The Cincinnati Kid

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To each their own, for sure and with respect. I absolutely LOVE Tasker. The man cannot get a full sentence out without tripping all over himself, but he loves the Bills, loves Cigars, and has some decent analysis every now and again. They entertain me and talk about my favorite team. When they start taking calls I start listening elsewhere, but when those two are chatting back and forth, for me, it’s great. Also, when I tune in and hear Maddy Glab I immediately tune out. She is awful. Her voice is rough, her analysis is fluff, and she just doesn’t have the football knowledge to give the show what it needs. Occasionally Chris Trappaso (spelling?) from Cover 1 is a guest host and he is very good as a fill-in.

Call that a “Harding.”

Maybe. I don’t think the Florida kid is thinking about the Run/Pass tendencies of the warm weather in his down time.

It looked like they just laid on each other. Cool for the orange guy, I guess, but didn’t look all exciting to an outsider.

Oh, Fred, thee hath stolen my heart…

James Cook has Dalvin whispering in his ear and that’s probably a problem. Dalvin wasted his best years in the Arctic and doesn’t want his kid brother spending his whole career just below the treeline. My bet, Cook is a Falcon, Jaguar, Buccaneer, Dolphin, Texan, Ram or Charger within 2 full seasons.

It has been deleted from my memories. I don’t have the bandwidth for heartbreak. I don’t even know any of my ex-girlfriend’s names anymore. 🤷‍♂️

Free Agency is for lower tier players and vets who are beginning to age out. Bills resigned Shakir, Roussou, Bernard Gilliam, Ferguson Hamlin, and Allen (again) this offseason. Oliver, Milano, Dion, Brown, Epanesa, and Knox all somewhat recently signed second deals with the team. If you’re doing it right you draft, develop and resign your own players. It doesn’t always work out but the core of this team is made up of draft picks or UDFAs by McDermott and Beane. Rapp, Douglas, Jones were the 3 starters on Defense who were not drafted by the Bills. Edwards, McGovern, Cooper, and Hollins were the 4 on offense. Certainly other FA signings play but the core are all Bills UDFAs or draft picks. Even Bass was a draft pick and Ferguson was a Bills UDFA.

Most NFL players are not superstars. Most are NFL caliber players and a good chunk are bottom of the roster guys. Is what it is.

2024 - 491 Rush Attempts (Brady) (2023 - Skipped due to OC Change) 2022 - 430 Rush Attempts (Dorsey) 2021 - 461 Rush Attempts (Daboll) Diggs was falling off. Kincaid and Shakir out paced him through the last 10-11 games of 2023. Cooper was not the same guy he was a few years ago and played through a wrist injury basically from the day he got here. Samuel was injured all season and had his best season with Brady as Carolina’s OC. We do not have and have not had a true speed threat (outside of MVS who also wasn’t good). The only way to win football games, outside of dreams, (or any team sport contest) is to accurately evaluate the players you have available and then put them in positions to be successful. Sometimes that’s Ty Johnson against a linebacker. IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO CATCHES THE BALL AS LONG AS IT IS CAUGHT. The conversation about if Brady can get the ball to the WRs is just so siloed and glaringly wrong. The point is to win the rep. If that means Shakir on whip route for 8 yards then that’s great. If it means a deep ball to Gabe Davis, fine. That works, too. You can only throw to Jefferson or Chase if you got them. Buffalo doesn’t. We have guys who are tough for defenders to matchup against. They’re just not the X.

Ok. A few things… We have had this conversation and it’s silly. So there is that. Joe Brady throws exactly 0 (zero) passes in the season. The goal of a passing play, any passing play, is to put eligible receivers in areas of the field or in matchups where they will be open to catch a pass. Eligible receivers are WRs, TEs, RBs, FBs, and sometimes OLs. Allen (who does throw the passes) completed 63.6% of passes thrown to eligible receivers. Most fans get so obsessed about “a number 1 receiver” or “can Brady scheme our WRs open?” That isn’t the point. The point is to use the whole group of eligibles to stress the defense and find the open player. I was a Varsity OC for several seasons, which is nowhere near what the Bills and Brady are doing, but it’s not nothing. We ran a spread O and didn’t give a hoot about anything other than Identifying our BEST matchup pre and post snap and completing that pass. An offense is most successful when they take easy yards. So, as KirbyJackson pointed out somewhere, if the Bills had a guy on the outside like JaMarr Chase then Allen would likely go there more because we would win outside more. As the Bills are currently constructed our best eligible receivers aren’t alphas on the outside. We have Shakir, Ty Johnson, Kincaid, etc. who win their matchups inside and against backers and we take those wins. *Who* catches the ball doesn’t matter. That the ball is caught and progresses up the field is what matters. Hence “everyone eats.” Does that satisfy the requirement to present an argument, @hondo in seattle?

I would like to see overtime as a full 10 or 15 minute period and eliminate the sudden ends to the game. An offensive play in place of an onsides kick would also be my preference, outside of the original rules with overloaded side and absolute destruction of the receiving team’s players.