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    Det @ SF Game Thread (Please keep the Bills stuff out of this thread)

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    3 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

     

    I'll give Purdy some credit for this. He is clearly a limited player, but he has that underrated trait of being able to put bad plays behind him. Many QBs lack this and it sinks their career. The last two weeks he has pulled out some great passes and runs late in the game after struggling earlier.

    He was also running like a little boy posessed - showed a lot of heart on those plays

    Are the Mafia really the best fans?

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    Bills fans are great no doubt - and every fan base has good and bad fans.  

     

    I'm inclined to say I liked the Bills fan base better before the drought ended and it got worse in some ways now that we are perrenial playoff contenders.  I think there are more bandwagon fans with a large bit of entitlement and ridiculous expectations now (Only winning the Super Bowl is acceptable!  Season is a failure and we suck if we don't!   Fire Everyone and tear it down if we don't!)

     

    Also - I think it's great you can see Bills fans everywhere you go - but the irony of that is that there are so many Bills fans all over the country because so many of those people left Buffalo for various reasons.  It is true though that so many brought their love of the team with them when they left (me included)  

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    Divisional Playoffs - Chiefs at Bills - Post game thread

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    5 minutes ago, Logic said:


    Well said. This sums up the way the Bills season ended in very simple terms.

    This season, based on the defensive injuries sustained, the lack of WR depth, and the instability at offensive coordinator, the Bills had what it took to meet condition one (make the tournament). They did not have what it took to meet condition two (have the pieces in place to compete), and also did not particularly benefit from the final factor you mentioned: luck (see Diggs drop and Sherfield drops, which also play back into "not having the pieces in place to compete").

    It's as simple as that.

    Seeing as though the Bills seem to have coach and QB in place that will allow them to continue to make the tournament on a regular basis, what we need now is for the GM to give them the pieces to compete once there (additional offensive weaponry, better depth), and for some luck to break our way for once. One of those things is within the Bills' control, and that's what this offseason will be about.

     

    And you could also consider "not having the pieces to compete" due to injury bad luck.  Notable because the roster at LB and secondary was sound before the injuries.   There is not a team in the league that would have had the depth to overcome them and not lose a step

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    Beane & McDermott end of season press conferences

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    14 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

    So at least we know they are actively going to focus on finding better WRs this offseason.

    Sure - I mean some people are going to get unhinged with the Diggs is #1 comment but that is just Beane being smart.  Say something positive about the guy in front of the caneras - that doesn't mean you don't still go looking for someone better

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    Divisional Playoffs - Chiefs at Bills - Post game thread

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    1 hour ago, Logic said:


    The "progression" of a football team is not always linear. It's often more like a roller coaster, with peaks and valleys.

    Take the Ravens. They're this year's number one seed and may well make the Super Bowl. Lamar was drafted the same year as Josh Allen.

    In 2019, they went 14-2 and lost in the Divisional round.
    In 2020, they went 11-5 and lost in the Divisional round.
    In 2021, they went 8-9 and missed the playoffs.
    In 2022, they went 10-7 and lost in the Wild Card round.

    This year, they went 13-4 and are in the AFC Championship Game.

    How about Peyton Manning's Colts?

    Once they started making the playoffs, they lost in the:

    Divisional round
    Wild Card
    - missed playoffs - 
    Wild Card
    AFCCG
    Divisional round
    Divisional 

    ...before finally winning the Super Bowl.

    The progression of a football team is not always linear. I would say that's the exception rather than the rule, actually. 

    If your thesis is "The Bills should move on from McDermott", then fine. I espoused that very idea midseason. I can't blame you for feeling that way. But if the thesis is "there should be a linear progression to a team's ascent to a championship", I disagree entirely. That rarely happens.

    Similar is the "blow it up crowd" after we came within a couple minutes of making the afccg with scrubs and wounded playing LB and in the secondary.

     

    What you need first is to make the tournament.  Then have the pieces in place to compete, and usually have some luck as well.

     

    The 'tear it down' crowd is insane to me.  We have the QB (the most important piece) and foundation across other positions.  Sure there are holes that will need to be filled, but that is true for every team - every year.

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    Divisional Playoffs - Chiefs at Bills - Post game thread

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    1 hour ago, Success said:

     

    And here it is.  The reason I tuned out after Sunday, and will remain tuned out on football coverage until September.

     

    The sports media is TERRIBLE.  I can't even ask "are they overrated," because everyone rates them as TERRIBLE.

     

    Clowns, hacks & hot-take artists.  Fools, all.

     

    I've avoided all sports coverage since the game, and walked into a room this am that had a tv my wife had left on that had espn Get Up on The subject was - was the loss Josh Allens fault.  Out of morbid curiosity I watched for a couple minutes and the horrible takes were enough for me to turn it right off.  I won't be watching any sports coverage until hopefully Baltimore beats KC

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    Have any of you been in this situation before??(vague title)

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    Posted · Edited by stevewin

    My kids grew up (not in Buffalo)  during the drought (they were 2 yrs old for music city miracle).  I used to take them to watch games every sunday from the time they were literally babies - the days before sunday ticket where you were always looking for family friendly places that had satellite and would show all the games.  During all those years and all the pathetic teams and losing they never once wavered on their fanhood.  For 17 years, throughout the entire first part of their life, the Bills didn't make the playoffs.  Year after year after year.  And never once did their fanhood waver.  I remember feeling sorry for them through all the years they didn't even really have a Bills player who was truly great to be their sports hero.

     

    My son still lives in our area and comes over for games, and I have found myself sometimes after particularly devastating losses actually apologizing for the circumstances that led him to be a Bills fan and he just laughs.  Through the good and that bad he wouldn't want it any other way.  That's what being a fan is after all.  We'll always have our shared passion for the team as something that we'll always be texting or calling each other about - just like i do with my Dad (and my son with his Grandpa).  That is the best part of all.

     

    Relative to the OP - to me the life lesson is if you change teams because they lose you were not a fan to begin with.  Being a fan means taking the good with the bad, losing with winning.  Simple as that.

     

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    Divisional Playoffs - Chiefs at Bills - Post game thread

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    5 minutes ago, UKBillFan said:

     

    I know. It's a disaster. I don't know how they could have made such a mess of the QB position...

     

    (Why am I worried someone might take the above seriously?)

    I was wondering when the clown show posts about getting rid of Josh would start.  We are gifted with literally one of the best QBs to maybe ever play the position and some people want to get rid of him.  There aren't words to express how idiotic it is

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    Divisional Playoffs - Chiefs at Bills - Post game thread

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    9 hours ago, Budkin said:

    We lost because of defensive injuries and got carved up because of them. The end. 

    This - the amt of key defensive injuries were ridiculous and not something that any amt of roster depth could cover - and it will be lost to history forever.  Instead we'll just have bills vs chiefs playoff record, and the stupid Mahomes vs Josh head-head playoff record narrative which is intended to imply Mahomes is better but has nothing to do with how well Josh played 

     

     

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    The 2nd and 9 endzone shot to Shakir

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    7 hours ago, Big Turk said:

     

    Am I the only one who thinks that if Cook bounced that outside he might have scored?  There was lilterally nobody outside the last guy on the line and he crashed down hard. Cook might have jogged into the endzone, or at the very least got tackled inside the 10 by the safety coming over. They had 9 guys on the LOS, there was nobody past the first wave.

    Everyone mad about the first down run - I don't have a problem with calling the play initially- cook had been tearing off runs up the middle the whole game - i dont understand how/why you don't check out of it if it is so obvious they are selling out to stop it before the snap

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