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The worst part of this is that if he makes the catch, it's the beginning of the Josh Allen legend, reminiscent of Jim Kelly running in the winning touchdown against the Dolphins as time expired in the late 80's. The play becomes folklore. Instead, it's just another chapter in the long history of Buffalo Bills incompetence. I agree. It's time for him to depart.
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Serious question. Have you ever seen an athlete in a CONTRACT YEAR ever put in so little effort? In his contract year, Gilmore avoided contact like the plague but at least he seemed to put in some effort to play his position. KB from the first snap to the last just didn't seem to care.
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They're going through something similar in Tampa Bay. Winston was suspended, Fitzpatrick starts the season like a house on fire, cools off, Winston comes back, looks ok for a couple of games, has a horrid game at Cincinnati, gets benched, Fitz looks good to finish that game, cools down again, yet Fitz is announced as starter for this week's game. Unless you're 100% convinced that you're done with a guy you drafted #1 overall a couple of years ago, it seems foolish to start a 35 year old journeyman who's a free agent at the end of the year. Same thing here. Bills aren't going anywhere this year. Get Allen as much game time as possible.
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So our D is No. 1 in total defense, No. 2 in YPP, top ten in number of plays against (which makes the first two stats all that more impressive), middle of the pack in third down conversion, sacks and interceptions. Another poster opined that the high ranking was a result of teams "taking their foot off the gas" in second half of games. Anyone have any stats to back that up or argue against it? I look at the defense as good to very good, not great. Certainly playoff caliber with a half way decent offense. I'm hoping we don't totally ignore the defense in the off-season. Make an upgrade at CB opposite White, look for upgrade at OLB, sign J. Phillips, entice K. Williams to come back for another year. If they finished with #1 pick (which won't come close to happening), I wouldn't mind picking Bosa to upgrade from good to great. Of course, it shows the state of the league when a #1 D gets you 3 -7. No matter what moves are made next year, to a large extent it all depends on Allen.
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It only took ten games to get him into the lineup.
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Looking at the list, was 2013 the worst QB draft year since the 1970 merger? Leave it to the Bills to wait until the worst year ever to take a QB #1, especially after a glorious QB class in 2012. By the way, Andrew Luck is not a bust in any sense of the word.
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First Man with Ryan Gosling is supposed to be pretty good. Hamilton, of course, but that won't be in Tampa until January 2019. Does that count?
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Without researching NFL history, I'm pretty confident no team has ever successfully completed Single Digit Bingo in a single season. We've got a real shot!
Zero - Check!
Two - Difficult, not impossible.
Three - Check!
Four - Really, really difficult. Jets are probably are best chance.
Five - Check!!
Six - Check!
Seven - How is this not already a thing? Total lock.
Eight - Blowout, late touchdown and successful two point conversion (difficult, not impossible).
Nine - Check!
Seven games to cover four "squares". Let's get 'r done!
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5 hours ago, Peter said:
The following is not a popular opinion on this board:
As much as I love the Pegulas, it was a huge mistake h[f]iring Rex. There is no way a coach should be fired in less than two years --- especially a coach who had been the most successful coach for the Buffalo Bills for the past nearly two decades and who was being undermined behind the scenes with leaks etc. Rex should have been allowed to at least continue for the term of his contract.
To put things in perspective, the point differential was much worse last year than the year before and the relative offensive and defensive rankings were worse last year than the year before.
As much as Rex got grief for having11 men on the field (when, as it turns out, a DB got hurt and a defensive back coach presumably did not send a replacement in the game), Rex never had 15 freaking guys on the field as McCoach did last year against the Pats. I do not think that I ever have seen any other team or coach have 15 guys on the field at the same time.
Rex also had personality whereas the current guy is McMilktoast and cannot help repeating his stolen mantra the "process." McCoach is Dick Jauron without the charisma. Between his personality and what he has done with the team, he has sucked the life out of the team (and my view of the team under him).
I would take Rex over the current guy and thought it was unfair to undermine and then fire Rex in less than two years. As I state above, Rex should have been allowed to at least coach the team through the term of his contract.
As much as I am not particularly impressed with McCoach, I also think that it would be unfair to fire him in less than two years.
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Just now, MJS said:
So what was the correct course of action?
In hindsight? Pushing hard to sign Teddy Bridgewater and using all that draft capital to improve the OL and WR.
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Hilarious. What a s***show. Happiest person to hear this news? Colin Kaepernick. Additional evidence for his collusion case against the NFL.
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A little off topic. So who "won" the McCoy trade? On paper, you'd have to say the Bills won hands down. We get 3+ years of ProBowl caliber running back for a middle of the road, oft injured LB who was traded after we traded him. But what did we win? Would the resources (player and money) have been better spent somewhere other than RB? This is the old Sabres topic. It really doesn't matter whether you win battles (individual trades), it's whether you win the war.
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I was going to start a separate thread but this may fit in this one (just about anything can fit into this one). It's the Animal House argument. "We're going to get waxed Monday night no matter what we do so we might as well have a good time doing it." Let's do something we haven't done in 17 years with Brady. Blitz every play. Play tight coverage. Hit him every play. Hit him after the whistle. Hit him at the knees. Hit him in the head. He'll kill you if you blitz but so what. He'll kill you if you don't. The penalties won't help but so what. We're not going to win the game no matter what. For chrissakes, he's 41, see if he can absorb some punishment.
