BarleyNY

Well, thinking about the present sucks pretty bad so moving onto thinking about future possibilities asap is preferable.

McDermott’s playoff record against teams seeded 5-7 is 5-0. His playoff record against teams seeded 1-4 is 0-6. I don’t even think he coached a bad game today. I liked that he was aggressive - except for the fake punt which was forgivable if it was because KC only had 10 on the field. At some point you just have to make a change though. I don’t think the Bills will fire McDermott this off-season, but they probably should. I think he gets at least one more year.

Well, that freaking sucked.

The question was which had the worst personality. I wouldn’t want to have a beer with either of those two A-holes. Marrone was purely a mercenary while Wrex was a a lying thief. The latter is far worse.

Wrex was nothing but a lying, lazy, loudmouth ***hole. Marrone was an ***hole too. And he was certainly a mercenary, but he wasn’t lazy and he didn’t ask his team to work harder than he did. Wrex was nothing more than an opportunistic thief here.

Wrex is on that podium.

An injury settlement is not necessary. Tre has a $1.5M roster bonus due on 3/17/24. if the Bills decline to pay that, then he becomes a free agent. If Tre can pass a physical their other option is to designate him a 6/1 cut prior to that.

That’s the other thing with PFF - they have to take semi-educated guesses as to what a player’s assignment is on every single play. You give a good example of them guessing incorrectly. Besides, how often is a player’s assignment more nuanced? In this situation your primary responsibility is to spy the QB. Secondarily it is to cover space or a player. Next play it flips due to circumstance. And then there are players like Troy Polamalu, who freelanced by design on most plays. How do you grade that?

I think PFF looks at every player more generically. Take DEs. PFF has a fairly rigid system for rating a rep from -2 to 2. On a pass rush rep it boils down to how quickly the DE beat the blocker (if at all) and whether they got a sack or hit the QB. There’s no chance that when the Steelers grade TJ Watt that they hold him to that generic standard. He’s too talented and too highly compensated to be judged by the same criteria as a JAG. His potential is too great to look at him the same way.

For ratings to be useful people have to understand what they really mean, which includes what they’re actually measuring as well as their limitations. I like a lot of what PFF does, but their grading has limited utility. It’s better with some positions than others, but is still limited to what players are asked to do rather than what they’re capable of. For instance, a QB like Cousins who plays a much more limited role in his team’s offense, can more easily score a higher grade than a QB like Allen, who much more is asked of. Sam Monson recently mentioned this on a podcast when PFF’s grading came up. He used Dodson as an example of a player who graded very highly due to him doing well in a very limited role. It makes sense that coaches would be more interested in a player’s overall impact on a game and would factor in things like the difficulty of the assignment, the ability of the player, the contract of the player, etc. Each has their use and a value, but they aren’t going to be the same.

$5.5M in new money for Poyer next season. That seems very doable versus finding two new safeties and getting them both up to speed. I really hate that I’m responding to this thread while the Bills are alive in the playoffs. Sigh.

At least it was only himself he almost killed this time.

Exactly. We should all have a nice, long discussion about the future of Diggs specifically and the WR corps in general after the season concludes.

This sums him up. He has a lot of the physical tools you want and that INT showed great visual processing and reactions. But he still doesn’t seem comfortable in zone, he can’t seem to stay with WRs at the top of their routes unless he gets grabby and his physicality is at best inconsistent.

Not really. Seems a simple enough concept to explain. Winter air coming across a relatively warm body of water is warmed and gathers moisture. The air then moves off the lake and over cold land so it drops the moisture as snow. It only occurs until the lake freezes.

Yup. Better for everyone.

Thanks for sharing what you know. Even though the Bills wanted Frazier back I would be shocked if they were surprised by him not wanting to return after having play calling responsibilities stripped. At his age, with his experience and with only one year remaining on his contract, I’m sure that Frazier saw that situation for what it was - a gradual push out the door. He would’ve realized that his options were to stay on as DC in name for one more season and then not have his contract renewed or leave immediately. He chose the latter.

Isn’t changing someone’s job responsibilities a way of pushing them out? I’m not saying that this situation is 100% on either party or that the Bills wouldn’t have been justified in telling Frazier that they were going in another direction, but those aren’t “100% jumped” scenarios. I’m not sure what happened exactly. I won’t speculate in this post, but if Frazier had asked out of his contract early (the 100% jumped scenario) I’m sure the Bills would have let him go. But they would not have paid him out for this season.

Agreed. I got so much grief on this site for stating this at the time……

Two soft teams made the playoffs - Dallas and Miami. No surprise that they’re both gone already.

The compensation for the hiring of a minority (including female) candidate to a HC or GM position is one third round compensatory pick in each of the next two drafts to the team they were hired away from. So a total of two third round comp picks. As others have already mentioned, if Frazier is no longer under contract with the Bills then it doesn’t apply.

I won my FF league in due in part to Kyren Williams. As such I paid attention to him. He was a freaking beast. Some notable injuries to other top RBs like Nick Chubb paved the way. He had similar totals to Henry, but a better average. I think that’s what got him the nod for second behind McCaffery. A good case could’ve been made for a few others too.

All Pro matters a great deal - both first and second team. Pro Bowl is what doesn’t.

Thanks for the info. Bummer he missed that read.