HappyDays

Unfortunately my lasting memory of Davis is all of the missed opportunities in big moments. That divisional game was one for the ages though. I'll certainly never forget that.

Any 1v1 matchup late in the game is the most favorable matchup for Chris Jones. Outside of a few truly elite offensive linemen, which Dawkins is not. And yeah I believe coaching put him in that position. Our coaching had AJ Klein trying to stop Travis Kelce for 3 quarters.

You say that, but on the most critical play of the most critical drive of our playoff game they got Chris Jones lined up 1v1 against Dawkins. Great coaches put great players in position to make great plays. I guess I just don't inherently believe that Veach is THAT much better at scouting draft talent than Beane. Jones, Sneed, McDuffie, Karlaftis, Bolton. All of these picks turned into hits that elevated their play in the playoffs. None of them were seen as elite prospects.

Both are true. The defense has let the team down in the playoffs primarily because of poor scheme, play calling, and personnel decisions. Many people on here will disagree with this, but the evidence is right there on the film. So adding more defensive players early in the draft isn't going to solve the more fundamental problem. The offense on the other hand, when it (rarely) falters in the playoffs it is primarily personnel issues.

He's in the bucket of players that are decent but never once make a game changing play in critical games, especially in the playoffs. That bucket unfortunately describes our entire core other than Allen. I'm pretty sick of everyone on the team other than Allen collectively sitting out important moments where we need someone to make a play. Rousseau is an elite run defender, arguably the best edge run defender in the league. But value-wise that's almost equivalent to a good nose tackle. Personally I wouldn't give a player like that a 2nd contract. Maybe he'll finally put it all together this year. As a pass rusher he just hasn't given us enough juice.

KC also badly needs a LT. I wouldn't assume they will draft a WR as obvious as it may seem.

My source told me there have been no substantive contract discussions with DQ since his injury. The team is going to let the DT market play out, as they should. Perhaps Beane has finally learned, out of necessity, that you can't waste money on loyalty to players. He's wasted money on pay cuts to players like Butler, Hines, and Settle, instead of just letting them go and realizing the most possible savings. It's time for him to get ruthless and let players discover on their own that they don't have a market. For a similar reason I want them to cut Tre, not offer him a pay cut. It's a ruthless move but the right one for the future.

It didn't work with Diggs because at the end there he couldn't separate and he couldn't make contested catches. Coleman is an alpha at the catch point. More nuance in his route running than people give him credit for too IMO. He has traits that in theory would make him dominant against man at the next level. Obviously it remains to be seen if those traits actually translate and develop.

I don't agree with this. Allen likes picking a matchup against man and throwing the ball there. If Coleman has a good matchup and Allen trusts him to win at the catch point he will get the ball. This year Diggs was always the matchup Allen chose in those situations and unfortunately Diggs fell off big time down the stretch. We need someone that can take over that role.

So you have completely misinterpreted what happened. I'm going to assume you're making a good-faith effort to do so and respond accordingly. It doesn't matter that 10 white people were killed at the offset. Some white men of the city were attempting to hunt down and lynch a black man off of nothing more than an accusation. Some black men armed themselves and defended the man that was accused, and yes they used guns to do so. That's the point of the 2nd amendment. They used their rights to protect themselves from unjust violence. If you remove race from the scenario you'd probably wholeheartedly agree with their actions, yes? A man is accused of a crime but not put on trial or any investigation whatsoever. An angry mob gathers together to kill that man. Another group gathers together and uses their 2nd amendment rights to defend that man from the angry mob. At what point in this scenario are you finding fault with the actions of the defenders? Because I suspect you will have to abandon some other aspect of your political leanings to find any fault there. Anyways it doesn't matter how it started. What matters is that a violent rampage ensued which led to the death of many innocent people, mostly black residents, and the destruction of many homes and businesses. Your statement is akin to saying "9/11 happened because of American military actions in the Middle East" which may be true but also removes exactly zero fault from the perpetrators. You should also know that your comments about the Tulsa massacre are throwing into question everything you're saying about modern problems and solutions. But like I said I am going to assume you're making a good-faith effort to understand these issues so I wanted to start by addressing misconceptions you have about century-old history first.

I like Coleman because he fits what the Bills need. We need a WR that can win against man coverage outside. Defenses ran man against us more than any other team because they knew they could get away with it against our WRs. As a result we were forced to throw passes to our TEs and RBs against man almost half the time, which is not a recipe for explosive offense. Insert Keon Coleman... He has traits to physically dominate man coverage. I get that he isn't a great separator, but being able to physically box out his man and win at the catch point can be equally valuable. Also he could be an elite red zone target. Positional value, physical upside, adds traits that we don't already have. That's what I'm looking for. For me it is Franklin and Coleman as the only two realistically available players that check all those boxes.

