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that sure sounds like our Bills alright. follow up 13 Seconds with a Super Bowl win, as that's the kind of thing this franchise does. as a Bills fan, I'm sure I won't be thinking about 13 Seconds in five years.
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1 hour ago, Protocal69 said:
Cowboys all day everyday.
has a team ever opened in two consecutive seasons, without being the Super Bowl winner in either?
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Happy for Aaron Donald, a legend of the game. Couldn't care less about Stafford. It's like saying, "finally the long-awaited ring for Kirk Cousins! so deserving!"
Satisfied with the Rams win because it might send a message to McBeane since the Snead/McVay partnership in L.A. started the same season the McBeane partnership started in Buffalo. Two Super Bowl appearances, including a win for Snead/McVay. This helps keep McBeane humble hopefully, lets them know their poop does stink.
6 hours ago, No_Matter_What said:My hot take: This was the last SB Joe Burrow has ever played.
This isn't really a bold prediction considering how hard it is to get there. Will Josh ever get there, with McD as his coach?
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Wide Right was a 50/50 kick back in those days. (Nowadays, a kicker would be expected to hit it 85%+ of the time).
MCM was a tough call to make. Yes, the ball went forward like 6 inches, maybe a foot, but you could understand why the refs thought it went parallel.
No Goal. Again, a bang-bang play on what for decades had been called a goal.
I'm not saying there was zero incompetence on the three above, sure there was. But on the scale of incompetence, none of those three come even close to 13 seconds. Not even close.
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there's a decent chance he'll be calling play this upcoming season, depending on how badly it goes for first-time playcaller Dorsey
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1 hour ago, Success said:
Ask me on Sunday night.
if Cincy beats the Rams, it wouldn't mean that the Bills would've done it also. just like how Cincy was able to figure out a coverage to slow down the Chiefs and we didn't. i tend to think the Rams will spank the Bengals, but IF the upset happens, we can't draw conclusions from it, and it wouldn't make 13 seconds any worse. it's bad enough already.
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Clear step forward. Last year, we didn't have a chance to win the Super Bowl. This year we should've won it or at least should've been in the Super Bowl if not for massive unforgivable coaching incompetence. Most likely, next season won't give us as good a shot as we had this year.
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Bills would draft a bust or at least underwhelming DE going by past history.
Cincy didn't defeat the Chiefs because they had more defensive talent than the Bills. They had better brains than the Bills on defense. Not sure how to fix that, though.
Since people seem to support McD and Frazier.
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I'm hoping he can last as long as Big Ben did as an elite QB and hopefully we can win two titles. The problem is the coaching in the NFL has gotten a lot better and I don't know if you can make Cowher and Tomlin-like gameday mistakes and still win the two trophies. Josh's body isn't the the threat to Buffalo finally winning a Super Bowl. McD's brain is.
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10 hours ago, bobobonators said:
My parents are from Spain. Im ethnically hispanic in this country, butracially white. This country has a hard-on for classifying people. My parents never knew they were hispanic until they came here. Being from Spain, they simply considered themselves european and white.
Okay, but this post is ironic because without Spain (and Portugal), the hispanic/latino classification wouldn't even exist. (The root word for "hispanic" btw, is Hispania, what the Romans called the Iberian peninsula where Spain and Portugal reside).
See, what happened is this. Way back when, your ancestors from Spain -- great men that I admire -- set out to conquer, colonize, and civilize what we now know as Latin America. In the process of doing this, Spain (and Portugal) spread their seed/genetics, their language, and their religion (Catholicism) to the populations of these countries. So now, people from those Spanish-speaking countries are classified as "hispanic" / "latino". In that way, Spain is the arch-hispanic country. They started it all.
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1 hour ago, Mango said:
50% of NCAA is black (excluding mixed race and other minorities) and 65% are BIPOC. If participation isn’t part of the mainstay in becoming a HC at the NFL level, can you explain to me the experiences that would lend itself to rule out those candidates at such astonishingly high levels when compared to the participation rates.
Where are white coaches gaining significantly more experience/skill sets compared to their minority counterparts that make them more qualified to be HC at the NFL or NCAA level?
Why is 25% of the league having a much more meaningful experience, developing a skill set that 65% are not. And why at such a high rate? 25% of participants are making up 80%+ of the hires?
Well, you're assuming that everything else besides experience is equal, which I think is probably a bad assumption. What if, between the two populations, one of them has much more interest and desire to become coaches, for example? That would lead to them being "overrepresented" in coaching. Or what if, between the two populations, one of them has more coaching talent? There are probably several other possible explanations, too, if we brainstormed hard enough.
What's interesting to me is that I can't think of any organization where the demographics will be consistent across all levels of the organization. If we're talking military, I would expect the infantry to be demographically different from the group of all lieutenant colonels in charge of battalions. If we looked at, let's say, Walmart, I would expect the demographics of the loaders/unloaders to be different from the demographics of store managers, which in turn will be different from the demographics of VPs.
I mean, is there any particular reason the NFL should be the exception if no other industry (or perhaps a miniscule amount) has consistent demographics across all levels of the organization?
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6 minutes ago, Mango said:
It is not a great post because it is being comparable to the general population. But 65% of the sport are BIPOC. The threshold level is far too low. Even 7 HC begs a lot of questions.
First of all, I would hope that 100% of the sport uses two legs for walking. Next, why are we assuming player ratios and coach ratios should be the same? Different skillsets, no?
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46 minutes ago, reddogblitz said:
2006 - 7 (Super Bowl between teams led by Black HC.)
2007 - 6
2008 - 6
2009 - 5
2010 - 7
2011 - 8
2012 - 5
2013 - 3
2014 - 4
2015 - 5
2016 - 5
2017 - 7
2018 - 7
2019 - 3
2020 - 3
2021 - 3
Note: I did not count Ron Rivera or Robert Saleh. I also didn't count interim coaches even though there have been several a la Perry Fewell.
