before he does?
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1 minute ago, PalmBeachPete said:
This is why Frazier doesn’t deserve a head coaching job. This abortion he’s put out there today shows what a joke he is. Zero adjustments, players acting like they couldn’t care less, phoning it in. Why bother winning so many games if you’re gonna ***** the bed when it’s most important? This team is frustrating AF to be a fan of. Ugh! Come on Bills…. Get it together boys
Hopefully somebody falls for “his defense constantly ranks top 5 in the regular season” nonsense and hires him so Beane can get two 3rd rounders to use on this OL…
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Every post season the defense gets lit up like a Christmas Tree, even in this weather…
Why is Matt Milano the closest guy to Jamar Chase???
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Just now, BuffaloFan68 said:
WTH is Leslie thinking? This coverage is terrible
The ####### said going into this game they weren’t going to do anything different… Same soft dog ***** defense
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Frazier needs to go… every year in the playoffs this defense gets abused while they retain bc he makes his living in the regular season abusing poverty franchises.
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This is the last thing we need… if they lose next round, so be it, but this would be so “Billsy” and i don’t need to hear that bs all the time again.
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I think Florio saw McDaniel and got confused with McDanielS, bc if Brady comes back next year I think it’s with his boy in Vegas. Davante, elite TE, Renfrow is his new Welker/Edelman, and the fact that he’s won 6 rings with the guy calling the plays…I just wonder if he’d be willing to step into arguably the toughest division in football.
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2 minutes ago, Gugny said:
Looks like he's averaging about 5 YPC on the season. The 17/136 was his best game. Second best game was 18/113 against the Jets. Those two games were his top 2 most carries in a game and most yards in a game.
How the hell are they not feeding him more?
Bc it’s Mostert… short for he’s one of the most hurt running backs in the league…
I’ll show myself out…
For real tho, dude seems like he’s always on an injury report.
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45 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
Makes sense when you look at their three losses and realize just how close they were to being undefeated. Buffalo really went out of their way to beat themselves in those games, with a myriad of opportunities to win each of them.
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Nah, Brown is past his use by date, only good in small doses.
I agree Davis is a problem, however what I would like to see is more Cook involved in the passing game, get him the ball in the open field. Hines as well, just look at the way Mahomes has been utilizing McKinnon.
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14 minutes ago, dollars 2 donuts said:
This is the 2019 Bills with a better Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs.
Sorry.
I love them and will cheer like crazy, but that’s it. Flaws everywhere…everywhere on this team. Defense, Offense, offensive line, defense against the pass (heck, sometimes against the run), WR, OC.
They are MY team, but it just is so flawed. Not that they can’t do some damage, but still.
Go Bills!
The 2019 Bills were 10-6…
13-3, with a win over the *1 seed, in their house, and they are “flawed everywhere”?
Plus “better Josh Allen” goes a long way when he’s always the best player on the field.
Bills won’t take a 4th loss, something tells me they’re standing pat at 3.
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I personally couldn’t give a shite who we play, they’ll beat whoever is put in front of them. Playoffs are put up or shut up time, Dolphins limped across the finish line. Tua was playing horrible before his 37th concussion of the season…
Speaking of, No way the guy should be allowed near a football field suffering this many head injuries in one season, however my sympathy wanes for those who continue to knowingly put themselves in harms way.
If he wants some…
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For me personally, idc about homefield. It just means we get to watch our team play one extra game. KC has limped across the finish line against some really bad teams down the stretch, and Buffalo has proven more than once they can go into Arrowhead and beat Mahomes.
Part of me almost hope KC wins this week, I don’t like the idea of basically not playing the past week, playing one game against the Pats, then getting another week off. Seems like too much time off the field, and then you come out rusty in the Divisional round and fall behind quick.
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1 hour ago, Einstein said:
I love when people try to get all sarcastic when they’re wrong.
Yes, there is a push to get MMA in high schools right now and it’s been in some schools since the mid 2000’s. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/sports/othersports/18mma.html
Because every single one of those sports has CTE and concussions. I was using the actual data.
Concussions account for 23% of injuries in boys hockey. It accounts for 17% in lacrosse and football. And it accounts for 15% in girls soccer.
You mention the “sheer amount of blows” but the data doesn’t show the drastic increase in concussions from those blows at the youth level.
Heck, cycling had more head injuries in 2018 than football.
Not trying to get into a pissing contest here, MMA especially for youths, especially in schools, is far more of a niche sport where as the overwhelming majority of high schools in America field a football team.
