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Keep in mind its a home game for Baltimore I would say the game is either going to be really easy or difficult. Bills are such a wildcard with that defense and with EJ at QB.
Not unless we've secretly swapped homes in the off-season
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Totally fair assessment.
First time head coach, rookie and/or Kolb playing QB
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Reigning Super Bowl champs.
vs. 2012 complete losers at HC, OC, DC, and QB.
I'd like to think this 1.5 on writer's difficulty scale becomes an 8.5 on their ride home from Buffalo.
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That has to be a joke...right???
Considering Chan had a starting QB not qualified to start, a third string backup who never suited up, and a backup (Thigpen) who wasn't good enough to be a backup in the CFL I guess this is a joke. Chan certainly was.
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This will be my 15th or 16th consecutive traing camp I will attend(I've lost track) but everyone of them started in the same time period. For the Bills, it's always 6 weeks and 2 or 3 days before the first regular season game. So check the calender and work backwards. I don't know why they don't announce it when they publish the schedule because it never changes (unless they have the hall of fame game).
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If we lose this year it won't be because we have a HC who thinks a lame arm QB is a starter and also apparently knew nothing about what consituted a valid defense in the modern NFL. Things have to be better. If we lose, it won't be because of stupidity.
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Great. We look awesome in practice. Doesn't mean anything if we can't transition that onto Sundays. I won't get excited about anything til I see something on Week 1.
I remember a lot of fools here were giddy during OTAs and minicamp, then we got CRUSHED by Sanchez and the Jets. We made Sanchez look like Drew Brees out there. All this excitement doesn't mean squat until they produce in reg. season.
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I don't remember many giddy posts pre-season last year. In fact, I thought that the team consistently looked like crap in practice reflecting the personality of a lost, in-over-his-head HC.
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Do they grade coaches? Ours would have gotten about -200.0.
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Bills continuity does not mean continual employment for the mentally handicapped. I'll be interested in the Bills again when both of those fools are gone( Nix the fool for keeping Gailey and not upgrading QB).
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You act like he had a lot of options to choose from.
Nix brought in Chandler, Pears, Urbik, Rinehart and Kyle Moore all off the scrap heap. We now have one of the better offensive lines in the league thanks in large part to Nix. We're sitting at 5-3 if our defense wasn't so inexplicably god awful. You can't tell me that falls on Nix. That falls on Wannstedt. Whether they make it or not, Dareus, Williams, Sheppard, Gilmore and Glenn were all the right picks at the time. Previous regimes would've gotten cute and not drafted Cordy Glenn. There is an element of luck involved with which players pan out too. I think Nix knows he needs a franchise QB and will take one next year even if it means trading up. He has been nothing but honest and forthright with the fans and I absolutely endorse Buddy Nix on this election day. But unfortunately, I had to go with "no" on Gailey.
I won't forgive him for hiring his good ole-boyfriend. Hire someone you are prepared to fire for non-production. Also, he apparently was in collusion with Gailey on agreeing that they had their QB, a failure that I have difficulty believing any other GM in the NFL would make.
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I voted no for both. Gailey is obvious; Nix because he hired Gailey and still offers him support.
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nope, no way no how.
this annoyed me more than the late turnover, turnovers are a part of the game even if they are boneheaded like the interception
I know what you are saying but absolutely disagree with the decision
Difference is if we went for it and succeeded we tie. If we fail, we lose by 2, not 1. Sorry for earlier mistake.
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The card says you go for it down 2. Doesn't say wait until the end of the game to try it. But Gailey is a know-it-all retard. He likely doesn't even own the card.
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You have a better chance of being struck by lightning.
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Van had great style, but he made a ton of mistakes. And, not just when he was older.
Like what yard line the Bill's were on. Seems to have imparted that confusion to Murph. Unrelated...can't stand Tasker's stammering delivery.
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That offense was ineffective against the way Washington was defensing it. I was disturbed by the banging-the-head-against-the-wall aspect of it. The approach of no run or any attempt to trick the defense rendered this an exercise in futility. I don;t see that anything of any use was gained other than the knowledge that in a real game you could not run this collection of plays, but that should have been obvious without actually running the plays. To me, the 1st string offense was a complete waste of time, that's what bothers me.I'll make the counterpoint as in spite of my optimism, I have some concerns.
