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What about our OC? Mechanics are tricky at this level - there are so few practices and stuff that you really can't focus too much on footwork and all that. All season long you're installing a gameplan, and in training camp you do have to actually practice plays. Typically when guys work on mechanics its independent of the team as they can get 1x1 coaching time, usually with a coach who's dedicated to fixing poor mechanics.

I just want the stupid playoff drought to end. Houston has made the playoffs quite a few times with almost all mediocre-to-bad QBs. Matt Schaub made it twice. Hoyer made it once. Even Osweiler got them there. I know the divisions different without Manning, but who cares. Get me to the playoffs so i can stop hearing about our drought all the time.

Apparently not much - they didnt even cover him on a TD catch. I don't care too much about this honestly - i've watched enough other QBs miss open receivers that they're actually throwing to. Big ben was skipping passes to his receivers all game, and his deep balls were fluttering all over the field. We never ran plays to get the ball to playmakers (not sure if this is because we didn't really have any). We didn't run trips or bunch formations. We took like the fewest snaps from under center, so our PA game was never that great. No Screens. No bubbles. No swings. Just such a vanilla offense. And we had a few games where we struggled in pass protection to boot.

Yeah - Nick foles 2015 with the rams was such a stud... Hard to replicate that 56% completion percentage and the 2.1% TD percentage. 186 yards per game... with no addition to the running game! He played so well in 2016 with KC that they almost lost to Jax! They needed 4 turnovers on defense... oh and scored 1 td and had 4 FGs. Sounds like a real studly QB. Foles is now 3 years removed from being any good - and has bounced around the league with a terrible contract. What's Matt Schaub doing while were at it? He went to the pro bowl in 2012!

I'd like to see some LB upgrades - obviously Ragland gets to come back - but i don't see a natural Will on the roster. If we could add Peppers there i think he could work. He needs to pack on a bit of mass but he's a solid tackler, very fast and instictive. Would fill the Shaq Thompson/Deone Bucannon hybrid SS/OLB role. Depends if hooker or adams are there though. Or Blaine Gabbert. Trubinsky is already 24 though. The big concern is 1 year starting in a spread offense. He'll need to be coached up - so if he ended up here somehow... hopefully david lee is not here.

They beat us twice... and the Jets twice. There's the difference. They also had a negative point differential and got blown out a few times. Beat SD on an INT return for a TD, beat the Jets with a KR TD, went to OT with cleveland, and that game against LA that LA essentially gave them. Oh - and they beat 1 team with a winning record (pittsburgh). They were the same team as us - just not buffalo so they get some luck on their side.

The goal is not to blitz and get pressure. They added the 2 TE formation as a bit of a workaround for teams loading up with DBs in nickel and dime. They'll go 2 TE and hurry up until you call TO or get rolled for a few plays. They'll roll blount out there and just hammer your DBs at the LOS. It's a pick your poison type of thing, and their O-line is as healthy and good as its ever been.

I hope we retain Tyrod just because we'll get to read all these lovely tidbits for another 2 year period (or longer!). You hate Tyrod more than I like anyone on buffalo. It's wonderful!

I dunno - seeing how bad QBs can be... There's a pretty good chance that the new guy is worse than him. So we save money and get worse.

Assuming we carry 6 (1 to return) - i'd prefer we have a depth receiver who can play teams (which goodwin does not). Therefore I don't think he's needed as i wouldn't want him in my top 3. And a 4/5 guy that doesn't play teams or return punts isn't very useful.

What if Tyrod is good in this offense? He's probably somewhat familiar with it - has a live arm, and the athleticism to run play actions well. Will have some new weapons, and hopefully can get on the same page with his receivers in camp. Our hypothetical rookie probably doesn't take snaps under center, have a traditional playbook, and plays mostly spread formations. And you're convinced they throw better, and can command a huddle and team better. Goff went #1 overall and they had to sit him for more than half the year because he was so behind.

He gone. I'd bring him back, but i think he generates some interest on the open market and gets paid a decent wage. Maybe similar to Hogans 3 years 12 million or something

Eh - they bend the rules a bit and probably get OPI called on them more than most. It's a bang-bang play though so its really tough to throw the flag when you have to identify if he was blocking before the ball is out, and is he within the LOS... etc. Sort of like seattle and their constant holding - they aren't going to call it every play... so do it often and make it a physical game. I don't mind zone coverage - but you need to have really athletic LBs, and a SS who can lay some wood. You're secondary also have to be excellent at tackling. Seattle plays mostly zone and they're right up in your face a good % of the time as well. We have the d-line to create some issues up front (assuming theyre in shape and you know... care)

That's all well and good - But we don't have a top 5 QB. So you still want to throw 40 times a game?

I think this actually hamstrung us even more. Rex emphasizes both of these things. Stopping the pass is the most important attribute for a team that doesn't have a top 5 QB... because you're at least making it difficult for a top 5 QB. Even if we add a new QB who can help us pass more effectively (say in the draft)- we won't have a top 10 QB for the foreseeable future. That's why you have running teams... because you don't have the QB to run a Brady/Ryan/Rodgers type of offense. Dallas had a rookie QB and ended up the #1 seed because they built their team to be a running team. But If you're going to be a running team - you had better make it hard for a guy like Brady or Ryan to carve you up.

This makes no sense... I thought the reason we move on from Tyrod is because he's not a franchise QB, and were trying to build for sustained success. Your reason for not bringing him in is because you want to bring in a 40 something year old QB who's apparently flamed out with his team? I'm cool with moving on if you want to get younger or something, but I'm not for cutting him because we "might" get someone in 2018... Without knowing who's available, or why... or whether they'd come here. Keep him or cut him, but just have a PLAN.

Yeah - i think we still wanted to keep him. After we lost him it was a tad ridiculous that we didn't make a play for anyone though. Especially in the draft in May. We draft a redshirted guy with an injury.

We screwed up by not putting a 2nd round tender on him. We could never have matched the offer sheet though - not without knowing that Glenn was going to sign an extension.

Hey I'm with ya... It wasn't a smart move but i get why they were pinching pennies.

Not true - we had Mario's dead cap, Glenn's Franchise tag, and Gilmore's 5th year, oh and Richie's contract too. Until Glenn signed an extension we had very limited cap space to do anything. We non-tendered Rambo and Charles. We didn't put a 2nd round tender on him because we wanted to have you know... a little bit of room to dumpster dive and actually fill out our roster.

All true - except we didn't discard him.

We couldn't retain him. The offer sheet was unmatchable with our cap situation. We also didn't put a 2nd round tender on him for the same reason. We wouldn't have been able to keep mills or bryant.

Perhaps we'll have a system under our new HC...

one of his TD catches they like... forgot to cover him... Steelers didn't come to play at all. And big ben looked really sloppy - skipping balls to receivers, nothing coming in clean. Even some of their good gains were on ankle high bad passes that the receivers snagged.

I still don't really get this argument. We tried to keep him... We couldn't afford to tender him at 2nd round because we didn't have the Cap Space (glenn was franchised at the time we tendered RFAs, and Gilmore was on his 5th year - both big cap hits) at the time. We also therefore could not match his offer sheet for the same reasons. You guys act like we straight up cut the guy or something.... We did straight up release stefan charles, and bacarri rambo though - two guys who i thought were nice depth pieces.