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I found this is my Dad's papers. It's a bunch of autographs from the 1949 Bills (AAFC). ND's George Ratterman was the QB. I don't know if it's a partial sign in sheet or if my Dad who used to park cars across the street from the Rockpile had a list of Bills players and checked them off as he got their autographs. I think it's the latter because why would the coach sign in on a sign in sheet. Anyway this is the oldest Bills piece of memorabilia I own and I thought SS members would like to see it. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/bba/1949_roster.htm Joel Hunt, the coach listed on the autograph sheet, is a College Football HOFer as a player and was Georgia's HC in 1938.

We have many middle aged men here. My first Bills game was OJ's first Bills home game. I was 3. Scary how time flies.

Skinner and Rieder seems to be the only Sabres forwards who played hard every shift. These lines are a joke. The Skinner thing is making the Sabres a bigger joke around the NHL. KA needs to have a serious talk with RK.

That's why I wrote my post, although I think the wind hurt the Bills more then the Ravens. The Bills seem to have faced every though defense recently; Pitt (3rd), Mia (6th), Ind (10th) and now Balt (2nd). What is so special is this team has faced every challenge and won. Pitt needed to win to keep the second seed and avoid a losing streak. The Bills won. Mia needed a win to make the playoffs and the Bills destroyed them. Obviously Indy and Balt needed to win to move on and the Bills won despite a great Indy game plan and the great Lamar. Bills frankly destroy Balt in a more normal wind. Also playoff wins often look ugly because it's a best on best tourney. The remaining teams rank: Saints (5th), TB (8th), GB (13th), KC (11th), Cleve (21st) and us (16th). Personally, I think our D is as good as any of the remaining teams. I think Leslie Frazier and the D learned a great deal about how to handle the run. We can beat any of the remaining teams. KC, Cleve, TB, and NO are all very vulnerable to the pass. Old guard vs New guard Super Bowl no matter what happens.

I never said the announcers said Lamar was better. I said they were infatuated with his athletic ability. I said Josh is better and proved it on the field, both during the regular season and the this game. What annoys people and me as well is they talk about Lamar in such glowing terms ignoring what is happening on the field in front of him. An article I read today talks about Balt needing to worry that their offense designed around Lamar looks tired and they now have to watch all the young gunslingers in the AFC such as Mahomes and Allen and they have no passing game. That isn’t a recipe for success longterm.

So: O won the WC Game, the D won last night. I feel like the complete game is coming.

Not to hard to dislike Gators. These announcers are so infatuated with Lamar’s athletic ability, that they forget that Allen is a monster athlete himself. Honestly as good as Lamar is on the ground, he is exceedingly mediocre in the passing game. Allen is a better QB plain and simple. He is arguably the 2nd best running QB, but is also now in the top 3 or so gunslingers in the NFL. Who do you want; the guy with 5000 yards of offense and 46 TDs or the guy with 3750 yards of offense and 33 TDs? Josh had 4544 yds passing plus another 433 running and receiving with 46 TDs. Jackson gained 1000 rushing yards again, but was 1800 yards short throwing and only 33 TDs. This game somewhat proved who the better QB is.

Hard to execute a passing offense in 30 miles an hour winds. Josh still completed 65% of his throws and no turnovers. I thought our game plan was very uninspired in the 1st half. Play action is much more effective when u actually run occasionally. Also to many deep throws early. This game called for a West Coast offense, screens and some jet sweeps. Pretty close. I’d thought this offense would score more but can’t predict the wind.

I think you'd find 10,000 people willing to pay that. It would be so cool. Have a viewing party and get everyone cheering through those speakers. It would rock the house.

Where are all those commentators now about how bad the Bills defense is against the run. LJ 34 yds, Dobbins 42 and Edwards 42.

We never do anything easy.

Family steak dinner now complete. Let’s get this game going. Go Bills!

$500?

What they need to do with the cut outs is somehow attach a camera and speakers so that the fans can actually watch the game through their cutouts and yell and cheer through their speakers through a zoom or other similar type connection.

Light snow in the Atl today. I’m taking that as a good omen.

No reason not to be confident. This is an excellent team and we are better then the Ravens. We stopped Lamar and their running game last year and Allen is this year’s best QB against the blitz (they are the no. 1 blitzing team). They held us to 3 field goals in that game and sacked us 6 times. That won’t happen this time. Our line is better, Allen is better at getting out of trouble and turning scrambles into big plays to Diggs and Davis. This team takes this game as a huge challenge and will be ready.

He was also better in his zone. He also started slowly last year if I remember correctly leading to a very similar thread.

Lol. Can’t sleep either. TBN says 17 is 5-0 against top 10 D this season.

I hear the Bills play tomorrow night.

Staal, Reinhart and our 1st for PLD

The Bills players liked Dick Jauron

We are finding out that he might not be a great coach. That said, he actually dumped the Staal Reinhart pair pretty quickly to get Hall and Eichel going. Skinner skated 14:30. That's not enough. To be effective he needs 16+ minutes and better frigin linemates. The sad thing is he hasn't been rewarded for his good play and that is unforgivable. If you want a guy to play 200 feet and he does, he needs to be rewarded. Yes he got some L1 shifts when Hall went out, but his crappy line remained intact when Hall returned. Enough He also needs to acknowledge that at least one of Lazar and Sheahan need to be replaced by someone else to add offense.

No again. We still suck

Who is the top pick in next year draft?