Big Turk
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4 minutes ago, Chandler#81 said:
Holy Crap! It’s STILL cold in WNY!! Hoodies, sweatshirts, etc. I will never live there again and only visit between August & early October. Yeeeeesh!
It's not that cold...low 60s today, a few degrees cooler than normal(68 is avg high for this time of year). It will be 87 Friday.
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Wow...every single Bills player and coach is there. Diggs flew in to be here.
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Josh Allen placing flowers at the Memorial
That's My Quarterback
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Uh, he is almost 40 and coming off a really bad hip injury?
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25 minutes ago, JohnNord said:
I think the whole “Josh doesn’t play well at home” argument was debunked after last years playoff game versus New EnglandThis isn't meant to say he doesn't play well at home, merely to question why he plays better on the road in general
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1 hour ago, Tom Donahoe, GM said:
The Pats destroyed the Jets last year. I'm not sure how you rank the Jets ahead of the Pats.
54-13 and 25-6
Maybe because we aren't talking about last year and the Pats did nothing to address an aging defense in addition to losing their best CB, had a suspect draft at best and are a dumpster fire at OC with multiple defensive coaches acting as defacto OC.
Jets drafted well, improved down the stretch last year and have a more physically talented QB, and likely more offensive upside.
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1 hour ago, Mr. WEO said:
His appearances at fullback were too rare too be meaningful. 14% of snaps. He's not on the roster for that.
Most teams don't bother with FB/H-back. Sweeney had twice as many snaps.
Hey...don't even try and tell me you didn't like when he was split out wide 🤣
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2 hours ago, aristocrat said:
My biggest fear is an Achilles tear
I partially tore mine in college playing pickup basketball when I jumped up for a rebound and came down and landed on someone's foot...
Didn't end up needing surgery but it was like I was dragging my leg behind me for a month and felt like I was walking on nothing...
When I laid down to sleep at night was the worst...felt like someone was grabbing and squeezing the Achilles tendon hard...
Ended up having to wear a lace up boot any time I played sports after it healed or else I would get Achilles tendonitis so bad the next day it literally felt like it would tear Everytime I took a step.
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Can I say none?
I don't think any of them pose a credible challenge to the Bills.
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1 minute ago, Fan in Chicago said:
Coach can only do so much . But if the line indeed takes a step up, it will point to Bobby Johnson as having been a problem
Based on what he did when everyone and their Mom knew we were running the ball with Roman, and we still led the NFL in rushing, he can do a hell of a lot.
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Just now, Dablitzkrieg said:
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Lovable Lefty?
Lethal Lefty?
Boom Shaka Laka?
The Eraser?
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1 minute ago, TheBrownBear said:
Yeah. Color me NOT WORRIED. Just played one of the greatest games of all time, at home, against hated rival, in front of a packed and rabid fanbase, in the playoffs, against the GOAT coach, in 0 degree weather.
So, he had better stats on the road than at home last year in a season where Buffalo had exceptionally bad weather on numerous game days. Case seems open and shut to me.
I didn't say I was worried...more curious as to the why behind it, and No, I don't believe it can be 100% explained by the weather as some seem so eager to do.
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4 minutes ago, PrimeTime101 said:
Did you watch football last year? Colts was an away game. This is all you have to say after everything I just threw at you??
I think the more pertinent question is, did YOU watch football last year? It was clearly a home game.
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7 minutes ago, PrimeTime101 said:
I am requoting your original thread for 2 reasons. 1. take the first year out... does not if 2 numbers compare that first year the rest does not.
Second... this is the biggest one... your TITLE!
"Allen still is fairly significantly better on the Road than at Home. Splits don't lie. Thoughts as to why." what the heck is fairly significantly better supposed to even mean? your using 2 adverbs that mean 2 different things in front of the word "better".
many of us are ripping this whole theory to shreds and then you continue to add horrible narratives like
"he is more hyped up in home games"
"TO SOME DEGREE sure the weather But.." Degree? Weather?
"the majority of his bad games are at home as well" I mean do you really believe this? Did you watch the NE playoff game or any of the home games last year?
Other then the Steelers we dominated home games last year offensively
Seriously? is this whole thing just a well-hidden troll job or are you not reading anything you're writing down? and not reading all of our replies.
You're blowing away one bad narrative after another.. Can't teach accuracy... can't play in loud stadiums... I mean seriously? what is this?
Uh, the Colts game?
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1 minute ago, billsfan1959 said:
Patrick Mahomes has played 30 games at home and 33 on the road.
On the road, he has:
1) A higher win %
2) A higher completion % (over 3% higher)
3) A better TD to INT ratio (with 23 more TDs on the road)
4) A higher QB rating (10 pts higher)
5) A higher avg yard per attempt
6) A higher avg yards gained per attempt
7) A higher avg yards per game
WTF is wrong with him?
He's a bum...a bum I tell ya!
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1 hour ago, FilthyBeast said:
Obviously Beane, McDermott, and the entire lockerroom knows this hype and talk means nothing.
