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43 minutes ago, Virgil said:
Personally, I hope to see a lot of DiMarco against the Broncos. Not so much Lee Smith.
I trust DiMarco in the backfield, or lined up next to Ford to help chip and keep Von Miller off of Allen.
In the backfield, I'm happy to see him.
Lined up wide, not so much.
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2 hours ago, eball said:
Good on you. It displays a healthy attitude to refuse to enjoy a good outing because you expect the sky to fall next week.
It's fine that you don't read my posts, because who can keep up with any one person, but you'll find me to be a massive optimist around here.
That said, Daboll's O is hugely different each week, and has been as you know, ineffective. So I think it's OK to hope that he can find some things that start to work instead of instituting wholesale changes week to week.
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5 minutes ago, eball said:
From the Buffalo News this a.m.; should make a lot of folks happy. Perhaps this is a sign that the Bills are finally figuring out "who they are" on offense and creating an identity -- or it's just the personnel grouping that they felt worked best against Miami. In either case, 37 pts and 400+ of offense is nothing to sneeze at.
1. The Bills didn’t use their “heavy” offensive package much. Blocking tight end Lee Smith played a season-low seven snaps (10%), while fullback Patrick DiMarco was on the field for just four snaps (6%).
Daboll changes his offensive gameplan massively game to game. I will be happy when I see something consistently working.
It would not shock me to see DiMarco out wide this week again and Lee Smith getting his 3 penalties.
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Very few penalties on Sunday. Maybe because of this?
7 snaps sounds like a good formula for Lee.
9 hours ago, Merle said:One thing that I'm afraid needs mentioning are the fumbles by "Motor". The Bills were lucky to have recovered both of them, but against a better team, in a closer game, that's the kind of thing that can spell disaster. Don't know if it's a "technique" thing that can be coached, or if it's just better awareness, but that needs to get corrected, especially if they increase his workload to where we all want to see it.
Agreed, but I like that they largely benched him after the second one.
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2 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
Miami’s defense allows a 105.6 qb rating. The only teams worse are the winless Bengals and 3 win Cardinals. They have a dreadful secondary.
Do you think they are "the weakest pass defense ever assembled in his lifetime," or do you think maybe he's got a bit of a bias that overrides common sense.
Miami is bad. Miami is not even the worst team in the league.
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39 minutes ago, GreggTX said:
He had a good game against the weakest pass defense ever assembled in my lifetime.
They are 19th in pass yards allowed. So unless you were only alive for the first two games of the season, then went into cold hibernation and came back yesterday, you are wrong.
Are they good? No, but they are middle of the pack and have improved.
But your agenda colors your argument.
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7 minutes ago, SoTier said:
Yesterday was only the second game since the bye that Allen threw for more than 200 yards.
It was his third of the 5 games since the break and against Washington, they didn't need him to throw much in the second half and so they didn't.
QuoteAgainst the Eagles, Allen didn't even throw for 100 yards.
Nope. 169.
If you're going to use statistics, at least use them correctly.
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8 minutes ago, wppete said:
This makes sense.
I don't mind if they lose Star but if that happens, they then have to pay money to another NT. And Star still has a big dead cap hit for the next two seasons (7 and 5 M respectively...he has a tough contract).
Murphy is the more likely guy to get cut on the D-line--his cap hit next year is 1.7M.
Phillips has earned a payday, but even if you don't like Beane's moves all the time, you have to admire how shrewd he is with the cap (the Star contract noted above being probably his worst one).
Very few players are worth breaking the bank and if the Bills are going to pay top dollar to one of their own this off-season, it's more likely a Tre White extension.
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On 11/17/2019 at 8:44 AM, The Jokeman said:
I'm 42 and just got married (wife is 41) a little more than a month ago (October 12) and most friends gave $50 and most family members gave $100.
That's cheap and also because you're old.
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54 minutes ago, ILBillsfan said:
Brown is definitely having a good season
Add a big talented WR that wins 50/50 balls (see Mike Evans) and this offense would be scary good
Evans is one of the best WRs in football but yes that kind of player is what they need. Could also use a guy who can break an arm tackle and get YAC. Clearly that's not Cole and it's really not Brown either.
