TampaBillsJunkie
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This patch work OL is a joke
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On 12/17/2021 at 8:08 AM, Sharky7337 said:
You never saw the Kevin Everett injury in 2007?
Oh yeah. I was at that game and we were sitting about the 15 yd line pretty close to where the collision was. The stadium was silent for about 30 minutes with everyone praying. That was intense.
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5 hours ago, Robert Paulson said:
wow, I hope he was boosted. the last round did not go well for him. Hopefully the rest of the team gets boosted if they have not already.
yeah, that will do it.
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6 hours ago, Nextmanup said:
We are built exactly the way we were built last year, and that was good enough to get us 2 home playoff wins in January and a berth in the AFC championship game.
The team doesn't need to be rebuilt wholesale, FFS.
Agreed on principle. It's the same parts, but the pieces got rusted. Our average OL regressed to WELL-BELOW average. Josh has been on the run and hurried all season. The presumption was we could protect him and the reality is we can not. Every player on the OL regressed so much that we plugged in our 3rd round pick.
On paper Breida was an upgrade over Yeldon. Sanders was an upgrade over Brown. Gabe would improve. Josh would play close to his 2020 level.
What happened? Part of me wants to blame coaching, play calling and scheme.... (calling Daboll out on this)
On Defense, we spent high picks addressing the same lackluster pass rush. The rooks started off hot, but flamed out as the season progressed. Edmonds is the same liability, but another year of film has allowed coaches to draw up plays to isolate him. (Brady's game winner) Star is a no-show again.
Special Teams took a step back letting Roberts walk. McKenzie already cost us a game. And then there's a few unlucky bounces, poor officiating with spotty calls that cost us momentum on drives, general breakdowns at crucial times and not being able to make "the play" when needed.
All of it is the difference between 11-2 and 7-6. 4 Winnable games went the other way.
On top of all this, teams figured out how to defend us on offense and expose us on defense and we haven't completely adjusted yet. Some of this is due to the way we are built. We're just too small in the trenches and it's showing.
I do have confidence that this team can adjust and put together a run. The question is, will they?
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2 hours ago, Not at the table Karlos said:
But thanks for the link and screw you for the snark. ,
Snark is a WNY favorite. It's not mean-spirited or meant to defame. It is simply a WNY'ers sense of humor and a Buffalonian tradition dating back to 1971 when Dennis Shaw was referred to as "Meathead." Since then Buffalonians and TBD'ers have taken pride in sarcastically denouncing anything we consider "meatheadish"
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2 minutes ago, JerseyBills said:
I'd give my pinky toe to have a Thurman Thomas on this team. Holy smokes, Allen would likely be MVP every year and our O as a whole would be unstoppable
Behind this OL, Thurman would have his worst year.
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What gets me is no measurement on that 3rd down stop. Every angle looked like he was short. Also the same defensive play is called PI on the Bills but not on TB. Outside of that it was a hard fought comeback that should have been won by Buff. I just pray Allen isn't hurt.
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Gabe instead of Sanders for the rest of the year. Sanders knee issue may open that door, but Davis is clearly more physical and has better hands. Sanders runs better routes but we already have that in Diggs and Beas. We need some size and physicality outside of Knox catching balls.
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1 hour ago, BuffaloRebound said:
He’s an OK mlb. Just never makes a game changing play. I don’t blame him for the last play. It’s usually not totally his fault. You just can’t pay him top 10 LB money. I’d offer him $10m per year max. Let him walk if he wants more than that.
4-5mil. he's a bottom feeder.
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6 hours ago, Not at the table Karlos said:
Ankou and Bryant should be on the 53. They've earned it.
Ankou has been way tougher than Butler in the middle. I hope he gets more reps. We need to contain Fournette and pressure Brady.
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7 hours ago, maryland-bills-fan said:
it is actually quite simple and understandable.
What has happened is this strategy is NOT the one to use now, because the league has figured out the counter to this approach. Several teams (NE, Colts, Titans ...) have brought back the good old fashioned strong running games, that the Bills defense is weak against. Teams are going back to the 1940, 1950 1960 5 man defensive lines (you can get there by blitzing to harrass the medium/long passing game as well as affording gap coverage. We went light on road grader offensive linemen and break-away running backs.
You nailed it. Pats, Colts, Titans have big OL and had their way with the Bills front 7. For the Jags and Pitt it took game changers on the DL (Allen for Jax and Heyward/Watt for Pitt) to wreak havoc on Allen and our piss poor OL and stifle our offense. We couldn't counter them just moving the chains and putting up a few points. Very sad way to go into the last few games.
I have hope the Bills can right the ship and sneak into the playoffs. Maybe even take the East with a win Sunday and REVENGE sex on Billy Cheat.
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I take it as this. THIS WEEK is the most important week of the season so far. We play in elements favorable to our strengths. We play a QB who owned us for 20 years. If every player watched this video, their veins should be pumping and they should come to work today on fire. Ready to NOT ACCEPT another defeat. They all need to own up to it, take care of their bodies and do everything in their power to get themselves READY TO FIGHT.
