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Leonhard has made some damn nice plays this season, Wilson would of dropped that.
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Dont call off the dogs Pettine!!!! Keep attacking
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Freddy is just awesome...plus he doesnt run everything wide and goes out of bounds and stops the clock like CJ
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Important fact - miami has the wind in this quarter. Grind it out, bills!
Couldn't agree more.
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And Nate...run Freddy inside because you are a moron too.
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God how stupid are you CJ?
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Get tickets for 6 bucks or 2 Camel menthol cigarettes.
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I was hoping TJ would get a job with Tim Hortons what with all the donuts he puts up in the box score.
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Big props to EJ, very nice game even with the pick and fumble
Did TJ have goose egg again?
Aaron Williams with the play of the game on that strip on Robinson when he was going in or else that Jag drive at the end would of been for a go ahead FG
Pettine, get this run D fixed.
I like the way Hackett mixed it up too
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I gotta give EJ props, he was seeing the field better, used his legs, nice game even with the mistakes.
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At least I started Jordan Todman in fastasy this week and Rainey last week.
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It would be scary if we dont beat a team like the Jags. This is an not exactly a high octane offense and they will be without Blackmon, Shorts and MJD. They also traded away Monroe during the season.
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Ok. So to be a fan that cares if we win you have to be negative. Gotcha. No point in continuing this.
Having no expectations and a bunch of excuses at the ready is the culture of failure.
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Bitter negativism is a defense mechanism for fans of downtrodden franchises. If some people say, "EJ sucks and will always suck," and EJ does end up sucking, they will have the endorphins released from being correct offset the pain of another failure. It numbs the pain.
Quite the opposite actually, I get not pleasure in watching this team suck year after year. And maybe just maybe, people you view as negative really care more about this team. We're not going to sick back and make excuses. The ones who really have the "endorphins released from being correct" are the excuse makers.
These do all sound familiar.
Have you already given up on 2014 though? If you are already predicting the coming excuses, then you must already believe that we'll need excuses next year. I like a lot of our pieces, and with a good draft, I think we are playoff bound. That said, I guess I'm what Homey D Clown would call a "blind optimist". I don't get what is wrong with realizing your team isn't/hasn't been good for a while, while also recognizing that we have more talent than we've had in some time. Why watch if you don't have hope that it can be turned around. Just look at the Chiefs. I think they are overrated, but either way, they're in the playoffs after having a horrible season last year. A year that also included many bright spots (6 pro bowlers). That sounds a lot like us.
I'm not saying you are one of these posters but do you know who's worse than the excuse makers and "blind optimists"? The negative visionaries who, no matter what the outcome in any situation, criticize the result and act as if they knew all along how things would turn out. Hindsight is the only view they have.
If Byrd doesn't come back and plays well: "See, I told you we should have kept him. Management is awful".
If Byrd does come back and doesn't play well: "See, I told you we should have let him go. Management is awful".
Their opinions don't come out till they see the results. I'll take the excuse makers over those people any day.
If you read my post all it says is end the excuses. Every one of the excuses I listed other teams have overcome at times and made the playoffs whether its new coaches, new system, injuries, players lost in free agency, rookies starting, etc. I dont get the vapors if someone criticizes this team. To me, if you havent been criticizing this team for over a decade from coaching and GM hires, drafting, and play on the field then you probably dont care if they win or lose. I do care.
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Whats your thoughts on the Monday night game where Dallas rushed for almost 200 yards, had a 7.1 ypc and still got smoked by the Bears?
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You notice in Seattle's scenario they didn't bring in a bunch of rookies who all needed snaps and game time to get to an acceptable level. They brought in a bunch of vets and drafted Wilson. It looks smart in the end because Wilson has turned into a top flight QB while riding a dominant D and running game in his first few seasons.
One could look at the Bills and say they did the same thing as Seattle. They brought in Kolb, Leinart, Lewis, drafted EJ, picked up a rookie prospect in Tuel and took a shot at signing Alex Smith. The difference here is that none of them have produced on the field yet. I have no doubt they'll bring in somebody else next year, either a rookie they draft (though not in the first round) or another vet. All the while EJ will be getting live reps.
