Bleeding Bills Blue

Steelers. Green bay. San Francisco. There's a reason these guys only change things up a little over a long period of time - they look good.

Buffalo just threw the ball further down the field. I'm sure if you looked at the % of throws behind the LOS or within 5 yards - KC has more than Buffalo. They have a more athletic and generally better offensive line than buffalo - especially on the interior. Why wouldn't you run more screens and RPOs?

Hitches/comebacks are dangerous though... depending on coverage he's basically always open. And if you identify man/single high you can eventually roast them on the double move. Both teams had a TON of 2 high safety looks to counter a lot of the deep crossers that both teams excel at. Buffalo beat this with deep threats and route running (hitches, out routes, etc.). KC beat this with more YAC type plays - screens, short passing, and RPOs.

The best bet to add YAC is to throw the ball on shorter passes, and away from the sidelines. We added cook and crowder for this exact purpose.

Its a 7-9 month recovery. I've heard nothing about setbacks etc. I assume he'll be somewhat bubble wrapped in camp but i expect Tre to start week 1.

I've heard of them yes.

I think the players are perfectly grounded in reality, understanding what it takes to win any given sunday, and hopefully how to win to a super bowl. I think the hype train is more of a problem on twitter and with fans. Some will get super cocky and it will be very annoying.

Yeah - for better or worse the social media culture has definitely trended towards cancelling. I think trotting this guy out is going to be a PR nightmare, and they've done literally nothing to indicate that they have a plan.

My only thing on Moss and DS as well for that matter - Moss had a 1.5 yards before contact and DS had a 2.3. Some of that could be... apprehensiveness or not hitting holes hard. But also, neither of those are good numbers at all. Which directs me back to offensive line struggles. Hopefully saffold can help there, as well as kromer - but i think a lot of the offenses success and failure will fall back to that unit.

At his best he was a bigger, stronger armed Tyrod Taylor. He wasn't accurate enough to keep the chains moving consistently, and he was pretty much only suited to the Roman style offense. He isn't a QB who can adapt to another system, he basically requires the system to adapt to him. Not to say that Tomsula and Kelly were good NFL coaches, but they were both choosing to trot out gabbert at times based on his ability to grasp their systems. Just doesn't seem like the type of guy who grasps nfl systems effectively, nor has the ability to read and manipulate defenses.

I lived in the regency court apartments like 7 or 8 years ago. There's another complex somewhere else near the stadium too - big tree something. Probably like 3-5 minutes from the 219 and 15-20 minutes from buffalo. Obviously not a house - but they had furnished units too. Rex ryan was living in the building next to mine for a few months while his more permanent living solution was found. For gamedays it was about 30 minutes from my door to the stadium, but you don't have to pay parking money and you can just go to someone elses tailgate. Or you could park your car closer and tailgate - then walk home while traffic cleared out.

I thought Cash to cap was not using your space from the previous year. Not necessarily against moving money into future years. Say cap is 200M and your cap hit was 175M. You ended the season with 25M in cap. The next year the cap is 210M and your cap is 235M. Buffalo would operate as though their cap was 210M. Essentially they were so cheap that the moving money into future years never really came up

Tons of RPOs in their offense last year. A lot of first read short passes - but they aren't checkdowns. Not sure how PFF came up with the way of determining that.

Their offense never gelled last season. Bateman started year on IR. Hollywood was on the injury report 6 times last year which usually is an indication of some ongoing injuries. Stanley missed a ton of time, and they moved Orlando Brown. Basically the entire oline was in flux all year. They went from Edwards and Dobbins with about 280 carries at a 5.5 YPC clip, to Freeman/Murray at about a 4.2 YPC clip. Bell had 32 touches for 84 yards. Add in the fact that peters was gone all year, and humphrey was banged up and missed time. Now they'll have Peters back, and add Kyle Hamilton. I doubt they'll have the worst pass defense in the league again. They could definitely use some help in the receiver room. But their goal was to get better up front, and linderbaum and a healthy stanley goes a long way there. I think they'll look at late stage WR's here and see if they can find someone to help.

Hopefully hes suspended for 2022. And then when he makes his return in 2023 - that he just gets a rain of boo's at every away game. Also, I hope he sucks.

How many teams trade for a guy who's very liikely to get suspended for a year?

Easy work-around is to just tack on a fine. 16 games plus a substantial fine.

Bauer got 324 games in baseball. Anything less than a season and u look like a joke

They dominate bad teams to the tune of such a domination that it even goes through weighted adjustments like DVOA. Shutout Tua/Brissett dolphins, shut out webb texans, destroyed the saints with Siemian, jags. Thats 5 games where the opponent had fewer than 250 yards and we had 10 takeaways in those games. I do think improving the pass rush will help - adding a 2nd corner with some more athleticism is a nice step in that direction as well.

LIkely 2 of those guys stick - my guess is its shakir and mckenzie. Mckenzie will get more play on offense, but he's there to return in a pinch.

The government? I didn't realize this fell in that same Etsy/Venmo 600 dollar thing though

You need to have above a certain threshold in total ticket sales for you to have to claim it as income or a write off.

I don't know that we'll get PSLs with the deal the pegulas got from state/county.

Thats the thing - nobody wants to do this because then they have "the most expensive tickets on the market" It's easy to have a policy when you have a wait list. When you are selling fewer season tickets like say the Jaguars - you'll take what you can get to be able to say "we have 50,000 season ticket holders. Sure there are blocks of seats that are given to brokers, and i sold them at 60 cents on the dollar (or less) but its good press.

I have a friend who is a ticket broker, and his explanation of his role is "I sell the tickets for what they are worth - which is what someone is willing to pay for them". The team sells them to him at a discount so they lose risk of not selling seats and they'll make a certain amount for every game. When the team is good? This saturates the single game ticket market with massively expensive tickets because people all want to go, there aren't season tickets available etc. But when the team was in a 17 year drought, they were calling the brokers every year to renew their seasons early. When the team is bad (and the sabres are a great example of this)? The brokers are the only way you get butts in the seats. The sabres went away from brokers this year and people didn't want to go. Why? Because the broker strategy devalued the product so much. Why would i want to pay 50 bucks a seat when it was 10 in 2019. I know when they fired John Sinclair people were all up in arms because he was a friend or whatever, but he worked with brokers heavily to fill that stadium however he could. Likely at the cost of profitability.