With this win, it will boil down to going into NE and TAKING BACK WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY THEIRS! The time for up and down play, taking a play off, not concentrating, thinking you can win without putting in the work. Those day are over. If it was me, I'd be grinding all week. Working my ass off and studying and figuring out how to get to Brady and how to take advantage of TB's weak secondary. And when they step on the field, they need to know IT'S OVER if they come out of there without a win.
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Why the hell not. At this point give him a shot and see if anything can jump start us. Maybe after the Tampa game. With the warmer weather our passing game will be more effective.
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I'm with improving the OL and getting a RB who is a true dynamic duel threat weapon. As far as run D, we need some talented BIG bodies in the middle and maybe go to a 4-3 and move Edmonds outside and find us a truly dynamic MLB.
My wish list for next year would be keep the same core.
Upgrade in order: RB1, LG, MLB, DT, CB through FA and the draft.
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4 hours ago, Muppy said:
its easy to cherry pick this player or that from yesterdays game I will say edmunds was disappointing and stood out to me. .
I have a few groans on this one. Edmonds definitely over pursued a few times and was out of place for big gains.
Wallace can not defend the run either. He got blown by a few times and when I saw guards pulling and throttling him and the edge for 10 yards it was disheartening.
I hated seeing a big guys getting pushed around in the middle. Surprisingly Phillips looked stronger holding down the fort. I also didn't like seeing Basham playing inside on the DL. He was getting blown back. When he got penetration, the running back was past him. It wasn't until late in the game that Milano found the gaps and made plays. Epenesa looked weak and got hammered trying to hold the edge multiple times.
On offense, Singletary sucked outside of one run. He was useless.
Breida is fumble prone. As much as he is dynamic, he is careless which is why he was on the bench all year. If the other backs weren't so bad, he wouldn't see the field. He's a great weapon but also one that misfires at the wrong times.
Sanders dropped a couple balls that absolutely should have been caught. Knox needed to fight to possess the ball. He had it knocked out of 2 sure fire receptions.
The entire OFFENSIVE LINE is offensive to watch right now.
Josh was great but he missed open receivers mostly due to inept guard play, so he gets a pass for fighting through bad conditions.
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I agree except for the "it was fun to watch." This game was unbearable for me to watch. I couldn't sit still and my nerves were on end. It was excruciating to watch NE run the ball when we knew damn well that's what they were going to do. I hated watching a second wave of defenders get dragged as the first wave got blown off the line.
Watching Suckletarry run into a mob for one yard while a gimpy Harris found holes for 10 was painful. Knowing Allen needed to throw and watching Daboll waste downs on useless 1/2 yard plunges pissed me off. Seeing bullets get dropped when they needed to be caught, sucked.
Having that horrible gut feeling by the end of the first quarter that you knew exactly how the game was going to go and then seeing it play out exactly as imagined also really, freaking sucked.
Calling plays from my couch and being 90-95% on exactly who the ball was going to, "Sucked." Surprise me. Have some unpredictability on offense please. That also. you guessed it" SUCKED.
Watching the team I hate with a deep rooted passion once again and Brady-less getting the best of us. Sucked. The worst part was knowing we had the talent to win and not doing it. Not using all the tools at our disposal sucked. Being out-coached again. Sucked. I did not enjoy this game. I'm still venting today and the only thing that's going to get rid of this pain is a win in Tampa and then REVENGE in NE. Nothing else can ease the pain of "it sucked"
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This years offense is so much more predictable than last years. I could see them being at odds. Last night I was calling the plays from the couch and nailed about 90% of them. We need to find a way to thrive on offense in bad elements.
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17 minutes ago, Virgil said:
To be a full game and tiebreaker behind the Pats this late in the season, after giving up a home game to them, makes me want to throw up.
This is where. I'm at. Dry heaving as I type, thinking of 50 ways we could have won with a little competency and toughness. It's my Patriot hate that makes it all the more nauseating.
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1 minute ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
The game came down to a couple of key plays: a missed 33 yd FG that took away the chance for a 2nd FG to win on the final drive; a stupid fumble charged to Josh Allen but 100% on Breida IMO (and Peyton Manning's opinion) are the biggest IMHO.
All this and Harris long TD run. Play that right and it's a different game. Bass missed FG hurt a f'k ton.
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7 minutes ago, Niagara Dude said:
Frazier needed 3 quarters to figure out to send Milano through the gap when the guard pulls
No Sh*t! That pissed me off. All game they just gashed us and we knew they were going to run. It was so frustrating to watch.
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7 hours ago, The Wiz said:
These guys don't realize most of the time that you can do the same with 16m that you can do with 18m.
Let me know which ones, so I can take their extra 2. I could use it for Christmas gifts.
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38 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:
Let me calm the OP down.
The Bills game on MNF is not going to be ruined by pro-NE bias as part of a master Super Bowl conspiracy plot.
I guess this never happened before in the NFL. Fixed sports, fixed sports betting. Nah!
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With good reason. They took the Bills out of a few games this year often stalling drives on our offense and extending drives against our defense.
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12/19/21 Gameday Bills vs Panthers First Half Thread
in The Stadium Wall
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because he is not consistent. one or two 8 yd runs is not going to dictate a defense.