JESSEFEFFER
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He is not in the CFL. Only the exclusive negotiation rights were traded. I knew when the Colts drafted Eason and there were to be no preseason games that his time with them was up. I think he is hoping for a chance in the spring leagues. XFL, USFL whichever.
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9 minutes ago, SCBills said:
It's a good move to have a vet, but it's so Jets to have Flacco last year.. let him go.. and then trade what could be a 5th for him to get him back.
They are long in 2022 draft capital (1,1,2,2,3,4,4,5,5,6 before the Flacco trade) and have been better at using it over the last few years than say, the Dolphins. I expect the Jets to be a bigger challenge to the Bills in the division over the next 5 years than Miami or NE. From afar, they have a very 2018 Bills look to them to me. Bills 2018 road win over Vikings = Jets 2021 over Titans? Bring in vet QB mentor during rookie QB injury? They even have a huge blowout loss with their backup QB playing. It's big how Wilson finishes the year and if Saleh and Douglas prove to be a good match but I am not inclined to ridicule them at this time.
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Maybe someone else pointed this out but it's worth remembering that the Bills had Nathan Peterman as their version of Mike White on the roster to start Josh's rookie year. When Josh had to miss games due to an elbow injury, we saw Derek Anderson and Matt Barkley added to the roster. Josh credits them with helping him to be better after his return from injury. Brandon Beane said it was his mistake not to have had Anderson in the room sooner and I thought the Jets were making the same kind of mistake to have Mike White as the sole backup to their rookie QB.
Most are ripping the Jets move because that's what is usually the best reaction but if having a veteran QB in the room helps Zack Wilson be better to finish his rookie season, it's a great move.
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2 hours ago, The Jokeman said:
Daryl Porter?
Looks like Porter, #22, was the 2nd man in from the right sideline at the kick but was all the way to the right hash by the time Wycheck made his throw but was not very close to him. So, he looks like a plausible candidate.
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St. Doug coached the Bills to a win in a meaningless week 17 game where Brady played the first half which put the Bills at a miraculous 9-7. Doug thought he could market that to land his next coaching gig for a bigger payday.
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21 minutes ago, Bills fan since 87 said:
Wade for not running the clock down to 2 or 3 seconds before the FG (we had a time out left)
Bingo. It was first down and Wade panicked because Rob Johnson lost his shoe. No HC kicks that FG and leaves time on the clock.
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On 10/20/2021 at 11:49 AM, YoloinOhio said:
I actually picked him up in fantasy. It’s between him and Daniel Jones for me this week with Allen on a Bye. I just don’t trust the giants
I watched much of the Browns 2020 training camp video coverage (they showed team portions but only between the tackles) because a local kid was trying to earn a roster spot again, TE Stephen Carlson. I thought Keenum looked better than Baker in most practices but he had been with Stefanski before when they were with the Vikings. I thought he used the TE group well and that helped Carlson show enough make the 53. I suspect he'll get the ball out quicker than Baker tends to do.
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Vivid Seats Fan Forecast Algorithim Projects...................
"Vivid Seats ran an algorithm called the Fan Forecast that produces crowd projections for sporting events. It’s generally used for neutral site events but can be run for any matchup. When running the projection for tonight’s game between the Bills and Titans, the Fan Forecast came back with a projection that has 58 percent of the crowd supporting the Bills while only 42 percent of the fans at Nissan Stadium will be Titans fans."
This will look very good on ESPN. If the Bills are up enough at the end to send the Titan's fans to an early exit, it will be a primetime spectacular scene of Bills' red, white and blue working their way down to the lower bowl.
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2 hours ago, cwater10 said:
I don't know... I think that he means it more in a we, or a societal context, as in the way we have all been through covid as a societal experience. It has impacted everything and we have all been through it, whether we had the virus individually or not, it has certainly impacted us all. In speaking of the prep for last season in particular when the impact was far greater, this would make a great deal of sense.
Josh had said previously that the COVID lockdown experience was good for his off season training. It kept him and his cohorts isolated and focused on task. So, I'm with you, that's how I heard this answer this time too but there are some words missing that would make that clear. Hmmm. Interesting.
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5 hours ago, longtimebillsfan said:
Great interview.
Thank you for posting.
I like Rich Eisen in general, but his interview style is very good. Slow speech pattern without extra words. You got the sense that Rich was liking the substance of Josh's answers and Josh is soon to get a Rich Eisen Show hat. I suppose when he shows up on camera wearing that, much of Bills Mafia will want one of those too. On another note, let the man finish a meal in public without interruption, for crying out loud. Pick your spots people.
