HardyBoy
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We don't know the situation, for all we know she could have massive narcissistic personality disorder and he's been being significantly emotionally abused for a really long time. Emotional abuse is abuse and I'm not here to rank if physical abuse is worse than emotional abuse, both are awful and both are abuse.
There is something called Reactive Abuse where a narcissist basically knows the things to do to get someone to react emotionally so they can play the victim (I'm not making the "look what you made me do" excuse a physical abuser makes, which I would think typically is actually them instigating reactive abuse and using it as an excuse to physically abuse someone).
I don't know that his girlfriend is a narcissist, this is pure speculation, but there is a potential situation here where Miller absolutely is a victim of significant emotional abuse and handled it in an incredibly awful way and needs to be getting help, not playing football, because you cannot put your hands on someone's neck and squeeze hard enough to leave bruises, because he could have killed her if they happened...but this could be a hugely nuanced situation without a good answer, but it certainly sounds like he needs help getting out of that relationship and that is where his focus should be. I'm really not sure the smartest thing right now would be for the Bills to suspend him, not let him be in the facility and have him go back home to Texas right now either.
I'm not excusing his behavior at all and I'm wildly speculating...my speculation is looking for reasons why the team is taking this approach...there is one other thing I am thinking that could make sense, specifically on what might have been being threatened and why they keep talking about her "travel plans"
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1 minute ago, Joe Ferguson said:
McSofty was a wimp then and a wimp now. He will never change.
I thought McCoy ran damn hard when he was here...
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Anyone following the Sabres and hearing all these people saying they need to trade or even outright cut UPL before the season started... you're all the same people blindly screaming as a mob to fire McD
Dunning Kruger & Group Think is a very dangerous combo.
None of that means I don't think McD can and needs to improve on some things...but people who are up here screaming McD had nothing to do with developing Allen, like huh?
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12 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
Almost like one guy was a two time Heisman finalist who played in one of the best conferences in college and the other wasn’t 1st/ 2nd Mountain West his last year in college.
anyone who doesn’t give the Bills credit for helping Allen develop into the player he is now is pretty dumb.
Right! I'm open to having conversations about stuff I don't agree about, and I personally think firing McD would be a mistake, but I'm open to changing my mind...just the the ridiculous things people are saying that aren't based in logic or reality and just show they have an opinion that isn't changing and they will say anything, even if it's actually the total opposite of reality...it makes it super hard
I thought people said the Hamlin thing changed how people were watching the team and put it into perspective...it's gotten worse since
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1 minute ago, CincyBillsFan said:
And whose fault was it that McCarron didn't pan out? Down here in Cincy, Bengal fans were happy AJ was signed as they thought he deserved a chance to start somewhere. And the comments made by AJ and his Bengal teammates was that he was going to Buffalo to win the starting job not babysit a rookie 1st round pick. There was nothing about McCarrons age, NFL history or attitude that suggested he would be right for that role.
And as Mike Tyson famously said "everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth".
If as you say their plan was to "red shirt" Allen how did that go? Can we at least agree that their "plan" fell apart and it was Allen & DaBoll not Bean/McD who made lemonade out of a bunch of lemons?
I agree their plan fell apart, I don't think anyone has ever said anything different.
I won't agree that McD had nothing to do with the development plan for Allen...again read that article I shared about JP Losman and the quote where they were blitzing JP in his first practice like crazy...that was the former Assistant GM saying he was confused by the approach because it was not the right way to develop a rookie qb.
Everything they did as a team those first few years in practice once Allen was named the starter had a huge component of developing Josh Allen. McD was the architect of that...to say otherwise or to say McD didn't have a huge positive part in building the space and culture in which Allen could develop and formulating a plan in which his coordinator and position coach and the player himself could maximize that development is straight up ignorant and silly
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Thinking about how this could benefit the bills roster and such feels wrong
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3 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:
That doesn't change the fact that McD/Dean completely screwed up Allen's rookie year:
* Started Peterman over Allen - great confidence builder there.
* Didn't give Allen very many 1st team reps during training camp & preseason games - yea that had him ready to be inserted as the starter in week 2.
* Tore the offense down and had arguably the worst collection of talent on the offensive side of the ball of any team in 2018 - they didn't just throw Allen to the wolves they tied his hands and feet together before tossing him out.
