Don Otreply
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7 minutes ago, Ghost_002! said:
I do not have to tell myself anything. I just listen to what is being said around league and put two and two together. You should try it.
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17 hours ago, Ghost_002! said:
Yea you might wanna do some more research on the Watson situation. Had nothing to do with the Hopkins trade or O'Brien. He has had it with ownership.
Whatever ya gotta tell yourself... do keep those blinders on though...
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19 hours ago, Nextmanup said:
People are reading too much into this.
I think Stafford simply feels like the Patriots have too much rebuilding to do and he only has so many good years left in the league, so the Patriots didn't make the most sense for him.
No one was looking to avoid NE when Brady was still there.
Belichick now has a personality of an insufferable azs, in this day and age no one with talent and a brain wants to be in that environment with no chance to win the division much less the championship.
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At this point the Pats are not a destination for just about any player with talent and a brain, think about it, who in their right mind wants to play for Belichick anymore... The luster is gone.
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16 hours ago, njbuff said:
My early guess is that McBeane will do whatever it takes to get Etienne.
He is a faster version of Thurman.
And I think they will have to jump ahead of the Jets to get him.
Or they could shock us all and make a blockbuster trade for Elliott. The Bills have a history of making a big trade for a star RB.
Not this FO, it’s not their style to spend on RBs. Except for a handful of positions, they are all about economy in spending for players.
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Can he run block? Asking for a friend...
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4 minutes ago, WIDE LEFT said:
I think Coach McD is great and I hope he is our HC for years to come. But he badly stubbed his toe in the biggest game of his HC career because he ignored analytics and reverted to his (natural) conservative form. I am not talking about the field goal decisions, although they were terrible and unsupported by analytics as well. What I am referring to here is the overall strategy he employed in this game.
Analytics for years now has consistently demonstrated that the “strategy” of controlling the clock via run game etc so as to keep a great QB on the sidelines is a losing strategy. Not a shred of evidence that it ever works, despite many in the WNY media touting this strategy. Far more troubling is McD playing softest zone, force them to take lots of plays and lots of time to score. Of course, this strategy also keeps your offense on the sideline for a long time. It’s a strategy designed to shorten the game. It’s a strategy that prevents your O from producing a lot of points.
Herein is the monumental failure. Mahomes has lost only 9 games in his career. The average score of the 9 teams that beat him was 36 points. The only way any team has beat him was to outscore him. McD employed the complete opposite of the only strategy that has ever been consistently successful v KC. Look, we would have probably lost anyway, but we did not go down swinging, because our head coach went with his gut, instead of the hard evidence that analytics provides.
In this case you are correct, but without overtly referencing analytics many of saw and then cringed at the game plan as it unfolded early in the game.
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2 minutes ago, Rc2catch said:
He’s a freak of nature.
I’m curious to see his longevity.I’ve thought about that as well, does he fall off a cliff performance wise or can he keep it up, as in all things, time will tell.
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In my perfect world a QB like Webb is the ideal back up for Buffalo, the provision is that Webb is Barkley, but with a better arm, which I suspect he already is, and that would make him the better candidate, Fromm who is...??? Is the obvious third choice, jmo.
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It would be really cool if we had threads that were centered around who we would bring in to specifically replace a perceived under performing player and then show the difference in costs between those two players, vs let’s cut the whole defensive line to save money with no real forethought of how to replace the talent and scheme knowledge that just got blown up in that scenario....
what am I saying, that’s never gonna happen.... 😁
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There will be an eighteenth regular season game long before that even gets talked about, jmo.
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Me thinks he will stay the course for the most part, except he will go for one above average player at some position or another, of course I am T O M A on this because it’s just a wag...
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1 minute ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
To the bolded, just to point out that there were times when the run game was not an afterthought (1st NE game, LAC, Denver)
Otherwise, agree.
You are correct, these issues are rarely black and white.
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Here I go, when is it that folk will grasp the fact our run blocking was miserable on a good day?
The entire run game was an afterthought all season long.
Not one of our offensive coaches cared a whole hell of a lot about the run game because we were scoring points passing right and left, it wasn’t until our primary receivers were all injured at the same time that the woeful run game showed up on the coaches radar.
This isn’t rocket science, yes both Moss and Singletary are okay RBs neither were very good this past season, both would be substantially better if our O line could run block with any actual consistency. There in lies the crux of the biscuit, in the famous words of Frank Zappa... just sayin,
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9 hours ago, jjmac said:
Is this even a big deal? We need to start drafting some more DBs that can play at a higher level than the ones we have now.
No, it is not, but, we gotta have more than the trillions of worthless mock drafts to talk about... or that we paid someone too much , 😂
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3 hours ago, NJKBillsfan said:
I think Skip Bayless said it best. He's a good athlete with a big arm but he doesn't seem to have a good feel for playing QB and there's still concerns with his accuracy.
