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Are you asking if I would rather a QB that can throw for 24 TD/5 INT and 65% completion percentage over 11 games (extrapolating data) over a QB who runs and passes for 18 TD's/12 INT with 53% completion percentage? Because if you are, the answer is yes....

Josh Allen and our 1st for Big Russ?

I hate you.

I have been a big proponent of adding more to the salary cap and including FO/Coaching/Training staff. You want the worlds best coaching and training staff, it will come at the cost of player quality, or visa versa. Teams like the Bengals are already doing the inverse. Large market teams generally can spend more on coaching/training/FO staff.

That and be played OG at the Senior Bowl, and was named the best OL for the game. He’s also not quite level up to expectations. But I guess nobody did last year on that OL.

Bills fans in 2017- Cordy Glenn and Sammy Watkins are injury prone. The best ability is availability Bills fans in 2019- All NFL players get injured. Trust the process. The offseason is wild sometimes man....

Just a heads up, John Brown had the second worst catch percentage for any receiver in the league last year with a YAC of 12 or more..... Who was last you ask????? Kelvin Benjamin

And we have been super kind to Clay and Jones, so I am sure that will go over well.

I was actually thinking the same thing when going through the John Brown thread...granted Brown is a different receiver than Bob Woods. But good blocker, better route runner, and sure hands. He is currently worth that amount. I might even say...(don't hold me to this) I would rather have one Robert Woods over both Beasley and Brown.

Not really going to get into it, because I am biased. I didn't agree with trading Glenn at the time. All I will say is, a year or two later, we are unsure if Dawkins is best suited for LT, or is a long term solution at the position. Adding: Point was, being a Bills fan can be weird. Rationilizing getting rid of an OL because of injury-Hooray! Rationalize signing a similarly priced OL with injury history-Hooray!

This one is weird. I am pulled in both directions. First, hooray, upgraded the offensive line in a very major way. Second, wait at that price and his injury history, wtf wouldn’t we just keep Cordy Glenn. How are people excited for a guy with a worse injury history than our prior starting LT, but also say injury history was a good reason to get rid of our LT.

THIS!!!! At the risk of routing the thread in a different direction. I think Buddy and Whaley were right around average GM's in the NFL. Beane has not done enough with this roster yet to say he is definitively better or worse than those two. Here is to hoping he is.

I feel like its kinda like when you have to go to your National Sales Meeting. Sweet, I get to spend 3 days boozing on the company dime. Yes you do some networking as well. But overall, the 3 day bender and watching 50 year old guys leave their wedding rings in their hotels so they can go home with some 50 year old lady who is doing the same thing, is pretty gross and gets old very quickly.

I have posted this a ton, and it always gets flamed. I grew up with a great friend of mine whose father was Terrys business partner. Terry never managed the business, that’s what his partner was for. TP is a geologist. His skill set is finding oil, not running a business. My friends father managed the business deals, financing, staffing, and PnL’s. Not Terry.

Yeah totally thought this was about Rueben Brown. Then thought the question about Chris Brown was sarcastic. Finally, you clarified, you actually meant Chris Brown. Ah Shiite. WGR Bills radio should absolutely be Rube and Sal though.

Do you think McDermott can outscheme every other coach on both sides of the ball? Because thats how Belichick keeps winning rings with his “foundation” based philosophy. Which is driven by the idea that EVERYBODY in the building will out-scheme, out-physical, out-film study, out-prepare every other team in the league. If you can’t out-scheme everybody, then you have to be more talented more often than not in professional sports. I don’t trust McDermott to out-scheme anybody. You rarely if ever out culture opponents regularly for wins (except in extreme scenarios like the Browns of old). Most of all, I don’t trust Beane for overall talent evaluation.

Correct, but you’re trying to tell two stories with one formula...which is where the problem lies. If you’re going to count runs for positive yards and completions, then count sacks, zero gain, or negative gain, as an attempt and incompletion. You can’t just add half the data set and swing the pendulum one way. If JA is 6/10 and 80 yards, runs for 7 yards on the next play. Then he becomes 7/11 and 87 yards. Based on what you’re doing, if the next play he scrambles and is sacked for -3. He needs to be 7/12 for 84 yards. You can’t just count the positive plays for yards and completion %, and ignore the sacks/failed scrambles.

I think he did. Count his scrambles for zero and negative yards as attempts and incompletions. You took sack data and tried to use it to show effectiveness for total yards. The two can't overlap in what you are trying to get the data to say. Remove the sack numbers, because they aren't really relevant to trying to measure overall yardage performance.

People might not like talking about it anymore, but it doesn’t make it wrong.

It’s weird that Mahommes isn’t mentioned more due to a bunch of things: - It’s the most important position in football - Dude looks like a stud -He was literally picked with the Bills draft pick. - They traded away said draft pick with Mahommes still on the board. -Regency biased. - Literally every other single player listed doesn’t make the Bills roster nearly as improved as Mahommes does. - We could have used the increased draft capital in 2018 to build a better roster than we have now, rather than spending said capital on Allen and Edmunds.

JE is not getting in, at least he shouldn’t. I think Welker will and should.

My Dad and I have this discussion/argument all the time, but we come from very different athletic backgrounds. He played/plays a ton of hockey still, good but not great. I lived at the Olympic training center for a number of years in a different sport.l, and coached a few national championships as well If you ask me every time in sports, I take the physiology over the brain. You can coach the brain, you can’t coach DNA. However to be truly great, or at least better than/on par with your peers in pro sports, you need both. (This is the argument). You can’t will a 4.3 40. No matter how hard you train, some guys can do it and some guys can’t. It just is. Hopefully Duke works out. There have been a ton of grinders who lack the genetics, and a few genetic freaks who could never harness it. It is what it is.

I thought so too, especially the last 3rd of the game or so. I am willing to give Brady some benefit of the doubt because of his career. But I am hoping it’s a sign that next year he struggles mightily. I don’t want Brady to ride off into the sunset. I want him to have a terrible season where his body fails him. Where the heir apparent takes the reigns and Brady gets benched because of struggles. We deserve that in Buffalo. If that means he wins the Super Bowl in 2019/20, so be it. But I want that season.

They beat the no. 1 seed on the road this year....

Yes they would be. The AFCE is good for about 1 extra win every other year. Pats just won on the road in KC. Here is how the numbers read Brady vs: AFCE 81-21=.794 NFL 207-62=.769 NFL sans AFCE games 126-41 = .754