wakingfane

I just saw the other thread "This staff doesn’t take every game seriously" after posting. That's kind of an expansion on the idea of, yeah, we are intentionally keeping things simple, directing effort to conservative and basic game planning, managing the load over the season and not giving full effort each week.

I hear you, but I've seen enough offenses produce in this league with the kind of receivers we have. The Bills run the same exact pass routes just with different players in slightly different roles or starting from slightly different positions, again and again, and just hope that the pattern works against the coverage call. The only time I see a creative pass play it seems to be an outgrowth of the run game.

What I see here is not just inconsistent player effort or insufficient talent but insufficient coaching capacity for creative game planning. It seems like they can put together a great game plan if they have a really long time to ramp up and focus on an opponent, but they are almost like skipping an entire week or two of opponents with very little opponent specific planning., throwing a generic script together, while either putting in less effort or starting work on a future opponent instead. Is this because there is a bottleneck and only a few people are contributing to or are overly controlling and can't keep up with the higher level game planning? Or if it's just a few, are they incapable in terms of creativity rather than time & effort. Or is it intentional to keep the offense simple throughout the regular season? Or everyone is working together and contributing but they just don't have enough talent in the building? Or is it simply humanly impossible for a finite number of people to do the perfect game plan every single week for 17 weeks in this league, so parity will always bite any team? Same thing with the run game creativity vs. pass game creativity. You can see very clearly that there is more time on task with the run game. Why can't we have an offense that does both well? It's not just the players, it's lack of time on task, scheming and practicing the pass game this year.

The logos on the helmets were supposed to look frosted but instead they looked like gray blobs. I think there was too much lead in the paint because the players looked brain damaged.

Each local TV station chooses among the games being produced by their national network

I love some of the features, like the ice encrusted charging Buffalo, lol, but i wish it looked less like a different team and more like an icy version of a Bills uniform

That lift tackle from '74 was aaaaaaawsome!

Thanks for the broader info. Nothing i hate more than retreating into a drive killing sack. He did look a bit slow to accelerate in the pocket but it didn't hurt him on the highlights, obviously...

I didn't know that Deion's son was a player, let alone a top prospect - just not a college fan and haven't been following the draft this year. But I've watched a lot of football in my time... just watched Sanders' highlights. I would say he has IT. Goes through his progressions, scans the whole field, starts scrambling at the exact right time, keeps his head up downfield, scrambles pretty well when needed, places the ball accurately all over the field. Can't ask for much more than that. His windup is a tad slow but that's my only criticism.

I don't know about you all but... I'm really starting to love this WR room. We quietly got better.

Small town predicts our fate. How about, It's egg rollin' thick and heavy...all the past we carry...

Good Grief!! No wonder we keep losing! lol... It's all of you closet hedgers out there. The football Gods shrug... "What do you want from us???" This thread has been most illuminating, lol... I'm blaming you guys from now on, by the way.

I've only bet on sports twice. In 2019 I bet the Bills to make the playoffs. Made about $2,200. This year, I bet the Bills to make the Super Bowl... we shall see I only bet when I think I know something about the Bills that the masses don't. And i guess my way of betting against them is just sitting out.

If a foreign nation did this to us, we would be in World War 3.

EDGE = Edge Defending Gangsta Extreme

Probably because he got sick of recording for every post-surgical- procedure pep talk, wedding, baby shower, graduation ceremony, and bar mitzvah, "W.E.W.Y.R.B.T.R.H.R.N."

You know they are all talking on the headsets, including the coordinators,... he should just make it a policy to defer these decisions to his coordinators since he's obviously not good at it, they are both quick on their feet (mentally), and they both want to be head coaches eventually... they have got to do something different. Being uber prepared and thinking you've got every scenario perfectly pegged ahead of time obviously isn't working

Can we hire Tom Brady?!?! How much is Fox paying him?

He's got a nose for COLOR commentary.

Complimentary football - yes! Finally, this year, tickets are free.

This thread is a great example of why we DON'T have more solid in stadium song traditions other than the Shout song. Hard to find a single song that four different generations and more than a few cultural traditions and tastes within each generation can actually agree on, lol.

Wow, lots of sneering... at trade deadline this could be quite relevant depending on team records then

Yes!! We beat the Chiefs!!

As far as trash talking, I'm pretty sure he is having fun with it vs. someone who takes themselves very seriously and is cut throat about sh*ttng on others. I'm guessing he'll say other QBs just really need to raise their trash talk game, lol