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i usually dont say this, nor agree with hardly anyone here, but i agree with every point you said (except 5) wtf is that song?. I would add sammy is a soft as a baby marshmellow whether hampered by injury or not. he goes down faster than tim brown ever did after a catch. i hope its injury, i would hate to think hes actually that much of a wuss. anyway great post. -
yes we need him to lose 3 yards per carry and run out of bounds when we are killing the clock. Brice brown at least falls forward while fumbling. Spiller gets help up instantly on contact and then fumbles. Oh ya I know he did get a couple long runs this season, when he wasnt too busy breaking his collarbones.
sammy being a wuss, hes played soft since week 3. How did he hurt his ribs anyway? i saw shazier barely hit him on a slant and broken ribs? i guess. howd he get thru college being so fragile? put goodwin in for him, now theres a player with durability.With Freddy back fully and Breasteses shouldering the rest of the load, I think they'd be better off having Spiller back. Brown just isn't the same home run threat, and with Sammy being gimpy, we certainly could use one.
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if we beat denver im buying raiders tix (west coaster here) since the pats will have the bye locked up i see them resting their starters. its all about denver (unless we lose then its all about green bay
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he could stay healthy if he wasnt thrown short stop routes that get him killed. throw him the deep balls exclusively, he has awesome hands and speed.. hackett is the problem not goodwin
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hi thanks for joining the bills as a fan. I hope you enjoy the team. I enjoyed your preseason-style post. if you need any info about the team msg me. I can tell you who our qb is, who plays wr and rb etc.The Bills are 7-5 heading into December. I'll be completely honest, I didn't expect this at all. We usually are irrelevant at this point in the season and the threads start to become more "next year" oriented, much like my name. But this year is different. We have a winning record heading into the playoff stretch and are still contenders. It's amazing. However, I do believe we need to go 10-6 to make it into the playoffs. This is a tall task, as we still have the Patriots, Broncos, and Packers, and the underestimated (yet very underwhelming today) Raiders to play. But even if we don't make it to the playoffs this year, I believe that we have a strong core to build off of for the future. A new owner, a Super Bowl caliber defense, the best defensive line in the league, great wide receivers, some solid running backs, two bookend tackles that should only continue to improve, what looks like a playmaking and athletic tight end in MarQueis Gray (although it was just one game), and Kiko coming back. Our coaching staff on the offensive side of the ball and our quarterback both look a bit iffy, but if we can maybe bring in a young guy through the draft and if our coaches can either a) be smarter with offensive scheme and red zone effectiveness when it comes to play calling or b) get replaced by more competent and NFL ready coaches, I think we have a great shot next year, regardless of what happens this year. I'm excited in the direction we're headed and can't wait to see how it all plays out. Lets enjoy this feeling while we can. Go Bills!
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hes better than ej has ej thrown 6 tds in 2 games? 3 games?
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you could have just posted "hi, i dont understand football, I like one guy, and i want him to make every play no matter what."Calm your Va JJ
The reason why were in a 6-5 right now and not in playoff position is because we continue to not feed Watkins enough. Hes our best player, he needs the ball more than hes gotten the last 3 games. We have a lot invested in him and we need to utilize that investment. 2 of the last 3 games we've lost and hes had only 30 yards receiving each time. When he gets the ball we win. Thats all im saying.
Why cant woods be the focal point? he can actually catch. Why should a double covered guy get the ball "no matter what" especially when he drops passes and goes down like a little girl before he gets tackled?
dont play then...if you cant play hard, dont play at all. or are you part of the little-girl-excuse-making-club?Sammy's a softy. What a pu$$y for playing through broken ribs and a groin pull. Freakin' wuss.
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i thought this was the lee evans excuse? Isnt a "good" wr suppossed to just overcome this? When are people going to see that sammy is a softy and doesnt like anyone in his way when hes catching the ball? If hes not running free and clear he doesnt come up with it. Not only that but he goes down like a bag of rocks at the first sight of contact. Tonight was another obvious example, two drops on catchable balls, layed himself down w out being tackled on a slant, then stepped out of bounds on one of his few catches instead of turning upfield.They rolled coverage his way all game long. They remembered Sammy torching them in the 1st game and were not going to allow it a 2nd time.
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championship!
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none of these thoughts or theories explain why we get horrible calls in key situations. We get class that effectively are turnovers for our team. We lose games by 1 score in these games. so its not that we "suck". the refs suck and call us more than other premium quaterbacked teams. Maybe you could explain why this fact exists if you dont agree with other peoples opinions.Is the NFL rigged ? NO. I think , after years of bad football, it's a natural reaction ( defense mechanism ) for us to come up with reasons on why we suck so much while other team ( NE mainly ) are always on top and have their way with us year after year.
