Mikie2times

The Roman offense made Taylor and Kaepernick pro bowl QB's. After his rookie year teams figured him out. He is injured frequently. He is erratic in social media. He is Vick in an era with much better athleticism. You can certainly do worse. Vick, at his peak, lost in the NFC championship. But the maturity in Vick prior to the arrest was poor and the same thing goes for Lamar. I would MUCH rather play the the game of find me a QB and risk the fail, then subject my team to wild card purgatory for a fortune.

I read your posts and would still feel inclined to consider a trade involving Oliver. I think Henry is a back that will get his yards with almost any NFL caliber line. Not to say it doesn't influence things, but he is still enough of a specimen/freak talent that he will get his yards. You don't want the guy more than a max of one or two years because he just can't keep this up the way he plays. All of which is fine because we are trading a departing asset for another departing asset. Immediate return is all that matters. We have nearly zero physicality outside Knox and our QB, adding Henry would immediately provide this dimension. It's a one year + trade, who makes us better? Then after next season they both are likely off the payroll again. Henry in landslide against Oliver. That said, I don't know if Henry would be down for a trade to a one year and done nor one of our conference rivals.

Diggs is erratic in his social media patterns. I don't love this, also not worried. Getting closer to wondering if this isn't a "nothing" burger. I want to believe that. Some people just don't like to be in the same environment for a long time. Perhaps the narrative about playing with his brother and being the catalyst that helps Dallas over the edge is enticing. My honest opinion is he's a little frustrated and he slips a bit in how he expresses himself as a result. Not a full on nothing burger, but not a reason to be worried at this point.

I suppose progression in football is linear 😂 I will take my word salad to this idiocracy

I was falling victim to this thinking and while I'm happy we are moving on, our time could have just as easily been in 2021 with Frazier. Nothing went our way this year, literally. I wish the way the ball bounces or the knee bends didn't play a role, but it's a huge factor in a championship run.

Mahomes was drafted in 2017 and didn't start a full season until 2018, an MVP year. He lost in an epic AFC championship game to the Patriots which would be the last main run of the Patriot era. Patriots would beat the Rams that year in a snoozer. The Rams were considered to be one of the best teams in football going into that year. A couple years later the Rams would eventually get the title in another year where most people had them as a Super Bowl favorite. Other NFC teams to make it include a defensive juggernaut in the 49ers, a very good Tampa team that just needed quality QB play, and an Eagles team that perhaps benefited from the luckiest SOS in recent Super Bowl history. A theme in the NFC is defense does matter. All of these teams, while having quality offense, had elite defenses. The NFC also seems much more open to variation in who makes it just based on the decline in QB play. In the AFC it has been much more of an arms race. 4 out of 5 years you ran into Mahomes or Burrow just shy of being 5 out of 5. Both teams seem to play defense that can step up when it matters. Beating either in the regular season seems to mean very little. This is especially true of Mahomes. I hope enough time has passed for people to understand that the Bills are not doomed. They're playing in a conference with a hall of fame QB who is 27 years old with 3 SB appearances and another who is 26 years old with one SB appearance. Until we break through this wall, under no condition do we ever deserve to be considered the favorites. In fact, the year we weren't the overwhelming favorite was the year we seemed to come the closest. Allen is not chopped liver and despite how this past year ended this team will be contending for a long time to come. When will it be our time? You won't know. You will never be able to know when your competition is this good. In fact, if you want to place a bet on when it's most likely to be our time? Pick the time you think it's least likely. Say, right about now. Let's critique, debate, be fans, but don't be a person that doesn't know when the times are good. Times are very good right now and our time will come. You just won't know when.

Weren't we the ones who took a shot on him after most the league passed and in turn he developed to be an all pro in our heavily safety dependent defense as he played a kids game making millions of dollars and received tons of love from our fan base? This is still a business and if it becomes our business to give out contracts based on lifetime achievement awards we will be out of business. Good luck Poyer, you're a warrior and will be missed.

No Milano was not locked up and it did tell me all I needed to know on him. Which was the Bills recognized his position and role as one they were prepared to move on from. They have locked up so many players before they hit the market it's been overwhelming. You think it's a coincidence Poyer and Edmunds have not been signed? Oliver? It's not a coincidence. It's age and position. Doesn't even mean the Bills don't want to do it, it just means they were willing to let it go that far when in most instances they have not. That has to speak for something. Allen is a star QB and we have signed an overwhelming amount of foundational pieces at a time when we did not know if they would or wouldn't be the ones we really needed. Time has proven thus far we need a different combination of pieces which makes decisions on future already existing pieces a tad bit easier to swallow. This defense has not got us to where we want to be long term and Edmunds is a center piece of it. No matter how good Edmunds is in coverage he still a MLB in an offensive league and with an offseason to redevelop scheme and the right players, we very well could be better vs previous versions. We aren't going to sign a 6th rounder and ask him to be Edmunds. Well, maybe, but we shouldn't.

