BullBuchanan

Oh, ok. I didn't know you just wanted to cry. Carry on then.

He's the precise opposite of who they want on this team.

I didn't like McDermott as a hire, and there are a lot of things I don't like about him as a coach. However, he doesn't owe you or anyone else besides his boss an explanation. Every decent coach and smart player in the league gives bland explanations and old cliches when asked pointed questions. There's a zero percent chance that McDermott will ever come out and say a particular player played badly. That's just common sense. You don't throw your own people under the bus to people outside the organization. Management 101. With that said, McDermott actually gives out a pretty decent amount of information if you read between the lines of talking points he grazes over and if you pay attention to his cadence. You need to filter out the coach speak to get there though. It also doesn't help when reporters ask terrible questions that they know will be met with canned responses. Also, it's impossible for the fans to know when guys run the wrong routes or take the wrong assignments. At field level, it's probably also very difficult to see as a coach. To really know what happened and why you need an elevated view. It would be irresponsible to speak to those things without proper data.

Might have been a "hot take" if I said it 30 years ago. These days we just call it a hard truth. Love the guy and his autographs are all over the house, but he had one of the top two most talented rosters of all time and couldn't get the job done when it mattered most. It doesnt mean I'm not a massive fan of his.

I'm not interested in finding "the next Jim Kelly". The guy wasn't good enough.

It'll go well with my Martin Nance and Jonathan Linton collection.

It's actually in the mail. Kinda hoping I get one game out of it...

You have something better?

Dallas just dumped Dez. I doubt they want a worse version

Drafting Bosa is a lose-lose. If he busts, he busts and you could have traded down. If he becomes elite you have to pay him $30 million a year and you have to let him walk in his prime. Trade down all day every day.

San Francisco could be a willing partner down the road.

I strongly disagree with that. The pass was sinking right to him, as evidenced by the safety that had to dig it out of the dirt. For a guy like Benjamin that jumps two feet off the ground (for some reason) to catch passes aimed at his chest, he didn't even lift his feet off the ground and ran straight under it. He had 5 yards running horizontally to position for the catch, and he played it horribly.

See my summary for my response to your lazy reply.

Dropped first Down Nate high-points Benjamin for a big gain and a first down. He's Got it! https://photos.app.goo.gl/WXZ2JPgpnEUPGe9n9 Oh wait, no he doesn't: https://photos.app.goo.gl/jx1PLpk9ZCE2sUsg9 Pick #1 Same thing again on the first pick. Nate sees KB and throws a touch pass downt he field to his 6'5 WR who will definitely jump up to catch the ball that's in the air the whole time he's crossing the field. https://photos.app.goo.gl/f8YHy9u8p829FivA8 Oh wait, no he doesn't https://photos.app.goo.gl/Fq15qXSARn2AK1Eh7 Pick #2 Surely a slant route will allow my 6'5 WR to use his size to position himself against far smaller secondary personnel to catch this ball right in his breadbasket https://photos.app.goo.gl/hJSu5hJyRpXrjkj19 Hmm that's weird. KB doesn't wall off a guy he's got 5 inches and 30 LBs on. That's fine. I'm sure he'll contest the pass. https://photos.app.goo.gl/xdmJPY16WUFvMpAS8 Oh KB, you sly dog. You did it again. You had me fooled that time. https://photos.app.goo.gl/muTWpXop79RkyQ1n8 Summary In a league of contested passes and needing to use every advantage you have in speed, size and timing, KB uses his advantages about the same way Tyler Myers did when he was here. He plays like a guy half his size with 1/4 the effort. if I wanted to put in the effort I could find another few that were every bit as bad, but I know this post will get no critical thought from any detractors anyway.

Yea, I know your bias won't let you believe it's true but both interceptions were on Benjamin. Clear as day. A decent receivers catches both, and probably even has a big gain on the second one. He didn't even try to catch them and just shied away from the ball.

If I had access to the game footage I'd take a screen shot of Benjamin doing basically the same thing on both picks.

What I'm trying to say is that there's a really strange double standard going on here where the same facts are being used to trash one player and praise another who had pretty similar results. They both played poorly, but their WRs were worse than both of them, the O-line was awful, they couldn't and didn't run and the defense was a sieve. The entire team around both QBs was a constant. They performed the same start to finish. The QBs were the only variable on the Bills side and neither had any success. What I'm also saying is the minute edge that Allen had in production should be considered with respect that the Ravens had their defensive stars on the sidelines. I'm super confused how one guy was trash and the other "must absolutely start" based off the same results.

It's hard listening to things outside your echo chamber, I get it.

against 3rd stringers. For whatever reason they also refused to run the ball in the first half. i think McCoy had 2 carries for -1 yards.

Did I miss the part where the WRs started playing more poorly after Allen came in? The EXACT SAME THING happened in the first half, arguably worse, but that's just because the QB was bad. No one caught a thing, and Benjamin was jogging short-arming passes the whole game. The biggest difference was that the first half was against a starting unit trying to win, but by the fourth quarter it was a glorified 5th preseason game. It's so bizarre to me that the first half blame is on the QB, but the second half is on the WRs when the WRs didn't change, and their play didn't decrease. They were awful start to finish. If that tipped pass to Logan Thomas goes for a pick that's on him, but the slant route right to Benjamin who got outworked is just another pick for a QB we hate.

*you're. Didn't answer my question, though.

Is that the one where you were dead wrong after trying to convince me that I had no idea what i was talking about? I deal with a lot of misinformed conversations in my life - can't keep track of them all

Allen fans: explain to me what you loved about watching this? I just see a lot of fastballs outside the strike zone.

Who saw this thread coming?

How good is Cam Newton? He makes flashy plays and costs his team a lot of games. He has 3 winning Seasons out of 7. He's the type of QB that's good enough to keep on your team for 15 years while you never win a damn thing, but he's too good to dump. I'm glad he's not here.