GunnerBill

And without blowing my own trumpet too much I was saying exactly the same as Matt about 3 weeks before he did his Coleman breakdown last Feb time. He saw the exact same guy I did when I watched the tape. As for the outside thing it lines up ti what Roquan Smith said after the Baltimore game too. He basically said "our plan was let them have the outside, they can't beat you there."

But the playoff game was two weeks away. Sure, you can be in the protocol that length of time but it is unusual. I don't buy it.

But why would they do that? What would be the incentive to take that risk? You need a motive.

You get in pretty serious trouble witb the NFL lying about injuries. In the worst case scenario you can lose draft picks. It makes no sense for the Bills to lie about this. If they are saying there is a personal matter, there is a personal matter. If he was showing any concussion symptoms he would be in the protocol. I don't believe he was.

Reads like there has been contact between the two for a while. Probably a mutual understanding of the benefits of doing it.

I have an aquaintance, not quite friend, who runs a reasonably sized Liverpool FC blog and he has changed his model recently from monthly subscription to pay as you go for their "premium" content. So you sign up, input your card details but then are only charged when you access a premium article. Not sure what his conclusions are yet on if it is working but I thought it was an interesting idea.

It is something that has been a Keon issue for as long as he has played football from what I can tell. It was all over his college tape. I do think it is coachable but I'd be shocked if nobody has tried by this point in his development. He is still a young player. He still has time. But he needs to improve because even with Josh Allen as your Quarterback every throw outside being a contested ball is a tough way to make a living. 100%. He is much better with the ball in his hands than he is running routes downfield to become a target for his QB. This should not come as a surprise. This was all there on the college tape. The way the Bills were using him in the 2/3 games just before his injury is the way forward. Shorter passes, use the middle of the field, create catch and run opportunities. No. But if he is running a go route there are not many other plays that could have been called. Unless he was supposed to be running a post and ran a go but if that is the case he was even more in the wrong spot...

They are standard routes in the route tree.

They were only not catchable because of where he gets himself. It is his route running and concession of leverage that makes the balls uncatchable. A couple of the ball placements can be bettet but they were there to make a play on if Keon actually runs the route, maintains his leverage and positions himself properly on the field. Instead he is trying to play off contact all the time. It is infuriating to watch.

I am not disconnected from reality. I just think he is overrated on the basis of one excellent adjustment in the playoffs vs Mahomes. In six years as the Bengals DC they have been in top half of the league for points or yards ONCE (2021 when they were for both) and have never been better than 20th in the league on 3rd down. Yes, you have to give him credit for the fact his defenses have generally played better in the post season. But unless your argument is that he intentionally sandbags in the regular season I'm not sure how you explain that beyond the general randomness of the NFL. I don't think he is a terrible DC. But for someone whose reputation is as a great defensive mind you'd want to see better production. I do agree this year they had lost some talent but he still has players on that D good enough to be better than they were.

Very feasible. He was on the same Dolphins staff as Dan Campbell as well as Zac Taylor.

Eric is wrong.

I think they could too. But they will have to be better than that to convince the Bills to sacrifice the continuity. One of them would have to be bashing the door down I think.

David Edwards was "his" draft pick too if we are talking Kromer. He is very much his guy. I don't see a route for SVPG to start next year.

For sure. But I'd bet a dime to a dollar he wants the continuity too.

It was after his first year with the Panthers he interviewed. He was fired as OC within about 8 games. I don't think he will get the Jets job (and not sure he'd take it). He is in play for the Saints though. It will be him or Aaron Glenn. Loomis doesn't like people he doesn't know. The way I see this cycle: Vrabel and Johnson (if he wants one) will get jobs. McCarthy either stays with Dallas or gets hired elsewhere. That means there is a max of 3 other openings for which Joe Brady, Aaron Glenn, Brian Flores, Vance Joseph and Anthony Weaver appear to be the early hot names.

Spags isn't getting another HC gig.

They were the guilty partites on Barkley. They were not the guilty parties on Jones. That decision came straight from the owner's office and the reason Mara is not firing them is he knows he sold them a pup. Pretty widely accepted amongst the New York media now that they were told the Jones extension was non-negotiable.

I think "very replaceable" is a bit harsh. He is their weakest starter on offense and he still has too many inconsistencies in his game for me, but he isn't Cody Ford "replace him with a traffic cone" type bad. This season was odd. Slow start, then turned it round and had a real solid middle of the year and then he, more than anyone, seemed to half ass it once we were playing dead rubber games. I dunno. Motivation is something I question with him. Does he really have that dog in him? As I said the other day in the SVPG conversation I feel very strongly the Bills bring the same 5 back up front next year. But if Grable or Anderson or someone really makes a push his is the most vulnerable spot. I expect him to start in 2025 though. He is serviceable.

Excellent in pass pro. Needs to bend better in the run game to really drive his guy back. Tends to get stood up a bit quickly. But you could put him out there tomorrow in a live game with Josh Allen behind him and be confident he isn't getting your QB hurt. His pass pro is really impressive and he moves so well.

You don't think the Bills would be willing to do that for Brady? Spending on coaching and front office staff has never been a problem for Pegs previously. Our guys are pretty well remunerated compared to their peers generally.

And knows no more about football that the average fan on a message board.

While all of that is true it is similar to Ben Johnson. He has never made big money and indeed he doesn't even have a Josh Allen size guarantee that his offense will be decent again the following year and has turned jobs down the last two cycles at Carolina and then Washington because he wasn't convinced on ownership's vision. This isn't a great cycle of jobs. If the five available now are all that are coming I can well imagine a hot candidate deciding to keep his powder dry unless his is in a "lightening in a bottle" type situation where you think the chance won't come again.

It's a hard business model to make work. I wish him luck.

Ty's blog still going, huh?