Rochesterfan

Wait come on guys this is legitimate- you just need to add 2+12+28 - see all the two’s to know the Bills and Rams are going to rescind the Sammy Watkins trade because Beane is willing to let go of a sure 2nd round pick to try and get a 3rd round Comp pick in 2019 to prove to Bills fans that he understands the value of Comp picks. Come on this is all so clear.

This makes no sense at all Marshal Faulk whined about it on the NFL network itself originally- why would CBS or Fox keep a complete lid on it. Besides there are a bigger percentage of former players out of the league and you hear next to nothing - you don’t think something would come out with disgruntled former players either on the team or playing that team. Real tin foil hat stuff here. Agreed - we known Belicheat is well known for taking his advantages to the edge and then well beyond into cheating territory - they have been repeatedly caught and punished for that and it would not surprise me if something else is found before the end. I just do not believe it is a league sanctioned thing or that the league in anyway condones or pushes the Pats to win - that to me is crazy. If you told me there is a bad ref - much like basketball- I could believe that maybe, but it does not happen with one crew and there is no way 1 single ref could have that much impact - even if it is Riveron in NY - to impact enough games to make a difference.

I would love love to see this happen, but I think you are very wrong to assume any amount of sensors could have any kind of accuracy calling a game. There is just no way. How would it decide catch versus non catch - at what point would it know and at what sensitivity are things set. The Pats fumble is a perfect example - it was clear the ball was loose, but when his knee was down he had the ball pinned to his leg - what algorithm is going to be able to decide if he had possession or not - there was pressure - so to the sensor the ball was in possession. A sack could create a similar situation with a fumble, but the ball in between two bodies and sensors can feel the pressure - it would not know if it was the QB or the Defender putting that pressure on. Embedding sensors in the field cause another issue as fields change throughout the game - a grass field gets torn up in spots so how do you keep it calibrated correctly - also you get games like the snow game and there may be 5 inches of snow on top of the field and that will have huge implications on calls. Someday maybe when the game is played with robots and in a cyber field maybe this will work, but I do not think it is anyth8ng close to usable for the foreseeable future.

This has been going on for years and there is no conspiracy. Better teams get better calls. Fans of teams that lose complain. There is nothing worth noting here. In the 90’s The Bills and the 49ers got more calls not because of a grand scheme - they were better teams and when a play was close things broke their way. People can complain about the calls, but for example Pittsburgh and the TE - based upon the current rules - they got the call correct - so it was not a conspiracy it is a guy falling down that lost control of the ball. The NYJs game - you have the TE lose control of the ball before scoring and by the time he regains control he is in the air and lands out of bounds in the end zone - it was the correct call again - it sucks, but it was correct. People complained mightily about the Miami fumble and the player touching it out of bounds - was that a league wide conspiracy also or was that the league getting the call right. Heck even the Benjamin play if you legitimately look at it was very borderline and I can understand why it was ruled the way it was - control of the ball is always the issue and there is no way to conclusively get that right - it is almost always a judgement call.

Agreed - I am guessing they will work on stretching and placement in his pre combine work and it will be bigger when they measure at the combine. One of the biggest issues I have with the combine is how everyone gets specially prepared for it. It is why the wonderlic scores of QBs like Marino and Kelly look so bad compared to guys coming out know. These guys take tons of prep tests and work on their weak spots and if a top end QB has a lower score today - that is a bigger issue than 20-30 years ago.

Yes because we almost won the Super Bowl the last 2 seasons with all of that talent. Oh wait - we missed the playoffs- how can that be with all of the talent we had - maybe they are not leaders and the team lacked leadership. Maybe the talent is not as important as character. Maybe a troll is a troll and we get to read garbage like this. Goodbye!

Based upon your above scenario - I would probably wait, but Rudolph would not be horrible. I do not want anything to do with Jackson.

Exactly - you basically eliminate the big play - anyone that is beat just tackle the WR. This is especially true at the end of the game - it would have killed the end of the Saints game and probably the Baltimore/Cincinnati game that got us in.

Just heard this - Crazy, very interesting to see if they are looking at McDaniels or what they are thinking. It would suck for them to go all in and not get what they need.

