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Albany,n.y.

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  1. Another reason Schopp doesn't understand how valuable Josh Allen is to the team. His play on the field doesn't translate well to statistics. The best way to properly evaluate him is to watch him play & never look at his stats. That's one reason why the Bills though so highly of him over the other Josh.
  2. Who cares about colors, I want Josh Allen & the rest of the Bills wearing the uniform of the game's winning team.
  3. I hate to say it, but Seattle should be up there instead of the Bills. If the Bills win their next 2, then we can revisit if they're better than Seattle but as of today, they must be ranked below Seattle. Seattle already beat his #1 team and has beaten 2 of the 3 teams the Bills lost to and didn't play the 3rd.
  4. I love it. If I was home my 1:00 game choices would be Bengals/Jets & Packers/Giants. Instead I'm getting Browns/Steelers & 49ers/Ravens. I'll be switching back & forth between the 2 games.
  5. Here's an example where not all analytics are created equal. Big difference if it's 4th & inches in enemy territory between having Allen or Barkley in at QB. Allen is almost automatic, not so with a smaller QB or someone like Rob Johnson who may get the 1st down & at the same time go down with a season ending injury.
  6. I'd love to see the Bills destroy the Cowboys & have the camera keep focusing on Jerry getting all mad & embarrassed. Lets get up 35-0 at halftime & see if Jerry is the head coach in the 2nd half. Justice would be Bills 52 Cowboys 17.
  7. What a Freudian slip! Do you know something about Jones bribing the refs?
  8. I'm in California & my family rotates the houses. We usually eat around 2-3 PM. I found out yesterday that while we're going to be eating during the game, this year's house will be one that the TV is visible from the dinner table & they already know to seat me where I can watch the game during Thanksgiving dinner.
  9. I'll do my part-I've been to 6 Super Bowls, the Bills 4 XXV through XXVIII and XLVIII in NJ and 50 in SF (actually Santa Clara). I vow never to go to another Super Bowl until the Bills make it back there. So that means my boycott will end next year in Tampa.Bay, the same city I saw my 1st SB.
  10. Joe DeLamiellure loved Hank. Hank was invited by Joe's to his Hall of Fame ceremony. Here's what he said about Hank at Michigan State: "A couple of coaches out here, I know Hank Bullough is here from Canton"; As a Bill: "Hank Bullough coached me. I always said that if Hank got Jim Kelly as a quarterback, he would still be coaching maybe. He was a good coach, just had some trouble at quarterback."
  11. Richer. I bet 4 different future bets on the Bills before the season started. I get paid for each win through win 9, with bigger payoffs with each win & a final payoff when they make the playoffs. Win 8 got me even, win 9 will get me ahead & any win that gets us closer to the playoffs will be worth more. Because I tiered the bets, it was low risk, higher reward than just a bet at over one set win total.
  12. Three with 1 win became 5 with 2 wins. I'd never want either of you working on my tax return.
  13. Letting Rudolph play is a bigger punishment to the Steelers than suspending him. ?
  14. I'm guessing from your name you weren't around when race was considered when it came to QBs. Good for you & your generation, but it clearly was a factor back in the 60s, 70s & 80s and the years before those decades. It was only around the 1990s that things changed to the point that your last statement is now true. Here's what the Buffalo Evening News said the day after Harris was drafted: (From Relentless P158): "...in the eighth round , they selected James Harris, a black quarterback from Grambling. A Buffalo Evening News headline read: ' A 6-4 N-egro QB, Harris, drafted 8th by the Bills.' The story said Harris 'is a n-egro, one of the few of his race to be drafted as a quarterback in pro football.' "
  15. I think you're on to something: 1) Doug Williams -1st to be a 1st round pick in the NFL & 1st to win a Super Bowl 2) Steve McNair-3rd pick in the draft, 2nd to start a Super Bowl 3) James Harris-1st to start a season as a starting QB 4) Michael Vick-1st to be the #1 pick of the entire draft 5) Marlin Briscoe-1st to be a starting QB (one year before Harris became the 1st to start a season opener) In all probability, since the 2 leading MVP candidates are black QBs, there was a discussion about the history of the black QB and these 5 were deemed the most historical who paved the way for this generation of black QBs. It is a significant topic because without these pioneers, Russell Wilson may have been deemed too short to ever get the chance & Lamar Jackson may have been told to be a WR, like Briscoe ended up & Bill Polian said he should be before the draft.
  16. The Jets game was 3 weeks earlier on 12/26/93. Once again going back to Relentless, the game was the coldest Bills game ever at the time but that status changed with the Raiders game 3 weeks later. The temperature was 9 above with a minus 28 windchill.
  17. I brought a garbage bag filled with old newspapers to try to keep my feet warm. The game was on 1/15/94 with a minus 32 windchill -You were right, it was zero degrees. I knew it was against the Raiders, but I looked up the exact date and windchill in Relentless.
  18. There has to be some criteria that the OP missed. There are too many better QBs than Harris and Briscoe. 3 of them have already been mentioned and there are several playing now better than those 2. My guess is they are the top 5 who were told before the draft to change positions if they wanted to play in the NFL, although I don't think Vick was ever told that.
  19. You should have invested in Bills futures before the season. A lot of us did and are reaping the benefits of the underestimation of this year's team.
  20. Jets & Vikings too low; Steelers, Patriots, Panthers too high.
  21. It's hard to take NE's injury report seriously ever since the time they listed half the team on it just to PO the NFL.
  22. Texans lead the division they'd have to lose a few to be in contention for a wild card.
  23. If you call being on injured reserve after week 4 a poor season, then he's having a poor season. He's not having a poor season, he's been out for the season since week 4. I guess if you look at how many TDs Roethlisberger has thrown this year, he's having a poor season too. This is another example of looking at stats out of context. BTW, it's not personal, I hate football stats of all kinds and you just gave me a chance to condemn stats and I took it.
  24. The irony is that if Chubb was gone by pick 5 the Bills had a deal in place to trade picks 12, 22 & 53 to Denver in a trade up for Allen. So instead of the question being whether the Broncos should have taken Chubb instead of Allen, the debate in Denver would be were the Broncos right in trading away the pick the Bills used for Allen. I guess that would now depend on who the Broncos picked. If they had used the 3 picks for 3 starters and one of the 1st rounders was Lamar Jackson they would be calling Elway a genius.
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