JohnNord
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dunne has been in hiding but will occasionally respond politely to some of the criticism. He doesn’t seem to be reveling in the controversy.
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8 minutes ago, Peter said:
Did you read the article?
He "effusive[ly] praise[d]" McD.
Dunne did include a positive quote from Dirty but that doesn’t necessarily mean everything he said was positive. Dunne could have used the positive quote as red herring.Regardless, the Bills know what the ceiling of McKenzie is and I think they are looking for more from a WR5/WR6
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People are making jumps that this was related to gambling or drug use - if this were the case the suspension would be coming from the league.
My first guess is that these two got into some kind of fight but would that warrant a 3 game suspension in the middle of a playoff push?
Hopefully we find out what happened here
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6 hours ago, Simon said:
If that is what this is about, I hope they don't rush him.
They're rolling right now and can afford to ease him back in very slowly.
Waiting to dress him for the Miami game would give them a nice bump and allow him another few weeks to heal.
IMO Miami is the target
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Daaaaaaaaaa Bearce.
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7 hours ago, Heavy Kevi said:
I have watched every game for decades. Literally.
Even gotten free trials of fubo, downloaded apps, got up at absurd times to see London games, etc.
But this game isn't on LOCAL ROCHESTER MARKET because piddly little peacock is trying a money grab.
All the other "exclusives" had free trials, were simulcast on a real network, or even in the case of prime- everyone already has it. But peacock, tiny little bullschitt peacock with nothing worthwhile to offer? The NFL not only isn't afraid, they actively don't like us.
So I can't. I just can't. Sure, I could afford the subscription; but I can't positively reinforce negative behavior by the NFL trying yet another way into fans' pockets.
They will take our tax money to build the brand new stadium for a billionaire, but we can't even watch the effing game. Pathetic.
Meh, I just paid the $5.99 a month around Black Friday. It’s worth it to watch the game14 minutes ago, NJKBillsfan said:Isn't Peacock like $5 a month? Lol
Just sign up to watch the game and cancel after.
That’s what I’m doing… it’s only $3. It cost $8 to read the McDermott hit piece!.
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3 hours ago, SWATeam said:
I just listened to the press conference, that is not the case. He said the opposite.
What did he say. I just read the headline from Thadski Brown and it says he wouldn’t be ready.
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2 minutes ago, NewEra said:
Or we can just roll with Poona vs the chargers and Pats and get both daquan and JP back for miami
Yes this is the logical move but Poona Ford’s absence on the 53 is a great mystery. Eric Washington said he wouldn’t “be ready” for the Chargers. Why? Who knows?All I know is that Poona took less money to come to Buffalo and the Bills signed him to a decent contract above the vet minimum.
When he was active, his tape showed some good reps and some bad ones - even a few flashes. No different that Jordan Phillips or Tim Settle.
You’d assume he’d be the next man up but I have a feeling Eli Ankou might get called up for this game
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14 hours ago, Toledo Bill said:
Rapp has not received a lot of love here but his style of play (along with Dotson and others) contributed to the hardest hitting Bills defense I have seen in a long, long time. This aggressive style may lead to some mistakes but is a welcome change… the Cowboys could not wait to get out of the stadium last night.
To be honest, I’m a little disappointing in the Rapp signing. There were hopes he could step in an potentially replace Hyde or Poyer next year. That ain’t happening.27 minutes ago, starrymessenger said:Jack Tatum tried to do the same thing to Earl Campbell. Didn't work out.
When did John Elway morph into half man-half horse?
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3 hours ago, Rubes said:
The Dallas game was a complete and utter beatdown on both sides of the ball. It was a physical battering that left Dallas shell shocked and emotionally defeated. An embarrassment from start to finish for them.
The Fins competed in that earlier game for a bit before the Bills pulled away, but even then it always felt like they could strike at any moment.
Dallas was never in this one.
This is where I’d lean. Both were the “hot” teams coming in and got absolutely beat down. Remember the narratives before all of these games:Miami dropped 70 points on Denver. Tyreek was going to break the single season receiving record (still might), the Dolphins offense was going to set the record for scoring. Tua was going to break the single season mark for TD’s and passing yards.
The Bills defense limited them to 20 points
Dallas was regarded as the 2nd best team in the NFL and ready to make a playoff run averaging 40 points per game and having the 5th best defense. They were bullied…essentially pounded into submission.
I think performances like this are why you stick with McDermott as HC even if they don’t make the playoffs (pending they finish with 10 wins and don’t flame out).
