Hapless Bills Fan

Perhaps he's perfect in practice, but struggles with focus in games. Remember the bizarre "unlateral fake fieldgoal"? Or perhaps he just doesn't put in the work to master the skill. Teacher can't teach if the student won't practice. My impression was that Bojo knew he had a boom-tastic leg as a punter and became a bit of a "legend in his own mind". Actually, with only 32 punter jobs in the NFL, refusing a contract is symptomatic of this. I had a quick try to find it and failed (not the first time I can't find something I know was there) It was discussed in the various RFA/FA threads about keep/let walk last Feb/Mar. Supposedly Bojo had a smokin' hot "keeper" girlfriend who wanted to be on the West coast, and did not want him locked up >1 yr in B'lo (hence his refusal to consider a longer deal). I hope she's enjoying Green Bay. A blocked punt most certainly is. Do we mention Bojo's blocked punts in 2018 and 2019 then? He and Haack now have the overall same number. I also didn't mention Bojo's short shanks that kept his average low despite all the 60 yd boomers, or that unilateral fake fieldgoal. I don't hold my breath. Haack had a blocked punt in 2018 and another this year that was a clear missed blocking assignment. Could he have got the ball out faster sure but it's not all on him. He doesn't have a great leg, but he's got an average punt distance exactly 1.3 yds less than the guy you're lamenting, despite said guy's boomer leg. What's that tell you? Sounds like Bojo has become a bit of a legend in your mind as well? He's more expensive than Bojo eventually signed for with the Rams after sitting on the sofa most of FA, but he's not more expensive than giving Bojo a 2nd round tender or the 1 yr contract he supposedly wanted.

Whaley wasn’t fired

You realize that Bojo has a whole 1.3 more ave yards than Haack so far this season? He has one more punt than Haack, one more punt inside the 20, and 2 more that went OOB. Haack's longest punt is 60 yds; Bojo's longest punt was 63. I don't have a good source for detailed punting statistics. Whence comes this angst and frustration over Bojo? He didn't want to be here. He wanted to be on the West Coast. He wanted more money based on leading the league in average punts last season, but we all know he would boom one then shank one and for us last season, he had a lot of punts into the EZ. So we looked elsewhere.

Pretty much. It enables the kicker, holder, and long snapper to be their own unit and do their own thing during practice, which is an operational advantage over needing to coordinate with the backup QB who is running the scout team and perhaps taking a few snaps with the 1's. I think that's the primary reason most teams have changed Your....kink is OK? Using nicknames for players is pretty common here and Bojo was almost universal, due to the difficulty some have with spelling Bojorquez. If that sparks love in ya, better pace yourself...

I hope you're right Tennessee wants to stop our run game according to this. Bit of a change from last year, when we didn't have one: https://www.nashvillepost.com/sports/titans/for-titans-containing-josh-allen-starts-with-slowing-the-bills-run-game/article_51d8c08c-2dc2-11ec-9b14-c74b48a84018.html

I think the point of "retiring" a song is that the artists themselves decide they will pull it from their playlist. Didn't the Stones already retire a very popular song ("Sympathy for the Devil") from their live shows, long ago, after Altemont? [Edit: I looked it up, no, that's a myth] IMHO when the artist decides to retire a song, that is their choice and I don't see where all the talk about some nebulous "they" and "cancelling" comes in.

YIkes. "“We’ve played ‘Brown Sugar’ every night since 1970,” Richards told the newspaper. “So sometimes you think, ‘We’ll take that one out for now and see how it goes.’ We might put it back in.”

I was calm during KC week here in MO. I must admit, I'm starting to get nervous. With all this talk of "More dominant than any NFL team has been", Baldy "Can anyone beat the Bills", an extra half day to prepare since the Bills didn't get home until like 5 am Monday...you just know that Meathead and the Henries would just LOVE to help the Bills "lay an egg" and embarrass themselves on National TV. I just hope and pray our Boys in Blue have their heads on straight and are "taking care of business".

Miami is Buffalo South (snowbirds!) Nashville is Buffalo Midwest, durrr Seriously, I dunno - it's a fun city to visit, nice downtown area with some nightlife, prices for hotels and meals and stuff not extortionate unlike visiting NYC or BOS or CHI or WAS or LA. Reasonable airfare, reasonably short flight. And, the Tennessee Titans are a "johnny come lately" team, only 22-24 yrs old depending on how you count, so the fans aren't as passionate and tickets are in reasonable supply. But make no mistake, with all this and the national spotlight on them, the Titans would like nothing better than to make the Bills "lay an egg" and embarass themselves.

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Well, I was hoping for more granularity on the difference 🤷‍♂️

I am pining for the opportunity to be worse than obnoxious and unbearable Patriot fans. I'm not saying I'm gonna be, I just want to have the same REASONS to be that way

Question: what is the difference between "cap space" and "effective cap space"?

I had a knee jerk reaction and then I thought about it and came back to the same place. I think the Bills went into the Pittsburgh game believing in their press clippings a bit much. As Diggs said in a presser any time you take an opponent lightly, you can get your ass whupped. I agree with you that the Bills were not prepared for what Pittsburgh showed them on D and the offensive play calling was...inappropriate for that D. But even so, there were a handful of missed deep throws/short throws not taken that could have totally changed the game; the OL executed poorly across the line. So without good focus and preparation, sure...we could see that again this year.

