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Sometimes it is hard to understand things. You might want to try harder. The other poster suggests their are two choices, 1) stand pat and go 14-4 or 2)make a change and have a 20 year drought. These are not the only two choice.
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Total false choice premise.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, NFL football cames did not have instant replay. And somehow the league functioned. Mistakes were made, and people were annoyed, but they were accepted as part of the game. High School football is able to operate still without instant replay. In theory I like instant replay. But I feel like in many games now I am watching an episode of CSI-NFL as plays are disected frame by frame, Gene Steradore is brought in to give his opinion and even then, there are a fair number of plays were people simply disagree on the meaning of what they are seeing. My observation is the most controversial aspect of officiating is not the penalties that are called, its the penalties that are missed. For example, the hold at the end of the Super Bowl that resulted in the Chiefs being able to run out the clock was clearly a hold by the rules. But fans instantly railed against the inconsistency of applying that rule, point out how many times during the game more aggregiouos penalties had been missed. This leads to my first suggestion: There needs to be the ability for teams to call for instant replay for a missed penalty. Initially this will painfully slow games because so many holds in current games are missed but eventually players will adapt. If they know that they will always get called for holds, they will stop holding, or be replaced by players that can play without holding. The next thing I dislike about instant replay is that it adds a gameship element to Football that does not belong. Teams running up to the line to beat the review, home teams showing 10 angles of some plays on thier big screen, while not showing any replays of some other ones, or befuffled coaches not know whether to risk a time out or not being put under the gun. I would rather the outcomes of games be decided between the lines. The leads to my second suggestion. 2. Refs should have the ability to rule "could not determine" on a play. One element of the frustration with instant replay is it requires over turning a mistake. In many instances, it seems clear (particularly with regards to whether a ball was caught or not) where the ref just did not have a good view of the call. Let them throw a blue flag, asking for a review, to get the call right in the first place, rather than force the coach who to decide if the ref's guess was right or wrong. This allows the standard to be changed from "overruling with incontrovertible evidence" to "lets just make the right call". Good refs should have to throw this hypthetical blue flag only a couple of times a season. It should not be some sort of crutch. But this means only 1 call is made on the play rather than two calls on reversals. I think both of the changes would remove much of the frustration with NFL officiating. It seems as though it has to be better than the current system of expecting refs to be "consistenly wrong" and "guessing" when they don't have the proper angle.
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If you could do only one thing to improve the team for next season
Chaos replied to Don Otreply's topic in The Stadium Wall
Hire a different Defensive Coordinator. (Note- this follows the rules) -
This Bills team is either less talented than the Chiefs and Bengals, or more inclined to choke. Concluding we were unlucky seems like a silly conclusion. Both the Bengals and Chiefs are better positioned from a Cap perspective for the next year than the Bills are too. Its all a bit frustrating.
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He does no wrong. His team and coaches constantly let him down. It is the proper narrative.
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You are actually young among active posters on this board. Lots of people in their 60's 70's and 80's. My guess is that 10% of the active posters have a life expectancy shorter than Josh Allen's remaining career expectancy. My personsal opinion is that Josh is the last super star QB the Bills will have in my lifetime, and my sense of urgency for the Bills to win is to take advantage of Allen's talent before it is too late.
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Should be Reid or Siriani
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Nothing makes the board more enjoyable than the self righteousness of the superior fans.
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It takes time for an oline to gel. Ours has had time and hasn't gelled. I think drafting an entire oline together (or most of an oline) and being able to keep them on rookie contracts for 4-5 years gives a team the best chance to build something special. This is my NEW (feb 15) 2 round only mock draft via the PFF simulator (PFF didn't love it). Flame away. I am more curious about what people think on trying to build a same age oline more than dinging or braising the individual players.
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Frazier: The hard FACTS on why many of us want a change.
Chaos replied to Alphadawg7's topic in The Stadium Wall
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Will he be in charge of calling defensive timeouts, that are followed by giving up a big play, or will McDermott still have that responsibility?
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What does a senior defensive assistant do?
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Have you looked at this if you remove Allen, Burrows and Mahomes?
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Frazier: The hard FACTS on why many of us want a change.
Chaos replied to Alphadawg7's topic in The Stadium Wall
This is more or less what Beane said in his post season press conference, and also seemed to indicate there was not much anyone could do about it.