WhitewalkerInPhilly
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I mean I wish the search had gone in a little longer but it's what I expected and is likely the best we were going to get
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1 hour ago, machine gun kelly said:
Babich will most likely get it. I wouldn’t be surprised if Brady is retained as OC.
And how did that go? Patricia is a waste of space just like every other BB disciple.Yeah. He is. Patricia sucked and Desai was considered worse
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1 hour ago, Captain Hindsight said:
Couldn’t be much worse
It's very much a damned by faint praise situation
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I'll say this: the Eagles 100% upgraded at their coordinators this offseason
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I'll put it this way: Desai was replaced midseason for Matt Patricia.
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21 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
I don't know a source of week-by-week league wide receiving stats, so I can't confirm or deny. I have a vague memory of looking at stats and seeing Diggs leading or close to the top, not in receptions, but in targets and thinking "huh that's weird". It looked more like forcing the ball.
If Diggs was leading the league in receptions at one point (anyone got those cumulative stats after each week?), I don't see how it can possibly have been until Dorsey was fired (after Denver).
Diggs receiving numbers fell off a cliff after the Giants game (NWE loss and on). His games against NWE and DEN were kinda pitiful, receptions and receiving yards.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DiggSt00/gamelog/2023/
Brady took over after Denver game
He still finished 7th in receptions, 13th in yards
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I like the Ravens, but truth be told if it's not the Bills I am having a hard time carving out a three hour block of time when I have a kid running around. And it sickens me to see the Chiefs there. Again.
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On 1/25/2024 at 3:12 AM, Aussie Joe said:
Greg has just released another one of these…
Bad news is that the projected 2024 NFL salary cap number is going to be lower than expected… so the Bills are going to start $50M in the red …
Also says that they will have to restructure Diggs again to free up enough money to get under the cap next year …
Yeah I started listening to it on my way into work today. The upshot is what I had been expecting: the Bills can claw their way into positive cap space with enough for draft picks and for the typical sundry pickups you need to bring in street free agents for depth and do so entirely with restructure and extensions for:
Allen (no brainer, and by math 100% necessary)
Dawkins (do you keep around a Pro Bowl left tackle?)
Taron Johnson (2nd team All Pro)
Rasul Douglas (currently our best CB on the roster)
and (braces himself) Diggs.
Now, we can avoid the last one. If we hit every single other way to squeeze nickels and dimes out of the roster. But if you want this team anywhere close competing, you're going to need to do it. I know some people here would prefer their eyes gouged out with shellfish forks, but that's the situation.
9 minutes ago, finn said:I never understood the hit you describe. I think you're right, or at least I've heard this explanation, but if the trading partner is paying his salary, where is the hit coming from? If it's guaranteed money, can't the trading partner agree to pay it, given they really want Diggs? For example, say we trade Diggs to a team with a lot of cap room for a second rounder on the condition that the other team takes the entire hit. Would that be legal?
Short answer: no
It is money that we already paid in the form of signing bonuses and previous restructures. If he is cut or traded it is immediately applied to the cap.
It's like how everyone said Rodgers would be back, because the Jets literally cannot afford to cut him at this point.
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Short answer: No.
Longer answer:
Don't get me wrong. I like Shakir. Over the back end of the year I think it's fair to say that he's been our most reliable WR. He has absolutely earned the chance to take a turn in the offense. But looking at his stats from 2022 and 2023 while he has absolutely come along his stats are similar or worse then Gabe Davis. People seem to forget that Davis was a hot option in 2020 and 2021. ~600 yard, 6-7 touchdowns a year, plus postseason TDs.
Being the #3/4 guy on the roster can mean that you get superior matchups. Teams are less likely to focus on shutting down your tendencies. Gabe thrived when he had John Brown and Emmanuel Sanders to take heat off of him, and he all saw him struggle to be a consistent reason not to bracket Diggs.
Bring in a guy who can push Diggs for the starting job or someone who can take the top off the defense. Let Shakir, Kincaid and Cook thrive underneath.
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13 hours ago, 78thealltimegreat said:
People need to realize the Pegulas own the Sabres and with the dumpster fire that organization is run he doesn’t want to throw a monkey wrench at the Bills who despite coming up short still won 10 games + for the 5th year and 4th division title. He’s just not gonna rattle things even if it means wasting arguably the best player in the teams history’s prime years.
yes, because when we discuss sound practice in football management we live up to the standard of Jerry Jones. How 'bout them Cowboys?
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1 minute ago, stuvian said:
he would cast a major shadow over Clappy
Is that...a bad thing, necessarily considering the number of people who want him gone?
But seriously, McDermott had previously been framing himself as a CEO coach. While he was a defensive coach up until this year he had handed off play calling to Frazier (so 6 years). I don't think Vrabel's previous time as a HC has such greater success than McDermott that he's being upstaged.
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5 hours ago, stuvian said:
I'll be shocked if Vrabel gets completely shut out. Starting to wonder if the Titans have sullied his name in league circles as difficult to work with.
Their loss would be our gain. I really want Vrabel to come here.
16 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:I think Miami wanted Brandon Staley but now with the Rams DC job open I wonder if he goes there?
Come on Miami, back up the Brinks truck for Staley!!!
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Mario Williams is probably the most talented guy from the last 20 years with Kyle following up.
