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Just now, Freddie's Dead said:
I glossed him Superfly when he was drafted, and I changed my screen name when Whaley chloroformed FredEx. RIP the later great Curtis Mayfield.
My wife and I just inherited a ton of vinyl from our parents, and yep, it includes the one and only Curtis Mayfield. The man was still making great music as a quadraplegic.
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The legend of Tua continues. </sarcasm>
Just now, Freddie's Dead said:Love watching the TITians getting B-slapped by Superfly and the Browns.
Mayfield is called Superfly -- as in Curtis Mayfield?! I kind of like this.
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7 minutes ago, Chicken Boo said:
If you can't trust your backup QB to throw the ball when he's been in the league 7 years, then WTF is he doing on your roster!
Watching bits and pieces of this (busy day at the plant), it's incredible to me that some wanted RGIII on this team a few short years ago.
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38 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:
My wife kept hearing that sound and thought I was doing something else behind the computer....
I thought that was *fapping*?
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Someone once told me that Wentz was a blue chip player. One wonders...
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27 minutes ago, 2003Contenders said:
Actually, the Bills were coming off a 9-7 season and had a pretty good defense -- a great front 4 -- so there was plenty of interest at the time. Remember, Doug M. had opted out because he had that $4M safety-net and was "certain" that he was going to get the Jets job.
I think that it's more Bills fan lore that we insist Mr Bologna was going to get the Jets job. Sure, he interviewed for it, but he sold high when it came to the Bills. And look what happened. He landed on his feet then picked up another HC gig in 2017 by attrition. What a guy!
The Bills were in flux in 2015, and that's why Rex landed here. Yes, while I'm surprised at the number of people the team interviewed for the HC position, at the same time -- the organization still required a solid fumigation, and that took place later.
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Just now, Straight Hucklebuck said:
Jeremy White said it best, recreating the "Patriot Way" really just meant treating everyone like crap and expecting them to buy-in.
Players have said it was joyless in that building, being criticized constantly.
Exactly. People forget that Belichick's reign, if you want to call it that, in Cleveland, was pretty much a waste of everyone's time. When he came to NE, 2000 was deliciously awful, and 2001 had all the potential of another thrilling losing season for the Pats until... dammit!!! My only surprise is that he rolled with Newton this year. Newton is the least "Patriot Way" guy I can think of, and really I wouldn't select Newton for my team the vast majority of the time these days.
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1 minute ago, PromoTheRobot said:
The story I recall was Shanahan was never going to coach in Buffalo and just used that interview to drive up his price.
If that was his strategy then I'd have to call it an odd one. The Bills were terrible back then, and how can you benefit from not taking an offer from a horrible team?
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1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:
That was the Rex hire where we were completely scattergun. We interviewed about 13 people. Anyone with a pulse and a headset.
I also remember though that the one guy the Pegulas said they definitely wouldn't hire was Kyle Shanahan apparently he interviewed really poor was arrogant and condescending. Bit if spice there maybe heading into our first meeting with him as a HC next week.
This is also a reminder to people who think that the team is still second rate -- that a few short years ago, nobody wanted to be HC of this team. So we ended up with Jauron and Gailey and Ryan and Mr Bologna. I'm actually surprised that many HC candidates were willing to chat in 2015 TBH.
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Admittedly a year one pairing with Gase and Whaley would've been something to watch, and I say that in a "oh, look, a barrel is going over the Falls" kind of way -- not in a "look, great things are in store for this team" kind of way.
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I finally read this thread, and enjoyed it. Thanks, OP! This reminds me of the time that a fellow Bills fan and I were going to do a little bit of (adult, buzzed) Wii bowling before the game and then he sheepishly fessed up that he'd thrown all of his Wii controllers into the wood stove in a rage after the previous week's loss.
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Also, slightly unrelated, but maybe the OP will fix the title of this thread? It's kinda embarrassing that it's still tagged as a vague title.
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Just now, Hapless Bills Fan said:
This.
In fact, even after .....I think it was as recently as Mahomes first season playing, 2018 - the Chiefs lost the conference championship in OT to the NE Patriots and one of the pundits, think it was Tony Dungy, said straight out "the Kansas City Chiefs may win a Superbowl but they will not win it with Andy Reid as their coach"
I think that's right, and allow me to point out the irony of Dungy saying that. TB won a SB... after Dungy was fired.
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Hope you got some rest, @Virgil, and always enjoy reading these.
Regarding item #10, for me picking a good QB remains a total crapshoot, and it isn't just the player. Allen is good, make no mistake in my assessment here, but I'm on the same page with folks like @Shaw66 about there being a combo of things like a good FO, a capable HC, and a QB with the competitive spirit, who works hard, and who tries their best to get this done when it comes to potential QB success or failure. Ultimately it's slot in the draft, and even then it's a crapshoot. The Bills, thankfully, didn't pick the BQA, but whatever their model or hunch or whatever -- it seems that they picked correctly. Whatever the reasons, glad that luck shined on the Bills for a change!
