Hapless Bills Fan

If you have a belief that “no one can change”, at that point it’s no longer an opinion supported by data - it is dogma, an article of faith

A lot of teams do just that when interviewing players. They diagram some plays then watch film with the guy then see what he recognizes/recalls. Beane has talked about how they try to use their opening questions to get the players to relax and be comfortable so that they get the most accurate read on his abilities vs. measuring how nervous different guys are, and also how they try to work to the level the guy has been working at (ie if the college team wasn’t expecting the player to recognize different personnel sets by numbers they’re like “doesn’t mean you can’t learn” and they start there.) There have been all sorts of studies in the last decade or so about what interview questions are most common and which are most predictive of OTJ performance. Some employers have embraced these findings and changed their interview tactics, others are still asking “where do you see yourself in 5 years” and the like.

LOL at this conclusion:

I mean, Florio is an opinion writer. What is he supposed to state? Excerpt from article: So basically at that point, what it’s measuring is how aggressive a player’s agent is at cheating and coaching his players to memorize answers. Yes, if a guy can memorize questions and answers, he can memorize a playbook but then to be some sort of useful comparative metric all agents would have to be equivalently aggressive and all players/agents equivalently willing to cheat. And frankly, I’m not sure rote memorization and recall is going to help an RB recognize what the defense is doing and how that impacts his protection assignment when blocking.

No, they apparently deemed it irrelevant.

So just look at the data above. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are arguably the two best QB from the draft class - Lamar has already won league MVP and whether or not we agree, is heading to the pro bowl again. The Ravens have been a playoff team Jackson’s first 3 seasons, and arguably would be one again if Jackson didn’t miss 4 games from week 15 to 17. Next would be Baker Mayfield. The Browns were a playoff team last year and arguably would be one again if Mayfield weren’t hurt. Sam Darnold has been able to see the field in the NFL, albeit neither his TD to INT ratio, his completion %, nor his YPG look particularly promising. Josh Rosen looks like a flat-out first-round Bust. So being a Buffalo homer and ranking the QB in order of team contribution, we have 37-13-25-28-29 I don’t think you need an advanced stats degree to conclude that there isn’t a correlation between Wonderlic and football contribution.

From taking the Wonderlic samples available online, it struck me as really a kind of “SAT lite”. Players who were specifically coached for it and academically successful would do well, and players who were not coached for it and not particularly academically successful would not, but it really wouldn’t test the football smarts and football-specific memory teams really care about. Teams would be better served by having the players watch a film clip while coaches explain what they should key on to know their role and responsibility, have a play or two charted and explained, and then go back and re-watch the film after some questions and ask them to chart the play to see what they recall. The key to me is promising big fines and loss of picks to ####### FO that ask players ridiculous questions like “is your mother a prostitute?” or “what’s your sexual preference, are you gay?” Or .doing bogus stuff like grabbing a players wrist and saying “I’ll be able to tell if you’re lying from your pulse, do you smoke pot? Oh, you’re lying, I can feel your pulse”. I think they’ve decided (and took long enough) that Wonderlic really doesn’t have a lot of bearing on a player’s football success, so why do it? ??

They had an article about the Bills food service a couple years back. It was all about how they were trying to use the latest nutrition science to help player performance. The Big Guys got extra smoothies to take home to help maintain weight with lots of protein. The players got breakfast and lunch, and players and staff could take home dinners as well. There was a lot of tailoring, the staff knew what to feed different players. They had “veteran shots” with turmeric and other anti-inflammatories and so forth. I believe it said the players and staff could take home meals for family members as well. It was like friends who work there tell me about Google’s Cali campus, lots of food options but all designed to encourage staff and players to spend long hours at the facility and not have to shop/cook instead of watching more film or something.

Missed that, what was the Q and the A? Well! Me bad for not checking.

This puzzles me. Since the players as I understand it are allowed to eat what they want on site for breakfast and lunch, and to take meals of whatever size they want home (the Bills had a piece on this a couple years back detailing how many to-go dinners they had) as well as for the guys who are trying to keep weight on, smoothies and midnight snacks and such - what does “stole cafeteria food” mean exactly?

If Knox is a TE worthy of the name, he shouldn’t be able to be blanketed. He’s 6’4” fercripesake. I’ve noticed a number of occasions where Knox seems open to me and Josh doesn’t take him, I’ve wondered if the hand is bothering him still more than we know. The other point is that perhaps if Beasley can’t get open, we need to see McKenzie out there or Diggs switched to running shorter routes.

Banged up Bills says more likely painful than serious but that’s just a (educated) guess

He had it recently, he’s good

Cover1 did a run analysis after last season where they pointed out one change from 2019 to 2020 was a change from gap to zone runs It never made sense to me why did they make that change in the first place?

Did you catch the interview with Jim Kelly where he outright said “I don’t know why he lost the returning job”

so what’s the difference between “beat ourselves won’t happen again” and “Josh just doesn’t play well in bad weather”

I would never accuse you of trolling. I would only ask “ is this you?”

Wasnt just the press, they had fervent supporters here

Kudos to McK for being a great teammate but SMD head at this

Didnt he return for 12 yds before he fumbled?

I don’t think Harry should give pressers either Oliver. He talks like his tongue is on wheels. Ed coasts

concern of mine. Seem to be more miscommunication Ints this season

what about body odor?

The question is would he put us over the top?