Utah John
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How did the Bills end up starting at the 7 instead of the 10?
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Just now, Special K said:
Penalty....so what....more yards for JA to gain!!
Yeah. No. You can't count on success every time.
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No soft defense. Come on, don't start playing soft.
YES. Pressure is the key.
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Offensive holding! HE GOT TACKLED.
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And the penalties start, against the Bills. Of course. Gotta keep the betting line safe.
Ignore DPI against the Lions, ignore a helmet to helmet hit on Josh, but now a mystery call they won't even show a replay of.
Kincaid had that in his hands.
Nice touch pass by Josh.
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Geez, Gibbs is good.
If they have to do a play like that to get some offense, they're already desperate.
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Holy Toledo. Dawkins didn't have anyone to block!
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If that was Mahomes who got hit on a slide, Campbell would have been ejected.
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Nice play by Codrington, not to let the ball keep rolling. Not much yardage on the return but it saved a good 10 yards from the punt.
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Oh, so THAT'S what our D line is supposed to look like.
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Lucky on the TD. Josh had the ball on his chest and it could have been knocked away before he crossed. But, YES a great drive.
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Good timeout. Want a TD on the first drive.
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My favorite Bill name is Preston Ridlehuber, who was on the team in 1969 and made some plays that helped the sad-sack Bills get a win. The previous year he was on the Raiders and made key plays for the Raiders win in the Heidi game.
If you remember this guy, you're pretty old too.
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On 12/12/2024 at 7:14 AM, BillsFan130 said:
Storm Duck for me is definitely the most wild name
Storm Duck is a new recipe in the latest version of Joy of Cooking.
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Everything is relative. For me the Bills are #1 and the Lions are something like #52. The fact that there's no #2 through #51 means that yeah, they're next on my list, but the enormous difference in my passion level is reflected by the huge difference in ranking.
I don't really have a list at the bottom so much as a cesspool, with the Dolphins, Jets, Patriots, Cowboys, and Raiders all tossed in, with some of them bobbing up a little more from year to year. The Chiefs aren't in that pool since I admire Andy Reid so much.
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Except for the Vikings game, where the fumble between Morse and Allen made the loss possible (but not inevitable), all those losses came about because the defense let us down. (And in the Vikings game the fourth and a mile completion to Jefferson happened only because our DB tried for an interception instead of just knocking the pass down.)
Josh is the issue only in the sense that if he wasn't so excellent we wouldn't have been in the situation in the first place -- we would have lost by a mile instead of making it close. I can find it in my heart to forgive him, how about you?
The other point to make is that we have one regular season abomination per year, and we hope we've already seen this year's.
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On 10/14/2024 at 10:50 PM, wppete said:
How did they hire these guys? Where dis they find them? That was one of the worst officiated game I have ever seen. Embarrassing!
The only reason I can't agree with you is that there have been so many games that seemed to have the worst officiating ever. There is absolutely a problem with surprising bad calls, and with the rising amount of gambling there will be more and more people wondering if the fix is in.
I'm not going to read through all the pages of comments, so I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but I saw one play where the Rams O lineman had his arm around Von Miller's neck as Miller tried to get to Stafford. The ref was looking right at him, but Stafford completed a pass for a big play, so the flag stayed in his pocket.
49 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:Gene Steratore not Brady praised the no call.
Yeah, Brady and Steratore both agreed. bull####. The tug slowed down Cooper when he was on a direct path to where the ball came down.
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The Bills have a reserve safety named Lewis Cine. He was activated for the Rams game but I don't know if he got onto the field.
Cine was drafted in the first round by the Vikings in 2022. He had a really bad injury. The Vikings released him this past summer and the Bills picked him up.
The point being, all teams miss from time to time. College skills don't always translate to NFL skills.
At least the team that drafted Elam sees enough in him to keep him around. Elam knows the system and has been a good backup when called upon.
