Bleeding Bills Blue

They do have good LBs. Hightower, Collins, Van Noy, Roberts. They're not all-pro but that's a pretty good LB unit.

I think the reasons we moved mccarron were A - He was outplayed by peterman, and allen was probably a bit ahead of where they thought he would be B - The offer was good C - He's kinda... not good. Now Peterman was a disaster and it forced Allen in - and we were forced to make all sorts of weird moves to eventually move on from Peterman mid-season. Absolute botch job there... But i honestly don't think we would have won more games with McCarron starting. I can't make the same call with Barkley. He won his only game here last year, has been a professional, and has owned his role without taking 1st team reps. It's kind of everything you want in a backup.

My Assumption is yeldon/murphy. I think based on the depth chart yeldon probably locks up the rb4 spot assuming healthy. Murphy is playing for a job somewhere else, and honestly having watched him last year I think he has a shot.

I guess i see where you're coming from - but i live in Tonawanda. I wouldn't become a fan of another team unless they got rid of the bills. And then i'd probably go browns... I'm a tribe fan and i hate the steelers.

I think I'd take the kicker out of it. 1 play from the 5 - 1 point. 1 play from the 10 - 2 point. It shouldn't be a guaranteed 1 (mostly guaranteed after they pushed it back), or essentially a slightly better than 50/50 proposition for 2. A double double tastes fine - then you realize its like 5 creams and 5 sugars.... not exactly healthy for your waist-line.

They need as much cap space as possible should they extend zeke and also to possibly extend dak and cooper. They'll need to roll over as much as humanly possible. Theyd just sign marcus murphy for league minimum at this point. If I'm Buffalo I'm not trading Zay Jones for a 5th round pick in 2020... He seems to be a process guy and will do what is asked of him to play. We're also in win-now mode. When you factor in that we have like nothing other than a couple of rookies at tight end too... our pass catchers are near the bottom of the league. They just aren't probably rock bottom anymore.

I mean - Bell should still be good. He also hasn't played in a game since 2017, and skipped the preseason. I always put very little into QB performances during preseason as no one is blitzing and the coverage isn't disguised very well. This means i put very little into both Allen and Darnold's preseason performances. I just look at the guy coaching that team and don't think he's a very good head coach. I guess he could surprise me, but I don't see it. This doesn't mean they can't beat us week 1 at home either. Pretty evenly matched up - i just think in the long run Gase isn't putting this team over the top.

Yep - a bunch of rookies looked really good too. But once the bullets fly, and teams blitz and confuse you, it becomes a whole different ball game.

I'm hoping the future is providing me with options for how I want to watch. I can use the original camera, or the higher up field view camera, or the behind center camera... etc. I don't think there should be a single way of watching football - and I hope they move towards an app or something that lets me: A- Watch in 4K B- Lets me watch any game that is playing at that time, including in-market games C- Lets me choose from available camera's If it takes Ads on Uniforms and more on the field to make this happen I'm for it. The TV money that comes pouring in off the contracts, and the Sunday Ticket through DirectTV would need to be offset, but an annual fee of some kind would cover that. You could even give a discount to season ticket holders, pre-pay vs. monthly etc. I don't think you would eliminate the NFL on CBS/FOX etc, but you're giving a premium service to customers - and you would have a lot of them.. people love their football. Streaming seems to be the way of the future, yet Sports leagues continually jump back in with the networks and their money guarantee. WWE is kind of the only true hybrid, taking the network money and then also creating a streaming option for their customers.

I agree pretty much across the board - Terrible GM and Bowles didn't have it. I just worry that Adam Gase doesn't either - his time in Miami was not a success and he's never been the offensive guru that he claims to be. Not to mention we played Miami the last 2 years in week 17, and not only did the team seem checked out - so did Gase. The list of candidates they interviewed was incredibly uninspiring, but they didn't get Mike McCarthy so I guess that's a positive. I also hate the position they put their GM in, not letting him factor into the coaching search/roster building as he was hired months after FA and the Draft.

That is gonna take at least a year - if he wanted to make THIS team he should be focusing on being a gunner on special teams.

i think i would have rather they just played a CFL style game.

Turnover differential is like the most common predictor of success, but Here are the top 10 teams in fewest sacks allowed: Indy, NO, NE, Pitt, KC, Car, Balt,Chicago, LAR, Denver, LAC Going by yards NO, Indy, NE, Balt, Pitt, KC, Chicago, LAR, LAC, Tampa bay Seems kind of important - and upgrading the o-line isn't the only thing that's going to limit it.

