Game Day Thread Official Game Day Thread - Pats @ Bills

[Fuzz]

High wind warning cancelled and replaced with wind advisory. This one is in effect until 10pm (halftime)

 

[mosi]

Tackle and hold onto the ball.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

This just dawned on me, how the hell could either team kick off and have the ball stay in bounds?

Leg strength > arm strength. Plus what you have outside the stadium doesn't guarantee all that much about what happens inside.

There's a video of Mac throwing a pass. There's wind, but not that.

 

[reflexblue]

Leg strength > arm strength. Plus what you have outside the stadium doesn't guarantee all that much about what happens inside.

There's a video of Mac throwing a pass. 5heres wind, but not that.

After watching how strong the wind is its not hard to imagine during a kickoff when the ball is in the air its blown out of bounds by a gust of wing resulting in a flag, and the recieving team starting at the forty

 

[Fuzz]

 

[Ununcle]

Maybe MAc will throw a short screen that the wind carriers for a 50+ completion to Bourne and silence the critics about his arm? What? It could happen.

 

[slash83]

Guessing we see a lot of Onwenu tonight as the 6th OL, nice night to have two tough runners with tonight’s weather conditions.

 

[Ununcle]

 

[VectorPrime]

Maybe MAc will throw a short screen that the wind carriers for a 50+ completion to Bourne and silence the critics about his arm? What? It could happen.

Mac is so smart he can make quick real time calculations regarding the gust of wind to know how precisely how much touch to put on the ball.

 

[MrBigglesWorth]

There will be one good thing that’ll happen when Belichick retires, and that’ll be purging all Bon Jovi music from the stadium playlist forever.

So theres going to be a lot of starting at the 40 yrd line

Kick the ball low

 

[mosi]

Mac looks cold.

 

[Mack Herron]

 

[denverpatsfan]

3-0 final. Think Phins Pats. Snowplow type of game.

 

[catent]

Allen has a stronger arm so purely from that perspective, you'd think he'd be more comfortable throwing in the wind than Mac (not to mention he has more experience throwing in this kind of weather than Mac does ... yet).

That said, from a team perspective (coaching, personnel, and philosophy), I tend to think this weather favors the Pats. Bigger OL, better running team, better RBs, perimeter players who are comfortable running with the ball, a strong screen game. The Bills, OTOH, are a pass-first team who uses the pass to setup the run. If they cannot effectively push the ball down-field tonight, that'll be an issue for them.

As the wind currently appears, I don't think any NFL QB, no matter how strong their arm, could consistently, effectively throw in this weather. The only situation that would really worry me would be if the wind calms down a bit, and settles into a spot where it's strong enough to affect Mac's throws but not Allen's; that is the only scenario in which I see the weather advantage really tilting towards Buffalo. Otherwise, I think the inclement weather/wind (generally speaking) is advantage Patriots.

 

[Mack Herron]

 

[nowayback]

The Bills have faced one good qb this year, Mahomes, 2 if u count Ben . Only Tenn, colts and chiefs have been able to run on them . Dont think running will be easy, box will be loaded .

 

[catent]

Mac looks cold.

Both QBs look a bit uncomfortable. Allen is grimacing and has both hands in his hand-warmer. Mac looks a bit stiff and the ski-mask definitely adds to the perception of being cold.

 

[DaBruinz]

nope...they axed Gary Glitter's Rock$Roll part2....some kind of sex scandal...ironically, uh...Bob Kraft..you know...Orchids of Malaysia or something?

HUGE difference between Gary Glitter (aka Paul Gadd) biing jailed in Vietnam for having slept with 2 underage kids(kids were 11 & 12) and now in the UK for Sexual Assault, Rape, and attempted rape of 3 kids in 2015 ( ages 9,12, & 13) and Kraft possibly having gotten his knob polished at a massage parlor.

Gadd was also convicted of being in possession of Child Porn in 1999 and 2005.

 

[italian pat patriot]

Here dark night but ready to go
Looks a wild weather as expected

 

[DaBruinz]

Leg strength > arm strength. Plus what you have outside the stadium doesn't guarantee all that much about what happens inside.

There's a video of Mac throwing a pass. There's wind, but not that.

Yeah.. but there was a video showing the goal posts doing the wobble like it did several years go.. They had to use ropes that year to ensure the the goal posts were actually UPRIGHT.