On Thursday night, the Bills offense continued a disturbing trend established last year in the second half of the season.
Back then of course, Fitz had bruised ribs, Fred Jackson had been placed on IR, Eric Wood and D Bell had gone down with injury, the O-line was playing musical chairs trying to find the right configuration to put the best 5 out there, and Lee Evans had been traded, Donald Jones, Roscoe Parrish placed on IR, and Scott Chandler missed a few games.
There was ample legit reasons for the demise of the offense last year.
The disturbingly familiar part of Thursday Night's performance was the continued obstinance in using a spread, timing offense which requires the defense to cover the receivers for only 2 seconds on each play.
The agonizing repetition is snap/blitz/quick throw/incomplete pass/punt with the offense in an empty set tempting the defense to blitz, the defense doing so, and the passing offense unable to capitalize on the expected mismatches… the play ending on a rushed throw.
Now obviously every NFL team needs to be proficient in its passing sub-packages and certainly the Bills need to brush up in this area so I was not so much disturbed by the practice of drilling this personnel group for 16 straight plays as I was the relative ineffectiveness of those 16 plays.
Regardless of the drops (six seems high btw) and the nullified TD and the missed calls against the D (there were 2), the first offense did not seem like a well-oiled machine.
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Any sign on which ankle? Was it the bad leg?
It was his right. I don't know which is the 'bad' one.
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I sure hope the "rolled ankle" does not really mean achilles flare-up...
I'm pretty certain I was watching when it happened. They have 2 12 foot rings which the coaches lay on the ground. Then they tell each DL men to run around the outside as fast as they can, two rings at a time. A few players slipped making the turn and Merriman was one of them. It didn't look like much at the time.
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Williams and Gilmore were 1st string today.
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The major thought I take away from day 1 practice is that if the QBs, especially Fitz, took more than 3.5 seconds to get the ball out, there would have been multiple sacks. There was no hesitation by any of the QBs today. And Pears did a very good job on Super Mario.
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VY threw 2 picks on opening day of training camp with a brand new team, brand new scheme, and brand new supporting cast?
OMG...we are so DOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Anyone keep track of how many picks Fitzpatrick and Thigpen threw today?)
GO BILLLSSS!!!!!
19 and 0 baby!!!!!
One pick went off a receiver's hands and I couldn't see the other. WRs in general seem to have trouble with VY short passes because of the amount of zip on them. on the other hand, Stevie had a great day. Oh, and CJ and fred looked really fast today.
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Right. I don't know why this point is lost on all the Brady ball-washers.
This isn't billiards, this isn't curling, bowling or golf.
In football, there's such thing as an opposition--root word: oppose, as in one's will, as in a counter force, the likes of which have been assembled almost exclusively to squash Brady's effectiveness.
So I'm confused as to why everyone keeps assuming he's still the King of the AFC East since he hasn't proven jack against THIS defense, and the one defense that resembles ours has bested him on the world's biggest stage not once but twice.
Yes, if there is a model defense for the Bills it's the Giants. I'd like to see what Brady's accuracy stats are when he is forced to throw on the run instead of rooted to the field like a tree. That's what the Bills' defense will be designed to accomplish: force him out of the pocket and throw on the run. If the Bills DL disrupts his comfortablity, not even needing sacks, the Bills win.
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My minds' eye sees lots of screens and draws.
.....which go nowhere.
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Causing the uncontrollable weeping of one Tom Brady after our defense beats the tar out of him.
My slight modification: Brady's uncontrolled weeping during the Bills beatdowns and Brady's crying to the refs being ignored.
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i put powell beating moorman at less than 10%
with punters and kickers, you go with who you know.
I believe Moorman's chances of retaining his job are 10% or less. Loyalty for past glories generally earns defeats in the NFL. If Powell's performance upgrades the team, then Moorman's days are numbered.
What happened to NYCBill? Anyone know?
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I just realized I hadn't seen a post from him in a long time. I checked his profile and it indicates that his last post was in 2010.
Sorry, it was Bill from NYC and I see he's still around.