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3 hours ago, Chandler#81 said:

As a Floridian, I listen via interweb because it’s the only Bills/Sabres talk shows during the day. I’m offended AND angry for sports fans from my beloved WNY. They’re the Only thing you have and it’s just so goddam bad. It’s like a daily competition from show to show to see who can be most amateur, unenlightened and unlistenable. Yet, they act like they’re Top 5 nationwide and absolute authorities on sports.. Sal & Schelp are just 2 of the dummies masquerading as sports announcers.

It’s just so embarrassing. I bleed for you all.?

 

I like sal though

 

 

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Posted
8 hours ago, Nextmanup said:

Let's not turn this into a Mike Schopp bash thread.

 

We've had enough of those.

 

I'd appreciate it if comments are limited in scope, more or less, to the linked exchange.

 

 

Really sounds like much a do about nothing to me

 

Schopp doesnt want to give them credit

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Sal is saying they are 5 and 2

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Posted
8 hours ago, Bubba Gump said:

 

I listened and my opinion hasn't changed. Loved how right after he let Sal off the air, he asked Bulldog if he thought the Bills were a better team, looking for support. BD didn't really back him up. Schopp cannot stand being wrong because he's in MENSA or whatever. When it comes to sports, he is pretty clueless.

Just asking but when did Schopp ever mention that he was in MENSA. That would explain ALOT about him regarding his smug attitude.  My biggest gripe with him was the way he acts like he is a elitist and the negative way he way he treats most callers.    

Posted
9 hours ago, Ray Finkel said:

Schopp thinks he is a know it all and he is very disrespectful to the callers.  I don’t think he played a sport in his life. He couldn’t carry Sal’s jockstrap.

 

That's the thing, just because someone played sports, it does not give them some kind of leg up on those who did not. Belichick wins with strategy and intelligence during games as well as during the off season, has nothing to do with some knucklehead notion that you have had to have played sports to be any good at running a sports team, a very prevalent yet ignorant take.

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There obviously is some tension between. McDermott and Schopp.  If you remember, last year he basically hung up on Schopp.  Mike was off-air the next two segments, obviously talking to someone - either McDermott, Derek Boyko or someone from the station.  
 

This season, McDermott chose not to do his regular interview segment with Schopp.  Instead he speaks to Howard and Jeremy on Friday.  
 

I have always thought that this was pretty telling.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Phil The Thrill said:

There obviously is some tension between. McDermott and Schopp.  If you remember, last year he basically hung up on Schopp.  Mike was off-air the next two segments, obviously talking to someone - either McDermott, Derek Boyko or someone from the station.  
 

This season, McDermott chose not to do his regular interview segment with Schopp.  Instead he speaks to Howard and Jeremy on Friday.  
 

I have always thought that this was pretty telling.

 

McDermott is unwilling answer tough questions, it's that simple. I get the impression that for McDermott, questioning the way he runs a football team is akin to questioning his faith in his religion, it's blasphemous.

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Seven-N-Nine said:

 

That's the thing, just because someone played sports, it does not give them some kind of leg up on those who did not. Belichick wins with strategy and intelligence during games as well as during the off season, has nothing to do with some knucklehead notion that you have had to have played sports to be any good at running a sports team, a very prevalent yet ignorant take.


I agree but your example of Belichick is flawed.  
 

How did Belichick develop such “intelligence?”  It wasn’t because he used to play college football was it? 

Posted
7 hours ago, ROCBillsBeliever said:

 

Nah... More likely badminton... 

 

Or goodglove (which Schopp invented, so he could be right about something).

Pocket pool maybe, might not even be good at that.

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Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, Phil The Thrill said:


I agree but your example of Belichick is flawed.  
 

How did Belichick develop such “intelligence?”  It wasn’t because he used to play college football was it? 

 

Intelligent people are more apt to learn and excel at anything, that's the main point. Rock head ex-football players who get jobs like coaching or color analyst usually flame out or are seriously bad at their jobs, there are so many examples of both. Now, I imagine playing at some point in your life would have helped develop the passion and could lead one in that direction, however I don't think it is a mandatory prerequisite to success (like it seems many fans mistakenly believe, "if you've never played organized sports you have no clue" caveman mentality).

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Posted
13 minutes ago, Seven-N-Nine said:

 

Intelligent people are more apt to learn and excel at anything, that's the main point. Rock head ex-football players who get jobs like coaching or color analyst usually flame out or are seriously bad at their jobs, there are so many examples of both. Now, I imagine playing at some point in your life would have helped develop the passion and could lead one in that direction, however I don't think it is a mandatory prerequisite to success (like it seems many fans mistakenly believe, "if you've never played organized sports you have no clue" caveman mentality).

 

I disagree with the  "if you've never played organized sports you have no clue" mentality.

 

But some of the longest-tenured coaches in NFL history are former players.

 

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4 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

I disagree with the  "if you've never played organized sports you have no clue" mentality.

 

But some of the longest-tenured coaches in NFL history are former players.

 

 

I'm too lazy to look at the winning SB coaches and see how many played in the NFL. I'm going to guess most of them are not former NFL players.  Now high school and college, yeah, I mean passion usually starts with experiencing something.  

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Posted
16 minutes ago, Joe in Winslow said:

Why am I not surprised that the OP's a schopp fan? Edit: and 7-9.

 

:lol:


 

 

I can't say I am a fan of his attitude, but Schopp has been right more than wrong the last ~17 years. Can't say that about most Bills fans.

Posted
1 hour ago, Seven-N-Nine said:

 

That's the thing, just because someone played sports, it does not give them some kind of leg up on those who did not. Belichick wins with strategy and intelligence during games as well as during the off season, has nothing to do with some knucklehead notion that you have had to have played sports to be any good at running a sports team, a very prevalent yet ignorant take.

 

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To know and not to do, is not to know.

 

You don't have to have played football to be a part of the radio coverage for a team, but it would help.

 

Mike lives in the world of symbols (stats), the actual real thing doesn't matter as much.

 

Like previously mentioned there is no stat for culture so it's not real or relevant to his super-smart brain.

 

Also team culture is the most important thing, IMO.

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1 minute ago, Aireskoi said:

 

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To know and not to do, is not to know.

 

You don't have to have played football to be a part of the radio coverage for a team, but it would help.

 

Mike lives in the world of symbols (stats), the actual real thing doesn't matter as much.

 

Like previously mentioned there is no stat for culture so it's not real or relevant to his super-smart brain.

 

Also team culture is the most important thing, IMO.

 

McDermott's culture is not showing up in games against quality opponents however. If that trend continues, the culture will break down, it cannot last. 

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Just now, Seven-N-Nine said:

 

McDermott's culture is not showing up in games against quality opponents however. If that trend continues, the culture will break down, it cannot last. 

 

The culture is how you run the organization, so how does it break down?

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Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Protocal69 said:

Just asking but when did Schopp ever mention that he was in MENSA.

Media Expert, Nothing Said Anyways?

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Posted (edited)
7 minutes ago, Aireskoi said:

 

The culture is how you run the organization, so how does it break down?

 

Losing games, losing the locker room, losing your job. McDermott is a preacher of culture, if the results are not there, the followers will start questioning their belief's. This is why to McDermott, it is so important to get process guys, it takes them longer to lose faith, they don't question the preacher, etc. Culture in lieu of talent = losing IMO.

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Schopp should be power slammed through a burning table then extinguished with a cascade of pee.  

 

 

 

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