MattM
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Does anyone doubt Riveron will bail them out?
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Love that “Skol” chant!
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Just now, NoSaint said:
Mess an easy play. Don’t even have to lay the wood. Let him catch it just make sure he doesn’t land on his feet
Or just keep him in bounds and let the clock run out
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Amazing—abso—f-ing—lutely amazing.....
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1 hour ago, Mr. WEO said:
27 TD's per 16 games over a career is astounding in itself.
If you want to say he is insanely good in a dome and he drops slightly to 1st ballot HOFer outside of a dome, then I'm with you, because that's what the stats show.
Brees is 39 tomorrow. Why no scrutiny for his performance at this advanced age?
Regardless of his personal trainer's credentials, why treat Brady as a the suspicious anomaly when there's been another guy in the same league doing the same thing all along for nearly as long? The suspicious aspect is how can a 40 year old be performing like this at this age. So at age 39, no suspicion is warranted?
Maybe he deserves scrutiny, too. Never said he didn’t, only that he’s a full year and a half younger than Brady.
He also doesn’t play for a franchise that used to be the favorite destination for aging players who seemed to miraculously regain a step when they arrived there, and at least one of whom (who, somehow, miraculously considering this, is now a network NFL coverage guy—kind of as if Barry Bonds got hired to be a MLB analyst) got caught using HGH only by being dumb enough to use his own name in ordering it, and which at one point a few years back had 3 RB’s over age 32 (I struggled that year to find 3 others in the rest of the League combined). See Seau, Junior, Morris, Sammy, Taylor, Fred and Faulk, Kevin, among others.
PS. I’m sure that Dennard suspension is coming any day now.....
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18 minutes ago, Cmdjr85 said:
I bet your one that believes the titans should have won the game even though they couldnt move the ball. They where one of two terrible afc teams to make the playoffs.
Nothing tennessee did gave them a chance to win.
Awe someone is salty. Sorry this team you love is just trash. 3 points in a playoff game.
If you paid anything at all for the “education” that you got, you might want to get a refund....
On the Brady vs Brees point, a couple of thoughts:
1. Brees is a year and a half younger than Brady—let’s see if he’s in the MVP discussion in the 2019 season; and
2. Last I checked, unlike Brady, Brees doesn’t have as a best friend a supposed “health guru” with a degree from “Fly-By-Night University” who claims to do what no one else in modern science can (and, oh, yeah, was hit by the FDA for lying about the effects of stuff he was selling, to wit, claiming his product cured certain types of cancer). Wow, I bet that guy’s legit.....
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Does anyone recall refs EVER overturning a false start to turn it into a neutral zone infraction AFTER the initial penalty was walked off and implemented?
Holy rigged games, Batman!......
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25 minutes ago, Uncle Joe said:
RIP Keith Jackson.
Jackson, Enberg, Sabol are voices of my youth when tv was black and white (literally).
Yup—they were all great.
Was it my imagination, or did the Bills also get a lot of Curt Gowdy, too, when we were growing up?
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Selmon Brothers, Leroy and Dewey for the expansion Bucs in the ‘70’s were both very good players, one ending in the HOF if I remember correctly.....
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Just now, Jamie Muellers Ghost said:
STAT OF THE GAME so far: 9 first downs to 2, Bills
What’s TOP? It’s got to be 3-1 or 4-1
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I could be wrong, but I recall reading that your sleep two nights before an athletic event is more important than your sleep the night before.....
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26 minutes ago, Doc said:
I love that the Bills were able to get into the playoffs and break the drought after just their third full season of ownership. And with Kim being from Fairport, I know the team will not move in my life time, at least. I’m also fairly certain that training camp won’t ever be moved from (my hometown of) Pittsford.
Totally agree—that’s the awesome part of the Pegulas owning the team. I was doing cartwheels when they bought the Bills.
I grew up in East Rochester (Fairport’s rival back in the day, perhaps hard to believe now considering they’re 6 times ER’s size), and was lucky enough to sit for a game in one of the Bills’ boxes due to a friend’s connections. I got to meet her and she was quite gracious and down to earth—we compared notes on growing up in ER and Fairport back then (I’m just a few years older than she is) and what we still loved about the area (for both of us that included Abbott’s on Fairport Rd!)— and she is indeed a fan, which is great to see.
She and her husband have taken a bit of flack from time to time on their running of their teams, but it’s not for lack of trying or caring.
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1 minute ago, DC Tom said:
- I hadn't met my wife yet.
- AOL was "the internet."
- The iPod didn't even exist.
- Bill Clinton was president.
- The World Trade Center was still standing.
What else?
Neither of my kids were born (and onevis a mid-teenager)...,,
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6 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:
No, SALT is gone completely. Property tax deduction is what is capped at 10K.
Trump screwed mainly the high salary earners with large property tax burdens. That's not about everyone in NY
I thought in the compromise bill, the $10k is either property taxes or other state taxes (i.e. Income taxes) as a nod to to NJ/NY/CA Republicans.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/20/pf/salt-deductions-new-tax-plan/index.html
I live downstate and many, many people here (if not most) are screwed by the new tax plan.
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1 hour ago, Mr. WEO said:
No, SALT is a deduction. It is subtracted from your income to arrive at taxable income. It isn't subtracted from your Federal taxes.
I think you knew what he meant--SALT used to be fully deductible (with possible fade outs for high earners), but now it's capped at $10k, which is a pittance when talking about salaries in the multiple hundred of thousands or more. Trump did indeed %*^# just about everyone in NY on that.....
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1 hour ago, JerseyBills said:
I don't see many ppl saying it cost us the game by any means. My view is it extremely changed the momentum of the game though.