Well since Bojo has a history here of messing up the hold with a very reliable LS, I'm gonna go Bojo doing Bojo things

So just a point, last year we started Edmunds 100%, Tyrel Dodson for Milano (90%) but AJ Klein got 30% of the snaps. It's a possibility that we might play more 4-3 base against the Titans and that Tank they have playing RB. Seems to me that some people are suggesting just that. To be fair, I think the logic train is that hamstring injuries are notoriously hard to judge, he might think he's fine and the trainers say "thumbs up" and he still need some extra healing. But FWIW, this is something like Milano's 5th documented hamstring pull, he's missed 1 game each time, and he hasn't *seemed* to re-injure. Knock wood. And each time as far as I can tell he's taken 100% of the snaps on his first game back

Avert! They have a game to play yet

I thought you were suggesting putting him in the Coaches Booth at the stadium. Evidently not. See my post upthread about the NFL's changes back in 2016 to enhance the security of their game-time communications, and NFL rules against cell phone use. Maybe it could be done, but I think there's a reason why other coaches who have been out for the game, have just been out for the game (this pre-dates Covid -guys who were undergoing chemo or heart disease workups).

I hear your POV, and I have not watched all 5 Chiefs games much less the OL in detail for all 5 games. So I could easily be mistaken. On the other hand I recall you evaluated Quinton Spain as the best OLman on the Bills - a viewpoint not shared by the professional coaches and FO on the Bills who benched and then cut him. IIRC, you were similarly positive about his performance on the Bengals though I could be misremembering - yet the Bengals waited to sign him to a 1 yr contract for vet minimum at the end of March - almost as though they were looking for an upgrade. Most puzzling indeed.

I dunno if I agree that Watkins was such a big loss for them. He was their 5th receiver last season in terms of yards? The Chiefs ran a (1,1) set even more than we did last season (74%) and when they didn't, were 17% (1,2). So they seldom have more than 3 WR on the field and sometimes only 2 WR. I think Hardman is a good receiver - pro bowl his rookie year might mean something? ; given Watkins saw more snaps (almost 50%) and had less production (42 y/g), it wasn't illogical to think Hardman (38% snaps, 32 y/g) could take a bigger slice of the pie and maybe Robinson too (65% of the snaps last season) I dunno, maybe our resident chiefs fans here @Zerovoltz or @beebe can give us the lo-down on Hardman and Robinson - are they used differently enough that they telegraph to other teams what's coming, when they're on the field? It seems to me that the biggest issue for the Chiefs offensively, is their offensive line. Their use of 3 WR (1,1) is down 10% and 2 TE (1,2) is up 6%, 2 backs and even 3 TE also up. I don't know enough about the pass catching/ run blocking chops of their TE behind Kelce or or their RB, but often when one sees that, it's because the team is trying to back-fill for tenuous play at OT by bringing in another OLman or TE to block. They're starting 3 rookies on OL. As I told @Zerovoltz before the season pump the brakes on annointing the OL based on great preseason play. Any time you're starting 3 rookies (and especially one entire side of the line), it may be great eventually but there are going to be problems over the short-term. Marv Levy used to say only half tongue-in-cheek "I hate rookies, they ALL make mistakes". I frankly suspect that one reason the Bills put Williams at RG when they decided to start Brown at RT was to put a vet next to the rookie to "coach him up" and steady him. I wonder a bit if the Chiefs would benefit by starting Duvernay-Tardiff between Humphries and Niang for the same reason - Trey Smith may be by far the better athlete and long term the better player, but maybe the inexperience on the R side of their line is an issue? I don't know. Then there's Orlando Brown, who seems to be struggling a bit with the transition from the kind of OL play he was expected to produce in Baltimore, vs the kind of OL play he's expected to produce in KC. As a result, Mahomes seems jumpy to me. He doesn't have the time he's used to having, or the help from the OL he's used to having when he extends the play. As far as Edwards-Helaire - the guy gave them 62 ypg last season. I "get it" people think drafting an RB at the very BOTTOM of the first round is overpaying, but he bumped them up from #20 to #12 in YPA and made teams respect that KC could run the ball. He's had two 100 yd rush games this season, and he stepped up when asked last season (2 games well over 100 yds). He's a good player, I say it with regard to the Bills all the time, there's something like 50% odds of drafting a good NFL player even in the 1st round - not an all-star or all-world, just a good solid player. The overarching problem for KC right now though is D. They need to get Jones and Clark on the field at the same time and keep them there. KC wagered that their big problem was OL, and went "all in" on upgrading the OL with perhaps not enough attention to D.

https://www.footballdb.com/teams/nfl/cleveland-browns/injuries?gid=2021101709 Looks like starting CB Ward and Newsome still "questionable" after being limited all week Backups Greedy Williams "full" on Fri and has no gametime designation, Troy Hill not on report Looks like they have their safeties I dunno enough about Cleveland's D to know how much they stay in Base, who their Nickel and Dime backs are etc.

C'Mon WEO, I know YOU know better. Isolation for a contagious disease means isolation, not "isolate only if it isn't professionally inconvenient for me".

Nothing. #17 is the only Connection they need. Josh makes the Bills "their brand" now They "Ride for the Brand" (as their motto says)

Sure, but you all can do it yourselves for a thread you start: just click and hold on the thread title and an "edit" box should pop up Full disclosure: piece of cake that works every time from a computer, I find it "hit and miss" from an i-device, maybe there's a trick I haven't yet figured. And best wishes for continued success to both your children; they musta had a parent who did something right!

That's been talked about a fair bit last season. Feliciano said that Beasley was the original "Dad" - he's one of the older vets on the team and has 4? kids so that connection is obvious. I don't think any of them have explained how it morphed to Josh being "Dad", except for the obvious "QB, he feeds all of us" connection. Interestingly, I think there's video out there of Josh at Wyo calling Tanner Gentry "Dad", so it may have originated with Josh and the other guys turned it around on him.