You're continuing to make a strong case that you don't know how play designs and progressions work. If you want to say Brady/McDermott should have called a series that focused more on winding the clock down and scoring at the last possible second, instead of scoring a TD right there, fine. I don't agree with that take but it is at least defensible and based in something factual. What you're arguing is something else entirely. You, like many people, seem to think QBs are playing Madden and scanning the entire field all at once to find the "most open" receiver. Again I'd like to inform you that this isn't correct. I don't really know what else to tell you.

So when you said... "Going off script does not deliver the consistency of delivering on script. It produces some incredible moments but isn't as repeatable. You create repeatable actions by throwing on schedule." ...what did that mean? Because it appears to me that it means Allen's process is not good enough to be consistently and repeatably successful on 3rd down. Which, again, is blatantly false.

Lol I was responding to your post where you said his "career" (AKA regular season) 3rd down numbers weren't good enough. Now I clearly demonstrate that he is in fact elite on 3rd downs and your response is just "regular season doesn't matter"? This is why the conversations around Allen and Mahomes on here are often so difficult. People just say whatever and when confronted with evidence that proves otherwise they have to cop out by jumping to some variation of "winners win, losers lose." Sort of off topic, but everybody should start these conversations with the understanding that QBs individually are responsible for maybe 35% of their own team's success (and this is probably an over estimate if anything). That's a huge swing for just one player obviously, but the totality of what the other ~65% provides stil ultimately matters more.

The Bills had the best 3rd down conversion percentage in the league each of the past two seasons, and were #2 in 2021. So it is in fact repeatable and consistent, moreso than any other team in the league. See you spent all that time pulling stats to compose that post but you ignored the only stat that actually matters in games.

Okay, so your answer to my question is "no, I don't know that." So allow me to inform you - the QB does not call plays or set progression.

Allen doesn't call the plays or set the progressions. You know that, right?

That's not what I said. Brady was the last thing they needed to push them over the hump but the team around him was already in place. What, you think he just chose Tampa Bay at random? My greatest fear is that someday Allen will do the same thing and get his first Super Bowl win for another team.

Yes that is a good example of a great QB let down by a bad and aging roster in his final year with the Pats. So he went to the most loaded roster in the NFL and was immrdistely able to win another Super Bowl despite playing well below his own standard throughout the playoffs. Sorry, what point did you think you were making?

Now we just need the rest of the team and coaching staff to be even half as clutch as him and we'll have something.

Siran Neal was able to stop Kelce when we finally put him on the field in the 4th quarter. Dorian Williams made a couple of great plays that directly led to the Chiefs punting for the first time when he was on the field. McDermott owns the early game decisions to leave them on the bench. 8.5 yards per play to an offense with below average WRs and mediocre tackles. Zero excuses for that performance from the DC.

I don't know where else to put this but we have the most clutch QB in the NFL: But as the tweet says we also have the least clutch team in the NFL. Our window will officially be open whenever McDermott and Beane rise to the occasion or we find a better pair.

Of course the government has to do that, but we should always start these conversations with the understanding that incarceration represents a forfeiture of rights. So if someone's proposed solution to any issue is to extend the time that we are forfeiting a person's rights, I want to see evidence that there is a good reason to do that. Not just throw it out there because it sounds like a possible solution. I'm also sensitive to the fact that innocent people will inevitably be incarcerated, which should be seen as an appalling (but unfortunately inevitable) violation of rights, so any changes we're making to the incarceration system should be made with the knowledge that we are also changing the treatment of legitimately innocent people. I recognize that most people don't think about the justice system and rights in this way, but realistically it's how we should approach these discussions.

How frequently are these crimes being committed by people previously arrested for illegal firearms? That feels like a limited solution. And in general I'm not an advocate of simply extending jail times for criminal offenders because I've seen no evidence that it solves the fundamental problems which create these issues, nor do I inherently trust the government to decide how long people should lose their rights and be incarcerated. Truth be told these are very very complicated issues and I'm wary of any proposed "simple" solutions. Solving these issues is a herculean effort that will likely take multiple generations worth of work, if these issues are even solvable to begin with.

Gun violence is a real problem. So are car accidents. So is heroin overdose. These are the risks of living in a free country, which we accepted a couple hundred years ago. Rights can always be taken away to in theory reduce the chance of tragic untimely death, but personally I'm happy to live in a free country and accept these risks. The risk of any individual being killed in a shooting like this is exceedingly rare. I see people say things like "I'm now scared to go to any public gathering." You're free to have these feelings, but they aren't rational. You're much much much more likely to be killed while commuting to the public gathering than at the public gathering. You're more likely to die while showering to get ready to go out. Don't let these tragic events consume you.