dave mcbride

I feel for the security guys who have to do pat-downs on Monday night!

I'll laugh. I'm a simple man.

CJ Spiller's 2012 season is probably the best season by a Bills offensive player since Eric Moulds in 1998. This will sound strong, but I actually don't even think it's all that debatable. He averaged 6.0 ypc and over 10 yards per reception! Spiller was just not the same player. He had a truly unique speed/quickness combo that had clearly eroded by 2014. He got banged up a LOT. Nothing really major, but lots of small tears and sprains. Those guys tend to have short shelf lives, but in their elite years, they're game breakers. I'm not disputing that Gailey was good, but I also think it's unfair to judge Daboll given the talent here. And I gotta say, anyone who thinks that the talent this year even remotely resembles the 2011-12 teams is smoking something. They weren't elite talent teams, but my god. The one genuinely good player on this team (McCoy) has been banged up all season and may well be traded soon. One other point about guys who did well elsewhere and declined afterward: Chris Ivory. He was elite for a little while, and now he's just decent (not bad, mind you). It's the curse of the 30-year old RB (and Ivory is actually 30 with a lot miles). Guys wear down at the RB position fast. PS - Scroll down. https://sportsinjurypredictor.com/player/cj-spiller/3363

I thought it was funny. This game will likely be unwatchable.

Fred spent his entire career here except for the one season in Seattle when he was like 52 years old!! Come on, C. Biscuit. Johnson was doing fine in SF but was hurt a lot in 2014. He was also in decline, which he wasn't from 2010-2012. He got banged up a lot after 2012. Saying players didn't perform well after leaving one team where they performed well is a red herring. Does that make Adrian Peterson and LaDanian Tomlinson lesser talents? All players have windows, and they tend to be in their younger years. There are exceptions, but they're few and far between. I like Gailey as OC - I never said I didn't! All I'm saying is that this unit is straight up garbage (starting with the QB position) and worse than what Chan had. At least Chan had a vet QB with mobility who could run a sophisticated offense. That counts for a TON.

This just isn't true. Stevie Johnson washed out because of *injury* and injury alone. Even still, he had 80 catches over his final two seasons, and he missed significant time in both of them. Spiller was actually an elite player for a couple of seasons before dings added up and took away his one saving asset (quickness/blazing speed). Jackson was flat out good, to the point where he was leading the league in rushing 11 weeks into the season in 2011 (he broke his leg). The o-line wasn't great, but it was better than what it is now. And the QB, for all of his manifold flaws, was a LOT better than what we currently have.

You're fixating on draft position, which isn't relevant. Stevie Johnson was way better than a seventh rounder, and Fred Jackson was a bona fide good player. Fitz was and is better than what we have.

Watson this year is at least average. He's not even having a bad season. He's on pace for over 4,300+ yards, 23 TDs, 470 yards rushing, and 8.0 ypa.

No, the Bills' talent under Gailey was actually far, far superior to what we have now. I think many people simply don't realize the historic badness of the Bills' offensive talent right now. It's unprecedented.

They don't have the personnel to run any scheme well because the talent across the board is so terrible (and even more so if McCoy is traded, which i think is more likely than not).

He has no players. Seriously. Oftentimes, the Bills have had bad coordinators and it's not difficult to see. This time it's really impossible to judge. He is working with the worst receiving corps in the league by a mile, a terrible line, Derek Freaking Anderson, and an unimpressive cast of RBs given McCoy's injuries. SF has way better talent. I can't believe I'm saying this, but CJ Beathard is a superstar compared to the mooks we have playing qb now. Um ... that doesn't work in the NFL. The Bills don't even have the personnel to run it well anyway.

If he had won the ownership bidding, it's extremely unlikely he would have run for president.

He's actually 11-12 excluding the playoffs.

I thought it was freaking obvious that he suffered a nasty concussion on that play and was incredulous that the announcers were focusing on his ankle given the nastiness of the head hit. Terrible thread idea.

False. He made a huge deep throw against TB late that effectively helped them win the game. The throw to a stumbling Zay Jones (who failed at his route too) against Carolina was a perfect read and throw too. Too bad the receiver messed it up. It would have been a game winner.

Plus there's the gallows humor element, which can't be dismissed. For instance, the Bills are currently on pace to field the worst offense in DVOA history (going back to 1986). That would be something.

Is it just me, or does Thomas have a clause in his contract that requires to drop at least one pass every game??

Agreed.

I know where you stand on this, Bill, but it is the case that the best Bills draftee of this century was part of that 2006 class. I don't really care when he was drafted either; what matters is that he was.

Speaking of DVOA: 'In particular, Arizona plummeted on offense, from -31.3% to -39.9%. That puts the Cardinals into rare territory as one of the ten worst offenses we've ever tracked through seven games. But the Cardinals still can't even come close to the impotence of the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo's offensive DVOA stayed relatively constant after the Indianapolis blowout, going from -53.4% to -53.2%. But most of the worst offenses we've ever tracked weren't staying constant around Week 7 -- they were starting to come back from their horrendous starts, slowly improving their ratings. Which means that the 2018 Buffalo Bills are now the worst offense in DVOA history, at least through seven games.' https://www.footballoutsiders.com/dvoa-ratings/2018/week-7-dvoa-ratings

As of now, Football Outsiders' metrics place it as the worst offense EVER according to their DVOA metric, which admittedly only applies back to 1986: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/dvoa-ratings/2018/week-7-dvoa-ratings . 'In particular, Arizona plummeted on offense, from -31.3% to -39.9%. That puts the Cardinals into rare territory as one of the ten worst offenses we've ever tracked through seven games. But the Cardinals still can't even come close to the impotence of the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo's offensive DVOA stayed relatively constant after the Indianapolis blowout, going from -53.4% to -53.2%. But most of the worst offenses we've ever tracked weren't staying constant around Week 7 -- they were starting to come back from their horrendous starts, slowly improving their ratings. Which means that the 2018 Buffalo Bills are now the worst offense in DVOA history, at least through seven games.' Everything on this offense is terrible (see my post above). With regard to the o-line, I'll simply say that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. That's the o-line relative to the other units.

I was unaware of this. OMG. This will live on in infamy!!!

The other thing to factor in - the toxic culture that Gruden is breeding that lets this sort of thing fester. I have a hunch that's part of what's going on.

Crynig is not a sign of a lack of mental toughness. Sheesh.

Gruden was a great coach in Oakland who turned that franchise around. That happened before he went to TB. The comparison isn't apt.