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On 11/4/2018 at 4:00 PM, twoandfourteen said:
I hear a lot of the #TeamProcess guys touting how much cap space McD & Beane created & will have available to them to "rebuild" the offense. Apparently that is supposed to serve as evidence that these guys know what they are doing.
Do you McBeaners really think ANY free agent of any offensive worth will willingly come here for the going market rate? Do you have any idea just how much you're going to have to overpay to even get one of those guys to return your call?
There is going to be a MASSIVE tax on Free Agent signings for the Bills during the next offseason. That $90M is going to go pretty quick on the marginal-to-mediocre talent that will inevitably sign here. Not to mention that they are only going to bring in guys that know their Scripture passages as well as they know their playbook, so the talent pool is limited to begin with.
The intelligent & rational among us will soon realize that Free Agency might as well be seen as irrelevant moving forward. McD's ineptitude and arrogance has set this team back 5-8 years, at least.
I always find these posts funny. Clearly, posters like you don't pay close enough attention to this team.
Beane has said time and again that he wants to build this team through the draft, and use cap space to keep the good, homegrown players.
Beane might sign one or two guys to bloated contracts if they are worth it, but I'd expect a lot of depth, 1-year deals to keep cap space available to sign homegrown players.
Might want to check our GMs philosophy before going on about stuff like this.
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10 minutes ago, jrober38 said:
Let me rephrase.
I think they intend to score points, but as soon as something detrimental happens to a drive, like a penalty, or loss of yards on 1st or 2nd down that puts them behind the chains, that he immediately starts playing defense with his offense.
It's like we no longer try to keep the chains moving, and revert to trying to limit the damage our offense could do by figuring out how to conservatively try to come close to getting a first down by not putting the ball in danger and being totally fine with punting and playing field position.
When the Bills get into 3rd and long they almost always throw short of the sticks. Just avoid the sack, check it down, and hope your receiver can break a couple tackles and convert the 1st down. We never put the ball in danger by forcing it down the field into coverage in a spot where a catch will move the chains.
It's the same type of offense we saw from Dick Jauron when he had Trent Edwards. Play super conservative, and take the check down whenever possible. Play field position and let your defense try to force a turnover to give your offense a short field.
We saw the same thing from this offense even when Allen was on the field. His YPA is pathetic, and most of his throws a dink and dunk check downs. Despite having a howitzer for an arm, we haven't thrown the ball down the field at all this season and I think that's a product of how the coach over values protecting the football.
I think it all comes down to personnel. If he has the Chiefs' personnel, I don't think we would see this conservative game plan, or at least what you claim is conservative.
I don't see it, I just see ineptitude on the roster, especially at the QB position, which makes things look a lot more conservative than they are intended to be.
Time will tell.
I wouldn't be so quick to write off these guys. A lot of new head coaches in this league are struggling. Vance Joseph, who is only in his second year, is going to be fired at the end of this year. Pat Shermer is supposedly an offensive guru hasn't turned the Giants around. Mike Zimmer is a defensive minded head coach and his team is perfectly good on offense.
I just think it takes time to employ a plan. It is either fire them both now, hire a new GM who then hires a coach, so the two can work together with the cap space and draft capital.
Or, you stick it out with these guys through two more years from this exact point. They get next year and half the following year to turn it around, and maybe you fire them next year if you see no improvement what so ever.
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1 hour ago, jrober38 said:
To see where the NFL is going people should watch the Saints-Rams game from Sunday afternoon.
Those teams are playing a different sport than the Bills.
They value possessions, and try to score every time they get the football.
Our coach has nothing in common philosophically with Sean Payton or Sean McVay, and that's a major problem in my eyes.
1You don't think McDermott wants to score on every possession?
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1 minute ago, zow2 said:
May as well pull for NE to win the Super Bowl. Brady and Bill are so competitive. They may finally leave if they can go out on top. Anything short of winning it all they probably come back
Brady really should retire if he wins it all this year. Go out on top before father time catches you.
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1 minute ago, apuszczalowski said:
I keep thinking that it's over, but then I remember that it's not the Bill's offence and its 10 minutes for Rodgers
Then I remember it's the Pat's and it wont matter cause they will make sure they come away with the win......
It also won't matter because they don't throw flags on the Pats. Rodgers took a blow to the head on the last sack, and there was no call.
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1 minute ago, TheFunPolice said:
What the hell is going on?! Every GB is going down
Either way at least NE doesn't look unbeatable... Still very good bit gives me hope of a NE free SB
Not if this Allen character refs all their games.
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2 hours ago, Ol Dirty B said:
So they should just say nothing then? I'm not sure what you're suggesting
When we have 18 million of these threads every week. Yes, yes they should.
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What a block by Ingram. Completely flipped the dude. Than easy run in for Kamara.
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19 hours ago, BillsVet said:
The rule Belichick applies to players to let them go a year early and not a year late should apply to HCs and GMs. They have so much power that letting them continue a flawed plan only makes more work for the next leadership group.
How do you know it’s a flawed plan? Big if, but would this year be forgivable if we win two Super Bowls in the next five years? We don’t know what the future holds.
