Hard Knocks Season Finale

[thenorthremembers]

12 minutes ago, WEATHER DOT COM said:

Frank Gore Jr. needs to get his nutrition in check. 

 

Also needs to tuck that thing in, might get caught on a trip wire. 

[freddyjj]

22 minutes ago, Rubes said:

 

It had to be after. There was a scene where he was on the field but not dressed or practicing. They showed him participating in most everything else, though.

 

Didn't show his lower leg to know if he was wearing anything like a cast. Also didn't show him walking much to see if there was a limp, but didn't look like it.

 

I thought he was next to Ty Johnson in line dancing footage - if so that is a good sign. 

Edited September 3 by freddyjj

[Special K]

Would've liked to see something about Shavers finding out he made the 53......his reaction, his teammates reaction, etc.

[Bruffalo]

That background song at the end went pretty hard. 

 

Ultimately the season was too safe to be memorable, but as fan it was enjoyable. 

 

Hopefully they live up to the lofty goals this season. Go Bills. 

[estro613]

HBO did a pretty lame job overall. A lot of fluff, a lot of meh, nothing really interesting or insightful.

 

Watching the doc series on the Cowboys that was just recently released on Netflix shows you how far HBO Hard Knocks has fallen. The one on Netflix is so interesting and so we'll produced, it makes hard knocks look awful.

 

I don't think I'd ever tune into it again

[JerseyBills]

47 minutes ago, TBBills Fan said:

Classy move by the bills leaving those cut conversations private. 

Love it 

This organization is top notch man

[RiotAct]

42 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

Short episode

 

37 minutes ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:

Weird how short it was. 

 

39 minutes ago, rusty shackleford said:

What happened to the last 20 minutes?

they ran out of material  

[JerseyBills]

Just now, estro613 said:

HBO did a pretty lame job overall. A lot of fluff, a lot of meh, nothing really interesting or insightful.

 

Watching the doc series on the Cowboys that was just recently released on Netflix shows you how far HBO Hard Knocks has fallen. The one on Netflix is so interesting and so we'll produced, it makes hard knocks look awful.

 

I don't think I'd ever tune into it again

Agreed,  if it wasn't the Bills , I wouldn't have watched past episode 2 and as a fan I'm still not impressed by HBO but I love that the Bills restricted alot of access,  feels like a SB caliber team 

[BillsFanForever19]

5 hours ago, estro613 said:

HBO did a pretty lame job overall. A lot of fluff, a lot of meh, nothing really interesting or insightful.

 

Watching the doc series on the Cowboys that was just recently released on Netflix shows you how far HBO Hard Knocks has fallen. The one on Netflix is so interesting and so we'll produced, it makes hard knocks look awful.

 

I don't think I'd ever tune into it again

 

I don't think it's HBO's fault that it was "lame". The Bills have final say on what goes into an episode and what ends up on the cutting room floor. Knowing how tightly knit this brass likes to keep everything, combined with the fact that they didn't even want to do the show in the first place - are you surprised we didn't get much?

 

It's funny to me seeing a number of posters (not you specifically) who complained and worried about this being a distraction now complaining that the show lacked drama or anything of excitement. Of course it did. That was by design. The team wanted to make it as little of a distraction as possible, which is what people said they wanted.

Edited September 3 by BillsFanForever19

[RoscoeParrish]

A very milquetoast season.

 

To echo @BillsFanForever19, that’s by design. 
 

But sheesh, what a bore.

[Albany,n.y.]

1 hour ago, TBBills Fan said:

Classy move by the bills leaving those cut conversations private. 

I was disappointed they didn't show the ones where they told the guys who they wanted on the practice squad that if they cleared waivers they wanted them back.  

[The Wiz]

10 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:

 

I don't think it's HBO's fault that it was "lame". The Bills have final say on what goes into an episode and what ends up on the cutting room floor. Knowing how tight knit this brass likes to keep everything, combined with the fact that they didn't want to do it - are you surprised we didn't get much?

 

It's funny to me seeing a number of posters (not you specifically) who complained and worried about this being a distraction now complaining that the show lacked drama or anything of excitement. Of course it did. That was by design. The team wanted to make it as little of a distraction as possible.

Hit the nail on the head here.  Bills had final say in everything.  They wanted culture and boring.  To them, they released a masterpiece.

[Bills!Win!]

I want my 2 months of a $9.99 subscription back 

[stevewin]

27 minutes ago, RiotAct said:

 

 

they ran out of material  

The extended multi-shot, super slo-mo sequence of mixing gatorade broke new ground for sure 😛

Edited September 3 by stevewin

[streetkings01]

😴

[SCBills]

31 minutes ago, estro613 said:

HBO did a pretty lame job overall. A lot of fluff, a lot of meh, nothing really interesting or insightful.

 

Watching the doc series on the Cowboys that was just recently released on Netflix shows you how far HBO Hard Knocks has fallen. The one on Netflix is so interesting and so we'll produced, it makes hard knocks look awful.

 

I don't think I'd ever tune into it again

Perfect storm of having a tight ship Super Bowl contending team without much question marks or controversy right after a Hard Knocks series that inadvertently put their buddy Joe Schoen on blast over the Saquon ordeal. 

[Special K]

Jordan Phillips already making friends😂

 

Coming in hot on Ray Davis in his first practice......I wonder who that was that kept repeating "Are you serious!?!?!" Made me think of John McEnroe yelling at the chair ump at Wimbledon!(I know his line was "You can't be serious!!")

Edited September 3 by Special K

[Brand J]

4 minutes ago, Special K said:

Jordan Phillips already making friends😂

 

Coming in hot on Ray Davis in his first practice......I wonder who that was that kept repeating "Are you serious!?!?!" Made me think of John McEnroe yelling at the chair ump at Wimbledon!

Thought it was McGovern

[zow2]

I was getting a chill while Josh was describing the Bills SB parade in fine detail. What a sports tragedy it will be if he (we) never experience it with this version of the team.

 

My only surprise from the series is they never featured Keon Coleman at all.  He’s another goofball of sorts and a fun guy and not a peep from him.  Maybe it’s good he’s all football this summer.

[stevewin]

31 minutes ago, The Wiz said:

Hit the nail on the head here.  Bills had final say in everything.  They wanted culture and boring.  To them, they released a masterpiece.

The one thing I don't get though is they must have had so much content that had nothing to do with drama/controvery/secrets that they chose not to use.  They have hundreds of hours of guys mic'ed up - there had to be lots of fun/goofy stuff that wasn't dramatic or controversial - there seemed to be very little of even that.  It's kind of amazing to me they didn't really even fully reveal the humor/goofiness of Josh, which is almost hard to do.  In this last episode they end up filming parts of other interviews with Brandt and the Bills social media as their content?   

 

I still enjoy any Bills content, including this, but think it is a letting them off a bit easy to just say it was boring because the Bills didn't want any drama.

Edited September 3 by stevewin