Luka
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Beane: There is no tank.
McDemott: We're starting Matt Barkley.
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I say we sign Tebow and go to the playoffs.
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The fact that people are still willing to defend Peterman says it all about this board. A lot of people talk about the worst QB in league history, Peterman has the stats to put him in that argument, and at a time when offense dominates the league. It's pathetic. Mullins in San Fran stepped in and played. Peterman stepped in and failed. And while the jury is out on Allen because of the elbow, these games after the bye he needs to show some signs of life. Otherwise there might need to be another draft pick spent, another veteran signed. Shame too, the defense is great this year. With even a half way competent offense we'd be talking about playoffs again.
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I think we should just sign and start a different QB every week from here on out. It's almost entertaining.
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24 minutes ago, BigDingus said:
But sports is the place where fans typically side with Billionaire owners who look for handouts over their millionaire employees who actually risk physical harm for their money, and who have a much shorter window to make that money.
It's an odd situation that doesn't mirror how most people view other professions.That's because owners, like Pegula, are providing a source of entertainment for the people watching. Fans are acutely aware that most players are playing for money and have no loyalty to the team. They however, do have said loyalty and will continue to have said loyalty long after the player leaves or retires.
I also think you are painting with an extremely broad brush and siding with the owners is more like siding with keeping football around as opposed to not having football.
The millionaire employees are just that, millionaire employees playing a game. I think most people would kill to be able to play football and make millions doing it. They are choosing to play. They should understand the risk associated with playing before signing up. After all they've probably been playing their whole life. I'll tear my ACL right now for 6 million dollars.
The players are more than compensated for the "risk" they are taking. The truth is most trade workers face entirely more risk everyday and get compensated far less.
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Just now, John from Riverside said:
You wanted Brock Osweilier on this team?
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
Better than anyone else behind Allen. My point was the backup isn't here to coach, he's here to keep the team afloat while they work with Allen.
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If they wanted a bridge QB all along they should've got one. Anderson wasn't the only guy, and that's that Carolina connection biting them in the ass again.
Matt Moore, Brock Osweilier, Drew Stanton, Chad Henne, Chase Daniel were all available, all changed teams. Matt Moore, Chad Henne and Brock even offered up a bunch of in game experience.
The problem here is that they have a wide receiver coach playing QB coach and they wanted a QB they could rely on to teach Allen. That's not how a real NFL team does it. Daboll finally found his way down to the sideline to actually be involved with the QBs and that's a start.
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Seems to me most Hall of Fame and future Hall of Fame coaches have great QBs. So are great coaches a product of their abilities as a coach or the excellent play from their QBs?
Bill B was a sub 500 coach until he landed in New England and Tom Brady took over. Levy? Same thing until Kelly took the field. Jimmy Johnson? Didn't do squat without guys like Emitt, Aikman and Irvin. Holmgren and Favre. Reid and McNabb. Peyton and Brees. Dungy and Manning. Walsh and Montana. Cowher is still considered one of the best and he didn't win the big one until Big Ben came to town.
In all those examples you could go in either direction. And both are right because it is a combination of the two that elevates middle of the road, slightly above average teams to greatness. And when one of these things starts to really falter, even the other's greatness can't overcome it. Look at Marino, Rivers, Stafford for example. All gifted at their position. A combination of lousy personnel choices and bad coaching held them back from winning it all.
My point is, it is almost impossible to evaluate McDermott and company based on the year and a half we've seen. This was always a rebuild. I thought it was a credit to him last year, winning 9 games. Even more so after seeing what the offense looks like this year. This isn't a bad team, it's a bad half of a team. Guys like Rodgers and Stafford would kill to have a defense as good as the Bills defense. And it's a defense that gets put into a multitude of terrible positions by what is historically, one of the top 5 worst offenses to ever take an NFL football field. And it's no coincidence that one of the worst QBs to ever play professional football has been under center for a good portion of the season.
There is simply no amount of coaching, scheming and game planning that can account for awful players. The only 3 guys you'd see even play on another team are Dawkins, Benjamin and McCoy. And even then, these would not be feature players. Benjamin is eating himself out of the league, McCoy is over the hill and really only Dawkins I could see in a true starting capacity on any other team. So one guy. Two when Allen is on the field, since most teams understand there is a development curve to any QB. Coaching isn't going to overcome that. And they must have known. Sitting Allen wasn't the plan because of Allen. Sitting Allen was the plan because of the talent on the offensive side of the football.
