Bleeding Bills Blue

Well many of the guys i might rank above him had either injury plagued years (hughes, watkins, aaron williams, ragland, shaq, clay), or off years (kyle, whatever dareus year was, gilmore, darby). He took care of the ball, had some very good games (obviously some stinkers, or games where he didn't jump off the stat sheet). Stole quite a few first downs with his legs. Added some TDs on the ground. Led a very good red zone attack. I tend to value a QBs contributions more than a Left Guards, but you can't say Woods/the rest of the receivers were particularly good. The running game was pretty much the sole thing that this team did well last year, and I put McCoy at the top for that, but adding an option role and almost 600 yards from the QB is something. We had a bottom of the barrel rush defense so i'm reluctant to anoint a front 7 player. We didn't get a ton of turnovers, we got shredded by many mediocre QBs last year. I honestly thought we'd lose to the rams we were getting shredded by Case Keenum. I guess 3rd then? Maybe behind Zo? He had a really good year. Well the teams with the highest turnover diff were mostly playoff teams, so there should be a relatively high valuation on taking care of the football. 3rd in giveaways, tied for 23rd in takeaways. http://www.espn.com/nfl/statistics/team/_/stat/givetake

I mean - Shady for sure Watkins if he plays Dareus if he tries Hughes if he's healthy Maybe Cog, Lorax, KW? They're all 1 year older. Never seen white or hyde play so i can't say. Darby had a lot of stinkers last year. Ragland and Lawson, who knows? Looking at last year - Tyrod was probably our 2nd best player.

Last season? Or like, where we think he falls this season?

Yeah Bell and Ajayi did twice... Honestly - many of the one score games were 2 score games. We made them 1 score games with like 45 seconds left in the 4th

He was basically our 2nd best player last year. We had a lot of talented players under-perform.

I had a really good pizza at the anchor bar like... 8 years ago.

Tough division, new coach, no QB. Wouldn't surprise me one bit.

I don't even know what this means. We have the best chance to win with Tyrod Taylor starting this year, and honestly probably next year even if we draft someone. I think he can improve under this offensive coordinator and be an adequate starter. However, if the defense doesn't make improvements it won't matter. Drew Brees is a perfect example of why your defense needs to be at least somewhat good for you to be successful. They have been 7-9 in 4 out of 5 years with a sure-fire hall of fame QB putting up 5000 yards and 30 TDs per year. What is the conclusion you are trying to come to?

He's a good player. I have legit not said otherwise. In his time in Buffalo, he has not been an elite top-10 cornerback for a full season. You can't ignore the first half of 2016 in evaluating him. He has had stretches where he struggles with penalties and big plays. Belichick values him higher because he believes probably both that he can coach him up on his deficiencies, and he probably has no interest in making Malcolm Butler the highest paid corner in football.

Guys got a clemson problem

I think he can be a top-10 corner. I don't think he has been in the last 4 years. He's not even in the discussion on this year end review: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000769950/article/yearend-cornerback-rankings-richard-sherman-lands-at-no-1 Or this one: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2717888-nfl1000-ranking-the-best-shutdown-cornerbacks Or this one: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000775730/article/xavier-rhodes-leads-top10-no-1-cornerbacks He's taking over for Logan Ryan, and I think he's better than Ryan. So he should have a good year. People threw at Ryan a lot.

Regarding the slow nature of getting plays off - It's not like it was just Tyrod... https://www.ninersnation.com/2015/11/15/9736210/was-greg-romans-offense-to-blame-in-san-francisco Roman always struggled there, and struggled in the Red zone. If you take 25 seconds to get a play in to the QB, you don't give him a chance to make a single adjustment, let alone audible. Do i think Tyrod is good? No, not really. I think that the Roman offense had the ability to play to his strengths, but there were a lot of issues with the 2 minute offense that you can't avoid. Hopefully Dennison continues to play to his strengths, and allows us to get moving a bit quicker in the no-huddle/late in games.

