Figster
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Indian Chef and co has fed on the proud and mighty Buffalo for far to long (mangy beasts albeit)
The Herd surge
to the Superbowl!!!!
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14 hours ago, Kelly to Allen said:
Hindsight is 20/20 but we should've just kept Fitz and gailey until we found a franchise QB similar to how KC kept Alex Smith for a bit until the right opportunity came about to draft a great QB prospect.
I had a lot of fun watching Fitz magic
Fitz knows the Gailey playbook like the back of his hand. Fan of both and using Coleman like SJ was used in the Gailey Offense matches Keon's skill set best IMO.
While Fitzy may have played for more then one NFL team. The Fitzmagic heart resides in Buffalo.
LETS GO BUFFALO!!!!!
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Just now, Sweats said:
What?!?........what the hell is wrong with you?
This is classic stuff, man.
Lol, you got a laugh out of me there
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1 hour ago, T master said:
If this don't make you laugh nothing will ! Nothing at all to do with Football but 4 minutes of stress relief and laughter !!
CLASSIC !!! 😂
Not my cup of tea, but wanted to thank you for trying.
Got something fun or funny peeps? Post it
Already been posted , but I love this guy!!!!
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On 1/20/2025 at 11:12 AM, Warcodered said:
Bump, just because
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50 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:
Was not a fan of the call. Game over if we score a td there. Believe in Josh's intelligence to roll out and throw or run. He's not throwing an int there. If it's incomplete, then kick the fg which was 200% the right call by Sean. The 3rd down play was ass. I would have even tolerated a tush. Maybe we score? or get it marked inside the 1? Gives you alot more options. I'm waiting for clever new plays from Brady that never seem to come. This is his playbook and he's exhausted all his plays.
Waiting for clever new plays? You mean like Andy Reid trickery? The Bills O scored allot of points this season. Very balanced and hard to defend IMO. Everyone eats in this Offense
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3 minutes ago, Brand J said:
And if his career was longer, Bo Jackson might’ve been considered for top 2.
Just watching highlights, good call.
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7 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:
Ok. Let's try to name 10 in any order better than Henry.
Gale Sayers
Barry Sanders
OJ Simpson
Emmitt Smith
Earl Campbell
Jim Brown
Adrian Peterson
Thurman Thomas
Walter Payton
Eric Dickerson
What's it's going to be in Buffalo?
Henry is tied the with legendary Jim Brown for sixth place on the NFL's list of all-time career rushing touchdown leaders with 106. Henry is four touchdowns shy of tying Walter Payton for fifth place.
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12 minutes ago, strive_for_five_guy said:
I’m not Bill Belichick, but spying a running back sounds ridiculous to me. If the ball is handed off to Henry, of course the Bills need a plan to tackle him. But Henry generally won’t be looking to pass the ball during the game, so there’s no need to have any defender worry about containing him in the pocket. Lamar is the dual threat player that potentially requires a spy.Normally I would agree, Henry on the other hand might be the best RB that has ever played the game. Take King Henry out of the equation.
Bills win
I Billieve
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3 minutes ago, strive_for_five_guy said:
So you wouldn’t put a spy on Lamar?1st and foremost Lamar Jackson and the Ravens want to get the ball into Derrick Henry's hands in open space IMO. Run or pass.
To me spying Henry, spies Lamar in the process ; )
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Just now, strive_for_five_guy said:
But you can’t just focus on only Henry either. Need a plan for containing Lamar too.Milano can though, until Lamar crosses the line of scrimmage
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16 minutes ago, strive_for_five_guy said:
Is Milano fast enough to be the spy on Lamar though? I wonder if we’d need someone with more speed as the spy, like Dorian or Bishop. I know Milano is quick and has great instincts, but Lamar might be able to run right by Milano in open field.Jackson is not the biggest problem.
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3 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:
There is nothing to see here. The interview has no impact on the outcome of this game this week. Its not like Brady flew to Chicago for 2 days and nights to pitch himself and neglected the team or something. These happen every year in the postseason.
It does show a strong interest by the Bears. I don't blame them.
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23 minutes ago, Buckets said:
Yes, but if no one could interview until after the super bowl timing wouldn't matter. I don't like coordinators having to worry about interviews while trying to prepare for the most important game of the season (which is the next one)
I agree, here's the thing though, this kind of attention only makes you work even harder right? If Brady is considering a HC position, and how could he not. Joe Brady is still going to do everything in his power, and then some, to win a Championship.
Brady is coaching for $$$$$$$ on the horizon.
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5 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:
Guardian caps are fine for practice, but they look dumb as hell on the football field. And I saw Romeo Doubs get another head injury and lay in the end zone for a while last week even though he was wearing one. Whats the point? If players are afraid of getting concussions then don't play
Most NFL players are not afraid of injury IMO. Some take it to the next level like Tua or Damar Hamlin. Modern day Gladiators.
This is part of the problem.
I don't know what Romeo Doubs history is when it comes to concussions. Its very possible he has one and its not his 1st concussion.
If two players collide head to head, both wearing the Guardin cap. The protection almost doubles. Something we have not seen in NFL live games.
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9 hours ago, Puckman5 said:
so let’s take bumpers and crumple zones out of cars because they probably won’t help if you drive off a 100 ft cliff.Current NFL helmets are like cars without bumpers.
Nicely done.
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1 hour ago, DCofNC said:
The problem is, cushioning the impact doesn’t change inertia, the brain is still moving at say 15mph, the stop of that momentum is the issue. Doesn’t matter if you hit a pillow, if the momentum is stopped, the brain is slapping the skull. That tiny bit of padding may alleviate a tiny bit of force, but in the collisions that cause concussions, there’s no data to support it makes any difference.https://safetyairproducts.com/
This cushion catches people in free fall going 120 mph without sustaining a concussion.
