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    11/7/21 Gameday Bills @ Jaguars First Half Thread

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    Just now, Miyagi-Do Karate said:


    you gotta admit— they haven’t even gotten the player numbers right (or even the team right) on many calls this half. They have mis-spotted the ball badly; they missed the Marvin Jones catch that everyone coupe

    see plainly. 

    Yeah they’re low level on the nfl officiating hierarchy. Hard to get enough willing participants in fixing professional sports 

    11/7/21 Gameday Bills @ Jaguars First Half Thread

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    Didn’t someone B word in the pregame thread how Josh takes too many boneheaded sacks? 
     

    just curious if he’s seen the 100 other plays so far this season Josh has avoided a sack only him and maybe Lamar could get out of?

    Didn’t someone B word in the pregame thread how Josh takes too many boneheaded sacks? 
     

    just curious if he’s seen the 100 other plays so far this season Josh has avoided a sack only him and maybe Lamar could get out of?

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    11/7/21 Gameday Bills @ Jaguars First Half Thread

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    It’s amazing how every game day, 99% of you will absolutely moan and cry about the officiating, yet laugh at those who dare suggest this is intentional by the league. 
     

    The NFL has an entertainment license. Not a sporting one. They want you to believe referring is oh so difficult and that the refs just kinda suck, it’s just so you continue to dismiss the growing number of people who think a discussion of NFL rigging and point shaving is warranted 

    11/7/21 Gameday Bills @ Jaguars Pregame Thread

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    6 minutes ago, Dan said:

    Perfectly exemplifies what’s wrong with the world now.  
     

    I have a preconceived feeling or thought in my head. 


    Excuse me, but here’s data to show that your view is not factually correct. 
     

    Forget the data and stats, I already know the answer.  And it’s what’s in my head and derived solely from the way I feel. 

    I understand what you’re saying, but you’re not accounting for the fact at how often the data is skewed or just fraudulent. And people like you so quickly disregard any counter argument based on the almighty data. 

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    Shout out to Matt Haack

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    21 hours ago, Back2Buff said:

    Watching the Tyler Bass highlights on the Bills website and noticed how well and quickly he is able to hold the ball for Bass.  Bojo was an absolute trainwreck, and Haack deserves credit for getting the placement correctly and real quick.  Not all the snaps were perfect either.

     

     

    Jeez we could’ve beaten the Texans 70-0.

     

    One thing I haven’t seen discussed with regard to Bass is his technique. Specifically how he spins the football. I was a high-level golfer in college and a little professionally, and ball spin is the name of the game. Absolutely critical. 
     

    There are many different ways to create different spins with a golf ball, and every ball in every sport obviously has it’s own spins. In pro golf though, there was a pretty large shift among the world’s top players to either develop or keep fade spin (left to right for right-handed players and opposite for left-handed). The fairways are rock hard usually on the PGA Tour, usually more narrow particularly for major championships, and actually designed to promote one spin over the other as far as the ideal approach to that hole based on the undulation and shape of the fairway. 
     

    The draw, right to left spin and flight shape for a right-handed player was long considered the way to go. A high draw was even better. Young players were usually taught how to swing with this in mind. A golf ball that’s hit with a draw will have more overspin when it lands, so a long draw hitter would be longer than a long fade hitter. A fade has much less overspin. Any ping pong players or tennis players here? A lot of what I’m referring to is specifically driving the golf ball off the tee. Gets a bit different with approach shots. 
     

    I’m talking about driving because it’s most similar to field goal kicking if you were to compare the two sports. Most of you have probably noticed Bass stands a bit more directly behind the ball than the typical NFL kicker who takes a step or two to the side after their couple steps directly back. This angle is similar to trying to hit a golf shot with a draw, more from the inside as they say. Promotes the right to left spin, which like I said, tends to produce more distance. 
     

    So why does Bass buck the traditional draw spin approach? Same reason Dustin Johnson and many others on the PGA Tour do, they already have more than enough distance. The fade is more controllable, lands softer (golf), and is far more repeatable in regard to producing a much less wide spread. So a miss with a fade is almost always less severe than a miss with a draw. What Bass does is what in the golf world you’d call a slight push fade. That’s why his flight path tends to be dead straight or starting straight with a slight move to the right. Super repeatable. I’ve seen him hit a few pull fades but the push is his move. He has, however, also shown the ability to use different angles with his foot and leg swing to produce different spins including a draw when needed! This is very high level stuff, and means he has the ability to create the ideal flight path depending on wind, moisture, temperature etc. 

     

    Bass is the Dustin Johnson of NFL kicking. We’ve all seen that he has the leg power to make a 70 yard fg. So he has the luxury of hitting a fade instead of a draw. What you have is one of the strongest legs in league history coupled with a technique designed for more control and accuracy and consistency. 
     

    Sorry for my ramble here, but I think Bass has a legitimate shot to go down as the best kicker in league history for all these technical reasons, and also of course he has a great head on his shoulders and clear mental toughness. His power push fade might one day cause the same shift in approach with young prospects that players like Dustin Johnson did for the PGA Tour. 
     

     

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    Everything is perfectly fine with the Raiders. Nothing to see here. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.

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    12 hours ago, Special K said:

     

    Leagues didn't want to put a team in Vegas because of the gambling aspect , but I always thought the type of stuff that has happened this week would be more problematic for a team in Vegas. 

    So nice and honorable of the league to keep a firm line between them and Vegas! Wouldn’t want anyone to ever suspect there is something illicit going on. 

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