If this ends up being it, sort of reminds me of Seattle with how vertical it is. Extreme noise. Great views. Harder for the older fans.

His handle is "you only live once in Ohio". He is a die hard Ohio State fan. He knows the Big Ten extremely well and does not seem to care for people from Michigan = Ohio State = Ohio resident. Did he ever say anything that would indicate he isn't from Ohio? Just saying. Not ready to join the search party. Tons of people take breaks here. If somebody really wanted to determine if something was out of sorts (stopping short of saying wrong) they could review if he has eve had a gap in his post history. People are creatures of habit. If this is the only time in 20,000+ posts he has had a gap then something is up. Who knows what.

I want the defense to have change forced on them. Otherwise why should we expect anything different. I'm not one of the people that think Edmunds sucks. I think he is key to our pass coverage, but I think that because Frazier built the defense that way. Similar to how he built it around the combination of Poyer and Hyde. This left us in a very bad spot if anything happened to these guys. We can't be that exposed at positions that most teams feel are interchangeable. Let him move on. Restructure the defense in more of a balanced way. We are running out of room to keep paying our elite players. Not because we can't do so if we really want, but because we have not seen those players take us to elite places and the vast majority have been locked up. If you haven't been locked up already under this regime I think that says all you need to know.

Insane athlete. NFL arm strength. Outside of that, he's not even in my top 10. He can't be. Any QB that is dependent on running can't be in your top 10. It will get taken away when it matters and for most, you will miss significant time. If Lamar never had his rookie year when nobody knew how to defend him, then he wouldn't be seeing much more than average starter money at best. Roman has made every mobile QB he has seen have an efficient looking passing line, but none of them could ever get it done when it mattered nor play in more QB focused systems. The NFL knows everything I'm saying. He will not see anywhere close to what he is demanding. He will never see a Super Bowl. Sign him and you put a ceiling over your team. It is that simple.

I would give Chris Pratt a go team butt slap

It's not upsetting

What is the purpose of this thread? Isn't it basically understood that they all lie? Biden lies and sucks. Lame duck. That doesn't mean Trump isn't a narcissistic tool box. I'm surprised rational people even try and take sides at this point. They all suck. They all lie. None of them stand for what you believe in.

Anybody that had a brain cell to burn knew Deon would bring in elite recruits. It’s a beautiful area and he was doing it already outside of D1. To be perfectly honest, it’s a joke Deon didn’t get approached sooner. How many coaches in the country are going to basically guarantee you a high end class? He doesn’t need to be an elite coach. Colorado will do more than turn it around soon enough.

Maybe it forces Frazier to not have to depend on a freak athlete to make his defense sort of work.

I don’t disagree with your general point but your statements about the Eagles need some context. The Bills would be in the SB if they played the same schedule as the Eagles. The defense folded the two or three times they played literally anybody. I mean look at the schedule for yourself. It’s incredible. Dak was the best they faced all year. Maybe Goff, until the SB.

This thread is funny. Half the people think it's the dumbest thread ever and that it's all the Eagles line. The other half think it's mostly Hurts. Some have said Josh is excellent at this already (he once was) and some have said he sucks now, too many fumbles (not exactly the case). We just mostly stopped running it after the Titans game. Nobody thinks it's worth dedicating some resources to in order to lock up a 3rd or 4th an short? In any event, I would bet money assisting the runner will be banned very soon, at the least, they will say something like you can only assist the runner when they cross the line of scrimmage. These 4th and 1 plays are some of the most exciting in the game and teams do get a decent amount of stops on them. The assisted sneak is just lame and boring. Doesn't really feel in the spirit of the game.

Somebody needs to tell Lamar he's at the wrong table.

Yup, they use a different technique than any other team. Then they have an insanely strong runner as well. Same as Josh, but again, we keep choosing to not run it after horrible things happen. Two straight years now. I think you’re extremely short sited if you think it’s not worth a roster spot for a guaranteed first down on anything within a yard. Show me the stats of us being the best in the league on 3rd or 4th and 1.

I would think college teams have tons of potential options. Mobile or physically strong guys who just will never make it throwing.

We used to run it with Josh at some of the highest and most successful rates in the league. Post Titans, we haven't run it much at all. We started again this year a little more with the runner assist, but post Minnesota game I don't believe we ran it one time. Given our clear history of running it, then basically stopping all together after "events" two years in a row, my thought was Allen had the yips. Perhaps that isn't the case. Could be one of many things. Having said this, we certainly never coached the submarine style line blocking the Eagles do. Nor the level of runner assist the Eagles use. We basically had one WR pushing. You can tell, the Eagles practice that all the time. I feel if practiced all the time it is basically unstoppable. I wouldn't be surprised if the NFL puts in a rule to take that play out. It's a cheat code as it stands right now. https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-just-fall-forward-nfl-teams-qb-sneak-underutilized

I don't think it's that straight forward. With the right execution, practice, and technique. You just can't stop it. Not with assisting the runner. I expect every team in the NFL to go this path. That yard is worth a couple of wins a year.