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BADOLBILZ

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  1. I'm a big fan of Josh Allen and think he SHOULD be the best QB in the NFL right now.........but he isn't yet a student of the game and sometimes that costs his team wins with strings of mental mistakes/turnovers. He is the most physically gifted QB in the league but has turned the ball over more than anyone else since he entered the league. I've put a good share of blame on McBeane for not surrounding him with better talent on offense but he hasn't done all he can to be the best he can be either.
  2. Leonard Fournette is terrible in pass pro.........he's always been a dumb player. Good hands........sure.........but zero explosiveness left.
  3. It's much too early to worry about margin for error. It's probably their toughest matchup of the rest of the season because the Bengals have excelled at doing things that disrupt the Bills offense and defense, respectively. They can dissect a bend-don't-break defense and confuse a QB who isn't on top of his game mentally........both Bills vulnerabilities. But all the "doom" stuff from fans really causes me to roll my eyes...........the same sad-sack fans used to lament that there was no way for the Bills to beat the Chiefs and now they've largely outplayed KC in their last 3 meetings and won 2 of them.
  4. If you didn't know that you shouldn't be starting a thread about it. It's that time of year when the people of TSW who don't follow college football begin tuning in and starting threads about players when they have zero perspective on what they are watching. Penix knees are torn up......he's a statue.........and he's been kicking around college football forever.
  5. Yep. One of the things I find funny though is that the NFL took the ultra-violence out of the passing game by protecting "defenseless" QB's and WR's............and now there is way more contact in the secondary on any given play than at any point since the league first significantly changed how pass interference was called in the 1970's. What passes for "incidental contact" or "hand fighting" nowadays would have been called a mugging in the early 1990's when Bills teams were going to SB's. The old way of playing pass defense was to stay close to the receiver and then when the ball gets to him put your helmet on his chin or undercut them and flip them on their head.........and knock him out cold if possible. That addressed the pass defense challenge on many levels. Since the defense can't do that anymore they gotta' clutch and grab like mad and with more crazy arm talent and dynamic receivers entering the league every season the NFL kinda' has to find a way allow a lot of that or every game would be a boat race.
  6. It was more of a gaslighting technique used by Ralph's apologists than a "myth"............because there was abundant proof that it wasn't always the case that he was cheap. The game was to say Ralph was cheap and roll your eyes........then wait for people to object to the eye roll part.......so they could then point to some expensive signings etc.. Larry Felser said it best...........the one word definition for Ralph was "mercurial"..........and it's very difficult to be a consistent, systematic winning organization when your leader is prone to sudden changes of mood and mind.
  7. Yep.........Shill isn't going to make up something like that.........he wouldn't be a shill if he did.
  8. Just going by what Shill Capaccio said about Benford practice regimen this week on WGR yesterday.........and while I have little respect for Shill and his habit of talking out of both sides of his mouth(like "people who criticize Tremaine don't know football" and 6 months later "Tremaine just couldn't make plays" ).......it's for that very reason that I suspect Benford does have something of a tender hammy if Shill even dared mention it. If he pops that hammy, Shill knew it could happen!
  9. Yeah they obviously don't see him as questionable then and it's only worth noting because it might be foreshadow an injury that COULD impact his availability sometime later in the season.
  10. Yeah it's different.........for one thing, Ralph was a nightmare for coaches to work for. To paraphrase Chuck Knox "Buffalo is where coaches go to die". Ralph had no respect for the value of coaches and by the time he finally realized he needed a quality HC to turn his team around in the late 2000's good coaches like Mike Shanahan and Bill Cowher wouldn't even take a blank check to work for him. The Bears could actually get a great HC but their leadership is just clueless in general, not boycotted by the coaching profession like Ralph when he had to hire Buddy Nix and Chan Gailey. And the accountant was Jeff Littman. He played his part, and had his own selfish reasons, to encourage Ralph to treat the team like it was just a business with a limited shelf life to suck cash from instead of as a going concern. Ralph would spend big.........but only if he thought the team was close to winning big. He was notorious for being a football idiot who couldn't tell what kind of team he had until he saw them play thru a preseason and then when it was clear the team was going to suck he would look to cut solid players he could "lose without" and save money before salaries became guaranteed in week 1. That was a profitable business move in the short term........but it was bad for the development of the team. Guys like Dwan Edwards and Langston Walker were replaced by total incompetence that made it hard to even evaluate the talent at some other positions and made the organization look like a clown show that only hurt their ability to bring in outside talent in offseasons. I do agree that the Bears could be turned around quickly by good ownership.
