BADOLBILZ

Another genius who threw a tantrum when I called him Lil' Dummy but is now calling him out. He went to Georgia he prefers Duke's malaise to the northern stuff.

The problem is that they haven't been trying to get BETTER at WR the past two offseasons. They knew they lacked speed and YAC at the end of the 2020 season...........and then released the speedy John Brown(presumably washed after injuries in 2020)........and only signed the tired possession receiver Emmanuel Sanders and didn't draft anyone. Then they knew they were the worst YAC team in football in 2021 and that lack of ability in the WR corps had turned Allen into RB1 in the second half of the season............and then only took a flier on the oft injured Crowder and threw a 5th round pick at the problem. They put a lot of eggs in the Gabe Davis basket and if anyone should have known to be more cautious about that it should have been them.

He was money on that 4th down play at the goal line in KC wasn't he? If he is wide open and Allen can lay it softly into him with trajectory so he can body catch it McKenzie is useful. Those are the ones he doesn't drop. Anything with velocity hits him like he's a trampoline. That includes punts.

Wrong. So you say nothing I said was true.......and then only mention a bunch of things I never said as evidence. Reality...........Crowder had a measly 6 catches on 13 targets (47%) in 4 games. After a preseason where he looked shaky in limited snaps(including creating an INT on a drop on his first target as a Bill)......then was sidelined with another injury and uncertain for the opener until late in the process.........following an offseason where he was still nursing injuries from his Jets days. Yes, McKenzie beat him out in preseason for ability and availability reasons.........which was to say the least not promising because most of us knew exactly who McKenzie was and that wasn't a starting slot receiver. Things were most certainly NOT going well for Crowder despite any perceived lukewarm acknowledgement from his QB. And fwiw Crowder actually averaged 10 yards per catch........which is not good.........9 ypc is the equivalent of a RB running averaging about 3.4 yards per carry.......it's lousy.........but the bigger issue is that a slot guy who gains little yardage needs to catch a high % of his targets, not half of them.

Even if he does he has almost no experience with Josh and was new to this offense to begin with. He was a limited participant in the offseason workouts and the reports on him weren't good and he looked bad in the preseason as well. McKenzie clearly beat him out, which is saying something.

Agreed. Beasley can be effectively washed up.........incapable of putting up good yardage per route numbers etc.......... and yet still somehow add something to this offense because they have nobody to fill this specific role. It's an indictment on Beane's handling of the WR corps the past two seasons for sure. They are a station to station offense at a time in their dynamic young QB's career when they should be shredding defense's. But they aren't going to find a dynamic WR1/WR2 on the street so they need to be the best station to station offense they can be.

That's his experience with feedback from fans. I would agree that female fans do tend to be more easily offended/outraged by criticism of the team. We do have a lot of male Mother Hens here on TSW as well though too. What would possess you to create that visual? You are TSW's Tom Brady of creepiness.........your dominance never ends.

I look at it this way.........the hopes of this offense looking like the surgical 2020 passing offense or even the one we saw late in the divisional round game against KC when Allen and Davis went off against that banged up Chiefs secondary are unrealistic given the lack of matchup winning talent on offense. But they can still be a team that can score 30+ points against a good defense by using Allen running the ball to break down otherwise well played defense 6-10 times a game to extend drives and convert in the red zone. But having someone who can convert 3rd downs to keep the chains moving from the slot is imperative when playing this style of offense. Personally, I think Beasley is probably washed but I'm open to a practice squad level flyer. I doubt Crowder offers much when he comes back because he's hardly played in this offense or with Allen.

Beasley was washed LAST season. His burst was gone. But with Lil' Dummy again snuffing out multiple drives with 3rd down drops.........they should be desperate for a guy who has great chemistry with Allen but also the hands to catch not only the routine pass but also the ones thrown off target and under duress like Beasley often did. I haven't seen the game replay yet but being their in person...........the reaction of the players when Dummy dropped that second 3rd down pass and they had to settle for the FG...........it was heated. Rarely see Allen react that frustrated and Davis and Diggs were both flailing their arms because they were open and perhaps frustrated that they gave McKenzie the chance on a big down like that...........but McKenzie was clearly the right read because he was open and it was the shortest and highest % throw. Then McKenzie gets to the sideline and appears to be explaining why he dropped the ball. Like there was some valid excuse for it. Unfortunately, the first thing that goes with WR is often the hand/eye coordination not the speed. So color me unsurprised that Smoke got open deep yesterday but couldn't catch the ball (and was credited with a drop).