The avg was 5.25. >14%
5 years were <14% including the last 3
The real question for me is what changed in the last 3 years? Why was the NFL HC hiring within racial lines and suddenly now is not?
Really good post. To answer your question, when you're dealing with numbers and sample size that low, 3 years is just a blip and not necessarily a meaningful trend yet. It'd be akin to asking why this baseball player who usually bats .300 is only batting .200 over the past two weeks.
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1 hour ago, ThurmanThomasEnglishMuffin said:
Brian Flores is first generation Honduran American. His parents, Raul and Maria, immigrated to the USA from Honduras in the 1970's. He is latino.
Very good post, and I hit the like button on it. Flores, however, is black and self-identifies as black. Now he may also be "latino" depending on how you want to define that (if being from Honduras is enough without any regard to genetic makeup, then he's "latino") that but his parents are Afro-Honduran. Basically, back in the day, conquistadors would bring African slaves with them while doing their colonizing, and that's how Africans ends up in Honduras.
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1 hour ago, HappyDays said:
Then what is the reason for white people being overrepresented in coaching hires? That's the question. I don't think you or anyone else in this thread believes that white people are overrepresented in the coaching ranks because they inherently have more merit as coaches. So there must be some other reason. White players are not given less of a chance than black players, we all know that; but on a statistical basis black coaches appear to be given less of a chance than white coaches.
haha, this post contains at least two bad assumptions, maybe three
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Yeah, if someone who's hired and managed both Flores and Daboll isn't allowed to be a reference and therefore influence the decision, that's just stupid.
Stick to effing the Dolphins, Flores.
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18 minutes ago, Chaos said:
The NFL is driven 100% by merit/winning. The reason the league is 450% overrepresented by minorities in the players ranks is because they give teams the best chance to win. The same decision makers who pick minorities to play and pay them millions of dollars at 450% time their representation in the population, don't likely turn around and select coaches they think are more likely to lose than the alternatives because of their race. The concept is absurd on its face.
To be clear, I don't think there's a problem with minority hiring in the NFL. (I do support Flores because I think he was getting railroaded by Ross, and I additionally believe his accusations against Ross). But if there were a problem, the Rooney Rule seems to suck at addressing it.
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On 2/2/2022 at 10:33 AM, BuffaloRebound said:
It’s almost statistically impossible to end up with 1 black head coach out of 32 without their being some form of discrimination when teams are forced to interview 2 minority candidates for every opening.
I think in one the Freakonomics books (not a fan generally, but this example is interesting), there was a daycare that had a problem with parents picking up their kids late. So the daycare started charging the parents $5 whenever they came late. Did parents stop coming late? No, what actually happened following this change was that the number of late pickups *increased*, because from the parents' point of view, they were now paying for the privilege of being late and no longer felt bad about it.
This could be similar to what's happening with the Rooney Rule. Owners and executives might feel like the Rooney Rule is in place to take care of racism, so they themselves don't have to check their own behavior and make sure they're giving black coaches a fair shot. In fact, they may feel that since they're being forced to interview two black coaches for every job opening, something they dislike and from their point of view wastes resources, they can be allowed to be racist in the final hire in order to balance things out.
Here's a very common situation in life:
(1) There's a problem
(2) Your solution to the problem sucks or makes it worse.
Unfortunately, too many people in power don't understand this.
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On 2/2/2022 at 1:50 PM, Buffalo Boy said:
What would it look like if you were going to throw a game from a coaching perspective?
Run a bunch of low percentage plays and punt while shackling your best player(s)? Make absolutely befuddling and egregious decisions that are completely indefensible?
Ha! I get what you're insinuating but frankly, McDermott would be dead on a slab somewhere by now because his benefactor would be worried that McD made it too obvious the fix was in. Ironically, the grosser the incompetence, the more likely it's just incompetence and not malfeasance because cheaters are mindful to "make it look good". McD was too stupid to have been fixing.
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Josh is one in a thousand. Literally you can have a thousand QBs with Josh's profile coming out of college, and only he will turn into a great QB. Most will bust.
Anyway, with Willis, he doesn't have Josh's size and he doesn't have Josh's intelligence. Poor comparison in the first place.
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1 hour ago, JimBob2232 said:
I love this - but I’m so confused. Brady is on a trajectory to be HC somewhere. Not sure what happened in Carolina - but I feel like a QB coach is a huge step down for him. I would have expected him to take an OC at someplace like Michigan or something (if there is a coaching change) - not a QB coach job here. This is probably a one year thing…but glad to have him.
1 hour ago, Coach Tuesday said:Allen is becoming a Kingmaker.
Hopefully this is Josh's Machiavellian move to improve head coach. McD probably thinks Brady is here to replace Dorsey in a year or two. Little does he know...
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It'd be a great get. Heck, I would've given him OC over Dorsey, that's how good this hire would be.
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Josh needs to have secret meetings with the Pegulas. They have to come to an understanding that if McDermott continues to flub situational football and game management next season, the Pegulas will fire him.
Josh needs to take control of his career, for the good of his career and for the city of Buffalo. If he wants to win Super Bowls and bring home trophies to Buffalo, he needs to surround himself with elite talent at important positions like head coach, GM, WR2, CB2, DE.
Now that Josh has reached superstar QB level, he has control over these things and should work with the Pegulas to win Super Bowls.
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If what we're good at is drafting and developing DBs, why not use picks on DBs until we've produced our own Legion of Boom instead of de-emphasizing CB2, for example?
The Bengals beat KC with coverage.
Adrian Peterson arrested today; assaulted wife on plane
in The Stadium Wall
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did he hit her or mush her? big difference