Old Coot
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40 minutes ago, Chaos said:
31 teams played defense without Edmunds last year. I our defensive guru coach needs to figure out how to play defense without Edmunds this year.
I agree with this but how do we not have an adequate replacement for MLB. Some of the players are good against runs but not against the pass. Some are decent against the pass but not so good on runs. You'd think that Beane & McD would have had better proscpects to replace Edmunds.
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Beanes not an unintelligent guy so how does he decide to go into this year without a good replacement for Edmunds?
Don't get me wrong, Edmunds was not perfect but he was capable of occupying a good deal of space in the center of the field. We have no one who is close to being able to do waht Edmunds did in pass defense and that will significantly affect how the back 7 will play.
So how does Beane get us into this mess at MLB?
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2 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
2. Cook dancing too much
Pass protection for a RB is a learned skill. It will take some time before he becomes proficient.
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They miss Edmunds. There was a lot of gree grass over the middle of the field.
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2 hours ago, Einstein said:
Poyer looks like he has lost a step. He looks slow
maybe but you can't see that from the 62 yd TD run. Poyer is pursuing laterally and he hesitates for a moment and that enables the RB to get by him on the outside. If he doesn't hesitate and contunues laterally the RB cuts back and takes it to the house behind Poyer.
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2 hours ago, Einstein said:
Just watched it again. Zero give up. He literally dove full speed trying to tackle him
That's Poyer; he doesn't giv up. He goes 100% on every play.
Poyer may have lost a step but remember he's a safety and they don't have the speed of a DB.
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Reminds me of when helmets and goalie masks became required equipment.
Gump Worsley was the last NHL goalie to play mask-less (and helment-less) in 1974.
Craig MacTavish was the last NHL player to play without a helmet. He retired in 1997.
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I'll withhold judgment until I hear the Tuohys side of the story
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At one time Frank Reich held the records for the greatest comebacks in both NCAA football and the NFL.
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2 hours ago, boco357 said:
punchable face
I'll bet the Germans even have a word for this: Backpfeifengesicht
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They'll do an MRI to assess the problem. If its significant and requires surgery he's out for the year and maybe permanently.
Hopefully it's not.
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3 hours ago, B-Man said:
Can they set it in the ball carrying position ?
Jack Kemp Buffalo's QB through most of the 60s broke his hand and had the doc set it in the passing position.
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6 hours ago, PBF81 said:
Either way, there's likely to be a huge unsolved hole in the middle of our D that IMO people are significantly discounting the impact of.
This.
Say what you will about Edmunds, he had the ability to clog up the middle on pass plays. Whoever plays MLB this year won't have that ability so the entire defense will need to adjust -- maybe with the nickle DB filling the hole on occasion & maybe one of the safeties rotating down to fill but that leaves a single high safety, which is dangerous to play in this league.
Likely our D won't be as good as last year so the O will need to pick up the slack.
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Here's hoping Kim gets off IR and returns to the active roster soon.
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7 minutes ago, I am leaving for good said:
I have a lot of silent film of Buffalo Bills AAFC games from this era.
Have you considered having the old film converted to video? That old film stock doesn't last and when its gone, it's gone. Also you could post the videos to Youtube for all to see.
I attended school with Lou Tomasetti's daughter back in the day.
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On 7/26/2023 at 6:10 PM, Bad Things said:
I love this photo from the article. (Look at the empty seats!)
Quite a bit has changed since 1949
Professional football was not the major sport it is today in 1949. Baseball was. In fact college football was much bigger than professional -- that's why professional football is played on Sunday -- it couldn't compete with Saturday college ball.
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5 hours ago, Old Coot said:
In those days the players played both offense and defense
The last of the two-way (60 minute) men was I think Chuck Bednarik who played center & linebacker for the Eagles in the late 50s and early 60s. He was known as "Concrete Charlie" not for his stamina but for his hard hitting. As one player put it getting hit by Bednarik was like getting hit with a sack of concrete.
The two way player was why the offensive tackle is called a "tackle". He doesn't tackle anyone (legally, that is). The defensice tackle was also the offensive tackle. Why was the defensive tackle called a "tackle"? Because defenses would clog up the middle so that off-tackle plays were quite common and the man playing the DT position made most of the tackles.
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16 minutes ago, BigDingus said:59 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
Lou Saban was a center for the Browns!
Apparently, he was also one of their linebackers...
In those days the players played both offense and defense.
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I agree with you. The Patriot Way included focussed attention to detail as well as fundamentals, more so than other teams.
It wasn't all Brady. I remember the Patriots' D making open field tackles when our guys would wiff on similar tackles and there D players always seemed to be in the right place at the right time. It was the Patriots, I think, who first practiced tackling and punching the ball out.
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On 7/18/2023 at 12:00 PM, Gregg said:
Not Bills related but the Browns announced 3 games where they are having a white out including the helmet.
The white helmet recalls the Browns' Glory Years, The sported an all-white helmet when they dominated the old All-America Football League and then the NFL in the early 1950s.
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Image of the 1960-61 Bills helmet:
Bills' colors were silver & blue and were based on ralph Wilson's favorite NFL tean, the Detroit Lions who won the 1957 NFL championship beating the Browns 59-14.
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
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Elbert Dubenion's nickname was "Golden Wheels"
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Nice fight in the crowd at the Broncos - 49ers game.
in The Stadium Wall
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I think this was a simple disagreement over the utility of foreign exchange arbitrage as a hedging strategy.