GunnerBill

Yea I am not sure Brady is ready yet either. I do think he will get interviews but I expect him to be quite circumspect about what he'd take. I think he knows he jumped at the Carolina OC job without really thinking it through and he won't want to make that mistake at HC level because if you do it's harder to get a do over. Being a Head Coach is way more than Xs and Os. I don't put him in the Daboll camp where the personality was more of a question. I think Brady has the personality for it. Just not sure he has the experience. And when you are coordinating Josh Allen there is no need to rush. You are going to be in the mix every year. If none of the jobs thid year look and feel right (and I think it is a bad market personally) then you can wait a year. Who was? Shanahan? He wasn't.

I agree that the personality thing should matter less as an OC (although I am not sure the Bills see it like that, they want people who fit their culture) and he definitely isn't gonna be poached. His Head Coaching days are over. That is for certain. My concern is his offense. He was on the cutting edge 9 years ago when the Eagles hired him with all the RPO stuff. But the league moves so fast, especially on offense, and all the creative minds now are winning with motion and leverage and I am just not sure he has kept up. The Jags offense looked a lot like the chuck and duck mess ours had descended into in the middle of 2023 for much of this season. And we don't have Brian Thomas Jnr to bail the playcalling out.

His playcalling looks a bit outdated to me. Jaguars have been bottom 3 in the league in terms of using motion this season. It gives me slight Dorsey vibes. Looks like an offense that Tom Moore and Peyton Manning might have run in 2006 and that ***** just doesn't fly now unless you have truly dominant weapons outside. I want someone who is going to use shifts and pre-snap motions to create leverage advantages the way Brady does. Because Josh has excelled with those schematic advantages. I fear Pederson would end up putting everything back on Josh and taking away those quick button throws.

I think he played there in a game as a rookie. When Dion was out with covid maybe? I think Brown moved to left tackle and Daryl Williams played right. Generally there are two reasons someone can be a good right tackle but not a left tackle: 1. Mirroring. You assume everyone is comfortable making the same movements just mirrored at either spot. But that isn't necessarily true. There are some players who just for reasons of natural feel or because of a physical thing (usually back or knee) are more comfortable moving in one direction than the other. I know Spencer has had back issues but given he has done it some before I don't know that there are issues for him in that regard. 2. Foot speed to pass block. For right handed Quarterbacks where the left tackle is the blind side blocker their pass blocking is of greater importance and in particular the footspeed not to be beaten around the edge and to recover if they are. Is Spencer loses a rusher Josh can see it and adjust. If Dion does generally that is a bigger problem. I don't think Spencer lacks for speed although because of his size he doesn't quite have those quick nimble feet that Dion has. If you'd asked this question after last season I'd have said definitely not. Spencer was coming on as a right tackle, had improved his pass blocking but was really your prototypical right tackle road grader. But his pass blocking has taken another step this year and while my preference is leave him on the right side and let him dominate there if Dion went down in a high leverage spot and they didn't want to throw the rookie Grable out as the blindside blocker I wouldn't be adverse to them trying Brown.

And he is literally Joe Brady's best mate. If Joe Brady leaves to become a HC Mangas will be on his staff.

Per PFF: Spencer Brown has allowed pressure on only 1.2% of pass plays over the past five weeks, leading all offensive tackles in the league. When I say I don't think there is a right tackle in the league other than Penei Sewell I'd swap him for, I mean it. And Sewell isn't really a right tackle. He is like Tristan Wirfs was with the Buccs - a dominating RT who is a franchise LT in waiting.

Honestly if he did he is an idiot. The pre-season narrative that the Vikings would end up with a bottom 10 record was always fanciful and some of us were saying it then. Way too much talent and way too well coached to be a bottom 10 team. Did I expect them in the race for the #1 seed? No. But they were always at worst a game either side of .500 for me.

He'd be great. But he is safe in Cleveland by most reports. I also think even if he isn't he could sit out a year, getting paid, and walk into a HC job the following year. I'm not sure there is a serious candidate on staff myself.

