Bills on Hard Knocks

[strive_for_five_guy]

7 hours ago, Nihilarian said:

The NFL had to do it as the current Buffalo Bills are arguably "Americas team" as most NFL fans like/love this team. Heck the QB is dating and will marry a movie star. 

 

What the NFL wants is to promote the league and what better way to do just that with a team that most are interested in. To those that don't know much about the Buffalo Bills this might show the world what most Bills fans already know. The Brotherhood, the process, the culture, the love! Be good, do good, god Bless and go Bills!

Between Hard Knocks and the Hallmark movie, the script is in.  Bills are winning the SB this season.

[BuffaloBillyG]

The best part of it is that everyone here is wise enough not to obsess, overblow or overreact to minor little things that will appear on the show. 

[Goin Breakdown]

14 hours ago, Johnnycage46 said:

I just looked on Wikipedia quickly for the seasons and it looked like most teams weren't great the year before with the exception of 2001 Ravens having won the SB in 2000 and the 2010 Jets having gone to AFCC in 09 and again in 2010, the year of their Hard Knocks.

 

I am glad this is the training camp version and not in-season. I could see in-season being more of a distraction.

I just heard that this show has been going for almost 25 years. Crazy. I just never cared. 

[gjv]

I'm not happy about the distraction Hard Knocks will create for the players during training camp. But I'll be glad to watch it.

[ddaryl]

16 hours ago, muppy said:

THIS is what I said and I quote . Lets not there be ANY fake drama . Be it manufactured for ratings or not. I hate drama.  I don't want it. Our team doesn't need it. quit posting as if you can nuance every word I say.

 

You don't have to reply. That is the way I read it. 

[The Jokeman]

13 hours ago, DeepPass said:

What channel is this show on ??   When does training camp open?

Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Buffalo Bills will premiere Aug. 5 on HBO Max, the league announced. per https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-hard-knocks-training-camp-nfc-east-hard-knocks-in-season-2025

 

 

1 hour ago, strive_for_five_guy said:

Between Hard Knocks and the Hallmark movie, the script is in.  Bills are winning the SB this season.

It's part of the new stadium NFL thing as seems recently many teams that have opened new stadiums have also won Super Bowls around the same time. 

[Walking Tall]

How much will we hear about James Cook being unhappy during this?

[MrEpsYtown]

9 minutes ago, Walking Tall said:

How much will we hear about James Cook being unhappy during this?

 

I don't think we see a lot of him. He is lacking in the personality part of things. It's not good TV. 

[DrDawkinstein]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

The best part of it is that everyone here is wise enough not to obsess, overblow or overreact to minor little things that will appear on the show. 

 

Ha, yep. It's going to be the most annoying part of the whole thing.

 

The show will be "fine".  But Bills fans will lose any shred of perspective they had left. 

 

While the rest of the country moves on with their lives, the same way we all did for every other episode/season of Hard Knocks that no one really cared about, our board here will have 100 page threads debating any little move that upsets our sensitive nature.

 

"I saw James Cook set his water bottle down too hard! He's an unhappy cancer! Teach that kid a lesson and trade him now!"

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by DrDawkinstein

[BuffaloBillyG]

1 minute ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

It's going to be the most annoying part of the whole thing.

 

The show will be "fine".  But Bills fans will lose any shred of perspective they had left. 

 

While the rest of the country moves on with their lives, the same way we all did for every other episode/season of Hard Knocks, our board here will have 100 page threads debating any little move that upsets our sensitive nature.

Agree. 

 

A lot of people will be taking a 4-5 second blip on a throw a way TV show to use out of context to support whatever narrative they already had. It's going to be brutal on these boards. 

[Coach Tuesday]

This is pretty cool.  The Bills have actually become a pretty fun and hip brand between Josh and the Bills Mafia shenanigans.  If they don’t eff this up with weird drama on the show they can continue to ride the wave to becoming the lower-key, hipper and more accessible version of America’s Team.  And if they can finally win the title to cap a Hallmark Season in the stadium’s final season it would all be a legendary sports story that the entire country would feel they got to participate in.  Just saying.

[K D]

[Augie]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

The best part of it is that everyone here is wise enough not to obsess, overblow or overreact to minor little things that will appear on the show. 

 

Some people here are just waiting to pounce on any little thing they see or hear that proves their point…..these guys are incompetent! 

 

I also predict the sun will come up tomorrow. 

[shane nelson]

i have wanted this since the first hard knocks production.  Cannot wait to watch it

[Bills!Win!]

53 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

Some people here are just waiting to pounce on any little thing they see or hear that proves their point…..these guys are incompetent! 

 

I also predict the sun will come up tomorrow. 

Have you seen the weather lately? 

[Simon]

5 minutes ago, Bills!Win! said:

Have you seen the weather lately? 

 

Well, he didn't say "where".

[Gregg]

[BillnutinHouston]

Anyone know if there's a way to watch without buying HBO?  I'd never pay for that.  

[MasterStrategist]

7 minutes ago, BillnutinHouston said:

Anyone know if there's a way to watch without buying HBO?  I'd never pay for that.  

Its just preseason, literally sign up for 1 month steaming and that probably gets you most/all episodes.  Starts Aug 5th.

 

 

[Johnnycage46]

3 hours ago, Goin Breakdown said:

I just heard that this show has been going for almost 25 years. Crazy. I just never cared. 

 

Same. when I looked at wikipedia and saw 2001 Ravens I had zero recollection that this show existed before the last few years lol