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Allen will have a 130 yard 3 INT game at some point.
The board will be unbearable that day.
I'm glad this medium didn't exist back when fans would call WGR and call for Reich to start over Kelly, which yes, used to happen frequently when Kelly had one of his many bonehead days.
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32 minutes ago, Dan Darragh said:
Anyone know anything about the two OTs on the practice squad?
The practice squad OTs are not the droids you're looking for.
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This is a bit of a no $### Romo moment. Any QB who can consistently look off safeties and LBs will do well. That's how you beat everyone.
You know how you beat Brady? You get pressure in his face. Also how you beat everyone.
Not sure this is any great insight.
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21 minutes ago, fergie's ire said:
However, I think it was actually one of his least accurate games. I was one who disagreed with the "inaccurate" label (or at least found it to be....well...inaccurate). If he threw the ball on a line, he could the ball in tight windows consistently. This game his ball seemed to be frequently a yard or two off, and sometimes was caught and sometimes not. I think of the sideline pass to McKenzie that was short or the out to Brown that led him way too much. As I said, I think he is normally accurate with those throws. It's just one more case of when he does everything else well, what he normally does well slips. It's very odd.
250+ passing, 3 TDs passing...60 on the ground and 1 TD rushing. And in the last 10 minutes, they were in eat the clock mode.
And you're complaining about his 64% completion rate? Everyone misses some passes.
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How about we keep not judging Allen week to week as "boom" or "bust" but look to see if it's overall a trending line up or down?
He is much better than last year in the important areas: Turnovers, staying in the pocket, completions on intermediate throws. He has retained confidence, clutch ability, ability to run.
He needs to work on a complete game and deeper balls.
As this season has gone on, he's developing chemistry with his team, which is important with 9 new starters.
Beane will find him a big downfield target this off-season. Beasley is nice in the slot but gets knocked over by the wind. Brown is a very good WR but is also not a YAC or 50-50 guy. They don't necessarily need a name #1--but they do need a guy who can go deep with size and be a big target on a slant.
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On 11/11/2019 at 6:26 AM, zow2 said:
Jeremy on WGR made a good point. I was thinking the same thing yesterday. Most of Allen’s completions are to guys standing at a spot or throwing to a spot while the player is turning around. He’s rarely completes passes while the WR is on the run. The short slants to Beasley can be good, or the inaccurate pass to Brown would’ve been on the run. He rarely throws guys open. He’s basically doing what everyone said about Tyrod. He’s a taller Tyrod right now.
Beaseley in particular but also Brown and even McKenzie are not YAC players. BEasley gets knocked down by the wind.
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Frazier. The blitzes messed Miami up.
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13 hours ago, plenzmd1 said:
plenzmd1 raises hand!!!! No gifts at our wedding..we absolutely requested no gifts, but if you like please make a donation to SOME DC( so others may eat). My one aunt who was a fantastic artist gifted us a lovely original painting...only gift we received
nah, just like so much in our world, things have been taken to extremes. Gender reveals, crazy birthday parties for kids, the horror of not being at every one of your kids college athletic contests etc. I mean how could these little darlings in their late 20's possibly make it in the world without $300 for every guest!
Giving what you can, at least the cost of your attendance at the wedding, is the norm. At most traditional weddings, that's 150/person at least. Less than 100 is ridiculous unless you are the most hard up of hard up.
If it's an older established couple on a second wedding at a friend's bar catered by a cousin, the gift may be quite different. But the young couple on their first marriage gets the little extra lift. It's a nice norm.
We always give cash and skip the registry.
Oh and for you cheap bastids who say skip the wedding so you don't have to give a gift, that's not how it works. Invite = gift.
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9 hours ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:
So basically the same record as the Bills with a ton more high priced FA signings.
Something like that. But my point all week has been that the Browns were not as bad as their record indicated when the Bills played them, and so maybe the Bills aren't suddenly one of the worse teams in the NFL for barely losing that away game.