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2 minutes ago, The 9 Isles said:
Yes but now the next coach will have Allen instead of Mahomes. Good luck trying to convince anyone that Allen could be Mahomes.
Isn’t that Allen’s ceiling with his physical traits?
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1 minute ago, ScottLaw said:
Awful throw.
Meh, that’s putting the ball only where his guy could get it. Zay makes that catch if not for some BS rule where the only spot PI doesn’t count is within one yard of the line of scrimmage.
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On 11/2/2018 at 6:03 PM, twoandfourteen said:
So then you must be all for giving Nathan Peterman at least another year, right?
I mean, he has fewer starts than Allen does.
Peterman has been an absolute dumpster fire and doesn’t have the physical talent Allen has. That’s a very dumb comparison.
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49 minutes ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:
We're in year 2. How in the world does last season wipe out a year?
The job of a new regime when they come aboard is to evaluate and determine the direction of the organization. They did that and decided to rebuild. The team was mediocre, got to 9-7 and with a little luck, made the playoffs. And I gave the regime credit for continuing the rebuild because I agreed that the team was mediocre at best without a high ceiling. There's no point in being mediocre. It was the right thing to do to continue the rebuild.
But they haven't amassed the amount of talent they should have after 2 offseasons. We still have the entire offense to go and we need to get younger at a couple of positions on defense. This is at least 2 offseasons of work, maybe more based on the pace that we're on now. In today's NFL, it's a slow pace, and front offices that are slow in this league don't last very long.
The thing I think people forget, we were so cap-strapped we didn't have the necessary ability to amass this large amount of talent.
It wouldn't have mattered who was the GM. We didn't have the funds, plain and simple.
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1 minute ago, billsfan_34 said:
No QB- no success in todays NFL. They have grossly mismanaged the QB position. If they were smart, Beane will pick another qb in next years draft!
I like how we give up on a rookie QB four games into his NFL career. My god guys. We would be picking QBs in the first round in every draft if we had it your way and dumped someone after one year because they weren't an all-pro.
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41 minutes ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:
I'm not talking about the record, I've never cared about that for this season. But I think that's what some people think rebuilding is, and that's all it is. There's a development process within rebuilding that the regime should be judged on as they go, they're not successfully rebuilding because we stink. What I wanted to see was organizational progress, and the #1 priority there is the development of the guy they used a lot of assets and draft capital to get...yet we're basically going to lose an entire year of legitimate development for him.
How it can be excused that after 2 offseasons with this regime, knowing the franchise QB they picked would be the difference between it being a success or a failure, that we have absolutely no protection or weapons for him? I don't know that he's going to be good even with that, I don't know if he has the accuracy to be a top level QB, but we have to find out as soon as possible.
And what faith, not in the McDermott/Peterman way, are we supposed to have that this regime can identify talent on the o-line when after 2 offseasons we have one passable starter? Are we supposed to be confident that they can find 4 before next season? Let alone skill players at almost every single offensive position.
The progression during the rebuild is what needs to be looked at, and I think it's alarming how many holes we have after 2 offseasons. A successful rebuild in today's NFL should really happen in 3 years and we're not even close to that. The organizational planning is also very concerning, most notably with obviously how the QB situation was so badly handled this year. When you watch these games from Peterman and Anderson...this is the brainpower and evaluation abilities of Beane and McDermott at work.
I don't care about being 2-6 or whatever we end up with. But to basically lose an entire precious year of development on the offensive side of the ball doesn't instill much faith in Beane and McDermott's ability to rebuild.
We are in year 1 of the rebuild.
Making the playoffs last year wiped out that year being a rebuilding year no matter what moves were made.
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1 minute ago, pop gun said:
I could see Watkins ending up with his career best year this year and end up as one of the top 15-20 WR at years end.
Is it worth the $ he is getting, IDK, i'd have to compare WR salaries.
He has 34 catches for 453 yards and 3 TDs. Not exactly lighting the world on fire. Then again, he doesn't have too. Like I said, he is overpaid for his production, but they can do that because Hill, Hunt, and Mahomes are on rookie deals. They also have enough other weapons that Sammy doesn't have to be the guy, so it doesn't matter what he ends up with for stats as long as he contributes and doesn't hurt the team.
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52 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:
You realize you just made a ***** excuse for every player that McBeane didn't resign/traded away right?
So, you think we should have massively overpaid for Woods when McDermott's whole intention was to get rid of bad contracts?
You think we should have spent money on a player in Goodwin who hadn't played a full season due to injuries?
Glenn, I really can't say much. He has played well, but they have Dawkins. Dawkins is younger and developing. If they think he can be as good as Glenn, then he is younger and you have him for much longer.
I didn't really make excuses. I tried to explain the rationale behind decisions. Unlike you, I'm not going to lose my ***** over McBeane's decisions. We won't know what kind of impact they'll have until a couple years from now.
3 minutes ago, Radar said:My concern is as much as I think the ownership wants to provide a good team they don't have the experience required. I hope that they will hire an experienced football executive to oversee the whole operation. I may like the Pegulas but their over their heads I fear.
