Week 13 - 49ers at Bills Game Week Thread

[Ethan in Cleveland]

What do others think of Flutie being legend of the game? 

I hate it. Never liked him as a player. Pretty sure he has said not nice things about the organization since he left. 

Dozens of other players I'd rather be there.

 

[Straight Hucklebuck]

1 minute ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:

Exactly. Absolute worst. They never ask tough questions. And when they do it is that Warrow moron who can't even formulate a question. 

Warrow always crafts some longwinded statement about ethereal emotion, always bringing up something from the past. 

[Einstein]

18 minutes ago, Logic said:

Genuinely: If given press credentials in advance of the Bills' matchup with the 49ers, what question(s) would you have asked?

 

Great question, and speaking from a fans perspective, here are a few questions I wouldn’t mind reading about. Nothing incredible, but at least they elicit some thought from the coach:

 

1) Entering the 13th week, I’d imagine that the majority of the playbook has been used at this point. How much (if any) does that play into strategy going forward? Do coaches feel the need to keep creating new iterations of plays in the same situation, or are you happy to go back to plays from early in the season at this point?

 

2) In the past, snow games had led to quite a bit of slipping by Bills players. The Cinci game comes to mind. What processes have been implemented since this game to make sure that each player will have the right cleats to avoid slipping? (ie: Have you tested various cleat and stud sizes to see what works best? Spoken to the manufacturers? Reached to other teams in harsh climates like GB?).

 

3) Due to the nature of Milano’s injury (biceps), what part of a LB’ers duties and responsibilities are likely to be most impacted in their comeback from this type of injury? Follow up: How long, based on your decade plus of coaching in the NFL, does it take for a player with such an injury to overcome these temporary limitations? 

 

4) We know that players often go on vacation, visit family, etc on the bye week. Did the coaching staff do the same, or did they decide to stay back in Buffalo and start looking at game film for future opponents, or reviewing past game film to find tendencies that the team needs to get improve on?

 

Stuff I do not care about:

 

- What Taron Johnson’s leadership can show to young people

 

- How happy it makes McD to see the current WR’s (what else could he say other than “great”?).

 

- Leading questions or in general, any question that leads to an answer with only possibility. 

 

 

Edited November 27 by Einstein

[Straight Hucklebuck]

1 hour ago, Whites Bay said:

Okay, I want to jump in here.  I'd heard/read that Kincaid suffered a PCL shortly after it happened.  As I recall, it was from one of the "Internet Knee Docs" or the like, so take it for what it's worth.  But I'll leap into the fray - has Kincaid's injury been confirmed as a PCL in a McDermott press conference?  Not saying it hasn't; just been really, really busy at work and haven't kept up the way I'd like.

Well multiple Dr.'s immediately made videos about it, especially after the close up shot of his knee. 

 

We're past the bad bruise stage. 

[Einstein]

8 minutes ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:

AMEN TO THIS. 

 

What does it say about your team ...

 

Can you tell me what Ed Oliver means to you ...

 

Instead of asking open ended facts based questions. 

 

Yes. They are just complete softball questions that tell us NOTHING. There is literally no point in the reporters even being there, because they refuse to ask questions that elicit anything but a superficial understanding of any given topic. 

[Straight Hucklebuck]

5 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

Great question, and speaking from a fans perspective, here are a few questions I wouldn’t mind reading about. Nothing incredible, but at least they elicit some thought from the coach:

 

1) Entering the 13th week, I’d imagine that the majority of the playbook has been used at this point. How much (if any) does that play into strategy going forward? Do coaches feel the need to keep creating new iterations of plays in the same situation, or are you happy to go back to plays from early in the season at this point?

 

2) In the past, snow games had led to quite a bit of slipping by Bills players. The Cinci game comes to mind. What processes have been implemented since this game to make sure that each player will have the right cleats to avoid slipping? Have you tested various cleat and stud sizes to see what works best? Spoken to the manufacturers?

 

3) Due to the nature of Milano’s injury (biceps), what part of a LB’ers duties and responsibilities are likely to be most impacted in their comeback from this type of injury? Follow up: How long, based on your decade plus of coaching in the NFL, does it take for a player with such an injury to overcome these temporary limitations? 

