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This is a great point. It would be the greatest failure in Bills franchise history if we end up wasting Josh Allen’s career. Imagine waiting all that time for a franchise QB, only to settle for participation trophies (divisional round games) and then being told to appreciate it. Nah.

I think a lot of this depends on where an individual poster is in their life. For me, nothing short of a SB appearance matters. We have not been in a SB in nearly 30 years. There are people performing surgery that have never seen the Bills in a Super Bowl. Personally, the AFC East titles mean nothing to me.

Doesn’t sound like they saw him play much since he was injured a lot.

How did you do during the drought years?

Sorry if it came off that way. I was just being playful.

Until Week 5 you mean? The last 12 weeks of the season we were no where near the best team.

I think that’s a fair opinion to have. Beane definitely turned the roster from perennial 7-9 team to a contender every year. That being said, THIS off-season he’s done pretty much nothing to improve the team so the title of this thread just doesn’t make much sense.

5 NFCCG and a SB is a lot different than 1 AFCCG and no SB.

Great point.

Regular season is irrelevant. The Jets beat us in the regular season. Are they good enough? The playoffs are where teams show their colors. And so far are colors havent resulted in a championship. That's fair. We really didn't have any other good option at safety.

I like Poyer a lot and really appreciate all he has done for this team for the past half decade. I understand retaining him since we have no real other option at safety, but re-signing him doesnt move us any close to a championship and he has shown signs of slowing down. We need a better roster since the current roster keeps getting bounced out of the playoffs.

This post is a perfect example of how the off-season has been "meh" at best. Our 2022 roster wasn't good enough to make it out of the divisional round. Yet 7 of our 9 moves have been re-signing the players that were not good enough to make it out of the divisional round, or letting them walk in Free Agency (Edmunds). I understand that you have to sign some of your own, but the unfortunate part is that we do not have enough cap space to get new players. Of our 2 new players, 1 has never made it through a full football season and has been on IR at some point for 2 of the last 3 seasons. The other was the 68th ranked free agent, according to NFL.com

Abracadabra! Here is an injury prone WR and an old safety! Poof!

Huh? He did what every other GM does. Restructures contracts to get some cap space. You're more confident about 2023 after we lost a LB, got a WR that Saints fans say is injury prone and overpaid, and retained a 32 year old safety? I don't get it.

To the extent that there are small nuances within the game, I don't think they are large enough to have a substantial impact on an overall grade. To account for them you could assign a variance of +/- 5 to each player and still have reasonable rankings. Maybe a player rank #1 in his position group drops to #3 and player #2 goes to #1, etc, but it's not like player #40 is going to jump up to #5 because of some small nuance that PFF doesn't know. Generally speaking, I think their grading is close to how NFL teams see players. Are there exceptions at times? Sure. But teams do dumb things all the time. We went 17 years of no playoffs in part by drafting poorly. If we had used the general consensus draft ranking for those 17 years, we likely would have been much better. .

And that's where football disagrees with Lang. You have to remember that just because someone plays football, doesn't mean they understand football or have the knowledge or scope of the full game. How many stories have we heard of players barely passing college courses (or getting help) to play for the team? As I said before, the Eagles aren't inventing a new blocking scheme or breaking the foundation of play design. On a zone run, we know the various assignments each position can have. We know the various responsibilities he may have. Not to mention, how many times are players really messing up the play call? Not nearly as often as simply getting beat. So the majority of grading is the guy getting beat, I would think. .

In layman's terms, football is football. The Eagles aren't inventing a new blocking scheme or breaking the foundation of play design. On a zone run, we know the various assignments each position can have. And much of the time, the problem isn't the linemen going to the wrong place (thus demonstrating the wrong responsibility), but rather the linemen simply being beat in technique. And that is clear as day to see. For example, under no circumstance or play design ever does the linemen have a responsibility of getting blown by and having the QB eat turf.

You're playing a game of semantics and its not interesting or compelling. Yes, I said "lots of former players or coaches work at PFF." And then I provided an extensive (but not inclusive) list of former players or coaches working at PFF. Thus proving what I said. I never said "PFF only employs former players and coaches". Your lack of reading comprehension is not the sign of a straw man. Sorry. Since I never said anything about PFF only employing former players and coaches, I assumed your question was in reference to what I said. I did not realize that you were changing the argument from "some" to "all" and thats my fault for not seeing YOUR straw man. There are 3 levels of analysts at PFF. And ALL player grades have to go through all 3 levels. There may not be a former player or coach at level 1, but they are filled with them in level 2 and 3. The likelihood of a player grade being released without being graded by a former coach or player in level 2 or 3 is unlikely. But you can hang your hat on that small chance if you'd like. Buscaglia is just a radio guy turned reporter who has no additional knowledge than anyone else. At least the grunt level 1 PFF workers are trained. Summary: I'm not interested in playing your game of semantics. Feel free to have the last word. .

Yes. There is a large difference between analyzing, teaching, and doing. If there were not, every head coach and GM in the NFL would be a former player.

There are lots of former players or coaches work at PFF. Including Andrew Berry (former NFL player), Bruce Gradkowski (former NFL player), Mike Johnson (former NFL linemen), Steve Palazzolo (former UNH coach), Jeff Dooley (former RI coach), Mike Renner (former college linemen), Eric Eager (former coach at MU), George Chahrouri (former coach at Harvard), Ben Linsey (former college linemen), Anthony Treash (former AZ db), Andrew Erickson (former college WR), etc. These people are typically Level 2 and 3 (verification of what level 1 thinks).

Not including long-term cap, draft pick, etc consequences. Jets will be a very tough out next year. Their QB's are the only reason they didn't make the playoffs last year. That Jets defense is ridiculously good.

Great point.

After all his pandering to Miami, he comes back to us.

I think that's a big part of it. They mentioned it multiple times. He has been injured all 4 years he has been in the NFL. And apparently struggles with fumbles.

It's honestly not intentional. I just give my authentic opinion. I have been stoked about front office moves in the past though. LOVED the Diggs move. Praised it up an down. Loved drafting Spencer Brown (due to his size). Thought Settle was a great signing too. Yes I did. This question shows you didn't even read what the Saints fans have to say. Which proves you only seek out positive comments.