Hapless Bills Fan

Cover1 Film Room with guest (former placekicker) Jay Feely discuss how the Bills re-tooled their offense vs. the Jets and the impact it had on the D Unfortunately, this is not "Film breakdown" but just talk, which is not as helpful to me

The point is, you're the writer; it's up to you to communicate clearly. It is not distorting when someone reads what you write, quotes it accurately, and holds you accountable for WHAT YOU ACTUALLY WROTE. I'm sorry you can't understand this fundamental point of written communication. It is "on you" to convey your meaning clearly, not "on" your reader to go on a detective hunt and make inferences about what you may have meant, given the string of posts you were responding to. When you aren't understood correctly, the mature response is "me bad, sorry I wasn't clear, this is what I meant" not to sneer at the person responding to you as you did and assert "you're distorting, you're misquoting, you're confused" It's not that I can't "wrap my head" around something you believe to be important (now that it's clear you're talking about 2 games where the teams you defeated had records >.500 at the time you played - Chargers and Browns), it's that I don't perceive why you believe it to be so important that you're beating it like a drum. I asked above, and you ignored my question to flog your perception that when you're misunderstood, it's everyone's fault but yours. -Why do you believe the record of a team at the time when another team plays them is defining or of paramount importance? -Why do you believe it's more useful than looking at all the data, which would include a team's current record?

First of all, Kubiak https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/jim-kubiak-how-play-action-fakes-helped-unleash-josh-allen-bills-offense/article_0f127800-46d7-11ec-ab1e-b76cbdd50fb5.html Unlike Joe B, Kubiak is relatively transparent about how he grades (play by play, did the player do his job, add value, or detract?) I feel he was a bit generous in his grading of Josh's play vs. the Jags, but this high grade seems relatively warranted. Play diagram of the McKenzie Jet Sweep TD, a Thing of Beauty:

When a guy has an avatar featuring "420" and a leaf, I think it's more likely what he ingested before he consumed the sugar.

Trying to be..... https://www.buffalobills.com/news/top-7-storylines-to-follow-for-bills-vs-colts-week-11 1) Offense and Defense going into Playoff Game vs Today: 2) Reich love from McDermott: 3) New Week, New Plan from Daboll: I just hope that either McDermott's words about needing teams to respect our run threat have sunk in, or that McDermott is exercising oversight over Daboll. I loves me some Dabs, but at times I think he takes his "game plan for each opponent" too far instead of working from fundamentals. It's like instead of "we need to run, or their defense will be able to do Bad Things, so let's figure out how we can make it work" he's "oh, we can't run out of (1,1) between the tackles on them, so we'll abandon the run and just pass 60 times" 4) Frazier sounds worried Any game where the Bills go into the game with their coaches talking like that, I kind of worry. Because fundamentally it's a "man whupping man" game, and if the plan is to "slow this offense down" and "minimize the explosives", it doesn't sound like the coaches are in the "man whupping man" mindset. 5) Colts are hot, and Reich is riding the "why not us?" underdog mindset You can help. Your added Colts content here:

Well....right now, the Bills are kind of looking like one of the most hyped 5-3 teams ever so..... Time will Tell

Buddy, this is in fact what you said: "Every one of the Patriots wins was against an above .500 team.. Bills are yet to beat a team (outside of the 1-0 Dolphins) who have a winning record when they meet. That’s simple facts.. " Now maybe you meant "Every one of the Patriots wins that were against Cleveland, Carolina, and the Chargers were against an above 0.500 team", but that is not, in fact, what you actually wrote. In this circumstance, most reasonable people say something like "I see why you interpreted my post that way from what I actually wrote, but what I meant was....", they don't go around blaming the other person for "blatantly misquoting me" and imply that the reader is somehow deficient in understanding or is not playing straight. I believe the Panthers were 4-4 when you played them. If we're talking about simple facts, and stuff. I fundamentally don't understand the logic of only looking at an opponent's record at the point where they played your team, but Hey, if it makes you feel better to say "Whoo whoo the Patriots beat the Chargers and Browns, who have you beaten?", OK.

