Coach Tuesday

The August Enforcer arrives.

Just don’t draft punters. Ever. It’s unnecessary.

What exactly is everyone so furious about?

Guess who is coaching Mongo in NJ?

He basically single-handedly lost us the Jags game last year. Not an exaggeration, go back and look at the grades. He gave up particularly timely pressures when the Bills needed, and were on the verge of, big plays. And losing that game essentially cost us home field against the Chiefs. Wanna go back further? Anyone remember his critical penalty against the Texans in the playoffs? That play, too, had a major impact on that season. Drafting Ford was a mistake but they continued to mis-evaluate him year after year and it continued to bite them in the arse. They should’ve drafted or signed a better linemen each of the last two offseasons and he shouldn’t have been on the roster and playing in critical games. They compounded their original error with him; the entire process was flawed. And now it’s come out that he was a dog - even if they didn’t properly evaluate his character leading up to the draft, they certainly knew what he was heading into 2021. And lol at his “reps” telling Beane he should be starting. Over whom? I can only imagine the call Beane got from his agent after the Denver game (where he committed one bad penalty and should’ve been flagged for another). Beane wouldn’t have forgotten the Jaguars debacle; I give him credit for not cutting Ford on the spot after his agents reached out and managing instead to recoup some value. But make no mistake, the Butterfly Effect of Cody Ford cost this team serious consequences.

Um what would you like to know? I hear he’s a ranch guy…

It’s barely even criticism - if you question the orthodoxy of this trade being evidence of Beane’s “amazingness,” you’re a nit-picking hater. Then again this is eball every August, you can set your watch to it.

It’s not “bad” at all but nor is it “amazing.” Off-topic but what could have been: a line with Schnowman Dawkins, Cody Ford, Mitch Morse, Wyatt Teller and Spencer Brown would’ve been the most Wild West-sounding o-line of all time.

Thinking more and more that we’ll be hosting LAC in the AFC Championship game.

I don’t mind being in the minority. I’m responding to the folks proclaiming Beane a “wizard” for getting a 5th rounder for Ford. If you think that’s the “very big majority” consensus, that’s great for you.

I am not the one calling Beane a “genius wizard God-man” - he’s a very good GM. Period. He ain’t the best; he’s far from the worst. That’s ok and maybe we should just accept it.

Respectfully, YOU’RE not looking at this the right way. Beane has not yet gotten on-field contributions from any of his second round picks as a GM. Zero. That hopefully will change this year (though the idea being floated around here that they’re hiding Cook in the preseason is hilarious), but so far we’ve got the Outgoing Cody Ford, Epanesa in his make-or-break season, another backup edge in Basham, and a part-time running back who they drafted because they got spurned at the altar by McKissic, a dime-a-dozen RFA RB. Beane needs to stop throwing second round picks in the trash and he needs to stop giving stupid contracts and raises to guys like Star before we can declare him an “amazing wizard God-man.”

Top of market = finally a couple of quarters of semi-good tape on him but as you mentioned, on Cook’s long run Ford easily should’ve been flagged for an arm hold and he also got flagged for a hands to the face. He’s a terrible football player and apparently had few friends in the locker room or the organization.

Beane traded UP in the 2019 draft to pick Ford, with DK Metcalf still on the board. Beane then traded away Wyatt Teller in part because of Ford’s presence on the roster. Josh Allen is “amazing.” Beane is a very good GM who has made boatloads of mistakes, Ford being one that definitely stands out.

Will they regret moving on from the hot girl who they dated out of college and who turned out to be a huge pain in the ass? Probably not; but then again the new girl has "issues"...

Name the last team with a RB on a big contract that won the Super Bowl?

Nobody is trading for Howard and his guarantee, unless the Bills throw in a pick for the privilege of unloading his salary. Something like Howard and a 6th for a 7th.

From yesterday’s Athletic (honestly, if you don’t have an Athletic subscription by now, your phone should be confiscated): https://theathletic.com/3524555/2022/08/20/bills-cody-ford-training-camp/?source=user_shared_article Ford admitted the attitude adjustment was necessary and overdue. He and Dawkins cited new offensive line coach Aaron Kromer has been a significant factor. Asked about the difference between Kromer and previous assistant Bobby Johnson, Ford responded with eight seconds of silence. The corners of his lips curled upward as he mulled his reply. “He’s doing a phenomenal job,” Ford said of Kromer. “I don’t know what that means, coming from me. But the way we’ve been coached and the techniques that we’ve learned is why I say there’s been so much improvement.”

Blackshear is a player.

Tasker just never stops babbling. He’s always talking and half of what he says is wrong, the other half is incomprehensible. He’s the guy you’d never invite over to watch the game - bad thing for an announcer to be.

Elam is not ready.

Special teams coaching may just be McD’s Achilles heel.

Edmunds thread trigger alert!