The Browns lost to Rams, Pats, Niners, and Seahawks...and beat the Ravens. I expect the Bills would have lost to all 4 of those teams and lost to the Ravens. Not a knock on the Bills, but just my take is they aren't as good as those teams.
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1 minute ago, Joe in Winslow said:
So ***** what
Why are you cursing? I pointed out that the Browns have had a very hard schedule. If you'd like to counter that with facts, go ahead.
Is this how you want the world to work? Like an internet message board? Or can we bring real life interactions to here and make this better?
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2 hours ago, BringBackFergy said:
I hear ya. The original intent of this thread was to project the Browns as a bunch of individuals rather than a team, and hence, a 2-5 record to start. That happened. They now won some games to even their record, but the Myles Garrett incident and Fred Kitchens comments post-game put us back to the starting line. Damn. Tough to watch.
Brown's have losses to the class of the nfl. Give them the Bills schedule and they are 7-2 or 8-1.
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1 hour ago, Z-Mann said:
Just my opinion of course, but I'm not sure if it's "progress" if he gets better in some areas and worse in others.
He's cleaned up his short game, but gotten worse with the deep ball.
Not excusing his misses, but his hits last year were mostly jump balls and underthrows where bigger WRs and jumpers get them (which is how a lot of QBs hit their deep WRs)...but also where they got INTed. This year, Josh has been trying to hit his 2019 smurf WRs in stride at 50+ yards, which is really hard. A bigger target would help him feel like he can take more of a chance on those throws.
QuoteHe's increased his completion percentage, but he's gotten more careless with the ball (8 fumbles all of last year, 11 already this year).
The fumbling is making me nuts too. That's just focus when he's scrambling. Once he runs, he needs to lock that ball in. He must correct that.
My guess is what's happening with Josh is as a project QB, he had 6 things to work on. Focusing all the energy on one thing like increasing short percentage passing may have caused a drop in other things. He will get more mental muscle memory on those things and hopefully can move on to others. If he can't, that's a problem, but so far, I see a coachable guy who can correct his flaws and that's encouraging. That doesn't mean he won't have another 3 INT game or a 50% completion game or bail on the pocket early too often, but when he focuses on stuff, it seems to get better.
We can be patient as fans or give up. I'm happy giving his growth a few more years. First, what choice do we have? Does someone want to make a run at Josh Rosen, next year's top trade contender? Or Andy Dalton? Second, patience is something this franchise never has with its coaches and culture, and that's not worked out well. Third, Josh has some things that we can all see are worth building on: confidence, well-liked teammate, leadership, arm strength, clutch, good in community, toughness.
He may not work out but he's the most promising QB they've had since...Bledsoe? Let's let it ride a bit. Anyone who didn't expect it to be bumpy has a short memory from what we all knew we were getting on draft day. I expected a lot of 140 yard passing games this year and I'm not seeing those. Now in fairness, I also expected some 300 yard games and I'm not seeing those. But I'm a long ways from bailing or calling him the second coming of friggin' Tyrod.
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37 minutes ago, ColeB said:
And there are several QBs who were thought to be the answer for their teams who have since regressed: Mariota, Goff, Trubisky, Mayfield, Wentz
It's almost like you have to be patient with young QBs.
What Allen is not: A disaster. What Allen is also not: Mahomes or Watson.
Let him grow. Many things are better this year. The long ball is not one of them.
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13 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
Completion % vs Browns: 53.7.
Completion % vs Eagles: 47.1
That's 2 of the last 3 games. Still sub 60% for the season so far.
You must be so happy that you can finally say this! Bully for you.
Lee Smith and Pat DiMarco update...
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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He was for sure.
He would have no role on this team. He was a bad short yardage back last year and if he was on the team, there would hardly be a role for him, or they'd squeeze out Singletary's carries, which would hurt the team.
Plus, they may have seen that Shady was looking at a 3-4 carry/game year (at most) and thought he deserved a better end to his career. Lesean would have no role in this offense that's not already filled.