Hapless Bills Fan

Again...the average touchback % in the league last year was 61.2% That means 38.8% of kickoffs were returned last season So between 1 in 2 and 1 in 3 kickoffs were returned I don't know what "very few" is to me, but something that happens even 1 out of 3 times isn't "very rare" to me. It also varied quite a bit by team, so both the quality of the kicker and the quality of the coverage must have something to do with it - Tampa Bay had 88% touchbacks on their kickoffs, the Bills were pretty good with 70%. The Steelers had almost half their kickoffs returned last year. No but he did in Oakland earlier in his career, and also during his first stint with the Bills

Part of me also looks at it as motivational trash-talking of other great QB in the league

Football can't start soon enough You predicted the Bills to lose to the Rams? Shame On You!

I think the Bills have had an epiphany that they really need to keep some young guys on the roster and develop them.

Harsh. What if the Buffalo Bllls PR ready a 2nd video bodybag for the chap?

I heard some stuff that impacts the locker room - like coming in late, being late for meetings, taking plays off in practice (he certainly did in games), and use of weed.

It wasn't. After the Bills-Colts game, for example, he said we didn't win it, the Colts lost it (like the Bills had nothing to do with the Colts losing it) It wasn't like the Colts committed a bunch of unforced errors - penalties or fumbles or interceptions. The Bills just stopped them when they needed to, on 3rd down and 4th down and short of the goal line. When someone who knows football watches those plays, they're rock-solid defensive plays. And the Bills moved the ball to get out of trouble when they needed to - it wasn't like the Colts were fooled or out of position, Josh Allen was making big-time throws and his WR were making big time catches. KC is a very good team and deserves to be at the top of the tier. But putting GB and the Browns above Tampa Bay, then putting the Bills in a 4th tier, is just clickbait crap. The Browns are a better team than the Ravens, Titans, and Bills in the AFC when they prove they are. You could argue for GB being good and having gotten a raw deal with penalties etc in the NFCCG, but they're a better team than Tampa when they prove they are.

I'm just going to leave this here (should be able to watch it without instagram account) Buffalo Bills PR put Nick Wright in a body bag. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKNS8RfBrE8/?utm_medium=copy_link Makes me feel all peaceful to have Nick Wright prognosticating against us again. If he picked us to win, I'd worry.

It's possible but show me the last time Belichick made a bee-line to sign a player facing an 8 game suspension or whatever the next ratchet up is after 4 games. That was the premise of my post you were responding to.

I mean, this is like railing about any other NFL rule..... You can have an issue with a rule and think it gives some group an unfair advantage The point is, the rule exists It may even have a good basis for existing (or have had a good basis when it was made) Either way, it exists and all 32 teams have to work with it. Control What You Can Control

Comparing to one of my favorite 2020 highlight vids, it's really noticable how many more of the highlights in 2021 are passes

I have two things I'd like to see: 1) don't be jerks and jagoffs to opposing fans 2) the muscles we should exercise are our lungs and vocal cords also hands and feet for banging on stuff and making unbelieveable amounts of noise Other than that, Who Cares? Muffled up in a sweatshirt or coat everyone looks much the same.

I don't understand exactly what you feel this contributes to the conversation, but Whatever. I don't have a mortgage, and I don't bet. Who do you have as our 3 or 5 losses from curiousity?

OK, fine. The article is written by Conor Orr. Who TF is Conor Orr, and what does he know about football and the NFL East? I'll hang up and wait. Weirdnesses of the article that struck me on first pass: I actually don't think the Bills run what's usually referenced as a "spread offense" at all, and our current offense certainly isn't predicated on maximizing Allen's mobility, as indicated by the fact his rush yards per game in 2020 were exactly HALF his rush yards in 2018. Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken about the Bills offense being considered a "spread offense", unless we consider almost all modern NFL pass-centric offenses as "spread offenses" Just trying to figure out what the similarities between SF, Tenn, and GB offense are thought to be, and how Mike LaFleur, who was passing game coordinator and WR coach in SF after following Shanahan from Atlanta, deserves credit or partial credit for the latter two? Anyone enlighten me? Jonnu Smith and Hunter Henry are good players. Judon is a beast. But is anyone else puzzled by lauding the addition of Kendrick Bourne (SF #4 WR in Y/G) and Nelson Agholor (LV #2 WR in Y/G) as capitalizing on a depressed FA market? Barmore may be good, and Jones may be good but we all know that what a guy can do in preseason playing against #2s and 3s and without (usually) a team-specific defensive game plan designed to target weaknesses doesn't equate to regular season. But if we want to predict that...why nothing about how good Rousseau and the other defensive returns/additions have looked for the Bills? And if we're impressed by adding Nelson Agholor, shouldn't adding Emmanuel Sanders count? Anyway

If you "don't think we're defensively not elite" does that mean you do think we defensively are elite?

I'm quoting this post because I just want people to read this again.

Dear Chandler, With regard to the oil anointment, please reconsider. Josh Allen was observed having his cleats sprayed down with water to stop them from melting during the Packers preseason game. If his feet were anointed with oil in the same circumstance, they might catch on fire. You might argue that Josh is already on 🔥🔥, but the difference between figurative and literal enters into this. Let's keep it figurative. Best, Hapless

Are the coaches and team taking a few days off? If so are they leaving the facility/town (if vaccinated)?

Agree, most seem pretty reasonable in their discussion Then there's this guy

There's a lot of space between "not as good a blocker as Lee Smith" and Hollister/Knox. I wouldn't expect any 2nd year player (which is Sweeney, essentially) to be a Lee Smith level blocker. In theory Sweeney has the potential, the question is can he do it at "game intensity" against #1 DLmen I see it a similar way FWIW: Knox and Hollister having similar skills sets with Knox > Hollister, and Sweeney being the "Lee Smith in training" type. I don't know what "stick around outside the squad" means

I don't know if anyone claimed that they lied, but at the time it seemed to be considered that some embellishing and selective remembering may have been involved.

There was a bar at the same site prior to that owner operating it. If the previous business wasn't known as the "Otter Lodge" there's an error in the filing, but since the business isn't named as a defendant that seems to me like a nit. Perhaps one of our resident lawyers could comment/correct.

The Child Sex Victims Act signed into law in Feb 2019 may have had something to do with coming forward now.

It was discussed last year. One commentary is it relies very heavily upon Monos and Whaley as sources, with all the "Caution!" flags that relying upon the veracity and perspective of fired ex-employees entails

Straw man. We are not cutting Beasley UNLESS he is in-your-face blatant about not following NFL Covid protocols and gets suspended for 4 games. In which case, don't bet the rent money Belichick takes him on.