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The Bills are structured and operated as a long-term enterprise. They develop young players and when their rookie contracts expire, they let many of them walk away to get more dollars elsewhere than they're worth. Their personnel budgets are balanced, with only Allen and Miller getting the really big dollars. The other AFCE teams don't seem to have a clue about building and maintaining a strong balanced team. From this perspective there's no reason the Bills can't keep it going for at least two or three years, possibly longer.
But things do change. Many of the Bills core players will reach the end of their rookie deals and will go elsewhere for more money than the Bills can pay. Draft picks might not pan out, leaving gaps in the structure. Other teams could get lucky. Maybe Maye turns out to be really good. Maybe the Jets draft a good QB and help that guy develop properly. Maybe Miami gets out from under two expensive contracts for WR, and uses more money at other positions.
Enjoy this season. You really never know what the future holds.
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12 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:
WRT Hamlin and Bishop, I'll refer you to your own statement in bold.
Poyer couldnt even crack the starting line-up on Cleveland teams that were going 0-16 and 2-14.
Hyde had a bit of a better showing in Green Bay, but was still being bounced around between Nickel and Safety, and couldnt lock down a spot.
It took Poyer 5 full seasons in the NFL (1 of those with the Bills even) before he became "All-Pro Po". Hyde needed those 4-5 seasons too.
Hamlin is just wrapping up year 4 and has shown major steps in development this year. Bishop still has a lot of time to develop according to these other timelines.
OK, fair point, some safeties need time to learn. But you can't learn speed. Hamlin can't cover ground as fast as is needed sometimes.
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Kudos to Beane and McDermott for adding the right players and getting them working together. Rapp, Douglas, and Benford -- all much better than we had any right to expect. But then again, you could say the same thing about Poyer and Hyde, neither of whom shone very brightly on previous teams but who became absolute stars here.
Not all wins, of course. There sits Elam, a first rounder who can't get on the field. There stands Hamlin, who is just as prone to being a step too slow and a yard too far out of position, as he always was.
I was a big proponent of drafting Bishop, going back to last January or February, and I'm disappointed he hasn't dislodged Hamlin yet. Not sure what the problem is. He missed a lot of playing time in training camp with an injury, but come on.
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There was a discussion about Josh Allen's maybe-fake slide against the Steelers, on GMFB. One of the talking heads pointed out that an actual fake slide gets you a five yard penalty from the point of the foul.
I don't see this as a big problem. What does happen is that the refs seem to mark the ball quite far back, even farther back than where the slide actually starts. A few weeks ago a QB was running laterally along a yard marker, and slid. The only question should have been, how far from the sideline should the ball be placed. But the refs took their 2 yard sliding tax and moved the ball back from the yard marker.
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2 hours ago, Billy Claude said:
Returning to the OP's original question of Ray Davis vs. Baelon Allen , Baelon Allen has completely fallen off a cliff in his last 8 games.
In that span, Baelon Allen has 40 carries for 110 yards (2.75 yards per carry). A lot of his carries are probably in short yardage situations but he had 4.8 ypc on 26 carries in the first 4 games.
Allen's receiving stats are even worse. He has 5 receptions on 9 targets for 40 yards (8.0 ypr, 4.4 ypt) during the 8 games. How does a running back have a 55% reception rate?
For comparison, Davis' stats over his last 8 games are 54 carries for 267 yards (4.94 ypc) and 8 receptions on 9 targets for 139 yards (17.4 ypr, 15.4 ypt).
It makes you feel sorry for anyone drafted by the New York Jets. It seems the longer you play for the Jets the worse you get.
Breece Hall's rookie contract runs out at the end of next season. And he's seriously pissed at being stuck on a dysfunctional team. (He's also two years younger than Cook or Davis, FWIW.) Some team, probably not the Bills, will grab him as a FA if the Jets don't seriously overpay him to stick around. If he leaves, is Braelon Allen the man to replace Hall? It doesn't look like it so far.
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12/15/24 Week 15 Bills @ Lions Game 2nd half Thread
in The Stadium Wall
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I think that's the first play for negative yards this game.