Wayne Arnold
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No Christian M, straight scrubs at qbs, & all Stanford does is win. David Shaw is the real MVP. I would take him here in a second.
Shaw is the guy I really want too
Too punt-happy for my taste.
It'll be easy street w Watkins clay and McCoy.
Except for those times when he doesn't see the linebacker and throws right to him.
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Nice talent but he's going to throw a lot of picks for the Browns.
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This is a true statement. The sad fact is that the majority of starters in this league are interchangeable and don't possess high end talent and only a handful can win games on their own.
Three categories of quarterbacks in the NFL:
1. Elite/Very Good (Top 9 or 10 QB's)
2. Average - Won't carry team, but won't lose games
3. Terrible - Will single-handedly lose games consistently and prevent a good team from winning more than they lose
Tyrod is category #2
The only time you get rid of a category #2 is if he is beaten out by a guy already on the roster. Otherwise, you're begging to replace that #2 with a category #3.
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People actually want him back, Watch the raiders game and get ahold of yourselves.
He's a backup.
If Taylor is a backup then a majority of starters in the league are backups too.
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Next year he'd be the highest paid. The Bills gave him an opportunity to make big time money if he performed among the leagues best, he didn't.
"The highest paid" - do you mean the highest paid quarterback on the team?
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So you mean we'll go from 31st to 32nd in passing offense?
Are you really that dense or are you being sarcastic?
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Whaley has made some pretty nice decisions on NOT overpaying players to stay. This is another one of those nice decisions.
No it's not. It's making the most important position in sports significantly worse.
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I wonder what the Bills plan is if they don't pick up the option.
There really isn't much out there...
Plenty of #tallwhitequarterbacks available that will appease the Buffalo fanbase during the preseason.
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Does LaCanfora still think Marrone is getting the Jets job?
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no doubt about that, but we're the ones that will have to listen to the doom and gloom if Lynn is named HC after a thourough (key word here) interview process.
But that's what makes arguing with strangers on message boards so enjoyable.
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of course, but it's our fans, not to mention he has worked for us for two years. If you're a negative fan, you hate the prospects of Lynn being HC for this team, because he would be Whaley's puppet, because we did not interview other people, because Lynn isn't high profile and so on.
I urge people to see his coaching credentials and what people say about him, besides, he took a system that wasn't his, adapted on the fly and made it work. Yes, there were some awful plays here and there, but the overall job he did was impressive. He had a top 10 scoring offense with Tyrod Taylor as his QB.
The fans who leave will come back when the team is winning and act like they were always on board.
You can't make organizational decisions based on what the majority of fans think. Especially not Bills fans.
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As for the punting bit, so many people here and in the media trashed Rex for punting. I could defend either decision. It is ironic that the team that won the game and who gave up more yards than the Bills did on defense actually punted in OUR end of the field.
Did they punt with 4 minutes left in overtime when a tie eliminated them?
And for the record, I was relieved when the Dolphins decided to punt. That should tell you something.
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Except that since Patricia became DC in 2012, the Pats have had a very good D. Rex claimed it, but except for 2011, the Pats have actually had a top-10 D on points since 2006
Patricia is an interesting guy. First off, Belichick is a little different from some HCs with expertise on one side of the ball. He delegates. So his OC and DC are real. Several Pats and former Pats players have commented on how they would hardly see Belichick during the week. That said, he clearly oversees every aspect of the Pats.
Second, Patricia actually started on O! He was an OLman in college, and started with the Pats as an offensive assistant in 2004. He switched to LB coach in 2006 and became defensive playcaller in 2009 and DC in 2012. So he's a real product of the Patriots system, but he knows both sides of the ball. He clearly wants to be a HC since he interviewed for the Browns job last year.
The tight, long-time association of Patricia with the Pats is both a positive and a question mark. He ought to understand every aspect of how their organization works. That's good. The downside is, how much of that organization can he implement on his own? It's easy to think you know everything about how a system works, but when you're trying to replicate a system on your own, sometimes you learn you don't know as much about the critical underpinnings as you think you do. The other possible "gotcha" is when a guy has only worked in one system, sometimes he only knows one way to get things done and can't easily distinguish between things that are essential to success and things that actually could be done several other ways. How flexible is he?
