Dr. K
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6 minutes ago, Eastport bills said:
Your problem is that you are perfectly fine with the level that the team has reached and it is beyond your capacity to understand the perspective of devoted, long suffering fans who understand the urgency in winning a championship while our franchise QB is under our control. The complaint that most objective observers have is that progress stopped after Dabol left. Our offense has become Joshcentric and predictable. Our defense was formidable when Von and the threat of his pressure made everyone better. When he went down, we couldn’t pressure and our young injury riddled secondary was exposed. Coaching and personnel couldn’t make things better. Now things are not great because other teams are getting better and we are fully dependent on Beane improving the roster with cap restrictions. So between questions about our coaching and making the roster better, they’re things to be concerned about. When you’ve experienced decades of lean times you realize how short lived this huge opportunity with Josh can be. Don’t be misled with playoff berths and early rd wins. We’re not there yet.
I attended my first Bills game in 1966. Though I don't know how old you are, I suspect I've suffered with this team for longer than you've been alive. I recognize that the team has problems--a person would have to be blind not to see that. Find a post anywhere here when I ever said anything even approaching the words you are putting in my mouth.
Read what I wrote, not what you assume about me.
I wish you the best. I'm not interested in fighting with you about any of this.
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I've been a member of this community since the very beginning, in 2001.
Through the depths of the drought, I've never seen so much whining and anger and lashing out as what goes on daily on this board right now. Not everybody is guilty of this—there are a good number of eminently sane people who post here frequently—but the percentage of people acting like three-year-olds having temper tantrums is as high or higher than it has ever been.
I went away for the last weeks since the loss to the Bengals thinking that of course people are going to act out their disappointment; it's natural, I thought, let them get it out of their system. But it's as bad this morning as ever. I've tried blocking the worst offenders but the list would be too long to comprehend at this point. If the Bills were to take one fifth of the hysterical suggestions that are made every hour on this board, they would be out of the playoffs for the next twenty years.
I realize this is likely my problem, not yours. So I'm giving it a pass at least until the draft, and maybe until training camp.
I hope some of you will get out of the house now and then and breathe some fresh air.
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1 hour ago, Billsfan1972 said:
Why? Because those who were concerned from the bye week on actually may have had a point? This is what bothers me I wish we could go back to all those posts worried about what was happening with the Bills and how they were shouted down and it seems a lot of those people disappeared and no longer are part of the debate.
I 100% wanted to be here this week talking about the Super Bowl and how the Bills were going to beat the Eagles. And I can promise you98% of those on the site want to be doing the same thing.
You do you. Go for it. I'm not stopping you.
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Well said. In particular this:
"For now, however, I think less than I used to about what went wrong and what needs to be fixed than in past years. I have developed a healthy respect for all of the things I don’t know about football, and I no longer can pretend that I see that one thing the Bills need to fix to get over the top. If it were easy enough for a guy sitting in his family room to figure that out, someone in Orchard Park would have done it already. "
I've been avoiding this forum since the Cincy game because so many of the commenters here do not agree with this, and to read the angry back-and-forth that arises from those who are absolutely sure that they know who is to blame and how to fix it just wears me out.
Thanks for posting this, and for your other comments throughout the season. Go Bills!-
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Whining about Chis Collinsworth is tedious in the extreme. Just watch the darn game.
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Flores is a good coach who got screwed by Miami.
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15 hours ago, FrenchConnection said:
Go watch this video and tell me that you don't want to beat the heck out of this cocky team on Sunday.
https://www.bengals.com/video/wild-card-game-balls-locker-room-celebration-2023
I see absolutely noting objectionable in this video. It's just a team that, rightly, is confident in itself—they have to have an attitude, some degree of arrogance, to win. The Bills are absolutely no different.
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24 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
there is a trend here to discount points scored on short fields, as though they pretty much are impossible to stop.
see above
At the very least, when the opposing team gets the ball in field goal position, you would be insane to grumble about the defense allowing a field goal.
To say nothing about touchdowns scored by the other team's defense.
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12 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
my bad. but after going up by 17 on the biggest playoff underdog in NFL history, they gave up the lead and went down by 4 after the fumble TD. Then, after the Offense scored 14 in under 3 minutes , Miami scored 11 unanswered. Dolphins then melted down at 2 min with dumb penalties (false start, delay of game). Even on that drive, the Bills D gave up 14 on a 2nd and 15. They also gave up a 3rd and 19 on a drive that got Miami a FG, a 2nd and 15 on another scoring drive, a 2nd and 13 for a TD drive.
ask the Falcons
is "points a team could have scored with TDs instead of FGs" a new analytic metric for Defenses?
The Dolphins' drives yesterday were:
38 yards (field goal--started the drive on the Miami 40 after Bass kicked off out of bounds)
18 yards (field goal--started drive on the Buffalo 48)
8 yards (field goal--started drive on the Buffalo 27)
18 yards (touchdown--started drive on the Buffalo 18)
and in the fourth quarter
75 yards (touchdown--started drive on the Miami 25)
plus the Miami defense scored in the third quarter on Josh's fumble.
