CorkScrewHill
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I don’t hate Jets fans like Dolphins and Pats but I don’t want Trevor in our division.. after all they have endured if the shoe was on the other foot I would be like
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3 minutes ago, RiotAct said:
not so fast. Still two games left in the season.
True .. but Jags have Bears and at Colts .. both need wins. Is there a possibility.. of course but the odds are highly with the Jags .. jets have higher SOS so tie goes to Jags
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No Trevor Lawrence ..... nice
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1 hour ago, JoPoy88 said:
i can’t and won’t because i don’t support espn unless the Bills are playing on monday night. So i’m not looking up the clip but based on what you said if hasselbeck is drawing comparisons between mahomes’ and allen’s development he’s welcome to do so and there are valid comparisons to be made. Their development from a mechanics POV may be similar. From a results standpoint the nod still goes to Mahomes hands down.ESPN is the worst .. only watch actual games there commentary is just argumentative bickering
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1 hour ago, Mailman said:
Basking in the victory we have all longed for (I was 22 last time we won the division) and tuned into Sunday NFL Countdown on ESPN. Matt Hasselbeck said he feels JA is currently as good as Mahomes. Of course, Patriot homer Teddy B cant help himself and try to downplay Josh's ascension and point out the playoff loss last year as one of the reasons Mahomes is so much better than Josh. Between Teddy and Rodney Harrison and their Patriot loving BS, its nearly impossible to watch. Oh well Teddy! AFC East Champs this year!
First Playoff game
QB A (on the road)
24-46: 264 yds O TD; O INT;
9 rushes 92 yards rushing; 1 reception 16 yds receiving TD
2 fumbles, 1 lost
QB B (at home)
27-41: 278 yds 0TD; 0 INT
3 rushes 8 yards rushing 1 rushing TD
1 fumble not lost
Bottom-line: their individual first go around were not too different. Mahomes has since proven that he is clutch in the play-offs. Josh hopefully will in a few weeks at which time the last arguments will be gone that he belongs in the discussion. I think he will .. seems to have ice-water running through his veins.
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If I am a free agent this makes me want to consider the Bills .. you can make money anywhere but in Buffalo you are part of a big crazy family. I wish the fans did not come up to the windows .. but I also wish the Bills would stop shaking hands at midfield after games. At the end of the day a) the Mafia is amazing; b) the players feel it; and c) after 25 years we are AFC East champs and this was going to happen.
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2 minutes ago, OldTimer1960 said:
Agree that was a garbage call, but Bills beat Rams on equally bad call.
Maybe .. but of course that was after the phantom interception
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1 hour ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I don't think so? Chiefs have the head-to-head tiebreaker on us. But Man you guys are all "Cart Before Horse". Just Win Baby
It. Will. Be. Dark. Here. @Chandler#81
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Actually if this happens Bills are number 1 seed as long as one of the loses for KC is San Diego. Head to Head only comes into play if all three teams have played each other
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I am trying to decide if I want the Bills to win this game for pride or lose for a better draft pick .. oh wait 25 year old habits die hard.
llet's go Buffalo I want the t-shirt for Christmas!
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Broncos down to relying on a rookie and two recent waiver wire guys to play cornerback. Need to torch them.
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In the 30 degree range and winds less than 10 mph .. good football weather.
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22 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:
With where the Bills and Allen are right now I need a QB that come come off the bench and win a game or two if Allen gets banged up. Barkley isn't that guy. Whether it's Fitz or some other more competent QB I'd like them to have someone better for that situation.
Agreed .. there is that guy Josh Rosen but the concern there is a quarterback controversy after he shows the Bills and the rest of the league that they mad a mistake in 2018 by not drafting him first.
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We are stuck with these miscreants throwing snowballs. Why can't we get Marcus Peters who spits at people .. I do love this team (fun / class vs no-
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Responses from a couple of Bills players
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On 9/15/2020 at 12:47 AM, Special K said:
Skip to 10:55
These guys were complete jerks towards Josh Allen, and this isn't the first time they've done this to him.
I will never watch this show again when these two clowns are on it.....complete garbage from these guys!!
I think Bills Mafia need to get on these guys twitter accounts and let them know what we think of their opinions of Josh Allen!
The best thing we can do is ignore them .. don't watch there shows and don't watch their videos or comment on their twitter feeds. These guys and others (Nick Wright comes to mind) get to flaunt their number of clicks and that gets them more assignments. Ignore them or they will keep trolling a very passionate fanbase because it is economically wise for them to do so.