* They didn't bring in a veteran QB to mentor Allen until half way through the season. I guess Bean/McD thought McCarron would fill that role but nobody told A.J.
That Allen survived and at times shined his rookie year convinced me he was the guy. But the idea that Bean/McD deserve credit for creating an environment Allen could succeed in is misplaced IMO.
Allen wasn't supposed to play, they wanted him to sit a year...they tore the offense down because they were doing a rebuild. AJ was supposed to be that player, he didn't pan out.
I'm so confused by this post, the plan was to give Allen a redshirt year and not have him play behind that line with those weapons.
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37 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:
We all know Josh didn't receive high level coaching in high school or college like some of these more polished qbs. Daboll was probably the first good coach he had.
Tell that to the person comparing Allen's rookie season to Stroud's and saying it's an indictment of the Bills coaching staff
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3 minutes ago, BlazinBill said:
These guys do not mangle there bodies to entertain us- maybe in the 1970's where they got paid in sandwiches
Money is why they do this man
As a fan, what you contribute to the equation and receive from it is unchanged between then and now
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1 hour ago, Billsfan1972 said:
Then he has failed miserably based on all the mistakes he makes game day.
He annointed Peterman the starting qb Allen's rookie season. If Peterwas just awful instead of unplayable how long would have Allen sat?
Btw I look at CJ Stroud and wonder just how much McD would have impeaded him if he was the coach.
I say if Allen was brought along like him he'd be further ahead.
The plan was always to sit Allen his first year, just like Mahommes sat, they didn't want him to play a single snap...Kolb getting injured and retiring really screwed up the plan and when Peterman flamed out miserably they didn't have a choice.
Stroud is a significantly more pro ready prospect who had received top level coaching in college and I would imagine high school...you're not making sense, and I mean that in a way that I want you to be making sense so we can have a meaningful conversation about this...lol, though with the Von news, my guess is this convo is going back burner big time
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2 minutes ago, mannc said:
So McDermott took time off from coaching up Josh Allen to sign Beasley and Smoke Brown?
That was in response to what I quoted from CincyBillsFan, not your post
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27 minutes ago, mannc said:
Please tell us what Sean McDermott, the defensive back specialist, did to make Josh Allen what he is today…
13 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:First and foremost Allen developed himself into the player he is today. I know this goes against the "gone Hollywood" narrative but the guy has made his own way to the top of the QB world. It was Allen who chose not to give up and enroll in a community college when no D1 ofers were on the table; it was Allen who made the smart choice of going to Wyoming; It was Allen who then made the choice to work out with Palmer.
Next, DaBoll gets a lot of credit for Allen becoming the QB he is today. You know who else should get more credit then Bean/McD for developing Allen his first two years? The people of Buffalo & Bills Mafia. The atmosphere in Buffalo was perfect for a guy like Allen. And he Buffalo community enthusiastically embraced the young QB which had to help him through those first 2 tough years.
When I look back at 2018 & 2019 it's hard for me to see how the Bills did much to develop Allen. He was basically thrown to the wolves by Bean/McD. Fortunately between Allen and DaBoll he was able to float and then swim.
* He wasn't named the starter as a rookie and didn't get a lot of 1st team reps in training camp & the preseason games. Allen saw Peterman, the worst QB to start games in NFL history, get the nod over him. How many guys would have lost confidence seeing that happen? Then Petermann predictably sucked and Allen is thrust into the starting job week 2.
* Of course Bean/McD not expecting their rookie to play much in year 1 eviscerate the offense as part of a rebuild. Do you remember who Allen was playing with his rookie season?
* In 2019 Bean/McD took the bargain basement path with their new QB. Morse was a solid if not risky signing but no one is going to call Brown & Beasley splash offensive signings.
* It wasn't until 2020 when Bean/McD FINALLY made a big time move to support Allen on the offense by signing Diggs. But that was it until 2023 when they used a 1st round draft pick to take Kincaid. ONE splash offensive FA signing/draft pick over Allen's first 5 seasons. ONE!
The narrative that the Bills organization developed Allen is just not supported by the evidence.
I think it's safe to say that the defensive shortcomings seen over the last four playoff seasons are now being seen in the regular season.
