dave mcbride

Seriously, go through the game logs on PFR and check out the second half rushing when the Bills have a lead. It is pathetic. You're not correct here. He has a point. And he's not even really being critical of McDermott given that there is a logic to it.

Yup, and the McCoy stats up above are telling. He had 7 runs for 46 yards against Miami in the first half of their first game, and he finished with 18 for 49. The Chiefs game was the same. That has nothing to do with Taylor and everything to do with unimaginative playcalling. There was a play last week where McCoy broke three tackles in very impressive fashion just to get back the LOS. That happened way too much this year; Shady hasn't lost a step at all either. I get McDermott's idea, and results are results, but the late-game rushing efforts have been terrible.

Check out his most recent post in the mcdermott has lost the team thread and you'll see!

Also, Badol's Shady crusade was in 2015-2016! He has warmed to his presence.

Judging from form the linguistic construction of Don's later posts, I'm gonna guess this is Spags. Whoever Jimmy Spags is (maybe one of the mods!), the mods know and like him. That's why this thread is still going--they know and like him and are ok with the occasional parody thread (and have been for years). If he were a new person, this thread would have been locked a while ago. Don displayed a bit of faux insider-ish knowledge at first to suck people in, but at this point it's time to put this dog out of its misery.

It's a 5th now. The conditions were met to move it up: Dareus still on the roster at the end of the season and the Jags in the playoffs.

Marvin Lewis has my eternal gratitude so I only wish him well. Negative comments about him should be banned on this board, actually!

He had a good career, with 3-4 genuinely elite seasons.

He does, but Gronkowski is just a better player. That strikes me as obvious. I'll go as far as to say that he's the most dominant TE in league history, and the competition isn't close. Also, re: Kelce, he's in a good situation with a thrower like Alex Smith, who doesn't challenger CBs down the field. He loves the outlet TE, and he was good to Vernon Davis in SF too.

True, but Gronk is hands-down a better player. Much better blocker, for one.

The defense improved from 27th to 15th in DVOA and the offense sank from 10th to 26th. That's kind of a wash, so what might explain the shift from 7-9/8-8 to 9-7 (I think they would have gone 8-8 last year if they didn't tank the final game)? ST went from 22nd in 2016 to 10th this year. Carpenter was basically zero wins above replacement last year, and Hauschka was one win above replacement. The Bills went from a 76 percent kicker to an 88 percent kicker, and the 88 percent guy also made a LOT of lower percentage long kicks. Huge improvement.

He was actually decent the next season (nearly 1000 yards rushing and 4.6 ypa), but the system was a terrible fit for him. I think he basically lost a half a step (lots of small injuries over the years to his legs/ankles), plus he was reportedly dumb. He apparently couldn't absorb the NO offense.

Um, he had over 1700 yards from scrimmage in 2012 and 1244 yards rushing. He definitely carried the load that year and was 6th in the league in yards from scrimmage. And again, his productivity per touch was off-the-charts good that season.

He was misused terribly by Hackett. Gailey was not a good head coach, but he knew how to use the offensive talent he had. Hackett treated him as an up-the-middle pounder.

I immediately thought of the 70-yard TD bomb Flacco threw to Jacoby Jones with 40 seconds left in the 2012 playoff game against Denver.

His 2012 season was one of the best offensive performances by a Bill this century: a staggering 6.0 ypc plus 10.7 yards per reception (extraordinarily high for a running back).

Watch them: they are good. Their defense is the best in the league, I think.

I think the Vikings would destroy the Bills.

Terrible game. The quarterbacks for both teams are awful. Really boring.

To be fair, I think Hurts stinks too, so who knows what will happen. Neither of these qbs will sniff starting roles in the nfl.

Enh .. he had a good game. He led OU to 38 points in regulation against an elite college defense that is LOADED with NFL talent.

I went into this game thinking that Alabama would blow Clemson out. That is what is currently happening, but we shall see. The Clemson qb is terrible (against real competition).

Good post, and I don’t disagree. But Brown can play a role in tnis defense. He literally played on 99 percent of the plays this year.

True, but he has been on the field more than any other Bills player (something crazy like 99 percent of plays). He’s not great but he understands the system at this point. Getting rid of him strikes me as more subtraction without any addition. The guy also seems injury proof, which is rare for a linebacker.

Dunkirk Don said he’s definitely a goner, so ...