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All the back story is essential to who he is and how his place in the league has evolved. If he got a scholarship to a power 5 school he might have never seen the field as a QB. His game might have been so raw compared to the others in the QB room that the coaches might have converted him to TE before he even got a chance to show much growth. Thus, Wyoming was the best fit. They gave him a chance to shine. The 2018 Bills were much like the 2015 Wyoming Cowboys. A great place for him to grow. His "bloom where you are planted" mantra serves him very well.
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One could make a flow chart of possible outcomes for plays where a QB faces pressure. From disastrously bad to fantastically good. My sense is that Josh has developed his game to the point where he has skewed the outcomes toward the good end in a big way. I would like to see the analytics applied to that.
injury
bad throw pick 6
strip sack fumble lost
int that hurts
sack with big loss
int that is punt-like on 3rd or 4th down
sack minor loss
escape throw away
escape-complete pass or scramble positive run
escape-extend-big play
escape-extend- TD!
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9 minutes ago, beebe said:
Chiefs fan here. Congrats on the win. I am not at all surprised Buffalo beat KC. The Bills are simply the better, more complete team right now, and are possibly a better version of the Chiefs team that won the Super Bowl two years ago.
Buffalo has been building toward this for a few years now. And with this cakewalk schedule — this is not a knock, the Bills are outperforming expectations in their last four games by every measure regardless — it is allowing them to save their best stuff for when it matters. I have little doubt the Bills were strategically hiding stuff the last two weeks as they steamrolled overmatched opponents. And in the end, everything the Bills did worked on the biggest stage against the Chiefs.
"KC is too talented to stay down for long." That's what everybody keeps saying. And while I tend to agree with that, the schedule outside of this week's game at Washington and the MNF game vs the Giants is unrelenting hell. At Titans. Vs Packers. At Chargers. Vs Cowboys. Two games against the Raiders. Two games against the Broncos. The "easy" games late are a home date with the Steelers and a late-season trip to Cincinnati. The Chiefs look exhausted. They are taking every team's best shot, and every team — Buffalo included — is showing them stuff they've never seen before. Meanwhile, the Bills are likely to coast to the #1 seed in the AFC (the Ravens have the most realistic chance to compete with them for it.)
I think the Bills have built a team that matches up well with KC. I thought that last year too. As traumatized as Buffalo fans were last year after the regular season defeat vs KC, I viewed it as a positive. The Chiefs "dominated" the game, and yet the possession count was super low, and as a result the Bills were able to stay close enough to give themselves a chance. A late Chiefs fumble that they got back nearly proved the difference.
The playoff game, I felt the Bills were in trouble as soon as I saw the ref assignments. The Vinovich crew doesn't throw flags. That played right into the Chiefs' hands. Oppositely, when I saw the Cheffers crew was doing the SNF game, I felt like it played into Buffalo's hands—as they are the anti-Vinovich crew. (As it turns out, they were terrible both ways.)
Anyway, I was at the game and had a few Buffalo friends with me. It was one of the most miserable losses I've ever endured as a fan in that stadium. Between the beat down, the weather delay, the Chiefs falling to 2-3, the Bills looking like clear AFC favorites, on and on — it was not fun. But I don't think the Chiefs are paper tigers just yet. They'll get a little healthier on D, the offense hopefully will get a few leads and won't have to press as much, and in the end we just might have an AFC title game rematch, but in a different stadium. Good luck!
High level fandom in this post.
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These national NFL 'insider" reporters have many cozy relationships with their sources. Executives, players, coaches, agents, whomever. They would not want to publish any content that burns their source. It might be factually incorrect, go beyond the scope of the sources wishes or it may include some context that reveals the identity of the source, assuming they wish to remain unidentified. Seems logical to me.
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2 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
The league cannot allow the roughing criteria to stand. It is ridiculous at this point. If you cannot grab a QB around the ankles to bring him down as Oliver was doing, or if you cannot legitimately tackle a QB and bring him to the ground as Clark did to Josh, then you might as well say that the QB cannot be touched in any way. The one on Clark, even given it helped us out, was insane. Clark would have had to defy the laws of physics and gravity to avoid coming down on top of Josh, and Oliver would have had to twist himself into a pretzel to avoid Mahomes' legs.