You mean the head coach that coordinates all the practice plans, and sets the expectations on the types of offensive formations they will highlight in a practice and coordinating with the defensive staff to make sure they are giving him the right looks defensively to reinforce the information he is learning from film and other preparation off the field
You guys sound super ignorant on what a head coach does...freaking Dunning Kruger convention
And Beasley was a huge signing, even at the time... he was the best slot receiver in football and was clearly being improperly utilized in Dallas...Brown turned out to be exactly the player they were hoping he would be...both of those signings were amazing at the time and looking back on it
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1 minute ago, McBean said:
Read the article I shared...Allen is also the smartest person in most rooms. Those former Bills coaching staffs would have destroyed him just like they did Losman.
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2 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:
Losman and Allen should not be named together as Allen is an exponentially better QB.
Say the Bills drafted Baker, Darnold or the Other Josh, today we would be speculating on who was going to replace the coach that replaced McD in 2020.
Meanwhile I suspect Allen on another team not named the Chargers would have a Super Bowl ring or two. Because the only other franchise in football that would have squandered Allen the way the Bills have so far wasted him would have been the Chargers. Because defensive minded head coaches in the current NFL can't get O lines, offensive skill players and QB's right. The Bills success has been in spite of McD and because Allen is really that good.
They developed Allen into the player he is today and Losman probably should be talked about in the same breath as Allen, and definitely as a cautionary tale.
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31 minutes ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:
Eh... JP losman was a sack machine in college, and a sack machine in the pro's. Kid didn't have it between the ears in the slightest. Not to mention his arm was not nearly as strong as Allens.
I don't see it. Holds the ball, takes sacks, not a rhythm passer, not particularly accurate.
Respectfully you don't know what you're talking about, and I didn't either until I read this article a few years back...JP Losman should have been elite, coaching broke him:
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To some, Losman’s story is that of a first-round disappointment. The Bills drafted him No. 22 in the 2004 NFL Draft after Eli Manning, Philip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger were already off the board.
“J.P. had the arm talent to rank with those guys and maybe even a little better arm talent than some of them,” former Bills offensive coordinator Tom Clements said. “He was probably the most athletic of that group, too … I don’t know how others had him ranked, but we felt strongly he was within that group of players.”
Yet seemingly from the start, Losman’s career was defined by adversity. He broke his leg in his first NFL training camp when he collided with Troy Vincent. That limited him to three games as a rookie.
The next year, he was benched after five games, only for the coaching staff to turn back to him later in the year. By Year 3, he was on his second head coach. He had three offensive coordinators in five seasons. The 2006 season, Losman’s third, was the only chance he got to start 16 games. He threw 19 touchdowns and 14 interceptions and had the 11th-best quarterback rating in the league. But the Bills drafted Trent Edwards in the third round the following year. Losman’s early-season injury in 2007 led the Bills to bench him in favor of Edwards. By midseason, ESPN reported that players weren’t pleased that Losman, a team captain, was on the bench, and they thought owner Ralph Wilson Jr. wanted Losman benched so that he couldn’t hit his performance bonuses.
“J.P. never had a fair chance,” former Bills vice president of player personnel John Guy said. “I’ll never forget his first day of practice and they were blitzing him every which way. I remember saying, ‘This isn’t the way to break in a quarterback.’”
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Matt Hasselbeck thought he knew what to expect when the Seahawks brought Losman in for a workout in 2010. Then 35, Hasselbeck had seen plenty of former first-round picks in the second acts of their careers. Because he didn’t know Losman, he perceived him through bits and pieces of what he had read and heard online.
“It was like, ‘Oh, that’s the guy that is tremendously talented, has the best arm you’ve ever seen, can run, has all the tools, but what’s his attitude like?’” Hasselbeck recalled. “That kind of stuff. That was sort of the vibe you got about him.”
After the workout, John Schneider and Pete Carroll said Losman’s workout was one of the most impressive quarterback workouts they’d ever seen. Hasselbeck wondered what his intangibles were like. Everyone knew he had the talent. Almost immediately after Losman signed, Hasselbeck regretted ever questioning his attitude or intangibles.
“I don’t even know if I could put a finger on just how much value he brought to our team,” Hasselbeck said. “I was 35 years old and whatever year that was for me playing. I’m older than my position coach, and my position coach is a very good coach. But I’m feeling like, wow, I’m really learning some valuable things from this third-string guy who I initially thought based on what I read on the internet, ‘This guy doesn’t have any intangibles that he’s bringing to the table.’ I couldn’t have been more wrong. He was incredible.”
