JohnNord

It’s incredibly odd…

“Pass the sniff test?” WTF…who talks like that?

This is where the “meddling” narrative never made sense. If he is so controlling, wouldn’t he micromanage Joe Brady the same way he “micromanaged” Dorsey? I don’t buy that Dorsey was a scapegoat at all. We saw 6 weeks where the offense struggled badly. Over the past two weeks, it’s looked better.

I like Dunne as a writer and think he does a very good. But he does seem to be heavily biased and he doubles down on those biases quite a bit. We saw this with his coverage on Aaron Rodgers which many GB dismissed as pointed…and now we see this with McDermott. Why would anyone care about this?

Last fall, he was one of the best players on the defense. His presence on the edge was a big reason why the Bills led the league in pressure rate while blitzing the least. This year, Von just isn’t the same player. It would be unreasonable to expect him to pick up where left off. As we saw with Tre, it sometimes takes a full year to recover after the ACL injury. But unlike Tre, Von hasn’t shown very much improvement from week-to-week. The past few weeks he faced backup and still has not gotten anywhere near the QB. At this point, it makes you wonder whether he’ll ever get back to the player we saw in early 2022. I’d probably bet that it’s a long shot.

This article shows what a mess the situation in Carolina is with Tepper. But it also illustrates why you want control as a HC. It seems like Reich allowed himself into being talked into drafting Young when he wanted Stroud and hiring coaches from the outside even though they didn’t mesh with his offense.

The problem is that even with his shortcomings, Wilson is a better QB than anyone active on the Jets roster. If anything they should just run a Tebow-like offense that takes advantage of his legs. Let Zach run the ball 10+ times. But yeah, I agree. He’s done in NY. They should move on this offseason ASAP

I always thought the tweets were a reason for the criticism. I think that’s why Nick Wright and a few others have been critical. the funny thing is that no black players in the lockerroom have ever had that experience with Josh in his 6 years in Buffalo. Even as a rookie, he won over the team fast and everyone loves him. A good example that people (especially 16 year-olds) make mistakes on social media and something that happened a decade ago shouldn’t define them. People can change

Shouldn’t this put on page 15934027 of the “talking head says something about Buffalo Bills” thread? This way a lot of people will be able to see it?

I don’t think Elam will be activated again this season. As far as Knox, I think there’s a good chance. A few weeks ago McDermott said they were hopeful but that he might not be ready. He looked pretty ready from the practice footage. He’s fine. Just got his bell rung from an illegal helmet to helmet hit which wasn’t called against Philly…shocker

I can’t your thread got merged. Some of us get suspended for this So we’re calling the victim a liar now?

What exactly did you want Beane to do/say? Should he have trashed Von? Should he have released him?

He WAS one of the best players on game day

LOL this was supposed to be the “mic drop” post from @Cheektowaga Chad Didn’t work out that way, eh Chad 😂😂😂 If you want to be critical of McDermott’s game time decision, you can do better than the snow game.

Poona played DE last season and wasn’t nearly as effective as he was in the middle. They should be giving Jonathan Kingsley some reps of Von’s reps at DE

Exactly… which is why I thought it was foolish to assign all the blame to McDermott when it more than likely should be shared equally

They’ve been rotating players on the DL a lot less this year. Part of that is depth

Kincaid is going to be a force in this at the TE for years to come. Draft a R1 receiver next year to (hopefully) take over from Diggs at the end of his contract!

Could this be a union thing? The NFL has decided to not take action and given the fact that the accuser recanted her statement, could taking any action now open the door for liability? Could this be a union thing? The NFL has decided to not take action and given the fact that the accuser recanted her statement, could taking any action now open the door for liability?

I’m guessing these international games have big financial gains because other than the tit doesn’t seem to add very much. The games are never good, it complicated players and coaches lives - potentially puts players at risk, and most fans hate it. I also don’t think it significantly spreads worldwide awareness. International fans already have access to all types of American broadcasts. If they wanted to follow NFL they already would. It just seems like soccer is always going to be the most popular sport worldwide

How quickly things change in the NFL. I remember after beating the Bills in the famous wind game where NE passed 2 times. Belichick was being lauded as a genius and Mac was going to lead NE to the Super Bowl against Tom Brady and Tampa Bay. In defense of Mac, I think had he gone to San Fran instead of Trey Lance, he could have been Brock Purdy. Now he’s too damaged

What did he skip?

Again, if this is the only evidence I think it’s a bit of stretch. We have no clue whether McDermott was higher on Boogie than the rest of scouting. We have no idea who influenced the selection of which picks. I’ll agree with you, that overall the draft has missed out on drafting those very high-end prospects. The guy who said he hit singles and not home runs is correct. This is fake news… McDermott was 6-1 in one score games last season. He was also good in 2019.

It is a cop out to put it all on coaching. For a variety of reasons some player’s games don’t transcend to the professional game. There’s always high draft picks that don’t work with a variety of teams and coaches. I will agree that sometimes the landing spot helps determine the trajectory of a player’s success and that includes coaching. But by your definition, Boogie Basham should have been a star with the Giants. He’s the same player. It’s on Boogie…not coaching.

I never liked the Boogie Basham draft pick and I’ll always say that missing really hurt the team. Not only the players they could have drafted but the fact that his lack of developed made the signing of a Von Miller that much more of a priority. If you want to argue that the Bills have spent higher picks on defensive players and that they’ve missed on hitting home runs that’s fine. But to imply that the bad players were McDermott picks is just scapegoating