Hapless Bills Fan

The Change.org petition to feed the OL Bar-Bill was classic https://www.change.org/p/barbill-feed-the-bills-linemen-bar-bill-until-they-can-do-something?recruiter=1076416537&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_petition&recruited_by_id=532fafc0-7f65-11ea-80be-c987d14a2415

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Ooh now that's close Norman could have set up to tackle him or shove him OOB. He was trying to punch the ball out. And just for example, Hyde set himself up for a textbook open field tackle on Henry. Henry knocked him down and ran over him, but Hyde hung on to his legs and delayed him long enough for the cavalry to arrive. How it should be done.

The Colts game it’s a very fair point. In addition to gifting the Ponies on that fumbled kickoff return, IIRC we did gift them two other picks leading to TDs.

Please don’t. There’s this thing called ‘copyright law’. Excerpts only please.

In the highlights of the Bucs game, watch his blocking on Josh Allen's rushing TD *swooon*

This is true, but it seems as though we tend to wait until we're in the hole halfway (TB) or 3/4 the way through the game (Colts) - or not at all (Titans) And it begs the question sometimes, WHY don't we not have the right gameplan. On a day with weather where they weren't going to want to throw, did we just not anticipate the variety of runs and the extra lineman in blocking that we got from the Pats? Did we just not know that Tampa Bay would throw screens? If we prepared, we should have the right gameplan, or at least a portion of the game plan that we can pull up. Except of course, when it Isn't. And then we get Steamrolled, as against the Titans and the Colts and the Patriots and the Buccaneers and....

Frazier is very patient and mild and soft spoken. Says that we succeeded in stopping the Bucs in the second half as a result of adjustments made Can we, maybe, make those adjustments and stop a good team before they've gone up 24 points on us? Could we put them in the gameplan before kickoff? I'm just a little frustrated - if we have the capability to stop a top offense by "making adjustments", why does it take so long? https://www.buffalobills.com/video/leslie-fraizer-they-executed-better-in-that-situation

The thing is, Allen probably has to cut and manoever more in the so-called pocket than he does just running.

Dude, I Hear That. My mom will spend literally thousands on gidgets and gadgets - microwave pasta cookers, this and that - sometimes duplicating items she had, but couldn't find because they were buried behind hoarded packages of toilet paper. (I believe we found 5 coffee makers, 3 missing parts.) Meanwhile, she'll save and re-use freakin' paper towels, napkins, and coffee filters, crumbs at the bottom of cracker boxes (useful for breading, dontcha know) and explain to me how she has money because she's so frugal. 🙄 Yeah, I can't watch that show. It is extreme. I guess I should be grateful my mom never got to that point. Well, Yet. Heh. But our neighbor's mom couldn't use one of her bathrooms for just that reason - needed a plumbing repair, and she wouldn't clear out access or allow a plumber into her house. It's such a sad and negative cycle - it's hard to visit her because her table is covered with crap and there's no place to sit and have a visit, but then the fact that she doesn't get much in the way of visits makes her cling all the harder to all that stuff. She might read it someday! She's going to use it when she gets around to it, someday! She'll repair that bag of socks - someday - in the meantime, they're taking up the chair I might sit in.

Thank God my mom's dog had passed some years earlier and while she fed cats, they were outdoor strays. We had to clear a hoarded 3 BR house in Miami, moving mom into a 2 BR apartment near us. Because of our work clearing the house and prepping it for sale, it sold for a very good price and we got her apartment set up very nicely. We tried to give her agency, taking photos of everything and having her make lists of what she wanted or didn't want. Some things that she wanted were moldy or smelled horrible and we discarded them. It was a huge job. She bitched for years (still bitching) about this that and the other she "really wanted" and can't find (or were discarded), including some items that weren't on her list. Things became Far More Important than people. And she's still at it. It's an awful disorder.

That's selling Bobby Johnson's experience a bit short https://bufbills.com/player-bios/bobby_johnson.pdf But the NFL is performance-based, and whether it's what Daboll schemes or his own coaching, the performance of the OL has been poor!

Trust me on this. It's a definite malady, even if the person is a "sanitary hoarder" who carefully washes out every fast food container they save and throws out food scraps. At some point, the loved one of such a person will find themselves having a conversation that goes something like this with a hospitalist: "Doctor, I understand that in the ordinary way of things, she might safely be released to the care of her family....but the truth is, the minute she comes home from the hospital, I will be moving to a hotel because there isn't enough floorspace in her 3 bedroom home for me to spread out a camping air mattress, and if she requires a wheelchair initially there isn't enough space in the hallways to manoever it. What are our options?" (accompanied by photographs) The person's health will also suffer from living in such a space because it can not be kept clean, and if a floor leak or plumbing problem develops the person may not be willing to allow a repairperson to enter, and there may not be access to effect repairs. Asthma, lung problems, skin problems etc.

