BillsShredder83

Chip in the ball (both ends), chip on the field every 5-10 yards. Some algo that can help spot the difference. Not an every play thing, challengable or available to refs when they cant see inside a scrum But im highly regarded lol probably talking out my arse. You have 32 franchises valued over a billion, where theres a will theres a way LOL

No doubt, Yes I would've! Which is why Im genuinely asking, what an Assistant GM of 2 years can do to make somebody outside a Front Office "like" a guy like that? I know its hard to tell on a forum, but 0 snark, 100% curiosity. Especially after a lot of us feeling like we "liked" Schoen, and then seeing him perform. We have no real body of work to judge with these guys realistically. How can a fan have any clue if they like an assistant-anything FO guy, whos only been with 1 team. Seems like the full analysis boils down to -is the head GM good? I know this reads snarky (especially on TBD), but I'm just trying to figure out the metrics behind something like that. Do we ever even hear those guys speak? If theres an angle I'm missing for analysis, Id love to be privy to it. I find Front Offices highly intriguing, and I think a ton of it is the shroud of mystery! Giants Hard Knocks was by far and away, lightyears cooler to me, than any other season!!

This^^^. The no surprise onside elimination was stuuuupid. I get it, its a physical play... but how many onsides did this rule change stop the whole season? 4? Across the 32 team schedule. The not knowing when at least gave it some strategy. They jacked all this up to stop 4 instances of - Sean Payton SB Halftime type kicks? STOOOOPIDDDDD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm not fully opposed to the "4th and x" idea all together, as the onside kick has become completely worthless (NFL's own doing *eyeroll*). I think implementing it could be done fairly easily: What was the onside kick recovery % prior to the rule change? Let's say 5%. Now we have our target rate. NOW: Examine every 4th and Long (over 15yds), well call it "4th and X", from the past 5-10 years.... Solve for X: When X is <= 5%. Boom! You've got you're number. Onside Kick is now "4th and X" If I were taking an educated guess I'd bet its something like "4th and ~22"

Wait, wait! Is this the same thing we knew like 2-3 weeks ago??? Where the chip can measure FROM WHERE THE *REF* SPOTS THE BALL. Or is this further expanding on what we heard a few weeks ago, and these HAWKEYE cameras can help spot a first down live/on review? Suttle diference here... but one of these would've fixed Chiefs AFCCG debacle, and the other wouldn't. The one they rolled out few weeks ago, I could not possible give less of a s*** about! I'm not worried about incompetence in a crews ability to measure with a chain, a fixed tangible object..... this "fix" does NOT settle any problems (chain measurement has NEVER been a problem). In fact it CREATES problems! I trust the chain more than "yep hawk camera eye says its good, no need to measure" on close plays. The problem, is DOGS**T SPOTS OF THE BALL. Not only on the sneak, or Kincaid's previous 3rd down play..... but that video circulated showing Cook not getting a first down, from 1st and 10, on a 12yard run! It was dogs**t all day!!! I'm pissed off all over again. I'd rather they left it unaddressed all together if they're not going to do it right. Obviously as a Bills fan, but from an NFL fan, this **** is ridiculous!!!!! Ever rule tinker introduces less faith and more objectivity into the game

Flawed argument though. Without Josh where are we picking in the draft each year? 14ish is a lot easier to nail draft than 29-30th. Obviously nobody is trading Josh to move up 10-20 slots in a draft class, but it's not an apples to apples comparison like you're suggesting.

I don't care about the position at all. Obviously don't overdraft non premium positions, but we need to be all in on a TRUE BPA. there's not a position other than qb (and maybe tackle but only in first round) that's off limits if im Beane. We need bonafide difference makers, and we need to get set ourselves up to get cheaper down the road.

I like Glenn, seems like a cool human and a lockeroom dude you'd wanna run through a wall for. But you like the GM? I didn't even know his name, two years as an assistant GM in DEN? sincerely asking, what's to like about him? Pretty green track record

Nobody should be! Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Pretty confident in Bean that if a DT happens to fall or turns out to be BPA, Lil Wayne is not effecting his thought process. BTW I'd hoped Bernard had helped us learn from the knee jerk reactions. I'm neither labeling him STARTER nor BUST! Because how the heck do we know what we have either way? We don't. Rookie year. Tough position to make the NFL jump at... injury. But yeah lets hurry up and get rid of a 3rd rounder before we can see if we have a Myles Teller or Bernard. Actually, get Beane a coffee! Lets start cutting picks on draft night!!! Get these young bums outta here!