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1 minute ago, BananaB said:
More I think about it the more I want McDaniels. Guy is proven, he even had McCorkle looking like a decent QB. He also won’t be poached for a HC job any time soon.
I...don't know. My first reaction was "hell no". But that's my personal dislike from time with the Pats and his HC runs.
But we have effectively been running a form of the Pats offense under Brady (albeit not as well) and there are rife examples of guys who are excellent coordinators who just cannot handle running a full team. After due consideration I would not hate him interviewing.
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Good for him. I want Vrabel.
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16 hours ago, Negan said:
Think we could trade Diggs for AJ Brown?
Then draft a WR too in the first.
I'll say this for any and all "trade Diggs" conjecture:
No. Not in 2024. No way, no how. Especially the "no how" part. As in, the Bills would incur a $4 million cap LOSS on top of what they would have to pay the new guy in a year where they desperately need cap space. There's a reason that player for player trades don't happen often, and it's more commonly player for picks.
If the Bills hit every lever to free up space, effectively say good bye to all departing free agents (bye Floyd, Epenesa, Shaq, Dodson, Dane Jackson, DaQuan, Phillips so most of our defense) and need to hit on nearly every draft pick as an immediate starter the Bills could maybe trade Diggs for picks. What worth all that, multiple first rounders? We ain't getting that for Diggs.
Diggs is a near certain lock to be on the roster in 2024. And, let's face it, likely 2025, because the Bills are so cap strapped I don't see how we field a roster anywhere as close to last year without restructuring or extending him.
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2 minutes ago, Niagara Dude said:
I just think we need to look closer what the offence did in final games, we won but the defence also came up strong
Even Pats game, we had all those turnovers in the first half and still the offence could not put them away. The Dolphins game against a team missing so many defensive starters we struggled, easily could have lost Chiefs game had Toney not lined up offside and our offence struggled in Chargers game
Not sure why anyone is totally sold on Brady, I thought Sunday the play calling was borderline stupid. The Chiefs adjusted when they saw us bring in extra lineman and he just kept running.
Everyone talks about wasting Allen's prime years with McDermott, then the next best thing is to hire a cordinator that gets the most out of him. Were going to live and die with out top paid and top player Allen. You need to have the best cordinator possible and not just a guy who was around and got promoted
Really? Because I thought overall he did a good job against the Chiefs.
The running worked extremely well through the third quarter. It wasn't until the 4th when they started changing up things to stop them. The two 4th quarter stalls were the drive when the Chiefs finally adjusted, the first has the Bills in 3rd and makable when Allen gets a pass batted, and the next is where they get stuffed and Sherfield can't bring it in deep.
He DOES adjust on the final drive. The Chiefs are run blitzing. Allen takes his third big deep shot that is catchable and it slides through Diggs' hands. Allen starts hitting hot routes for blitz beaters, which is one of the easier ways to attack the Chiefs now that they need to blitz to stop the run. Kincaid had three catches averaging 7 YPA and that's the kind of thing you take all day. I don't even mind the run call at the two minute warning because I was thoroughly expecting KC to call a timeout and it was to our benefit that they didn't.
That Shakir and Diggs were both open on that 2nd and 9 and there were bodies available to make it a 4th and short decision on 3rd down speak more to Allen's decision making than Brady's scheming and playcalling.
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8 hours ago, hondo in seattle said:
If you want to win a Lombardi and your Head Coach is a defensive guy, you need a great OC.
The opposite is true, too. That's why Reid has Spags. They're an excellent combo.
Brady is just okay. I suppose it's possible to surround him with enough great coaches that our offense becomes great. Ideally, though, we'd have a creative genius with great leadership skills as our OC.
I'm going to reserve judgement about how good he actually is until I see him with a full year as a OC. As I've said before, and will say again: we did not see Brady install an offense this year. What he saw him do was call better situational plays from Ken Dorsey's and introduce a few Shanahan inspired wrinkles. Dorsey's scheme in turn was heavily inspired by what Daboll had done.
While I suspect that Brady will use similar verbiage that the players are familiar with, you definitely saw differences: far more run heavy that what Daboll and Dorsey did. All used motion, but Brady seemed focused on it as a way to diagnose defenses rather than the high speed attack Miami uses.
So I can't really say how he is overall as an OC. Maybe he pooped the bed in his interview when asked how he would change the offense and we get blown away by another candidate. All I know is that he called a hell of a better offense since anyone since Daboll. Maybe better than Daboll.
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Oh thank Christ no swiping Brady. No OC desperation hires
12 minutes ago, davefan66 said:Interesting choice.
Surprised it want one of the hot young candidates or “proven” vet HC’s. Just another retread.
Vrabel should get a shot. Good coach that meshes with players. I kinda get the feeling he lost a power struggle on Tenn.
Vrabel for Bills DC
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2 hours ago, Beast said:
Due respect, but what comes out of McAfee's mouth between shotgunned beers and bong rips does not bowl me over as sound advice
Maybe Kliff will take a QB coach role
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17 minutes ago, Pokebball said:
Perfectly awesome, except we're not
yeah. And yet, people are acting like I'm a lunatic for saying that's what Josh should have done.
Ravens/Chiefs Game Thread (Keep the Bills stuff out of here, please)
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Yeah I was thinking at the 2 minute mark at 2nd and 3rd and 4 how they couldn't run at a KC defense that has trouble stopping the run