DFITZ1
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Wildcat is just as safe as a playcall as a run and they had success running out of it showing different looks. It was the execution of the play just like it would be if a running back fumbles. Using your same logic, anytime a running back would fumble or loses yards it's a poor playcall.
The way they were running the wildcat was an accident waiting to happen. The snap, Spiller and Smith practically meet at the same time, and a fumble or miscue is guaranteed at some point. Yes it could work, but every play should work if perfectly executed, but they aren't. The wildcat run like that was risky, and when risk wasn't needed. And yes, BBF, I saw the play.
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Of course Jack Kemp. Championships anyone?
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I am so sorry to hear. Condolences to Marcell and his family.
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I agree with the OP. Sully and his sidekick Gleason thrive on any failings of the Bills or Sabres. Barely a chirp out of them when the Sabres made a run at the playoffs, but when the roof caved in, they started blasting at full throttle. Gone are the days of Felser, Kelley and Peters who could write good articles, critical or not, regardless of the teams' fortunes. Sully is basically abarstool rantor.
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DB's gotta start reading the QB and getting in front of the receiver. They look like traffic cones out there. Base the offense on the running game and not FitzPatrick. He can't throw, and his receivers can't get separation. Bad combination except in garbage time.
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I have a theory as to Fitzpatrick's decline it wasn't sore ribs last season or bad decisions this past week it's that beard. It is throwing off his throwing mechanics. Forget David Lee, he needs a barber. Let's start a petition requesting him to come clean. When was the last time a QB with a beard was a top performer? A clean shaven Fitz = wins it is that simple. And at the same time Gailey should shave his mess of a beard, it can only improve his looks and maybe conserve a few brain cells. He can't afford to lose anymore.
Didn't Dan Fouts have a beard. But so what, the chin strap crushes the beard which crimps the blood flow to the brain, hence the int's thrown yesterday. Forget the rave, mak'em shave.
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I'm not too big of a Chan fan, but he is surely capable of producing more wins than Harvey friggin' Johnson.
True, but given CG is a "seasoned" coach, and HJ was a front office guy, and he only needs 3 wins to match HJ, it ain't saying much. However, HJ knew how to find players better than Gailey (Thigpen, really) or the current staff of "experts". He found many of the key players in the 60's championship teams, and was competing directly with the NFL for them.
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Ralph is the owner. Littman, Brandon, Overdorf, etc seem to run the front office. Nix is the GM. Gailey is the coach.
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If Gailey doesn't do his job Nix can fire him. If Nix doesn't do his job the execs can fire him.
But the execs CONTINUE to do a bad job year after year after year. Who can fire THEM?
Answer: No one. Not Ralph, he is far too old to be involved in meaningful franchise decisions.
Littman/Brandon/Overdorf know this. They fail at their job and give themselves pay raise after raise while holding the fan base hostage with subtle threats of moving the team.
Why should anything ever change?
Nix and Gailey have contracts, if when terminated early RW has to pay the remainder of the contract. Since RW hates paying extra, Nix and Gailey stay. That's why we had to endure Jauron for 2/3rd a season when he should've been canned before that season began.
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Back in the good old days before Ralph was on life support and was both financially and emotionally invested in the team's affairs he would not hesitate to can a coach even in the early part of the season. Inevitably he would call on his old pal, director of Player Personnel, Harvey Johnson to assume the reigns and the Bills might even somehow manage to win a game with sad sack Harvey at the helm. I kind of miss those days, sad to say.
I think Gailey's HC future is more on life support than RWS. HJ might've at least paid respect to Bills fans by chewing out the high paid/low performing players on the sidelines. Even if HJ wasn't coaching material, as a pesonnel director, he got better players with less resources than Nix and Co. have.
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Its harsh but you spoke the truth. Unless they have PHYSICAL issues from the game (brain damage etc) then I don't want to hear it. Trying to commit suicide after a pro football career? !@#$ him.
From your comments I can conclude that there in lies the problem. Someone calls out for help but no one cares. Someone won't call out for help for fear of getting blown off. That's when life can go terribly wrong. Many of these guys are not prepared mentally for life after football no matter how much money they got, and his conclusion is right that they need some help and guidance. That's the way it is no matter how much money they have.
I'm willing to bet that on the whole, players from the 60's and 70's did better in life after football because they had no choice but to prepare.
