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MattM

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  1. Off the top of my head, the Tuck Rule, the AFCCG vs the Colts that led to a new rule emphasis the following year, the 2007 Monday nighter against the Ravens where several suspect calls late in the 4th gave them the game (several Ravens got fined after that one for speaking their minds), a game around the same time vs Houston when Tommy Boy heaved a game ending pick, only to see a late flag even the announcers didn’t understand wipe it out,  the Saints game 2-3 years ago they won on a last play TD throw in which Solder was clearly holding the Saints pass rusher, and on and on, not ev3n counting our games against them.

     

    i do recall them losing to the Panthers on a late iffy call 5-6 years ago, but not many others.....

  2. 2 minutes ago, Tcali said:

    true----but losing teams dont make the big plays. winners do--and overcome officials mistakes-which are always gonna happen.NE has a few bad calls against them-and they still win the game because they make plays.

    New England* has historically won many, many, many more close games in which bad officiating appeared to help them than they have lost that way over the years, probably by a factor approaching 5 to 1.....

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  3. Don’t know too much about McNair and his record on race relations, but do know that he sold a minority interest in the team to a friend of a college buddy of mine, who happens to be  Hispanic and very rich—self-made rich, too (he set up and ran an energy trading company after playing football at Columbia and is a nice guy as best I know from my buddy and from meeting him a few times).

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  4. 14 minutes ago, JaCrispy said:

    I thinks it’s actually closer to 60 million...I believe it was around 80-90 million before this years offseason signings.

    No, it’s $90m as per Spotrac.  We’re 3rd in the League, but there are few good FA’s at positions of need.  The draft remains our best bet, which means 2-3 more years of a rebuild.....

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    Whose got the free agent list by position for next year

    OTC also has that on some other tabs there.

     

    interesting to see that we can potentially be over $100m with a few cuts.  Also interesting to see that the Pats* only have $21m next year and are losing a bunch of starters to FA next year.  Of course, they have 6 picks in the top 105 or so (although 3 of those are likely in the 92-105 range). Miami oddly also looks to be in cap hell next year.

     

     2019 is definitely the year McBean has circled on their calendar.

  6. 8 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:

    The Bills don’t have a QB to keep aAllen in the bench. I originally thought that he’d need a red shirt year. That’s wrong. He’s a lot tougher mentally and further along physically than I thought. Hand him the keys and don’t look back. 

    Yup—totally agree.  His play has earned the chance.  He also seems to have the intangibles, too—you can see how guys reacts positively to him and he always seems to be bucking up his teammates.  Leadership counts at the QB position and he seems to have potential there.

  7. 4 minutes ago, NewEraBills said:

    There is no case for Peterman.  I'm not sure why you guys are advocating this.  Hey he looked good with the 1's because it was the 1's.  He had 1 pass to O'Leary with the 3's that went for a TD on a blown coverage that a guy like Derek Anderson would also make.  Nothing impressive.

     

    Bottom line, Our OL got AJ hurt and sadly it was our best lineman Dawkins. I'm not sure what Juan teaches but that was just terrible technique by Dawkins.  He even lowered his head taking on Garrett.  WTF was that?  In any case, there is only 1 QB on this team that can overcome the sad a$$ OL and that's Allen.  Ducasse should not be playing.  And Dawkins has to play better.  Garrett bullied him on the playground last night.  Mills didn't have a clue at times.  It was just a sad and pathetic looking bunch.  Allen needs to start because he can extend plays and his arm will scare defenses.  Peterman is not going to extend plays and his arm is just what defenses love when a QB is having to run for his life.

     

    There needs to be a shake-up at LG.  Miller seemed OK at RG.

    I wonder how much of the bad O line play was Bodine making the O line calls rather than Groy, who started last week?  They looked light years better vs Carolina when Groy started.

     

    Also remember Myles Garrett went 1 overall for a reason.

  8. 1 hour ago, Dablitzkrieg said:

    Check these out...https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers%3fcontext=amp

     

    http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/02/sally-kohn/sally-kohn-white-men-69-percent-arrested-violent/

    I would say one of the top reasons, yes

    Do you think that police officers would even bother to go into the inner city over weed?  Those cops are scared for their lives due to fear of getting shot by people that hate the police.  I don't buy that comparison at all

    Here’s an article on the disparity of pot arrests in NYC—studies show roughly similar usage rates between blacks, Hispanics and whites, but show blacks and Hispanics getting arrested at much higher rates than whites.  The police tried to explain it by the volume of calls on it in different neighborhoods, but the NYT debunked that explanation with their own study.

     

    https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/5/14/17353040/racial-disparity-marijuana-arrests-new-york-city-nypd

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