Horrible take - all the way. The Bills organization made a statement - the incident is under investigation and they are backing RI story at this time. It sounded to to me like it was discussed internally with RI and others and they found nothing and are now waiting for the NFL to review all of the sounds. It sounded to me like they handled it appropriately and at this point people are just leaping to conclusions based upon his past. Others have stated they did not hear it or nothing was said - so why not wait for the final verdict rather than going off before things are done.

Come on that does not fit the narrative of hate. The man can coach - he may be a jerk, but he can coach. Taking an underachieving team from last year and now they are in the Championship game. He was not a guy I could like -ala McD- but the guy could coach.

And why is 26 covering the short out at 10 yard when even that gives them nothing. A more standard quarters defense covering 4 across would have been way more appropriate. That seems like a very bad defensive call knowing the game situation.

Absolutely not, but watching him trying to slow down and get in position to make the tackle and not hit him early - I think his body got messed up - his head was up as he was getting there, but he should not have ducked his head totally. Again it was a split second thing and the way the timing was off for him - I just think he blew it bad. I just do not think it was a sign of anything - just something that happened at the worst time for that player. I will blame the coaches for not having a better deep coverage available. I think overall the coaches should get a bunch of blame, but that poor kid is going to get crucified by the fans for that play and he probably deserves a bunch of it.

He is running full speed - I don’t think he could just stop. He realized how early he was and did not want a penalty.

I don’t think so - he has been making good tackles throughout the game. Looked like he realised he was early and and was trying to avoid him to prevent the DPI. This is why you make DPI a spot foul. If it was only 15 yards they go for the interference every time. I am sure during the time-out the coaches stressed no PI and just tackle them in bounds. The ball hung and he got there early - could not have PI - so ducked and in a terribly unlucky play took out his only other defender. I think it was a bad play and be bad luck, but that was not him trying to hit the WR like that.

This is exactly it - if he gets there early it is PI and they are in field goal range. I think he realizes it and tries to avoid him figuring there were 2 Saints to make the tackle. Then he takes out the one with the best shot. This will make them sick to their stomach watching that play.

How do you feel Teef? (About the hire not how you feel in general - do not need to know that!)

Agreed

I do not know if it will be better or not - he sounds like a great teacher which is very important to McD. He also has cut his teeth with some of the best coaches in the world and that is important. Where I will agree with Maj is based upon his history as OC he is worse than Dennison. His rankings in both passing and points are lower than Dennisons and he really showed very little most of the year at Alabama. I understand that he has had garbage at QB to work with, but so has Dennison and at least Dennison has had some success as an NFL OC. So we can all sit and argue whether he will be better or not. Since he has not developed any QBs at any levels - this makes the hiring of a QB coach that much more important. I think Daboll will be fine, but he is not the guy I want developing my young QB. If they get a nice QB coach then this hire will matter less, but if they do not get someone to develop the QB - then this hire was probably a mistake. That is my opinion.

I hope so too -I like what McD has done so far.

If the choice was really keeping Marrone or Whaley - I think Marrone was a better coach than Whaley was a GM. I think Marrone had us going in the right direction and even if he was a jerk - he was the best coach we had since Wade. All of that is under the bridge and past - so now I do not care just beat NE.

I do not think he is a great coach, but no way should Pittsburgh let him go. The consistency is part of the reason they have been so good for so long.

Not if they hire Brian Schoenheimer as coach. Strange things in the Pacific Northwest.

Can’t - the Bills would of had to exercise that last off-season and declined. The Rams only option is the tag.

His running game was good, but the passing attack under both Roman and Lynn was no better than under Dennison. Overall the difference between 2015-2016 and 2017 was under Roman and Lynn we got TDs from the running game in chunks. This year those chuck plays were stopped or McCoy came out and you were stuck running those plays with Tolbert. Dennison did very little to impact TT numbers and actually you saw him play better on third downs because not every third down pass last year was a deep go route. What I saw was a schemed passing attack that had guys open on multiple levels and a QB that was consistently late on throws and reads. If they decide to replace Dennison that is fine, but it is nearly impossible to know the impact that having a subpar passing QB caused in a West Coast Offense.