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1 hour ago, Starr Almighty said:
You aren't saying he was not productive in the final 9 games do to missing an OTA in May are you?
Something obviously happened where the team decided not to feature him as much and he continuously asked to come of the field after every 2 to 3 plays.
Again you miss the point, ah forget it!
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3 minutes ago, Chicken Boo said:
It's really not.
As I recall, Stef got Stroud and the WRs together for an off-season workout. Diggs is a pro. He'll be in shape and ready for mandatory OTAs.
This is nothing more than Bills fans making something out of nothing, getting joy by ribbing a former player.
And OTAs were going to change that?
Ya, poor Stefan! Everyone is against him!
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30 minutes ago, ngbills said:
Lets also ignore he has already been working out with Stroud, Dell and some other guys.
So what, somewhere out there he has a team!
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2 minutes ago, Thrivefourfive said:
Apples and cannonballs.
He should be there. Young team, young quarterback, and if Diggs is on the field who he think he is and the fans want to back him as the game changer they sought to get over the top, he should be ingratiating himself to the entire city.Great post, it’s about more than Stefan!
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History repeating itself on TBD, many on this board could not let go of Sammy Watkins and remained emotionally attached to him years after his departure!
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26 minutes ago, Starr Almighty said:
He did this every season here. I'm all honesty did it ever affect his play?
It's not all about him or his play!
23 minutes ago, ngbills said:So do a million other guys. I dont think Diggs off-season work ethic has ever been in doubt. He puts in a ton of work, and like many others does not value OTA's.
It's not all about him or his play!
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7 minutes ago, Aussie Joe said:
The games are kicking off at 1- 4am on a Monday morning … I would say that the bars that are open at this time in Bangkok and Manila are pushing other activities rather than sports watching … I guess it’s possible that there are certain places that might show the games ..but I can’t say I ever came across them when I was living and working in SE Asia a decade ago.,,having said that.. the game is many more times popular now than it used to be in this part of the world …It sucks for the OP … but Asia is literally the worst place to watch NFL games in bars with the time difference ..
Australia is not much better … the evening 9pm prime time game in the US is shown with kick off 10-12am East Coast Aust …. The other time slots are too early to be shown in 99per cent of bars which are closed …
Not true, I went to a bar that had NFL Ticket in 2012 in Bangkok and it was truly a sports bar with NFL fans. While that activity does take place, it can also be a sterotype!
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59 minutes ago, NewEra said:
That’s great, thanks. My biggest issue with being there during football season is not watching with my crew. Would be nice to meet up with some Bills fans.
Trust me, they're everywhere - Europe, Central/South America, Asia, Africa and Bills bars in the strangest places too.
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Just now, NewEra said:
Sweet, thanks for the reply. I don’t mind being up all night.
so big cities have the nfl ticket…. Only commercial properties or can a resident also buy it?
Do a google search "NFL Ticket Bangkok" or wherever you are and guarantee a bar/restaurant will pop up. In Bangkok bars close at 2:00 AM but those that carry stay open, same with the World Cup. The places I have been to are nice, you may meet fellow Bills fans and lots of fun. Not sure about residents/commercial property but in this day and age I'm sure they can as many other posts have alluded to. Singapore, Korea, Thailand, and PI all have large US expat communities and many NFL fans. Good luck, if you are in Bangkok and have issues let me know and I will hook you up with some long time residents, most retired military.
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11 hours ago, NewEra said:
My wife and I are looking into spending lots of time in Southeast Asia in the near future. Looking at the pros and cons- my only con so far is watching Bills games.
Do any of you guys/gals live in the area or have experience watching games there? Is it possible to have YTtv and buy the package and use a vpn? Are games broadcast on any cable?
I’d love to hear some discussion and get some advice on this.
There are bars in the big cities such as Bangkok and Manila that carry NFL ticket, of course you will be up all night. Rule of thumb, if a large expatriate community exists you can find NFL ticket.
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23 hours ago, PastaJoe said:
I can’t watch it again, it makes me too sad. 😢
I have never watched the replay!
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11 hours ago, MJS said:
It doesn't matter. NFL players are not allowed. Partaking is idiotic of them.
You can say what you want about whether or not it SHOULD be a banned substance or not. But it is. So, they are dumb to risk their chance of a lifetime to play in the NFL and make real wealth.
