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9 hours ago, NewEra said:
Zero stats. No games.
That's where I was headed with this question as well...
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30 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
Feels like Kroft last year. Hopefully he doesn't reinjure it like Kroft did trying to come back too quickly. Leaves us with Knox, Unofficial OT Lee Smith, and the oft-injured Kroft. Wouldn't hate a move for Njoku.
Don't forget Croom. He missed last season, but wasn't at all bad the previous year.
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If they just re-arranged the name to Washington Team Football they can then go by WTF, with an emoji for a logo ?
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12 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:
I see lots of posts saying there won’t be a season. I have to say the signs point to the season kicking off as planned.
I agree that signs point to it, but I think they'll keep having to back off based on outbreaks and quarantines. If 1-2 OL test positive a couple days before a game, how many players might have to self-quarantine? I haven't seen anyone even try to give an answer to a question like that. Lets assume 5-8 other players, perhaps coaches as well. 10 days...that might be two games missed? Its inevitable that some version of that may happen to at least a dozen teams, maybe a lot more. How do you have a fair season with scenarios like that popping up?
Lets play for fun and assume the Bill and Chiefs start out 4-0. They play Thursday night in Week 5. Two Bills' OL test positive on Wednesday...
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59 minutes ago, RoyBatty is alive said:
I originally had that on my list be took it off because the Micah Hyde really iced that game with his kickoff return. White also caused a critical fumble later in the game so he deserves game ball there. Fitz was on that game and just scored, Dolphins get the ball back we could have easily lost. There were a lot of pivotal plays thru the season i didnt include like the Bills stopping the Texans on the 4th down.
I like the Edmunds safety in the Browns game as well.... another consideration from that game as a package of plays is the Defense goal line stand across, I think was it 6 plays from the 1-2 yard line they stopped?
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Tre White interception of Fitzpatrick at the 1yd line as the Dolphins were driving to go up 21-9 heading into 4th quarter. Game stayed at 14-9 and turned around from there to ignite a huge 4Q for the win.
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This is a real problem when we think of future for Pegulas and their ability to continue to be viable owners. We're already seeing the affect of this related to the Sabres. They're seeing a trifecta of problems in front of them that may mushroom faster than we think.
1. Rocked in core industry, where they can't just "dig a hole if they need $"
2. No NHL ticket revenue given they won't make playoffs and will have difficulty putting fans in stands next season
3. While NFL teams get substantial revenue from TV contract, the Bills have big money re-signings ahead of them including coach and GM
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5 hours ago, DBilz2500 said:
Not going to shut down a 15 billion dollar industry for a flu virus. Just not gonna happen. They’ll handle positive cases and move on.
I don't know why people keep putting their head in the sand? Its not positive cases, like a sprained ankle where a given player is out. Its how many others that person infects and will take with him. A team could lose most of its OL from one week to the next... or more. And staff, coaches, trainers. How do you play that way? Anyone still thinking that this is just a flu virus needs to change all the channels they watch, listen to and read online
In all the cases above its not a single player, but several. What if this is week 5 of the season, the Bills are 5-0 and they're about to play the Chiefs on Thursday night? Fifteen players test positive. What then?
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I don't have time to read however many pages of comments are listed here, but I'd love to hear what is being proposed if a few people on a team test positive in mid-season?? Here's the scenario. The Bills are 5-0 and after meetings on Tue/Wed and a full practice on Wednesday where the Offense went up against the Defense; Mitch Morse and Feliciano test positive less than 24 hours before the scheduled Thursday night game against the Chiefs.
What is the protocol for how many players are quarantined??
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2 hours ago, Gugny said:
Alonso had two good games and many Bills fans wanted him fitted for the gold jacket. I never understood it. McCoy was well worth his contract. At the time, he was easily a top 5 back in the league; maybe even top 3.
He was a DROY candidate. He set a pretty big expectation that first year.
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14 minutes ago, Happy said:
I have an idea, how about the military pull its funding for the NFL to play the NA at the beginning of the games? If the NFL cancels "Salute to Service" and playing the NA, then so be it. Also, politicians, including the President, should refrain from tweeting/making public comments on the NFL. Get politics completely out of the games. I've said before, and will say again, keep social justice issues and politics out of sports; they don't mix and most spectators don't want to see these displays.
What you're saying just isn't practical. Beyond sports, most business are also embracing these protests and re-examining their policies. I'm not going to exalt their past righteousness and they may not get it right this time either. However, everyone has to recognize that every company, sports league or the entertainment industry is made up of people who have thoughts about this. To expect that everyone just shuts up and do their jobs when they are surrounded by the affect of these problems is unrealistic.
