JoshAllenHasBigHands

Those were each against top 5-7 defenses. You think our offense will perform similarly against a bottom 5 defense?

Credit where credit is due: solid comeback

Yeah, coaching is complex. If you define a coach simply by looking at his background and then looking at that position group, you are doing it wrong. The question is how is he as a manager and guiding the team towards wins. Marrone has shown he can do that. At this point, the Jags decision has more to do with continuity than anything else. Coughlin seemed to be the primary source of the locker room problems, which were in turn the reason the team failed. This will be Marrones do or die season.

Are you suggesting he took a demotion to screw the Bills? Does that make sense to you?

Terrified is a strong word—I don’t mean to be hyperbolic. But I like playing against a Gase coached team far more than a Flores team. It’s the difference between automatic wins and tough, season changing match ups.

Two way street man. He didn’t arbitrarily walk away from the Bills. There was a lot at play.

It’s so weird

Serious question: do you actually believe this? Like at a fundamental level. Did you write this and think to yourself, this makes sense. Like, holy cow.

The Jags had a lockerroom full of players that hated Tom Coughlin with every fiber of their being. They quit on the team and the organization, and in some cases forced their way off the roster. Coughlin was clearly the probelm, not Doug Marrone. For some reason, whenever a franchise fails, fans assume that every person that touched that failure are themselves failure too. That is super myopic and, frankly, dumb.

What Brian Flores did with that roster is nothing short of a miracle. I am terrified of what he can do with some talent on the team.

They are called the TBD Antifa

Lol. Man did I deserve that. My wife literally said the same thing to me not two weeks ago. I guess now that I am thinking about it, we don't really know what Beane will do when it comes time to give out extensions. Has he really done so yet? Is he the guy that doesn't pay Josh Norman, or is he someone else? All right Dr. D., I'm on board.

That "Whaley signing" could only make sense if they didn't play 100% (not an exaggeration) of snaps. Also, they were signed when McDermott took over; they are not Whaley signings in the way so many others were. They are the reason this defense is so good. They are so good they don't even have guys rotate in. I appreciate value, but they are the heart and soul of the defense. They are for sure worth $10+.

You don't often see such a devastating takedown, but here we are. Btw, where do people even come up with these stats? That seems so specific.

If Poyer walks, it will be because he doesn't want to be in Buffalo. I have a hard time imagining the Bills will go from playing both those guys 100% of snaps to not willing to offer them significant contract extensions.

This, but change it to: "Duke, You Still Aren't Playing"

1. Don't deflect. You are making bad arguments. You getting called on them does not mean your critics believe "McDermott can do not wrong." 2. Special teams matter. The extra safety plays the spot on special teams usually reserved for the last CB. However, they are interchangeable. 3. At the end of the day, McDermott kept his most expendable players on the field. For example, Spain. Of all our lineman, Spain is the most easily replaceable. On the other side, because Johnson and Wallace split time, one of those two are more easily expendable. 4. Our defense runs on Poyer, Hyde, and White. The difference between the 4th DB and the 5th DB is negligible.

The outcome doesn’t change the reasons upon which the decision was made. They looked bad. They didn’t really run any serious plays, but sure, they didn’t look good. But they kept their routine, and that’s likely what McDermott wanted.

College is not the same as the NFL. Burrow might end up being good, but a great performance here does not translate to greatness in the NFL. Remember Geno Smith? That list of great College QBs that couldn’t make it at the NFL level is a mile long.

That is pretty compelling.

Do you know if this would qualify for the public person exception?

If he created the video, you might be right. However, that is not the case here. I am fairly certain the Bills are free to use reproductions of that video.

Never meet your heroes.

I am all for this ride or die approach next year. Right now, I want to see how far they can go doing what they have been doing. I don't think the playoffs is the time to redefine our entire offensive identity. Next year, it will be time. JA will have had some time with the guys around him; he will have been in the league for two years; he will have seen every defensive formation available. Next year, he needs to pull it together. I have zero interest in the coaching staff finding ways to protect him. He needs to take the big leap. I think he will, I truly do.

You aren't wrong, there really is no way to know where the read is supposed to be. We do not know if open guys are off-read, or simply the next read that JA doesn't make (we also don't know what the checks are at the line of scrimmage). But you don't really know either, so to take such a hard stance on Daboll is unfair. It reveals that you apply a results based framework, i.e. if the offense sputters, it falls on the OC, full stop. While that is a primary concern, it ignores mountains of context (such as the "QB reads" example). And that context tells us, truly, whether the blame falls on Daboll or elsewhere. Conversely, since we DO know that JA misses wide open guys with some frequency, it is more fair to say that the short coming is JA, not Daboll. Lets not use the term "intercept-able." Lets just think about it in terms of accuracy. I think you can acknowledge that 2 or 3 times a game, JA throws a wildly incomplete ball. Balls that aren't even close to being catch-able. Even if they aren't near a defender, they are extremely troublesome. Its solely luck that doesn't cause them to be intercepted. Asking JA to throw more increases the number of wildly inaccurate passes. Asking him to do that is like playing with fire.