Coach55

NE - Brady Buf - Peterman NYJ - McCown Mia - Tannehill The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Yeah. I have no excuse blowing the Cam Newton comment. Drag me out to the street and shoot me. I’m done.

Top 5 QB's since 2000. There is roughly a 40-50% success rate in getting a quality QB. Trubisky 17-2 – Too early to tell Goff – 16-1 – Looks promising Wentz – 16-2 – solid Winston 15-1 – jury is still out Bortles – 14-3 - Way too high Luck – 12-1 – Good player, not a once in a generation QB as originally dubbed RG III – 12-2 – Bust Newton 11-1 – Won a super bowl. Perennial MVP candidate Bradford 10-1 – Injury prone. Close to a bust. Stafford – 09-1 – Decent QB, 3rd rounder at best in hindsight Sanchez – 09-5 – Bust Ryan – 08-3 – Solid Russell – 07-1 – Bust Young – 06-3 – Had a great start then fell off a cliff. Would rule a bust overall Alex Smith – 05-1 – Decent QB, 2nd rounder at best in hindsight Eli Manning – 04-1 – Probably a Hall of Famer Rivers – 04-4 – Perennial all pro. Potential Hall of Famer. Palmer – 03-1 – Solid QB, Injuries really hampered his career. David Carr – 02-1 – Bust Harrington – 02-3 – Bigger Bust Vick – 01-1 – Great running quarterback, huge offensive weapon

Not convinced... accuracy and field vision is lacking. Struggled against tougher competition. Recipe for a bust. Easy to play against air. https://www.milehighreport.com/2018/3/22/17150308/2018-nfl-scouting-report-scouting-wyoming-quarterback-josh-allen http://walterfootball.com/scoutingreport2018jallen.php

3 years ago our quarterback situation was - EJ Manuel (bust), Matt Cassell (journeyman at best) and Tyrod Taylor (a 4 year back up to Joe Flacco, who only did mop up duty in NFL). I say our situation is currently better to that with Peterman (2nd year man who had a really rough outing), McCarron (a 4 year back up to Andy Dalton, who has 4 games under his belt) and an undrafted rookie.

Ok - After all of the craziness that has occurred in the past few months, we are in a lot better of position than I previously thought. Below is a comparison of effectively last year's lineup vs. today's. We are slightly better going into the draft and are still pending 5 quality picks. Outlook - Positive Last year/This year QB - Taylor/McCarron - Wash to slight downgrade - McCarron is an unknown - prob won't start RB - McCoy - unch FR - DiMarco - unch WR1 - Benjamin - unch WR2 - Jones - unch TE - Clay - unch LT - Dawkins - unch LG - Incognito - unch C - Wood/ Groy&Bodine - Losing Wood hurts, but a lot of people thought Groy was going to upstage him anyway. Bodine was a starter in Cincy - wash RG - Ducasse - unch (draft pick?) RT - Mills/ unch&Newhouse - wash at worst DT - Williams DT - Washington/Lotulelei - upgrade DE - Lawson/Murphy - wash to upgrade DE - Hughes - unch OLB - Alexander - unch MLB - Brown/Milano - I am a big Milano fan - slight upgrade OLB - Humber&Milano/Humber - slight downgrade (fill in the draft) CB - White - unch CB - Gaines/David - slight upgrade S - Hyde - unch S - Poyer - unch

I have been a big proponent that the league is not rigged. I am in ever constant debates with people. However, I actually agree with this guy's assessment. The NFL rigged enough games this year (not just for the Pats) in an attempt to get the bigger market teams into the playoffs. Case in point - week 3 - Detroit vs. Atlanta. The call goes the correct way at the end of the game, Detroit is in and Atlanta misses the playoffs. You rig 20-30 plays in the season and you can impact 10-12 games easy and that is all that is needed to fix a season.

This is like trying to claim that Perry Fewell (Jags DB coach for 2017) should fall under the Marrone coaching tree. The guy has been coaching for 30 years and this is the first year under Marrone. He does not qualify as growing up under Marrone.