He had 2 bad games in the playoffs alone.
T-o-l much, asking for a friend...
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When that is all you’ve got to show for your season.... I guess ya gotta cling to something....
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41 minutes ago, frostbitmic said:
Bring him back, don't force him into a life of having to sell his meat.
...Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light......
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9 hours ago, Limeaid said:
Well at least there is a precident:
The refrigerator sized guard was malfunctioning since he got new contract and when he got to Tennessee he was mysteriously injured when he was not when he got on plane.
That is true, it is also true he was a force during the 19/20 seasons run game, as well didn’t allow a sack that season. We miss that performance level on the O line, he and Ford when healthy made a difference, as compared to the 20/21 season. Beane needs to find a guy to replicate that for next year, just my thoughts.
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1 hour ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I have a theory, with only fragments of supporting evidence, that the root cause of the run game problems this year was a "low interest rate" early in the season.
Hang with me a second, and I'll explain what I mean.
What was the single most important question for the team to answer this season? IMO: "Will Josh Allen be that Franchise Guy for us, or No?" McDermott and Beane had made it clear before the draft, they wanted a guy who could "operate from the pocket" as a passer. They acquired Diggs to go with Brown and Bease. They'd upgraded the line. Josh Allen had spent the off-season reworking his mechanics in pursuit of accuracy. It was time to "Rut Hog or Die"
So, with no OTA or minicamp and abbreviated training camp/no preseason games, and then with turmoil on the OL after Feliciano was injured - I think they gave the Run Game the "Bum's Rush". I believe every scrap of time Daboll could wrangle got spent working on the passing game, trying to nail down routes and timing concepts that Josh hadn't tried before.
My evidence for this is:
1) Beane explicitly pointed to run blocking as a problem and said to achieve balance, we need to practice, emphasize, and work on it. To me, that implies lack of practice, emphasis, and work on it last training camp and early in the season
2) Daboll mentioned practicing 50 plays, 48 run 2 pass before the NE game. Result: 190 rush yards. McDermott mentioned the run game as a focus for the bye. Next game LAC: 172 yards. So somehow when we practiced, emphasized, and worked on the run game - it worked.
I don't think they expected the run game to be as poor as it was, for whatever reason. I think they felt the practice they gave it was "enough".
But if it was the thought, I can't argue with the prioritization to do everything possible to make the pass game work correctly and answer that critical Year 3 Question "Will Josh Allen be that Franchise Guy for us, or No?"
I hear ya on those thoughts and do not disagree. I mused in another thread that the running game got short shrift, in that Daboll gave it little attention. I do suspect that the refrigerator sized guard (Spain) was missed to some degree, that, on top of Fords injury didn’t help the run game issues.
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27 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I agree, he needs to focus in on the details of the blocking and blocking technique at one spot.
My concern for Ford is that he spent his rookie year injured, and then in addition to the groin, knee etc injuries he showed up with on injury report, he was observed wearing a brace on one arm or shoulder and to be struggling blocking to that side. I'm not "up" on the niceties of what injuries get reported or not. Beane said of Ford "he's played more games injured than he has healthy".
Maybe it's just bad luck, and he'll address it and heal up and come back healthy and stay healthy. Or maybe his body just got too beat up in college and he can't handle it any more.
I don't think he needs to powerlift per se though, I think he needs to train differently to get strong but avoid injury.
I agree our run blocking was better in 2019 but I'm not sure losing Spain was the root cause.
Not so much the root cause but certainly part of the difference, both he and Ford have a bit of a mean streak and as a combination it is missed in our current run game, jmo.
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Not surprised in the slightest.
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21 hours ago, BigPappy said:
All I know is that the run game on both sides of the ball regressed without both of these men. Is that a coincidence? Time will tell if they are both back next year. That said, as someone else pointed out, Carolina's run defense regressed when they lost Star when they thought he was replaceable.
2019s run blocking was better by far, the difference on the O line was and is no Spain, and an injured and then IRd Ford, with them gone/out the run game on offense has been woeful, and has been equally less good on the D side with Star’s absence, as well as Shaq and Jordan being gone, your point is spot on, some fans here don’t see the obvious that is starring at them.
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2 hours ago, dave mcbride said:
The Jets have the draft ammo, a tradeable young QB who still has promise, and the cap space. They make too much sense.
If Darnold goes to Houston, his career is basically over, Houston’s owners are, dare I say, worse than the jets, that boy is screwed, he must have done something really bad in his last life...
How Allen will Work to become a better QB
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Maybe he will hand the ball off a bit more on RPOs but that would preclude noticeably better run blocking... hint hint...,Daboll cough cough anyone...
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