Gunvald's Husse
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1 hour ago, Mr. WEO said:
why are all the Brits here "Bill"?
We aren't 🙂
I would like to nominate Leeds United as the Bills of English Football though.
Single city team. Large and passionate working class fanbase who have stuck with the team through thick and thin (and there has been a lot of that!). Once were really good but never fully achieved what they should, very often finishing second for a variety of reasons. Looked down upon by the media and fans of "bigger" teams. Robbed on several occasions of success by a combination of corrupt and incompetant referees and league officials. Had a 16 year drought in which they dropped to the third tier of the game. Managed to mess things up on such a regular basis that "Doing a Leeds" is a recognised saying!
#MOT
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28 minutes ago, Big Turk said:
Why would you want it is the question? Far better situations will be available to him coming up in the future.
Exactly this. In the past, someone might have jumped at the first chance offered to be a HC but, as the Ben Johnson situation shows, staying put in a decent place with a chance to add to your résumé isn't going to hurt your chances of getting a job you actually want (and I suspect he is hoping for the Bengals to continue to underperform and for Zac Taylor position to open up after next season)
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15 minutes ago, Simon said:
We can only assume you're in Gunvald's House (give him a treat for me).
He approves this message 🙂
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Stockholm, Sweden. Midnight 30 game start and a balmy -2C (which i think is somewhere in the high 20s in F?)
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2 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:
And which HC would you like to see them bring in , pray tell ?
This, a 1000 times this. It's so easy to say let's get rid of McDermott but rarely do I see those advocating for change suggesting a realistic replacement. We need a rule that if you suggest dumping someone, you need to suggest a replacement (this goes for players too!)
Yes, McDermott has not led us to the promised land (and yes, some of the issues are on him) but take a moment to consider where we are and where we were.
I am not saying stick with him regardless but I am saying that any change needs to be towards something that improves our chances of a SB, not a change for change's sake
And just the stay on topic, I fear the Ravens the most. That running attack can kill us (and everyone else) and I have to hope there is a plan for that (one plan being to get far enough ahead that they have to dump the run and play the pass more)
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Will no one think of the
childrenEuropeans? 😅 That's another "wee hours of the morning" game for those of us on this side of the pond. Staying up until 3 for the Rams or Lions is one thing but for the Pats?-
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5 hours ago, Bermuda Triangle said:
Even at the time, I thought that Campbell's decision to go with an onsides kick with 12:00 left, and the Lions down 10, was dumb.
At the time I thought so too but, thinking about it, I can see some logic in the decision.
You recover and you have stolen a posession. Yiou don't and you give the Bills a short field (he probably wasn't expecting it to be that short but it actually was even better for them) and reduce the time the Bills will hold the hold the ball before scoring (I suspect that by that time the assumption on the Lions' sideline was that they would score from anywhere!) so you get the ball back with more time.
Not saying that I would have done that but I think there is some (small?) logic to it. Plus, as others have said, it appears the Lions are pretty good at this onside kick thing.
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On 12/4/2024 at 12:15 AM, boyst said:
Yes it was a helmet to helmet, no debate
Except it absolutely wasn't helmet ot helmet. It was forearm (with brace) to the helmet, a forearm that he deliberately raises and leads with. As others have said, he has time to at least mitigate the hit but, instead, he changes his angle of attack, raises the forearm and dives in. He knew exactly what he was doing.
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10 minutes ago, GETTOTHE50 said:
All their star players suck, with the exception of Chris Johnson
I dunno, that Chris Jones seems quite good!
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Head says Jets to win, heart says Texans ... but as others have said, it's a win-win
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1 minute ago, Pasaluki said:
It doesn't have the same connotation over here so it's fine.
Honestly again I hear people in the UK be free and loose when they say a very derogatory term towards women that would get someone in the US fired so our friends across the pond shouldn't throw rocks at glass houses.
No one was throwing rocks, the question was why it was considered so offensive in the UK.
What Brady says or doesn't say is not much of a topic of conversation over here (assuming people even know who he is)
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8 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:
Just give me a list of words I’m allowed to use.
How about not ones that mock people with disabilities and diseases such as Cerebral Palsy or Multiple Sclerosis?
Spaz is short for Spastic (in the UK at least) as, as @GunnerBill said, is a definite no-no on this side of the pond (now, at least. When I was at school back in the middle ages, it was, unfortunately, much used)
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6 hours ago, JJGauna said:
Learn to slide and he can play for years to come. Like any of us could truly walk away from that money at the peak of our physicality and youth. I don’t blame him for playing.
Riiight. Because no QB ever got hit whilst sliding 🙄
I don't blame him for playing but that doesn't mean I don't think it is the wrong decision (made worse by his decision not the wear the Guardian Cap - even if the added protection is not particularly significant, it is still there).
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7 hours ago, pennstate10 said:
So, of course, I dont know the entire story here.
