Mark Long Beach
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Yeah, that QB sprayed the ball all over the place. Really made me cringe. Maybe 1 or 2 in 10 was well placed, everything else Coleman had to adjust to, often majorly. Many times the adjustment was bringing him into the CB. I did see a number of blanket coverage, but I saw more NFL opens that the QB made not open. Honestly, I'm still nervous about the pick because separation is very important in NFL. I feel better after watching, but not convinced he can get open as much as I want vs NFL CBs.
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12 minutes ago, somnus00 said:
I'm surprised they didn't go Devonshire here. They met with him multiple times, and he's a Pitt CB.
I think they met with him TOO Many times. Like 4. Made me think they kept needing a little more convincing, and didn't get it.
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Ah dang. Even though I knew it the day of the injury, it is still sad.
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52 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
This is the moral victory of all moral victories.
I sure don't want moral victories. I want the full monty.
It's just more (albeit unusual) evidence that we are a good team. Better than some of our fans are giving us credit for.
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4 hours ago, PBF81 said:
They're called counterperspectives and unless they're way off base, why the ad hominem at large?
This should be a place for discussion and exchange of ideas. If we were all that, then we'd all be talking about how we'd only need to go 2-2 to clinch the 1st Seed, which frankly, given the talent that we have, contrasted with every other team in the AFC this season, is where we should be.
I'm still chuckling at MLB's (OP) "... wail and moan ..." comment, in good nature, truly, imagining some Bills fans at home actually wailing and moaning. LOL
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There's nothing wrong with being critical of your team, particularly when it's 7-6 but should have been 11-2, or at least 10-3 and in the driver's seat, and we haven't even mentioned having Allen yet. Anyone being critical and concerned about playing a team that's playing better than us, a team that already beat us, a team that we have never beaten on their turf in over 40 years and in a 3-hour different time zone with a game starting at 11 p.m. our time, and @ Miami is hardly being negative.
And lest we forget, absolutely nothing that anyone here says or does makes one iota of a difference in how our team plays.
I guess I don't understand the hostilities towards fellow Bills fans in simply discussing varying aspects of our team.
Good post. I truly have no problem with discussions, nor opposing viewpoints. It's the rage and venom spit at our team that's frustrating. The Bills are not a junk team, the coaches aren't junk. We've been a good team over the last couple years, and remain (close to) a good team now. Do we put it together and close out the year strong like we have over the last few years or not will tell us the verdict on this years team.
IMO, we're still feeling the loss of Dabol and Frazier. We've taken a step back without them. Our offense clearly has, and our defense is better because it attacks more, I think that it still loses because the Head Coach is doing double duty by being DC. Similar stats as Frazier, but it looks like it hurts our whole team. Fingers crossed that Brady can keep it up, we've definitely looked better with his play calling.
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Agreed on those 2. But the other 4 are fighting for playoff positioning.
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Roughly speaking you'd still expect .500 wins/losses. It's not even close, which sure implies that they've shot their wad to beat us.
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We DO get everyone's best shot. If they manage to beat us, it clearly takes a toll on them.
As the title says, beginning in 2021, any opponent that manages to beat us, basically loses its next game with the record of 3-15. If you look only at playoffs with Josh Allen as our QB teams (5 years), teams are 0-5 after beating us. We've been the kingmaker as to who wins the AFC, whichever team doesn't play us.
When we do lose it's a close loss. We are in position win almost every game until the end. Out of 16 losing games (5 overtime), 14 were one score losses, with every one this year being a one score loss.
We are a good team. We have Josh-Freaking-Allen! This year we've had a rougher time of it record-wise and luck-wise, but we still have a good offense and a good enough defense. We can still right the ship and go for a run into the playoffs. Even with our Key personnel losses like Milano, White, and Daquan, I still think we have enough horses. Especially if we get Miller and Daquan back and effective. We get hot, we can win out.
I hate the gloom and doomers that wail and moan like we're New England and everything is F-ed.
2021 (11-6) 5 out of 6 were 1 score losses. 2 overtimes
w1 Pit 23-16 (7) -> w2 Loses to LV
w6 Ten 34-31 (3)-> w7 Wins vs KC
w9 Jax 9-6 (3) -> w10 L Ind
w11 Ind 41-15 (26)-> W12 L TB
w13 NE 14-10 (4) -> W14 L Ind
w14 TB 33-27 (6) -> w15 L NO
Div KC 42-36 (6) -> CC L Cin
2022 (13-3) 3 out of 4 were 1 score losses. 1 OT
w3 Mia 21-19 (2) -> w4 L Cin
w9 NYJ 20-17 (3) -> w10 L NE
w10 Min 33-30 (3) -> w11 L Dal
Div Cin 27-10 (17) -> cc L KC
2023: (7-6) All 1 score losses. 2 OT
w1 NYJ 22-16 (6) -> w2 L Cin
w5 Jax 25-20 (5) -> w6 W Ind
w7 NE 29-25 (4) -> w8 L Mia
w9 Cin 24-18 (6) -> w10 L Hou
w10 Den 24-22 (4)-> w11 W Min
w12 Phi 37-34 (3) -> w13 L
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10 hours ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
Reckless and a liability… these are not word that work well with ‘Safety’
In a Madden dream world, Benford and Douglas successfully convert to safety, TreD comes back to his old self and Elam gets his act together at corner. Toss in Taron and that’s a solid DB room.
You only convert a DB to a safety if/when he can't be a corner. MUCH harder to fill job. It's absolutely not our best option to convert Benford to Safety. He's a solid starting corner.
