Chaos

Pats and Bills are out. Titans are left. Pats beat us twice and won our division. So I place them ahead of the Bills at fifth.

You and your fancy reading comprehension.

As a Bills fan, I can safely tell you that you are wrong.

If it is just money, there are lots of logical places. If it includes location and playoff viability I think you are correct. I think Las Vegas is an interesting opportunity. Brady was not good this year. It seems plausible he was hurt, and that he could be better than Carr next year. Any think the Bears are an opportunity. Don't know their cap room, maybe nothing after the Mack signing. But the room for improvement over Trubisky is huge.

Can we do that? Is the NFL having do-overs now?

Young players, and young QB. Everyone seems to think regarding the Bills that means you automatically improve. Please detail why you think they will be worse team next year.

There is a strategic part of this question and a tactical part. First the strategic part. There is more than one approach to coaching a young QB. The Raven's built an unconventional offense around their unconventional QB, and it has worked out very well so far. The Bills seem committed to developing Allen into a conventional QB. This has not worked as well as with the Ravens, but it is working out so far as well. The reality is that the Bills have among the weakest WR's, RB groups, TE's and offensive lines among all the playoff teams. Even so, Allen led the rag tag group to the second highest total points in regulation among all the wild card weekend teams. This was without the benefit of particularly good starting position too. Allen has unconventional talents. There is an argument that an approach more similar to the Ravens might make sense. But it is certainly less than 100% certain. Tactical Coaching is something else. I think we can assume that no coaches Allen to drop back 15 yards behind the LOS when pressured. But since I am not in the rooms, I don't know if Allen is being given proper advice on how to handle these situations, or simply can't execute. I do know this though. Allen's college experience is much less. Hear are his passing attempts in College vs the other young guns. Allen 649 Jackson 1086 Mahomes 1349 Darnold 846 Mayfield 1497 Add to the discrepency that the Defense's Allen faced were the furthers from the NFL of the group. Not making excuses for Allen, but part of learning is game reps. And that includes college game reps. It is reasonable to believe Allen has more room for improvement than the others simply because he has less experience.

Ascending in this case simply means to improve. Unless the Ravens go 19-0 , they have room for improvement. This is obvious. If the Dolphins do not find a good answer at QB, they will struggle. This is not a unique problem.

His offenses have helped post a lot of wins a few times. I realize some prefer yards.

Bills finished 6th in the AFC this year. Five teams did better, 10 worse. Bills have a QB who should get better, and it generally feels like the team should get better next year. But the 2020 Bills won't be competing against the 2019 Bills, they will be competing against the other AFC teams. Which ones do you think are going to improve next year, and which ones decline. AFC East Pats - maybe the hardest one to gauge. But seems to be in decline for now. Bills - Ascending - QB should improve. In game coaching has a lot or room for improvement. Jets - I think Gase is a wheel spinner, and that the Jets are equally likely to go up or down Dolphins - Dolphins really have almost no where to go but up. But they seem like a low ceiling team. AFC North Ravens, - ascending. Same dynamics as the Bills but starting from higher ground. Steelers - ascending. I hate the Steelers. But their defense is solid, coaching is solid, and their QB situation almost certainly has to improve. If rudolph and duck are they only choices at QB, then this arrow turns sideways Browns - ascending - hate Mayfield, I think he sucks. almost anyone they hire for HC has to be better than the clown they let go. arrow may be up, but ceiling is still low. Bengals - ascending - no where to go buy up. Also low ceiling AFC South Colts - Sideways to down. Love their head coach. But they look to be in QB hell to me with Brissett. I think they are close to looking at a full rebuild. Texans - Sideways to down. They gave up a lot of draft capital to get where they are. Despite his stunning return, Watts is on the decline. playmakers have all peaked. They needed the refs to cheat to win a playoff game. Jaguars - Down -- Marrone means always expect to go down Titans - Ascending - Tricky one. If Tannehill is born again, its an up arrow. If he simply played way over his head this year its a down arrow. AFC West Chiefs. ascending. Same dynamics as the Bills but starting from higher ground. Chargers - declining - key players have peaked or are on the declin Raiders - ascending. I think low ceiling though. Carr is not likely to get better, which keeps them from moving much Broncos - wheel spinning until the QB issue is solved. NFL always changes, so past is not necessarily prologue. For 15 years the Pats, Colts and Steelers were the only AFC Champs, save for one appearance by the Flacco Ravens. The Chiefs and Ravens, seem built to be part of the championship mix for a long time. They are already the 1 and 2 seeds. Have proven coaches and two QBs widely accepted at the best young QBs in the game. Mahomes and Jackson may very well recreate the Manning-Brady rivalry along with Reid and Harbaugh. I am not sure if the Bills have the coaching/QBing to become the consistent third team in the mix. If Tomlin and Belichick cannot create past magic, I think the Bills are positioned to be the next best consistently after the chiefs and ravens. Unfortunately, I don't see any obvious moves that will allow the Bills to propel past these two teams on a consistent basis. To be clear on any given Sunday most any team can win. The Bills can beat any team on any given Sunday. But in 2019 against teams with winning records, the Bills did not win very many Sundays.

Your conclusion that having more passes being due to overtime has any relation to impact the likelihood of turnovers was inane.

You don't really understand how statistics work do you?

guy was asked to pass 46 times and run a bunch more. 1 turnover is actually phenomenal ball protection given the burden placed on him.

Do any other teams get to add fill two major holes in these hypothetical games, or just the Bills?

2019 Bills were better than the 2018 Bills

Green is a HOF WR. Who is he proving what to on these "prove" deals?

Based on Twitter, more Bills fans want Daboll on the Browns, than Browns fans do.

Would had a 20 point lead, get over it.

I like Josh Allen. I do not think he has plateued and will improve. Every single other position on offense has room to upgrade meaningfully. Compare the Ravens RBs to the Bills Rbs. Or even the Patriots. Then move on to the Ravens oline compared to ours. Then compare the Ravens pass catchers. Then compare OCs. If you swap Lamar and Josh, then the media would be losing their minds over how Josh is revolutionizing the game.

Yes to one and two

Why do you have to?

Derrick Henry.

AFC East played the NFC East this year. Neither conference has a team in the final eight teams. The results for all the teams in those two conferences are skewed by having so many games against bad teams. Bills and Pats were the best of these teams. Which is something. Kind of like winning the cotton bowl, while the top teams are playing the FBS playoff games. Its better than nothing, but still on the outside looking in.

Sadly, the bold part was not true yesterday when it mattered. 19 points given up in 20 minutes (including drives of 75 and 69 yards) is the definition of "not a shut down D"