Bleeding Bills Blue

A friend of mine from my old job played against levens in high school and said he was a nightmare. A colleague at my current job played football in St. Louis and said Brandon Williams was the biggest meanest dude he ever played against, and Williams was really solid in basketball too.

You can't sign everybody. The saints definitely try to keep running it back with the same group though.

No Loopholes - Ramzyck likely has no new money this year. It's like if buffalo signed Josh allen to a 5 year contract extension next season. He still plays under a 5th year option and then the bonus is spread over other years. Next season they sit at 208M right now (pre-Ramzcyk). Armstead and Lattimore don't have contracts yet. And the only cap space they can really create is by converting salary to restructure bonuses and void years. So you're essentially sacrificing future cap space to sign those guys. I'm curious if A - they're still good without brees and B - if they keep punting the cap hits down the line to keep the team together. They had a couple big wins over TB, but they lost to GB and KC. Other than that the only other playoff team they beat was the bears...

I could see him down a bit, but Allen looks for him a lot so i still see the 100+ rec by him. I think sanders works in the slot some as well with bease, which is going to be a PITA to cover when they roll 4 WR with davis outside. So i could see some of bease's targets heading to sanders. I also think Singletary might play more of a role th is year.

I think Gase is probably an OK offensive coordinator. Nothing super unique to his offense. Not a great run game coordinator. But I think between the ears he knows football, its more of an issue with coaching style and lack of leadership. It'll take a year or two, but I suspect he just ends up in college where former NFL coaches tend to have success (largely due to having a name that helps with recruiting). Doubt he ever wins much of anything, but I could see him in the pac-60 or whatever its called now.

His Yards after contact number is in pretty good company. It's the yards before contact there that need the most improvement. Be it oline, his ability to find holes, or playcalling (probably all 3).

All makes sense to me. Tons of negative runs too.

For a lot of the younger guys its the nutrition aspect as well as the training. You no longer have to worry about classes, school etc. It's football. Work is now - working out, film study, studying, nutrition, and recovery.

I find it at least slightly concerning that Alabama had 2 WRs, the RB, and 3 OL also get drafted in the same year. 4 of those in the first round, 5 in the first 37 picks. Even with Waddle missing time, its not as if Metchie is a bad player. I liked Jones ability to throw people open a bit, and he made some nice RZ throws over his receivers shoulders. But between the 20's it looked like a ton of shorter stuff and relying on his guys to make plays.

He's 31 with a history of knee problems, and now needs surgery on his ankle. He's made 50 million... probably set for life there - and he's a stanford educated guy with a business degree. Probably smart to get out of there while he can still walk right, and before getting any serious damage done to the rest of his body.

Yeah, i remember seeing a guy wearing a suit with zubaz lapels (not an entire zubaz suit), and i thought it looked neat.

A lot of the dome teams built them for the purposes of securing super bowls (which bring in a ton of money). Buffalo will never get one, so the dome aspect isn't there. You might be able to use it for concerts or something, but they play football in the winter so... you can have concerts in the spring/summer in an open air stadium probably just as much. Yep - everythings a negotiation tactic. Same goes for them saying " we could play at penn state or somewhere else" when the lease is up. They're just saying that to get favorable terms. Could you imagine playing on that? I rolled up on my toe just thinking about it.

yes.

Could he...? In his time with the team as GM they drafted 0 pro-bowlers. When he was AGM, they drafted 3 - Spiller, Dareus, and Gilmore. Spiller was pretty likely a Nix pick. Why praise someone for dareus when the options otherwise were peterson, julio jones, and AJ green - it was a consensus top 5 player. Congrats for not getting gabbert i guess? And for all his complaining about not being able to get a QB (Purgatory comment) - in 2016 he traded picks that cost them a shot at prescott. In 2012 every single pick ahead of miami at 8 was traded, so either they didn't want tannehill or felt good about fitz. And they used a pick on TJ Graham instead of Wilson. Then walked into 2013 with no QB. It's alllll nix, nothing to do with ol' dougie. I kind of hate doug whaley, he is the type of guy to tell you only about his good achievements (and take credit for other peoples work) and completely avoid all the stupid terrible trades and picks he made.

Improving the hand eye coordination and increased repetition makes the automatic parts of the catch more effective. I assume the zone blocking part is still a work in progress. Thats a tough thing to learn in all honesty.

He'd be a nice piece for them. Between watkins, brown, and now bateman - that'd be a pretty interesting group for the largely vertical roman passing attack.

I was enjoying the XFL honestly. It was far more entertaining than that AAF league. Rule changes were mostly kinda neat. At the end of the day though 2 leagues is going to end up being 0 leagues unless one does compensation more effectively.

The thing that stuck out to me was under 2 minutes in buffalo territory they played to tie... with a kicker who had been smashed the last time he was on the field.

Including playoffs? The 2 dimes he threw to davis after the 4th down stop were both important and ridiculously good.

I think the issue was - they were also never going to compete for a super bowl without a QB.

They decided to move on from darby (injury prone, poor scheme fit), Dareus (overpaid, malcontent), Watkins, (injury prone damaged goods player), Ragland (scheme fit)... And added matthews, gaines, and benjamin in other moves. Gaines when healthy was pretty solid for buffalo, matthews was hurt a lot instilling a greater need for benjamin, and benjamin also got hurt. i don't think any of the players they brought in were better than who was shipped out, but he did acquire a lot of picks to shape the roster. They also took a big dead cap hit for all of this, but were able to do a rebuild in a 2 year window by making all the moves up front instead of trying to make a run with Whaleys roster.

For me - it was how much the team responded to the Peterman incident. Coach tried to spark the offense after an absolutely terrible performance the week before (Tyrod's line - 9/18 56 yards, 1 INT, 2 sacks for 6 yards loss - so 20 pass plays that resulted in 50 yards plus his scrambles). Got the team ready to play in KC, with Tyrod re-instated at QB, and won. Team was 5-5 and looking like a team that could finish like 6-10 and got them to win 4 of the last 6 games.

Between peterman and anderson there were 4 games that you could just chalk up as losses no matter who the opponent was. So they went 6-6 in Allen starts - One loss was the clay drop, the houston game was tight and peterman really blew it at the end, Jets game the defense failed after taking the lead. So 3 games that probably could have gone eithr way that went against buffalo.

Well I know they tried with a bad offensive line to make some effort to run the ball more. Part of it was also that Wilson was just money on deep balls to start the year, and it tends to get windier as the year goes on. Their defense also played considerably better as the year went on, so they didn't need to put up 40 every game to stay in it.

I read this as "Negative 7" and i was like... i don't think you can do that but thats awesome.