Jump to content

Marvin

Community Member
  • Posts

    185
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Marvin

  1. Let us see if the HoF Committee can finally get this right.
  2. I look at that era more fondly as time passes. "Bittersweet" is a good description.
  3. Happy Birthday, Kim! I hope your rehab is going well.
  4. Disclaimer: I am unapologetically line-obsessed. Clay Matthews, L.C. Greenwood, Joe Jacoby, Ron McDole, and Steve Tasker are near the top of my list. I am sure that there are numerous linemen who were better than some of the players who are in on big offencive numbers. IMHO, the media part of the HoF selectors wouldn't know good line play if it ran them over.
  5. Infinity plus 1 is still infinity.
  6. Great coach. Marv Levy reminded me a lot of him.
  7. A book called The Hockey Compendium by Jeff Z. Klein and Karl-Eric Reif showed that the minimum of Hasek's goaltending performances from 1993-2001 was better than the largest ever goaltending performance going back to WWI. He was the RJ of goaltenders. (Quoting Hockey Stars magazine in 1996, "Jeanneret is, hands down, the best TV play-by-play man in the NHL and he's so far ahead of the rest that there's no second best.") Having said that, the youngsters have to go see the highlights of OJ's career to understand exactly how good he was and how mediocre the Bills were for most of his career. 5 down linemen, 3 LB, and the SS in the box? No problem.
  8. It's worse than you made it. On one of the games on YouTube, Brent Musberger said that the Braves "have supplanted the Knicks as the Celtics' main rival." The money was specifically to cover the purchase of the team, yet John Y. Brown started threatening to move the team. Oh, yeah. I pick Hasek and then McAdoo.
  9. I think all 3 are true: Josh has to be more intelligent with the ball; the receivers are not getting open fast enough; and the offencive line stunk, which hurt his play even more. You can see him act like he can feel pressure on the few times when there isn't any. He sometimes does not have a hot read available on blitzes. He forces the ball downfield when he has someone open short. Even mediocre defences can consistently get pressure rushing 4 -- and it forces Knox to stay in and block.
  10. Anyone else remember the Monday Night Football game where they seemingly had dedicated one camera for Dobler just to gripe about his admittedly dirty play?
  11. I was about to point this out. Thank you for enumerating all of this. People thought Andy Reid was a choker until he won it all. Now he is like Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. Was he an idiot before then?
  12. How about tweaking the rules so that they are not so biased for passing offence, so that QBs are less valuable and teams can win with average QBs and a good running game?
  13. Saffold in the Pro Bowl just shows how much of a joke it is. Mind blowing.
  14. Does someone have an idea of what strategic drafting, cuts, and restructuring can free up money a year from now, but have the team still competitive next season?
  15. Actually, the discussion arose out of our criticism of NYS's tax and regulatory policies.
  16. Addendum: I was at Michigan State during the Super Bowl years. I relearnt the lesson to stand up for what you believe in even if everyone else is against you. Indeed, for the 4th Super Bowl, all of the Bills fans on campus seemed to have broken out their Bills gear and wore it every day of the week. We all dealt with crap from others by flashing 4 fingers as if we were flipping 4 birds at the haters.
  17. I re-learnt the same lesson that I took from the 1972-3 Sabres: don't quit. You might not get there, but you can live with yourself if you keep trying. When I was in Columbus, Ohio, I knew a VP of HR at a Fortune 500 company. He said that many companies around the country loved hiring Buffalonians because we: 1. Have no "quit" in us; 2. Are better at turning around office negativity; 3. Are less likely to lie to ourselves in the face of adversity; 4. Are more likely to try thinking outside the box when looking at solutions to difficult problems; 5. Are more natural leaders. He attributed this to things like the Super Bowl losses, the adversity of all the plants closing, the Blizzard of 1977, and such. He envied our camaraderie with Buffalo bars. He might be an exception, but it was interesting hearing that description of the Buffalo diaspora.
  18. Three of the most famous half-time adjustments that I can recall are from three playoff games. These are from my memory of the newspapers from Super Bowl week, which they kindly saved for me for when I went back home from Lansing. Buffalo 41 - Houston 38 (F/OT): The Bills shelved their dime defence for the base 3-4 in the 2nd half. IMHO, that is why the defence was better after halftime. Buffalo 29 - Los Angeles 23: the Bills put SS Henry Jones in the run box because Walt Corey had been told that the Raiders' QB was having trouble reading the winds and dealing with the cold simultaneously. Again, the defence was far better in the 2nd half. Buffalo 30 - Kansas City 13: the Bills altered their coverage in the secondary to play shorter with only Mark Kelso designed to handle anything deep.
  19. It is the playoffs. Never expect it to be easy.
×
×
  • Create New...