As others have mentioned, lineman are taking blows to the head every play. I’m not here to do research projects, the information is out there if you want to read it, plenty of neurologists have said it’s about receiving repeated blows to the head. It’s not about having a concussion or two throughout your life, it’s the repeated hits to the head, I.e. Lineman crashing into each other every single snap.
Don’t get me wrong, concussions are definitely not good, but it doesn’t mean your doomed to a fate of CTE, however getting your head hit how many practices and games for how many years? It’s the cumulative damage. It may seem like it’s “just” 4 years if somebody only plays highschool ball, but that’s still 4 whole years, again when the brain is still developing, of taking regular abuse to an area of the body ill equipped to handle it. Double that if you play college, with an uptick in intensity and physicality.
I just think, and it will take some time, but eventually you’ll have to be 18 to play tackle football due to the long term risks to brain health that are involved.
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2 hours ago, Einstein said:
It’s important to note that you would have to ban nearly all sports. CTE has been seen in Football, Hockey, Soccer, Rugby, Baseball, Basketball, and MMA.
You would essentially be removing sports from children's lives.
It’s important to note that no, you would not, you just need to exercise common sense rather than comparing apples to oranges. Though I do hear Highschool MMA teams are all the rage 🙄
Yes, head injuries can happen in all those other sports, clearly some more than others, not sure why you would go lumping baseball and Basketball in with Rugby, Hockey and Soccer. Even so, aside from the headers in soccer which still are far less frequent than hits to the head kids take daily during football season, none of these other sports are comparable to any football in terms of the sheer amount of blows to the head received regularly. I’m not even considering MMA in the equation, any parents letting their kid get pummeled by haymakers obviously doesn’t care about their child’s long term health. Kids however can train in martial arts without getting their clocks cleaned.
It also doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to make those other sports safer for children as well without having to remove them from their lives.
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I don’t think a child is capable of fully understanding the long term risks associated with CTE from repeated head trauma.
We know is the brain is still developing through those highschool and college years. I realize it’s going to be an unpopular opinion, but I think eventually common sense prevails and high school tackle football becomes a thing of the past, atleast in some areas. To continue subjecting minors to repeated head trauma with the information we have about brain injury and it’s lasting effects, and knowing their brains aren’t fully developed seems irresponsible to me. It likely will become a state by state issue with some states banning it, and others with long standing traditions of highschool football putting tradition ahead of common sense and the long term safety of their children.
It’s our job to set them up for the best future possible, and putting them at increased risk of developing dementia seems very counter intuitive to that long term goal. Call it over protective but there is simply no fate worse than that of suffering from dementia, and I can’t sign off willingly increasing my kids chances of one day being damned to that existence because football... I don’t judge anybody for having a different opinion, I love the game, but hate the brutality.-
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I agree with the sentiment that last night probably changed most people in some way, especially in terms of what winning or losing really means to them/us as fans. I care more about this team, this particular group of guys who have represented the Buffalo Bills and everything that means, in a way no other has before them, than I do about winning homefield advantage or a Super Bowl… Keep fighting Damar.
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I’m just in a state of shock… Just pull through kid.
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Why is it becoming a common theme that Diggs is invisible in the first half of games?
Too much “bad Josh” this game, needs to get it together… Losing home field to a 3-11 team would be one way to ruin Christmas for all of WNY…
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First 3 rounds next year better be O Line, O Line and O Line…
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5 hours ago, dma0034 said:
It's interesting because I think the Ravens are there. They aren't really SB contenders. They are always good not great. Lamar shines some times but hasn't shown he can beat the better teams in the playoffs and has dealt his injuries the last two years. Do you pay him??
I’d franchise Lamar and trade him to the highest bidder… if Houston got what they did for Watson and all that baggage, it’s hard to fathom what type of return Lamar would bring.
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Personal opinions aside, clearly nobody has stepped up to fill the void left by Beasley… to be fairly Beasley couldn’t fill that void now either, his play fell off a cliff last year, can’t imagine he’s got much of anything left in the tank now. It’s too bad Beckham likely won’t be ready in time to make a difference if signed.
However, Dorsey needs to adjust. Stop trotting the same bs out there. Involve Cook and Hines more rather than McKenzie. Maybe change it up a bit, pass out of heavy dual RB sets? I don’t see much creativity out of this passing game. They were moving Diggs all over the field to start with then he just goes completely ghost out there for entire halves?
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Bengals @ Bills - 1st Half Game Thread - January 22, 2023 - NFL Divisional Round Playoffs
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I can’t say that he’d be a losing coach anywhere when he got to the post season with Tyrod…