Long Suffering Fan
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12 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:
All you have to do to be the greatest coach ever is draft the best QB ever in the 6th round. What's so hard about that? Belicheat is a sub .500 coach without Tom Brady under center
While this is all true...drafting a generational QB in the 6th round will boost a coach and Belicheck is sub 500 without Tom...it shouldn't denigrate Belicheat as a coach.
- His plan/defense won SB25 for the Giants.
- His Browns won a playoff game (it was almost 30 years before that happened again)
- He beat the Bills in that stupid wind game. The Pats had no business doing that.
- He got the Pats to the playoffs with a rookie Mac Jones.
He's a cheater and he was helped by Tommy, but he is still a great coach.
Thank God he is a terrible GM (and I mean that literally).
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3 hours ago, CorkScrewHill said:
For a team that is considered incredibly deep (which I agree they are) I find it surprising that only one of our 6 ex starters are expected to start on another team. Perhaps it is a situation where the collection of the parts elevates the individual. Would be interested in others thoughts on this.
3 hours ago, Inigo Montoya said:In each case Beane found younger players to do the job for less at the same or close to the same level. I think it's just the normal churn of an NFL roster in the salary cap era and nothing more.
1 hour ago, SoCal Deek said:I’ve often mentioned this: If every player was to play for ten years, and they don’t, each season would see 5.3 new players on the roster. And that doesn’t even factor in free agency, and the other ebbs and flows of roster formation. So it looks to me like the Bills are right on schedule. Nothing to see here.
I agree. It is normal churn and almost all teams have it. However, the real question is this: Did we get better with our churn or worse?
For me the answer to that question is Levi Wallace. I expected him to get a fairly fat contract as a starting corner. When he only got $4M/year, I was taken aback. We made a $3M gamble on a TE coming off an injury. If we wanted Wallace to be our CB2, we would have signed him at that price. That signaled loud and clear that the Bills thought that position was a problem and that they wanted to get better there. When he struggled to win the starting job in Pitt, I think that thought was confirmed.
Add to that thought that both the DL and OL have gotten better this year (IMHO) and I think we didn't just get better, we got much better in the churn.
Side note - it is fun to have a chance to use the word churn. I kept thinking of Amos Burton as I typed this.
Second side note - I do fully expect our defensive stats to be worse this year (because of schedule) even though the defense is better.
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Super interesting. Best content of the pre-season.
Josh is always good, but Chris really brought up good questions and led the interview well. He might not have been a good QB, but the fact that he was a QB in the NFL gave him some insight to get the most out of Josh. FWIW he was also the first national guy that I recognized getting on the Josh Allen Train.
Definitely worth a watch.
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9 minutes ago, BTB said:
IMO…a very overplayed and annoying “schtick” when it is used in every thread you open.
When you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I usually find it mildly amusing which makes up for any misses. Hey, its not all going to be gold.
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Thanks so much for posting this video this morning. I desperately needed real football content to "cleanse the pallet".
Here is my hot take. Beach Chair might be our most important off-season addition. The offensive line looks reborn. Countless times we lost yardage or had minimal gain running against light boxes last year.
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3 minutes ago, Inigo Montoya said:
If my daughter gets raped by a guy(s) I'd either kill him or do everything I could to see him in jail for the rest of his life. I would not ask the guy to give me some money and then walk away instead.
There is something wrong with this picture.
I have no doubt, Inigo. I bet you would do that if someone hurt anyone in your family.
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1 minute ago, hemma said:
I think I read that the city of Portland hasn’t even evaluated rape kits for years due to lack of personnel.
I do not have faith in the legal system like I did 20 years ago. I'm not sure if the legal system has really changed that much or if I just got wiser and more jaded. Justice is rarer than you think, so many lawyers are untrustworthy/expensive, and judges, if not corrupt, have biases.
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39 minutes ago, Marlton Bills said:
Let me preface this by saying I love Stefon Diggs. This is not an advocation to move on from him. But my question stems from the fact that 2 other teams (GB and KC) with an Ellie QB have moved on from there true #1 WR’s. If this season plays out well for them will this be a trend?
This is an interesting thought experiment and I am interested in how it plays out, but I have my doubts.
