Dr. K
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Who knows?
Nobody does.
Just watch the darn games.
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I have zero confidence the Bills will win this game.
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Allen completely screwed the Lions. That should end his career as a ref, and it, and the many other failures, big and small, of the officials this season, ought to cause the NFL to do something about the erratic reffing in the league.
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It really does not matter. Awards are a distraction and often have little to do with who "deserves" them. "Deserve" is subject to many definitions.
As The Dude said, "Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man."
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Just win the last two games. I'm sure that's all Allen cares about.
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Bills 27
Pats 16
…but I know nothing, John Snow.
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27-20 Bills
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I hate all the bloviating by the talking heads on the sports shows about how suddenly the Bills are playoff bound and maybe the best team in the AFC nobody wants to play them etc. etc. yada yada yada.
It's all BS. Just beat the Chargers. That's all that matters, all that anybody on this team should care about this week. Shut that noise out, because that's all it is--noise.
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1 hour ago, machine gun kelly said:
You can potentially fault McD for waiting too long on firing Dorsey, but he eventually came to the right conclusion. Brady has been a ray of sunshine, and McD has done a nice job with the defense considering the losses we’ve had this year. The additions of Joseph and Douglas have been a steal.
And yet at the time many people said Dorsey did not deserve to be fired, that he was a “scapegoat.”
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Bengals looking like a team of destiny.
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I think he should retire to avoid ending up with possible serious consequences from a spinal injury.
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It's so illogical for Mahommes and the Chiefs and their fans to whine that the official negated a great play. He threw the flag the second the ball was snapped, before Mahommes threw the ball, before Kelsay caught it, before the lateral to Toney and the TD. As far as he was concerned he was calling a five-yard penalty on an egregious offside alignment. What was he supposed to do, say, "Okay, in this last minute I no longer enforce the Offside rule no matter how blatantly the player violates it?"
I get that the Chiefs are frustrated that this amazing play was negated because of this flag. If it happened to the Bills I would be suicidal. But the only way the ref could have known this is if he had a time machine.
Blame Kadarius Toney for a dumb mistake.
And don't blame the ref for not warning him. Toney was lined up in tight, right up against the linemen, inside of the wide receiver. He was miles away from the sideline ref, and only ten feet away from the ball and the center. He didn't need the ref to warn him if he was lined up wrong. He just had to look ten feet to his right, see the ball, and fix it himself. Was the ref supposed to blow his whistle, run onto the field and tell him where to stand?-
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9 hours ago, Freddie's Dead said:
Send an Email to Marcia, because he took Cook out of the game in the second half. Imagine Cook's numbers if he actually played in the 2nd half!!
Imagine Cook’s numbers if he could actually pass protect so they didn’t have to replace him to keep Josh from getting killed.
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The league is not fixed and to think so is silly.
The refs, however, have never been so incompetent.
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1 hour ago, eball said:
I appreciate the optimism and anyone who doesn’t think there is a chance the Bills could run the table is just being obstinate. This board has become borderline unreadable over the past several weeks and when it’s no longer fun for me, I stay away. Hopefully the offense continues its resurgence and McD can get out of his own way during the last two minutes of football games.
Go Bills
This has been my reaction, too. The prevailing sentiment around here (and I admit, with provocation from the terrible losses the Bills have taken) is not that the glass is only half-full. There is no glass, no water, no air, no sun, no life, kill me now—no, kill McDermott first then kill me—no, kill everybody who hasn't already stuck their head in a plastic bag and slit their wrists. Kill Beane and Pegula and Gabe Davis, too, while we're killing people. Did I remember to say kill me now? I almost forgot—kill the refs, too.
Gimme a drink.
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It's up to the Bills to win at least four of these games. If they can afford to lose one, it would most likely be the Cowboys. They have too many AFC losses already.
First, the Chiefs. The Bills CAN win it, but given the repeated failures they've had this season, I have no confidence they will.
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What a relief not to have to think about the Bills this Sunday, or watch another excruciating loss. What a bummer this season has been. How much grief they’ve brought me over the 59 years I’ve been a fan of this team.
Some joy too, but not as much.
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12 hours ago, Limeaid said:
https://www.dictionary.com/e/black-friday/
- In the 1950s, factory managers first started referring to the Friday after Thanksgiving as Black Friday because so many of their workers decided to falsely call in sick, thus extending the holiday weekend.
- About 10 years later, Black Friday was used by Philadelphia traffic cops to describe the day after Thanksgiving because they had to work 12-hour shifts in terrible traffic.
- The 1980s brought the mythology of Black Friday as we know it today. While the phrases in the black and in the red are used in the business world to describe profits and losses, this explanation for one of the busiest shopping days of the year only came about in the 1980s, about 20 years after the phrase Black Friday was in regular use.
