Rat-boy
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7 minutes ago, eball said:
This thread is just one big circle jerk for the pessimists. It’s hilarious.
Don’t forget the trolls and enablers mixed in.-
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1 hour ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
49ers vs Ravens is on
Brilliant. Always happy to watch replays of the Niners getting spanked ad nauseum! Local media here are insufferable when they are half decent and have been all over Purdy’s Johnson for the last several weeks. It’s fun listening to listen to them try to rationalise this loss away. 🤣
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28 minutes ago, KellyToTasker said:
Lol, what? Really, being respectful here, dumbest thing I’ve read all day.
You’ve obviously not been comprehensive with your perusal of this board. Look at the GDT and you’ll see what I mean.
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7 hours ago, Logic said:
As I mentioned in another thread, I was locked into a date with my wife last night and missed the whole game. I NEVER miss games, and I'm very curious to know how last night's game played out.
I have already watched the highlights that are available on YouTube.
What I'm looking and hoping for is a description of how the game played out.
Did Joe Brady call a good game? Did the offensive line protect well? Did the run game generally look productive? Did Fournette make any impact? How did Josh play overall?
Did McDermott call a good game on defense? How did Poona Ford look? Who were the defensive MVPs, if any at all?
Any recap anyone is willing to provide -- the more detail, the better -- I would greatly appreciate. Thank you in advance.Depends. Do you want the trolls’ or axe-grinders’ or “the other team has a backup QB, so we should ignore everything else and expect a blowout” version? Then look for rants on the post-game thread.
If on the other hand you want a rational take, I think what’s been posted here is a good overview. Self-inflicted problems, far from perfect, but managed a win in the end.
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9 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Defense's have effectively separated the wheat from the chaff in the passing game this season. Phony WR2's like Gabe have gotten exposed. There has never been more WR talent in the NFL than there is now........but you have to be REALLY good to make plays when defense's are basically running the equivalent of hockey's neutral zone trap.
The only reason you can't see that our playmakers aren't as good as KC last season is because you refuse to face the fact that Juju was excellent last year. 24th in receiving yards and 77% catch rate. A stud season from a guy who also once put up a 1400 yard season. The Bills don't have anywhere near that kind of player as a second option. The Chiefs also had dynamic impact from their RB's receiving........ 10 receiving TD's from McKinnon and Pacheco last season.......Cook has 4 with 3 games left. But LOS aligned receivers are more important to the equation. And fwiw, both Chiefs SB wins were capped off by plays by their WR2.......Sammy Watkins and Juju(who is open to extend and end the game if Bradberry doesn't grab him).
Grind axes much?
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4 hours ago, Limeaid said:
If their Purdy QB is injured do you believe same thing?
One subtle disagreement - I live in the Bay Area and while Brock is a solid QB, most fans and media here would argue that the Niners are one Deebo or CMC injury away from being quite beatable on any given day by any decent team. Their offense is dependent on those two. Purdy is QB and gets the associated hype especially since he was a 7th rounder who is succeeding. But note that they were 0-3 without Deebo and Trent Williams, not without Purdy.That said, when healthy, they are not a team I want the Bills to face. We are no better than a coin flip with our current injuries, but certainly have a chance with current level of play.
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Article is behind a paywall - can someone please post a synopsis? Many thanks.
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7 hours ago, Eastport bills said:
Why the righteous indignation towards a fellow Bills fan who expects a GM to actually make a move when we suffer catastrophic injuries. Who knows, he might even care what the customers think. Thankfully he’s got people like you, Rat person, who discourages any descent.
Not all indignant nor righteously so. I’m simply suggesting that Beane’s motivations have little to do with what fans make noise about.I could be wrong - perhaps he’s doing his job based on posters on this board. In which case he should find a different line of work. 🤪
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2 hours ago, Eastport bills said:
Funny you referenced LB and not our primary need, CB. Minn. needed aQB, they got one. Seattle needed a tackle, Leonard Williams, Philly needed a safety, they got an all pro, SF needed a DE,they got a 1st rd drafted Chase Young, the Bears wanted an elite DE, Montez Sweat. Jacksonville lost an OL and got one. If you are relevant and ready to deal draft picks, there’s a trade partner available. Beane got a good corner because he knew the fans would destroy him if he did nothing with his track record of not being active at the deadline.
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Somehow, I doubt Beane gives a rat’s tail what armchair GMs care about his perceived lack of activity…
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8 hours ago, John from Riverside said:
Do you really live your life on nearly and almost
Sure seems like it
We feed the trolls too much around here. Send them back under their bridges. Ignore is your best friend.And I suspect strongly that FilthyBeast has at least 10 IDs.
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I don’t post here much and haven’t over the 20+ years, but I think it’s lovely to have posters discussing these technical details.
