Thurman#1

This'n. Hopefully the new guy will do a great job. But there's likely to be adjustment, which will take time. And some new hires fail. Some do terrific, but some fail. Daboll's been terrific. The tendency for fans is to give the QB credit for the good stuff and blame the OC for the bad stuff. That's how it has worked here, and Daboll has caught a lot of unwarranted crap over it.

You said the thinnest hair and I thought at first it was a moustache comment. Now, I gotcha. Yeah, I worry about him wearing down over the long run. And all three of them are really promising.

Smart to be exhaustive about the process on this decision.

Good lord, the sensitivity from so many on this. The article's reasonable. Except for Brugler and Mueller, these guys are anonymous. So their opinions about him on draft day have nothing to do with this article. Their identities and their draft day opinions are unknown. No need for them to hide opinions or twist them. They make no claims, and for all we know they might have been huge Allen fans on draft day. Or not. You have no idea whether many of these guys missed on Allen. Beside the point, though. The question is simply what they would want now. I'm with eball as to wondering how anyone could rank Allen third. Three out of seven ranked him first, though. And ranking him 2nd if you really really love Burrow doesn't seem unfair to me, though I'd absolutely rank him 1st out of this group. But Burrow especially looks like he might be a very good one down the road, and this is only Burrow's sophomore year. All three, really, but Allen and Burrow particularly look terrific.

Yes, it was big. Wasn't a stupid outside run, though, anymore than the outside run on which he got the 4th down touchdown. It was an unsuccessful outside run. IMO the two punts on shortish 4th downs are what stick out to me. Helluva game. And I still feel awful.

Sigh. *shakes head, thinks of many stupid things his six year-old has done*

If he stays, it'll be a good thing for us. Frazier is a terrific coach. Exactly.

Luckily for us, they already have figured a way to make it work cap-wise. That way being to be pretty conservative with their cap, which will mean that after the Covid cap drop they will again have decent amounts of money to spend next year. The reason you don't go all in is that you screw yourself over the long term. The teams that do go all in end up never ever going over the cap, but they also end up not being able to afford guys they need, and it goes on for years. They'll get one or two guys, but always have to leave a few holes. We don't need to worry. Beane gets it and is conservative without being completely unswerving. If it hadn't been for the Covid revenue failure, we'd never have been close to the level we're at now. Yup. Matthieu, Ingram, Ward and Schwartz are not going to be easy to replace with JAGs. A few others they'd want to keep if they can. Schwartz might be the one of those four who comes back cheapest because of his injuries. He'd be a great piece for them to have even if he's not starting.

Get used to it. He likes it, and it makes sense. Did we have a massive letdown? Yeah. Was the rotation the reason for that? No particular reason to think so. They didn't look exhausted so much as frustrated that whenever a guy or two got close, Mahomes had the transcendent talent to be able to run away. Saying "the rotation did them a lot of good in that 4th quarter" is just ridiculous logic. It was a loss. Nothing did them a lot of good in that 4th quarter. Might as well say that having Oliver didn't do them a lot of good then so we should get rid of him and every single other person on the defense. None of them did a lot of good there. That doesn't mean the problem is on whichever group or guy of them you are feeling like blaming.

Thing is ... it really very much IS like Edmunds is a good player. Very good. That ain't reality saying otherwise, it's people who think they're way smarter than McDermott. Plenty of fans don't like the guy's playing style. And he certainly isn't elite or top five or anything. Just very good and an excellent fit for the McDermott defense. They love the guy.

Yeah, hard to imagine them doing otherwise.

Jones signed last year for $15M a year. The Bills should have more than $3M available under the cap after they roll over last year's free space. I see no problem. Yes. Dammit.

Y'know, I'm no Blaise Pascal, but looking at your numbers, I'd say it was both. If you go by his average in 2019 and 2020 and compare it to his 2021 numbers, he lost about 33% in before the catch and about 20% in after the catch. Both of those are absolutely significant.

First, thanks for posing this question. It's only been asked here probably ten or fifteen thousand times here in the last year or two. And second thanks for pointing out how the Chiefs just plain out-physicalled our soft ... oh, wait, they actually didn't. If anything they outran them. Well, thanks then, for ... what? for making an effort, unsuccessful though it was.

Love the guy. Probably too expensive this year.

Wouldn't mind that at all.

$700K. We'll know by 4/18, as $1M from his 2022 salary guarantees on that date. Wouldn't call it a big whiff myself. But could have been better.

Yeah, sorry, but that's nonsense. Which we'll always get a lot of after a horrible loss like this. But still nonsense even if the emotion is pretty understandable. He's been here for four drafts, meaning you can only be sure of a good evaluation on the first draft. The rest, it's just too early to know. He's had four first-rounders, three of whom in Allen, Edmunds and Oliver are good to excellent picks. Rousseau it's too early to know, but looked good for a rookie. He's had three second-rounders, none of whom had seen four years yet. Ford looks like a bad pick, though it's still barely possible he improves. Epenesa and Basham it's simply too early to know. He's had five third-rounders, and for third-rounders he's done really well. Harrison Phillips looks like a very good pick, Singletary a good pick now that we have a functional OL, Knox excellent, Moss not good so far but simply too early to know. Spencer Brown looks like he's going to be a real bargain. To sum up, nonsense.

We should have first dibs on many FAs? I disagree. A few, yes. Guys like Olsen who's already $63M, and is near the end of his career, yeah. But that's not a lot of guys. There will be some, and that's good. But for most it will be what it always is, who is willing to give more money. And the Bills won't have much money to give next year.

Stay by the phone. I'm sure McDermott and Farwell will be getting back to you.

Get used to him. Or you'll have agita for the next twelve years or so. I don't vote in these things exactly because they so often end up producing ridiculous results like this one.

Yeah, agreed. With the rules against contact on QBs and WRs being stiffened and more strongly enforced every year, it's almost impossible to stop a smart elite QB with options at the skill positions and a solid OL from putting up points like a pinball game when he's hot. And I do think a healthy Tre makes a real difference.

Strong disagreement on needing to replace RB1. Miniscule chance of that in a year like this, IMO. Bringing in someone to compete, particularly for RB2? That would make sense to me. When the OL started playing well, suddenly Singletary got much much better. Same with finding a guy to outplay Knox. Wildly unlikely in a year like this with a cap squeeze, I'd bet. And while I'm not thrilled with Morse and he's expensive, I don't see them getting rid of him unless they've got a guy who can play at least as well, and I don't see that happening. They don't need to be teaching a new center and having OL synching being hurt at this point. Most of the rest makes sense to me, though, barring the Edmunds stuff. That guy will be here a long time barring serious injury or a change at head coach, and that's a good thing. Davis is stuck, I think. Can't re-negotiate rookie deals till after the third season. I believe that includes extensions.

Yup.

Frazier's very much worth that. We'll be lucky either way, getting the picks or having him stay. Oh, and yeah, I bet there are a ton of teams out there thinking, 'Hey, that guy couldn't stop Pat Mahomes playing out of his mind, let's not hire him.' This'n. And he will.