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Right? Russ Brandon! It was what... a year and a half ago? Whaley's press conference? Was that 2 years ago? McBeane have turned this clown show around in a hurry. They're clearly trying to replicate in a way, what teams like GB, Pitt, and NE do year in and year out. They have stabilized this organization in a very short time, its really impressive.

I mean - even a coach who knows what he's doing. I'm not sure kitchens was ever the golden boy that they claimed him to be.

Yeah - i just remember the offseason after rex... it was like - why is whaley hiring anyone? Shouldn't he be gone? Or shouldn't we hire a VP to oversee - the pegula's are in over their heads... why is russ brandon still here?! etc.

They did what everyone thought was right - bring in a VP of football operations. I think he made a few mistakes in building the team (largely forgoing future for present success), but i also think keeping marrone wasn't the right move. They did bring him in as an heir apparent behind bradley after he quit buffalo, but i thought Coughlin would bring a new level of prestige to a coaching search. That whole thing about the NFLPA. He was alienating players and kind of forced ownerships hand. “In the last two years, more than 25% of grievances filed by players in the entire league have been filed against the Jaguars. You as players may want to consider this when you have a chance to select your next club.”

Gotta remember those stats are a bit funky when you factor in how few touches we were giving singletary to start the year. He also missed a few games. Gore was fine to start the year, but im not sure of a few things. He may have lost a bit of gas here at the end of the year, or he simply doesn't work as a change of pace back. He seems to hammer you until you make a mistake and then he makes you pay. His YPC has been atrocious the last few games, and it's got to be one of those things. Snaps are down, and so is his overall effectiveness.

And sometimes you n eed to be able to run out the clock on an opponent. The Falcons unwillingness or inability to do so cost them a championship.

Only essentially a contract for 1 game - plus he wont get paid if hes on the exempt list.

He was huge - but didn't pull down 50/50 balls with any level of consistency. He also developed some really bad habits with regards to work ethic and his hands weren't very good. Perhaps some of those things have creeped into duke's practices - not pulling in 50/50 passes, or dropping passes? If he's not doing those things in practice consistently, he's probably not worth playing since you probably won't call a play trusting him to do it. Yeah - 3 and 7 for a 4th year player with a 5th year option. Could do worse in a trade.

Yeah - thats a good point i guess. Just seems like it'd be easy to get away with taking a couple of pills than blowing lines off the urinal at halftime. I guess it also depends on what results in more success on the field.

Interesting - seems rather expensive too (at least at a non nfl level paygrade). I would think amphetamines used to treat like ADHD (ritalin) would be really helpful for football though. Laser focus, little to no fatigue, and they're engineered to last longer. Not sure the NFL was testing for it at the time, was super easy to get a script for too.

I would think they fine them. I think this happened a while back and there weren't picks forfeited or anything. headphones are so tiny now... this will become an ongoing problem that they'll have to address in the next CBA.

They had pepper johnson - but he only made all-pro once. Harry Carson is in the HOF and he was on that 86 team. This is before my time - so its going to be based off of all-pro and HOFers.

Yeah - but the like jolt of energy you get lasts like 10 minutes. You get a bit of a sustained high, but mostly that just keeps you up all night at a craps table. Honestly, i think you're more alert after smelling salts than coke. I would think amphetamines would be more beneficial to performance since it lasts longer. Germans used them in WW2, and from what i remember it was pretty popular in baseball in the 60s.

Actually a lot of the team's we have played have had solid pass D units. NEx2, Pit, Bal, Cle, Dal, Den - 7 games against the current top 10 pass defense groups from a YPG stand point.

I wouldn't hate if we went with 2 WRs in the first 3 rounds. Especially if there's some success at other positions in free agency. Foster, Duke, McKenzie could all be upgraded.

Yeah i agree - use it to get some valuable reps. I'd probably avoid scrambling too much and be prepared to throw it away a bit more.

Hard to say - only guys who might be inactive would be maybe singletary, brown, morse? Everyone else you just play starters for a bit then ease in backups. Barkley probably gets some heavy usage and its a gore/yeldon/perry game. More foster and maybe duke?

I don't even disagree that he did well with what was there. But i don't think that was a good offense.

Tunsil leads the NFL in pre snap penalties. At the end of the day all-pro is all that really matters. And Tre is the only all-pro on this team

Guys I'd be interested in by position: QB: Not a free agent, but cut candidate - Andy Dalton RB: Kenyan Drake - Not sure he'd come here since he probably wants a feature role, but i always thought he was really talented WR: None of the UFAs really impress me as i doubt we make a run at cooper. I'd be willing to trade for someone like Diggs or A. Robinson.. but this looks like a position that won't be addressed until the draft OL: Depends how they see ford. If they really want to roll him at RT, then i'd say try and bring back spain. Otherwise Make a run at RT - there's a few names that should be available. DL: I'd like to keep our own, and probably draft another pass rusher. LB: Depth needed here, probably an overpay for dupree or judon but they could both add some wrinkles here.

3 words.... best... player... available... Qbs will sneak into the top 20, there will probably be like 4 or 5 taken before Buffalo picks. Go for a star in round 1 - don't care where he plays.

If the 2019 Bills were 14th in yards per game - thats an extra 19 yards per game. If they were 14th in Points per game, thats an extra 2.8 points per game. However... PPG also factors in D/ST though... which the 2011 bills had 6 defensive touchdowns and 1 special teams TD. Taking those out would bring the offense to 323 points for the year.... Right around the 23rd ranking that the 2019 bills offense has... Taking out the lone ST TD that this buffalo offense has scored would put them at 284 points for the year averaging about 20 PPG. Turnover rate was 5 percent higher... the 3rd down conversion rate was 5% lower. RZ scoring rate was worse. I think the 2019 team will end up with more first downs too. Just wanted to vent because people literally bring up Chan Gailey all the time like he invented offense.

I dunno - insane amount of turnovers with is productive creative offense. Screams "not detail oriented" to me

He's actually a good tackler... he took a bad angle and tried to force him out of bounds. He tries to wrap him up and he's probably getting stiff armed. Re: cutting him - He's an ERFA - No one can offer sheet him and we don't have to pay him anything. That may be the worst take ever.

Chan did a good job without a lot of talent. But people really overrate those offenses that he had. 2011 was the best Gailey offense - 14th in points and 14th in yards (The only year his O was in the top half of the league) and a ton of turnovers that didn't help the defense. The bad defense that everyone complains about was tied for 5th in the league with 31 takeaways, and even scored 5 TDs (6 if you count a PR by Leodis). Fitz and the vaunted Chan Gailey O everyone loves so much gave the ball back 30 times. I'm just sick of the revisionist history of him leading fitz to this like juggernaut offense that was held back by the defense. They were a bad team - on both sides of the ball. Maybe slightly moreso on the defense but several losses that year are completely on the Gailey Offense.