Yeah but in fairness........ol' "Crystal Chandelier" would have been great in the modern NFL. Mike White's day yesterday would literally have been a low contact day for a QB throwing upwards of 30 passes in a game in 1990. The fact is that discretion is the better part of valor...........and IMO Mike White is the type of QB who relishes the opportunity to stand in and take a hit as he flings a pass up for grabs and then writhe around or play dead after said hit. When that guy gets hot he looks great and gets a mountain of credit. Hard to win with a QB like that though.

I thought Teller was atrocious in the game in Detroit against Buffalo.

Man, you are really making a lot of excuses for failure.

That's just an attempt at pumping up Edmunds. Edmunds is a great athlete but he is not a play maker. Rousseau is. Very different. They are almost the opposite in this regard. Groot gets sacks. He gets his hands on more passes than Edmunds. He creates turnovers. He lead the NFL in run stops by a DL last season. The only thing MORE ridiculous would be to compare Edmunds to Allen or Diggs.

So......BE HONEST..........how many of you deniers have changed your mind about Lil' Dummy McKenzie since that thread after the KC game? This is what you get........he makes some plays but he produces a lot of soul crushing incompetence on the field and then a total lack of self awareness off of it. Teammates are bemused by his inappropriate, care free responses to everything...........fans, less so.

It was almost too complicated to execute.........except when Leonhard was on the field. And it took a big hit in effectiveness when Goodell changed the rules of the game to greatly reduce the amount of punishment a defense could exact on QB's and WR's in 2010. The rules changes were almost a direct result of what the Jets and Steelers were doing, in particular, at the time.

It looked like soccer with White playing dead on the turf but then, of course, coming back in a couple plays later. He took some hits for sure but he clearly has the drama down like a 90's Jim Harbaugh. Whether he can parlay that into the modest success of Harbaugh remains to be seen.

I had the feeling at the time that he was pressed into service whether he was ready or not against Detroit........and his limited snaps didn't do anything to change that..........so maybe getting Rhodes up to speed and Tre back to full snaps allowed them to rest Elam and get him closer to full health. Whether some feel it is warranted or not the Bills have a rep for erring on the side of caution and giving players extra time to heal when other organizations might have expected those player to be out there.

Elam wasn't on the report but he had been injured in the Vikings game and missed the Cleveland game with that ankle injury and was limited to 21 snaps in the Detroit game.

A Christmas Story Christmas Vacation Elf I'm also a fan of the Xmas slasher movies and Bob Clark who directed "A Christmas Story" actually also directed "Black Christmas"......the original one of the genre.....in the 70's. I think "You Better Watch Out" with Fiona Apple's crazy dad as the deranged Santa is my favorite of those movies though.

Man....your two favorites were BOTH summer movies? I know they are based around Xmas but for people who saw them in the theatre it's hard to not remember them as a summer escape from the heat. I literally remember the day going to each of those movies. Gremlins was hyped and we went to the theatre specifically to see it but Die Hard had zero publicity and we had just gone to the theatre to get out of the heat and figured it was going to be horrible.

$10M for Robertson is a lot. He had a good season but is 38 and the last time he was any good prior to that was 2018.

There is an old business axiom: "Pigs get fat.......hogs get slaughtered." The NCAA have started themselves down a path that could undermine their money raking racket. Yeah........it's likely to make the product worse.........and do less to prepare players for the NFL..........which in turn encourages the NFL to eventually do something about that. The NFL was happy to let the NCAA make their millions and not have to deal with developing their own talent but when the system fails then they will do something about it. Between the chaos at the college ranks and the declining youth enrollment.........the NFL has a problem on it's hands. This years draft.......there are *maybe* 15 guys who are going to have first round grades..........if those kind of numbers become the norm that is unacceptable production by the NCAA if I am the NFL.

He was the only guy who could make Rex Ryan's complicated defense work. Would be most interesting to see what he could do as a DC in the NFL.

People remember the position players but the key thing George knew in the 1970's was that you never had enough pitching..........back in the day of 4 man rotations he was always adding EXTRA big name starters(like Don Gullett) and even signed a closer(Gossage) when his existing closer(Sparky Lyle) had just won the Cy Young award. I like Verlander but after watching old man Scherzer limp to the 2022 finish......totally spent........I wouldn't want two 40 somethings at the top of the rotation. Now that Cohen is up over $300M every dollar he spends gets taxed at 90%...........so if they go after a young ace like Rodon at $30M per Rodon would actually cost them $57M per year.

So you are a contract doomsdayer naysayer? All they need to calm everyone down is for AJ Epenesa to turn into that 2021 @Miami AJ Ephinephrine and revive that pass rush for a couple months