Oliver's shoulder landed just above the knee. That's a penalty. Low hits like this are why Jim Kelly spent much of his career wearing a knee brace. Clark lifted Josh's legs and landed his shoulder into Josh's ribs. That's called a stuff and is a penalty. (AJ's hit on Tua that broke his ribs should have been flagged but his body position when landing on him was atypical for the call.) The Bills teach a gator roll where the tackler twists on the way down to avoid the potential penalty on the landing.
Here's a recent one I saw involving Khalil Mack on Derek Carr which is a great example of the technique:
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On 10/6/2021 at 7:10 PM, machine gun kelly said:
I don’t know why Brown wouldn’t have mentioned regularly our guy Tasker is up in the Great White North. It could’ve been easy to have out there. It just seemed so hush hush. Not sure why. Happy for his daughter getting hitched amd sounds like a great family trip.
Harken back to days gone by when our local paper would announce hospital admissions. Sort of a community announcement that a friend or neighbor was in need of support. Then their homes started getting burglarized. Now-a-days we should be careful about what you publish on social media about where you might be traveling and for how long. Sort of a giant "No one will be home for days--just come see if any one is house sitting or even checking on it and rob the place at your leisure."
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Both roughing calls were legit. Many on the Chiefs side talk about the hit (legal( and not the landing. Clark lifted Josh's legs and landed his shoulder to Josh's ribs and then gave the tell tale hands up sign as if to say it wasn't his hands in the cookie jar. Collinsworth noted it but wanted to dismiss it's severity. The football jargon term for the move is a "stuff" We debated it on AJ Epenensa's hit on Tua which broke his ribs (Gugny and I thought it should have been a flag) but it looked different because AJ's torso was perpendicular to Tua's. The broken ribs on his left side is evidence of how it was the landing and not the hit that did it.
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Lightning not too bad around KC but through Oklahoma and Texas it's firing off like popcorn.
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1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Did Firebaugh always have Bills-style unis?
Looking through images, I'd say they had red, white and blue but favored the red jerseys with blue helmets.
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The Eagles are having a nice season at 5-1. They have a QB and RB having great seasons and I can't help but wonder if their players might have an easier time getting recruited. Also, I suspect their similar color scheme has allowed their uniforms to become more Bills-like. Could be a market for a #17 Firebaugh game jersey too.
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29 minutes ago, Captain_Quint said:
That was the first time seeing that throw to Diggs in all22. That really was an amazing play by Josh (and Diggs) from start to finish.
I wonder what those 2 defenders were thinking as they were closing on Josh with his back turned. As he got his head around just in time, stopped on a dime, reversed his direction and made them both whiff. I wonder what they thought then. Lovie Smith probably saw a play where his D was going to win in a possibly major way, but that went from Yes! to Oh no! to What the &%$^!
I can't think of a QB as big as Josh that routinely made similar plays. I did not watch much of prime Cam Newton but I don't think he made plays like that. I do remember Cam complaining about the hits he was taking out of the pocket. That's not part of Josh's game either.
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All have their strengths and weaknesses but her voice is a tough listen just as I know mine would be. Mine sounds fine in my head but I hear a recording of it and I cringe. Certainly not the basis of a professional career. Someone mentioned Jenna Cottrell and Kim Jones and I have to agree. Their voices are very professional and are an easy listen so it's not just a female voice issue with me.
Steve is a clumsy ad libber and questions to a guest will be that by nature. But, I think he is great at telling stories, many of which he has probably told many times prior. Also, I think Chris Brown is a better match with Steve than Murphy was. Chris will often gently correct Steve's misstatements or complete his points when he loses his way in the middle of a sentence and struggles to complete the thought.
As a rule, the questions should never be longer than the answers. It's tempting for an interviewer to try to demonstrate that they have some real knowledge of the topic but questions buried among parentheticals and asides make for a poor guest segment. Most of WGRs younger talent have problems with this to some degree. It's almost like they are trying too hard to justify their own presence on air and makes for a tough listen.
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Just now, CincyBillsFan said:
Is it me or are both QB's trying to make a living on 3rd down throwing the ball to receivers way behind the first down marker?
Josh has spoiled us. We forget most of the league plays that way.
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1 minute ago, mannc said:
Players have never been allowed to spike the ball, except after a TD.
Was delay of game for spiking a live ball.
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10/28 Thursday Night Football: Packers (6-1) at Cardinals (7-0)
in The Stadium Wall
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Clean hit but the landing was illegal.