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Haven't gone through this whole thread - but I would recommend anyone saying they don't like what Hughes said to watch the video if they haven't . To me his comments were extremely heartfelt, sincere, and even eloquent. The crux of his message was about sticking up for Shady, and teammates and expressing disappointment in Kelly not keeping his opinions in house, to be discussed directly with teammates, and not through the media. And also imploring Kelly to give constructive advice/teaching to the team, not divisive rhetoric. The whole "shouldn't be on the field" sound bite isn't the headline - and isn't even what he said Reporter: How do you feel about Jim remaining on the sidelines before games Hughes: Half the time I don't even realize he is there until it was pointed out to me yesterday. After the display of actions that he did it was pointed out, brought to my attention. I'm not sure I understand it. We are the 2017 Buffalo Bills. We are focused on the future, focused on winning games. If he wants to offer anything of encouragement to our team to our offense to our quarterback, please provide all that. We could use all the encouragement we need to find out how they won games in those days and be as successful as they were. But we're trying to bring a team together, we're trying to bring a community together, we're trying to bring a nation together. And by dividing us, dividing the the team, it doesn't work

You can still give a sincere answer to actually address a question, then say let's move on to football - what Shady did

Thought McD's pounding the talking points "The organization put out a statement" "We're focused on the Falcons" at any mention of the anthem was pretty lame. Especially after they threw Woods and Kyle out there to have to really have to answer the questions

No drunks stood in front of my 83 year old Dad in the club section the whole game this time and relentlessly trolled him - progress Honestly the only dooosh I saw was in the parking lot on the way out some a-hole with a Brady jersey hyped up on the Pats** win was prancing around (seemingly) trying to start a fight with whoever would engage him - in that respect I wish fan behavior was not improved and someone would have beat the crap out of him

- Was surprised by the number of Denver fans - and the number that were in the stadium for warmups was honestly larger than any opposing fan group that I can ever remember seeing. On a related note - for years the Bills have always warmed up on the far EZ opposite the tunnel - now they warm up in the tunnel side? (my brother surmised it was probably related to 'culture change' and 'Rex purge'...) - Bruce Smith came out during warmups to calls of Bruuuuuuuce!. As we were going to our seats and walking the concourse suddenly there were calls of Bruuuuuuce! filling the air - and there he was - just a few feet from us walking through the common folk. He looked great and seemed to be having a good time - not sure he could have suited up at DE, but maybe TE - Was funny on the visiting side club level, a ton of fans in seats in the sun around us decided to just go watch the game inside on TV in the AC - This game was some kind of amazing bizzarro world where we did things other teams always do to us - drive with less than a minute left in the half to get the FG, make long FGs that matter, actually be the beneficiary of a crazy game-altering penalty, be the ones actually executing the soul sucking drive at the end to seal the game... It was amazing - Shady didn't get off in the running game, but the couple receptions where he willed his way for 1st downs were amazing - There was never any sense of panic when the offense started out slow - was good to see eventual adjustments and execution - It was too bad Denver had that one outlier crazy 4 play drive complete with ridiculous long gain and stupid penalty - Just felt the D needed to get a turnover and they would - Was a great, fun game to be at for our annual game we take our Dad for his bday (83 yrs old!) - So crazy to think we were 1 single pass completion from being 3-0 - Called it: https://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/196396-week-3-broncos-game-preparation-inactives-announced/?view=findpost&p=4552707

One time dimarco went in for shady on third, and it turned out to be to help out in protection on miller. Dimarco rocked him BTW, and I was glad it was dimarco's body getting punished in that case than shadys

And extra points looked good too.

At the game my son was yelling fake punt before it was snapped. They had their gunner run out across the field late as if they were all confused, but it was a tell that something was going on

Tyrod would not be finding Hogan down the field, and Gilislee definitely would not be finding holes Shady can't find Zero change

Last year I came into town for the Arizona game and before the game felt it was absolutely hopeless. This year I'm going to this week's game and have the same hopeless feeling. So we definitely will win.

So much has been made of the problems with the passing game with Tyrod, receivers not getting separation, bad receiver corps etc., - but the run game has not looked much better. Shady himself said that last year teams were putting 8 in the box, and we were still able to run over them. I posted this in another thread, now think it is worthy of of its own topic. In the offseason there were people who were not initially concerned about the switch to zone blocking scheme, saying Roman's offense did a lot of it. It turns out it is very different - and there have been issues learning and executing it. Dennison said in the offseason they would look at tape and try to keep some of the things the Bills running game did well last year, but how much can you realistically keep when the entire scheme/approach changes. It's so frustrating that they tore the running game down when it should have just been left alone. http://buffalonews.c...locking-scheme/ Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote

I was one of the people who expressed concern about changing the offense this off season and their lead leading rushing attack - with the parallels to what happened to the defense prior. There were a lot of people who said there was no reason to be concerned, because the Bills employed a lot of zone blocking schemes in Roman's offense. This article shows it turns out it wasn't that simple http://buffalonews.com/2017/09/20/bills-run-struggles-impacted-new-blocking-scheme/

Somehow over the years I completely missed this feature and just discovered it last week. The awktasticness of the whole setup has put it on my must see list every week now.

You sure it's not because of the crappy hotels?

Do forearms have nerves, and can they be contussed with compound fracture?

It's all about you Jerry! Always about you!

Good to see Empty Podium back in fine form

I don't think he stumbled on the route as much as he just wasn't in control throughout it. No doubt the nerves/adrenaline from the situation affected him. He'll learn from it

Do we think Cordy's ankle injury is the same thing he's been dealing with or something new (i've seen his previous injury described as both foot and ankle)

Thank You. This has really turned into some kind of bizarro world

wtf?

The more I watch it the more I'm convinced. Makes zero sense that the route was supposed to go out at the 5 yd line

Watching the Denver game - Anderson running hard - stopping him is going to have to be a priority

Even if he turned the same way - if he was running for the pylon/EZ, the ball would have been in a place where it was far more easily caught. Instead he started to run to the 5 yd marker. If the ball was thrown towards the sideline to the outside shoulder with the route he was running, the CB coming off Shady would have most likely knocked it down or intercepted it.

I just watched that replay like 20 times. First thing is if pass is thrown to the sideline it looks like the cb could have made a play on it. Second, if you forget about what would have been a perfect placement of the pass, and view it as a qb throwing the ball up to a receiver to make a play, it was definitely a ball a hell of a lot NFL receivers haul in in that situation (not a CoT member, not a Zay hater)