TheCockSportif
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I don't foresee any blockbuster action coming out of the 2020 season. For me, at least, trading out of spots into other spots would be par for the course. I can't think of a single scenario where I would hope for Beane to try and go yard in this draft. BPA, in the right spots, would seem like the smartest move. Cutting dead weight ahead of the draft and bringing in FAs (because the team could afford a few solid FAs then) would seem like a solid, complimentary move.
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Let's put how far we've come into perspective...
TheCockSportif replied to warrior9's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Like a number of folks (friends, family, etc) I'm still tied to in WNY, we're amped about the 2021 season. Because this is THE year. Or it's not, because I think that there is really no in between anymore. I agree with the OP though that nothing used to work, and the team is far beyond that now. -
Drew Magary, even with his myriad quirks and flaws, called KC fans out for who they were about a decade ago. Their board is on point with his assessment. ***** him with an avocado ice cream.
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Who do I blame? CLEVELAND!!
TheCockSportif replied to Houston's #1 Bills Fan's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
If there's any team who you cannot rely on to beat the Chiefs in the 2020 season, or really any stout competition, it's Cleveland. I'm about to sign off until the 2021 draft, but I had no illusions that anybody but the Bills had the strongest chance of knocking the Chiefs out. -
Umm, I didn't suggest that it will take 7 years for the Bills to be full-on contenders. What I'm saying is that it's a combination of ownership > FO > HC > QB, and that once the foundation is in place, which it was for KC years ago, then you can swap in better pieces. Consensus here earlier in the season was that 2021 would be the year that the Bills would make a run at it. KC started refining and tweaking that roster *starting in its early years under Reid*, so 7 years ago. The NFL is always about winning now, but the only "win now" team I can think of, who won a championship, and that's the Broncos w Manning. And look where they are now. Teams still take time to build, to retain talent, to bring other players in, to build a handful of core players, and this takes a long time. It took the Seahawks 3 years, as an example, and they're still competitive.
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ROCKPILE REVIEW - End of the Road
TheCockSportif replied to Shaw66's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Don't lose faith yet. Let's say that DC changes. The Bills will have the pick of the litter. Let's say that OC changes. The Bills will have the pick of the litter. I am unfazed by last night, because this team has been trending in the right direction under McD's watch. -
It's not like KC was built overnight. It took 7 or so years, and in the face of Andy Reid being criticized as a guy who couldn't win the big one. But look what they built. Amazing, right? I've seen zero evidence that this team isn't willing to make hard choices, and is always try to get better. 2021 can't get here soon enough.
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OP, honestly, I don't know. I don't think so, but again, I don't know. The Bills D exhausted its opponents during that run past midseason. No, they weren't the 2000 Ravens (or one's comparison of choice), but they did well enough. The O crapped the bed last night at times, and coaching led to conservative play, I'm assuming because of the various miscues. Once the KC train got rolling, the game was over. I'm not rewatching this one, but coming out of halftime, I knew it.
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Cole Beasley broke his damn fibula vs Patriots Week 16
TheCockSportif replied to Process's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
So, I'm not a doctor. Back in the day my parents got my sister and me involved in science and in math. She became a doctor, and I did computer science resulting in tech. Having written that, I needed to go way, way back about the fibula: https://www.physio-pedia.com/Fibular_Fracture#:~:text=The fibula is a non,articular surface of the talus. Executive summary: Still, must've been EXTREMELY painful to play with, and explains a LOT when it came to watching our receivers not be able to get separation on the regular. My hat's off to Beasley, regardless of whether the bone was weight bearing or not. -
Cole Beasley broke his damn fibula vs Patriots Week 16
TheCockSportif replied to Process's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Tenacity, and I don't believe that it's a weight-bearing bone. -
Cole Beasley broke his damn fibula vs Patriots Week 16
TheCockSportif replied to Process's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
He was actually on the injury report last week, but with a "knee issue". -
Cole Beasley broke his damn fibula vs Patriots Week 16
TheCockSportif replied to Process's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Wowza. I'm am glad that the broadcast team gave props to Beasley by saying that he thought his career was over, but his output here has been excellent (that was not a direct quote on my part). I thought that Beasley could be OK here, but he's been excellent. -
Here's What I Got Wrong About the Bills in 2020
TheCockSportif replied to TheCockSportif's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I'm mostly on board with this take, but I found that the RBs on roster in 2020 didn't have a strong first gear, and perhaps for that reason there were no consistent nor strong runs outside. Miami needs a QB or Tua needs to get his head straight. NE has a ton of loot, sure, but no QB ATM, and for a player like Stafford that's gonna be $$$. It's funny how fast that money with dry up. The Bills aren't exactly hog tied, and much can be accomplished with trades and a better than average draft. -
1/24/21 AFC Championship Game Postgame Thread
TheCockSportif replied to Chandler#81's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
The Bills had barely any pass rush and couldn't collapse the pocket. Therefore, every play from KC was like *bang* and KC did something meaningful to move the chains time after time after time. Josh Allen, in comparison, either had time to throw into dangerous situations, got the yips to miss open receivers, or was leveled. -
Here's What I Got Wrong About the Bills in 2020
TheCockSportif replied to TheCockSportif's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
So I'm not entirely sure how it will shake out. You'd think that given a well-coached team and solid (I'm not calling them great, but solid) FO they'd do the math about Star returning and other prospects and not break the bank on D. And frankly, I don't think that they really have to. Also, don't forget the deficit at the RB position. I'm beginning to rethink my stance about RBs being a dime a dozen. It was so very woeful watching them this year, the Bills being pass first or not. -
