2020 Our Year For Sure

He was sticking up for his quarterback. The Bills started it. I think it's a good thing. We're an emotional team and maybe we can bring them down to our level. Edit oh just saw Yolos post.

Bring em down to our level! Well done DBs.

It is frustrating. I would've liked to see Anthony Lynn get a shot as a lot of the chirping after he took over centered around getting the ball to the playmakers.

I find the Watkins-Spiller comparisons absurd and don't understand why CJ continues to be labeled as 'high talent, high upside.' He went to the same system that made Reggie Bush look like a valuable asset and fell on his face and is now a midseason free agent. I don't see all this talent with CJ, I see a guy who is really fast and really quick with no power, no moves and no instinct. His elusiveness was incredibly overrated- when he was one on one with a defender in space he almost always was tackled or driven out of bounds. Fred Jackson was far more elusive than Spiller ever was. A waterbug who doesn't learn to block and can't make people miss is virtually useless even when fully healthy. Spiller is the TJ Graham of running backs, bringing no strong attributes to the table other than physical speed. The 2015 Chiefs game is a microcosm for Sammy's young career. He spent the first half burning double coverage to the tune of 6 catches for 158 yards and 2 TDs, and the Bills led at halftime on the road over an eventual playoff team. In the second half the Bills targeted him only once for zero catches and lost the game. If you want to make the case Sammy is as pedestrian as someone like Spiller who can't stay on an NFL roster you'll need more than raw reception and yardage numbers. Those numbers don't account for the Bills' refusal to throw him the ball against the Chiefs, their refusal to throw him the ball when he spends his afternoon roasting Darrelle Revis, or when he burns the Ravens all day (injury and all). Check out the A22's throughout this guy's career-- it turns out he eats the lunch of any cornerback who is put in front of him. He outclassed Antonio Brown, Odell Beckham and the rest of the league on a per-target basis. Its a dependent position and the Bills have done a sorry job of getting this phenomenal talent the rock and the A22 proves it. Its one of the main reasons Greg Roman now spends Sundays on his couch. I thought everyone knew this already but raw numbers simply do not tell the entire story in every single case. Please explain how a pedestrian talent is always open no matter what the defense does. I'm not talking about the injuries or the trade to get Watkins, only saying there's a canyon separating the ability levels of Watkins and Spiller.

I think the point is that the Bills are unlikely to get in without winning a tiebreaker which becomes more and more difficult to do with each out of conference win.

I can't believe it's going this well. Nicely reasoned 4merper4mer. Unfortunate that some Bills fans are too emotional to understand your salient point.

He was in bounds. Should have been a touchback with momentum carrying him into the endzone.

Played his heart out.

I think he'll get more out of the passing game than Roman did.

Kim chooses 2 coaches in a row? I have to say I'd rather they bring in a football person or let Whaley make the hire. This isn't the Pegulas personal Madden game. "It was a little bit of a surprise, I'm going to admit, because he was not a candidate that we had really on the top of our list as, 'Wow, this is the guy we want. Let's go get him,'" Kim said, via The John Murphy Show. "We were just being very open-minded about everybody. But he really came in and really kind of elevated himself to that top position, where we said, 'Hey, listen, we need to have another talk with this guy.' "

Typically that kind of thing is associated with the guards. What do you see?

I'm wondering if Lynn might make changes to the offense to try to fit McCoy's strengths better. Is there anything that can be done, maybe more spread sets?

Yup I'll take it!

Should have done it in March.

I agree, FireRex! I have a good feeling about this game I didn't have about either of the first 2, in Tyrod's first game free of Roman and the Cardinals coming east against their bio clocks. Bills win 27-26 with a TD on the final play of the game following the best no-huddle execution Bills fans have seen in some time. Clay finally has a day. The defense bends but doesn't break. Then we go to NE* and get trounced regardless of who plays QB for them.

Ryan isn't just the defensive coordinator he is the head coach. The Bills problems are systemic. This decision runs a lot deeper than what scheme we're going to run and whether or not Reggie Ragland fits into it.

Plenty of succcessful offensive coaches have combined the power run with good aggressive passing attacks- Sean Payton, Kevin Gilbride, Jay Gruden and Bruce Arians spring immediately to mind. There's no way to know for sure whether Lynn is another Roman, or brings the whole enchilada to the table for consumption until we have some actual data points. Its fun reading all the opinions, that's what we're here for, but it is an opinion, for now.

How do you know? Maybe Lynn believes in easy passes on 1st down.

Yes. We need to clean this up.

I think offensively NE* has a lot of staples they go to, defensively they're more about taking away what the opponent does best. You have to be able to win games different kinds of ways in the NFL. If a Jim Schwartz or another 4-man-rush DC has injuries up front or for whatever reason his front 4 isn't getting it done by themselves, he needs to know how to bring additional rushers and vary his coverages, he can't just keep playing standard wide-9, rushing the same 4 guys every snap when its not working. You have to have the versatility to say 'the hell with what I usually do,' and for a day, coach like you have a different name. The same goes for someone like Roman who wants to run as much as possible and limit passing attempts. On a day where either the run is stymied or the defense falters and you're down multiple scores, you have to have west coast concepts you can turn to that substitute for a running game, and your players need to be prepared for that flexibility. Compared to someone like Sean Payton, Greg Roman is half a coordinator. He's the part of Payton that wants to go power run and play action, grind out wins, but doesn't have the part that goes run n shoot and wins through the air when that becomes necessary. No matter what philosophy a team approaches the game with (outscore the opponent vs. grind it out) there are going to be days where it doesn't go according to script and you need to do the opposite. It sounds simple but it isn't always so easy to find a coordinator who is prepared to scrap what he does, who truly has his guys prepared for anything.

I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us are.

The Hughes trade was his finest moment. Other than that, what has he done that's so great? Nothing else wildly stands out from what the rest of the teams do. I've spent time on TSW defending Whaley, he seems alright. I don't see any reason to be broke up about it though if they want to reboot from the Ralph era.

Well Fitz/Gailey/FJ were decent but of course the D was terrible.