There’s been an incorrect and ignorant narrative here that McDermott is bad coach. These games prove he is not. I think we can’t dismiss how the inconsistent Ken Dorsey offense hurt the Bills in big games this season.I also feel that the Dallas game shows the ability of an OC to create a game plan that targets the weakness of a specific opponent.
29 minutes ago, ngbills said:Do the MIA and DAL wins count for more wins than the others? The last I checked the team is 8-6 and while playing MIA and DAL well, they blew leads to NYJ, DEN, NE, and PHI. I like how they have looked lately, but consistency and play in critical moments has been he issue. No one has ever claimed they would "never" beat any team in the league. They can beat anyone and this year they can also lose to anyone.
LOL don’t pretend these wins were the same as the NYG or TB game.
Give McDermott credit
18 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:The Cowboys game was by far the most impressive. It may actually be the most impressive game of any NFL team this regular season, in that a team being regarded as a top-3 SB contender got physically embarrassed to the point that they're no longer being taken seriously just a day later.
100%. I don’t think the game script on offense would be the same if Ken Dorsey was still OC-
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44 minutes ago, since79 said:
If McDermott is staying, we need to lock Brady down as The OC, assistant head coach. He was interviewed by several teams in the '21 cycle for Head coach. His resurgence here will open eyes again and get him looked at for Head Coach openings.
We need to make the playoffs to make the interview process more complex elsewhere where teams are waiting.
If we don't make the playoffs we need to act quick on a McDermott decision and consider him as the head coach.
Our interviews may not just be for an offensive coordinator to satisfy the rule but for his replacement. The end of the season here is getting complicated.
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38 minutes ago, Big Turk said:
And yet they did far better than O'Brien has on offense this year. Except in their first game against us.
Right… and this goes back to Bill’s outdated philosophy and being totally clueless as GM. It was clear that Mac Jones wasn’t the type of QB that could elevate the offense and needed better playmakers at WR.
So Bill lets their best WR Jakobi Meyers walk and overpays his replacement JuJu, re-signs an underwhelming Devante Parker, and low balls DeAndre Hopkins.
He also signs Ezekiel Elliot to be his third down back.
It’s bot a surprise they were worse this season
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11 minutes ago, Albany,n.y. said:
Right now Joe Brady is earning the permanent OC job, but according to NFL rules the Bills have to interview for the OC job and they must interview minorities.
If Brady's offense continues to win, then every interview is a sham since Brady will be a lock for the job.
Unless the goal of the interviewee is to get the QB coach job, why would anyone interview for a job someone else is a lock to get? This part of the enhanced Rooney Rule is a total joke. They might as well ask Les Frazier to interview for the OC job as a favor to the team.
These are the rules for hiring the league created…in cases like Brady it really doesn’t make sense but I don’t think interviewing other candidates is a bad thing for Buffalo.
For example, I know they looked at Ken Dorsey as OC back in 2017, before making him QB coach in 2019.
I do feel bad for the candidates (minority or otherwise) because they put in a ton of work and energy for a job that is essentially not open. In cases like this, the Rooney rule fails.
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11 minutes ago, Bills Fan in MD said:
Patricia calling NE's offense last year has to go down as one of the weirdest coaching decisions ever.
Classic Belichick thinking he’s the smartest man in football. A blend of hubris and insecurity. Rather than realizing his preference of “smash mouth” football was outdated, he brought back old cronies to support him rather than hiring someone from outside the org with new ideas.
Patricia and Joe as OC’s, was one of the final nails
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He was better than he’s been in previous weeks. Still probably at best, he’s 50% of what he was last fall. But incremental progress is a win short term
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2 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
This gave me a double-take. I hadn't even realized that Philly brought Patricia onboard as an assistant.
I do think Patricia is a strong defensive coordinator but sucked as a HC. Patricia's track record outside NE is as a HC, then he came back to work for NE on the offensive side of the ball and that was a disaster.
But when he stays in his defensive lane, I think he's pretty sound. He had top-10 defenses in NE from 2012 to 2017. Of course with NE, you never know how much was the assistant and how much was Belicheck, and, during that era, how much was Brady and the refs.
Everyone wants to get in their little jab by calling Patricia a OC. That was an incredibly strange move by Belichick and that hubris is largely why it appears New England is going to fire him in 3 more games.Regardless as stated Patricia had a relatively strong background in NE as DC, although when he branched out on his own in Detroit the results weren’t pretty.
What surprises me more is that Philly made the switch to begin with, only because Sean Desai was thought of to be a rising star and a potential HC candidate. His defense has certainly struggled but they never had good inside LB’s and were suspect in the secondary.
