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Absolutely. When I think of games that stamped Belichick as a great defensive mind, SBXXV doesn’t even make the list. He was lucky that Jim Kelly was too stubborn to feed Thurman all day long against that gimmick defense with the D front all in two point stances just waiting to get out leveraged by one of the best O lines the game has ever seen. And Levy and Marchibroda were remiss in not instructing Kelly to do just that. Instead, we played right into their hands. But as stupid as Kelly, Levy, and Marchibroda were, it was the defense that I point the finger at most.

Poor GM indeed, and perhaps an average head coach, but he is a wizard as a defensive coordinator. Somewhat of a D prodigy as he was breaking down game film for his dad at nine years old when his father was a scout at the Naval academy. A schematic genius if ever there was one.

Love that show. I need to order a Sudbury Blueberry Bulldog Shoresy jersey.

Does this mean I can’t call Devon Levi “E2V2?”

Josh is 503 feet, 11 inches tall? I don’t think I’ve ever been happier for two people to see a game. Good on you, Scotty. Good on you.

Douglas told Tim Graham that he could have played today but the team decided to keep him out as a precaution. He should be back next Sunday, so the loss of Benford won’t hurt as bad. As for Elam, after a shaky start he seemed to settle down a bit, KC has less talent than the Steelers at wideout, so there’s a chance he can be ok. He had a key INT in the endzone at KC last year so he won’t be intimidated at least. The injuries to our LBs hurt big time. Dodson has to come back and if the injury to Spector is serious, they’ll have to sign somebody off the street as there are no LBs left on the practice squad with the elevation of Klein to the active roster. The injury to Bernard looked serious, too.

Agree entirely. I’m just hoping his last five games represent a turning point for him. His command in the crease has improved greatly over that span, imo.

Dare I say that Oopie has turned a corner in his career? He’s been playing under control lately without the spazzing, wasted movement around the net.

Shocker.

Damn right it’s the wind. Can’t have a blizzard without it. And you’ll never see an NFL game played in one. Not ever.

PF is waxing nostalgic for all those football games played in -40 temps and raging snowstorms. It’s funny how we romanticize our memories into myth. Fact is that since 1967 only six NFL games have been played in sub-zero temps. Six. And again, not one NFL game has ever been played in the conditions we saw in Orchard Park today. Not one. Ever. But yeah, lets argue why the game shouldn’t have been postponed.

Yeah, great day for football in Orchard Park today. A football game was never played in a blizzard and your Barstool boys are full of crap.

While we’d all prefer to see the great athletes on full display, I still respect that football is a game to be played in the elements. That said, playing in a blizzard, with 70k people going to and from the game, is unsafe and a recipe for disaster. It’s amazing that anyone can’t understand that.

That’s all well and good and I’m sure many of us have nostalgia for those games and the snow days off from school when a pickup football game was the norm. But no NFL game has ever been played in a blizzard. Ever. Heavy snowfalls, sure. With windy conditions, certainly. But never in a qualified meteorological blizzard, with “sustained winds or frequent gusts over 35mph and visibility of less than a quarter mile for an extended period of time (at least three hours).” The 1948 NFL championship game in Philly came closest with over a foot of snow fall and winds of 20mph and even though the scribes dubbed it “The Blizzard Game” as it came to be remembered, it just didn’t qualify. Orchard Park is currently meeting every qualification as I type this.

Our Boy Savoie is a great name for a racehorse.

29 points in 12 games at the junior level. Glad he’s having phenomenal success, but I continue to question how that level of competition is getting him ready for the NHL.

Glad you found it, but sorry you have to watch it. 😄

Amerks crapping the bed to fall behind 4-2 with 8:49 to go.

2-2 after two periods in Charlotte, who dominated the period.

As @jad1 said above, everyone from the GM on down confuses effort with results and I tend to agree.

I’m actually watching it on AHLTV. Weird.

Amerks playing in the Outdoor Classic against the Charlotte Checkers tonight. Up 1 zip after one in a goal by Weisbach. Comrie stopped all 16 shots he faced.

As long as the boys don't confuse effort with results, I’m not too displeased with today’s performance.

Jost has been good since he was sent down. He really is the epitome of a tweener: a tad too go for the A, a tad not good enough for the show.