I always liked the title of "Bills After Sunday", so now, every week, I will use it as my opening in recapping the previous Bills game and the upcoming match; two opinions in one piece (save the E-Trees!).
Check out my Bio for explanation of the four weekly "awards".
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Awards
White Hard-Hat: Rian Lindell, a kicker that can be in position to pounce and recover a fumble is always a good bet to energize the rest of the team.
Yellow Hard-Hat: The offensive line earned this week's best-unit honors.
Blue Hard-Hat: Special-teams coach Bobby April had his players more prepared to play in this first preseason game
Push Broom: The Bills' third-defensive unit needs to do some cleanup after being pushed around in the fourth quarter by the Redskins. This Bills roster is deep this year, but these players have a chance to impress and sign on with other NFL teams.
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Redskins Recap
Preparation and execution are two of the main goals in preseason and the Redskins clearly were the more prepared team, including the HOF game. You have to wonder if the new Redskins coach has watered down the playbook and it's complexity to give his team a running start.
The good news is that the Redskins only managed a three-point victory over this rusty Bills team and would be no match for a prepared "Bills football machine" at the start of the NFL regular season.
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3 months ago
Great Review of the game!!
For a Bills fan that missed the game this past weekend. It gave me a great break down of what happened!! So thank you.
As for Thursday's game vs the Steelers. Another important game. Especially when it is taking place in Toronto. Being only 2 hours from this game. It is ashame that I can not attend. Not because of time restraints, but because of very high ticket costs. From what I can see on line, tickets vary in price from $70.00 to a whopping $575.00.
Um hello!!! This is PRE-SEASON football not the Superbowl.
Not sure who created these prices, whether it be The Bills, the NFL, The Argo's of the CFL or maybe a group of them all. But in my opinion these prices are far too high. Especially when you may get to see SOME starting players for possibly the first quarter.
I apologise Bills_Will_B_OK for using your article to vent this apon. But if The NFL would like to sell their game to Canadians, you would think that for at least pre season ball they would cut us some slack.
from 3 months ago
Txs
If you go on stubhub they are down to 30$ for pairs.
Think Edwards said they will play at least a half.
3 months ago
Great recap bro. I'm looking forward to reading these in the future. Go Bills!
from 3 months ago
thanks!
left a note on your Raptors article about doing a "Euro in the NBA" piece.
3 months ago
There may be more Steelers' fans than Bills' at this one. I wonder how many Canadians will be twirling Terrible Towels?
3 months ago
Due to circumstances out my control I will be updating the next games in this piece (condensed).
Steelers Recap: Incredible team turnaround from top to bottom. This is what was under
the hood of this "Bills football machine" when I took a look in predicting a 12-4 finish; Lot of horsepower!
Awards:
Boss Hat: Donte Whitner with his first preseason series with a INT. It was symbolic in a sense that fate had arrived to make amends for the Bills brutal season last year. Which better way then to cradle a deflected pass off of a diving Ko Simpson into the arms of the Bills vocal leader that guaranteed a playoff birth.
Crew hats: WRs and Wrs coach Tyke Tolbert. They have suffered through QB instability and lacking another Red-Zone threat past few years; finally giving us a glimpse of this season's high expectations.
Techy hat: Offensive coordinator Turk Schonert and his boys made a bold statement offensively and set the standard for preparation and execution.
Push Broom: Steelers coach Mike Tomlin needs to work on his excuses "the Steelers beat themselves". The Bills practically manhandled the Steelers and Tomlin should just man-up to it.
Player Notes: Schobel flexing his muscles; Youboty has "fire" in him when tackling; Mckelvin has great field vision and using more of his instincts in coverage; the RBs are getting their "game" legs with increased burst and power; OL is getting alot of luv (week late mind you); ST coach April needs to replay the Punt turnover replay at the beginning of each meeting so I don't have to ever hear the announcers again say "That should never happen - Poison!, Poison!"; lynch (10 yards out) & walker teaming up to prevent LB Harrison from slamming their QB to the ground;TE Royal had a great game and will try to string a few together; Third string units in preserving the important win.
Colts Preview: I would be surprised to see the starters very long at all in the second quarter. This team is young and has had a great physical camp and a great game against the Steelers. The Bills have depth and their first weeks opponent isn't dominating. The risks of injury don't seem to justify the rewards of extra conditioning. The starting defense may see more action since they are the most talented unit on the team and have another notch to hit in their talent level. If it wasn't for heroics of Big Ben in the pocket, the Bills D would have been dominating. You don't want to be the Colts QB this Sunday.