But, to me, Venu comes off looking poorly for filing charges so quickly.
Lets face it, those bottle probably cost $100-150 wholesale. So floating Cook the $$$ for a few weeks shouldnt put them out of business.
Seems to me they (Venu) should have made CERTAIN that Cook had been notified, and then given him a week or two before filing charges.
On the surface, they (Venu) seem like d!cks to me.
Leaving aside the fact that it would appear that no charges were filed, why exactly should the comapny have to "float" Cook the money or make CERTAIN (your Caps) he has been notified? Because he is a Bill? Because he is famous?
Would you expect them to do all that if it was Joe Bloggs who had absconded (whether witingly or unwitingly) without paying the bill?
Why should a company have to incur a loss (even if it is only for "a few weeks") through no fault of their own.
If that is your definition of dickish behaviour ...
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11 hours ago, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:
Does make me wonder if his limited play count on Sunday had anything to do with this? Either he and/or Bills knew this was coming?
Surely it would have been the other way around. If you know he is going to be out for 4 weeks, drive him into the ground in the game as he will have time to recover.
I think it more likely his lack of usage was down to the fact that we rarely got the Ravens into situations in which his pass rushing was needed.
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25 minutes ago, beer can shower said:
Oh can't forget the many players brought here from CAROLINA by McDermott.....
The fixation with CAROLINA is why they are where they are now after 7 years.So you are blaming our woes on the "many" ex-Carolina players we have?
Are you aware that, of the initial 53 this season, only THREE - Douglas (1 Year - 2020), Jones (1 Year - 2021) and Samuel (3 years - 2017-2020) - had ever played for the Panthers before? And of those three, only Jones came directly from Carolina to the Bills.
Yes, I know there have been others over the years but we are living in the here and now.
So, can we just drop this false narrative, once and for all?
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11 minutes ago, Matt_In_NH said:
Don't love that the Bills are playing Jags at 0-2 and possibly Ravens at 0-3..........the losses make teams dig deep
You'd rather play them them at 2-0 and 3-0? Give me a losing team on the downslide over a winning team on a streak any time
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50 minutes ago, Rampant Buffalo said:
I will give you an example. Let's start by thinking of something which pretty much all of us can agree is wrong. Pretty much everyone would agree it is wrong to abuse dogs. So then you go to the discussion board of some random sports team, and you find a lot of their fans are arguing that abusing dogs is no big deal. In a situation like this, would you form a negative opinion of their fan base?
No, I would form a negative opinion about the people arguing that abusing dogs is no big deal. Blaming a group for the actions of individuals in that group (actions over which the group have no control) is a very slippery road
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9 hours ago, Mark Vader said:
Then on game day at a crucial point in the game he reports as an eligible receiver and catches a touchdown pass.
"TOUCHDOWN BILLS, BY BILLS!!!"
We have to hold onto him, imagine the confusion if he scored a TD for another team against us.
"Touchdown Bills, ... Bills lose"
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1 hour ago, PauleeeWalnuts said:
No, the Bills could make whatever pick they wanted at 28, you just don’t help KC get who they want through you.
Picking anyone except Worthy helped KC get who they wanted. This way they at least had to pay something extra
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27 minutes ago, PauleeeWalnuts said:
You don’t help the team that’s been eating your lunch for three years, plain and simple.
Neither plain nor simple.
It is clear that Beane did not consider Worthy to be to value pick at 28 so, unless you wanted the Bills to select Worthy just to stop the Chiefs getting him (a real "cut off your nose to spite your face" move), they were going to get him anyway, either by picking him at 32 for free or by trading up with the Cowboys or the Ravens to get ahead of the 49ers (a trade which would have gained nothing for the Bills and which would have cost less for the Chiefs)
So, did you want them to draft Worthy just to deny him to the Chiefs?
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So whose fingerprints would you want on the draftees?
Beane? Brady? Some random consultant? Josh perhaps?
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25 minutes ago, Zerovoltz said:
The defender was quoted after the game saying he wasn't sure if Josh was about to slide or not....causing him to pause... The defender to Josh's front right also pretty much gives up on the play (which is his fault, didn't play to whistle) so probably also thought Josh was about to slide. Doesn't look like a guy fighting to stay in the play and make a tackle at all.
So two defenders gave up on a play becuase one thought Josh might be about to slide (note he didn't say he thought Josh was sliding but that he might) and the other might - in your mind since there is no evidence of that - have thought the same.
Thank you for clearly identifying the problem ... and it wasn't with Josh!
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Browns, for one reason and one reason only. I don't want the Sexual Predator to ever get a Ring.
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EPL equivalent of the Bills
in The Stadium Wall
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Sung equally by away fans when we are and by home fans when we - by some miracle - aren't.
This year's hit, though, is "I predict a riot" by the Kaiser Chiefs