MikePJ76

I remember in high school trying desperately to gain weight for baseball. I worked my tail off. I just could not gained weight. I was way too active. I went to my doctor because my parents made me, to see which weight gain supplement and creatine he would recommend to help me add weight with my lifting routine. He was a younger doctor and a former college athlete, he looked right at me and said never put that stuff in your body, ever especially the creatine. That was that. he really didn’t appreciate my joke about buying the one called the Russian bear at GNC which was 4000 calories per shake. That was a real product. anyway, multiple high school friends took both and made huge gains. Meanwhile my 5”10 skinny azz worked like a dog to get to 160 pounds. that was a 90’s thing and the current thing is testosterone products. Anything that advertises like four times on an hour on sports radio stations should be avoided at all costs. anyway, hoecht is just a guy and he is going to have a hard time living down the ped thing without an abnormally high productive season.

Umm. its like 10:30, Memorial Day 2025 and you are posting that Josh Allen, the league MVP is skiddish in the pocket….? did you drink a whole case of OV Splits at the cookout today or something.

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It’s so strong they are looking at bringing in a veteran outside corner to play opposite bland until diggs and the rookie are over their injuries. so that energy will be pretty interesting when he is sitting behind Stephon Gilmore.

If he skips OTA’ s then yes that’s an angle that will be tackled. Hopefully he is at ota’s

One of the online editors was active on twitter a few years ago. They are getting hard drives up until about 4 hours before air time and like 3 hours before they lock picture. The Bills and any other team have never been involved in anything with the editing. I believe there are agreed upon terms before this starts and through the years has been mastered essentially. There is never any game plan discussion or reveals visually of plays etc. I believe all scouting and trade discussions, things of the sort are not used unless cleared ahead of time also. as an editor myself, sitting here at the moment in front of Avid Media Composer it would be 110% impossible to work with such tight deadlines and have input from various people who work for a team. Its just not possible. I am sure The various directors/EP's and Online Editors get plenty of feedback from the team and the league. Last year's hard knocks was boring. There was literally nothing interesting. These must be a lot fun to be on the editing crew, the montages look like fun. The amount of B Roll and clips in the bins by the time they get to the 3rd or 4th episode must be overwhelming. and just to nitpick something you said in an earlier post, They absolutely have pre production meetings on storylines. While the episodes will be cut organically allowing the narrative to fall into place if you will, the key points / main story has been mapped as an outline in some regard. They always follow the same formula. Attach a narrative to an undrafted free agent. Attach a narrative to the team as a whole and their place in the league, this is where all the stadium, chicken wings, niagara falls, Pegula family story will be. Attach a narrative to Josh Allen....all encompassing. Dive into Key free agent signings and players who were drafted. Then they always have the kooky guy, Dion dawkins is perfect for this....the all business guy, Milano is perfect for this. Traditionally they will go the route of having a Veteran who is trying to hang on juxtaposed to a younger player taking his job or pushing him....perfect spot for a tre,Benford, Hairston story or Cam lewis fighting off hancock. etc. And of course they always have the my mom pushed me in a wheelbarrow up hill 10 miles every morning to every practice story for the sentimental stuff and the bills have the most intriguing sentimental story on the roster maybe ever in Damar Hamlin. So all that to say, the camera crews will be directed to go get lots of stuff. Then the editors and producers will work it into an organic story in the edit as they all are. There is a ton of story in the buffalo bills. They have 100 year old marv levy, Cancer survivor Jim Kelly, A celebrity newlywed, an incredible fan base, a nice setting in rochester (pittsford) etc. Then of course guys get hurt, guys get cut etc. If they have to do this hopefully it is better than the bears last year, that was terrible.

The end of rich stadium and the giant palace being built across the street will be a storyline. The Film crew will be with them for the preseason and will no doubt spend some time with the front office in charge of the stadium. They are going to make it look incredible. They did similar things in 08 with the cowboys on hard knocks with that being the last season at texas stadium. This is called marketing and when consumers see things on tv they like they want to buy it or be a part of it.

Ogunjobi was worse last year than jones. He was worse against the run and among the worst tackles vs the run. that is why Pittsburgh dumped him. Kind of odd seeing everyone rag on Daquan Jones here and then promote ogunjobi as an improvement. factoring in the suspension and the draft the guy may never play a snap in Buffalo.

NFL films make the show. The show is a bad idea all around but not because of rogue employees being spies. the only reason Buffalo did not fight this with everything they have is because it is going to be used as a promotional tool for the new stadium and to help sell psl’s.