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Man I loved watching Barry Sanders. One of those very rare players that made you gasp on a regular basis. The best part is, that I actually get that feeling with Josh Allen. Someone who can do something (almost) nobody else can on a regular basis.
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How is he not on a 53?
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Oh yeah! Representing LBC! A local boy for me. He sure does seem to play physical. Can't really tell how well he covers though. Highlight reals only show so much. We do have an eye for DBs, so hopefully he thrives.
Although come to think of it, our late round safety pickups haven't been stellar. I thought Hamlin was decent, but more one dimensional. The rest have been special team players at best.
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On 4/30/2023 at 5:28 AM, DCofNC said:
Seeing how deflated that Cowboy draft room looked during the process of the first round pick, it certainly appeared they lost out on their guy and had to settle. Honestly, it was glorious.Does anyone have any video of the Dallas draft room? I loathe Jerry Jones.
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7 minutes ago, Fleezoid said:
I imagine drinking a quart of Gin before the test might hurt your score a bit.
Unless of course your Johnny Fever.....
I'm old. I watched that one live. Loved it and that show!
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1 hour ago, BananaB said:
Yeah we’re fine, we have given up 105 points in 3 playoff loses. We also gave up 22 second half points against the Texans in that other loss…. 16-0 doesn’t mean ***** if you keep losing the same way in playoffs.There's not much quality difference between the top 4 or 5 teams. You need to be good enough to get in the mix and then lucky enough to have some things go your way.
Health is the biggest factor IMO and we lost Von Miller, Daquan Johnson (a great year for us) and our secondary was devastated. We were playing Jaquan Johnson the Terrible (if it's not his name it should be), Not-On-Our-Team Dean Marlow, and Practice Squad Cam Lewis. Their offense controlled the game while ours couldn't step up that game.
Sure our team has some flaws. Our OL was shockingly bad with Saffold and Brown getting regularly beat like a red-headed stepchild. Our WRs and DEs under-performed. Our backup safeties weren't as good as expected. (Jaquan Johnson the Terrible I'm especially looking at you)
We are good enough. Our record shows that we're good enough. Let's fix our weaknesses (OL please!) as best we can and kick their asses next year.
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1 hour ago, Fan in Chicago said:
Sooo....how long are we hosting this dude?
Did Elvis leave the building?
If we haven't heard yet, it doesn't look too promising.
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My preference is that he's our 4th (or 5th) tackle. After a high draft rookie.
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We clearly want a fast "inside" receiver that can get open and stress the defense. We keep searching for it from both RBs like Cook, McKissic and Hines as well as from small receivers like McKenzie, Crowder and now Harty.
Hopefully they found it this time. Some of his highlights sure look good. I'll take that from a rotational player. I WANT that from a rotational player.
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7 hours ago, Fleezoid said:
Omg. I haven't laughed like that in a long time. I must be a moron and a bad person because I thought it was real at the first couple of kicks, which made it even funnier.
Me Too! Amazing
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36 minutes ago, wjag said:
He has slid on 6 of 81 rushes for a staggering 7% of the time..
An IMPROVEMENT! Just might be able to squeeze a little bit more.
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1 hour ago, John from Riverside said:
One of the hottest woman in the world is in the movie
She was absolutely amazing in that movie. She deservedly won the Academy award for it.
IIRC she was the first supporting winner from a comedy.
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Bills 24 - NJJ 6
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14 minutes ago, Warcodered said:
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Twitter Fight!
Clean up the cafeteria and detention after school.
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18 hours ago, HardyBoy said:
Le Batard is awesome in that video too. Felt like an old school Dan Le Batard Show interview. I was living down in Ft Lauderdale from early 2012-2020 and got to listen to the show before they went to espn.
They did their silly stuff, but more it was very much an inside joke that once you listened enough you would get and you realize it was all a gag and they were mocking the establishment to their faces without them realizing how foolish they were being made to look by the show. It was subversive and smart and really quite sneaky edgy.
Coolest thing was he would do interviews like this, literally 40 minutes long straight on the radio where they really dug into things and just let it flow where it flowed, and then have pretty much 20 minutes of commercials with a two minute segment to catch up on the ads.
When they went to ESPN, they tried really hard to avoid it, but the show changed. Not because it got political, they always talked social issues, but because of the fixed segment times. Dan is all about nuance, and understanding points of view and not shutting down a conversation because he doesn’t agree, he genuinely seems like he wants to understand perspectives and have everyone grow. He gets people to be honest with his interview style, and then explores.
Just couldn’t be done on espn unfortunately, and he could only be so subversive. I like their new show, but kind of feel like it’s become a bit too many people involved and they all need space.
Anyway, long way of me saying that interview is good and people should give it an open minded listen even if they had a negative opinion of him from his time at espn towards the end.
I only know the the Le Batard show from ESPN here in Los Angeles. I HATED that show. I hated the voices. Nothing was funny, but they seemed to be trying endlessly, nothing interesting. For the most part the interviews sucked. I have no idea what it was before ESPN, but it was an abomination once it got there. It's the only sports radio show that has ever generated vitriol in me.
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Rd 4, Pick 128: RB Ray Davis, Kentucky
in The Stadium Wall
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Nice post!
This shows pretty clearly that they're not interested in running Cook into the ground, and that they're concerned about him making it to the post season. I'm a fan of this. We definitely needed another RB to carry some of that load and only Ty managed to do it productively to my eyes. An injury to Cook would be very bad, so we needed someone who has a chance to shoulder some real burden. I think this kid can do it! I'm excited to watch him this year. His tape looked sudden with nice moves in the open field.
Fingers crossed