  11. He doesn't have an injury designation but the word was that he sat out that practice with a sore hamstring.
  12. The issue is defensive holding and illegal contact penalties..........and the reason they seem to be up on big downs is that more and more defenses are adopting the approach of preventing big plays at all costs. Because there are more dynamic receiving weapons in the NFL than ever before. The influx of talent at WR since 2017 has been unprecedented. We used to see an occasional big year.......like the great 1996 or 2014 draft classes..................now there are a bunch of studs joining the ranks from almost every class. And this is after terrible WR classes in 2015-2016 that had a team like the Chiefs paying Sammy Watkins top of the league money coming off a down season. The offensive rules changes in 2010 followed by the subsequent rise of travel team flag football where young players are allowed to really hone their skills in the pass game has created a lot more QB and WR talent.
  13. Off topic but related to this point..........I was watching an NBA "in season tournament" game last night and a guy blocked a shot in the paint and fell hard to the ground........the ball is still in play and the guy whose shot got blocked reaches down and helps the guy that blocked it back up to his feet as a 3 pointer is being shot and then they both go up for the rebound. Yeah.......sports are definitely different than they used to be.
  14. Yeah between re-paying the network and the sponsors and Jaguars and stadium owners etc.. for their costs and lost revenue and the incredibly punitive fines that would be about $100M check for Pegula plus a loss of a bunch of draft picks, cap room etc..
  15. "Doesn't happen" is an absolute and just obviously wrong. The context of the discussion I was involved with was the belief by some posters that players could be claimed from the practice squad without consent......like a waiver claim. They can't. And in the context of "zero choice" it doesn't take many to be "a lot". 10, 20, 30 times in a given year........all those numbers are a lot more than zero. There are 512 practice squad spots available in the NFL at any given time and 17 weeks for said players to change teams and a myriad of reasons to stay in one place over another. In THAT context.....thousands of potential opportunities for teams to try to entice players off of another practice squad.........10, 20, 30 or even 100 is not "a lot".....and nor was that the claim. We literally watch players walk away from good money and then a year or less later return for practice squad or league min type work. When players get late in their careers every decision isn't about making life changes to squeeze out 1 more active roster minimum game week check.
  16. So to re-cap you said situations where players choose to stay on a teams practice squad if offered any kind of opportunity to be on an active roster regardless of situation, guarantees etc.. "doesn't happen"and said that suggesting it does was "talking out of your ass". Now you are saying "Sure there are exceptions".🙄 So basically............you were just talking out of YOUR ass. I never suggested that most PS players won't take the opportunity to get a week on a 53 man roster somewhere even if they run the risk of being cast adrift thereafter...........but they have the choice and some choose to stay where they are. Saying it "doesn't happen" was idiotic. And while I don't always fall on the side of "listen to everyone else's opinion in the thread".........nobody is agreeing with your take that it "doesn't happen"(which you are now backing off of even though it renders your ENTIRE argument pointless to admit it "does happen").
  17. Agreed on the defense. They aren't an exceptionally physical unit so people confuse that with a lack of identity but they have an identity. But I would say that the 2020 offensive identity was about the players and it didn't even last that full season. They had arguably the top receiving unit in the NFL early in that season when John Brown was still healthy and Beasley was at his peak(and Davis sneaking past defense's as the extra option). By the end of that season.......due to the erosion of WR talent due to injury.........that identity was already gone. Yeah defense's have adjusted and the league started calling holding penalties on OL again in 2021 etc.. but their overall WR corps has just simply gotten worse each successive season. And since the league is so deep at WR now..........defense's are playing a lot more zone and 2 deep safety IN GENERAL.........its not just a tactic against a few teams. The influx of WR talent from the college level from 2017-2018 to now is really unprecedented and the Bills have missed that train. And what's frustrating about it is that it's not the D line where they need 4 studs and 4 good backups...........they just need ONE other top WR to pair with Diggs and then the Gabe's and Shakir's etc.. will suffice. Identity re-established.