It may have been a thing in Philadelphia, but I doubt that anybody elsewhere ever used the phrase before the 80's, and in most places, much later. Find me an advertisement from the 90's that uses the term "Black Friday."
The "Black Friday anyone knew about in 1962 was the day that the stock market crashed in 1869, driving the U.S. economy into a deep depression. https://www.investopedia.com/black-friday-definition-stock-market-crash-5089369
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2 hours ago, chongli said:
[I thought of putting this in the game thread today, but I figured this was a little different. Mods: please merge if necessary.]
Yep, I was not alive then, but that AFL used to have regular Friday games, including on Black Friday (not sure really if Black Friday was a thing back then though). The last Black Friday game was November 23, 1962 with Buffalo losing at Boston 21-10.
Jack Kemp threw for 194 yards and ran for a TD, but was bested by his counterpart Tom Yewcic with 231 yards and 3 TD's.
Here is a short video I found:
LOL at the utility pole in the middle of the field, viewable from 1:37-1:41 in the video. Guess the AFL cared a lot about player safety:
Box score:
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/196211230nwe.htm
[Also a few tidbits about other Friday games from the CBS article above:
"The last time the NFL played a game on a Friday that wasn't in December was when the Los Angeles Rams played the St. Louis Cardinals to open the season on Sept. 18, 1970 -- a game that started at 11 p.m. ET."
"Is the NFL entering unchartered territory? The NFL has played games on Fridays, but they have been played on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day since 1999. The league did have a pair of Friday games on New Year's Eve in 1993, which was also a holiday. The last time the NFL played games on a Friday that wasn't on a holiday was in 1986, six days before Christmas on Dec. 19. "]
"Black Friday" was absolutely NOT a thing in 1962. I never heard the term until the last 20 years.
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Eagles 30
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8 hours ago, AuntieEm said:
Not even the most anti McDermott fan will call for his head if the Bills turn around their past shortcoming seasons and win the SB. They still may not like him as the coach but the results would warrant not messing with what works. And winning the SB would work for all Bills fans I'm sure.
It's nice to know that if the Bills win the Super Bowl this season McDermott can hold onto his job. That shows how broad-minded the anti-McDermott fans are.
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8 hours ago, Wizard said:
I guess we would need a definition of what "turning it around" means.
For me, the Bills must make the playoffs and win at least one playoff game for me to consider a "turnaround."
This likely means Buffalo has to go 4-2 here on out and finish out 10-7 in the regular season.
We already had 3 silly losses from poor coaching, poor management, and poor play (first Jets game, Patriots, and Broncos).
Listed below are my 7 "musts" for a a mini rebuild/retooling and to keep Buffalo competitive. If they can do these things, I would go another year with McDermott and Beane.
If not, new leadership is needed.
7 Things McDermott Must Do
1. Make Playoffs
2. Win at least 1 playoff game
3. Joe Brady has offense scoring 24-35 points every game, or we get a top 5 available OC with proven success for next season by February 2024.
4. McDermott has a time management/situational guy helping him in tight games/situations. Seriously!
5. Bills cut bait on overpriced veterans. There is a plan that restructures Allen and Diggs as our cap currently is not friendly for 2024.
6. FA focus is in depth. Draft focuses on a promising #2 WR prospect, a RT, ahd and secondary help. We return/retain guys like Floyd and Epenesa or key pass rushers we can afford.
7. A DC is in place that is not from the Panthers. The person has had success as a DC and is hired by February 2024. This defense is complementary of McDermott's philosophy with a focus on tackling and creating turnovers more frequently.
Maybe they should just fire Beane and hire you.
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4 minutes ago, Scott7975 said:
Saleh said that? Thats classless trash. The "we're checking receipts" comments last year I felt were just cocky confidence and no big deal but if he said that crap then he is just a classless bum.
I'm joking, but he said he'd embarrassed Allen earlier this season. Then he tried to walk it back.
https://heavy.com/sports/buffalo-bills/robert-saleh-jets-josh-allen-comments/
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Enough of this despair and backbiting and negativity! No less a Bills fan than William Shakepeare, when he ran into a so-called fan at the Big Tree Inn who said the Bills playoff window was closed, waved a chicken wing in his face and called him "O gull, O dolt, as ignorant as dirt!"
When Robert Saleh said that the Jets defense was going to "embarass" Josh Allen in today's game, Shakespeare called him "a poisonous bunch-backed toad," a "foot-licker," and "an elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog."
About Jets offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, Shakespeare said he has "not so much brain as ear-wax."
Shakespeare said that against the Bills defense the Jets offense was "roast meat for worms."
Finally, when considering Zack Wilson as a quarterback, he said, "The soul of this man is in his clothes."
Trust me, you don't mess with the Bard of Avon.
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Head coach carousel 2024 edition
in The Stadium Wall
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I'm no expert, but Tennessee firing Vrabel seems very dumb to me. Some power struggle with the general manager?