May Day 10 Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/threads/on-to-buffalo.1123530/ What their fans are saying. I'm actually surprised how afraid they are of this game. Nothing like what was on the colts boards last week. The fans do seem to know what they're talking about. I'm surprised that many people really take the Bills seriously. It does seem like the Bills have arrived. the only people dismissing are a few 'just because its Buffalo/Rex Ryan we have Gronk' crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 (edited) I will say this about WEEI, they are a very good sports talk station. You may not agree with what they have to say but their hosts really know their stuff. Glen Ordway in midday is especially good. It's hard to fathom that the company that owns WEEI also owns WGR. Talk about night and day. One is a professional operation and the other is amateur hour. BTW, the "Whiner Line" and those drop in sound effects ("Clark the Bear", "Perpatrator!") all stolen from WEEI. And while Schopp's engineer can only handle about 6 sound effects, Ordway's engineer uses a library of hundreds. Edited September 14, 2015 by PromoTheRobot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 I'll be wearing my Bills gear all week here in Boston. For sure my students will be decked out in their Pats jerseys, hats, etc. -- and the little pissants will be squawking. Should be fun ... But they are dead wrong on the physics; fairly elementary thermodynamics ... I already explained it to some of them. Come to think of it, maybe I'll put that as a question on the mid-term. Then we'll see where their loyalties lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 The funniest thing I saw on twitter was a Pats fan talking trash about having "two Gronks" now that they have Chandler. Um - no. You have a Gronk and you have a Chandler and the two will never intersect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Jackson Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 (edited) The funniest thing I saw on twitter was a Pats fan talking trash about having "two Gronks" now that they have Chandler. Um - no. You have a Gronk and you have a Chandler and the two will never intersect. That is gold (as stated earlier they know NOTHING about football) Edited September 14, 2015 by Kirby Jackson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 (edited) "surprisingly"? @mikerodak: Brady to @WEEI: Its an old stadium, but its surprisingly very, very loud. Its a great environment for football and well be tested." Edited September 14, 2015 by YoloinOhio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloHokie13 Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 "surprisingly"? @mikerodak: Brady to @WEEI: Its an old stadium, but its surprisingly very, very loud. Its a great environment for football and well be tested." I took the surprisingly as acknowledgement that it's an open air stadium, but our fans still make it loud like a dome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExWNYer Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 That is gold (as stated earlier they know NOTHING about football) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webster Guy Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Bledsoe used to say boston is really a baseball town that happens to have a football team. I would think brady has changed that a little in the past decade, but the pats fans I know are a long way from the Steelers, Bills, Cowboys type fans who appreciate and understand the game. They see it more as entertainment out there, whereas we take it far more seriously and passionately. When we finally get that ring its gonna be that much sweeter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 "surprisingly"? @mikerodak: Brady to @WEEI: Its an old stadium, but its surprisingly very, very loud. Its a great environment for football and well be tested." Maybe the old bowl stadiums don't hold noise as well as the newer stadiums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 (edited) Maybe the old bowl stadiums don't hold noise as well as the newer stadiums? i guess? Didn't know that. Edited September 14, 2015 by YoloinOhio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Bledsoe used to say boston is really a baseball town that happens to have a football team. I would think brady has changed that a little in the past decade, but the pats fans I know are a long way from the Steelers, Bills, Cowboys type fans who appreciate and understand the game. They see it more as entertainment out there, whereas we take it far more seriously and passionately. When we finally get that ring its gonna be that much sweeter. This will become more clear to everyone next year after Bellicheck** and Brady** announce their retirements at the end of this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Maybe the old bowl stadiums don't hold noise as well as the newer stadiums? Most of the new stadiums are built with acoustics in mind to make it louder than it normally would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 People in Philly just hate everything. Except steak sandwiches. Philly even hates Philly. Only city in American to bomb itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThurmasThoman Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 (edited) It was crazy watching a football game yesterday... Am I the only one that was a little blase about the entire affair? I am a "shell shocked" fan... at one point a Colts receiver ran a crossing route, caught the ball, dove to the turf, and someone from the Bills defensive backfield forcefully pushed him down to the turf... I thought for sure a penalty was on the way. The league (whether in my imagination, or in reality) has legislated the "football" out of football. This, combined with everything to do with concussions, and the fact that the entire summer was spent with the league trying to punish the champions for cheating, only to have them skate at the 11th hour, and then to listen to everything from their fans, to the announcers, to the networks basically take the stance that "Pats are