Your Bills-related unpopular opinion

[Nextmanup]

13 hours ago, Another Fan said:

The 1990 NY Giants were just as good as the 1990 Bills all things considered.   
 

The Bills didn’t play their best game that Super Bowl but they should have never been favored by 7.5 points.  Giants had Super Bowl experience as well from a few years prior.  The Bills didn’t 

 

Couldn't disagree more.  I will always say that had that game been played 4 more times for a total of 5, the Bills win the other 4 going away, by big margins, as straight up the better team.

 

We played our worst possible game, the Giants played their best possible game, they got great coaching, we got terrible coaching, and it all boiled down to losing by 1 point...an almost perfect result for the Giants.

 

They wouldn't be able to repeat that again.

 

 

[Just in Atlanta]

Two for one:

 

LaBatt’s is bad beer

 

Shout! is a dumb song

 

Edited April 3, 2023 by Just in Atlanta

[Augie]

41 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:

Couldn't disagree more.  I will always say that had that game been played 4 more times for a total of 5, the Bills win the other 4 going away, by big margins, as straight up the better team.

 

We played our worst possible game, the Giants played their best possible game, they got great coaching, we got terrible coaching, and it all boiled down to losing by 1 point...an almost perfect result for the Giants.

 

They wouldn't be able to repeat that again.

 

 

 

Hand the ball to Thurman more often, and we win that game going away. They were giving us the run. TAKE IT! 

[Another Fan]

36 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:

Couldn't disagree more.  I will always say that had that game been played 4 more times for a total of 5, the Bills win the other 4 going away, by big margins, as straight up the better team.

 

We played our worst possible game, the Giants played their best possible game, they got great coaching, we got terrible coaching, and it all boiled down to losing by 1 point...an almost perfect result for the Giants.

 

They wouldn't be able to repeat that again.

 

 

 

Imo the Giants defense that year was just as impressive as the Bills offense.  Both teams were 13-3.  The one time they played in the regular season the Bills won but it was pretty close.  

 

 

That all works to their advantage they had better coaching.  

[pennstate10]

Bills need to give spencer brown at leas 2 more years to see if he can be successful at RT. 
He’s young, has elite athleti traits (RAS>9), and just  the right amt of mean attitude. 
 

but he doesn’t have experience. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book about exceptional athletes, writers, artists, craftsman. He concluded that you needed to spend 10,000 hours at a vocation before you’re truly elite. True for shooting free throw, playing Mozart, or a journey cover band. 
 

Brown didn’t play OL in high school, only 2 years in college, now starting year 3 with Bills. Let’s say he practices tackle movements 2 hr per day n college and 4 hour per day in nfl.   So that’s 1440 college hrs. The back injur really set him back, so hee only got about 4 hr x 400d in nfl or 1600. So his total is now 3440 hrs, give or take a few. If he works out full time for next 2 years—700 d x 4 hr, he will be at 6200 total hour, within spitting range of 10000

[Success]

Our window is wide open and will be for many years (qualifier: only unpopular among opposing fans).

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

2 minutes ago, Success said:

Our window is wide open and will be for many years (qualifier: only unpopular among opposing fans).

 

I would suggest Big L Distributors for window replacement, but I think WGR threw out all their useful commercials for sports betting commercials.  Then again, it spares us 'cheesy' jingles.

[TheyCallMeAndy]

Sean McDermott taking over play calling and defensive responsibilities will have a larger impact than any talent acquisition will/would have. 
 

The change at WR coach may give us the Gabe Davis we all thought he would be last year. 
 

Bills will draft more DBs than OL in April, and they should. 
 

There is a no name, UDFA hopeful RB who has no idea they’ll be the TBD darling in about 3 weeks. 

[Mikie2times]

Twobillsdrive was a better place when we didn't over merge threads which has created excessively long threads essentially burying and minimizing all previously written material. 

[Lfod]

I'm ok if the Bills don't win a Super Bowl because at least they don't suck. 

[Nineforty]

Nate Peterman is one of the top 64 quarterbacks in the world. 

[Augie]

Calling yourself a “realist” doesn’t mean you aren’t just whining. 

 

There are many who can really see both sides of the argument, the good and the bad, and that’s great. Some other people lean WAY too hard toward any negative they can find, like they are the smart ones who know the truth. Nope. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

2 hours ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

There is a no name, UDFA hopeful RB who has no idea they’ll be the TBD darling in about 3 weeks. 

Lawd, we'll be so nice?  We'll be lovey dovey?