And my only hope is they learned from last year when they thought they were somehow going to cruise to the #1 seed after a meaningless win in KC early in the season. They went 3-5 after that game before waking up in the final month.
But yah nothing is guaranteed for this team and they have a better chance of being a 10 win team that just misses the playoffs or bounced in the first round then they do getting to a SB this year.
I liken it to the 88-89 Bills...went to the AFCCG in 88, didn't know how to mentally prepare for every teams best shot the year after and transition mentally from being the hunter to the hunted. In 1990 they figured it out...Kelly talked about it in his book at length, about the mental aspect of the game is so different as you go from the underdogs to the team that is expected to win...I think it is the same process this team had to go through before the light switch flipped on during halftime of the TB game. I expect them to take the NFL by storm this year.
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3 minutes ago, DabillsDaBillsDaBills said:
You have to just be trolling at this point. Weather conditions vary from game to game in Buffalo and they were significantly worse in 2021 than in 2020.
Let me guess...I am supposed to believe they were also much worse in 2019 as well? In 2020 the Red Sea parted and the weather was perfect every game?
And yeah I know conditions vary in Buffalo, I've lived here over 40 years.
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10 minutes ago, NewEra said:
You’re assuming that the reason is being too hyped…..
Please show the statistical evidence that proves when he is “too hyped” and when he isn’t? Is it JUST playing at home? He played terrible @ jacksonville…maybe he was “too hyped” for that game?
To prove what you are trying to explain (he’s too hyped playing in front of the home crowd), you must show when or when he is not “too hyped” which is impossible. Was he too hyped vs the pats in the playoff game? Vs the colts in the playoff game? Two of his best games ever…..and they were at home in front of the home fans. He MUST have been “too hyped” amirite? At home in the playoffs….
what is the criteria for being “too hyped”……
and how can you differentiate between being too hyped and not? Is he too hyped before every home game? Because that’s what’s you’re insinuating by using all of his home stats as support.
Meanwhile we play in windiest stadium in the league….BY FAR. Several of the away games (which your insinuating that he wouldn’t be too hyped for) are played in domes with no elements. There are too many variable that you aren’t including.
either way you want to see it, I think you’re just wasting your time (and ours for reading it) with this thought.
carry on
Yeah that’s it man. Case closed. Josh gets too hyped at home and sucks…..sometimes
So did the stadium stop being windy in 2020? That's the whole point...he played an entire year with no fans WITH THE SAME WEATHER CONDITIONS as the year before and year after but didn't have the statistical dropoff he had the year before and year after with fans there. Why are you so willing to ignore that??
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Just now, Watkins101 said:
I really don’t get why people blame crowd noise at home for why Josh has slightly better stats on the road. I’m positive that Josh faces louder crowds when he is on the field on the road than at home, when fans generally try to quiet down and let the offense do their thing.
I don't think its crowd noise at home, I think it's him wanting to put on a show for the fans more at home and/or pushing too hard. Seems to let the game come to him more on the road and takes what he is given more often.
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2 minutes ago, NewEra said:
Oh man.
Do you really think Josh allen is worse playing at home because he’s too hyped?
do you REALLY believe this to be true?
Maybe. It fits with why the splits were almost identical in the year there were no fans and skewed towards the road in the year before and year after. Why would it be that hard to believe when he readily admits he is too hyped for home games and has to calm himself down? Are you calling him a liar?
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Just now, NewEra said:
Stop
Why? It is a completely valid observation backed by clear statistical evidence.
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5 minutes ago, PrimeTime101 said:
your going to just look at one stat? Seriously... you dont think the coaching held him back and tried to control the run game his first year cause our WR's were trash along with our line? you state SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER and I am telling you that is a pile of garbage.
I'm saying that his first year doesn't have much difference in home and road splits. They mostly were not good regardless of where he played. So it is the other years that are showing the difference in home/road splits, predominantly the 2019 and 2021 seasons where there were fans. In 2020 with no fans the splits were much closer than the other two years. Which is why I am suggesting him being too hyped in front of the fans is part of the reason for them.
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I can't do it either...the thought of Christmas in shorts and a T-shirt seems so weird to me, although a few years ago we had a Christmas Eve in WNY where I was outside working in a short sleeve shirt because it was in the upper 60s and it felt so strange...
I am not a huge fan of really hot, humid weather, and if I am going to have to put up with that type of weather in the summer, there is no way I am also putting up with temps in the 30s or 40s in the winter too. Very very few places offer consistently warm winter temps(70s) to make putting up with the ungodly hot summer temps worth it. Southern California, the very tip of Texas near Brownsville, and Orlando south in Florida are about it. Everywhere else you are having to deal with some cold days in winter, even in Arizona.
On balance, I will take our winter weather over other places summer weather. Our summers are the best in the country, IMO.
I grew up on the East Side and then worked by Kensington/Bailey and then the Broadway Market for over 10 years...
Agree it is a special place. Have lived in other places but I always knew I would come back home and never leave again and I did that 17 years ago and am not leaving.