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On 3/3/2022 at 9:12 AM, PromoTheRobot said:
The last round of conference changes showed me that UB is stuck in the MAC forever. Here you have Conference USA get gutted by two rival conferences, The AAC and Sun Belt, and rather than even consider UB they add doormats like New Mexico State and several FCS schools moving up. Neither of the AAC or Sun Belt even considered UB either.
Then you have two C-USA schools offered spots in the MAC; Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee State. Both chose to stay on the sinking C-USA ship than join the MAC.
Besides the obvious problems of UB like stadium and attendance, the bigger problem is Buffalo itself. Pro sports town in the north. Not a college sports market. The northeast, outside of Syracuse, is considered a college sports dead zone.
So as long as UB is a D1 school it will always be a MAC school because no one else will have them.
Western Kentucky wanted to join the MAC badly, but the MAC wanted MTSU as their partner, and MTSU didn't want to join for some reason. If Western finds a partner, that is suitable to the MAC powers that be, they'll jump ship in a heartbeat. Not sure why MTSU didn't jump ship, but they didn't. That would have been an awesome win for the MAC if it happened. Western is an awesome fit. IMO, Western will be in the MAC sooner or later.
The Sun Belt is now the premiere Group of 5 Conference. The teams it already has like Coastal Carolina, App State, Louisiana, Troy, and soon adding James Madison, Marshall, Southern Miss, etc, coupled with the regional footprint they follow with an emphasis still on ticket sales and gameday atmosphere is a winner. When all four new teams are officially in, they add quality, decent attendance, and facilities to an already solid league that was getting better. And it's a Mid Atlantic/Southern league as well. They are a clear winner of the Texas - Oklahoma move to the SEC. I mean, JMU, as an FCS program has better facilities than most of the MAC schools already.
The MAC is better than C-USA. Period. There is no reason to jump to C-USA. If any team has a beef about not being in a better conference, it's Liberty. Liberty has ACC like facilities in every sport and a budget to match Power 5 schools. But of course, politics get in the way of that. Liberty would make the Sun Belt a Group of 5 SEC.
The AAC........they are still decent, but now irrelevant on a large landscape. They need to accept their role, and make themselves better like the Sun Belt.
As for UB, they really don't offer much. They are cool in the MAC. It's too far out of the way for anyone to really want to include them in something bigger. I always thought that the best team or teams to jump ship in the MAC would be Toledo or Ohio. But even them, really, where else do they fit?
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2 hours ago, RoyBatty is alive said:
Did he really? At 4-12?
Yes you can spin it that way.
You are what your record says you are, especially for a QB in a QB driven league. The Texans won exactly as many games with Davis Mills/Tyrod Taylor as they did the year before with Deshaun Watson with JJ Watt. Simple undeniable facts.
What does a team's record have to do with what kind of a year Deshaun Watson had? If anything, it makes an even better point about what a great year Watson had in spite of the crap that surrounded him. Kind of like Joe Thomas or Calvin Johnson. And it certainly didn't all mostly come in garbage time, which was an absurd comment that provoked my response in the first place.
The Texans were 4-12 with Watson, who killed it in 2020. He also had them more than competitive in at least 12 of 16 games. He, as in his own performance, was outstanding, and that is well documented by many sports people. Some of which said it may have been his greatest season in his young career considering who the Texans surrounded him with.
Below is just one of several articles that realize how good this QB is, and was in 2020. This isn't even questionable.
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17 minutes ago, SCBills said:
From a talent/age perspective... Watson >>> Russ
If this happens, good.. Finally get a good QB over to the NFC to compete with cakewalk Rodgers.
Although, we saw Kyler look incompetent at times without Hopkins. In the one year post-Hopkins in Houston, Watson didn't exactly look very good - He put up most of his numbers in garbage time.
What? The Texans roster sucked. He had Brandon Cooks, Will Fuller and old ass Randall Cobb for god's sakes. And in spite of that subpar talent, he was all the Texans had, and had them on the losing end of 8 one score games, which is incredible.
In 5 of 8 of those one score games, he had the Texans tied, or in the lead in the 4th quarter. In two more of those games, they were trailing by 4 or fewer points in the 4th quarter. One went to OT.
Further, most of those one score games were high scoring games. And, he completed over 70% of his passes, lead the league in yardage, had 36 total TD's (33 passing) and only 7 INT's, and added an additional 444 yards rushing, and a pro bowl selection.
He arguably had one of the best season's of anyone in the league, especially considering the crappy talent around him.
I'm not a Deshaun Watson apologist by any means, but he certainly didn't put up most of his numbers in garbage time.