Pats defenses before Patricia:
2007 - #2 score percentage / #11 DVOA
2008 - #9 score percentage / #17 DVOA
2009 - #3 score percentage / #14 DVOA
2010 - #12 score percentage / #21 DVOA
2011 - #16 score percentage / #30 DVOA
Under Patricia:
2012 - #8 score percentage / #15 DVOA
2013 - #7 score percentage / #20 DVOA
2014 - #13 score percentage / #12 DVOA
2015 - #6 score percentage / #12 DVOA
2016 - #1 score percentage / #16 DVOA
I don't have much to add to this except I find it incredible how good the Patriots are at keeping the opposition out of the end zone. Year after year. Only once (2014) in the last ten years have the Pats' defense not overachieved with regard to score prevention. Both before and after Patricia. It's really amazing. And proof that while they won't be as consistently dominant after Brady retires, as long as Belichick is there they'll still contend for the playoffs every year.
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Thank you. The Bills fanbase could use some more optimism. All this doom and gloom is pathetic and not even reality.
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That sort of organizational model lends itself to being a leaky sieve, especially if you have "lifers" who are mourning the "good old days" and deeply resent any attempt to change the organizational culture or structure (I believe the "Whaley's gone rogue" Fredex cut was an example of changed structure causing resentment in people left out of the loop)
Isn't it funny that many of the same fans / media members blasting the Bills for the leaks are the same people who blasted the Bills for not informing everyone and their mother that Freddy was being released.
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and remember when Ralph was alive and all we wanted was a rich owner who spends money?
That's why I just smh at all the idiotic fans giving crap to the Pegula's. They are spending everything it takes to win here in Buffalo. They're trying. That's all you can ask for.
And they're new to this team ownership thing. There's no college course that prepares you for owning an NFL franchise. They're learning from their mistakes right now and will get better with time and experience. Get off their backs, folks.
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I would never take McDaniels. It's easy to be a successful offensive coordinator when you have a hall of fame quarterback. I would would love them to get Matt Patricia. He is one smart dude and has been working under Belacheet for some time now and understands what it takes to win football games.
How can you say that about McDaniels but think Patricia "understands what it takes to win football games"?
Even if we pretend that Patricia not Belichick is the brains behind their defense - Patricia doesn't even need to have a good defense because the Pats' O is so good year after year.
Both are likely just riding on Bradichick's coat tails.
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Rooney Rule - plan and simple. I'm beginning to think Lynn will get the interview for HC but the Bills have someone in mind and possibly have him ready to ink a deal.
Could it be Coughlin? Maybe, maybe not.
I'm not really a DW fan anymore but I don't believe he's stupid enough to retool the team with a HC that has 1 game ever under his belt as a HC.
It's one thing if you don't think Whaley will hire Lynn because of his lack of experience or whatever. But to write him off as a token "Rooney Rule" candidate is disrespectful and pretty offensive, frankly.
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The owners actually wanted to keep him. They just didn't want to give him an extension when he still had 2 years left on his contract and hadn't earned one. Does that mean they "didn't like him"?
Marrone isn't easy to like. But they weren't going to fire a coach coming off of the franchise's first winning season* in a decade.
You're right that he didn't show enough to earn an extension. Marrone confused effort with results, saw an out in his contract, overestimated his attractiveness as a HC candidate and thought he could at least land the Jets job. As a result, he took a chance and left. And it backfired...at least temporarily.
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The problem is that these guys let their personal opinion get in the way of how they played. Many of us see it on a smaller scale in our work places. An employee doesn't agree with management. Instead of sitting down and working through things, the employee does passive aggressive things to show displeasure. We all got to see poor tackling defenders out of place and sometimes juts not trying. Sad when you consider what they get paid.
It might be a little of that but I just think in the end Rex's scheme was a horrible fit for the defensive players that were here. And Rex isn't intelligent or talented enough to properly adjust.
Whaley should have recognized this prior to watching the Pegula's hire Rex and do everything he could to convince them it was a bad idea. Instead what he likely did was passively sat back and watched it happen - never fully on board - and when things went bad knew he had a "Told ya so" in his back pocket that he's using right now.
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Here's what one #Bills defensive player told me when I asked about Rex Ryan getting fired this week: "That was music to my ears." Welp.
https://twitter.com/TyDunne/status/814622656397975552
I wonder who that was. I'm guessing Hughes.
Also...
A lot of players loved Rex's bravado, but many more never were never "All In" with his scheme. Felt like he tore down the best thing going.
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Bortles can't even throw a spiral. Not even kidding. He's a train wreck.
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Of course Notre Dame fans don't want him. They think Top 10 finishes are a birth right.
Bills could do worse.
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His plan IS Cardale Jones who is a WINNER and will start in 2017.
Tyrod Not Speaking to Media Today or on Locker Cleanout Day
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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No quarterback can win games by himself. Otherwise Rivers and Brees wouldn't miss the playoffs so often and Rodgers would have more than one ring.
The numbers and analytics simply don't reflect your opinion.
It will be the final straw for me. I can't continue supporting a franchise that refuses to learn from past mistakes.