Haplo848

I've always felt the all white uniforms were boring. Give me some color

Yeah, I seriously don't understand the idea of throwing in "Wide Right," the "Music City Forward Lateral," Stevie Johnson's "This how you do me!?" drop, Rex Ryan's arrival... Not sure how highlighting horrible plays/decisions equates to "hype up." Also, generally in a hype up video with a song playing over it, you generally want a fast-paced song that gets the blood pumping, not one where you keep thinking "wait, can I sing the next line yet? No? Okay, how about now? Still no? D*** this is a slow song..."

Didn't get to see the game, all I got was the highlights on NFL.com, plus the "every A.J. McCarron throw" video there, too. To be perfectly honest, he actually looked pretty good. The supporting cast around him wasn't great, and you see a lot of dropped balls that hit receivers in the hands, but there were some good plays in there on his part, and even his throwaways seemed to be smart plays instead of trying to force it. As far as I can tell, everyone was really disappointed with the Bills by the end of the first half, and put that on McCarron because he was the QB and they were down 20-0 at the half, but even his bad plays weren't atrocious. His two INTs were on a tipped ball and on a route that they repeatedly ran against the same guy. I had seen the highlight of the INT previously, and so when I went through the "Every Throw" video, I saw a curl route at the top of the screen, and the throw going there and thought "okay, here's the interception," but then it was a completion. And then did the same thing a second time. And a third. And then finally the DB jumped the route really quickly, making the interception, because he had seen it come against him already so many times. That honestly seemed more like a playcalling problem then a QB one. So it seems like the first half was horrible defense from the Bills, along with bad penalties and crucial drops to stall drives, McCarron starts gelling with the rest of the offense more in the third, then kicks it into high gear in the fourth. For those that actually saw the entire game, not just all the throws, how accurate is my summary? I wish the video was all drop backs, rather than throws. The plays where he gets sacked, or runs for it but ends up well short of first downs or whatnot, if there were any, weren't included, and that would have probably given me a better overall picture. But does that seem to be consistent with what people who actually saw the game in full thought?

It's true that it all hinges on the QB, but exactly how many games do you think Tyrod actually WON for us? His style of play was more geared towards not losing rather than winning. Very rarely did he lose us games, but very rarely did he win us games, either. As long as the games this year's QB wins for us matches the number of games he loses for us, then with a slightly worse offense and a slightly better defense, theoretically, we should have the same record as last year. And considering that Daboll will likely put our QB in better positions to win us games than the previous OC did, I'm hopeful that whatever QB we end up with for the season can tread water as well as Tyrod did.

That's fair. But that's also the point. I want to be able to make that comparison, instead of being forced to compare those performances with one where the third string Oline was a turnstile when it wasn't committing penalties. So the competition goes up? Good. I want to see how he reacts to that, if he can overcome it. Does he connect on those deep balls if he has someone other than Robert "I'm too good to dive" Foster trying to catch them? Has his footwork and mechanics improved? It's a little hard to tell when he's scrambling all the time. But his pocket presence was good, and there were definitely flashes of greatness there.

I'm looking forward to Allen playing with the second strings like the rest of the rookie QBs are. I'm wondering how the comparison would have been with Allen vs the rest of them then. At the very least he would have had an actual offensive line.

I've been thinking similar things. I'm now wondering how all the "we should have draft Rosen instead of Allen" people will react to this?

I've had enough of these announcers in the Chargers/Cardinals games. They are such homers, they are having trouble recognizing basic things. Like how a throw that forces the WR out of bounds, uncatchable, is not in fact a "great throw," a "very, very good throw," or a "really positive play."

I can't argue. I haven't seen too much of Rudolph or Jackson, though. Is he still the worst if you include those two?

"You want that thing rigid...like you on the dance floor." This on top of the previous "Dora is exploring the backfield" quote. I am so happy these guys aren't national announcers, and are just Cardinals guys...

Oh jeez, I just realized Geno Smith had come in for the Chargers. Geno's so bad he's backing up Cardale Jones? If Rivers goes down, the Chargers season is over.