The other possible reason for reduced starters time is to evaluate the "perimeter" players more. Alot of players still can make or break their chances and every good player that slips through the Bills roster is a loss for them and a gain for their opponents in claiming them (Patriots).
Bills can't fall into the common trap of a "young talented team" finding comfort by playing down to their opposition's skill level. The Bills need to develop the "killer instinct" and put teams away before they can start. What better time to start practicing then this Sunday; "Right here, Right Now!
3 months ago
Updated my bio on the script and let me answer the three questions that I get most often:
1- That is the point of the script; if you can't do it to a homeless person on the street then how can it be donr to anyonelse? Ethics is within the boundaries of power and authority, altered to each degree from good to bad.
2- The patient continually reveals the therapy publicly to ensure a greater degree of security. The doctors had no exit plan because none was needed; either comply or grind the patient to suicide or death. The doctors counteract the patient's claims by gettng his family (uneducated and detached) to vouch for the necessity and progress of their therapy; EVERYONE involved benefiting from his silence. A winning lottery ticket for the doctors!
3- The doctors can reveal any information about the patients present activities publicly to others. Having that information relayed back to the patient in a timely manner in hopes of simulating a mental shock; to control the patients activities remotely. Their is no fear of the particpants being tracked to the original source; word of mouth transactions and the patient has no legal rights.
As the script unfolds, I can see now where the doctors make a glaring mistake on their last defensive tactic. The playing field is getting more level on every play.........
3 months ago
Colts Recap: "Workmanlike" victory.
Rumors have it that the Buffalo Bills players have created a pool for these weekly awards because of it's importance. Let me state that I do not endorse or promote gambling but I do require my cut of the pot!
Boss Hard-Hat - Chris Kelsay = 1st defensive play = sack; Kelsay let the other sharks know that there is blood in these waters.
Cew Hard-Hat - DBs and DBs coach George Catavolos. 4 INTs with a surprising talented and deep group of CBs.
Techy Hard-Hat - Perry Fewell and his defense are going to be fun to watch all season.
Push Broom - Coach Jauron looks stressed out on the sidelines. Someone tell him that he still has 17 games left to perfect his team before the playoffs start.
Player Notes: DT McCargo and fellow DE Lawson (now a OLB) were both taken in the first round when the 49ers and Bills traded up to get them. It's no coincidence that both have struggled. They were projected to go around the 3rd round but the impact of Texans first round overall pick DE Williams (franchise player that makes everyone else better) enhanced their drafted position. McCargo should be allowed to drop the 1st round Weight off of his shoulders and be allotted the time to regain his "fire" like Youboty. The Bills drafted QB Edwards (had a franchise caliber game vs Steelers) in the 3rd round and Trent should have gone in the first round (comparing the QBs in his class); it's a wash deal!
Noticed last year too but when QB Losman stays within 5-7 yards of Line of scrimmage in the pocket throwing, he has greater success. When Losman goes 8-10 yards out (often), he stretches his OL causing it to collapse and exposing gaping holes inside; causing him to run, get sacked, hurry a throw, or run and throw at the same time into bad coverage. QB Edwards appears to plant himself consistently 6-8 yards in the pocket.
Lions Preview: Who cares! Let's start the season!
3 months ago
Question asked regarding the script in my bio: "How does a homeless patient combat 3 Psych PhD's for 7 years? impossible!"
Not really, you have to examine the profile and remember that the PhD is a government psychiatrist which means that he is either sub-par or average in abilities; kinda like a government hand-out or a "welfare" doctor. Promotion is rewarded by years of service and not talent.
His abilities are limited to high level government contacts and influencing placements (like rewarding the Patient's psychology PhD friends with the two coveted university teaching gigs). If he was a "real" doctor on his own, he would be probably sweeping the streets and searching for coins under the sofa for extra income.
The 2 student doctors are no strangers to taking short-cuts to advancing their careers; combine that with bad intentions and a lack of talent from the doctors, it makes this therapy an on-going lesson on "Psychology failure 101".
"absolute power corrupts absolutely"
Allot of good story lines!
3 months ago
Lions Recap: Tough to decide between watching any 4th NFL peseason game or swallowing a 100 tablets of Methoxisal; both go on forever!
Boss & Crew & Tech Hats go to the kids at the game and for those that didn't see their favorite player start.
Push Broom goes to the unsung heros who actually have to cleanup Ralph Wilson Stadium after each game.
Note: The depth and the talent of the backup CBs showed itself prominently throughout the whole game.
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