It's not like they moved on from their studs and the studs signed mid-level deals. People paid a king's ransom for them. The KC-Miami deal especially. KC not only saved on their cap (which can be used elsewhere), they got serious draft capital. For Sabres fans - it was one of the reasons why the trade for O'Reilly was bad (IMO). Not only did we give up a lot of assets for him, but then we immediately paid him a contract that would hurt our cap situation later.
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31 minutes ago, stevewin said:
Throughout these last few years we've developed a system - whether it's after practice - we do extra stuff, we hit the bag, we do ball drills - I think the young guys are developing that sense 'we gotta do more' - that's where this organization has gotten to - it's not just do the bare minimum, it's we want to do extra, because we know that's gonna help us out come game day
This is yet more proof that culture and work ethic matters. There are always those that say things like:
- They're professional athletes, they all work hard - sure but some are more driven and work harder and they get better. If this were not true, you would not have contract clauses on weight, study, etc. or stories about QBs who hadn't studied the playbook.
- I would rather have talent over culture - sure, but I would rather have talent AND good culture. The way I phrase it is - good culture is a talent multiplier.
I love McD's philosophy of a leader in every room.
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34 minutes ago, stevewin said:
If you were booing him it would add more pressure
I could never do that...I have a soul.
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23 minutes ago, gordong said:
Do you agree we put to much pressure on him? Does it affect him?
I've been camping in his front yard for a year now and cheering loudly for him whenever he gets the mail. He seems to like it.
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1 hour ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:
The young kids all have the same schtick.
Don't ever punt the ball, don't run the ball at all, when in doubt talk about Fantasy Football, and too much story telling on their single or newly married lives, which, in general leaves them out of touch with a good percentage of the listening audience.
In fairness, some of that is right.
I didn't figure it out right away, but for about the last 30 years I have screamed at the TV when some announcer said that they have to establish the run. Coaches in an echo chamber repeating a mantra from the 50s and not realizing the game had changed. When that saying was really a thing, DBs could practically jump on the back of WRs and force them to give them a piggy back ride. Of course you should run the ball, especially if you can do it against a light box, but the last 10 years have proved that the best teams tend to throw it more.
All through the drought the fraidy-cat punts by the Bills drove me crazy. Again, the last 10 years have shown that teams should punt less and the best coaches punt less.
On the rest, I can see your point.
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10 minutes ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:
The Bills have to be down to 80 by tomorrow. By my count they are at 84, anyone care to wager who the four guys on the outs will be?
1) Ja’Marcus Ingram, CB
2) Neil Pau’u, WR
3) Alec Anderson, OL
4) C.J. Brewer, DT
This is tough to do. There are 10+ easy cuts at this point and determining which are the first to go out of that batch is hard to predict. My bet is that the Bills are at least partially motivated (on this cut) by whether or not someone is a "glue guy"/popular. All things being equal, someone who is "good in the room" likely gets held on to until the last cut. The problem is we don't get to see any of that so it is hard to judge.
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19 minutes ago, jwhit34 said:
Underdog stories, especially RBs and WRs, seem to be a traditional unlike any other for Bills fans, and probably fans of most other teams.
jwhit34 is Jim Nantz! It is an honor to have you on this board.
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6 hours ago, Tipster19 said:
Hey, as long as this continues with some athletes being treated as above the law and the NFL just slaps their hand then the NFL and it’s “employees” will never have to clean up their act. Politics, we see it in our government and we see it in our sports, these athletes have gotten way out of control. As outrageous as this has become imagine if it were your sister or daughter that was victimized. As of now it’s just women that you hear about but if it were to hit home it would compound it immensely. Something needs to be put into place by being regulated by a third party, it’s WAY overdue! It’s disgusting that these people with no morals or conviction are in a position of authority.
The famous saying is - you can indict a ham sandwich - meaning that it is relatively easy to get an indictment. An indictment is just a decision to go to trial, which is why if it is even close, they come back with an indictment. An indictment essentially means that it looks like something possibly could be there so let's get all the evidence out at trial. I am affected by the media coverage just like everyone else, so I was shocked when two grand juries refused to indict him. We'll never know why, because that stuff is all sealed, but that likely means that there is less evidence than we are being led to believe. I honestly went from nuclear against Watson to puzzled and slightly confused.