 

4) We know that players often go on vacation, visit family, etc on the bye week. Did the coaching staff do the same, or did they decide to stay back in Buffalo and start looking at game film for future opponents, or reviewing past game film to find tendencies that the team needs to get improve on?

 

 

Stuff I do not care about:

 

- What Taron Johnson’s leadership can show to young people

 

- How happy it makes McD to see the current WR’s (what else could he say other than “great”?).

 

- Leading questions or in general, any question that leads to an answer with only possibility. 

"How much of a cheat code is Josh Allen on 4th-short?"

 

"Have you had a chance to catch your breath?"

 

And predictably you got no-information, filler answers. 

 

 

[Process]

You guys act as if Sean would actually provide insightful answers to the questions you want ask. The reporters suck but so does he. His press conferences are an entirely pointless exercise.

[Straight Hucklebuck]

And there it is, not one follow up about Kincaid. 

 

 

[Process]

Just now, Straight Hucklebuck said:

And there it is, not one follow up about Kincaid. 

 

 

"We're taking it one day at a time" there you go 

[Big Turk]

And there it is as expected...

 

Winter Storm Watch has been put in place for Northern Erie county as well

[VaMilBill]

Is Purdy practicing in full? What about Trent Williams?

[ColoradoBills]

3 minutes ago, VaMilBill said:

Is Purdy practicing in full? What about Trent Williams?

 

They're on the west coast.  Haven't heard yet.

[EmotionallyUnstable]

12 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

And there it is as expected...

 

Winter Storm Watch has been put in place for Northern Erie county as well

Northern Erie only tagged with a SEVERE watch vs. the EXTREME watch happening in some areas south if here. 
 

From what I read, the difference appears to be multiple inches vs multiple feet. 

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

 

Edited November 27 by DaBillsFanSince1973

[EmotionallyUnstable]

3 minutes ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

 

My favorite ever Josh Allen throw 

[Big Turk]

10 minutes ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:

Northern Erie only tagged with a SEVERE watch vs. the EXTREME watch happening in some areas south if here. 
 

From what I read, the difference appears to be multiple inches vs multiple feet. 

 

For now...things can change rapidly quickly as disturbances and short waves pass through during the event and change the wind direction. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse...and sometimes much worse 🤣

 

But yes, that's generally the case. I would expect a foot plus where I am at in the snow belt East of the airport by the time it's all said and done.

Edited November 27 by Big Turk

[dickleyjones]

47 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:

What do others think of Flutie being legend of the game? 

I hate it. Never liked him as a player. Pretty sure he has said not nice things about the organization since he left. 

Dozens of other players I'd rather be there.

 

i think it is great. he was fun to watch.

[Big Turk]

2 hours ago, Breakout Squad said:

I hear ya. I wanted to be a meteorologist but science was always hard for me. So much math and science involved. 

 

I like some math, just not the Engineering Calculus and Physics...

Algebra and Geometry I was great in.

 

Am a software engineer so still do some of it although don't have to worry about the crazier stuff 🤣

2 hours ago, scuba guy said:

True I lived in Marilla until I was 18 and we always had feet in are driveway.  Used a bulldozer to plow.

 

LMAO! My only memories growing up about Marilla was our travel soccer team used to play games against them and we would literally play on a field in the middle of nowhere with corn surrounding it on 3 sides...

 

When the ball would go in there none of the kids would go back in the corn...too many people saw Children of the Corn and we weren't having it 🤣

 

Parents used to be running back in there to get it and they usually took turns cause I don't think they wanted to go back there either 🤣

[KingBoots8]

11 minutes ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

 

It was moments like this one that make me (kinda) miss Diggs. When he wanted to, he was a great teammate.

 

…problem was these moments stopped being the norm after a while. Grateful for his time here, but also grateful we don’t have to worry about him anymore.

 

 

[Big Turk]

3 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

I don’t see any local forecast predicting 4’-6’ of snow…and no one sensationalizes forecasts like the local crews. 😂😂😂

 

There won't be any local forecasts until the day before that means much. 

 

Those are weather models...totals have dropped to 3-4 feet as of now on the latest update, but it's going to keep changing as we get closer.