Please do keep it here, as I think there are plenty of readers who enjoy learning rather than scroll through pages of “Fire X”, “Bench Y” rants.
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2 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:
I wasn't surprised the Bills had problems with the Giants last night. Brian Daboll knows Josh better than just about anyone else in the NFL. Assistant coaches who return as head coaches to play the team he was an assistant with seem to overachieve against their former team. I'll cite 2 recent coaches who left NE to coach other teams. Both got fired before their 4th seasons. Matt Patricia was bad in Detroit, yet he still was able to beat NE when the 2 teams met. Brian Flores lasted 3 seasons in Miami & was 4-2 vs NE. Now lets add Josh McDaniels who after yesterday is 2-0 with Las Vegas vs NE. The record vs NE for these 3 recent coaches is 7-2 vs future HOF coach Bill Belichick.
So, lets hit the brakes on the Bills falling apart. The last 2 weeks they traveled to London to play a team that had been there the week before & stayed there, then they came back to play vs a former assistant who is very familiar with the Bills. I remember a time when the week after a game in Europe, the NFL gave the teams a bye the next Sunday.
I'll attribute the 2 showings to travel and coming back to play a coach who knows them better than just about any other head coach in the league. Until proven wrong, I'm giving the team a break for the past 2 weeks, one of them a victory, which is more than I can say for Bill Belichick's recent games versus his former assistants where he's 0-2 the last 2 times he faced Josh McDaniels and 0-3 the last 3 times he faced Brian Flores. Add in the Patricia loss in 2018 and the last 6 games vs these 3 former assistants Bill is 0-6. The only one he's beaten is Flores in 2 of 6 games over 2019-2021, with 1 win each in 2019 & 2020.
Albany, I'm terribly disappointed in you. As a long-standing TBD member, you should know that nothing is acceptable other than a hysterical, irate, sky-is-falling-fire-the-coaching-staff-and-tank-for-the-number-one-pick post when the Bills win by anything less than 51-3.
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2 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said:
This is completely inaccurate.
McDermott and Dorsey are by far, by far the most criticized after a loss. There is Fire McDermott and Dorsey almost weekly on here.
25 minutes ago, D. L. Hot-Flamethrower said:And that is insane is as well.
Indeed. And yet we continue to feed the trolls, half of whom are probably Dolphins fans, when we should be sending them back under the bridge from under which they crawled.Ignore is your best friend 😄
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33 minutes ago, Since1981 said:
We know the yr is long. With D, any of 11+ guys go down and Vonn helps. LB DB DL. Vonn will help the rush which helps all levels. He’s great and he will help us down the stretch—not a doubt. And, oh yeah, great attitude too
Vonn isnt too hard on the eyes either.
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Dorsey tried to get cute today on that play.
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My brother was a bowler...for the Indian national cricket team. Does that count?
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8 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:
It's all made-up BS. Some US players sang, some didn't. Some Sweden players sang theirs and some didn't.
The self-righteous nationalist BS that gets parroted on social media/internet is not patriotic. Those are two different things.
Sweden wasn't even better that day. That's what kind of sucks about it. The US looked like they turned a corner with their changed-up strategy. They just couldn't finish it.
I agree -- I suppose I misspoke. USA outplayed Sweden most of the day from a strategic standpoint and deserved to come out on top IMO. Sometime the ball just doesn't find the net.
I have to say, though, that I hate PKs and always have. Horrid way to end matches.
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OK, I'll bite.
Could someone please explain to me why the USWNT not singing the national anthem is an issue? They are professional athletes. Is there something in their job description that says because they play for a national team, singing along or mouthing words is a requirement? Or that not doing so is unpatriotic and a violation of rules? Or is all this angst reaction to a false perception that every athlete from other countries in the women's world cup sang their own national anthem, and how dare the USWNT not follow suit like lemmings? Why does one have to sing out loud and yell "USA! USA!" to show their "patriotism" overtly?
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I don't recall anyone on the team making an overt issue of this until the media / twitter asshats got on their case for a perceived slight. It probably would have sailed quietly into the good night. Rapinoe may have been vocal with her views and I see that that ruffles feathers. As may comments from her opponents ruffle the feathers of those who don't agree with them.
I've always understood that the price of "freedom" is tolerance of other views and the right to respectfully disagree. Where did this go?
I'd guess the issue is some people are very thin-skinned these days and perceive everything as a personal insult to their way of life. 🤒 Give me back the ability to just listen and disagree.
2 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:Just my two cents but it rubs me the wrong way when elite athletes chosen to represent the USA choose to 'sound off' using the national anthem of the country that they chose to represent as a form of protest. It's incongruous to me - particularly since the core values of our country allow for them (or any other citizen) to sound off on whatever issue they choose to.
6 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:Absolutely. Sweden had already missed two and the US had them dead to rights.