Personally I just don't think brining in another 1st round pick is the answer. Both guys need reps and live action to get to the point where they need and only one of them is going to get it. Along the way that guy is going to make all kinds of mistakes - it's what rookies do. If you have a QB who is looking over his shoulder he's not going to be confident and he's going to be afraid of making mistakes and those mistakes, like it or not, are what enable QBs to get better. In any facet of life it's the mistakes that you learn from. Get two QBs on the roster who aren't getting the reps they need and are afraid of making mistakes when they do get reps and it's a recipe for neither guy developing. And then what do you do, turn around and draft another QB in the 1st because those guys aren't panning out?
There's a reason NFL guys do it the way they do and not the way impatient fans on this board are clamoring for.
I dont think what the Bills did is even close to the same. Leinart and Thad were brougt in after injuries to Kolb and EJ, and Leinart was here less than a week. Seattle signed Flynn for 3 years 26 million, had Jackson as a backup and still used a 3rd rounder on Wilson, A move I dont ever seeing the Bills making.
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I agree he was average at best. The Price trade was a great trade. You could maybe argue he overpaid for Bledsoe. You can question drafting McGahee when you had Henry, especially knowing you were getting basically nothing his rookie year. The really horrible part is Mike Williams and JP Losman. You cant whiff that bad with a 1st round projected LT, and a QB and not set a franchise back 3 years.
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Kind of like how the Bears went and got a CFL coach with no NFL experience? Garbage I tell you!
Marc Trestman, even though prior to this season has been coaching in the CFL a few years, has seen more and done more in the NFL than Nate, son of Paul, Hackett has ever done. But then again Nate had a great game plan for Stoneybrook.
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Or he has the speed but not the desire?
On the second play, I have the game DVR'd and after watching that play in slo-mo 20 times, it wasnt just Kiko that was out of position it was also Gilmore. The Tampa reciever makes a slight, 2 step move pre-snap inside but is still on Lawsons outside shoulder, as Glennon is handing off to Rainey. The Tampa receiver comes across, like it may be an inside reverse......you see a blur of Gilmore going across your screen the opposite way of the run, totally abandoning his side of the field. It was also Kyle, though he got off the snap the quickest, he got handled on that play, and Rainey was off to the races.
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You expected the Bills to lose by 3 TDs to Tampa??
Holy cow. There's only pleasing you.
I can hear Jeff Foxworthy now----- yoooooooooooou might be a Bills fan if you expected to lose to Tampa Bay.
Feel free to add yours.
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It is not easy being a Bills fan. <sigh>
What really starts to drive you crazy by this point in the season is realizing the mistakes can come from anywhere. The defense, while getting sacks and turnovers, is near the league lead in passing TDs given up and has given up some rushing yards to some sub par teams. Penalties, drops/fumbles by the receivers, Tuels goalline mistake, , EJ decent a week bad 2 weeks, line problems. You get shell-shocked watching different units take turns losing games.
I guess my spidey Bills-sense tells we lose a game by Carpenter shanking a game winning kick. It only makes sense in Buffalo-esque way.
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And thats why you can't take all stats at face value. In college, sacks count as negative rushing yards. So is YPC is not a reflection on what he did as a runner.
Wrong.
amazing what people will make up to fit their preconceived notions.
While that is true, FSU only gave up 14 sacks in 2012. Ryan Fitzpatrick, that superb athlete, in his last 3 years with the Bills, rushed for 269, 197 and 204 yards. EJ is averaging 16.5 yards rushing per game, times 16 that would be 264 yards rushing for a full season. Not much better than an average Fitzy year. Nick Foles, who I wouldnt say is much of a runner is averaging 16.8 yards per game. I'll still maintain EJ isn't the runner some people think he is.
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Incorporate a huddle
Incorporate a drop back play action pass into the offense.
Scrap running from read option
Demote Hackett
Have new OC review 2012 game films to properly utilitze Spiller
New OL and ST coaches.
Get a new starting G, WR, TE and LB in draft and free agency.
Second half thread Fins at the Bills
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Miami D has to be gassed.