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Cousins in the 40s.......lmao.
Let's just hope the team stupid enough to do it is in the AFC. They'll instantly become a non threat for the duration he's on their team.
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This is a fantastic depth signing. The dude is a beast tackler and very athletic. He does have glaring weaknesses too. But how they have used him in the past, he's perfect in his role.
Tackles almost like Antoine Winfield, but covers like Chris Watson.
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It will pretty cool to see whatever visiting team gets the game. The Rams will be raising their banner to a stadium that will be packed with 65% visiting teams fans.
Can't wait. Anyone ever remember the Super Bowl Champs getting booed in their home stadium during a banner raising ceremony?
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Just now, gonzo1105 said:
Of course he wasn't. I dont get your point. So its okay to come off like a dick in your first impression to a city and media who will be vicious towards you if you start horribly. Maybe he doesn't care about any of it, maybe some found it funny. He has to win that's all I get that.
I'll back you on this. I thought it was painfully awkward on Daboll's part. It wasn't funny. And he really didn't follow up to break the awkwardness. Very weird attempt at humor. Hopefully, that was just nerves, and didn't go quite like Daboll intended.
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Dorsey
And anyone that shows a pulse. Flores would be awesome, but I think he deserves to be a Head Coach.
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On 1/20/2022 at 4:54 PM, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:
The hold basically means they can be listed, and can be purchased, but the seller can't actually transfer them to the buyer until 24 hours before a game.
I think they just want it to seem scarier than it is to dissuade people from selling/buying.Gotta be this. Because who really cares. You buy them and they hit your phone in plenty of time to get in. I think it's more a scare tactic.
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I still don't understand what the hell this means. Tickets are listed all over the internet for the game as we speak. So, am I to think I can't buy them right now and go to the game?
Or second, there are thousands of tickets for almost every sporting event for sale online nowadays. What does a transfer restriction actually do or prevent? I mean, if for some magical reason a Bills fan living in Virginia, can't buy a ticket today (how the hell would they even know that?), I can still go and know that when I get there, that there will still be thousands of tickets available 24 hours before the game and buy them on my phone at a hotel in Nashville.
I'm missing something I'm sure, because if not, this is pretty stupid.
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1 minute ago, BUFFALOBART said:
I'll be six rows above you!
Let's do this......neighbor. Go Bills!
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Driving up all the way from Virginia. 134, Row 40. You bet I'll be there trying to stay as warm as possible.
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Good news. Since Daboll doesn't run the ball, and we can't stop any good teams from running it, this will be perfect. He can let noodle armed Tua throw it 47 times a game and it'll play right in to our hands and our strengths.
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46 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:
1. OJ
2. Russ Brandon
3. Tom Donahoe
4. Willis McGahee
5. Gregg Williams
Strong list right here. Real Strong. Might even throw Ronnie Harmon in there as well.
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Just now, NewEra said:
So they got what they were rooting for?
Of course they did, and their journey to get there was awesome to watch.
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I actually monitored the Raiders game thread on their message board last night while the 4th quarter was going on in the game. It was a fantastic thing of beauty to watch. Kept hitting refresh the entire 4th quarter and OT and the comments were anguishing. To watch what they went through to get to the end was just gold!
Seeing the board meltdowns on every Herbert fourth down conversion was priceless. It was perhaps the greatest moment in message board history last night.
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1 hour ago, Buffalo Junction said:
Probably not. I really wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up being Daboll’s DC choice if Daboll gets a HC job. It would also satisfy the Rooney interview requirement for coordinators.
Flores should and will be a better Head Coaching candidate than Brian Daboll. If Flores would have to settle for a coordinator job under someone like Daboll, that would be a travesty. He should be a Head Coach again........and soon. As in a week or two. How someone like Joe Judge could walk an NFL sideline as a Head Coach is ridiculous.
I'm not a Daboll hater or lover, but firing Flores is mind boggling to me.
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I think it's most likely Monday Night for the following reason. IF the winner of the AFC East ends up #4, it makes sense that the worst division winner would get the game that would give them the least amount of rest going in to the next round. Any time you set up a bracket, you do so assuming the seeding of the bracket holds. That assumption would mean that the #4 seed would move on and play #1 in Round 2. One could say that would continue to be a reward for the #1 seed in the next round, which probably deserves it by winning the AFC in the regular season. In this case the #1 seed benefits even more for winning the the AFC's #1 seed, while the #4 seed gets the least amount of "help" (In this case shorter rest) needed to win the Round 2 game.
Then again, with the NFL you throw any kind of logic out the window for the purpose of making money, so who knows!