It was two different juries - not a rogue judge, but a jury - not one, but two.
I have no doubt that Watson propositioned most or all of these women and that he is a scumbag, but I don't see how I can take issue with the punishment. In addition to the 11 games without pay and the fine, he didn't get to play all last season as this was being decided. It seems like a severe punishment. Isn't it the most severe in the history of the NFL?
All of this stuff where people pontificate and thump their mighty chest about how the NFL missed a chance to stand for women...sigh. If they don't mention the fact that they refused to even charge him...it comes across as virtue signaling. It is the popular take that everyone will like and makes you feel good - look at me, I support women!
And, if we are going to hate on the NFL, shouldn't we hate on the player's union more? They pushed for less punishment. What a surprise, ex-players come on these shows and blame the NFL and not their own union.
Again, just to be clear, I think Watson is scumbag and deserves his punishment.
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39 minutes ago, Einstein said:
All subjective of course, but I was surprised at how plain and cookie cutter the home was. Stuck in the 90’s.
I thought it looked great, but then I'm stuck in the 90s.
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38 minutes ago, Captain Hindsight said:
This is on the Patriots* website. Thad brown is an idiot. Cover1 is doing nothing wrong
I agree with all three statements, but Belicheat is breaking down the Dolphins, not the Pats. He certainly isn't giving anything away.
5 minutes ago, StHustle said:
MUCH different when the player themselves is breaking everything down. Leaves nothing to the imagination. Hodgins fully broke down how he thinks and makes decisions on plays. Just seems totally unnecessary to gift wrap this info for opponents.He came a lot closer to giving stuff away than Lil Dirty did. I like Cover 1 and I like that the Bills are allowed to participate. The generic stuff about what happened on a particular rep is good for us to learn, but is certainly already well understood by everyone in the league. When you start giving out your own personal "rules" like - this look here means my QB will throw it there and I know it pre-snap, now you are giving away something that can only be guessed by looking at tons of film and coming to that assumption - even then it is still an assumption.
I've not seen any of our guys give away that info, but Hodgins was much closer to the line.
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36 minutes ago, Mr Info said:
“…Buffalo could not be more loaded.”
Describing every Bills' tailgate.
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38 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
Hey, AB, just watch Steph Diggs live. He's even better.
Narcissist.
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I'm good with realistic negative. Constructive criticism is fine and many of his criticisms were on the mark. What soured me on Sully was his appearances on WGR. He had this thing he would say sometimes:
"So, how do you like your football team?"
Now, that is a fine question to start discussion about the merits and deficiencies of a team...but he always seemed to say it with an accusing tone. Sometimes it was almost like he was daring anyone else to defend any aspect of the team. He seemed to enjoy it so much. Maybe it is dangerous to read too much into tone, but he seemed happy the Bills were bad.
I couldn't read him after that.
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7 minutes ago, RoyBatty is alive said:
Who is that screeching high pitched "I Love you Josh"? Is that Poyer?
Didn't Beasley used to do that?
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38 minutes ago, Limeaid said:
NFL Films has retroactively called the 2021 WTF team the Commanders.
What are you talking about? They have always been the Commanders.
Also, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia
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2 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
Not me....it's called building a tolerance.
I've spent the last several years building an immunity to iocane powder.
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Is Boston Media finally starting to sour on Bilicheat?
in The Stadium Wall
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Because it is true. We had beat the Giants earlier in the year, on the road, without Kelly. We had just obliterated the Raiders. The offense was the best it ever was. We only got 19 minutes of possession because the Giants knew we were better than them and they wanted to shorten the game. Belicheat's defense won the game for them because the Giants got stops.
Not counting a kneel down at the end of the 1st half, the Bills had 10 drives.
- 1 FG
- 1 FG Miss
- 2 TD
- 6 punts
For comparison, I just looked it up. In the previous playoff games, we punted 1 time in scoring 44 points against Miami and then we punted 2 times in scoring 51 points against the Raiders after the game was already essentially over. 3 total punts and only 1 first team punt in the playoffs before the SB.