The collisons are also causing cumulative damage. You say tiny, fair enough, data tells us 10% to 20% reduction If both players colliding wear one. Most small test studies I've looked at showed cutting concussion numbers in half or better albeit small sample sizes.
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17 hours ago, shrader said:
oh great, you’re removing interior padding now. Fortunately we’ll never see just how bad of an idea that is.Not in its entirety. How the current NFL helmet looks with the Guardian cap over it needs to be trimmed down. Or players won't wear it. By adding padding on the exterior its possible less is needed on the interior. (speculation)
The technologies need to come together, helmet makers and maker of the Guardian cap IMO.
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12 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:
It's not an improvement--the data says so.
yes that was the next sentence. I left it out because it does not change the fact of the first 2 paragraphs. These things do nothing to decrease head injury. These are machine tests. All they could show was that, in one experiment, if one helmet with and one without are made to hit eachother, the one with has 9% less impact severity. There is no data at all suggesting this has any impact on head injuries for football players.
Players have loudly spoken---they don't see these things as effective (they are literally a thin pad strapped to their helmets) in protecting them. And to this point, they are right. The NFL is happy to say they are "doing something" about this issue and this company is happy to supply them with enough pseudo data to make it all seem like "the right thing to do". If this was a medical device, it would never get FDA approval simply for the near complete lack of demonstrable efficacy.
Common sense tells you the padded protection/energy absorption actually does what it was meant to at the point of impact. Not after two hard shelled exteriors collide.
If you can't understand this then I'm wasting my time.
Maybe this will help
When you think about the way a concussion happens, it's because your brain is floating inside your skull, and when you get hit or you experience a whiplash, it bounces around inside your skull," added Mel Haupt, Park's athletic trainer. "So, if we can add something on top of it to absorb some of that force, less force is going to get transmitted through the helmet, through your skull, and then into your brain.”
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4 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:
The data so far is garbage.
these things are a fig leaf for the NFL. Perfect product to pretend that they are interested in mitigating injury. These things do not do that.
"Although the National Football League reported a 50% reduction in concussion incidence during the 2022 preseason following the mandate for particular position groups to wear the Guardian Cap for team practices [13], most evidence supporting the utility of Guardian Cap was yielded from laboratory-based investigations [14,15]. The Guardian Cap reduced head impact severity during a helmet-drop test at only 2 of 6 helmet locations at high speed (5.47 m/s), and no reductions were observed following low (3.46 m/s) and medium (4.89 m/s) drop speeds across all helmet locations [15]."
"Based on our preliminary findings, protective soft-shell padding did not reduce head linear or rotational accelerations among a subset of college football players. Additionally, gameplay characteristics fundamental to offensive linemen, defensive linemen, and tight ends did not affect peak linear and rotational acceleration between those with and without soft-shell padding."
NFL should not be promoting these as risk reduction devices because as of yet, there is no data to support this sales pitch.
You left a part out
An adaptation by Bailey et al. examined head impact severity from two helmets colliding at various angles replicative of gameplay with various helmet model and soft-shell padding combinations [14]. They observed an average reduction in head impact severity by 9% compared to helmets not equipped with the Guardian Cap, and upwards of 20% when both helmets had a Guardian Cap [14]. From these early findings, it is important for researchers to consider both the helmet’s location of impact in addition to potential factors in gameplay scenarios that may influence the efficacy of soft-shell padding.
https://academic.oup.com/acn/article-abstract/38/5/823/7199416?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Myself personally, the Guardian cap and current top helmet makers need to come together and build a more trimmed down version. I'm not sure the same amount of interior protection is needed when more is provided on the exterior of the helmet. (speculation)
Make it look good and not add extra weight players will wear it IMO.
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1 hour ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
Data shows they help. Nothing will ever prevent concussions.
Data would show they help more when everyone wears one. Further reducing the helmet to helmet impact. Maybe the game of football doesn't get new rule changes making it very hard for defenders to make a tackle because their fool head is in between two tackling arms. How many other kinds of injuries would it prevent? QB's hand or arm coming down on a helmet can cause injury. Guardian cap helps prevent this from happening.
11 minutes ago, reddogblitz said:This
From the article:
This (and other things) show me the NFL is full of BS on this "player safery" stuff. If you could reduce the force from head contact by 20% if everyone wore one, if they were really serious about "player safety" they would require all players to wear one. The problem is, they just look silly and could affect the bottom line.
Nicely put red
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1 minute ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
I’m sure there is some impact they absorb. But yes, they will not prevent concussions. A perfect example is the Romeo Doubs concussion last week. Actually doesn’t even look very bad but still gets a concussion with a guardian cap on.
Some players like Tua for instance are more vulnerable because of the cumulative damage already done. Something the Guardian cap also helps reduce and why I'm happy to see many football programs implementing the protection to its players at an early age.
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1 hour ago, strive_for_five_guy said:
Right, but he was talking about the Bills and how tough a challenge it is to defend Josh, and then for some reason brought up Lamar being good in the same sentence. It was just weird, like he couldn’t say Josh was good without saying Lamar is good too. Most objective observers can appreciate that Lamar has been awesome this year too, but it doesn’t need to be pointed out when discussing topics not involving him.Thanks for the explanation
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8 minutes ago, stlbills13 said:
I gotta stop hyperventilating about this game.
Nervous energy is driving me nuts
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