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Who remembers Don Smith's last carry for the Bills
Bob in STL replied to Stallions's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I remember him. His NFL career did not live up to the potential Tampa Bay bestowed upon him on draft day. He had a brief stint in Buffalo and I lost track of him. It’s sad to read these stories. 15 years and no parole. -
Lombardi was conservative for the times. Compared to George Allen or Tom Landry anyway. Chuck Knox was very conservative - Ground Chuck. Bud Grant (70's Vikings) was conservative Levy was conservative quite often. Same can be said for Bellicheat, he prefers to be conservative but is not. McD is mostly conservative - I think he tries to match the experience of the team to what he asked them to do. Ditka has conservative offenses and crazy aggressive defenses.
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11-5 sounds so much better than 10-6
Bob in STL replied to PUNT750's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Beating a division rival and establishing dominance is nice, especially for the home crowd. But I sure hope #17 is on the bench after a series or two. Remember we are playing a Gregg Williams defense. -
Must you be insulting? So you think looking at football film, without the coaches there who have the benefit of actually knowing the play call and assignments, is like reading a history book? Oh, by the way, History books are written by people with a perspective. Just like we both have. Sometimes our perspectives differ. Some history books on the same subject actually disagree with others. I know, truly shocking. Sorry Wayne. I’m not discussing things here for W’s and L’s. I enjoy hearing others perspectives. Don’t care much for the name calling from those that don’t agree. One of the issues with forums though.
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Read my first post. I don’t think you will find anywhere that I said it was irrelevant or not. Now that you mention it, Joe’s analysis, like mine and yours, is somewhat irrelevant. Unless you think NFL coaches and GMs read them and make decisions based on them. He was raw out of college and he certainly has high potential. I hope he works with Allen this off season and they accelerate their development together.
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Did they have bad games? I think Josh missed on several throws that could have changed the outcome. He also made some big plays that put us in the lead and within one score. The entire offenses talked about how the Pats disguise their defense. They do it better than anyone. Mixed bag fir Allen. Allen, Daboll, the entire offense need to be better. Edmunds was targeted by the Pats*. They put on blocker on him every run down, no matter where he lined up, no matter the play, they had someone responsible for blocking him. When Bellichek game plans for you then you must be playing pretty good. Basically saying just block 49 and we will get yards. Did the Bills did adjust? No. Does every loss constitute a regression by young players still developing? Or is it safe to say they are still developing? The later has less less journalistic impact. The NFL is over analyzed and over hyped. You Come on. Pick the two youngest guys on the team, playing the toughest positions, and point out their mistakes as if that is the reason for the loss. Sure, they didn’t make every play they needed to. No one else did either. Bellichek and his staff totally beat McD again. It was a TEAM loss.
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Because he is tall. Certain fans here believe that you throw the ball up in the air and he out jumps everybody and catches it every time. They see him as Julio Jones of the CFL. The coaches apparently are not as gifted as these fans, they see a guy that has marginal speed and can’t get open, or something like that.
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I can see what McD is doing. Keep the rhythm going and player the starters, make them learn and execute the game plan as usual. Play Allen and Singletary and any nicked up players only 1 or 2 series. It’s what Levy did, and most teams do. Play the rest of the starters only up to halftime and pull them gradually. Second half play the backups. Try to win but more important is keep the players in their rhythm. Of course if anyone gets injured he will be crucified but that true with most aspects is coaching.
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Everyone understands the analysis of the playoff rankings. I get that winning will mostly like nit change our slot at 5. I think that this game was about more than that. Therefore, I disagree with the point if the thread. I actually think the point of the thread is wrong. This game was important to win for all the reasons I stated. Oh, wait till next year, right?
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This game was critical to set the tone between the two teams going forward. They knew they dodged a bullet against us in Buffalo. This was the game to make a statement. Instead another loss. Brady is 31-1 against us. They have beats us for 2 straight decades. McD is now 0-6 and in the same as every coach since Levy. Why do think any game against these guys is not important? Beating them is an urgent priority. The fans are correct to react and the players better learn they are several rings on the ladder below the legit contenders. Making a wildcard is nice but this was our first playoff game.
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The Bills loss can be summed up in two words...
Bob in STL replied to folz's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Yes. That was good. But the last four plays in the red zone tell the story. Missed a wide open receiver in the end zone on 2nd. Took a sack on 3rd. Bailed out of the pocket and threw up a prayer on 4th. Didn’t get a lot of help but missed the play that was there. . -
I don’t think I have ever been as disappointed after a Pats* loss as today. I thought we could win and change the fortunes of each franchise. I really did. Game time comes and they blocked better and had long grinding drives. They tackled better. They made more plays. Especially on 3rd and 4th down and on their last 8 point drive. Brady was better than Allen. Allen had some impressive moments but he missed open receivers and took sacks. Sure, he was under more pressure but he left points on the field in every quarter.
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The Bills loss can be summed up in two words...
Bob in STL replied to folz's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I can’t blame the game plan when they didn’t execute. Tackling, Blocking, throwing ... all were below par. Not good enough to win in Foxboro. They need to be better than they were today. Allen missed a lot of throws again. He took sacks too. -
12/21 Bills @ Pats** PreGame Thread
Bob in STL replied to Chandler#81's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Exercise the demons and emerge the better team. Let’s beat the Pats* and never look at them the same way again. We have to come out the better team. It our time now. -
Crap team for a crap town.
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Is there a scenario where we play them in the playoffs?