26CornerBlitz Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 BILLS TODAY: BILLS WILL HAVE BACK-TO-BACK FIRST-ROUND PICKS Here's the Bills news of note for Jan. 8th. BILLS ACQUIRED VALUABLE ASSET UNDER MCDERMOTT The one quality of successful NFL teams that has proven elusive for much of Buffalo's 17-season playoff drought was effectively instilled in the 2017 Bills by head coach Sean McDermott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 WATCH: STATS THAT STOOD OUT IN PLAYOFF LOSS (1:54) Chris Brown and John Murphy discuss three different stats that stood out in the Bills Wild Card Playoff loss to the Jaguars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Without the game so many things I'll say but I got 7 hours of sleep since Saturday 6am and only slept 5 hours Friday night. But that city was destroyed by the Bills fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Just now, Boyst62 said: Without the game so many things I'll say but I got 7 hours of sleep since Saturday 6am and only slept 5 hours Friday night. But that city was destroyed by the Bills fans Yeah it was. Wes still has your football by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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boyst Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 9 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said: Yeah it was. Wes still has your football by the way. $5. No loss It was a blast. I ended up going on a date before I left. The hostess also wants me to come back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 10 minutes ago, Boyst62 said: $5. No loss It was a blast. I ended up going on a date before I left. The hostess also wants me to come back. Come back huh? Guess we’ll have to go back then. Great weekend...love to do it again next season. I think we should all plan a home game next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommonCents Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Boomer is on the radio, "I Can't imagine Blake Bortles or Tyrod Taylor Quarterbacking a team next year" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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boyst Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 30 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said: Come back huh? Guess we’ll have to go back then. Great weekend...love to do it again next season. I think we should all plan a home game next year. The opener brawwwhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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26CornerBlitz Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 (edited) Twelve things we learned from Wild Card Weekend Jacksonville Jaguars 10, Buffalo Bills 3 1. This white-knuckle affair resembled a brand of football your grandfather's grandfather watched on a 12-inch black-and-white boob tube in fire-lit parlors during ancient days of old. A thing of beauty it was not -- not on offense, at least -- but the Jaguars are on their way to Pittsburgh after nabbing Sunday's physical throwdown. It marks Jacksonville's first playoff victory in 10 years, but knocking out the Steelers next Sunday will require this squad to double its efforts. The defense remains a glorious beast and deserves credit for keeping Buffalo's offense under water while patiently waiting for its own attack to awaken. Jaguars fans will quickly remind you that Pittsburgh stumbled badly against Jacksonville in a 30-9 battering in Week 5. Fair point. This defense is truly special and anything is possible in a week-to-week league, but the Steelers have evolved on offense while Jacksonville's attempt to the move the ball is a new adventure weekly. 2. The Bills made their mission clear: Shut down rookie workhorse runner Leonard Fournette and force Jaguarspasser Blake Bortles to make plays through the air. The strategy worked wonders out of the gate, with Bortles throwing for just 33 first-half yards while vastly struggling with accuracy. The bad moments were ghastly, with Bortles reverting to long streaks of ugly footwork, jittery tosses and a noticeable lack of confidence. Jacksonville was a raging, bubbling mess on offense before the break, but Bortles shook off his ugly handiwork to author a 15-play, 86-yard, third-quarter scoring march that milked nearly nine minutes off the clock before the signal-caller dialed up a daring fourth-and-goal, play-action touchdown strike to tight end Ben Koyack. Fournette served as an engine on that drive, piling up 48 yards off nine touches. Bortles, meanwhile, helped the offense with a team-leading and season-high 89 yards rushing. His ability to scramble for first downs remains his finest gift -- Bortles is truly fun to watch on that front -- but he wound up running for more yards than he threw. How long can the Jaguars survive with such a skittish performer under center? 3. Tyrod Taylor was nothing to write home about, either, throwing a costly first-half pick and overseeing an offense doubling as a punt machine. With four chances to tie the game in the second half, Taylor couldn't move the ball. The Bills quarterback dialed up too many off-target throws and wasn't helped by a handful of drops. Buffalo's lone score came off an 18-play, 71-yard march capped by Steven Hauschka's 31-yard field goal on a blustery afternoon in Northern Florida. The eight-plus-minute march was the longest given up time-wise all season by the Jaguars, magnifying a first half that saw Jacksonville hold the ball for just under nine minutes. Buffalo was helped on the drive by a rash of killer penalties by the Jaguars, including a costly unnecessary roughness flag on Yannick Ngakoue, the result of a helmet-to-helmet collision with Taylor. Wipe this series away and Jacksonville's defense played a nearly perfect game. -- Marc Sessler THE SCHEIN NINE The aftermath of Wild Card Weekend Quote From Alex Smith to Mike Mularkey, here are nine of the players and coaches whose careers were stamped by the events of the weekend -- for better or worse. Adam Schein breaks down his list here. Here are nine guys whose respective reputations were irrevocably stamped by the events of this past weekend: 1) Alex Smith, quarterback, Kansas City Chiefs I love Alex Smith. He can still play at a high level, as he did for the vast majority of this season. But now he holds the inglorious -- and unfortunate -- distinction of quarterbacking what might have been the worst home loss in Chiefs playoff history. Kansas City entered the second half on Saturday with a 21-3 lead and full control of the game. Two quarters later, the Chiefs walked off the field for the last time this season -- as 22-21 losers. 6) Tyrod Taylor, quarterback, Buffalo Bills I like Tyrod Taylor more than most, but I can't defend that awful performance in the Bills' 10-3 loss at Jacksonville. I never thought there was much of a chance Taylor was coming back to Buffalo next season -- not after Sean McDermott inexplicably benched him for Nathan Peterman back in mid-November -- but the divorce seems like a foregone conclusion after the veteran QB's ghastly outing on Sunday. Completing just 17 of his 37 passes for a measly 134 yards and no touchdowns -- though he did have a pick -- Taylor punched his ticket outta town. Tyrod can still start in the NFL, just not for McDermott. With five picks in first three rounds of April's draft (including Nos. 21 and 22 overall), Buffalo has the currency to go get a quarterback of the future. Edited January 8, 2018 by 26CornerBlitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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