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Apparently so. The Panthers have gone through what, 4 different HC (2 different hires) and 3 different GMs since Beane was there? Yeah we sent them Dan Morgan 3 years ago, and I'm sure he and Beane talk, but I'm also sure Beane talks to lots of guys around the league. This guy entered the league in 2016 and kicked around until he got a chance to start for Denver 4 years ago. He's seen significant defensive snaps since then, 41-52%, and has been available - missed 2, 0, and 1 game his last 3 seasons. Looks like he may have some positional flexibility, since he played RDE (in a 3-4, maps to DT for us) last 2 seasons but has previously played NT. Had 4.5 sacks, 8 QB hits and 4 TFL in Denver in 2022. He's basically their shot to upgrade on Tim Settle as DT depth. No clue why people are dissing this signing off, unless it's because as you say....

No, that's either or, not both. If we trade him after June 1, we get to defer $22M or so of his cap into next season. If we trade him between now and then, we eat the whole $33M or whatever it is, THIS season - assuming the trade partner picks up his $19M fully guaranteed salary, workout and per-game roster bonuses

I'm so sorry. RIP.

Selected comments: "Listen, I live in tornado alley. They go off so frequently you just gotta go outside to check the sky to see if there’s even any rain" "Honey, I’m from Oklahoma. It’s the song of my people." "It said tornado watch cause I’m supposed to watch it right?" "add,"without my beer and lawn chair" at the end of that sentence and you have a deal!"

Could be titled "Unlearning Dangerous Midwestern Habits" Also, I think other parts of the country may call them "Civil Defense Sirens" They're "Tornado Sirens" around here.

Now that's funny

Having trouble wrapping my head around the word definitely in that sentence.

I do not want to see the Bills on Hard Knocks.

You have an edge to you, my brother.

Dude. If you go to the interview you yourself linked, at 3:50-ish they are talking about Dalton Kinkaid and Khalil Shakir Jordan Palmer says "I remember when you guys came out to throw last off season and I'm like 'Kyle who's that guy?' (meaning Khalil Shakir). Kyle Allen also talks about Dalton being out there "he's your boy". In the other thread, you say "he doesn't work with Palmer anymore", now Palmer clearly says they were out throwing with him (along with some Bills WR) so can you at least have the grace to acknowledge the other thread is full of (your) misinformation?

"parted with their HC, and did NOT do better with their next head coach" were the words I used. I don't read "fired" as an argument I'm making. But aren't you one of the ones who are pretty firm in the stance that Leslie Frazier was fired, no matter what Beane or McDermott or Frazier say?

Ford Motorcoach He says it's not as nice as Greg Roman's RV but from pics still pretty sweet. It was a temporary move apparently, they've rented a house and his family is moving to join him in said rented house. Still, thinking back to the stories of Sean McDermott as Andy Reid's assistant, doing whatever Reid needed....I'm amused by some of the duties an assistant of a motorcoach-dwelling coach could come in for. "Assistant, take my motorhome to the nearest dump station and empty my black and gray water tanks......be sure you rinse them well and sanitize the hoses!"

You might argue if you like, but given all the examples of teams that were winning and seeing playoffs, parted with their HC, and did NOT do better with their next head coach (including Dungy with the Colts - Caldwell went to a Superbowl, but lost) - I predict your argument will be a bit tenuous.

I wonder what the deal will actually be - have to think there might be substantial per-game roster bonuses.

Oh, Holy Cow. Colts, AND Bucs - Wow. Well, at least he did win one championship with the Colts.

Not at all. I'm not giving my opinion either way on when it was wise to move on from Andy Reid in Philly or from Marvin Lewis in Cincy. I'm simply pointing out that those using either Reid or Lewis as examples of a coach who brought his team to the playoffs year after year but was fired anyway are off-base: neither was fired while his team had a winning record and was going to playoffs annually. They were fired after that stopped. Yes! John Fox is one of the few actual examples I can think of, of a coach who was winning and bringing his team to the playoffs, was fired anyway, and his replacement won a Superbowl his first year. Tony Dungy with the Colts might be another - though the Colts under Caldwell lost the SB next season.

That only looks like a Drumstick Simply Dipped Frozen Dairy Dessert, 270 calories per serving, 12 g fat 25 g sugar 2 g protein, or 2700 per 10 servings. Because Mahomes spends every minute of every day trying to be the best he can be (I read that right here) we know it must actually be some specially-made Keto friendly spirulena and kelp-enriched protein-packed super power food.

