2020 Our Year For Sure

1. Mad Men (yes the BEST things in life are freeeee) 2. 24 3. Star Trek (original series) 4. The Twilight Zone 5. House of Cards Honorable mentions to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Louie Lately been watching Legion which is really freakin cool and different from other super hero stuff, Taboo and People of Earth

Holy crap. Nice post, John. Its about the logo, not the name on the back of the jersey. Lets go BUFFALO

I'm thinking we may be surprised at how much of that is up to Rex' system. None of the pass rushers were the same. I thought Kyle looked great last year.

Verner then?

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With Waufle House hollering at Big 99 till he foams at the mouth and McDermott letting the dogs loose in the gaps.

That's beautiful. I always liked Jack, got to watch him regularly in Brooklyn. I worked with folks with developmental disabilities for awhile, this hits home for me. So above and beyond cool of him to give the kid his phone number.

You may use whatever restroom you like as far as I'm concerned!

My mother didn't love me

The Church of Trentative

I knew your eyes would glaze over in the 4th just like your hero <3

More like "the running game scored a bunch of points but the QB stinks whenever the game is close, so we lost." And yeah the defense was bad, so was the QB, they're not mutually exclusive. He had bad WRs most of the time but also faced bad pass defenses that were sold out on the run with WRs running demonstrably open through the secondary. When not trailing by double digits he was one of the very worst quarterbacks, outperforming only Osweiler, Bortles and Kaepernick. He did pad his stats with the best of 'em though. https://twitter.com/sharpfootball/status/837691406944698368

the kindness with the wickeeeeeeeed the will to fight until the end im not your enemy... im not your enemy, or friend! Also they turned off the lights for Aries' entrance! They're pushing him! stoked

I'm not sure I directly disagree with any of this. But bottom line for me, its the best rush game designer on this planet, with Felton at FB, a strong run blocking OL and good halfbacks. Few teams can match all that, I would expect it to be one of the best run games around in terms of ypc. Is it the old 9ers line or the Cowboys line, no sir. But Glenn, Cog, Wood, Miller, Mills...none of them are terrible run blockers, 2 or 3 of them are standouts. Its got to be a top 10 run blocking line, perhaps top 5. And I'm with you on some of Wood's shortcomings just as I was a couple years ago- I wonder if he is part of the reason they ran more zone blocking than many of us expected. Even so, its a good unit designed for the ground attack. And McCoy, agree with every word you say here, I'll just point out that even when he went to the sideline he mostly did a commendable job of finishing his runs rather than taking himself out of bounds. Thing is, even though you lose the effect of a power back beating a defense into the ground, if you combine him with a good efficient passing game you can create fatigue a different way. What if rather than chilling at the LOS the DL is rushing the passer full-speed all day but we're mostly getting rid of the ball before they get to the QB, rather than holding it for hours? Then you have defenders wearing themselves down pass-rushing, wearing themselves down chasing WRs who with a better passer can now actually hurt them, and wearing themselves down chasing McCoy and his crazy cuts all over the field. And you still have the change of pace, one-cut runners like MG and Karlos who will deliver the knife the second the D sleeps on them. There's more than one way to skin a cat. Not sure if you've responded by press time but jeffismagic has a good point too.

Not buying that Roman and Kromer would not have had a strong running game with that personnel. Maybe you could make the case that without Tyrod it drops to say 5th. But its not going to go from best in the league to bad because Tyrod is gone, give me a break. And yes, a more efficient passer will mitigate some of that and help the run game too. You go from best running game ever to 5th in the league and from worst passing game to mediocre, its a better offense in both raw production AND situational scoring that's needed to win close games, something we failed miserably at consistently over 2 seasons.

But orange ya glad they didn't say "banana?"

Yes! Yes! Yes!

he said dedicated, not designated

Yeah I wanna go to that, sounds awesome

YEAH

If every week he's ignoring open receivers to run out of bounds, you can expect to hear about it, No matter what the WRs' names are.

I admire this.

:thumbsup: +2

1 on 1 therapy and medication just made me feel worse. I started meditating early last summer and I'm now healing and growing quite rapidly. When I'd hear people say 'you have to love yourself' it used to make me laugh. It sounded absurd that I could ever stop hating, let alone love myself. But it really is possible! The things that happened in the past are not your fault. You did the best you could with the wisdom and understanding you had at the time. I'm learning to treat myself with the same kindness that I treat others- you deserve satisfaction in your life just as much as any other person alive. We are very often our own worst enemy. One thing about meditation is it requires a certain energy...a certain fire...a certain chutzpah, if you will. People who feel like they're doing okay tend to have trouble breaking through in the beginning stages (the hardest part). People who feel like they simply cannot go on the way things are, have a unique opportunity, because that feeling of futility, that craving for the light, for something different, gives us the energy needed to break through. Use it! I forget who said this but 'a man's strengths and weaknesses are drawn from the same well.' Whether you meditate or not...your experience with depression is an essential part of the beautiful being that you are. It tends to make us kinder, more sensitive, more empathic. American consumerist society doesn't always teach us to value those qualities, so we tend to feel bad about it. But they are quite beautiful if you think about it, no? Boyster is so right. Love is the truth. Love is the way to conquer the hate inside ourselves as well as the hate that others send us. When we meditate, we learn to develop the latent love that's already inside us. Feel free to drop me a PM any time at all, about anytging, my friend. Edit: one more thing. People CAN change. Don't you buy into it for one second that "a tiger can't change his stripes." Its possible, though nobody said its going to be easy. In my experience the more worth it the change is, the more difficult. Learning to take joy in the process itself can be heartening.

Wow! Shows that there is a difference between a QB who passes and a QB who runs for the same yardage. Teams that run well and pass well are better than teams that only run well. Its not about raw production, its about winning. 7th in points is not the same thing as 7th best offense. Because the Bills don't pass well, they've struggled to score points when they need to score them to win a close game, though they've been really good at scoring ultimately meaningless touchdowns down 14 late in the game.