the best team in the history of the league--let's move on to football now that that witch hunt is over". NFL is losing me... FAST. I'm excited for the game this week, but honestly, by 5pm last night I had forgot the Bills had beat the Colts, and I am definitely NOT losing sleep over this weekends game. NFL had me wrapped around it's greedy little finger for the better part of 25 years, and I have 100%, definitely, without question, crested the mountain and begun my dissent into "moderate amusement". It's too bad this had to happen when it looks like the Bills have one of their best squads ever... but color me unmoved. And as an edit, let me just add: Deflategate matters/mattered because look how good the AFC East is. A Pats loss (without Brady) last Thursday would already have New England 1 game back of everyone in the division. The game for the duration of the vacated suspension: Week 2: Pats at Bills / Dolphins at Jags / Jets at Colts Week 3: Bills at Dolphins / Jags at Pats / Eagles at Jets Week 4: Jets at Dolphins / Giants at Bills / Pats *bye* Week 5: Bills at Titans / Pats at Cowboys / Dolphins, Jets *bye* Looking at those slates, it's easy to see a division shakeup along the lines of: Bills 4-1 Dolphins 3-1 Jets 1-3 Pats 1-3 Hard to see us giving up a 3 game lead over the Pats over the course of 10-11 games, especially with this defense. So in the end, the Pats got to cheat, win a Super Bowl (again), and skirt the punishment that would have given Buf an easy path to the playoffs. Yes, you have to play (and win) the games, and yes, they could still win games with Garopolo, but the point still stands. Goodell should turn his league into authorities, and have Congress audit the Patriots and nuke the organization from top to bottom. Which creative fan is going to be the first to bring a class action lawsuit against the league/sunday ticket/et. al? Am I due past expenses for buying a product that is, by it's own legislative trail of admittance, not "on the up and up"? And since the league felt strongly enough to punish the Patriots for cheating, yet they did not have to face that punishment, is it safe to assume that the Patriots are still engaging in activities that call into question the integrity of the game? And if that's the case, why are Patriots fans so glib about "the Steelers couldn't win because they were jumping at shadows--everything we did they thought we were cheating"! Is this not a problem of the highest magnitude for a professional sports league? That 31 of your 32 fan bases are loath to face a team (or even, in my case, follow the sport) because, "what's the point, theyre probably cheating anyways"? These message boards are read by lots of different people--so to the wet behind the ears NFL.com intern gauging fan reactions to week 1 from various team message boards, copy and paste this sentence and bring it to your next team meeting: "I would describe myself as losing interest in the NFL, and exploring other television options, because I no longer trust the fidelity of your brand, and am confused as to how your champion can be found guilty of cheating, yet face no punishment." Edited September 14, 2015 by JohnnyGold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulles Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 The funniest thing I saw on twitter was a Pats fan talking trash about having "two Gronks" now that they have Chandler. Um - no. You have a Gronk and you have a Chandler and the two will never intersect. I've been trying to come up with a witty way to express this idea. Chandler is the un-Gronk. After his TD, it was like everyone came around to tell him, "See, Scott...you can score TD's too. You're one of us now. etc." It was weird. Chandler is like Gronk's little, underachieving brother. You know, the boring one you have to tolerate because "mom" said Gronk has to help him get some friends too. Chandler is the inverse proportion of Gronk. Where Gronk runs a vertical, Gronk-1 runs a flat route short of the sticks. Did you see how Chandler almost managed to get stopped at the 6" line? I am not missing him at all. Clay is the real deal! I just hope Rex has a nice D for dealing with that Jumbo shift to 3-wide package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wiz Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Most of the new stadiums are built with acoustics in mind to make it louder than it normally would be.Pretty sure they showed this on sports science out something about Seattle. Something like the way it was designed amplifies the crowd noise by like 15- 20db. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFFacet Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/threads/on-to-buffalo.1123530/ What their fans are saying. I'm actually surprised how afraid they are of this game. Nothing like what was on the colts boards last week. The fans do seem to know what they're talking about. Not what I took away from that thread at all. All I saw was "This should be an easy win" --> "I don't know they are actually pretty good in many areas, this might be more difficult than you think" --> "The way some people are talking we should just forfeit now! Tyrod = Elway LOL!!!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladiebla Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Chandler was a pretty good TE for us as well, his main problem was dropsies when it mattered, but he sure made us some nice TD's and saved drives over his career in Buffalo, let's not forget that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Chandler was a pretty good TE for us as well, his main problem was dropsies when it mattered, but he sure made us some nice TD's and saved drives over his career in Buffalo, let's not forget that.saying he isn't Gronk isn't saying he wasn't "pretty good when he was the Bills." In fact, that's exactly what he was. No one is forgetting that. Gronk is not "pretty good" - he is the best TE in the league and one of the best of all time. For a Pats fan to say they have "two Gronks" is hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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