I am willing to bet heavy that very few, if any, quarterbacks are studying film 6 hours a day for 26 weeks of the offseason. More realistic bet - 2-3 hours/day for the week leading up to OTAs and 2-3 hours/day for the 2 weeks leading up to training camp. Total film study hours spent during offseason (my bet) - 30-45. Using your logic - this would result in ~750 plays/year or 3750 plays for 5 years. If someone were to study game film for 6 hours/day in the offseason, they would truly be elite - maybe that is what makes/made players like Brady and Manning so successful as they have been known to go the extra mile (both during the season and in the offseason).

Why is everyone concerned about the stats? There is only one stat that matters - Wins.

Top 2 picks means guaranteed success... With the first pick in the 1992 NFL Draft - The Indianapolis Colts select - Steve Emtman, DE Washington With the second pick in the 1992 NFL Draft - The Indianapolis Colts select - Quentin Coryatt, LB Texas A&M 92 Colts - 9-7 missed playoffs 93 Colts - 4-12 missed playoffs 94 Colts - 8-8 missed playoffs (Emtman's last year) 95 Colts - 9-7 made playoffs 96 Colts - 9-7 made playoffs 97 Colts - 3-13 missed playoffs 98 Colts - 3-13 missed playoffs (Coryatt's last year)

Photos of, what some believed to be, franchise quarterbacks: Let's tank the season and trade for a guaranteed winner because high picks always pan out: sorry - system won't let me remove the dupes

Too bad I no longer live in Buffalo... Being paid to talk about the Bills. Every Bills fans dream...

Not Bills... but...

I am a big Tyrod supporter and continue to be. But the process right now is broken. I totally respect this move and if Peterman proves to be better then Tyrod I am all for it. Ultimately this is a good call.

Totally agree. I would almost make the argument that the defense's inability to get New Orleans off the field kept Taylor and the offense cold and thus led to the poor performance. Below are the drive summaries. You can't win when you can't stop them... ever. Drive 1 - 10 plays, 75 yds - TD Drive 2 - 9 plays, 46 yds - Ended in Fumble at the Bills 9 (had it not, more points) Drive 3 - 9 plays, 48 yds - TD Drive 4 - 9 plays, 75 yds - FG Drive 5 (I am skipping the kneel down for the half) - 9 plays, 75 yds - TD Drive 6 - 1 play, 3 yds - TD Drive 7 - 10 plays, 94 yds - TD Drive 8 - 14 plays, 52 yds - FG Drive 9 - 2 plays, 44 yds - TD Drive 10 - victory formation...

He wasn't always revered, however. People forget the stretch of time in 1989 where everyone was calling for him to be benched for Frank Reich. And then there were always haters... regardless how good he played. Some people are never happy.

enough said...

McBean can be summed up with this little clip from Miracle.

First of all, I trust that McDermott has made the right decision with his selection of backups to McCoy. McD/Beane have been very successful thus far in judging talent. Going into this season, everyone was thinking how bad our secondary was going to be. In 4 games so far, I have been pretty impressed. If McCoy were to go down and the Bills were truly desperate for a running back (which I don't think they are) - give Ray Rice a call. He has been clamoring to get back for years. He is only 30 and hasn't played in 4 years (so he as a lot of gas in the tank). The guy is a 3 time pro-bowler, who if was ever given the chance to get back in the game would work his tail off. Guy made one dumb mistake in his life and has done his time. Even his wife has forgiven him.

I never said I wanted him. I just think he is seriously regretting his decision to quit.

Does anyone think he is 2nd guessing his retirement? Supposedly he retired as he believed the Bills weren't a contender and that he wanted to go to the Pats after Edelman's injury. 1/4 of the way through the year, the Bills are a game ahead of the Pats and are in need of receiving help. He would have been the perfect person, but i think he burned the bridge on the way out based on his Patriot comments. Thoughts?

Did someone say Dominos? http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/dominos-ad-shoot/n11961?snl=1

Directly no, but implicitly yes. Exact words from Alabama: "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a B word off the field right now. He is fired. He's fired!'"