On an unrelated topic the local paper decided to print all time leaders in TD passes. Three of the top nine are from the same draft class (E. Manning, Rivers and Rothlisberger). Gee, to bad we didn't pick a QB that year.
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I'm guessing 2-17 for 26 yards in a very low scoring affair.
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I'm thinking Colts D may be a better move.
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I'm usually in the "he (or it) can't be any worse" camp but this time I'm not so sure. As much as Peterman is not an NFL-caliber quarterback, Anderson has essentially not played in the NFL for two years, joined the Bills about 10 days ago, and even when he was "good", that was back in 2008-2009. The one year he was really good, Cleveland beat the Bills in Cleveland in a snow game and he looked meh and the next year was the infamous 6-3 game (aka "the worst football game ever played") and he was 2-17 for 23 yards. 2-17!! I'm thinking it's going to look like Matt Leinart in the preseason game a couple of seasons back.
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17 minutes ago, Livinginthepast said:
Here are the "epic" hilites !!!!
Wow that punt muff from Parrish was incredibly dumb. I loved going down memory lane and seeing Jauron's corpselike visage and his 1000 yard stare.
Did you stick around long enough to check out D. Anderson's stat line from that game - 2 out of 17. That's when he was "good".
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19 minutes ago, Nelius said:
I’m only arguing that he’s better than Peterman, Derek Anderson, and the current Josh Allen. A poster in this thread acted like Fitz and Peterman are interchangeable - does any rational non-troll really believe that?
Thank you. That's all I'm trying to say. IF you want to salvage the season (and maybe you don't for a myriad of reasons), Fitzpatrick - as of October 15, 2018 - is better than Peterman, Anderson and Allen.
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Also, it's a legitimate question as to whether the season should be saved. Is 4-12 better than 8-8, given the cap space opening up next year, given another opportunity to pick a blue-chip prospect and given that some people believe it's better to play Allen for the game experience than to sit him.
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He's not a savior and he's not a long term answer. He's not even an answer beyond this year. I posted this only to posit this question - is the season worth saving? Do you waste this defense? I think Allen certainly has some potential but it's pretty obvious he's not ready. When is the last time Derek Anderson completed a pass in an actual NFL game? I think Fitzpatrick is a very limited QB but he's better than what we have. Anybody else out there that's can be had cheap that improves the situation?
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Well, not in Tampa Bay, just nearby. There's a 35 year old quarterback named Ryan Fitzpatrick who as recently as a couple of weeks ago threw for 400 yards in back to back games. The Bucs aren't going anywhere, Winston will be the starter, they have a young third-string QB, so if the Bills offered something stupid (4th round pick for 35 year old back-up QB?), they'd probably take it. We all know what Fitzy is and what he isn't. He's certainly better than anything on the roster right now. It would be a shame to throw away the year when the D is playoff caliber. This isn't about Allen by the way. Some guys should sit their first year. He's one of them.
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This is half-serious. Can someone please tell me the last time the Bills CORRECTLY managed the QB situation? It wasn't when the passed on Bridgewater. It wasn't when they picked Manuel. It wasn't when they cut Fitzpatrick. It wasn't when they traded a #1 for a washed up Bledsoe. It wasn't when they picked Losman. It wasn't when they traded a top ten picked for Rob Johnson. It wasn't when they gave a huge contract to Johnson for no reason. It wasn't when they passed on Drew Brees to pick yet another DB. It wasn't when they lost Jim Kelly to the USFL for THREE years. It wasn't when they traded Lamonica to the Raiders. OK, now I've made myself depressed. Sorry.
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I'm not trying to define the kid's career after 4 games. Really, really not. The point of the thread was to speculate as to his ceiling. Key word there is speculate. Cam Newton has had two years with a completion percentage above 60% (actually one of the two years was 60% so he's had a grand total of one year above 60%). Newton's kind of a unicorn in that respect. An extremely successful NFL QB who is not terribly accurate. The point however is that if we drafted unicorn 2.0 we still can have a franchise quarterback who's completion percentage hovers around 60%. And it isn't fair to even compare rookie Cam to rookie Josh. Cam won the Heisman and played in the SEC. I am firmly in the camp that Allen would have been better off sitting this year but it is what it is.
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23 minutes ago, Domdab99 said:
Here's a hot take:
WE DON'T !@#$ING KNOW YET. HE'S PLAYED 4 AND A HALF GAMES!
Agree wholeheartedly but that doesn't seem to stop anyone else from expressing an opinion!
McDermott is going to cost us in a big game
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Isn't the question every owner and GM should be asking themselves is "can I envision this coach holding up the Lombardi Trophy?" Honestly, as much as I liked Marv Levy, after the third Super Bowl loss, the gross embarrassment 50 point blowout to the Cowboys, there was no way I could envision Marv winning a Super Bowl. Honestly, can you envision McDermott winning a Super Bowl? I can't.