We would have went to the locker room up 17-13, just scored our first offensive TD of the game and instead we go in tied and I'm sure most the players and coaches were emotionally affected by the call as well.
Do the Bills win if the TD stands? Doubtful.
But it's very possible the second half plays out differently on both sides.
Add to that the second crap replay overturning of the spot and it very well may have been a different game. Better yet, how about if on top of that, we got one or two garbage calls in our favor like they do and it could have been quite different.
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2 hours ago, Southern Bills Fan said:
Can anyone remember any of these controversial calls that have gone against the Patriots?
I've asked that to Pats* fans for years and have yet to get a reasonable response other than "....sore losers...grumble, grumble....". Funny how there are so many data points in the other direction (I can honestly list over ten games over the years where the officials shafted a Pats opponent), yet there are very few game changing calls that have gone against them (the Panthers game a couple years back being one of the very few exceptions). If these things are truly random or near random, it should even out over time, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Not even close. It's to the point here where we all know it's coming when we play them.
You have to then ask yourself why and go from there. One fairly plausible explanation under this season's circumstances of centralized replay playing a hand in at least 4 of their wins is that there's a problem with said centralized replay. Add in their reputation for skirting rules and their past convictions for cheating to the mix and it becomes even more plausible. Under the current rules all it really takes is getting to Al Riveron, either positively ($, drugs, women, etc) or negatively (learn (or create) dirt and blackmail him with that). In a world where men are human and where officials in major sports leagues have been bribed (in addition to Donaghy you have the Serie A scandal in Italian soccer, points shaving scandals in college b-ball, Lenny Dykstra bribing or blackmailing umps for a smaller strike zone, etc) it's really not that hard to believe possible.
2 hours ago, Shotgunner said:Perhaps that's why they moved replays to NY, it's too hard to get all the refs to cheat for you, so centralizing the decision makes there only be 1 point of contact to sway.
It kind of reminds me of when a certain QB petitioned the league to allow away teams to use their own balls.....
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2 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:
Why would "the mob" only bet on the pats? What gambler only takes action on a single team?
Was the mob counting on the Bills "giving up", despite holding the pats to a tie at the half (after the horrible call)?
They wouldn't, but Kraft certainly would. Here we are again, WEO, as predicted. Same team with something sketchy about them, over and over and over. If the three games with obviously garbage game changing calls (jets, Texans, Steelers) were called correctly (not to mention Bills and Charger games) they'd be fighting to make the playoffs last week, not sitting at 1 overall. All called by the same one replay official. Sure sounds to me like the potential for corruption got a lot easier in going to centralized replay. I wonder if Kraft was for or against that?
Hey, how's that Alfonzo Dennard suspension coming?
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On 12/19/2017 at 4:29 PM, PatsFanNH said:
Well Tomlin I can't stand I have never liked him as a coach, always thought he had a big mouth and never took blame for his teams short comings and it shows with his team (see Big Ben throwing the OC under the bus) I have never seen a HC blame everyone but himself for a loss.
You must have obviously missed some choice Belicheat moments like sending Devon McCourty out to face the media in his place after a tough playoff loss, or his running off the field to cry rather than shake Tom Coughlin's hand after "18 and D'oh" SB loss. Those were just a couple of his amazingly classless moves. To be hating on Mike Tomlin when you love a classless jerk like Belicheat is amazing to me......
PS. Let me know when Tomlin gets accused in court of banging someone else's wife.
https://deadspin.com/188681/men-keep-your-wives-from-bill-belichick
And compared to Kraft, who within about 6 months of his wife's death was dating a blond floozy young enough to be his granddaughter, Beli gets points for going semi-age appropriate with his mistress.....
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Not sure if it's been mentioned above, but the other benefit of Cousins is it allows us to use all 4 of our top picks in the first and second round next year on other positions of need. That will also help our cap by hopefully providing 4 relatively cheap starters for the next 4-5 years. Compare that to the other option of packaging 2-4 of those picks to move up to get a rookie who may be great, but who may not,
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Personally, I'm kind of shocked that more people haven't picked up on the fact that Tony Corrente, tonight's ref, just so happened to be the same ref who robbed the Jets of a game-winning TD vs the Pats* a couple months back. What a coincidence......
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1 minute ago, horned dogs said:
You may be the only guy who like this rule. Good luck you must be a lawyer.
Looking at the low low post count, I might guess a Pats* troll is more likely.
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10 hours ago, The Poojer said:
might not be the first, but the first i went to 'by myself'. In the early 70's i loved Fran Tarkenton....Minnesota came to Buffalo for a snow game(Chuck Foreman hurdled over a snowball that was thrown). I was in 7th Grade at AV Zogg MS in Liverpool. My folks let me leave school early, put me on a greyhound, made me sit directly behind the bus driver. Took the bus to buffalo, my Aunt and Uncle picked me up. We went to the game in their season tickets, and there i was in my Purple and Gold toque. I loved the Bills, but Tark was my man! One of my fondest memories
http://www.twincities.com/2014/10/15/vikings-chuck-foreman-still-struck-by-75-snowball-fiasco/
I was actually at that game, too, with a grade school friend of mine--we were so wrapped up in snowmobile suits that we looked like Ralphie's brother on "A Christmas Story". How we got to pee that day without it taking a full quarter to take it all off and put it all on, I'll never know.
My actual first game, however, was during the last year at the Rockpile. We saw Johnny U stomp us 17-0, the same score of my second game against Miami the following year. It was only at my 3rd game one further year later (one game a year--our big annual father-son Bills game trip) that I actually saw them score. A 16-7 or so victory over the Dick Butkus-led Bears.
Our seats for my first game were in the very top row of War Memorial Stadium--I could literally look over the back to the street below.
Other than the losing, good times, man, good times.....
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