I agree it is dumb considreing the potential loss.
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32 minutes ago, Beast said:
Not until the government can figure out a way to bleed every penny possible from each sale.That's just it, why can I not grow pot on my private property, for my personal use, without paying protection money to the USG; subject to the same laws driving or public intixication?
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19 hours ago, MJS said:
All the marijuana defenders always flock to these stories, haha.
Sorry. It is still a federally banned substance, against the law in many states, and prohibited by the NFL.
It is completely idiotic of any player in the NFL to take a risk like that.
While most of the time I love your posts, this one I strongly disagree with. Many veterans, wounded physically and suffering from PTS found that marijuana greatly helps in their challenging endeavors. Yes, it is federally banned but that dont make it right, at one time in this country we considered African Americans 7/8 of a person. Just because a law exists dont make it right - think prohibition. Had a family member slowly passing from cancer, used marijuana for pain simply because it allowed him to enjoy his last days while presecribed medications left him in a stupor! I can sit on my front porch and guzzle a bottle of JD but I cant smoke a joint? To end or hinder the careers of these two players is ridiculous; and yes I am a strong defender as I support my veteran brothers and their use! I still love 99.99 % of your posts! And I am pushing 70 making me an old fart!
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20 hours ago, HappyDays said:
Blows my mind that people still get arrested for marijuana possession in the year 2024. Stupid to get caught but I don't think they should get suspended for this and I doubt they will. Probably just a team fine.
Could not agree more and I am an old fart!
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12 hours ago, Old Coot said:
This was meant as a tribute to Buffalo and the people of WNY but when I said solid small town values some might have thought I meant narrow-minded people. No, I meant the positive small town values of neighbors looking out for neighbors, helping out one another, saying "hi" to a stranger you pass on the sidewalk and more.
WNY was a great place to grow up and I did not appreciate that until I moved away.
Great post, well put!
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3 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
Bills fans have spent the first five months of 2024 talking about receivers: Whom the Bills have and whom they should get. The longer I’ve listened to that discussion, the more I’ve come to the conclusion that fans haven’t really internalized what’s happening in pro football.
In short, I think that receivers are following in the footsteps of their cousins, the running backs. Fans, and the New York Giants, were late to realize that in terms of team performance, there isn’t much difference between having a great running back and having a really good one. And you almost always can find a really good one. There’s always a Singletary, a Cook, a Pacheco, or someone else. In earlier eras, if you had a Jim Brown or an Earl Campbell or a Barry Sanders, you were a contender. Not now. Now, you can have a Derrick Henry and, well, you have some great highlights, but highlights don’t get it done any more.
Why did that happen to running backs? Two reasons: First, young players keep closing the gap between what the great players can do and what the next level of really good players can do. They learn the moves of the great players, and they condition themselves to be nearly as strong and as powerful. Second, the defenses have matured – the players are bigger, stronger, faster, so that a guy with Jim-Brown talent now finds a defense full of big, strong, fast defenders, and the coaches have schemed their defenses in ways that allow their big, strong, fast defenders to close gaps and gang tackle in ways that just weren’t done in earlier generations. Maybe some 250-pound guy who runs like LaDainian Tomlinson will come along, but that’s unlikely.
(As an aside, the same thing is happening in the NBA. In less than ten years, the league has filled up with guys who shoot threes like Steph Curry, guys who are bigger, stronger, and quicker than Steph. And the defenses have gotten smarter. The Warriors of five years ago would be good today, but not dominant in the way they were.
(And, by the way, there’s a whole generation of pro golfers who have caught up to the greatness of the early Tiger Woods. They don’t stand out like Tiger because, well, there are a lot of them.)
And now we see it happening to receivers. Again, the difference between truly great and very good has gotten smaller, the number of very good receivers has increased. It’s happened for the same reasons that it happened to running backs. Receivers have gotten about as big and fast as they are going to get. The difference in speed between a 4.3 guy and a 4.4 or even 4.5 guy just isn’t very important – 4.5 is plenty fast enough. Kids in high school practice catching balls one-handed, practice tucking the ball away after the catch, etc. By the time receivers have gotten out of college, a lot of them have speed, route-running technique, and catching skills that rival what some of the best NFL players had ten years ago. In other words, it’s become almost impossible to get better physically in a way that makes any one receiver a dominant player.