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stop trolling, why do you post here? go join weo and ignore the obvious while attacking us for our fantasy theories while we watch them unfold week after week, year after year. Google some stats about pi called on the pats/broncos/colts etc vs the bills and get back to us when you have something to support your theory. (which it is since we actually do get called way more than other teams) and include non calls too. DVR all the games of all teams if you need to. we wont mind not hearing fro you for a while.Arrington was both turned for the ball AND had position on Wayne.
Nice try
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you answered it yourself...yes. When a team "becomes" good due to overwhelmingly good coaching/players/qb they become darlings of the nfl. Goodell probably upgrades or downgrades officiating crews who do or dont call penalties the way he wants. He wants denver/sf or pats/dallas in a superbowl. If the teams blow it then its on them but if theres a marginal call the refs will use opportunities where they can to screw the lesser team, especially if its close. it wouldnt be hard to have an unsaid rule among refs regarding this.Yes, winning teams get good ratings. What is your point? That they were "preselected"? Why? By whom?
If the "preselected" Cowboys are getting so many favorable calls, why haven't they won a playoff game in 7 years and only 2 in the past 18 years? Did Denver get "deselected" after Elway retired...and then "reselected" when Manning showed up (that clever NFL!!)? Why did the NFL wait until Brady became the starting QB to "select" the patriots (Kraft had owned them for years before that)? Why hasn't the NFL selected the Jets all these years? Why would they select the Colts--a team that moved in the middle of the night....to Indy, of all places?
regardless,
Whatever you say doesnt support the FACT that we have ridiculous calls called on us every week. That it has cost us games and even playoff positioning/homefield back in the flutie days. Instead of making fun of a theory that you cant otherwise prove wrong...what is your reasoning for why there have been so many bad calls against us for the past 15 years?
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its widely admitted that having a "winner" like the cowboys once were, the broncos w elway, niners w young etc. improved ratings. Having a few preselcted "winning teams" helps the nfl. Buffalo is like that guy off the bench getting called for a foul on a lebron james drive. It makes lebron look better and who cares about the backup shlub.. Buffalo is that back up schlub. Tom bradys team doesnt get those calls on them. When we were going to superbowls we got alot of calls then too and hardly any bad onnes. Now we get 2-3 a game.The Packers do not have a national fan base--not like the Cowboys or Steelers.
Some of the highest Nielson rated viewing is in small markets such as GB, Kansas City, Indy, New Orleans---even Buffalo was ranked #11 in ratings in 2013. Rating overall have gone up every year.
The NFL doesn't "make billions". It's owners, collectively receive billions from TV contracts and merchandise sales. The NFL doesn't make this money.
The NFL Tv contracts are locked in for 8 more years, so tossing a few calls to one team or another has no effect on the money coming into the league.
If only big market and/or "national teams" were being favored by the refs at the command of the NFL itself, a team like Seattle would never succeed, nor would NO, or Indy, etc...
It should be obvious that any owner not being "favored" by the NFL would not just sit back and accept it.
This stuff is always good for a laugh, but now it seems just sad...
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why would you thumbs up this? So if im poor and get mugged should i be ok with it because i need to make more money and buy a better house anyways? The point is unrelated. we arent being distracted, and our team is just fine. Getting bias refs is a real problem and it has ruined this season and others. We may fix our problems on O and win out but it wont matter if refs stole 2 games from us already this year.
maybe dont post here anymore. Also i cant change anything no matter how hard i "focus" So if refs cheat and act bias I should ignore it because my team isnt better? So how good do they need to be where i accept bogus calls? Idiotic.Maybe focus on having your team be better on a consistent basis.
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its obviously rigged. From the bledsoe "just give it to him" game to the PI last night. Its not an organized on paper thing. More like an unsaid rule. Every other game we lose or nearly lose is because of these calls swinging the game. They are no different than turnovers and greatly affect outcomes. How many flags have the refs picked up on us this year? How many drives of ours stalled but we get a bogus call on third to to help us out? How about that head pat the other day? how about the unsportsmanlike last night? There are 3-4 in a game sometimes!
im tired of feeling like we have to beat the refs...or being more mad at the refs than i am at hackett
I think the refs know that whenever they can call something marginal on a crap team to go ahead and do it. I think when there are 2 crap teams, they huddle and say..."now which of these crap teams are we supposed to help again?" and the head ref says," i think buffalos looking pretty good this year so lets pick up that flag we threw on the other guy"
They never seem to call these penalties on the niners, pats, broncos or colts etc
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re write 2 page posting like this...."brady to buffalo?" -
don't know how many of you saw last night's Inside the NFL, but when our KC segment was over, i couldn't help getting the feeling that our head coach responds more like a sulking fan on a message board than someone in a position to impact the game.
fyi - it's hard to tell exactly when these were uttered - because the show's editor had a job to do - but here are a few of his more pessimistic remarks captured during the game - directed at no one in particular:
- after the Brown fumble - "that's a touchdown.. that's not like it's not a touchdown.. that's a touchdown"
- sometime after that - "we should be up by a helluva lot more than this"
- after the Charles TD - "4th and 1.. unbelievable"
- toward the end - "we had opportunities"
i'd rather hear him screaming, "they're killin' me Whitey! they're killin' me!" - than this sad sack crap.
jeez, coach.. if you're disappointed with how your team's playing - get engaged, when it counts - or buy a ticket!
i guess you want him to be happy? he says what we all think and i like it. Maybe you want a emotionless jauron type. "we have to look at the tape" how about you post on things that matter like news or whos good or who isnt on the field. A coach feeling bad about a loss isnt post worthy.