With the way he takes care of his "chicken", Marshawn could have a giant vat of skittles delivered and waiting for him everywhere he goes. Meanwhile, to talk a little football here: Good: our 'lil Dirty has been climbing the ranks of the KR/PR this season: Bad: Look who is one of the most penalized players in the NFL right now 😬

Yeah, I saw those throws - they were spectacular catches. The announcers were all over him for what magnificant throws they were. I thought they were good throws, but better catches and when you live and die by those....you will get picked. Belichick is a great coach and the Pats offense, especially when Brady was a young QB, was all "death by 1000 papercuts" short stuff and runs punctuated by some downfield throws just when teams decided to smother the short stuff. But every QB who looks poised and capable under Belichick does not, in fact, develop into Tom Brady (Matt Cassel, Jimmy Garappolo). So we'll see. I'm more concerned about the Bills defense, myself. IMHO we're a bit bipolar this year. We can be an amazing, sharp, physical shut-down D. Or we can be unable to stop a team marching down the field (2nd half of the Tennessee game) and we sometimes seem slow to make adjustments.

I didn't say it was "a gouge". I said "So why undercut those points with dramatic sounding incorrect gouge?" Top definition here I can't help your reading comprehension problems. This is what I said: There's nothing in there about how McDermott was a "big key" in Reid's success (that would be a strange take, given that Reid's teams were conference championship contenders long before McDermott became an assistant), nor did I say anything implying they made the playoffs because McD was the DC. There's a huge amount of space between hiring a DC with no NFL defensive coaching experience, and having your former DC be "responsible" for your success. It's also a crap discussion tactic to put quotation marks around something that was never said. I'm not going to bother to try to explain my point further, because with the reading comprehension (or deliberate misrepresentation) issues who knows how that would get twisted? I'll reiterate something I did previously say: "This kind of straw man is exactly why so many here hold back from engaging with you. You genuinely know a lot about the Bills, and about football, and I respect that...but you sometimes appear far more interested in "poking the bear" or ***** stirring than in actually having the solid discussion of which you are capable."

Don't hassle the man with logic here. Just book your seat for the seminar!

Ah. Well, thanks for the info.

This. He is under contract. I don't understand the "voidable" part. Maybe what they mean is that the Bills could (theoretically) move on with only $1.5M of amortized signing bonus as dead money, but that's a strange way of wording it.

Where was this, Virgil?

I had not realized that Hall served on active duty for several years. I guess if you can lead a squadron of 300 people, a dozen diva-personality WR present a manageable challenge. Integrity first Service before self Excellence in all you do Really comes across why so many of his vet WR think so highly of him

Yep!

It could happen, but what I'd like to see is to have some load sharing to Davis and McKenzie. I think keeping "fresh legs" on Beasley and Sanders for the playoffs would be better for the Bills and for them in the long run

Sanders. 'Lil Dirty should take a few snaps from Bease Should stop right there

I've said this before, but the difference to a player between PS salary and a rookie minimum salary on the 53 man roster is significant https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/nfl-practice-squad-salary-2021-how-much-do-players-make/ar-AAOgVLB https://careerexplorerguide.com/nfl-rookie-salary/ Rookie minimum of $660,000 per week is $36,000/week. So for a guy on the practice squad, that minimum of an extra $80,400 (for the required 3 weeks on the active roster) is kind of a big deal, even if it means you have to play for the Jets....it's like a 50% raise in income.

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They probably want to learn something about our defense before they play us again.

Depends on how Boettger does. Calf injuries are not sure bets to heal in the minimum 3-week-on-IR timeframe.

Exactly. He could say "I felt I should have been drafted higher than I was" or "I've always believed I could play in the NFL if I got the opportunity". Saying "I felt I should have been the first overall pick in 2018" to the team of the 7th overall team in 2018 is just an unnecessary throw-down.

I think it "says it all" for the coach's belief in McKenzie that they 1) let Beasley with a broken leg play ahead of McKenzie. McDermott expressed that they had faith in McKenzie to run all the routes Beasley can run, and then.... 2) let Beasley with some sort of severe rib contusion (could even be possible broken ribs) play ahead of McKenzie vs. Jax and the Jets. In an interview, Taron Johnson said that trying to cover Beasley in practice was like a "cheat code" to make him a better nickel corner because Beasley can see what the coverage is doing so quickly and react. He didn't say in so many words that McKenzie can't carry Beasley's jock, but he said something to the effect that McKenzie's thing is "speed mostly". Sanders and Josh aren't on the same page with those routes as far as I can tell.

Let's Not, And Say We Didn't I'm not sure he didn't care, but the Jets were totally unable to offer Bell the quality of offensive line that made him successful in Pittsburgh, and he was unable to effectively switch to a style that might have been more effective with the OL and offense the Jets did have.