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1 minute ago, Gugny said:
You call those wins???
You have a kindred spirit here if you enjoy day drinking. Of course, for me it's limited to the days the Bills play, but I enjoy how you deployed this all with zero emojis. 🙂
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19 minutes ago, Gugny said:
8-3 because we haven't beaten one team with a winning record.
Is this a really good benchmark though (and I note that, for example, the Bills beat the Seahawks and the Rams and the Raiders)? The vast majority of winning teams have bolstered their records by beating lesser opponents, then had enough talent and coaching to get them over the hump against better opponents in the playoffs.
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1 minute ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:
I was hoping for 12-4 and to be a true contender, a juggernaut if you will. We MIGHT get to 12-4, but there's little hope of a deep playoff run. I wanted to go into next year talked about as a legitimate Super Bowl favorite, top 3 type of team. But we haven't shown the ability to crush teams and be elite.
Who says that there's little hope of a deep playoff run?
Had someone told me 3 weeks ago that the Saints weren't going deep this year I would've laughed. Had someone told me that the 9ers would be bereft of healthy players, or that they might move on from Jimmy G, I would've been incredulous. That's two coaches out of your master list.
KC is exceptional plain and simple, and the Steelers are blowing my mind with how they've hung in there (cue: cute cat hanging in there gif). The Titans are wildcards like the Bills on some level. Literally anything can happen over the next month, and given this wacky season -- probably will.
You do you, but my advice is to relax a bit.
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2 minutes ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:
It seems like you're of the "At least we're good/it could be a lot worse" mentality, which I don't subscribe to at all.
The majority of people here expected this to be a 10-6 or 11-5 team this season coupled with at least one playoff win. That's a reasonable expectation and also means that this team has grown, and continues to grow.
What did you expect for this season?
1 minute ago, Royale with Cheese said:
ewwwI went there. #sorrynotsorry 🙂
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Just now, Greg S said:
8-3 and first place in the division and you are depressed? I hope you weren't around during the 1984 and 85 seasons.
This exactly. I'm not saying that yesterday's game was a master stroke, but my god... 1984 and 1985 were a special brand of special. Some need to get a grip!
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2 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
Do you think he plays a small violin after Bills games?
Perhaps a flute that's made of human skin.
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34 minutes ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:
Belichick
Tomlin
Vrabel
Reid
Payton
ShanahanThese are the best coaches in the NFL... They either have next-level smarts or an elite ability to motivate players to perform.
McDermott is a solid playoff coach, but not a championship coach, I fear... So Bills fans are like, "We're 8-3! Enjoy it!" But I see a frustrating period of good-but-not-good-enough on the horizon for the foreseeable future.
And that's depressing. I am absolutely not of the "Hey, it's Buffalo; at least we're winning" type of mentality. It's championships or nothing. That is the life goal. And with McDermott signing a long-term contract, I almost feel as hopeless as I would if we sucked. If we sucked, at least there would be hope of striking coaching gold on an imminent hire. In this case, though, I feel like we'll just be a solid playoff team for the next many years, but not elite enough to win it all.
If McD is the weak link (I'm using Dungy as being fired as HC from TB as a guide), and he's replaced by a HC who can get the Bills to a SB and win it, then one would think that this is a good problem to have, no?
The Bills are good, friend. They're seemingly not SB good, but definitely good. Let's cross the HC bridge if we come to it.
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This team is good -- I don't believe it to be SB good yet -- but it's good and probably the most competent execution of NFL football on a Bills team in almost 20 years (things started looking up in 2017, so I'm excluding the McD years in my assessment). The game yesterday was kinda sloppy, but still -- they won, and they're in the thick of it. I'm probably over parsing here, but why does one feel the need to give one's team a pass -- if they won, and not even in a fluky way?
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2 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:
My three goals for the Bills this season were:
1) See Allen continue to improve which he clearly has. He is our franchise QB unless one of the "we should have drafted Mahomes" sad sacks on 2BD makes a time machine and we go back to the 2017 draft and convince the Bills NOT to make that trade with KC.
2) Win the Division which we are positioned to do.
3) Win at least one playoff game. This team is clearly good enough to win a playoff game.
I think that point #3 was consensus, or at least a solid majority of people, here before the season started. This is exactly where I am and 10-6 or 11-5 doesn't seem so out of reach at this point -- followed by winning a playoff game.
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Brady sucking == finger-licking good.
Jags GM out == surprise given this point in the season.
Denver == ugh in a bucket.
Week 13: Sunday Games Thread, Around the League
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Plus, I'm not entirely convinced that tanking works in any league.