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Raised in Kenmore and Town of Tonawanda - After UB went to Burlington, VT for 9 years - now live in Saratoga county, NY north of Albany.
Went to my first Bills game at the Rockpile and saw Darryl Lamonica light up the scoreboard. Unfortunately, it was in 1968 and Lamonica was QB'ing the Oakland Raiders who shellacked the Bills 48-6 that day, and doing so ushered in the first of 2 Harvey Johnson coaching eras. God bless Harvey, but he was really meant to stay in personnel (as noted by the many top players he brought in in the early-mid 60's), and not on the sidelines.
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A lot of great names mentioned and I don't want to repeat them just to say they're my favorites. However, my 5 favorites are those who changed the course of Bills history in a positive way. They are, in no particular order,
1. Cookie Gilchrist - didn't see him play as a Bill, but was the Bills first legitimate star, and one opponents had to account for on every play. He took on anything or anyone in his way at full power, be it a tackler or the City of New Orleans (when they wrongly tried to impose segregation on AFL all-stars)
2. Jack Kemp - first leader of the offense. Like Cookie, advanced the Bills to the top echelon of the young AFL
3. Jim Kelly - leader who brought the Bills to the post season map and arguably our greatest teams (can't forget the 64-65 teams, could they have won a Super Bowl? Some of the players think so).
4. OJ Simpson - put the Bills on the NFL map. First RB that I knew of to publicly praise his O-line. It was OJ who insisted that the O-line be part of post game interviews after the 2000 yard game.
5. Lou Saban - coach who put the Bills on the AFL and NFL map. This franchise may have fizzled out of existence if it weren't for him. I've forgiven his quick exits. It was his nature and given that he stayed at the Bills longer than any other employer, it's time to honor his contributions on the stadium Wall.
Honorable mention to many others like Billy Shaw, Elbert Dubenion, Bruce Smith, Tom Sestak, Steve Tasker, Andre Reed, Darryl Talley and others.
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I think Conrad should make the top 3
I heard Dobler say one time that his strategy behind his play was to throw the defensive player off his game. Somehow, I don't think semi-cranial explanation ever cut it with Merlin Olson and probably a dozen or so others.
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In my opinion, the 5 dirtiest players/coaches in NFL History were/is:
1. Jack Tatum
2. Hines Ward
3. Buddy or Rex Ryan
4. James Harrison
5. John Gruden
I excluded owners because the list would be too long.
Conrad Dobler would be a worthy addition. Between bitten fingers, leg whips ( 2 in a row Bills vs Dallas on MNF in .81), "around the world" punch to the groin (shown in slo-mo, both announcers went silent after saying "Let's see how Dobler makes his blocks.."). The list goes on and on. But, that's football (I'm sure that's how Dobler would put it).
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He's a democrat come on !! look what they've done to the state they've been in charge forever --- you can't trust any thing any of them say Dem or Rep it doesn't matter !!!
It's not liberal(dem) or conservative(rep) that's the problem, it's corruption and patronage. which is part of both sides.
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Cuomo will see the state like all governors have past and present, what is best for NYC is what matters rpstate is an afterthought.
That's almost the whole story. It is what's best for NYC AND what's best for the Senate Majority Leader (the Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver is from Manhattan and takes care of NYC, as evidenced that he killed the UB 2020 program which led to the UB president to quit in disgust). The only upstate region to get economic favor is the one which falls into the Seanate Majority Leaders district (so long as he/she is from upstate). When Joe Bruno was SML, the Capital Region, particularly Saratoga and Renselaer counties got the lion's share of economic aid; example - 1.4 billion dollars to help GlobalFoundries open a chip manufacturing plant in Malta NY. You didn't see this kind of investment anywhere else in upstate because Bruno got to choose where the money went first. An example from long ago, I-88 from Schenectady to Binghamton was built at the hest of SML Warren Anderson. It has the distinction as the LEAST travelled interstate in the country. If the SML's district fell in OP, the state would not only fund improvements, they would probably add a retractable roof, and rename the stadium in the SML's honor (yes, there is a very nice Joe Bruno Stadium in Troy, used for Class A baseball, that you paid for).