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This isn't a good thing. We aren't going to catch KC for the top seed. If Pittsburgh beats KC, and especially if we would lose to NE, that is big trouble for the Bills.
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I feel ya. If it wasn't for the Giants, Redskins and Cowboys we could have 4 Superbowl wins.
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I have no ties or feelings to Garrett. But this is absolute garbage. He has a subpar QB, a running back that's never on the field (and I'm a huge PSU fan), and a terrible offensive line. I think their WRs were hurt a lot as well.
And if that isn't bad enough.......they replace him with FREDDIE KITCHENS.......yikes.
Something tells me Garrett is lucky to be fired from that crapshow. And it's funny, because when the Bills were mediocre year after year, Bob Papa would be on Sirius XM NFL Network with an arrogant take on what's wrong with every other NFL team and how stable the Giants org was. Ummmm, yeah Bob, your QB now sucks, in you are smack in the middle of NFL purgatory. I love it.
Enjoy Freddie Kitchens.
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1 hour ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
With all due respect, I gave specific and accurate examples of things the Bills did to "beat themselves" in the Colts-Bills game.
If you want to argue that somehow these examples (several of which directly led to Colts points while taking potential Bills points off the board) don't matter, or that other examples of the Colts simply making great plays mattered more - you certainly could make that argument.
But you don't, in fact, make that argument - instead you resort to the "ad hominum" which is to dismiss what I say as "crazy as when the goofball Little League dad blames umpires...." (of course, I did not blame the refs, I blamed the Bills players for committing the penalties, making the turnovers, dropping the passes). That's also ironic, because despite leading off "with all due respect", it is, in fact....disrespectful.
We're all down on Daboll and Frazier and McDermott right now, but there's a reason when asked what they need to change, they talk about fixing the turnovers and the penalties. Because when you have 3 turnovers that were NOT forced - they were bad decisions and bad ball security - plus pre- and post- snap penalties. plus catchable balls that aren't, your team is beating itself. Period.
I specifically said "So yes, the Colts played well and deserved to win. But the Bills beat themselves in all 3 phases, with dumb penalties, drops, and turnovers. If the Bills hadn't beaten themselves, they might have won; they might still have lost, but it would have been a close competitive game. They wouldn't have shat the bed in a rout.
I'd also like to point out that you object to saying "the Bills beat themselves" but you say "the Bills sucked". What exactly is "sucking", if it isn't...beating yourself?
If the Bills show up on Thursday and commit the same stupid turnovers and penalties and miscues, you're not going to see "this absurd stuff" stop, you're going to see more of it.
You gave a bunch of excuses. I actually got sucked in to comment when I didn't have time to comment, so I wish I would have just stayed away.
The Bills got hammered. Period. And when you get hammered, and when you are getting beaten down physically, you start making the kinds of mistakes you've outlined in your first post about this out of desperation.
I actually don't have issue with anything you said. None. It's all true....from a technical standpoint. But on this Sunday, those tings you've outlined weren't the reason they lost. It wasn't the root cause.
I don't have time to go look at tape to see if Knox dropped a pass because his left shoe hit a water puddle while his right index fingernail split open from a piece of turf that was sticking up with a rubber pellet in his eye. Obviously, this is way over dramatic, and nonsense, but so are the excuses.
When you get beat down physically. When you don't (or can't) match the opponent's intensity. When another team is more physical, is playing faster, and larger than your team, it forces you into mistakes, because sooner or later, your spirit is broken. This what that type of game. This has nothing to do with any one example that you cited above, because those mistakes were most likely being made out of some kind of desperation or inferiority because of their opponent's dominance.
The Bills players were panicking, overmatched, and clearly inferior on Sunday. And when that happens, you tend to make mistakes by committing penalties to make up for your inadequacies. This isn't the case every week. But this past Sunday, they were simply beaten. And when you are beaten as bad as they were physically, all of those mistakes usually happen because players are pressing or panicked.
If the Bills weren't getting beaten so badly, maybe McKenzie doesn't try to cut sharply in an attempt to make a big play, on wet turf, because he thinks he personally needs to make a play to get his team back in to the game. Maybe even he calls for a fair catch in bad weather. Instead, the Colts were dictating the game, forced him into a mistake (that the Colts created by taking such a large, and early lead) that usually might not make.
Maybe the pre-snap penalties would have been less if Bills players weren't pressing so much because of what the Colts players were doing to them thus causing panic on their part.
Maybe the dropped passes wouldn't have happened as much if the Colts weren't dictating the game putting pressure on Bills players to suddenly produce in pressure situations caused by the Colts that took a large lead. Maybe anticipating a physical collision because the Colts level of physicality was a bit too much on Sunday, thus some of the drops.