Bernard would like a word with you!

Sincere question. Where are you seeing this in his game? Have to go back to his Pitt days? I think he was hurt all year in CAR

This was draft day (with hindsight). WTF happened in the war room to warrant that kind of miscommunication?! Was McD in the bathroom? Did we have a trade down put together, and last minute somebody backed out? Did an assistant manger or another staffer have a MAJOR drop of the ball that lead to this? I actually feel bad for Elam for us wasting 4 years. Maybe he just sucks, but seemed to have the right attitude. Puzzling every which way, maybe we'll hear in a book in 20years. Im a Beane maximalist, but this and AJE puzzle me. Bringing in a guy with a skillset (or frame with AJE), and the plan is to tear him down completely and ask him to do something completely different. Major gripe of mine. The way people hate hearing about ST's around here is how I hate the "versatile" label we're obsessed with. "A jack of all trades, is a master of none". Give me a guy who specializes at one thing, especially at the NFL level. Torrence comes to mind. Sure find you a guy or two on each side of the ball like that... but seeing that word "versatile" come up continually with our roster building is annoying.

Knee jerk reaction is YES! to Dane.... however, makes me nervous we'd settle back into passive zone again. Was hoping with that Secondary Coach from the Pats being added, it was part of a major philosophy change. We can still bring back Dane and overhaul philosophy, but we won't know till the ball starts flying again.... even then, nervous we could try for a bit, have learning curve hit and whimper back to 'ole steady. Moving Elam, while the right move (for both parties), caught my attention, and is making me second guess the man2man a lot of us are hoping to see more off. Admittedly, we can get rid of Elam and still add m2m. But it muddys the water on trying to get an early prediction

You shouldve bought into Apple and Microsoft in 1990! (See how helpful your comment is with the hindsight of knowing about an injury that came after the contract? People act like we gave the dude $100M with Derrick Rose's knees)

You know how we enjoy seeing him on there because hes candid and refreshing? Seems like a cool hang? Players and other agents see the same thing, and makes him look great to do business with. Its basically an unpaid advertisement.... not some self-validation attention seeking. You dont get to be a GM by not being on top of your work. Dude made sure he addressed anything needing addressing before a 15-30 minute appearance. Any FA/player agent hes working with was aware ahead of time he had a quick meeting..... somebody else was delegated to handle non-urgent matters for 15minutes. Rest assured if something unforeseen pops up in, again during a 15-30 minute window, his phone is on his desk, his assistant is standing there to give him the Bat Signal, should something arise. Same energy as "Dude did X-Player go to an MLB game during his bye week?!?! Shouldn't he be out catching and throwing balls" CHHHHHHHIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. This is a part of the job and directly work related

Who else they predicting?

G2 be honest, Chargers havent very much been worth watching. In seeing his 40 time at 4.51, and some less than awe inspiring stats. Im a basket half full kinda guy, and im not seeing total doom n gloom on the thread yet.... anybody able to tell me why I should get excited other than being young

Almost certain they ship bitchens out. Im one to say i don't mind some diva for high end performance but the dude is unbearable

Who's our 5? -dareus drag race -that 3rd rd DT had a gun charge, forget his name -von miller Who are the other 2? Possible that dareus is before the cutoff, so might be one more Oliver got accussed of dwi but was found to not be drunk or whatever. So that proli counts as an arrest

You hope its not true that we trade a #30 overall for a WR in his prime that absolutely terrorizes opposing defenses for years, solidifying us as a contender every year afterwards? LOL Go look at how many first rd grades are out there for 2025 draft. Go look at all the guys being mocked to us at #30. Which one is more likely to close the 3point gap we lost by in the AFCCG this past season?