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On 12/14/2020 at 7:35 PM, IgotBILLStopay said:
ok, after KC beating the Fins a first round bye for us is going to have only a 1-2% probability - but here are the narrow paths - let us say we have to win our last 3 games to get to 13-3. Basically we are in Dalton to Boyd Hail Mary territory - but, hey that did happen, no?
a. KC loses their last three and Pitt loses at least one game and Browns lose at least one game - we are tied with Pitt (hold tiebreaker) at worst
b. more realistically, let us say KC beats Atlanta but loses the other two (Saints and Chargers) - we are both 13-3 but they hold head to head tie break over us - then Pittsburgh needs to get to 13-3 so it is a 3 way tie break - which means Pittsburgh needs to win 2 and lose one (say, Colts).
sorry .. I missed this post .. you are absolutely correct. Sorry for creating a duplicate thread
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3 hours ago, whatdrought said:
If the Bills win out, the chiefs lose to the saints and Chargers, and the Steelers lose to the Browns I believe we get the 3 way tie for 1st.
Actually the Steelers need to lose exactly one game .. it doesn't matter against whom ,.. though it would be better if it were the Colts or the Browns as it reduces their strength of Victory. Chiefs have to lose to the Saints or Atlanta .. and definitely the Chargers (do us a solid Anthony Lynn)
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1) The obvious .. KC loses all of their games, the ills win all of theirs, and the Steelers drop at least one more. Bills and Steelers tied at 13-3 and Bills win based on head to head.
2) The Bills win out, the Steelers lose only one more game (does not matter which) and KC loses to (New Orleans or Atlanta) and loses to San Diego
This would be a three way tie which gets rid of the head to head since we beat Pittsburgh and KC beat us. We would each be 10-2 in conference and 3-1 out of conference. The next is vs common opponents greater than 4 games .. I am not certain if this applies as Pittsburgh will not have 4 common opponents, but if it is between two clubs to see if one is eliminated we will be 9-0 vs common opponents with KC being 7-2). If this is applied as such KC would be eliminated and we then win based on head to head vs remaining team Pittsburgh. If this step is not applied as such it goes to the next line item (strength of Victory). That will change between now and the end of the year, but at present ours is .454 vs .442 for KC and .420 for Pittsburgh.
Not likely, but not impossible.
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This really says a lot about the culture the Bills have built. He stated itt hasn’t happened often but the Bills physically outmatched the Steelers .. that is serious respect
I love watching this team hit people
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PFF likely has us at 12 and the annoying guy from ESPN (ok that is too vague) Nick Wright has us at 28 because you can't trust their QB. Good or bad it is all click bait.
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Von Miller running in practice, but at present not expected to play. If he could come back that would be good for them .. and not so good for us.
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2 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
The Rockpile Review – by Shaw66
“Tough”
The Bills beat the Steelers, 26-15, Sunday night in Orchard Park. It wasn’t pretty. It was a slugfest.
It was playoff football.
The Bills and the Steelers are two of the best teams in the NFL, at the top of their divisions in the AFC, and on their way to the playoffs. A win was important to both teams, for the division race and for playoff seeding.
A win was important, too, because a game like this, a late-season matchup with a team you may face in the playoffs, often is a dogfight. It’s time to establish psychological seeding as well as playoff seeding. It’s a chance to look a quality opponent in the eye and say “I’m the big dog here.”
The Bills came out of the game bloody, but there’s no question they are the big dog. The Bills are tough.
The Bills and Steelers snarled and growled, clawed and snapped at each other for most of the first half. Neither gave much ground. It was supreme football toughness. First downs were really hard to get, and when the ball was in the air, it was as likely to be a punt as a forward pass. It was a nasty, give-no-ground fight.
The Steelers made the first big play, hitting Josh Allen as he released a pass and intercepting. The Bills responded forcing a three and out.
The Steelers made another play, forcing a Dawson Knox fumble (gotta be better kid, this is playoff football) and this time putting together a three-play, thirty-yard drive for a touchdown on the 11th possession of the first half. First blood.
A couple of punts, and then the Bills responded with a field goal. The biggest gain on the drive came on a close roughing the passer penalty. Everything else was dinking and dunking, mostly throws to Beasley and Diggs. The Bills had clawed back into the game.
Ben Roethlisberger, the quintessential big dog, knew it was time to take charge of the game, to put up a drive and touchdown before the end of the half. Two passes and a penalty got the Steelers close to midfield. When Ben threw slightly behind JuJu Smith-Schuster, Taron Johnson pounced, snatching the ball away and sprinting to the end zone. Tyler Bass missed the extra point, but it didn’t matter. The Bills, not the Steelers, had taken charge. The Steelers were wounded.
After halftime, the Bills mercilessly drove for two consecutive touchdowns and forced two three-and-outs. The drives weren’t pretty – the Bills fought for yards on every play. Allen and Diggs led the fight. It was the middle of the third quarter. There was still some football to play, but that was just football. The dogfight was over.
