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    Bills windows with Josh

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    16 hours ago, Shaw66 said:

    Excuse me.  This is both wrong and inappropriate.  

     

    The fact that a word has a definition - like the definition of window above, does not prove that windows exist or are a viable roster strategy.  Flat Earth is the concept that the earth is shaped like a disk, but the fact that there is a term for the concept doesn't prove the existence of that concept, either.  

     

    The windows that you're talking about naturally occurring.  They occur by design of the GM, who tries to make their team succeed by acquiring a lot of talent, all arriving at the franchise at more or less the same time.  Modern NFL GMs rarely operate their team that way these days, because the draft and the salary cap work so well that it's essentially impossible to out-talent the rest of the league.  Baseball teams sometimes have tried to do it intentionally by tanking to accumulate multiple years of high first round picks, unloading talented veterans for more picks or just to stockpile money, then race to the top on the backs of young talent that the team won't re-sign to monster contracts.   It just isn't an effective model in the NFL.

     

    One place where it happens occasionally is when the team hits on a rookie QB who is so good so young that the team has a window with a lot of cap room.   But that doesn't happen very often.  

     

    The Bills signing Von Miller was not window behavior, because Von Miller was signed to a long-term contract that was designed to give the Bills a great edge for at least three years and as much as six.  That's building a team, not loading up on talent for the short-run.  Beyond that, the notion of "window behavior" is bogus.  What you're talking about is behavior like the Rams acquiring Miller the year before or signing OBJ.  That doesn't mean the Rams had a strategy based on windows and rebuilds.  The Rams expect to be good year after year.  All those signing represented was something that Beane says he would do, too, which is that if the team is having a good regular season run and looks like it could win it all, then he'll do whatever he can to get additional talent on the team.  So, for example, when the Bills were 6-6, Beane was not going to run out and get a special player on a one-year (or less) rental.  If they're 10-2 next season, he might.  

     

    The Bills have been built, intentionally, to compete for championships every year, year after year, and to reload talent in such a way that the team doesn't have peaks and valleys with talent.  That is exactly what McBeane described when they first got to Buffalo. 

     

    What's worse than the fact that you were wrong, however, is your attitude and the tone with which you address the rest of us.  We are not "brainless" (far from it) and we are not "dumbasses."    


    dumbass - a stupid or contemptible person. E.g., “we have a dumbass of a mayor.”

     

    Read the thread. Hardly inappropriate. As for you, thanks for acknowledging windows exist.

    Bills windows with Josh

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    Posted · Edited by dayman

    Talk of windows being nonexistent identifies posters that have no brain. Let me help the brainless (although I’d rather not):

     

    Window — a period of time where peak roster construction is in place.

     

    We were just in one but didn’t capitalize largely due to catastrophic injuries on defense. This topic is about how to adjust moving forward given that age and cap now disrupt our core roster moving forward.

     

    Anyone with a brain that follows sports sees teams make aggressive moves when they’re close (e.g. us signing Von at his age and price). This is window behavior. The Von contract itself proves windows exist.
     

    Windows exist. You dumbasses. 

     

     

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    Josh made the right call to go for the TD

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    Posted · Edited by dayman

    6 hours ago, frostbitmic said:

    If Josh hit Shakir for the TD there, maybe the Chiefs would leave a minute on the clock after they retook the lead.


    in all honesty that was the only other way we could win which is lower probability than chunking it going for a 0 second score


    Scoring and stopping was lowest probability


    basically we should have been assuming chunking and scoring was the way to go and not thrown that ball

     

     

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    Congratulations Miami

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    Posted · Edited by dayman

    Great passing? Idk what Dolphins team you watched towards the end.

     

     Dolphins had a neat system. The league figured it out. They couldn’t push through injuries. Tua needs things perfect.

    So are we just done expecting Von Miller to do anything?

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    29 minutes ago, Mikey said:

    Just because not getting sack doesn’t mean Von isn’t bringing pressure on the QB, which he is. Beating his blocker and getting in the backfield when he’s in the game. Bad injury Von Miller and just getting his grove back. Brings leadership to that DLine as well.

     

    Dont worry about Von because he’s getting more and more comfortable out there and will be a bigger impact every week-

     

     


    I wish it were true but this just isn’t what is actually happening in the games.

    The Great Chicken Wing Debate .

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    4 hours ago, hondo in seattle said:

     

    I've had Thai and Vietnamese wings many times.  The quality/taste depends on the restaurant.  But at their best, they are very, very good.  

     

    Korean and Chinese wings can be really good, too.  

     

    And I once ate at a Brazilian chicken restaurant that specialized in wings.  The wings themselves were crispy but somewhat bland.  But they gave you an assortment of dipping sauces - some of which were great.  

     

     


    all that is awesome but that’s a different thing all together … we’re setting down the rules for American football wings right here

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    Giant elephant in room. Beane

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    He made moves to push us for a SB run last year and this year. Injuries and coaching took that away. He is to blame for no speed on offense but ultimately a lot of the complaints are really just that we got hurt and didn’t win. He knew what he was doing he just missed.

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