Maybe Josh doesn't force the ball into double and triple coverage if he isn't pressing because they have absolutely no run game and are throwing every down.
This past Sunday wasn't analytical football. This was simply a way more physically dominant football team, on this particular Sunday, breaking the Bills spirit.
And the problem became that NOBODY answered the bell for the Bills. Not the coaching staff. Not the players. Nobody.
This one game.......was no more difficult to asses than that. This was a good ole, I'm bigger, faster, and stronger than you, and you can't touch me mentality ass whoppin that the Bills weren't ready for against the Colts. Man vs Man, they kicked our tail.
Throw this one out, get humbled, and get your focus back this Thursday. If they have "it" they'll bounce back from humiliation on Thursday.
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2 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Of course the Colts would disagree. But on the first drive, the Colts didn't commit two back to back pre-snap penalties that put the Bills into a 3-and-18 hole, then throw an interception. The Bills did that.
On the drive after the Bills went right down the field and scored a TD, the Colts didn't commit a stupid "Roughing the Passer" penalty and a stupid DPI penalty that took it from 3rd and 8 at the Colts 27 to first down at the the Colts 42. The Bills did that, and if the rest of the drive is the same that's the difference between 3 pts and a punt.
Josh Allen threw catchable balls that his receivers failed to haul in. It wasn't that they were super well defended; our guys just didn't hang on. The Bills did that.
Isaiah McKenzie had an untouched fumble on a kickoff return, caused by the ground. The Colts didn't do that. The Bills did that.
So yes, the Colts played well and deserved to win. But the Bills beat themselves in all 3 phases, with dumb penalties, drops, and turnovers. If the Bills hadn't beaten themselves, they might have won; they might still have lost, but it would have been a close competitive game. They wouldn't have shat the bed in a rout.
And yes, the Colts would disagree, but it's not "cliche' to say that the Bills are beating themselves; it's true, critical to understanding what's going on and fixing it. The Bills don't need to wear pearls or have Joc Pederson playing music in the locker room or yelling at people; they need to get back to playing fundamentally sound, disciplined, football.
With all due respect, this wasn't a game where the Bills beat themselves. The Bills got physically Crap Stomped by a team that imposed their will on them from the first kickoff. Saying the Bills beat themselves in this one is sorta as crazy as when the goofball Little League dad blames umpires for his son's 22-2 loss in baseball. Yeah, ummm, it wasn't the umpires fault. And in the case of the Bills here....it was a good old fashioned ass kicking. The Bills sucked. Period. And this game hurts more, and becomes heightened because it's not far removed from losing to an awful Jax team.
I can't wait until Thursday so all of this absurd stuff will stop, and we can see if the Bills can answer the bell.
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21 minutes ago, mannc said:
As great as he is, Henry is still just a running back and this is 2021. This is not nearly as big a setback for the Titans as it would be for a team losing its franchise QB. I don’t believe the Titans will suffer nearly as much as some predict.
This is exactly the type of setback for the Titans as it is for a team with a franchise QB. Their entire offense is built around his physicality. There isn't another player on their roster that could have ripped off that long run he had on the Bills that Henry had. That's huge. The reason Tannehill is so effective is because teams have to gear to stop Henry and how he keeps grinding on teams the entire game, even getting stronger as the game goes on. They will be nothing near what they are with Henry. He is the only exception to the rule about RB's in today's NFL.
Doesn't mean they won't win their division, but the Titans just lost one of the best offensive playmakers in the NFL. On a higher level, they won't be the same.....clearly.
Without Henry, they are now kind of a Bengals, Raiders type of team. This is a huge loss for them.
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Season Tickets on-sale to waitlist members
in The Stadium Wall
Posted · Edited by Lv-Bills
I'm on the 50 yard line, Bills sideline, lower level and have had season tix for 22 years. I absolutely will not be paying $7,000 a seat (14k total) for PSL's). I will be enjoying the last four years of having season tickets, and will just buy certain games online after the new stadium opens.
In Buffalo, where I would imagine my seats will be primed for some of the largest PSL's, I'll be out. And I probably can afford them, but it's too ridiculous to pay just for the right just to buy tickets. I have two daughters that will be in college soon. My 14k will be in their bank account for their own future education.
As much as I love the Bills, that will be the point where the NFL sickens me enough to bow out. Please win the Superbowl in the next 4 years. The Pegula's have plenty of money where PSL's aren't necessary. And I'm not a Pegula basher. I'm grateful we have them, but I'm not going to be an idiot and pay for their palace, especially after the handouts they will already be getting.
I get it. Totally get it, but it makes me sick.