If there were any questions at all among football fans around the country, there are no questions now. The Buffalo Bills are for real. And if that wasn’t enough to make Bills fans happy, there’s also this: The win mathematically eliminated the New England Patriots from the AFC East race. Two dogs with one stone! In a couple of weeks, the Bills will play another more-or-less meaningless late-season game in Foxboro, but this time it will be the Patriots licking their season-long wounds.
You win a dogfight by being tough. Who was tough?
1. The offensive line. Those guys were getting beaten up, badly, for most of the first half. They were getting pushed into the offensive backfield. They were unable to move the Steelers off the line of scrimmage. They were in trouble. But they fought, they regrouped, and in the second half they took control of the line and game. Tough. Toughest of all may have been Daryl Williams, who held up all night, sometimes with help, against TJ Watt, the Steelers’ sackmeister.
2. Josh Allen. Pressured and pounded from the start, Allen could have squealed and limped way into the darkness. Instead, he took the beating and stood in, always looking downfield and delivering completion after completion during the two third-quarter drives that put the game away. It was fun watching Allen bomb away last week against the 49ers, but his game against the Steelers showed he’s an NFL winner.
One of Allen’s best plays will be forgotten in all of the other highlights. The Steelers had managed a touchdown and two-point conversion to make it a one-score game early in the fourth quarter. The Bills needed a drive and a score. After one first down, Allen threw incomplete deep to Davis. It was a low probability throw at a bad time. On second and ten, under pressure Allen threw incomplete to Moss. Now it was third and ten, and the Steelers were threatening to take the ball back and take charge. Pressured once more, Allen hit McKenzie on the run over the middle, and McKenzie made the run after catch to get the first down. Seven plays later, Bass’s field goal iced the game.
3. Diggs and Beasley. Diggs had the better numbers, but both of them are scrappers. Play after play they come back for more.
4. Andre Roberts. He’s no ballerina wanna-be, tiptoeing around field. He’s all “gimme the ball, gimme a seam and get out of my way!” He wanted every yard he could get. Toughness is contagious; tough players feed off tough players around them. Roberts is tough, and his teammates see it.
5. Special teams are tough. Kickoff and punt coverage has been solid all season, but the last few games they’ve cranked up the intensity. It’s a big mistake to take kickoffs out of the end zone against the Bills.
6. The Bills defense is some special kind of tough. Their stats won’t be great this season, because they gave up a lot of yards and points early in the season, but game by game this defense has been coming together to become one nasty unit. There isn’t a star – not a JJ or a TJ or a Bosa or a Honey Badger. Just eleven guys doing their jobs. The announcers made a big deal about Smith-Schuster plowing into Edmunds, but the real point was that Edmunds was in position and made the tackle. Then he got up and did it again. The Bills defense is like that – not pretty, not spectacular, but they make the tackle and come back for the next play. You have to be good to get yards against the Bills, and then you have to be good again, and again. The Bills give you nothing. It’s quintessential toughness.
One play it’s White on a delayed blitz and knocking down a pass. Then it’s Poyer on a blitz and making a tackle. Then it’s Hughes chasing down a ball carrier. Then it’s Milano, then Klein. The whole defensive line kept collapsing the pocket and pressuring Ben. Play after play, relentless toughness.
Not just play after play. It’s game after game. Everyone in the league knows it now. You might beat the Bills, but it isn’t going to be easy. The Bills are tough.
On to Denver.
GO BILLS!!!
The Rockpile Review is written to share the passion we have for the Buffalo Bills. That passion was born in the Rockpile; its parents were everyday people of western New York who translated their dedication to a full day’s hard work and simple pleasures into love for a pro football team.
I loves this sentence .. so on target "In a couple of weeks, the Bills will play another more-or-less meaningless late-season game in Foxboro, but this time it will be the Patriots licking their season-long wounds."
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14 minutes ago, Runningaces said:
Win this week and a patriots win= hat and t shirt day for bills
They do not need Pats help .. win and they are champs .. tie goes to Buffalo
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8 hours ago, The Wiz said:
At this point he's embracing the hate at himself and getting follows because of it.
Mahomes was the worse of the two today. He'll never admit it because he thinks baker is better than Allen so he's just spewing his own bias at this point.
Exactly right .. it is like PFF.. we are giving these guys money by referencing them and then checking out whatever nonsense they are spreading. He is a non-entity with an agenda. If Baker turns it around and becomes better than Josh .. he can say he was there first. If not he still has more clicks than he would if he didn't say ridiculous things. Just ignore the guy.
Scenario where Bills may want to intentionally lose week 17
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I think we will rest our guys if we have #2 locked up. Everybody says how great it is to have a bye during the year to get the team healthy and what an advantage it is to play another team on two weeks rest - this is no different. @HappyDays makes a great point and I think in fact this is a very likely scenario