[Einstein]

4 hours ago, pennstate10 said:

Bills need to give spencer brown at leas 2 more years to see if he can be successful at RT. 
He’s young, has elite athleti traits (RAS>9), and just  the right amt of mean attitude. 
 

but he doesn’t have experience. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book about exceptional athletes, writers, artists, craftsman. He concluded that you needed to spend 10,000 hours at a vocation before you’re truly elite. True for shooting free throw, playing Mozart, or a journey cover band. 
 

Brown didn’t play OL in high school, only 2 years in college, now starting year 3 with Bills. Let’s say he practices tackle movements 2 hr per day n college and 4 hour per day in nfl.   So that’s 1440 college hrs. The back injur really set him back, so hee only got about 4 hr x 400d in nfl or 1600. So his total is now 3440 hrs, give or take a few. If he works out full time for next 2 years—700 d x 4 hr, he will be at 6200 total hour, within spitting range of 10000

 

I don’t see Spencer’s issues being fixed with time, because his issue is slow feet.

 

When he gets beat around edge, it looks like he’s running in sand.

 

I just don’t see how time fixes speed.

[Einstein]

1 hour ago, KzooMike said:

Twobillsdrive was a better place when we didn't over merge threads which has created excessively long threads essentially burying and minimizing all previously written material. 

 

Personally, I think thread merging is just a bad idea a lot of times. Not always, but many times it is. No one can keep track of a 30+ page thread with information buried in it.

 

It seems like the rules of common human engagement just gets tossed out of the window when talking online.

 

Imagine talking with a friend in real life and then suddenly a powerful being tells you to stop talking because there are 50 other people already talking about a similar topic. Then he snaps his fingers and your conversation is now part of this huge other conversation and this new massive conversation is not at the same place (topic wise) that yours was and this new massive conversation has already devolved into side topic that you weren’t talking about with your friend, etc. It’s a mess.

[daz28]

That the process has an expiration date.

[mrags]

1 hour ago, daz28 said:

That the process has an expiration date.

Yeah it’s whenever Beane and McD decide they don’t want to be here anymore cuz Pegula will never fire them 

[BuffaloBillyG]

That Gabe Davis is a solid #2 WR. He's not a 1A like Tee Higgins. But he is a guy that could start on roughly half the teams in the NFL. 

[GunnerBill]

21 hours ago, Einstein said:

 

Personally, I think thread merging is just a bad idea a lot of times. Not always, but many times it is. No one can keep track of a 30+ page thread with information buried in it.

 

It seems like the rules of common human engagement just gets tossed out of the window when talking online.

 

Imagine talking with a friend in real life and then suddenly a powerful being tells you to stop talking because there are 50 other people already talking about a similar topic. Then he snaps his fingers and your conversation is now part of this huge other conversation and this new massive conversation is not at the same place (topic wise) that yours was and this new massive conversation has already devolved into side topic that you weren’t talking about with your friend, etc. It’s a mess.

 

That analogy only works if we all have to here all 50 conversations. The reason for thread merging is seeing the same topics started as new threads over and over is laborious and actually buries new and interesting content. 

 

I agree there have been times when the balance has gone too far like "you are talking about Stefon Diggs and there is already a thread about Diggs so it must be merged" when, for example, one might be about his social media activity and another is about his contract. Not saying that has happened but just as an example. 

 

But we don't need (to give a recent example) multiple threads about how the defense might change now that McDermott is calling it rather than Frazier. That should all be one thread. Just because one person thinks it might mean more 4-3 base and another thinks it might mean more blitzing does not justify two topics.

[billsfan89]

On 4/2/2023 at 8:28 AM, pennstate10 said:

Bills need to give spencer brown at leas 2 more years to see if he can be successful at RT. 
He’s young, has elite athleti traits (RAS>9), and just  the right amt of mean attitude. 
 

but he doesn’t have experience. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book about exceptional athletes, writers, artists, craftsman. He concluded that you needed to spend 10,000 hours at a vocation before you’re truly elite. True for shooting free throw, playing Mozart, or a journey cover band. 
 

Brown didn’t play OL in high school, only 2 years in college, now starting year 3 with Bills. Let’s say he practices tackle movements 2 hr per day n college and 4 hour per day in nfl.   So that’s 1440 college hrs. The back injur really set him back, so hee only got about 4 hr x 400d in nfl or 1600. So his total is now 3440 hrs, give or take a few. If he works out full time for next 2 years—700 d x 4 hr, he will be at 6200 total hour, within spitting range of 10000

I do agree that Brown should get a chance to start but I think they need to have quality competition for him. Brown’s biggest issue has been health he just hasn’t been able to stay healthy. 
 

He had back surgery in 2022 off season and he couldn’t practice much well into camp. Then just as he starts to get going in the regular season he gets an ankle injury that costs him some games. 
 

Quees is a decent backup but I would like to see another tackle drafted to give the Bills options if Browns health or performance doesn’t add up.