But you have to think that this is the end of Desai in Philly. Unless Patricia sucks (which is possible) you can’t go back to Desai. And if you were Desai, would you want to go back after getting the rug pulled from under you? All signs point to him leaving Philly.
It should also be noted that Philadelphia has only scored 13 and 19 points when facing Dallas and SF the past two weeks. While the defense hasn’t been good, the offense has also been far below its standard against contenders.
Maybe Nick Sirianni should have fired himself?!?!?!?
1 minute ago, T master said:I hope this doesn't do for their D what brady has done for the Bills offense ...
Wouldn’t surprised me to see a little boost. The DL is freaking stacked so they should get more out of that unit.
Aside from that the LB’s are bad and just about everyone in the secondary other that Byard are suspect. Maybe Shaq Leonard makes a difference?
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14 minutes ago, ganesh said:
Who was the player who decided to run back the Kickoff and stopped at the 11 yard line ? That was a terrible decision even though at that point it was not going to impact the game. You have to play a full 60 minute game
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1 hour ago, FireChans said:
Man, this dinosaur just doesn’t get it.
Trying to run the ball down a teams’ throat, sustaining long drives and keeping our defense fresh to attack an off-balance offense?
This is crazy. We need to run an offense like Dallas and throw almost every play, like genius offensive HC’s like McCarthy do.
This is why defensive coaches will never win anything. Stuck in the stone ages.
Today’s result was a bit extreme. I don’t think he wanted to rush James Cook 25 times. But I always laughed when people criticized him for wanting a better running game. This is why -
51 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:
Cook has been great but Tyler Dunne lit a fire under this undermanned defense. Reminds me of Jerry Sullivan after the wind game in 2021.
LOL I think the Dunne effect is a bit overstated. I think the Bills were trending in the right direction since Joe Brady took over as OC. They actually scored points and moved the football which helped out the defense.I think like a lot of us, they read the article and thought it was a bunch of crap. Did it make them play harder? Maybe a bit. But overall, I think the wheels were in motion before the article
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I was told by Tyler Dunne that Sean McDermott is the problem
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3 minutes ago, Xwnyer said:
Maybe too late we made the move on from this clown but what if we had fired him after last season or early this season. Maybe we would not be fighting for our lives to get in playoffs. So much more motion being used, more In Game adjustments , less predictability. As an avid viewer based on our presnap look I knew the play, now I see many different calls from same formations. Last week he got vanilla in second half but this week seemed to keep it mixing. Plus Brown and Dawkins are doing great in these runs where they are pulling!
If he was fired after Jacksonville the Bills likely win against NE, Denver maybe even Cincinnati who has a bad (though opportunistic) defense.
The problem is McDermott never really had enough of a reason to fire him. You can’t just fire a coach when they have a bad game and need to give them time to turn things around.
It wasn’t until that midyear stretch where they consistently struggled to score over 24 points that he had cause.
I thought making the move after Denver was proactive by McDermott because you knew his critics would call Dorsey a scapegoat. But anyone who watched the Bills this season or last, knows there were some major issues in the Dorsey offense.
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To everyone thinking about the interim
coach effect - it’s true that there can be a short team boost but that’s mostly coaches who get fired mid-season. I believe the win percentage for interims midseason was like .600. But I feel the percentage drops considerably with late season firings. Can’t find the exact numbers but Bills just need to handle business and they should be good
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14 minutes ago, Scott7975 said:
Won't know until about 3:00
LFG BUFFALO BIG W's TODAY BIG W's!!!!
Officially at 3:00….but we pretty much know the game day already. No Hyde or AJ.
Taron Johnson and Dalton Kincaid who were LP will play. Everyone else will be active.
No practice squad call up mean the inactives will likely be:
▪️Micah Hyde
▪️AJ Epenesa
▪️Germaine Ifhedi
▪️Alec Anderson
▪️Poona Ford
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People are talking about the weather as if it’s going to an extreme weather day. There’s going to be rain and a little bit of wind. 50 degrees. PLEASE!
Big deal! That’s typical for most December games in the NE.
Weather will not impact on the game for either side, though Dallas seems to spending a ton of time thinking about it, so hopefully they outthink themselves
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OT - Isiah Mckenzie and Tony Brown suspended for remainder of the season
in The Stadium Wall
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The Bills wanted to upgrade from McKenzie which is why the signed Harty. The thought was that he could take a step forward and play WR3. They put a lot of confidence in him, and it didn’t really work out.
Harty’s been a disappointment, yet his numbers are slightly better.