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Utah John

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  1. As far as a potential replacement for Dorsey, if Dorsey gets a HC job somewhere, the only real problem with Leftwich is that he'll probably be hired away in a year too. The good side of that of course is the extra 3rd rounder the Bills would get for losing a black coordinator.
  2. Roman is an innovative coach who designs schemes to maximize his best players. His Ravens scheme was brilliant for Lamar Jackson, but with it looking likely that Jackson won't return, that scheme is a non-starter for any other QB. It is absolutely not Roman's fault that Jackson chose not to play against the Bengals, but since Tyler Huntley is a very poor man's version of Jackson, the scheme didn't work when they needed it to. If I was Baltimore I'd keep Roman and let him come up with something to fit whoever is the QB next year. If it turns out to be Jackson after all, they're going to regret not having Roman around. As for the Bills, I think Roman could probably adapt to do a good job with a Josh-centric offense. Josh is also a great running QB but he's a much better passer, and the Bills O line is built for pass protection, not running. So he'd have to adapt, but I think he could do that effectively, and I think Beane would be able to revise the O line to meet his plans.
  3. Of course. That's the rule.
  4. If both teams were completely healthy, the Bengals would have the edge. We'd have Hyde back at full strength, and White playing like White. And of course Von Miller would be there. But that's it. The team without just those two and half absences is nowhere near as good as the Bills were at the start of the season. Getting the back would make them better but not by that much. But the Bengals are in far worse shape. They're down three starters on the O line. They're going to need to keep their RB in the pocket, and their TE on the line, to help block on pass plays. They still have a lot of talent with WRs but I think the Bills can limit their damage, particularly if they blitz from all different angles and with different players. And the Bengals have injuries on D as well, maybe more than the Bills do. Overall, edge to Buffalo. It is entirely possible and plausible that the Bills win on Sunday. But it's also possible that they lose. It should be a hell of a game.
  5. The big innovation the Dolphins used that I haven't seen anyone else use successfully was to spy Josh. It's a big part of the Bills' game for Josh to punish teams for leaving open space near the LOS. I have never seen anyone take that away like Miami did. All I can say is the Bills better have answers for Ds that do that. Copycat league -- you see it until you beat it. The key to the Bengals game isn't our offense, anyway. It's whether our D line and LBs can take advantage of the Bengals' disaster on their O line. So many injuries. I guess the point is that we have a very very good team that now knows it can win close games. At the start of the year the feeling was the Bills could blow you out by a lot, or lose to you by 3. Now the Bills win by 3, over and over. Or by more which is fine.
  6. As a meteorologist, I can tell you that weather modeling HAS gotten vastly better over the past couple of decades. I can also tell you that a forecast a week out is likely not reliable. Check back on Thursday or Friday for something you might rely on.
  7. I'm not about to read through 73 pages of comments to see if someone mentioned this already. But. I wonder if the Ravens had flashbacks of the Bills beating them in the playoffs when the Ravens were just about to score, and Taron Johnson intercepted a pass in the end zone and ran it back for the winning touchdown. At least that was a regular football play, which almost worked if Johnson hadn't shifted his position slightly. The Huntley fumble was just the result of a bad play concept, jumping like that instead of just pushing the pile forward with his feet on the ground.
  8. Outstanding. The Red Iguana opened up a second restaurant near the one you went to, which was the original. The food at the new one is just as good as at the old one, but the atmosphere is completely missing. I hope you didn't have to wait outside very long.
  9. I always wear a Bills hat when I'm out and about, particularly when I'm hiking, and I always get a Go Bills from another hiker somewhere along the way. This was especially true when I lived in Salt Lake City (I hope the OP went to the Red Iguana restaurant -- every visitor to SLC should do it -- get one of the moles -- that's mol-ays). The Wasatch Mountains are terrific for hiking once the snow melts in July. I was wearing my Bills sweatshirt after hiking in Glacier National Park. Sitting with my wife at outside tables at a small restaurant in the small town of East Glacier MT, the couple at the next table saw my sweatshirt and we started talking. They were from a town SE of Buffalo (Colden, I think) and were die-hard fans of the Bills. AND it turns out that my uncle's construction business built their house! The moral of the story is to wear Bills gear all the time. You never know... We drove through Chiefs country while moving last summer, and of course I had on my Bills hat. A Chiefs fan nicely asked me about it. I asked him about the impact the Tyreek Hill trade would have, and he said he was glad to be rid of Hill, saying the guy's a real jerk. Interesting the things you find out from wearing Bills gear.
  10. It's a tough situation for the entire team. I understand Watkins's view that it would be better if Jackson played, and I don't think he's calling Jackson out. It boils down to the fact that Jackson doesn't want to put his entire future at risk for a less than 50-50 chance of a SB this year. By not playing, he does himself no harm at all. Other teams, and the Ravens as well, know what a healthy Jackson can do, and he'll get paid accordingly if he's healthy. Anyone remember RG3? Robert Griffin III? He played for Washington and really lit it up his rookie year, 2012. He had a knee injury (LCL sprain) going into the playoffs, but he was put into a playoff game by HC Mike Shanahan. His injury was made much worse. He underwent surgery which was nominally successful, but he was never the same player. He lost his starting job, then his roster spot, and he became a journeyman who bounced around the league for a few years. If you think Lamar Jackson isn't aware of this history, you're just being silly. Both he and the Ravens don't want to repeat the mistakes the Redskins and RG3 himself made, both for that year and for the future.