I've commented in a few threads here that Beane and McDermott desperately need to find scouts and advisers that are as good at the offensive side of the football as they are at defense. Until then, this team will be what it is. Half of a team.
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The team was supposed to be in tank mode last season and won 9 games. I felt like this year should be at least 9-7 also. But then Peterman got named the starter and AJ got traded and my hope quickly faded after Nate's first pick.
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I like how people are referencing how AJ wasn't good in preseason. Well Nate was amazing in preseason. Maybe preseason doesn't mean jack ***** and we should've stuck with the plan and started AJ instead of trading him. Let him play to the bye, if he sucked you could've started Allen after the bye. Peterman should've never been apart of this plan, they saw what he was last year.
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13 minutes ago, GG said:
Bills really miss O'Leary's 0 catches in the last 2 Phins games. there was zero rationale to keep him over any of the other 3, who have a higher ceiling if they can develop.
Bottom line is that TE is a position that needs a serious upgrade. Charles Clay has gotten a pass considering the more visible holes on offense, but to me he's the biggest problem out there. If you take a look at the QBs ho are doing well, nearly all of them have a great TE who helps the QB. Clay has never lived up to his contract and not only is invisible in the offense, but when he does show up, he has a knack for a backbreaking plays.
He's this decade's version of Reuben Gant. If I were the Bills, I'd target a premier TE before I spend a nickel on a WR.
Makes absolutely zero difference what he's doing in Miami, he was a reliable third down target in Buffalo, which Croom, Thomas and Clay are not.
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In the current draft order, you have the Giants and Raiders at 1 and 2 and could potentially start a run on QBs right from the jump. The next 5 teams all have their "QB of the future" having either signed or drafted a guy in the off season last year. At number 8 you have Denver and John Elway will be looking to right his QB wrongs of the past few season. Then at 10 you have Jacksonville who is most definitely moving on from Blake Bortles after this season.
Jacksonville has two third round picks this year. I think we could potentially see a move from them to move up ahead of Denver to get their QB. Maybe a second and next year's first. Their team is actually quite talented with Bortles typically holding them back. #1 ranked defense, two good backs, a stable of receivers, the team is built for a rookie to come in and be as successful or more so than Bortles, right from the jump.
If Coughlin calls Beane, what would you want to see the Bills get in return for the swap down to the 10-12 range? I would personally like to see this year's second and 4th and next year's first, at minimum. Value wise it's about what we paid to move up last year into the top ten, the first accounting for the top 5 pick we will likely have. It would be a great move for Buffalo, because this team is devoid of talent on the offensive side of the football. 10-12 is right around where I'd expect to see Anthony Johnson and N'Keal Harry to be selected and two extra picks this year would go a long way to finding weapons and interior lineman to begin to build around Josh Allen.
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1 minute ago, MAJBobby said:
So no questions about their Offensive Scouting ability?
Re read my first post.
Yikes.
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4 minutes ago, Peter said:
Mario did the same thing with the Dolphins when he took their money . . . even though he had claimed they were running the scheme he wanted.
Rex is getting paid a lot of money to work one day a week. It is the same with Cowher and others. Not a bad gig. Also, it is a lot better than having to put up with some of the hysterical criticism.
Not a bad gig for someone who can't coach worth a *****, I agree. Gruden probably should've kept his one day a week gig too.
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2 minutes ago, MAJBobby said:
What I am saying is the Bills will not be good on Offense with this coach, and then will saddle with enough bad contracts that you will see the Bills Constant rebuild continue
No it doesn't.
Every week the same passing schemes, ever week the same running concepts, So this is a personnel issue? But this coaching staff selected this personnel???
It clearly does, you should go watch some actual breakdowns on Cover 1 or some other outlets. But ok.
And yes, Beane and McDermott are selecting these guys and they are doing it based off of what information they are being given from their scouting department.
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I knew O'Leary leaving was going to be bad. But we had to keep the Pegula's future son in law. Maybe Thomas is dating their other daughter?
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7 minutes ago, Peter said:
This is getting old.
Mario went on strike, we had a lot of injuries (especially DBs), Gilmore decided that tackling was not part of his job, we did not have a first round pick prior to his first year, and both our top picks prior to his second year were hurt or got hurt.
Whatever. If you think that Rex does not know defense, that is up to you.
The results spoke for themselves. And obviously all 32 teams agree with my assessment of him as coach because he isn't a coach anymore. He lived off of Ed Reed and Ray Lewis and once he didn't have those caliber of players his scheme was garbage. Rob ran the same scheme every where he went and it was a failure every time.