  18. The Bills identity as a team is Josh Allen running around and making plays and the defense limiting big plays, getting leads and making plays in the pass game(as it has always been since McD got there). Unfortunately they haven't put enough weapons around Allen to develop a different identity on offense. That's all it comes down to. Philly and SF and Miami seem to have more obvious, sustainable offensive identities in great part because they went to great lengths to put the players around the QB and do it in short order so they are all in their primes. (Whether any of their QB's are good enough is a different story)
  19. It's also turned into a place where players who are on the fence about playing can ease their way out of the league while still being around the things they will miss most.........the camaraderie and atmosphere of being on the team and in the locker room.
  20. It was clearly an idiotic question from an idiot...........and now he's doubled down. Since the league expanded the PS and made it more lucrative there are a lot of veterans on teams basically getting paid to workout and help the team prepare.........in places they want to be........or around people they want to be around etc.. Duke Johnson got paid pretty well to sit on the PS in Buffalo last year..........but let's say Arizona decided they need a veteran to handle 10-12 carries in week 17. Are you saying he would definitely jump ship from a SB contender who he's one injury away from playing for just for the larger pay check and potentially miss the playoffs? Of course this kind of thing DOES happen. A guy like Eli Ankou has to pretty much take every chance he gets.........but the practice squad isn't full of guys who are just playing for the money OR the chance to play in one more game.
  21. Yeah "Laid-off" Lenny is not an upgrade on Murray if that's what people think. Pretty amazing to see a guy with seemingly so much physical talent have such an underperforming career. Consistently below league average yards per carry........lousy yards per reception. If he had been a 2nd rounder or later I bet he'd have been out of the league a couple years ago.
  22. Joseph is a big DT but Washington was in a different category. He played close to 400, was a little shorter with longer arms and bigger hands and a better athlete. He was the perfect NT and the Bills lost their identity when they lost him. Joseph was never in that category of difference maker but he was really good in his prime. He's not that guy anymore but I think he'll like the Bills D and hopefully play a little better in the Bills D than he did last year for Philly.
  23. I used to say pass rusher was the clear 2nd most important position to QB..........but in the last 6 seasons in particular WR has really closed the gap in terms of importance and a proven indicator of deep playoff advancement. And having a really good WR2 has proven to be a pretty easy ask.....it's not like only a handful of teams has them.......even teams with loaded DL like Philly and SF have them. If you are going to be as DL-centric as the Bills want to be you REALLY gotta' be able to at least develop some of your own reserve DL who can play that you didn't have to spend a 1st or 2nd round pick or free agent contract in. I like Beane and think he can improve.....and is improving gradually. But they aren't a GREAT team because Beane and McD are only GOOD at their jobs. If one or the other were great at what they do they'd have won a SB in the past 3 seasons. Overall, since day 1 McD has been the better of the two and I think has less ceiling left. So Beane really needs to get in that Howie Roseman category of GM and doesn't have a lot of excuse not to with all the rope Terry Pegula has given him.
  24. Not true, though that would be convenient for those looking to make an excuse for Beane not putting better playmakers around their QB. They weren't pro-active about that in either of the last 2 offseasons and deadlines. Yeah they took a flyer on an aged Emmanuel Sanders and spent a 1st round pick on Kincaid a couple years later but when you contrast that to moves made on the DL.......where they are obsessed with never having less than 8 blue chip picks or high end veterans at every position.....it wasn't much invesment. Specifically WR? Meh........Diggs and a bunch of day 3 picks and UDFA's was apparently "fine" until the market tightened up. Beane was simply behind the curve.........he passed over WR talent to trade up for Elam and maneuver for James Cook.........and then got priced out of the OBJ and Hopkins free agent markets and beaten to the punch for WR's in round 1 in 2023. He made his own misfortune.
  25. No, they can't. That's not how it works. They are technically free to sign with any team while on a PS but they can't be "plucked" or claimed. They can choose to stay on the teams PS or get elevated etc.. They are free agents........simple as that. A lot of players choose to stay on PS despite 53 man roster offers because they like their longer term outlook with the team they are on the PS with etc..
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