I didn't see this on a quick scan https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/buffalo-bills-sean-mcdermott-tredavious-white-release-nfl-meetings/article_30c1e1f0-eac9-11ee-a359-d737f8fb52dd.html#tncms-source=login I thought it was pretty cool that McDermott talked about how he and other Bills went to Tre White's house after the injury, just to be with him:

And, similar to Andy Reid in Philly....Marvin Lewis did NOT get fired while the Bengals were notching 5 consecutive winning seasons and going to playoffs every year. Marvin Lewis was fired after 3 consecutive losing seasons with no playoffs, 6-9-1, 7-9, 6-10 Strange how that works

FWIW Josh Allen suffered a shoulder injury in week 6 vs the Giants, and appeared on the injury report from week 7 thru week 16. So I guess whether or not we had a healthy Josh Allen, depends upon your definition - Allen spoke about injuries affecting his throwing mechanics during the season needing to return to having fundamentals sessions with Joe Brady, and only feeling happy about his throwing the last couple games of the season, and needing to "get back in the lab" and he work on his mechanics with "the appropriate people" this off season It's true that we were much closer to missing the playoffs than not - basically, we were a 3-5 team from the Jaguars game to the OT loss to the Eagles. I personally think that had to do with the "luck" of losing 3 key defensive pieces in Tre White, then Milano and DaQuan Jones to injury during the Jaguars game, needing to figure out how to adapt and adjust then getting some new pieces. Clarification that I certainly don't hang our playoff performance all on "luck", but I think there is a point to be made around injuries being a "joker" card that hasn't fallen in the Bills favor a couple of times, notably last season on D

The Eagles fired Reid after two years where they 1) didn't have a winning season - 8-8 then 4-12 2) didn't make the playoffs 3) lost WC games the preceding 2 years There's more to the story - the last year Reid made the playoffs in Philly with a 10-6 record, Sean McDermott was his defensive coordinator. Reid fired McDermott and replaced him with OL coach Juan Castillo for those 2 seasons. Reading this, it reads like I'm making sh** up, but I promise, I'm not. TL;DR The Eagles did not fire a coach who consistently got them into the playoffs. They fired Reid after 2 years of NOT getting them into the playoffs, and making assistant coaching decisions that appeared to be taking them further away, not closer. Avert, but if the Bills should miss the playoffs next season while the wheels fall off the offense under Joe Brady, barring significant injury (avert again) McDermott would be looked at severely by the FO and the Bills will quite possibly move on.

He had a pattern for Allen's first years in the league to use PFF and his PFF_Sam "Twitter" accounts to deliberate troll Bills Mafia For example, in 2019 before the Steelers game they posted something about Duck Hodges being a better QB than Josh Allen. After the game, he said something like "I don't think any of us really believed that" - basically acknowledging what they were doing. After 2020, to do him credit he did sign that joke acknowledgement that he was wrong about Josh, but I Still Remember. And yeah, there's also the PFF connection.

I'm still waiting for the OP @Ethan in Cleveland to indicate exactly which press conference this is, so that I can give it a listen and put this remark in context. Because there's a pattern around here of people extracting remarks from their context and then getting fluffed up about them. I see 3 candidates on the Bills web site.

And he deserved to be benched for Rudolph, and the only question that Steelers fans had about the benching was "what took you so long, Tomlin?" Honestly, for about the same money (Tennessee signed Rudolph for 1 year, $2.87, Trubisky signed 2 years but only $2.71 guaranteed), I'd have been a bit more excited about signing Rudolph as the backup.

This is just my personal opinion. I think McDermott is a fine defensive coach. However, I don't think he wants to have a "stars and guys" build on D. I think McDermott's defensive philosophy is primarily "guys and guys", and "Everyone Do Your Job", making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. It's how McDermott was able to achieve 9 wins his first season here with Preston Brown and and Ramon Humber at LB, with Shaq Lawson at LDE, and with EJ Gaines across from rookie Tre at CB. Think about it - why have the Bills have spent boatloads on DL up until 2022, without one real star to show for it, because McDermott insists on dividing the dollars between so much depth on his DL rotation? Guys and Guys. And in the secondary, we had Tre White until he tore his ACL, that's it. Levi Wallace and Dane Jackson across from him were JAGs. Hyde and Poyer had a synergy which made them greater as a pairing than they were individually. Year after year, the Bills have a top D during the regular season and win a lot, but have no or very few pro-bowlers and all-pros, because the D is really built of "guys and guys". It's how McDermott was able to have a 6th round CB jump a 1st round pick on the depth chart, lose Tre' White, Da'Quan Jones, and Matt Milano and still have an 11-6 season playing their backups plus a mid-season trade. Here's the problem with that philosophy - it's great at shutting down lesser offenses so it wins in the regular season. But when it comes up against the Best of the Best, another championship team, then all it takes is one guy losing focus and not doing his proper check and the opposing offense will see and exploit it. I think the Bills "Brain Trust" is aware of this, which is why we saw Beane "shoot his shot" at bringing in a top-drawer pass rushing talent in Von Miller after the 2021 "13 seconds" debacle. Von had contributed 50 tackles, 17 QB hits, 9.5 sacks in 2021, so I see the logic. The problem is, Miller has only appeared in 23 out of 34 games since arriving in Buffalo, and was relatively ineffective in the 12 games, 32% of defensive snaps he played this season (3 tackles, 3 QB hits, 0 sacks). It's also why the Bills drafted Kaiir Elam in the 1st round, to bookend with another 1st rounder in Tre - only for whatever reason, Elam hasn't worked out. I think Beane and McDermott have ideas what they need as answers, but those ideas need players. When you go from scheming a backup ST LBer and a 32 yr old safety as a replacement for an all-pro grade LB to starting a MLB literally off the sofa and a one-armed ST LBer in a brace next to him plus a backup CB for your best secondary man, you're just out of players. There's a saying "it's better to be lucky than good". There's some of that. There's a saying "people make their own luck sometimes", and when the shot you shoot is 32 years old, there's some of that too.