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That wasn’t the only time Hasselbeck thought Losman would be a coach. He shared that opinion around the building and with friends in the league. The more he was around Losman, the more he realized whatever perception he had before the arrival in Seattle was way off base.
“I think he’s been misunderstood,” Hasselbeck said. “He might just be smarter than everybody else. Sometimes when you’re smarter than the other people in the room it doesn’t work. If you have better ideas than the person in charge, and I don’t know who coached him prior, but it can feel threatening or like insubordination.”
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Just now, Billsfan1972 said:
I say they held Allen back the first two years and the first ten games this year.
I'll credit Daboll not McD..... Thank you
Wow, you must have special powers of insight into knowing how things went down based on having no actual information...super powers
Anyway, that's off topic, my comment was on how Allen would have been ruined by those coaching staffs, in the same way they ruined JP Losman.
Losman would have been a top level qb if he played today, I'm sure of that.
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Losman was arguably in a similar sphere as Allen physically and mentally...he was ruined by poor coaching, but don't let that get in the way of your narrative.
The culture on those teams sucked, and they would have never developed Allen into what he is today.
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He's been doing this forever...I read an article on smelling salts and nfl games years ago, let me see if I can find it.
I think this was the article I had read:
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16 hours ago, HoofHearted said:
We run split zone and outside zone just like those teams do too, and guess what, they run inside zone just like we do. I’ll do a full breakdown of our run schemes sometime this week.
I'd love to understand if it's a function of Allen not realizing the importance of gaining 10 more yards when you get to the 45 vs almost anywhere else on the field...the odds of a 48 yard fg vs a 58 yard fg going in is significant...like he needs to play some poker I think with someone like Phil Helmute to help explain pot odds I think.
Maybe it's Dorsey too, but going for a big play when you're backed up makes sense...going for one when you're on the edge of field goal range doesn't...between the 45 and the 30, the goal in my mind is get to the 30 with as little risk as possible...then open the offense back up once you're in safe field goal range.
That is the message I took from that video... it's not that the shotgun run plays are bad so much, it's that you have plays that work so much better for you to get from the 45 to the 30...that is when they should be running under center, do a playaction to force the defense to sprint backwards and then throw the check down short to get to the 30...imo
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On 11/8/2023 at 5:12 PM, PepeSilvia said:
What do the injuries on defense have to do with the fact that the offense had 7 pts total with 54 minutes left in 4 of the last 5 games.
take away their best game (Miami) and their worst game (pick any of the other 8 games) and that’s what they are. This isn’t just a this season problem. This started to show in the second half of last season.
Even when healthy, this defense gets exposed by elite quarterbacks and plays well against average to below average quarterbacks.
The roster even when healthy has holes and not enough impactful players that were drafted high.
Starting field position is incredibly predictive of scoring points, so the defensive injuries are incredibly important context to understand why the offense might be struggling to score points.
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23 hours ago, Marcus Aurelius said:
Boy this guy's analysis makes one wonder what the heck our is OC doing.
Interesting, because I'm taking something different away from that video...Josh Allen needs to play with better situational awareness and when they get within 10 yards of field goal range he needs to start taking check downs and higher percentage plays to get into field goal range...I don't know it's the coordinators fault there if he's calling pass plays with open short options that Allen is passing up to go for chunk plays when situational football says you should focus on getting into field goal range first and then hopefully get to take a shot if your first down play gets you 8 yards instead of the expected 4 yards...get under center at that point and do a play action if you want to take a shot or run because you're averaging almost 5 yards a carry when running under center...that last part is on Dorsey I guess, but Allen not hitting short options, which is the Bills version of a run game that's on Allen imo
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Madden 2005-2007 was amazing...it all started going to crap when they royally screwed up the transition to ps3 and Xbox 360. That said, even those versions weren't that great actual simulations...they were fun though
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13 minutes ago, Johnnycage46 said:
The Bills were 5-2 (finished 6-10) in 2011.
The Bills were 5-1 (finished 7-9) in 2008.
Just goes to show there is are examples on both extremes. Past success/failure does not predict future outcomes.
It predicts it, just doesn't guarantee it
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My only defense is maybe they wanted to huddle up for 90 seconds plus to discuss it and they were going to take a time out anyway, and this gave them more time than a time out would, and a chance to keep a free time out.
Thoughts on Knox returning?
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