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How long to close the competitive gap?
PlayoffsPlease replied to Ga boy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Oh, so you are discussing closing the gap, as not actually finishing the process of closing the gap? or are you just discussing closing the gap to becoming a perennial slighly better loser? you make no sense whatsoever. -
How long to close the competitive gap?
PlayoffsPlease replied to Ga boy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Many people on this board can't grasp the obvious point you are making . They seem to think somehow that teams go 6-10, then 7-9, the 8-8, then 9-7, then 10-6 like it is some sort of corporate "continual improvement" process. -
How long to close the competitive gap?
PlayoffsPlease replied to Ga boy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Closing the Gap means joining the small crowd of superior teams. Bouncing around between 6-10 and 10-6 without ever winning playoff games makes you the Bengals. -
How long to close the competitive gap?
PlayoffsPlease replied to Ga boy's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Its difficult to tell how far behind the top teams the Bills are. No one on the team as an owner, GM, coach or Bills player has ever won a playoff game or won 10 games in a season. Do you consider the Marvin Lewis Bengals a success story? Would those results satisfy the OP's question? Today we saw a future hall of fame QB, Philip Rivers, who has had a great coach (Marty Shottenheimer) ,played with Hall of famers like LaDainian Tomlinson and Antonio Gates who none the less never help established his team as consistently in the top tier of teams. Yesterday we MAY have seen the next great coach QB combo in the AFC with Reid/Mahomes. This season we saw other young QBs in the AFC like Baker Mayfield, Andrew Luck, Deshaun Watson in the AFC. Its entirely possible for Josh Allen to get to their level, and like Rivers, never had a team to push them past them. Bill Bellichek might stay with the Patriots the next 10 years. I think he will always be a better coach than McDermott. I think the easier question is how long until the Bills are respectable NFL team rather than a laughingstock? And we now know the answer, since Josh Allen returned from his injury. -
What Magic Doth Nick Foles Possess?
PlayoffsPlease replied to OldTimer1960's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
He is good. You are way over thinking this. I think you completely miss the point. Foles is playing pretty damn good against a very good team. Does Brees cease to be a starting caliber QB if the Saints lose? -
What Magic Doth Nick Foles Possess?
PlayoffsPlease replied to OldTimer1960's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Dude has 27-2 TD-INT ratio season, and a super bowl winning playoff run on his resume. I think he is just a good QB. -
Andre Reed Criticizes Personnel Decisions
PlayoffsPlease replied to Elite Poster's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Is subtweeting under your real name more or less cowardly than posting anonymously in a fan forum to complain about cowards? -
I think there are at least one significant flaws in the design of the 538 analysis. It does not seem to take into account situations. Pass-Pass-Pass is likely very successful for teams that are trailing big in the second half facing a prevent defense. I am not sure you can compare the results of rush-rush-pass on the opening series against that.
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To everyone who thinks the pressure on Reich in Buffalo would enormous, there is an important news flash. The pressure on every NFL coach is enormous. Only a small handful make it to the five year mark. Reich did a nice job in Indy this season. There is no reason to think he would not be a good coach elsewhere. If Reich goes on to win a string of super bowls, and McDermot washes out in Buffalo, it will be fair to say we might have blown it.
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McBeane Confidence Update
PlayoffsPlease replied to The Real Buffalo Joe's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
If you think Josh Allen is a true franchise QB in the making, then Beane has solved a riddle that has perplexed Bills GMs for more than 2 decades. This buys him lots of good will. At the same time McDermott somehow concluded the Bills would be better wasting training camp splitting reps three ways instead of committing to Allen. This is why many fans like Beane and are skeptical of McDermott. -
There is no fun allowed during a Bills off-season. If TBD posters don't keep their eyes focused on the prize, there is good chance the Bills run of winning the last nine straight off seasons could come to a screeching halt. Stay focused. Trust the Process. Build a Bully. But please no fun. Oh no. Mr. Bill can't get the next goat
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The national TV audience for Super Bowl averaged 111.3 million viewers for Fox Last year's Academy Awards, which earned a 22.4 overnight rating, ultimately fetched 32.9 million viewers for ABC Not really comparable. I would guess far more people watch the Super Bowl than do anything to memorialize half of the federal holidays.