So I haven't been paying TOO much attention, but it seems like Rosen has been rather pedestrian. The worst of the rookie QBs. How do all of you see it so far?

We get it, Josh Allen pissed in your cereal. I've heard of NFL standing for No Fun League, but I've never seen someone so dedicated to the cause. Everyone here is so happy that you've already closed the book on Allen before he's even played his first regular season game. With that kind of predictive power, you must be winning lotteries left and right, correct? Mind telling me the next megamillions number?

Can whichever Bills fan that punted Magnetar's puppy off the bridge just apologize? Jeez, I've never heard of someone who so wants to hate something he claims to love...

So is anyone else getting the feeling that both the Jets and the Bills are being underrated by a lot of people this year, and for the second consecutive year, both will surprise a lot of people when they start putting together some wins?

I think you misunderstood. My understanding of what Tasker was saying wasn't that they hated playing against him because he was so good, but because he had such a strong arm. If you're coming away with bruises every time you knocked a ball down, you'd probably not enjoy having to knock those balls down, either. At least, that's what I got out of it.

What about nickel corner? Shaq vs. Murphy? Harrison Phillips vs. Washington for the 3rd DT rotation? Siran Neal as a big safety possibility? Swing tackle battle? Let's be honest, there are a bunch of competitions that are going to have a huge impact on our season. It's the reason I'm looking SO much more towards the preseason than I normally do (it definitely isn't because I'm trying to distract myself from worrying about my thesis defense in less than a week. Totally...)

So my question would be, why wouldn't we just wait until the Chiefs inevitably have to cut one of their ridiculous number of good RBs?

I'm with Rev. People were predicting 2-4 wins last year, instead we get to the playoffs. People are discounting the Bills because we have too many unknowns, but that's the problem. We don't know how good or bad different position groups will be. The defense has more talent than last year, but the entire offense is a question mark. However, depending on your opinion of TT, JA, and a healthy KB, you could make the argument that the offense should be better than it was last year. Hell, last year we looked absolutely horrible on offense all through the preseason and into the season, but we did get somewhat better, and we got wins. People are saying we play tough divisions with the NFC North and AFC South, but you could say the same thing last year with the AFC West and NFC South. The Bills this coming year honestly seem like one of the most difficult teams to predict. I don't think I'd be surprised to see a 4 win season, but I also don't think I'd be that surprised to watch another Bills playoff game.

So people have been talking about spending sprees and whatnot, but what I want to see is for one or two big ticket free agents coming in with front-loaded contracts so that the big impacts on our salary come when we can most afford to pay it, and when there aren't a lot of guys we're trying to resign. That way, when we ARE trying to resign our own players, these big ticket free agents are relatively cheap. Build for both next year AND the future.

I don't know, he looked faster than that on tape. Still not the fastest, but he looked quick, which can help create separation. That 40 time might be a little misleading...

So pretty much, you want us to take a draft strategy from the Browns' playbook and go winless because were don't have a QB and passed on all the really good ones?

Personally, I agree with the original premise, but for different reasons. In a draft where 5-6 QBs could go in the first round, and no agreement on who is the best, or what order, I honestly can't see the browns passing on Saquon #1, then taking the third QB in the draft at 4, if not higher. With good WRs (finally), plus a bridge QB, AND Saquon taking the pressure off everyone else in the offense, its a MUCH better situation for them to be in than if they took a QB at 1, then if they had to hope Saquon fell to them at 4, or a lesser but still good player. If they did anything else, they're essentially committing themselves to further futility.

With a halfway decent QB, Jordan Matthews can be at the very least really solid, if not really good. E.J. Gaines was the forgotten man on the defense. When we didn't have him, we were in trouble, and QBs threw in that direction. I love Kyle Williams, but he's declined. He would be more of a nostalgia signing than a good player signing. Beyond that, everyone else is forgettable. Anyone else we resigned should be a cheap, depth signing more than anything. Anything more, and they're not worth it.