As someone who has dealt with hoarding in the family, I find that definition silly. Hoarding, to me, isn't just acquiring objects, it's acquiring and keeping objects without boundries and without the ability to set up and implement appropriate storage so that the objects can actually be utilized and don't interfere with ordinary living in the space. If someone has the space and the willingness to set up bookshelves and arrange 3,000 books so that they can go back and look at them and use them, and the books don't interfere with their ability to write a letter, or pay bills, or have some friends over for tea or drinks, that's not hoarding. It's collecting. If someone has 300 books and they're piled up in the hallway and on the dining table so there's no place to eat a meal and it's a trip hazard, that could be hoarding and probably is, unless it's transient. "Boundries" are a hoarder problem because hoarders don't have any. If every wall is covered with bookshelves and filled with books, there's no ability/willingness to say "OK, let me go through and see if there are a couple of boxes of these I no longer want or need, so that I have room for the books I want to buy this year". The hoarder just buys more, and piles them in front of the bookcases blocking access to what's already there. Not that I've known tons of hoarders, but I would think it's unusual to have a hoarder that's limited to just books, too. Magazines, newspapers, cassette tapes, newsletters - all forms of paper not to mention other things. If a pantry cabinet of shelves filled with canned goods is good, a pantry cabinet of shelves crammed with canned goods jammed in on top of each other is better - even if that means it's less functional because the cans can't be easily seen and retrieved. On and on with every life item. "I'm going to use it someday". I've also read something about abnormal oxytocin release. Say you want to give someone a present - your grandkid, the boy across the street. You buy a doll or a ball. For most people, they wrap the gift and mail it off (or walk it across the street) and receive thanks and THEN they get the oxytocin burst. For hoarders, they think about doing it, and buy the doll and take it home and that gives them the oxytocin burst. In fact they may get that burst repeatedy every time they look at the doll and think about what a generous gift it will be and how the grandchild will smile and give that little skip when they retrieve it. So the doll sits there until the kid ages out of playing with dolls. That's one theory. There's also difficulty making decisions and fear of making the wrong decision - what if they give something away and then need it? but the fears are very specific and tunnelized. There are no fears of being unable to entertain guests (maybe that's anxiety producing and it's helpful to have a reason not to "can't have someone over until I clean up, but I need to keep all these big pots and fancy serving plates so that someday when I'm ready, I can do it!"), being unable to meet a loved one or partner's need for a comfortable and functional living space, having a safe home that's not a fire hazard etc. Well, you see my vote above. If your cooking equipment is organized and functional and doesn't interfere with your ability to use the kitchen or other parts of the house, you may be a collector. But if your kitchen and pantry is so full of cooking equipment that you can't access what you need when you need it, or can't even cook in your kitchen, or worse it's filled up the house and there's no room for anyone to drop by, sit down and drink a cup of coffee with you, then you're a hoarder. If you can go through it and give away stuff you no longer need or that is superceded by stuff you like better, you're a collector. If you can't, you may be a hoarder.

Yep yep

The stunts thing is key. Kubiak makes a pretty good case that it's not simply the OL getting beaten (though that happens) but inability to install and execute a scheme that can account for disguised pressure - the guy on the L shows blitz, it's the guy on the R who actually blitzes. Part of this is Allen needing somehow to pick this up, since the blitzer leaves a hole in the coverage behind him and "throw into the blitz" is axiomatic. There's a mental processing need, where he has to be ready and able to flex from "OK, that DE on the left is coming after me" to "OK, that guy on the R is coming". It's been happening all season - I don't know if it's a coaching or preparation thing where maybe teams haven't put on film with other QBs what they're dialing up for Allen - but it has to be a scheme thing too, where we just don't have a plan to handle that.

This. Although if you read the article, it's not so simple. There are a lot of things Kubiak points out as plus plays in the 2nd half, where I'm left saying OK, why didn't we try that in the first half then? Runs are part of it but pre-snap movement, motion to create misdirecting flow, delayed releases in blocking and so forth.

It was stupid to let Ritchie go after he was retired, then unretired, then attacking a dude at a Florida gym and telling police officers he worked for the NSA? Or wanting to cut off his father's head? C'Mon man. The dude was batshit cray-cray. Guy was out of football entirely that season trying to chase the cooties out of his cranium. He later admitted he was coming to Bills OL meetings drugged or drunk and phoning it in at times the previous season, which is why the Bills asked him to take a pay cut. And he's not helping the Raiders at present - he's been on IR for them since mid-August with a calf injury The revisionist history around here is nutsoid sometimes.

C'mon Man. Wyatt Teller was not the best guard in football when the Bills traded him before the 2019 season. He was slightly better than Vlad Ducasse. And when exactly was Quinton Spain an "all pro"? If he and his agent could make a legit case he had an "all pro" season the Bills couldn't have signed him to the contract they did, and the Bengals couldn't have re-signed him late in FA for vet minimum. Obviously in retrospect trading Teller was a bonehead move, but at the time the most fervent reaction was objecting that the Bills were trading a young developmental guard to keep a bunch of older journeymen, and the reason made sense at the time (Morse out with concussion, wanted to be sure we had a good center)

There is no % for reduced checks. That was an early proposal for the regular season that never was implemented They had 3 players suspended for faking their vax cards. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/02/nfl-suspends-antonio-brown-two-others-for-lying-about-vaccine-status.html Speaking of which, sounds like Dodson's is in good order:

True Dat.

There will be no Hail Murray for the Rams

Ordinarily I hate to see the Zebras taking so much of a hand but

Oh boy

Actually looks like he’s a good way down the list. SF 49ers top it. OMG tell me that LA can not ***** defeat from the jaws of victory here