The line in LA was pretty good the past few years. Quinn and Donald are beasts.

If we struggle to run the ball out of the gate under center, i think they'll be forced to add some pistol concepts just to get that part of the game going. Also - pistol/option was MONEY in the red zone last year and we'd be stupid to ignore that.

yeah - jimmy grahams 1 handers, and Schmidt's 32 yard per punt average in that game. grrrrr Looked like a blow-out early on, we couldn't stop them in the air.

He got him at a discount, and is transitioning away from Malcolm butler. He can play any style of defense, and doesn't have any glaring weaknesses. Having said that. At least several of the guys named above would be considered better players than Gilmore. Also not many of them were available without giving up compensation, so its hard to say what Belichick would have done. \ Bouye was, but he's largely limited to playing in zone so i don't think thats a good fit for Bill, who prefers a player who can play in any style. I don't either, but he's pretty good. Bumps well, plays over and under style, can do zone, has pretty good hands. His tackling is pretty lousy/lazy, he doesn't seem to wrap up very often. He also seems to have poor mental games where he's routinely beat. In those games he'll tend to get flags, and look for flags when he gets beat. He also had games where he played like a shutdown corner. Better tackling, and a little more mental toughness and I think he could get there. I look at it like this - he has a better chance to become a great corner in NE than in BUF. Talib was good-not-great in TB, then went to NE and Denver and became a shutdown guy. Some guys come right out of college and dominate, other ones take a bit more time and coaching.

Definitely a big question mark. I think Lynn showed that a new play-caller isn't necessarily a bad playcaller. Game-day playcalling isn't as complicated as game-planning based on film study and defensive trends. Hopefully he learned a thing or two in his many years under Kubiak.

Here's like 12 off the top of my head. Malcolm Butler Chris Harris, Jr. Josh Norman Patrick Peterson Aqib Talib Richard Sherman Vontae Davis Marcus Peters Xavier Rhodes Casey Hayward Janoris Jenkins AJ Bouye Jalen Ramsey Brent Grimes Trumaine Johnson Desmond Trufant Joe Haden Darius Slay

Both had 1000+ yards and 5 TDs. Yes a decline, but they also had Siemien and Lynch at QB. Sub 60% passers. Year before they had noodle-arm manning, and Brock O. I don't know that his scheme was the result or just the massive decline in QBs from 2014-2015/2016. But he's also never had like... a premier unit at any stage. I like the fact that he's had both good passing and good running units though. That makes me think he'll adjust to player strengths.

yeesh! didn't have a lot of mustard on it either.

Seattles probably not a good example... Considering Tyrod had a great game and had us in position to win at the end. 3rd and goal from the 8 and Mills got blown off the line for a 7 yard loss. 4th and goal from the 15 is probably the hardest play possible, vs. 4th and goal from maybe the 5.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/RomaGr0.htm He had a concept of running the ball and not turning it over. If that's the goal, you first off need to have a good defense. The 2nd thing you have to do is simplify passing concepts to avoid high traffic areas, and "throwing people open". He probably had a lower 3 and out % in SF because Gore is more of a hard nosed running back, and McCoy has a tendency to get negative plays.

They still don't. They have Abdullah if he can stay healthy this year. I never was that impressed with him though, he needs to use his speed better. I hate matt stafford, but for an unjustified reason. He's a fine QB, he just looks like a guy who skipped out on like 4 months rent and cost me a couple hundred bucks.

That's what I was essentially saying... its a team game. I wonder what his stats would look like with our 2016 receiving corps.

The Greg Roman passing offense doesn't get YAC really. Its a lot of out routes, dig routes, go routes, occasional posts. No RB screens, no slants, no bubble screens. Watching guys like landry and antonio brown rack up catches and yards by essentially running the ball with screens, quick slants, and drags must drive sammy crazy. Considering that is what he excelled at in college.