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    Players That Should Be HOF Inductee's But Are Not .

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    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.

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    Greatest Individual Season in Buffalo History

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    43 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:

    In the 1970's, football was about running backs.  The best athletes became RBs.  RBs were far more likely to win the Heisman or get picked #1 in the draft than QBs.  Offenses were built around great running backs.  Defenses - unlike now - were built to stop them.  

     

    In that bygone golden era, one back stood out like no other, like a man among boys, like a god among men.  In the 1973, OJ had 75% more yards than the next best back.  Not even Jim Brown did that.  Certainly not Emmit Smith, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Eric Dickerson, or the many other pretenders for the title of RB GOAT.

     

    Incidentally, OJ rushing total in 1975 was 46% ahead of the best of his peers.  His dominance was insane.  Only Jim Brown ever did better, comparatively, than OJ's 2nd best year.  

     

    I'm not a hockey fan but I get the love for Hasek.  But did he ever outperform his peers by 75%?  

     

    OJ is a horrible, horrible human being, but he was a preternatural football player.  

    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.

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    Greatest Individual Season in Buffalo History

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    13 hours ago, CSBill said:

    Bob McAdoo = 1973 NBA Rookie of the year, or the 1975 NBA MVP (34.5 points, 14.1 rebounds. and 2.12 blocks per game, while shooting 51.2% from the field and 80.5% from the free-throw line) . . . . And his reward for that MVP season, they traded him (and Tom McMillen) for a hamburger and some cash to the Knicks--which was the beginning of the end of the Buffalo Braves.

    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.

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    The #1 Priority, Protect The QB

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    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.

    Sean Payton Queston

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    7 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

    That's not true. It took Andy Reid 7 years to win a Super Bowl in KC.  So, I guess you would have fired Reid after 6 years of no Super Bowls in KC.  It also took him 6 years to get to and lose a Super Bowl in Philadelphia.  It took Reid 21 seasons as an NFL coach before he won a Super Bowl-what a bum.  

    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?

    Parenting Lessons from Bills Fans who grew up during Super Bowl losses(article)

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    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.

     

    16 minutes ago, KzooMike said:

    Interesting topic as I have reflected on this before, I was 9 Years old in 1990. 

     

    I'm not from Buffalo. Those nights after we lost the Super Bowl would always end in a pillow of tears. The next day I would get teased relentlessly from my classmates.  After each SB loss my mom would take me to Foot Locker and I was able to get either a new Bills jersey or hat. I would wear the hat almost non stop the next month almost begging for the negative treatment from my classmates. That Bills team is what did that to me and that sort of outlook carries onto this day.  

     

    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.

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    Parenting Lessons from Bills Fans who grew up during Super Bowl losses(article)

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    5 minutes ago, MPL said:

    I was between the ages of 4 and 8 during those years, so highly impressionable. The biggest lesson I took away is that life is unfair and nothing good will ever to happen to you.

    My first kid is due in two months. Wish us luck! 

    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.

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    Halftime Adjustments a Myth! (Per Peyton Manning)

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    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.

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