"30 points a game", much like the good to great defenses we've had, is a regular season analysis. 27 vs the Ravens 29 vs the Chiefs. 33 was the magic number for the AFCCG. Mahomes and Reid continually outcoach opposing DC's, and stacked defenses. If you forget the recency bias of the SB, Mahomes has won the SB ~50% of his seasons. It doesn't matter what studs you put out there on defense, theyre going to outscheme you, and limit your defenses star players. Trying to copy Phillys defensive mold would take us throwing everything out, and starting all over again... you can put an All-Pro player at each level of the defense and they'll find a way to scheme that guy out. We are never outscheming them like that, and we don't have the resources to implement a DL like PHI has, and especially not at the same time as we're filling out the back of our defense to PHI's caliber. We're miles away. On the offensive side of the ball, we had a chance to put that game away. Our defense was -- THE OFFENSE. Control the ball, score at a high clip, and TD's. The offense got bogged down one too many times. Chiefs were able to put minimum resources to our outside WR's, and sell out to stop the run, protect middle of field against our TE's/Slot. Adding one bonafide outside threat ( A.Cooper hurt and thrown into the grind mid-season, without TC or a chance to develop chemistry, does not count) into the equation, helps overload Spags' defense and completely alters their defensive gameplan... that game isn't coming down to a 4th and inches (was a 1st on 3rd down anyways). We're instantly a better balanced team. We sustain more drives, or cap them off with 7's instead of 3's. Mahomes is forced to play from behind, and unable to make a mistake, or settle for 3. Bills get to play more loose, take shots deep that hit. Or aren't the end of the world to waste a down on, if the defense cant crowd the line/middle of field. We can stress a defense with; the run, short throws, medium throws. There is zero threat deep, or to the outside of the field. TL:DR 1 single player, a legit #1 WR takes the offense over the top. Its the only position group on offense where we have no true weapon. VS Rebuilding an ENTIRE DL & SECONDARY. ^^forget what we've done in the regular season, it doesn't matter. We had/have a potential 1 player solution to our PLAYOFF problem. If it's not DK, then package some of our 10(!!! 10 !!!) picks in the draft/trade market to go make it happen. We have the best QB in the league, and he has 1 WR, who's in the slot

How the heck do you use Spotrac? LOL I went to look at Milano after seeing this. It said possible out is 2026 at $11m dead cap, but it didn't say how much thatd save us. I too feel this is creeping in. Love the player, hate the injuries. Cant afford to pay two guys the way they do, and have them both getting banged up.... they're NFL LB's, theyre gunna take a beating, games happen here and there, but Milano has gone from 2-3 games a year to starting or finishing the year on IR.... we can't allocate those resources to him anymore. Maybe a reworked deal could be had that helps us out? He seems reasonable

Saw it compared to Peyton's Omaha productions, and hoping thats true. No rush, but hope Josh sticks around the sport when hes all done. Super funny and likeable, would make a great cameo in movies too. Kinda like Roger Clemens in Dumb & Dumber, or Bill Romanowski in Benchwarmers. Dude likes his slapstick goofy comedies, and his fiance is in the industry, literally wouldnt surprise me at all

9 years $82million earned. Good for him and #GoPack ! Nice move for the Bears, the Lions (and us) have got their turn as of late. Hoping Ben Johnson can help turn them around, this is a good start. I hate Chicago, but those fans deserve it

Id much rather he adjust his approach then trade out of the type of picks we need. Were an extremely solid team top to bottom, we dont need more day 2 and 3 guys to "exceed expectations", we need bonafide stand out stars. Take TRUE BPA minus QB. His trading up hasnt worked out the best overall, but I like the aggressiveness, as its the only way to check both boxes of BPA & NEED at same time. Just use more caution to not over reach. I trust Beane to make adjustments, hes a top GM in this league whos finally getting some seasoning through experience. Play with fine tune knobs a bit

Dude also had nearly a perfect score on the RAS (relative athletic scalwe). I follow that guy on Twitter.... he makes no claims to high rated players being the best or anything, its one component needed to excel in the league... but Spencer Brown was had in the 3rd and had a perfect 10.0, not something many players get. Interesting stuff, and Beane does have a tendancy to take genetic freaks