Bleeding Bills Blue

This feels like a James white game too. Gotta have sound tackling in this one

This guy won his last game - the 10 in front of him haven't played one in like 5+ years. I honestly think he forgot about him so he wrote something negative. I think backup QBs have a few different roles. There's the clipboard/coaching piece, the spot game where you didn't prepare, and extended stretches. I like Barkley for the first 2 - the 3rd one would likely be ok at first and tail off as teams game planned for him.

I mean reading the comments on like the entire bottom half - its basically all "i don't know, i've never seen him play"

Yeah - limited opportunities and it popped up. Honestly he popped some in preseason but people only remember the fumble. You know who's leading the league in fumbles? Josh Allen.

McDermott constantly preaches taking care of the ball. He knows he can't fumble and expect to see the field. Can just bring back Marcus Murphy in 2 seconds

He has 6 career fumbles including the one last game. And about 600 career touches. 1/100 isn't even that bad

This and a ton of pre-snap motion. You can beat press coverage with bunch packages, rub routes, screens etc. If they have lots of guys close to the LOS, I expect Mckenzie/Roberts/Beasley running around right before the snap so you can't body them at the line.

Its tough - but when you get single high looks you're going to have to throw them. Hopefully foster and brown got their legs ready - browns going to see a lot of gilmore and a lot of that will be press-man.

Offense needs to stop giving the ball away. 6 turnovers in 3 weeks. KC has 1. Patriots have 3 but 1 was a backup QB, and another a muffed punt in a 30-0 game.

Yeah - no run game and a rookie QB against Belichick. Recipe for failure.

This is a very tough matchup. Their defense is going to play physical, and they have linebackers that can hang with our backs in man coverage. Space will be limited, and they won't let Allen run. They are very smart with their rush depth so they don't create running lanes. Honestly - this is a game made for deep shots. Until we hit them deep they'll be comfortable in man coverage - if we can force them to play to stop that... we have a shot.

We beat Brisset who i believe was injured, with Edelman as the emergency QB. They knew they were getting Brady back in a week and didn't want to fiddle with the roster. We beat Brady/Garoppolo in a meaningless week 17 game that put Marrone at 9-7 (saint doug) Last win over brady was with Chan in 2011. Before that it was Gregg Williams team in 2003. Not sure how Buffalo wont this one either - this roster was awful. Stevie, Donald jones, and David nelson? Was the GM allergic to using any draft capital to improve our pass catchers? Don't worry - we got CJ spiller to replace Fred Jackson for some reason. Erik Pears and Chad Rinehart? Gross. Mularkey never won one, and I'd say the Ryan and Marrone wins have Asterisks. We beat them one time with Brady in and stakes... since 2003. NE is our daddy til we prove otherwise.

He called a draw play on 4th and 9...

I think his year is probably done at this point. He trashed every aspect of the steelers on his way out. Coaching, Management, Big Ben, JuJu for some reason. Then he goes to the raiders, has some weird helmet drama... Barely practices... then gets into it with coaching and management AGAIN. NE takes a chance on him because its like hey - his agent put out feelers when he originally left Pitt. He's a good player... lets do it! Then there's a rape accusation, a 2nd accusation, a weird texting... threat or whatever. In what? 2 weeks?! Who wants to bring a clown show to their team at this point?

He wouldn't count in the formula - either his contract is void, or he was released while under contract.

He's been saying and doing the right things - I know he's probably on his last strike from a league and patriots perspective. He's never been like... trashing his teams in social media, or trashing his QB, or trashing management. He legit has a substance abuse problem, has struggled a lot, and seems to have turned it around. It's more of a trust thing than like, a distraction really.

I'd take that 90K. If it's earned in florida does he need to pay state income tax? Who cares on the cap hits - he's going to have to pay anything he received back. Guy can't get out of his own way.

Yeah - i think there was a knox drop on what wouldve been a first down. Great ball IIRC. Another drive got messed up with a false start

Not to mention - he might be really good. Who knows!?

Didn't Allen fumble on that sack but they blew it dead? Then they returned it to basically the location of that fumble. On my phone otherwise I'd check

Whats the point of a settlement? If you want the space on the roster put him on IR - but why give him a settlement? If he gets healthy and is a better player i'd rather have him. Are the Tampa TE's even available for trade?

How about a diagnosis before we cut him?

Sack-fumble-TD

2 drives had penalties, 3 rushes vs. 8 or 9 passes? What makes it seem like the foots off the gas? Drive 1 - Knox drop killed the drive. Drive 2 - Incomplete on 2nd and short on 3rd. Started drive with a false start Drive 3 - False start to start drive, incomplete, sack, short on 3rd.

I think the team will get there. IIRC we had a pick 6 in a similar situation against miami last year. In this one i kind of felt like after the big punt return, and subsequent turnover that it was kind of a get to the locker room with your lead intact and get ready for the 2nd half. I was actually ok with it at the time it occurred in the game. I agree with the Marrone call as well - backup QB, on the road - try and get 2 yards. I don't agree with his actual playcall though - just the decision to go for it.