- after the Brown fumble - "that's a touchdown.. that's not like it's not a touchdown.. that's a touchdown"
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thanks for stealing my joke. i know you saw this in the other thread about ej...admit it please.If the Bills lose this week to the Dolphins, is it too soon to start talking about inserting Alex van Pelt into the starting lineup?
Van Pelt has 11 career starts. He's still essentially a rookie.
Van Pelt last got meaningful time as a starter back in 2001. He was plagued by accuracy issues. But he's had eight years on the bench since then. Eight years to develop. Eight years to become a far more accurate passer than he'd been in college or in the early years of his NFL career. How many more games do the Bills need to lose before it's time to put van Pelt back out there?
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i say as many as it takes for losman or edwards to play again.
that being said, i think 1 injury puts him back in immediately...its his job to earn if he pulls out a victory in relief. I dont see him ever being "good" but itd be a nice surprise if he went in and lit it up.
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so you cant find a single play he makes this year in a jump ball situation, then you call preventing ints some kind of great accomplishment( others just call it not making the catch) you ignore he didnt haul in 2-3 passes yesterday that touched his hands because his groin hurt?? It must be nice to just insult someone rather than find or look up the proof. btw He "knocked down" some ints in houston or san diego too but youll just ignore those too. You know who else did alot of "knocking down" ints? Donald jones. Sad to see you cant hear an opinion nor back up your own...just go staright to insults becuase i dont want to say sammy is a superstar...dont worry. In 2 years when i find you all admitting i was right ill call you out on your blind homering.Ha ha, you said this year and I showed you a clip from this year. You have yet to supply the clip where someone beat him in that situation. You waited until he played a game with a 1/2 of a groin and tried to prove a point. You may very we'll be the worst poster in TBD and that's saying something. You are totally clueless and an antagonist besides. Take your lack of football knowledge over to the Pats site where you will fit right in.
wow now im a troll it just is amazing if you dont agree with blind optimism how people react....sorry i dont agree w you...oh and could you tell me how many jump balls sammys come up with this year??? oh wait heres the stat ......... 0Can we please just ban this guy? He's an obvious troll and not contributing to the board. No one would be upset. Promise
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he didnt fall, he got juked but was reading tuels eyes and saw he was staring down another WR. Graham, who prob wouldnt have even caught it as he had his defender draped on his back...Tuel simply decided he was throwing there no matter what...which is why as a coach and madden player i run it there and take the FG if i have to...i hate passes to the flat or outside in the red zone...unless its 4rth down end of game senario you just shouldnt be throwing. Take 3 points or learn how to run the ball for a yard!I dont know how many times Ive had to debunk this theory. The defender that was on SJ13 fell and got up exactly where the pass was intended to the other receiver.
I swear the Bills are cursed. THink about that...SJ13 juked his defender so bad that he fell. When he gets up the ball is in his hands. That lane should have been clear for an easy TD.
Today I explained to my friend all the sh.it that happened in yesterdays game and he couldnt believe it. He also witnessed Mckelvin Fumbling against Pats. I told him it was Mckelvin again. HE LAUGHED!
thats 1 out of what 8 passes that were there...the other plays sucked and werent there. where was mike williams? the screen? the draw that we usually run too mcuh now it gets abandoned? Hacket gets 3 -4 plays stuck in his head and its all he'll run that day.I wanted them to run the ball as well--that doesn't change the fact that Hogan was wide open at the goal line on 3rd down and Orton simply missed him for the would-be go-ahead TD. There's only so far you can fault play-calling...it's one thing to disagree with philosophy; it's quite another to deny that a drawn-up play had its intended effect.
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6-10? really? guess you think we dont have a defense and we are always going to lose close ones...we were lucky to win in detroit and minn. this was the one we shoulda won but its evening out. maybe 8-8 or 9-7 but 6-10 is a ridiculous assessment.More like 7-9 or even 6-10 and no first rounder....
This has been one of the more frustrating losses in recent memory. How many other ways can they lose games?
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blowing it up would be plain dumb. just replace hackett, im excited about this defense for once, excited about the wrs we have. Freds still here and we can maybe add a free agent qb. draft a guard with our 2 and 3 and lets go!
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