We were one of three or four teams that interviewed Thad Lewis last year. With Baker's numbers he is going to get looks again from teams looking for OCs but I am a bit nervous about the Bills going with a rookie playcaller after the Dorsey experience. I'd like someone who has done it before ideally. Klint Kubiak would be on my list although I think that would mean some schematic change but I think I worry less about that. I'd want someone who has a good offensive brain and energy. Doug Pederson will be out there as a vet playcaller but his star is on the wane and his personality is still a problem. Daboll likewise but I can't see either he or McDermott being keen on that reunion.

It really isn't.

Nah there is a pretty established formula. The signings and the losses have ready been netted off. Yea but he missed half the year. Won't hit the snap count threasholds as a result. It will drop a round.

The chances of a 7th rounder outplaying Mike White as a rookie are slim.

The Davis pick is definitely a 5th. The Floyd one should be. But could slide into the 6th. Fingers crossed they are both in round 5.

Same place. When I looked earlier in the week it obviously hadn't updated from week 17. We were 31st ahead of just Carolina. I see Indy and Atlanta dropped in (which is understandable after their games last week). Apols I thought it was updated.

Yep. That was my thinking too.

I still lean towards you don't pay him. I doubt he'd hold out the whole season. Since Lev Bell as a cautionary tale running backs tend not to go that way. It might mean he doesn't show up in the spring, possibly he misses the start of camp even, but I think he will play next year. The one thing I'd say is at the start of the year my order was Benford, Rousseau, Bernard, Shakir, Cook. I think I might have moved Bernard down to the bottom of that list. He's fine. He is a decent starting middle linebacker. But he has come back to earth a bit from last year.

Is some truth to this. And Monken took Babich's lunch money in that first meeting. That said... his game plan was entirely focussed on attacking Spector, Williams, Lewis (as the nickel) and then Morrow (when they tried to play base). He wasn't really interested in attacking our secondary. He knew we couldn't hold up and the intermediate level and attacked it with nearly every single play call. In the first half he literally called one play not designed to expose the linebackers. I'd still like to see what it looks like with Bernard, Milano, Taron and Williams (if they go base), although I'd take leaving that find out until next season if someone else wants to dump the Ravens out of the playoffs before they reach us.

I think the similarities in it being expected to be a slight step back year and instead their QB playing out of his kind and keeping things rolling are there.

In fairness Humber was different circumstances. Originally signed by Whaley to be a special teamer he was retained in 2017 just while they were in the process of turning over the roster. He was let go pretty quick after that. I never really understood keeping Morrow on the 53 and then bringing him back after cutting him was odd other than "he knows the scheme."

Honestly I don't really remember Henry as a Bill. It was my early days as a fan and in an era when if you were abroad you couldn't just stream every game. So I don't have a strong view on him. I'd take Cook before McGahee. Lynch could play in any era but the point stands the running back position has changed and the old style volume guys who could take a pounding and deliver 4 yards flat per carry are of very limited value now.

Sadly, yes he has taken a snap. When Babich panicked after the Derrick Henry first snap touchdown and tried to play base the next two drives Nicholas Morrow came in to play SAM and the Ravens took Henry out, matched Justice Hill up on Morrow and violated him in coverage for two drives. He is terrible. When the Bills have talked about Morrow going back to camp before he was cut and re-signed they talked about him having ability to play MLB and OLB. But he sucks. If we get down to him being on the field we are dead.

I agree he isn't built to play 20 years ago. That said, some of the bigger, more physical backs of then would not be any more than short yardage backs today. The game has changed. I mean Jerome Bettis is in the HoF. He couldn't start in the league today.

Edwards is a Kromer guy. If Kromer is still here, chances are Edwards is.

But he agreed to take a pay cut on the basis he'd have the opportunity to earn some back. I hope he and Beane could have a sensible chat about it but he might justifiably be pissed if the "opportunity" is scaled back by a game.

Is it regular season only? If it is maybe he plays Sunday then. I'd been working on the basis he'd be one of the vets that sat.