Another aspect about upstate NY economic growth - no economic growth happens without a deal with the legislature (or local officials). Some might disagree, but from what I see, few companies want to relocate here or stay here just on their own, too many times it is more cost effective to move out of state unless a deal is made.
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Probably explains alot. My biggest beef lately (and I'm a big fan of Fitz) is that he falls backwards when throwing...especially deep balls. Maybe it's the body's way of protecting itself from a rib injury. throwing off the back foot may alleviate some of the pain. In any event, he has seen better days.
Agreed! Since the Toronto game Fitz's throwing motion hasn't looked right, both going off his back foot like you said, and he seemed to rotate his body toomuch, as if he was using less arm and more body. I wondered if it was a shoulder injury, but a broken rib could possible too.
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Nothing like an old Bills placekicker joke.
A friend of mine from Depew used to tell a Norwood joke years ago.
There used to be (it might still be there) a restaurant on South Park near the stadium called Donut Land… it might now be called Pegasus?
Anyways, when the Bills were in Tampa for their first Super Bowl, a member of the Bills office called the restaurant and asked them to send a bunch of donuts down to the Bills hotel in Tampa because a lot of the players used to go there on Fridays as part of their weekly routine.
Amazingly the owner of the restaurant declined to fulfill the request.
As a result of that fateful decision, the Bills "frittered" away their best chance at a Super Bowl win.
Apple fritter, get it?
Hey, I didn't say it was a good joke.
That restaurant owner was a real crumb!
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Yes, but he only missed it by half a foot.
Yeah, that joke went viral back in '79. He was cut right after that but I don't think the next guy was any better. Back then some soccer stytle kickers had to get it thru their minds that in this game, you kick it over the crossbar, not under. Remember Fred Steinfort, he was the consummate line drive kicker, which doesn't help on FG's.
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I've always liked Lindell. Some here on TSW have called into question his value, but we all saw what happens with a replacement level guy like Rayner. I'll take solid.
Those whole question his value should see films of the stone foots we had before Scot Norwood (forget Wide Right, he won many games for us in those break out years, and some from the late 70's (like Tom Dempsey who missed a chip shot to end the Fin losing streak from hell.
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Would he eat crow or would he be a B word and find some excuse?
Sully would take full credit for winning the Big Game.
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i hear ya! i have posted on this subject many times. again, giving millionaire NFL owners tax dollars for stadium upgrades or construction seems totally insane on the surface. however, all those loudmouths saying that "we need roads, schools, bridges, etc" ,THIS JUST IN:that doesnt happen! if one thinks that 100 million tax dollars that wilson may want for stadium upgrades should be spent on the aforementioned , it wont. the politicians are experts at pi$$ing away tax dollars and i say give me something tangible, i e: stadium upgrades to keep the bills in buffalo. it is a quality of life issue and an obvious positive economic assest.
Your point is right on. This would be the 3rd upgrade at Erie County/Rich/Bills/Ralph Wilson Stadium. And the Peace Bridge got rebuilt or twin span done how many...?
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The article didn't say much that hasn't been said before. nWhat I would like to see with the money spent on the stadium is more revenue generating events at RWS. I still remember the "Superfest" concerts and saw Elton John play there in '76. Apparently drug busts and other things have scared these concerts away. The drug busts were more politically motivated than law enforcement considering that drunken football fans caused more problems than high concert goers (and this I heard from an Erie County Health official). Ideally, putting a retractable dome over the top could really help revenue if (by odd chance) a super bowl were to be played in Buffalo (so what if one is being played in New Jersey, the NFL won't take a chance on a bone chilling blizzard at its primo event). If done right, revenue should be generated by more than just the Bills.
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Yea but the same can be said about Jabari Greer- Jim Leonhard- Donte Whitner- Poz-Maybin all playing for top defenses. So OP might just have a valid point about how crappy Bills coaches have been.
Look at Marshawn Lynch 1000 yards rushing and 11 TD's, good thing the bills got a 4th rounder for the 8th ranked RB in the league
Jackson was ahead of Lynch before FJ go injured, wasn't he? We still have the right guy. Lynch also fell out of favor because of his off-field troubles.
I do agree that several players have benefitted from leaving the Bills for better coaching, but not all. In the case of RB's, the o-line is a BIG factor in their success or failure.
A nickname for the disaster in Seattle?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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You are correct, except you won't have the same number you listed all in one week (or game for that matter).