Conclusion: The Bills defense played an excellent game. They allowed one serious drive in the entire game. All the other Dolphins' scores came as a result of turnovers or starting their drives in Bills territory.
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1 hour ago, Freddie's Dead said:
What can you say when your dumbass coach calls not one, but TWO timeouts when the Fish were down to nothing on the play clock? Once to wipe out the 4th down stop and give McDaniel the option to punt, and once again to wipe out Tremaine Edmunds making a stop to bring up 3rd and 10. Weird.
I was mad at McD for calling thst time out on the Fins failed pass, but in retrospect it is defensible. He noticed the defense was not priperly lined up for that play, and he was right—Waddle was open but Thompson overthrew him. If he had not, it would have been a TD, which McD’s TO would have prevented. It only looked bad because Thompson did not complete the pass.
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I get it that the game was a nail biter. I was convinced, late in the 4th quarter, that they would lose.
But the Bills played far from their best game, turned the ball over three times, and still scored 34 points.
Those calling for Dorsey’s head are hysterical.
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That was hard, but the relentless negativity in response is near pathological.
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12 hours ago, newcam2012 said:
I stand by what I say and said. Those are and were my beliefs. Of course, I was wrong on many as it turned out.
Nevertheless, that doesn't deter me from voicing my opinions. I try to back them.up with facts or realistic opinions. I have no regrets on what I said. I've eaten crow many times and gladly will when the Bills win when I think they won't.
Doesn't sound like you have much appetite for crow. This is hardly a nibble.
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Props to our Italian brother!
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1 hour ago, Big Turk said:
This board would be worried if the Bills were playing air.
Air is undefeated all-time.
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Interesting how canceling the Bills-Bengals game eliminated any possibility the Bengals would get the top seed, whereas the Bills are still alive for it.
If I were a Bengals fan I would not be happy about that, or about the dumb idea that, even though they've won their division, they may have to flip a coin to decide if they play the Ravens at home or on the road in the playoffs.
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I wouldn't have any trouble with the Bills forfeiting the game.
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Postpone the game. I know that would be a mess, but how can they go on?
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On 1/1/2023 at 9:34 AM, JohnBonhamRocks said:
Keep divisions and 6 games against division opponents. Too much history and rivalry. Too much fun now that we own the AFCE after the drought.
Once we get to a 21-22 game season in like 2050, assuming no expansion franchises which is no safe bet, then we could do: all AFC teams, each division opponent 2x, and still get 3-4 NFC games per year.
And solar powered android players with titanium knees.
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Obviously I'd like to see the Bills get the #1 seed. And the path to the Super Bowl is harder if they don't get it.
But if they lose tonight they are far from done. #1 seeds have won only seven of the last 22 Super Bowls. Getting the home field and the bye are absolutely no guarantee.
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This is fantasy. Even if he's cleared to play, he can't play at his former level coming off almost a full season of not playing. In the current situation he would not offer an improvement to the defense.
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On 12/27/2022 at 7:39 AM, Kirby Jackson said:
Tua should call it a career. He seems like a really nice guy. He has his whole life ahead of him and it isn’t worth it. I feel the same way about Mitch Morse at this point.
I think I agree with you about Morse. Six concussions is not good.
When I had a concussion, even after I felt completely normal months later, if I bumped my head I was as woozy as if I were back in the minutes after the concussion.
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10 hours ago, LOVEMESOMEBILLS said:
Oh I'm banging the drum for Cook to start and get more playing time. And I love Singletary and have stuck up for him repeatedly because he's a solid player and he's been our only real option at RB for a few years now.
I'm also not "just getting lost in the stats", he looks like the better, more explosive back more often than not over the last 6 weeks. That's when he started getting his first real chance to contribute in this offense. And imo he's outplayed Singletary.
I would caution you on being too comfortable with the same old thing. One looks the part of a featured back, with the ability to make big plays and the other looks like a typical #2 RB, the best you can say about his game is he's steady. That's not meant to be a knock on Singletary, it's just the truth. We finally have the luxury of putting Singletary at his true position.
We know what we have in Singletary, he's hit his ceiling. He's the little engine that could and there's nothing wrong with that. We have no idea how high Cook's ceiling is, but you can plainly see it's higher than Singletary's by a noticeable margin. You get the feeling he could break one at anytime. I miss that at the RB position and you know what? So does this offense. With an offense desperate for big plays right now, this should be a no brainer. I think the coaches are starting to see it too. 2 of the last 4 games the carries were evenly split, each had a game with 1 more carry than the other.
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In episode three of season one of the Apple TV series "Mythic Quest," the game company that is the setting of the series has to set up rules of behavior for people who sign on to the online game "Mythic Quest" that gives the series its title. They form a committee to decide what groups to ban from the game, playing one group of terrible people off against another in order to decide which group is the absolute worst.
In the end they decide that Nazis are the worst, but it was close. Here's a screen capture of the final choice.
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Your Bills-related unpopular opinion
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In what possible way is this an unpopular opinion since it seems to be shared by half the people on the board?