PlayoffsPlease

Bengals are kinding of showing that hanging on to coaches forever might not be the way to go.

And get a first down

More than zero first downs. Less than five interceptions in the first half. I know these goals often seem unachievable but I really think Josh can do it.

He isn't pointing out that you aren't a real fan with his scolding. He is pointing out that he is a far superior fan than all of you overly analytic malcontents who should just be damn happy Buffalo has a football team. There are over a billion people in China who have to get along with a football team for goodness sakes. Now get off my dam lawn.

You dont really get the point. Mack is great. Having a great 20 million plus player means having holes elsewhere.

Its not one week. It was a waste of an entire training camp.

What is hard to understand about the bolded. They completely misjudged the situation and blundered massively.

yes. any sane person would have kept mccarron if they thought the peterman debacle was remotely possibly week 1. bills screwed the pooch wasting reps on peterman this summer and starting him week 1.

So are you agreeing with me that if Allen had more reps in preseason he would be more ready now?

You can't grasp the point. Coaches need to get the team ready. If McDermott made the correct determination at the beginning , then Allen would be 10x as ready going into week 2. We know for a fact, that he made the wrong determination. He is benching Peterman. All the time preparing Peterman to be the starter is a 100% COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME AND EFFORT. This is now a simple fact. You are giving Mcdermott an excuse for his piss poor decision "Allen is not established". I dont' care what his excuse is. We now know he made a piss poor decision. Not all coaches would have made the same piss poor decision. That is the reason Josh McCown rides the bench in NY.

You are insane if you think all players are created equal. Do you think the Falcons open up training camp with an open mind about replacing Matt Ryan with whatever other QBs are in camp. From day 1, they are planning on using Ryan. If by some miracle someone impresses then possibly a change could get made. Its called "TRAINING" camp, not tryout camp. The primary purpose is not auditioning for a roster spot. The primary purpose is getting the best team on the field. The auditioning part is just a sub set of that. You can think I am wrong all you want. We know this without any room for dispute. The result of the insane tryout system was the peterman debacle last Sunday, and a switch to a rookie QB in week 2, without the benefit of being the center piece for most of the summer. So based on evidence, its pretty clear I am right.

The coaches job is not to run a "fair" competition and make people "earn" it. His job is to put the best team he can on the field. It was obvious very early (back to when Allen was drafted ) that he is a special talent with far superior skills to Peterman or McCarron. McDermott could have made that judgment much earlier, and spent all summer building the offense around Allen. He chose not to. That was poor judgement. Poor judgement in coaches is less than ideal.

Hence the smiley in support of your observation.

Allen gives this team a far better chance to turn things around this year than either TT or Peterman. Shame that McDermott couldn't have seen this at the beginning of camp and spent those weeks preparing Allen instead of running his QB Competition.

They have appeared to be completely reactionary this year, and its a stretch to think this is some sort of expected contingency out of some elaborate planned out scenarios. They screwed the pooch with Peterman. They accepted that and moved on. Are you basing this on facts? ?

Do you have any posts that don't involve scolding others and / or otherwise acting incredibly humorless and pretentious? Asking for a friend.

Just wanted to thank Coach McDermott for seeing the light. Only one week late. Coach if you want any more advice, just PM me on this board, I will walk you through the next steps.

Yes, our week 1 starter Nate Peterman. Hope that clears things up for you.

Name myself the starting QB. I will likely be seriously injured. But every play I can stay alive is one more play that protects Peterman and Allen from injury risk. This will prove to fans I am committed. And also that I should be committed.

The Bills are not a young team. https://www.phillyvoice.com/ranking-nfl-teams-age-after-53-man-cutdowns-2018-edition/ The age distribution in the NFL is pretty narrow. No one is really "young" or "old". Its the nature of the salary cap and rookie contract rules. But McDermott is lying or clueless to maintain the Bills are a young team. Only 4 teams are older.

Bears lost too.

Yes, we have some very young players (so does every other team. Sam Darnold for instance is the youngest starting QB in NFL history). But we are very much like an expansion team this year. Some young guys, a couple of older stars , mccoy and k. williams for the fans to root for, and a bunch of guys who are average or worse at their positions.

Beane did create a good chunk of this seasons cap hell. I am not saying it is not worth it. But there were other ways to manage it, if they wanted to be more competitive this season.

David Carr just sucked. Dan Marino says hello. So does Derrick Carr. And Joe Flacco. And Goff. And Big Ben. And a crap load of other excellent QBs who started as rookies. But you completely missed the point. Allen has no greater injury risk playing behind this line than any other QB in the league would. Probably less because he is bigger and moves better. So unless you would sit every other QB in the league because of injury risk. There is no reason to sit Allen. Bray looked better than Peterman in his preseason mopup game.

You do realize that Bills have the second oldest roster in the NFL this season, don't you?