I work for a Fortune 50 company and my son graduate last year and is working for a much smaller company. Both companies have given their employees room to express their thoughts, feelings and even encouragement to protest. My son's company even gave time off to people to attend protests. The sports industry given their predominant players are African-American is even more affected. Also beyond the physical component, sports has an enormous mental aspect to it around motivation and intestinal fortitude. To think that could be just turned off because you don't want to hear it is both selfish and unrealistic. These protests have a deep multi-generational cause to them and have deep pain for those who have been offended. Nobody can be a robot and so insular as you suggest.
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One of the solution I've been suggesting to people for a few years now is for the NFL/owners to fund a series of public service announcements that would be created by the players. Each team would create two 60s commercials on this topic. Its up the them what they want to say, who they want to feature, what examples they want to highlight and how they want present the story or remedies... no league guidelines or approval. Then these commercials would run during games. The home team's right after the anthem is played and the visiting team's just after the 2nd half kick-off.
That's just a step among many that needs to be PART of a larger solution. But it at least neutralizes the fake political arguments about kneeling during the anthem and allows the focus to be on the issue itself. It also gets the NFL out of the way and just provides a platform for its players
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CBS Sports is doing a game by game prediction for each team. In this one the Bills end up 9-7 as a Wild Card team. They start strong, but then lose 4 of the last 5 at at the end of the season. Its a long season, but I think they're better than this. I don't buy the 4 game losing streak at the end and expect they'll be at least 10-6.
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Thats an interesting idea. This could certainly bring drive-in movies back at a larger scale. I like it
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27 minutes ago, billsbackto81 said:
Sam Gash, Takeo Spikes, Pat Williams
Yes Pat Williams... among our bigger mistakes!
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9 hours ago, BringBackFergy said:
#wunderlicmatters
Fitzpatrick is Ivy League...
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12 hours ago, Happy said:
I'm a bit shocked that Epenesa didn't know McD and Beane were part of the Carolina Panther organization during that SB.
That's really kind of an unusual question being asked. He's probably prepping for questions about defensive alignments, assignments, whether he can play either side.... I"m sure it caught him a bit off guard. Plus he was just a high schooler at the time.
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20 minutes ago, Gugny said:
So did Thurman Thomas.
Man, we've gone soft.... next thing you know we'll be signing one of Brian Cox' kids
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1 hour ago, Gugny said:
Fitz will ALWAYS be not only one of my favorite Bills of all time, but one of my favorite NFL players of all time. I can't say one negative thing about the dude.
He plays for the Dolphins
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4 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
CJ Spiller just needed to get out in space too
and Roscoe Parrish...and Marquise Goodwin. We were never really able to consistently get these guys into space. I can't recall any 5 yard catch + 30 YAC from these guys. Goodwin caught an occasional long ball
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I loved Moulds! He was just outstanding. I'll agree with #2. I wish we had him during the Super Bowl years
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what? No 7-round mock draft?? I want to know who they'll be picking with the extra 5th rounder fleeced from the Zay Jones trade...
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You know what would be incredible data... if teams could submit their draft boards to an anonymous process AFTER each draft and just make a consensus draft board out of it. Can't look at any teams ratings, just the final average slot for each player. Then we can see after a few years how well or poorly people drafted. The problem I have with criticizing a pick like Harris (or countless other busts) is that if the Dolphins didn't pick him, he probably would have been gone within the next 5-7 picks to be a bust for someone else. Most likely, evaluators as a whole got it wrong on the guy rather than just the one team that selected him.
The Athletic has a great article on this that created a consensus board this year and last year from a collection of evaluators and pundits, but it would be incredible if that could be taken from the actual teams doing the picking. A reach is not a reach four years later, but in real-time if you're picking a guy #26 that the vast majority of the league is rating as a 5th rounder.
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it probably highly situational. Depends on where other teams have injuries, gaps due to poor performance and where some of our talent stands out as a better alternative. In addition to Bodine and Teller last year the Bates trade involved a DE. Its possible for trades of DL, OL, maybe WR, maybe even Barkley depending on the circumstances I just described.
Bob Costas Brings Up A Good Point about NFL Players
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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The other part of it that he mentions, but doesn't discuss is the affect of that heart inflammation (also I've seen articles on reduced lung capacity) on not just linemen who are over 300 lbs, but what about RB, WR, CB? While yeah, they're likely to recover and not be killed, these kinds of after affects could take a guy who runs 4.3 forty and turn him into a 4.6 guy. At those positions, that can be the difference between being elite and out of the league... with the reaction of fans, being "see ya, he needs to be replaced"