I'd do it. Plenty of cap room and its an upgrade. He's held the ball for a long time for a good kicker. I will say this though - buffalo punters always have a lower average because its so windy in that stadium in the fall. Someone who can consistently get fair catches, kick to his coverage, and punt well enough out of bounds is all i ask for. He doesn't need to be johnny hekker.

It's an attribute that doesn't seem to ding QBs, just offensive lines. It's typically a result of holding the ball too long. Scramblers do tend to have higher sack rates and a lot of it can be offset with running ability - but sacks are like holding penalties... basically drive killers.

Darnold had some really strong games, and some stinkers. Both Allen and Darnold had 4 sub 50% comp% games. Darnold went over 300 once, Allen did not. Similar INT%. Both sub 7 YPA. Both had poor rushing games (Buffalos rushing offense is propped up by Allen's scrambles). Darnold did have 2 games over 75% comp, and and 6 over 60% - Allens not touching him there. I'd give edges to the Jets in oline and receivers though. Anderson is better than anybody we had, Enunwa too probably. We didnt dump benjamin and holmes until halfway through the year.

Yep - after splitting 1st team reps in camp with 2 (!!!!) other QBs in camp with a QB coach in Culley who we can all agree is probably not super well versed in the nuances of the position... he wasn't put in a position to succeed. He had to figure it out on his own - now he gets all the reps and has a QB coach who at least PLAYED the position. I don't know much about Dorsey, but personality wise i'm not sure he was a good fit with Newton.

That guy who completed less than 50% of passes for a sub 6 YPA with the 13% sack rate last year? We got pick #65 for that guy AND his terrible contract. Every evaluation of QBs that doesn't include sack rate bothers me. Allens being sacked 21 times in weeks 1-6 (13% - HORRIBLE) and 7 times in games 11-16 (3.7% - basically brady's % last year). Completion percentage is your percentage of passes complete vs. incomplete - but if you dont factor in sacks it makes no sense. They're WORSE than incompletions and almost as bad as turnovers. Mariota completed 68% of his passes a year ago... but he also had an 11.3% sack percentage. Excluding scrambles he was sacked 42 times on 370 drop backs. If you just converted those all to incompletions he'd have a 61% completion percentage and a sub 7 YPA. Watson was sacked 62 times and if you factor in the 384 yards lost, and include those as attempts... his YPA is 6.66. I just think its annoying that they dont mention it.

That's i think the biggest thing with him. Nobody watched him play, especially at the end of the year.

One would assume the Rams make it again. I think bears or pack take that division. And we'll say philly and NO win the other. The wildcard would then be between Dallas, Carolina, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, and then maybe the Lions. It'd be a surprise for sure.

They made the splash signings though. Bell, Mosley, Crowder, Kalil - and they drafted quinnen williams at 3 who is supposed to be a stud. Pundits loved darnold pre-draft, and love him post-draft. Everyone hates allen cuz reasons. I dont hate the analytical look at him because numbers dont lie (except the 4% drop rate... that just seems wrong with benjamin on the team for several weeks) - but i do think you have to look at him and see that there was some development from beginning to end of the year. My biggest issue with the allen "haters" isn't that that they think he may not be a good QB, or that he may never develop. My issue - They actively root for him to fail... so they can be right

Yeah - Considering GB/Chicago/Min in the lions division, and the broncos with the chiefs and chargers? Yuck - not good for either.

Yeah - its just the usage in a Gase offense. Crowder is going to see the most targets assuming he's healthy. Anderson is going to see that - 100 targets with a 50% catch percentage type of year imo. Yeah - we have them beat there, our depth is honestly strong there too. I'm hoping we pass the ball the entire game against them. Force them into man coverage - use Allens legs to buy time to make plays, as well as pick up some easy firsts.

Mosley's not a slouch - he is however overpaid. I think part of what buffalos practicing is different combinations of spreading 5 wide to play to the Jets weaknesses. Spreading wide like that is going to force you into favorable matchups with beasley and mccoy.

I think Darnold is already on a trajectory to being a great QB. I'm not sure how Gase got that job. He's not the QB guru he makes himself out to be. From a yardage perspective his offenses have always ranked in the 20s - unless he had that Peyton Manning character basically co-offensive coordinating and playing HOF level QB. Then again - they almost hired Mike McCarthy... so they gotta be happy that they didn't do that.