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1 hour ago, MAJBobby said:
Yes ever notice how most good offenses are never the same week to week and constantly evolving (keeping thier Core mindset intacted). In two years of McD they are still looking for that core mindset let alone week to week evolution
You don't think the offense evolves week to week? Coaching wise I think Daboll draws up a good game. The play calling always caters to the QB playing. He doesn't ask Peterman to throw deep, tries to give Allen easy reads, gets creative with someone like Anderson starting. The players flat out don't execute. Is it really a coaching problem when your #1 wideout is overweight and plays like he's 5' 9" with as little effort as possible? Your "star" tight end is always nicked up and dogging it? Your RB is 30 years old and dances in the backfield until he gets tackled for a loss? Your former Pro Bowl linemen get traded or retire with absolutely no one to replace them? Your QBs are a group of guys that wouldn't be playing if not for Beane's chairty and a raw but talented rookie whom you planned to sit for a year so he was unprepared to start?
This is a personnel issue plain and simple, I don't think it's schematic at all. It's a hodge podge group of guys who won't play in the NFL again after they're released following this season. Maybe Benjamin, Clay and McCoy go somewhere else. But the guys on the line, Peterman, Anderson, Barkley, Holmes etc. won't be going anywhere else after this season. I said in another thread, they have to find scouts that can assess talent on offense as well as they can defense. And fast.
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Tank this season once and for all, use draft picks and cap money to build around Allen. I really don't think the coaching is the issue at this point. The team is absolutely devoid of talent on offense. You won't see 90% of the guys we release in the off season play for another team.
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Top 5 defense to one of the worst in the league and your forte is defense. Then you bring in one of the worst defense coordinators in the league, your brother, to really drive the nail in the coffin. Rex is a damn clown.
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11 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said:
Another way to look at it -
Sammy is gone because of TT
Robert Woods is gone because of TT
Chris Hogan is gone because of TT
All 3 are contributing on winning teams.
I edited it before you posted this
Yep. Ran every receiver out of town because Tyrod wouldn't throw the football. Then we draft a guy and he has the worst corps. of receivers I think an NFL team has ever fielded and we're going to blame him rather than the receivers. Buffalo's fan base is ass backwards into everything, including tables.
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10 minutes ago, PetermanThrew5Picks said:
I loved and still love Sammy's game. Surprised he didn't get more numbers post Bills but I saw the Ram's offense rarely throw deep (Sammy), and Goff was getting his feet wet throwing to Woods and Cupp midrange, fantastic route runners. Not to mention Gurley's giant usage rate (800 yards receiving to boot). and the Chiefs offense is so damn good Sammy just really is #3.
Butt I guess in retrospect the trade should have been made. He had one more year, and was malcontent to the point it didn't seem likely he'd stay, and a second and EJ Gaines is a great haul.
That said, given Tyrod's obvious chemistry with Sammy I think we beat the Jags absolutely and go to the divisional round (would be amazing).. and idk man I'd take that if I had to choose between the trade and divisional playoff football.
He was always a gadget player and deep threat. Problem was when he got to the NFL he couldn't break tackles and juke defenders like he could in the ACC (imagine that.)-
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3 hours ago, The_Dude said:
A corner back because McDumbass knows it’s a passing league so you have to stop the pass.
At least he is aware that it is a passing league. ?
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1 minute ago, Peter said:
It is the chicken and the egg. Did Sammy underperform because of the QBs we had?
He still would be head and shoulders better than each WR we have on the team now. This regime managed to get rid of or make no attempt to keep some darn good receivers:
Sammy
Robert Woods
Marquis Goodwin.
This regime also made no attempt to keep our prior outstanding WR coach Sanjay Lal or our outstanding offensive line coach Aaron Kromer.
Instead McCoach decided to keep the absolute worst coach on the prior staff for reasons we can only guess.
It has nothing to do with chickens. The guy is one dimensional, always has been, always will be. Woods leaving was the worst. He was the best all around receiver on the team. Blocking, catching, route running, effort. Goodwin was a surprise to me when he left, he couldn't catch a cold in Buffalo. Sammy was wide receiver #3 in the most prolific offense last year with the Rams. This year is more of the same with KC, although he is probably on pace to have his best year, in his 6th season with his 3rd team.
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How many yards will Barkley throw for. And other stats.
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted · Edited by Luka
Out of football for 2 years. 18 picks and 7 fumbles in 11 games (6 starts). We just might have a competitor for Nate.