Usually. There are some years where teams were coming off good seasons. I think the ravens were on as the first team after winning the Super Bowl in 01. Dallas was on in 08 after going 13-3 and having like 9 all pros in 07. generally it has been bad teams though.

He hasn’t had double digit sacks since 2021. He has played in every game 1 time in 5 years. He is not going to make any difference in the defense this year, imo.

Yea I am aware of the storytelling format and style nfl films uses in hard knocks. i hope they do not go down that road with the wr debate and the beane and Jeremy and Joe thing. last years hard knocks with the bears was really bad. It was boring and uninteresting. Hopefully the bills version will be stories about the international player trying to stick on the practice squad, chicken wings and boring meetings with coaches. That would be nice and not cause any issues. one thing that will happen is Dawkins will be either loved or hated nationally by the end of it because he is a character. I wonder if they went with him in the offseason to that weird car racing thing he does. That is perfect fodder for the show.

Believe me, I am the last person that wants to talk about wr. unfortunately it’s going to be a major storyline in the series.

Miller had better numbers last year technically. bosa had more Offside penalties than sacks. he was a terrible terrible signing.

The cameras make private conversations public. for instance, I am willing to bet the “wr” topic will be a key storyline, Coleman is going to end up under the microscope nationally, something he does not need. I would bet that beane appearance with Jeremy and Joe about wr will be in the first episode. The camera I imagine have been there already for awhile. there is zero upside to being on the show. It will put a target on the bills back and someone will say or do something that will end up being talked about nationally and become an issue. It always does.

Tell that to Joe Schoen.

He stunk and it’s a good thing he is gone. the problem is they just resigned him by another name in Joey Bosa.

The only reason they must b doing this is to sell seats in the new stadium. it makes no sense otherwise.

Good. what would be the point of divisions if they just seeded the conference by record? might as well just have two divisions in that case, the nfc and the afc.

I will happily take that bet. Is he any better than jones? His pff rating rushing the passer and playing the run was pretty bad. the Steelers cut him to save money because he is a declining player. If he couldn’t play the run for Pittsburgh he basically had no value. For some reason the bills signed him and then kept him after finding out about the suspension. it won’t matter because they did so well in the draft. I will not be surprised if he never plays a snap for the bills.

Jones won’t be cut because he fits in the culture here and can be depended on. The players they drafted will allow them to lower his snaps. I just don’t think they are going to cut him, my opinion of course. i liked the offensive free agents they signed, Palmer was not my first choice but I think he will be a good player here. Love that they resigned Ty, Evan’s and Gilliam. I am talking about this year’s defensive free agents, I don’t like it at all. I don’t see anyone really helping in big games or critical moments and in the end will be just depth pieces. I absolutely loathe the Bosa signing. Hate everything about it. It’s almost as bad as giving up a third round pick for Amari cooper. He is an aging declining player who is always hurt and makes a bunch of penalties. He has shown his inability to keep his cool in big moments in post season games also. they signed players without defined positions, they signed declining players with injury issues, they have two guys suspended. I feel it was a giant swing and miss on defensive free agents this year. again, I don’t think any of them will make a dimes worth of difference to this defense this year. as to the comment assuming I never like what they do in free agency, now you are just making things up because i have a different opinion of this group of guys than you. and yes there were players and positions where I thought they could have improved on defense in free agency. we shall see how it plays out. I think the draft nullified it anyway. They nailed the draft imo.

IMO, they signed 6 defensive players in free agency who won’t make a dime’s worth of difference to the defense. That was my opinion before we knew of the suspensions. I view each of the defensive signings as backup level players who were signed as insurance in case they didn’t get what they wanted in the draft. I feel like they did a great job in the draft which further makes the free agent class even less important to me. I am glad they signed tre white. He is a great fit in the locker room and a great player to have with a young group of cornerbacks on the roster. I just do not see any of the others doing anything worthwhile and in particular helping the defense where it needed help other than just providing a baseline of depth. I think three of the players they signed not really even have a position clearly defined. I wouldn’t be surprised to see two or three of the free agents on defense they signed cut when they make the roster for week 1 or after the bye and the suspensions are up.

Nope. he will get his snaps reduced in hopes that less playing time will maximize his abilities. I imagine he sees the field less than like 30 or 28 % of snaps or something along those lines barring injuries. had they not, imo, botched the free agent signings in the offseason then there was a chance. The front office blew it this offseason though with the group of defensive players they signed, again imo so jones job will be safe.

You yap worse than six barbers

The whining and obsession with wide receivers here never ends