Football Czar's aren't just laying around waiting to be hired. Beane's in his second year after his first draft. Why don't we give the guy a chance to BUILD a roster before we rush to judgment.
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35 minutes ago, Peter said:
Who woke up and decided it was a good idea to initiate a pay cut with one of our few pro bowl players?
Who decided to move heaven and earth to draft a very, very raw rookie QB who was not even first team in his own conference and then do basically nothing to make sure that he and the other QBs and RBs were adequately protected? They failed to adequately replace Richie or Wood, traded Cordy, and did not even make an attempt to keep another guy who had started for us and was scooped up by the Texans new GM who was with us last year.
How is it that these guys thought it was a good idea to surround our QBs (especially our rookie QB) and our RBs with substandard talent around them (line and WRs)?
Richie was getting older. They asked him if he would take a pay cut. He said yes. I don't know why it hurts to ask the guy to take a pay cut, especially when he ends up agreeing to it.
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2 hours ago, Peter said:
1) Wood was forced to retire (NFL career over) during literally the first week of the off season. McBeane, the janitor, the team cook, and anyone who follows the Bills knew Wood's career was over in plenty of time to address the position.
2) Who in their right mind would think it was a good idea to initiate a pay cut with one of our few pro bowl players? Apparently McBeane . . . and they have been paying for it ever since . . . as have our QBs and running backs. In my view, Richie would have been just fine within the structure of the team . . . as he convincingly proved during his entire time with the Bills these past few years.
But, when a player is in your long-term plans (Aka Woods) it makes it hard to do a 180, especially when you're focused on getting a QB. Who were we supposed to sign with the little cap space we had?
Also, Ritchie agreed to the restructure. Then decided it wasn't enough and retired. That's just crap on Richie's part. Don't agree to it in the first place.
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2 minutes ago, ctk232 said:
Not necessarily - we have no way of telling what the future will be like until we go through this offseason at the very least. And I can see the arguments for why you'd think Mahomes would be a competitive QB capable of starting week in and week out for a team, but I just can't agree the same results you are seeing would have occurred here. Not saying he'd be trash, but I don't think he's the franchise caliber player you are seeing now.
We could go 8-8 next year, or even hit double digit wins for all we know. I honestly don't know enough about offensive schemes and NFL playbooks to reach a conclusion on Daboll, even if this roster could provide operative data to properly judge him this year. Like I said, given the plan promised of a rebuild, there hasn't been nearly enough time or data to properly assess any outcome, and place judgment one way or the other just yet. Doesn't make me a homer, just means that I'd like to approach this with what I believe to be a logical approach and see where we are when we have some semblance of a fully built roster.
I think the biggest problem is, we made the playoffs last year. It just created unrealistic expectations in a lot of our fans.
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On 10/30/2018 at 7:27 AM, ScottLaw said:
Lmao.
Right. Because they couldn't have drafted a QB without trading Watkins and letting Woods and Goodwin walk, and trading Glenn.
Where the ***** do people come up with this stuff?
Woods was never going to resign in Buffalo. He wanted to go to LA, you know, where he was born and raised and went to college. The only way he would have come back would have been for a very over-priced contract. Watkins doesn't deserve the money he is being paid by KC, but KC is all in while Mahomes is on a cheap deal, so they are willing to spend extra for potential because they have so many other weapons who are on cheap deals. Hill and Hunt are both on their rookie deals still.
Goodwin was injury prone and never put together a complete season here.
Glenn couldn't stay healthy easier, and they used his capital to go get their QB.
I don't understand what you don't get. They shredded bad contracts and made an aging roster much younger. Yeah, they got rid of some talent, but they have also added young talent. You can completely rebuild an offense in one offseason when you have your QB in place. The Rams did it last year.
Can we please stop with the threads. These guys aren't getting fired this year. They'll have this offseason to improve the roster. If they don't show signs of improvement, they'll both be gone by the end of next year.
For now, quit getting so worked up.
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2 hours ago, Peter said:
Dawkins would be better with Richie next to him and even better if he were on the right side and Cordy were playing left tackle.
P.S. I never saw Cordy beaten the way I have seen Dion beaten sometimes. He seems like a great kid but it is clear that he misses Richie next to him.
P.P.S. This is another example of the process guys mismanaging a position group.
How was McBeane supposed to know that Woods would be forced to retire and Richie would go off the deep end?
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1 hour ago, Zaso Art Designs said:
Another thing that he keeps saying is that we have a young football team. But the team isn't that young.
40 percent of our players are first or second-year players. We are very young. McDermott is going to have this roster dismantled and get canned before he can actually turn things around. Unless the Pegulas are all in on letting him coach for his full five years. I can't see this team being good until the 2020 season.
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10 hours ago, Will-GM-for-food said:
QBs have only thrown 3 touchdowns, I can think of 2 pick 6's (now and the one in Houston). Anymore? can't remember
One in Baltimore?
What Do You Want To See the Rest of the Year?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I want to see us lose every game 24-21.
We get a good pick, but both sides of the ball show improvement.