  11. And yet if they had managed an even 500 they would have won. Their last chance came with the Bills just outside the end zone, with Allen missing McKenzie on a pass play he could do in his sleep. But Allen and the rest of the Bills were just shot. It was a heroic effort and it was a shame that they lost like that. And it's really outrageous that the Miami stadium is designed like that. The coin flip at the start of the game should be for which team gets to sit in the shade.
  12. OK, adding items that others have mentioned, just trying to get them all into one place: -- Luke Dawson's death -- Kim Pegula's health issue -- Dane Jackson's gruesome injury -- also Jamison Crowder's injury -- also Dion Dawkins's injury -- also Spencer Brown's injury -- also the losses of Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen The Timex of NFL teams. They take a licking, and they keep on ticking. (What, you're not old enough to remember that?)
  13. On top of the events the film mentioned, there was also the big storm that pushed the team out of Orchard Park for a week, and the heat stroke game sitting in the sun in Miami. I understand the theme of the film is the connection between the team and the community, and that's beautiful to see, but looking at it from only the team's perspective, this has been the season from hell, and they came together, fought through it, had a season with excellent results, and are in position to make it back to the SB. They didn't dominate that many games this year, except the first two and the Pittsburgh game, but considering the injuries to Hyde, Miller, Milano, Oliver, Poyer, Hamlin, Edmunds, White, Benford, Morse and Allen (and I'm forgetting some others), to keep winning and winning and winning despite the challenges, is ridiculously impressive. Maybe all that will go into the film they make after the Bills win the Super Bowl.
  14. Who's going to dominate the conference? All of them, two or three at a time. None of them will be on a team that is able to hold it together for a decade. The salary cap, the drafting rules, and the scheduling rules all act to prevent dynasties. It will be a wonderful, exciting, disappointing time for fans of most of the AFC teams. I suspect the team that will dominate the conference from 2023-2032 more than anyone else is the Jets, and they don't even have their QB yet. But they have a very strong defense, and a great RB coming back from injury next year.
  15. Your post could have been from 10 years ago, or 5 years ago. As long as he has a good O line, that guy could play forever.
  16. We had a couple of first round draft picks and other key players also lose time. Milano, Edmunds, Oliver. Those guys would be the best player on the team for a lot of other franchises. And yet despite all those defensive players being out, it wasn't the defense that led to the three losses (total of 8 points) it was the offense that couldn't sustain drives in a couple of games. It was the offense that fumbled, giving away the Vikings game after the defense had that great goal line stand. It was the offense that didn't convert a TD pass right at the end of the Miami loss. Aside from Crowder and some short-term injuries to the O line, the offense did not have anything like what happened to the defense wrt injuries. Allen, Diggs and nine JAGs on offense is not good enough.
  17. I think the Tua situation this year is going to result in changes with more restrictions. He got three concussions this year, not two. The first one was in the first Bills game. He never should have been allowed to return to the field in that game. Getting two more in the same year suggests he probably didn't fully recover from the first one. This situation should lead to a full review of the concussion protocol during the off-season.
  18. If they do draft a defensive player high, he should be a safety. But the O line is the greatest need.
  19. Youngsters who don't remember the 1960s. SMH. The Boston Patriots were the chief competition for the Bills in the AFL Eastern Division. They had some really great games. It was one of the Bills-Pats games where Cookie Gilchrist ran over a Boston DB, knocking him out, and then turned to the Boston bench and asked which of you m****f****s is next. Good times. Later on, the Bills weren't as good but still regarded the Pats as their main rival. Jim Nantz (the fullback, not the announcer) ran roughshod over the Bills, and basically returned the favor.
  20. He would have been gone for the 2021 season if he'd had an offer. The Bills' incredible offense at the end of last year was his ticket to being a HC. Sticking around that year turned out to make him even more sought-after, and it should have led to a Bills SB win. While I agree Frazier has earned consideration for another HC job, I think people look at his unimpressive stint as a HC previously, and his more restrained personality than any of the younger coaches have. He always appears dour, and quiet, on the sidelines. I never see him riled up by a bad play or excited about a good play -- and that's exactly what you want in a DC. But as a HC, he might not have the inspiring personality to charge up a team. Early this season, I saw a clip with Daboll and his team laughing and cheering while Daboll sang along with some rap song they all knew. And Daboll knew it too. He related great to the 20-somethings on his team. Would Frazier? I think Frazier's currently in the job and the situation he was born to be in. I hope he stays for another decade.
  21. Chicago's aiming for a world-class facility, and it has the history to back up its claim to that status. Buffalo is much smaller and is not a world-class city. I think I'm just being realistic here, not trying to cut down my home town. As to putting the new stadium in OP, a small part of that is to enable fanatical tailgaters to continue their parties, and that's fine. A bigger part, I think, is money, and another bigger part is time. Putting the stadium downtown would have required far more time to coordinate and fight lawsuits from who knows where -- but there would be lots. And money to open up a good space for the stadium and parking, and to redo the infrastructure (roads, highways, water, sewer) would have busted the budget. Someone in Chicago spent a lot of money for that great visualization. Maybe that was a good investment, to get the city behind the proposed changes, but Buffalo would dismiss such an exorbitant dream as crazy.
  22. Daboll had a long career, building capabilities and getting experience, and learning from a lot of successful coaches. He held the Giants together when injuries and tough opponents derailed their happy days early success. He deserves NFC COY in my opinion. Dorsey had one year as QB coach and one year as OC. He might like the compliment of being asked to interview, but a man's got to recognize his own limitations (thanks Clint). He's just not ready. Becoming HC on a team without a QB would be a disaster for the team and his own career.
  23. If there's a CB as good as Sauce Gardner available, the Bills should do what they need to, to get him. For any other CB, no. Sauce Gardner is going to be a pain in the butt for the Bills for a decade.
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