In addition to the younger receivers closing the talent gap, the defenders and the defenses they run have improved, too, for the express purpose of stopping the physically dominant receivers. If you want to win in the NFL, you simply cannot let one player get 150+ yards against you, rushing or receiving, so you create defenses to stop them. You shadow running backs, you double cover receivers, and then you develop nuanced variations off your defenses to slow down the opponent’s star player. Quickly, other teams adopt your ideas. The result is that even the very best running backs and receivers are not stringing 150-yard games, back to back to back, all season long. Yes, every once in a while a Tyreek Hill comes along, a physical freak, and he does string great games for a while, but it’s just a matter of time before teams adjust.
What about all the great young receivers out there? Well, I think there’s an important distinction to be made between great receivers and great production. A guy like Julian Edelman was not a great receiver, in the classic Hall of Fame sense. He had great production because of the circumstances he was in, and because he was the right guy to take advantage of those circumstanes. Cooper Kupp is another. Amon-Ra St. Brown is another. These guys are all over the league, guys with excellent speed, very good ball skills, and brains. They have great production, but it isn’t so much that they create the production – they just fit the scheme and get production because they have the skill to take advantage of the opportunities that their offenses create.
I’m not saying those guys aren’t good football players. What I’m saying is that they are the Pachecos and Cooks and Singletarys of the receiving world. What I’m saying is that teams are discovering that the physical difference between OBJ and St. Brown does not translate into an important difference in production on the field, just like the difference between Saquon Barkley and Pacheco.
What about the true studs, the OBJs and the DHops of the world? The guys who actually create their production? Well, both of those guys came to greatness on their original teams, were true sensations and great weapons, and then were somewhat surprisingly dealt to other teams, where they never recovered their initial luster. Now they’ve been reduced to hired guns that teams hope can somehow reclaim their greatness or at least be reliable 4th receivers.
The bottom line is, I think, that the game has moved on from the days when the ideal was to have a true stud skill player on offense (other than your QB). If you had a true stud, you gave him the ball every time you could. In fact, teams have discovered that having a guy who is so good that he demands the ball is a negative, not a positive. When you have a Derrick Henry or an OBJ, they’re only useful if you give them the ball a lot, and that limits your offense. Having a guy like Stefon Diggs, who is prone to sulking if he doesn’t get a catch in your first series, is a liability.
The Bills certainly seem to have adopted this thinking.
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.
Great Post!
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6 hours ago, MarkyMannn said:
I was there for the 2 on 0-2. Loss to Raiders 48-6 at War Memorial stadium. Collier fired layer that night.
Reading the other posts here, a lot of old guys in this thread LOL
I was in Payne’s Pizza North Tonawanda picking up an order when the news flash came on TV that Collier was fired. It was the ugliest Bills crowd I ever seen the day of the 48 - 6 whooping!
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5 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:
Lol...technically born in Tonawanda and grew up in Lockport. But like I said spent a ton of time in NT
Tonawanda a great place too, you are a Tonawandan! Love it!
7 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:Lol...technically born in Tonawanda and grew up in Lockport. But like I said spent a ton of time in NT
Be proud of it!
1 minute ago, amprov56 said:Tonawanda a great place too, you are a Tonawandan! Love it!
Be proud of it!
So is Lockport!
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6 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:
My grandmother aunt and uncle all lived in NT. Spent most of my summers there. Played Bingo at a church on Oliver St right next to Dom Polski's!!!
Your an NT guy!! Now I have to lay off you!
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Just now, ColoradoBills said:
We drove in the snow to the airport to greet the Bills after the Boston Patriot game that put them in the playoff in '64.
That was nuts. The Bills moved the flight to Rochester. Fans were running around on the tarmac.
Between the old AFL and the 1960's Bills we all had some great times and memories!
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47 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:
That is the first game I can remember as a kid. My parents and older brothers were fixed around the radio.
The start of the 1964 season, I was hooked.
Me too, listenrd to the 1964 Championship on the radio and watched the 1965 on TV. that convinced my family to take me to games in 1966!
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7 minutes ago, ticketssince61 said:
I remember listening to that game while at Chestnut Ridge Park - we lost 48 to 6
We were completely destroyed
Stefan Diggs Skips OTA Texans
in The Stadium Wall
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Excellent response!