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Just now, Buffalo619 said:
False. Find a better option. They are out there.
It’s not false.
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1 minute ago, Buffalo619 said:
It’s like a broken record with these dish services. Instead of complaining, change providers. Stop waiting and do it. Today.
Contract negotiations leading to coverage outages happen to every paid television provider. Dish, DirecTV, Cable, etc.
If they didn’t hardball negotiations, the cost of a tv package would be astronomical.
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New Orleans. Where you go to get mugged and watch football.
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57 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson said:
Firestick and you get free cable channels.
Free or “free”?
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26 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Do tell. In which games has he done this and when?
Going into the 2021 season, Mckenzie had 4 muffs in 38 career NFL punt return attempts (that’s over 10% of all punt returns ending in a muff) and 8 fumbles in 124 career NFL touches. He also had 12 fumbles in college - once every 14.4 touches. Credit to Joe Marino.
As for this year…
- 4 days ago against the Colts (i’m sure you remember)
- Two weeks ago against the Dolphins (link)
- Week 3 of the pre-season (link)
- He also had a couple bad decisions where he fielded the ball within the 10 yard line and the offense got pinned deep.
This isn’t new. He has a propensity to do this.
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14 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
What message would this be? "Make a mistake and you'll be slung into outer space without hope of redemption"?
Yeah, that's not the kind of message McDermott wants to be sending.
It would be sending the message that poor play will not be tolerated.
Some talk as if Sunday was Mckenzie’s first mistake. It’s not. He routinely muffs punt/kick returns. He usually gets it back, and it’s not counted as a fumble because statisticians don’t consider muffs to be fumbles as the player did not securely gain possession, but it happens much too often.
I realize that it’s a faux pas on this forum, but sending a stern message is one thing we could stand to learn from Belichick. His dog house is real, and he keeps players in there for a lengthy period of time.
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1 hour ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
And even if you dismiss all the above as baloney
I do.
But I don’t blame you as it’s an easy trap to fall into.
Quotesmarter football minds than mine have made the case as to why some successful teams keep running *even when it isn't working*: they need to force defenses to keep defending the run. What the Bills are facing is "you can't and won't run and we know you can't or won't run, so we don't need to bother trying to defend it and can key off on the pass instead".
If you ever are bored enough to read The Hidden Game of Football, you’ll see where my views on running come from.
Running for the sake of running, because logically the defense has to account for it not to mention the physicality involved (the Chargers coach recently made this argument) is silly.
Defenses don’t care if you jam square blocks into round holes repeatedly. That won’t make them adjust. Only a quality rushing game will do that and we simply do not have the horses for that game.
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10 hours ago, newcam2012 said:
You have to find out how to make it work.
“I’m going to keep trying to force this square block into this round hole. Just gotta find a way to make it work!”
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11 hours ago, NewEra said:
After reading @Freddie's Dead Ford write up, I was left thinking Ford wasn’t too bad…….than how does Joe B give Ford a D+? Fina didn’t speak nicely of him either. So which is it? Did he play ok? Terrible? Likely somewhere in between…..but how far in between?
I give Buscaglia’s grades about as much merit as what my neighbor thinks about the game.
I realize that’s its hip to look at the ALL-22 (I do too) and try to analyze an NFL play, but Buscaglia has zero credentials. He never played at even the college level. Never coached. Never assisted to my knowledge. He’s just another fan giving his opinion.
Long story short, I advice everyone to take every grade and analysis from every reporter with a grain of salt.
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5 hours ago, zow2 said:
Saw Greg breaking down the Bills on TV today. Nothing we don't already know but this is from someone who watches every piece of film...
Let's hope the Bills are fixing some of these issues.
Problems are:
- Lack of running game, no commitment to it whatsoever. RB's aren't good enough.
- OLine are not nearly good enough in pass protection to throw the ball as often as they want.
- Lacking explosive plays in passing game which existed last season. If drives can't be sustained by running, Bills must have explosive plays.
- Buffalo cannot execute a viable offense if the only dimension is passing.
- Josh Allen has to be special, every week, every play, or the Bills cannot win. That's too much to ask, does not believe it's sustainable.
As for the running game, how long should one commit to something that clearly isn’t working?
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I don’t judge a GM based only on their history of drafting busts.
I also want to see if they can acquire elite talent. Beane has not been able to do that.
He has acquired “good talent”, sometimes, but not elite (outside Allen).
He has also made one of the worst trades for the Bills in the last 20 years, if not longer.
He also sat on his hands while the OL was being mauled.
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Why isn’t Breida playing more.
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6 minutes ago, Iverwig said:
Can’t wait to hear if McD takes responsibility for this performance.
Outside of poor clock management, he shouldn’t.
Coaches put players in position but they can’t make them make the play.
- Addison has Wentz for a sack and let him slip. He was in position.
- Allen had the 1st down on 3rd down, but Ford false start. Players were in position.
- Mckenzie fumbled without being touched. He was in position.
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4 minutes ago, Iverwig said:
Can’t wait to hear if McD takes responsibility for this performance.
Outside of poor clock management, he shouldn’t.
Coaches put players in position but they can’t make them make the play.
- Addison has Wentz for a sack and let him slip. He was in position.
- Allen had the 1st down on 3rd down, but Ford false start. Players were in position.
- Mckenzie fumbled without being touched. He was in position.
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Only need 4 more of those. And to score TD’s every time inbetween.
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Taron gets called for that hold, but this is ignored…
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Just now, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:
Ed Oliver laughing with his teammates on the sideline down 24-7. This team doesn't care.
In general, the vibe of this team is so drastically different from last year.
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Just now, Ethan in Portland said:
Keep the d on the field should slow down their pass rush. Just pass block and they were doing fine with the clock.
You’re calling the game in a bubble. Not in the situation that currently exists (wind/rain).
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4 minutes ago, BillnutinHouston said:
Refs. Not. The. Story.
The missed PI on the interception was costly - 7 points.
But you’re right that we still look awful despite them.
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2 minutes ago, letsgoteam said:
Make the FG, score to start the third. Down only one score.
But the FG wasn’t going to be made in those situations.
Or better said, it was unlikely the FG would be made in those situations.
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1 minute ago, Ethan in Portland said:
They had three timeouts. The clock management was fine until the strip sack
It really wasn’t fine.
It was poor.
There should have been a timeout directly after Diggs first down catch. You don’t want your offense running to the line and running. a play with the wind whipping and the rain pouring. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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1 minute ago, Einstein said:
Hate the FG call here.
Would rather throw it long toward the endzone and try to draw PI than have Bass kick a 50+ yarder in the wind and rain.
And that’s why I said that.
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Hate the FG call here.
Would rather throw it long toward the endzone and try to draw PI than have Bass kick a 50+ yarder in the wind and rain.
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Timeouts were grossly mismanaged by McD there.
There should have been a timeout right after the Diggs catch.
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Dish Network NO NBC=NO BILLS
in The Stadium Wall
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Indeed it is.
And the astronomical price is driven by channel providers that charge Dish, DirecTV, cable, YouTube TV, etc to broadcast their channels.
Dish is missing channels right now because Tegna, which provides some of their local channels (perhaps among others) want a large price increase. If Dish were to submit to their demands, the customer will need to pay more to offset the cost. Dish is pushing back on this.
But this happens with ever tv provider. All of them.