Here's What I Got Wrong About the Bills in 2020
TheCockSportif replied to TheCockSportif's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Yes, for the ***** that Star got before the pandemic, you'd think that he was a leper. No, he could eat other players up. You can't replace that, or maybe you can, but you need to find the same type of player. -
Here's What I Got Wrong About the Bills in 2020
TheCockSportif replied to TheCockSportif's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
True, but if memory serves, there was no free agency (like it exists today) in 1989. It was mostly drafts and trades and people off the streets. -
Here's What I Got Wrong About the Bills in 2020
TheCockSportif replied to TheCockSportif's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
It's D line and a pass rusher or two for starters. Bend but don't break won't break KC. That's for sure. And a TE. Most definitely a great TE. -
Here's What I Got Wrong About the Bills in 2020
TheCockSportif replied to TheCockSportif's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I remember hanging out with my best bud from high school and his family in North Buffalo where we watched the debacle against Cleveland in 1989 (or I guess it was early 1990). At the end of the game, his father, knowing that we were underage, still gave each person in the room a shot of whisky. Of course, free agency didn't exist back then like it does now, so the Bills had to fill in the blanks over the course of the 1988 and 1989 off seasons by way of the draft. The reason why I have hope is that the Bills will attract FAs who want to have a chance at winning a SB, and this FO is competent enough to draft players to fill open spots on the roster. Further "Bickering Bills" was the result of weak coaching back then. It should've never gotten that out of hand. -
All season long we've seen that the Bills have missing pieces and that Allen playing lights out, and coaching doing their best to adjust, goes a long way for sweeping the team's flaws under the rug. Unfortunately this great run in 2020 ended tonight. Having written that, I am surprised that I find myself indifferent to this loss. It's not BBFS. It's simply that the Bills are a strong, competitive team who lost to a juggernaut, and I expect that between coaching, FO, Josh Allen, the draft, and free agency, that they're going to find a new way next year. In a way, and I suppose that slightly older Bills' fans like me might have different opinions about this, this season had this dark hue of 1988. The Bills exceeded everyone's expectations in 1988. The O clicked. ST were really good, for the most part, if I recall. Bruuuuce, of course. I was in my senior year of high school at St. Joe's, had a full head of hair, and my future was ahead of me. Plus we'ed endured a mostly pretty horrible decade of football in Buffalo, or maybe 2, if you remember the Bills of the 1970s. Suddenly the 1988 season had an abrupt ending, and watching the Bengals play a close SB against the Niners was this textbook lesson of watching how you would draw the Bills into that picture and how they would've fared. Unfortunately, the 1989 season was a huge disappointment, but 1990 was $$$. Then again, the league used to move much slower back then, so here's to hoping for a strong 2021 season -- because this team doesn't have to reboot to get to the next level, there is free agency, etc. But I digress. Like many people here I felt that the Bills would go 10-6 or 11-5 and win a playoff game. IMO, that would've been a totally reasonable conclusion to this season, and something to build on. The Bills going 13-3 and ending up in the AFC-CG was a boon, and in thinking through things I realized that I got a number of things wrong about this season. So here they are, and feel free to add yours if you're into it. Coaching. I didn't care that McD was hired. The vast majority of Bills' coaches in my lifetime have been total clowns. McD was a sane hire, and process or clapping or whatever didn't faze me, and he made a quick pivot from his OC after Year One. What did faze me is that the Bills, while starting to show signs of competitiveness a few years ago, were still getting smoked here and there, would sleep walk in large parts of games, wouldn't finish games, couldn't adjust to their competition, etc. This year, given holes in the roster -- some due to COVID and some not -- coaching far exceeded my expectations. Some will call the KC game a coaching failure, but at some point you need coaching and you need players. Tonight the Bills didn't have enough capable players to get things done. The first half was a harbinger, and I'm surprised that KC didn't drop 50 on us. Still, I think that the Bills are a well-coached team, and if replacing HC in the future gets them over the hump to a championship, then that's an excellent problem to have. Run game. It sucked. I really can't say more about it than that, except to note that I thought that it would be much better than it was. Knox. I thought he would be good, and at times he was. But I thought that this team was beyond drafting the likes of Zay Jones. This team needs a good, consistent, strong TE who can move the chains and score. Knox isn't that guy I don't think, and there is no other player on the roster who can be a Kelce. D overall. Frazier, for the flack he gets, actually did a really good job coaching them. But unfortunately at some point his personnel couldn't contain KC, and the missing pass rush and inability to collapse the pocket consistently were real negatives for team as the stakes got higher. Allen. He far, far, far exceeded my expectations. I knew that he was going to be better than the likes of EJ or Edwards or Fitz or Losman. Then again, that bar is pretty low. Still, Allen is the franchise QB that we've been waiting for, or at very least, short of a massive regression next season (which I don't see), he will be flat out great for a long time. HIs game still needs some work, but don't we all? Had someone told me that a Bills' QB would be passing for 300+ yards per game, game after game, I'd have told them that crack was whack. So that's what I've got. What have you got?
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I'm heartbroken. Words of comfort?
TheCockSportif replied to Rockee96's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
The Bills had a fine, fine season, and exceeded my expectations at every step of the way. Until today. So let's see if they build a machine that can beat KC next season, because I think that, short of a total Bills' meltdown in 2021, KC is THE team to beat in the AFC in 2021. I hated the outcome of this game, don't get me wrong. Then again, I am not surprised. KC was lights out, exactly as I expected them to be, and the Bills had to be perfect to stand a chance. Which they weren't by a long shot. -
I think that coaching was forced into conservative play due to bad execution in the first half. Then the KC avalanche hit, and the Bills, being unable to run, were forced to throw regardless of what look KC was giving them. There was no consistent pass rush, so D did what it could, which, by anyone's standards, was not going to be enough.