Randall Flagg

Hayden will be a top 3 most forgotten Sabre of all time

I called them, they only do hockey skates. Thanks though:)

Does anyone know of any stores in western New York where I can buy soft-boot ice skates?

I definitely think the Bills would have rolled the chiefs, but it certainly is an unknowable question. Bills would have been as emotionally spent as the chiefs were. I really believe the bengals have the horseshoe this year. They drew the chiefs and raiders right after insanely emotional games, those teams had blown their wads and hit the wall. Then in between they faced the weakest 1 seed (at the time, not necessarily at their peak months before) I've ever seen. And on top of that, four interceptions from tipped balls in 2 games. They deserve all the credit in the world for getting to this point but we all know that you need bounces to win, and they sure are getting the bounces Knox has been a roller coaster historically but I dont think his variance in 2021 stands out compared to any other player. Tom Brady had wider swings than Knox did this year

Haha you're in luck, I unironically think Jordan love blows

I not only thought allen would suck, I thought allen AND mahomes would suck

He had a great game in the playoffs the week before. He was only targeted 4 times, because the chiefs chose not to let Diggs and Knox beat them. So allen just funneled to Beasley and Davis instead, that just happens sometimes. Knox isn't great in NO, vs NE, but missing in action in NE this year (in lieu of mckenzie and friends) as opposed to the last 2 games there, because of Knox, but because of gameplanning

Seems like WR coach is a position that funnels to OC and HC eventually, doesn't it? I know the Ravens have a relatively untalented WR room, that has nothing to do with the guys potential ability to call a game and create an offense

I melted down when the bills selected allen. It just came up in some Facebook memories and my friends have had a good time with that

Does this stat control for things like pressure, throwing on the run versus stationary, and the distribution of pass location and difficulty? Or do 10 pinpoint accurate screens get the same 100% rating that 10 outside shoulder bucket drops 30 yards down the field would get? To me it's pretty obvious that allen throws more difficult passes than most. I don't think allen is a top 3 or 5 most accurate qb, but I'm also not convinced we have a stat that helps me rank this in any meaningful way. When allen has a clean pocket and a platform he has been mind-bendingly accurate, often. The way he plays obfuscates attempts to rank and quantify this for me

Wasn't Josh's on-target percentage like top 3 or 5 in 2020?

Is 69% elite? Josh had that last year. Does Josh fluctuate between elite accuracy and not-elite accuracy, or is Josh an excellent passer who has simplistic stats like completions divided by attempts fluctuate for countless reasons? I don't think Josh's ball placement is the best, but it's good, and probably very good. The bills run loads of over routes to the sidelines, and his ability to time those passes to get toe-taps just right is insane. To me, that's elite accuracy, and also hinders YAC ability, because you go right out of bounds. He also loves comeback routes, which have receivers facing and running the wrong way for YAC. It's possible that Josh's best routes just aren't conducive to YAC. He seems to hit those slants to Beasley and Diggs just fine when we run them. Beasley went down like he was shot right after the catch all year, because of the rib injury. I'd definitely target a YAC guy somewhere and incorporate more screens and things of that nature

My understanding is that the divisional rotation keeps a standard home/road pattern for each team (ie the bills play the afc North every 3 years and nfc north every 4, and they alternate home and road on that pattern). It's possible that the afc version does sets of 2 home/road games so buffalo would be at Pittsburgh in 2000 and 2003, and home in 2006 and 2009. Im not sure about that one. (Years are also wrong, this is just a hypothetical example) Then a similar rotation is employed for the two afc opponents you are scheduled from the other 2 afc divisions you don't play that year. It can line up so that you get 3 regular season games in a row in one building I believe, but I also believe you can't get more than 3 in a row. I might be off by a game or two in any of this explanation. And then of course playoff games depend entirely on seeding. No, wait. The other poster has it right, Bills go to KC very year because white Americans are stained with an unabsolvable and uniquely evil original sin

Josh Allen went from elite to transcendent in my eyes. Barring catastrophe, this guy will bring Buffalo to the promised land.

lol only Eakin and Hayden could turn that zone entry into a (lost) board battle

Just got in from skating, my buddy does an excellent job making a rink on the creek that runs through town every year. Looks like I missed an amazing start

This is a good point. Persistently trying to make up for lack of skill, just trying to keep up in general, probably is more likely to get you injured than just being better than other players and teams and being able to dictate pace

The Sabres feel completely divorced from the franchise that fought for those cups. Not just because of temporal separation either

Asplund has been horrendous lately

Once again Doohickie sweeps in with nontraditional memes that hit just right. This is hysterical

that was sick

This is pretty much unfalsifiable isn't it? I'm not sure we can really proceed from this point, because I definitely think good players can be derailed by poor development and suffocating, unbearable playing conditions such as playing on rosters like the Sabres in front of goalies like the Sabres have put out the last decade

scrape OT GDTs and compare keyword ratios

The first few games of the season, Donnie was a revelation, and we saw what it was like for the Sabres to be playing like a team, free of the shackles of immature & bad "leaders" who only cared about themselves, free of Ralph the Terrible. The problem with that is, NHL seasons are 82 games long, and you generally wind up being as good as your roster is. Like each and every single one of the last 11 Sabres teams, their final standings position will be entirely reflective of the roster they put together, barring extreme outliers in the "character" and "coaching" department, which the Sabres have probably not ever had during this stretch of bad hockey play from bad hockey teams. That's why I don't really get this: This season is going horribly, because the Sabres are horrible. They won't have a season that is going well until they have a good team that is winning. None of what is happening now had to happen to have a good team. There is as much danger of this putrid hockey stunting development and will to live as there was of the last decade of putrid hockey stunting the last cast of prospects we were over the moon about

When was the last time we weren't embarrassing in overtime?