They totally choked.
Yep. Humans, unlike robots, sometimes choke. Happens to the best of them as we all know. They were beaten by an opponent who was better on the day. Oh well.
Personally, as a football fan, I think they've raised the bar for the world over the last 20 years. One or two bad tournaments doesn't erase the mark they've left. Nor should it, or any amount of noise over perceived slights from their supposed ill behaviour.
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3 hours ago, streetkings01 said:
I gotta agree with this…..that first Bengals game was either headed for a shootout or a blowout in favor of Cinci.
I love this logic, since we all know the outcome of every game is determined after the first two drives.
I have proposal: let’s shorten games to the first four drives. 60 minutes is ridiculous. ChatGPT can predict the outcomes afterwards with virtual certainty.😒
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18 minutes ago, Sargent Hulka said:
Allen won them the KC and Detroit games. If he hadn't, the McDermott enthusiasm would be significantly less on here right now.
Pretty accurate for the KC and Detroit games
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2 hours ago, djp14150 said:
must like Lights by Journey
written about LA initially but modified for SF
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27 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
He's a solid returner. It's not like he's useless. Don't be so quick to abandon him. He's been with the Bills for what? Three weeks?
C’mon PTR. You know way better than to bring a rational take to this board. Don’t mention the fact that half that time they didn’t practise enough to install him in the offense. It’ll bring the “we won but we really lost” trolls out.
I really miss Hogboy.
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2 hours ago, Bocephuz said:
In the past i used to do lengthy in depth posts with gifs.. don't have time for that nowadays
I watched every passing snap to evaluate pass blocking performance as well as Josh Allen unforced errors committed (PASS BLOCKING ONLY EVALUATED.. did not evaluate running plays).
Unforced error = Allen has time to throw, wr is open and he misses throw.. or.. Allen makes poor unforced decision
OLINEMAN BEATEN = O lineman clearly loses his one on one matchup... or.. clearly misreads stunt/combo block
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OLINEMAN BEATEN STATS
DAWKINS - 1
QUESSENBERRY - 1
SAFFOLD - 2
BATES - 1
GVR - 2
BROWN - 3
OL SUMMARY : In general the OL was slightly better than last week but still below average
-DAWKINS - Looked pretty solid for first few series and then was replaced by Quessenberry. Didn't really see an obvious injury.
- QUESSENBERRY - Came in for Dawk midway thru the game and actually looked solid at LT. Only gave up one pressure.. looks much more comfortable at LT rather than RT.
- SAFFOLD - Saffold was not as bad as last week.. but still had two ugly pressures given up. He seems slow off the snap.. both pressures were him getting beaten to the spot rather than getting physically bowled over.
- BATES - Mr. Versatility stepped up for the injured Mitch Morse at Center and was his usual solid self only giving up one pressure all day and cleanly snapping the ball to #17.
- VAN ROTEN - Gave up two pressures and the communication between he and Brown was poor on several stunts/passoffs.
- BROWN - An outright liability. He led the way again with 3 pressures given up. Hutchinson clearly outclassed Spencer several time. Brown is completely vulnerable to the outside speed rush and eventually Dorsey had to keep #26 in a couple times to help the struggling RT with chip blocks.
QB UNFORCED ERRORS: Josh had 2 unforced errors by my count. Based on my history of doing this kind of analysis when a qb has 5 or more unforced errors the chances of his team winning decrease materially.
- Josh INT - Not really an error on Josh' part.. #44 Rodriguez made a heady play/ read the play fake and got in the throwing lane and tipped the ball
- Bad Throw - Josh had one really bad unforced throw on an out to Diggs
Josh was more decisive today than against Browns. For the most part he only escaped the pocket when forced. Dorsey also went to the quick game a lot in the 2nd half to protect Josh and get the ball out of his hands. Several plays where Josh hits his drop and the ball is out immediately on a hitch or a quick slant. This was very effective and got him the offense in a big rhythm. I would hope Dorsey calls more quick game going forward as the O Line is not really capable of holding up for plays calling for multiple late developing deep routes. However.. have to give O Line props as they held up in pass pro for the most important play of the game at end of q4 when Josh had time and room to climb the pocket and throw a 34 yd laser to Diggs that pretty much won the game for the Bills.
Unfortunately I don't see anyone on the roster who can replace Spencer Brown effectively so Dorsey is going to have to work around him and keep backs/TE in to help him with chips .. or perhaps go with the quick game more to compensate.
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7 hours ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:
My friends and I have discussed trying to sneak a live chicken into the stands.
Amazing that somebody brought a skunk. Remarkable.
A live chicken? To sacrifice and help Cerrano hit curveballs?-
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What are the greatest or your favorite sad songs?
in Off the Wall
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I don’t like country music generally, but this one qualifies.