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BADOLBILZ

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  1. They've been a VERY poor tackling team that is also sometimes just atrocious against the run for 4 seasons now. In general it has worked.
  2. I know it's probably very hard for you to believe........but honest........it's just plain boring writing. What's more is the poor taste directing people off-forum to some knock-off fan site that you post on. You are just laughably self-unaware. But at least you are consistent.
  3. I would compare the possibility of Watt coming to the Bills to when the Trent Edwards-lead Bills were trying to get Tony Gonzalez from KC. We were pretty bent about TG re-buffing the Bills interest........... but turned out that Matty Ice and squad was in-fact much > Dickie J and ol' Trend Downwards. On the surface any objective observer is going to put 5-7 teams clearly ahead of the Bills wrt SB chances. Trading for a player with much less control is more likely.
  4. I'd say this article is the very definition of bloviation. Who is your audience? Fans who didn't watch Bills games this season? It's just your specialty....... "look at me" self indulgence. If nothing else try to remember that brevity is the soul of wit.
  5. It's a disheartening style for the fanbase and you have to think the players feel the same way. Those are the games where guys like Hyde and Poyer and White go home and tell their families that the front office just didn't push the right buttons with the personnel decisions in front of them. The defensive backs in this defense have been making far too many tackles the past 4 years. It's gotta' be discouraging for them to be this far into a regime and not be better at pressuring the passer or stopping the run.
  6. The HC who put together a humiliating play-not-to-lose gameplan...........was going to play for overtime options? C'mon now. They spent the whole night stopping punches with their face and were simply hoping their exhausted D(15+ minute TOP disparity) could get a turnover and hopefully the Bills offense playing 4 down football could score a TD in the closing seconds and escape with a one point win.
  7. SUPER-Star you mean. Getting him back next year will be like having another first round pick!
  8. Yep. This happens every year with McDermott's defense.
  9. Phillips was a penetrating beast but just terrible against the run other than that occasional TFL. They tried to put him at 1T but he never played with much balance and he just couldn't do it.......he immediately gave up his shoulder and got washed whichever way the OG wanted him to go. Liuget was more of a 280-290# guy and also pathetic against the run so your memory is off there. Star was a net loss against the run as well and whatever they lose in size with him they got back in the 340# Vernon Butler. Their two best run defenders at DT last year were Oliver and Harrison Phillips. They are both back but neither is at full strength. People forget that this team has been totally trampled in the run game at times in every season since McD has been here. Remember Philadelphia coming into Buffalo and throwing up 200 on the ground last year? And it was the inability to stop the Texans run game that sparked their comeback in the playoff game. At least the poor run defense yesterday had the excuse of being because of 6 man boxes all night.
  10. John Brown's injury has been the single biggest personnel problem. Losing Milano has hurt far more than it should have but this team's new identity is as a high powered passing offense and prior to John Brown getting gimpy(admittedly not uncommon in his career) they were just rolling up points. The best bang for the buck they could get at the trade deadline is probably trading for another veteran WR like Kenny Stills or Will Fuller from Houston that could fill Brown's role as an X or Z opposite of Diggs and let Brown go on IR for a month or so until he's healthy. I think as they get closer to the playoffs the defense will improve whether they add personnel or not.........the focus and intensity on the defensive side of the ball aren't good right now and that's a significant part of their issues. It's become rather standard operating procedure for the defense to get discouraged and go on a mental vacation for a few weeks every season under McDermott.
  11. Star was a traffic cone when he was 29........a man who only occupied one blocker and couldn't disengage to make a tackle........a net win for the opposing offense........easily the worst $ investment of the Beane era. A year older he wasn't going to be any better. In fact he most likely would have been inactive last night. Tuesday night they held the Titans RB's to 97 yards on 30 carries.......3.2 yards per carry is excellent run defense........a full yard below league average. So if they wanted to be stout against the run last night they would have just played Harrison Phillips............what they wanted were plays in the backfield.......hence Zimmer........tfl's and pressures to assist their coverage game plan. They got a few of those but ultimately the rope-a-dope didn't work due to lack of execution on third downs.......in coverage. Some of you are so slow on the uptake it's laughable...........people literally needed McDermott to go to his presser and tell them that the strategy was not to give up 40 points before they realized why the Chiefs were gashing the Bills for 8 yards per carry.
  12. The Bills DT's have been getting pushed around in the run game since the Dareus trade. Guys like Vernon Butler and Harrison Phillips are plenty big and talented enough to fill the shoes but the problem is that this has been a coverage team for 3 years now and the front 4 isn't getting pass rush and the back 7 isn't what it has been in coverage. Getting plowed in the run game is nothing new for a McDermott defense........but that TD pass to Kelce on 3rd and 11 is not something we are used to seeing. It's a combination of factors but it is not that they lost two tremendous run defenders. They miss the backfield disruption of Jordan Phillips but he and Star were both lousy against the run............Edmunds has had plenty of opportunities to flow untouched to ball carriers he just always runs himself out of plays. But I think at this point he's not even expected to be excellent in run defense. He's supposed to be good in coverage and there just appears to be enough tape on him now that he is being targeted there as well. The last KC scoring drive the two biggest plays were blown coverage responsibilities by Edmunds. Tough asks of him........but he's asked to do a lot in coverage because with his physical gifts he was supposed to be a superstar.
  13. K-9 you sorry ol' hang-dog. If they win next week against the dog-assed ones they will be 3-0 in division.
  14. I expected this game to be frustrating........once it was clear that they were playing not to lose........which is not the kind of football I care to watch........ I was certain that they wouldn't break form until the end of the game. And they didn't. And had the Chiefs done the incredible and actually fumbled and lost it.....then the Bills probably would have taken a late lead and this board would be talking about how close they came to beating the Chiefs if Mahomes hadn't made some great play on the final drive of the game. I got in a full 1:26 episode of Fargo(minus commercials) between the breaks in play so at least I was THAT entertained.
  15. That's just his first year cap figure you are looking at. They could cut him right after the season.......and get out of it with only $10M of cap space spent for the one season. It's pretty much going to cost them $10M per year average.
  16. 3 years and $30M with Arizona. I am not excusing Beane's personnel work but you are thinking about the 1 year deal he signed when with Buffalo.
  17. I have always hated playing not to lose. In 2017 when it yielded upset wins in Atlanta and KC this board was flooded by people calling this same brand of football "exciting".............to me it was unwatchable. It's discouraging that they still had to resort to that gameplan in year 4.
  18. The only explanation I have is that he just wants to play for Seattle.............a lot of players gravitate to Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll thinking that the Seattle is always going to be in position to have a shot at the SB. And he might just be on the PS getting into shape. He quit in Detroit because he was frustrated with the losing. He left a lot of money on the table.
  19. I don't know what happened behind the scenes........but a massive, violent double team inducing DT who still somehow recently managed to shed the double and tackle the RB 4-6 times per game.........it's just hard to understand how he is just sitting there on a practice squad.
  20. It was totally gutless. But I think McD identified that his team is gutless emotionally right now and was just trying to keep the score down to prevent the situation from getting worse. Because we've seen stretches where McDermott teams fall into deep emotional chasms and it takes weeks to get out of it. Maybe because his team can't relate to his "every day is the same" kinda' mentality. "Do your job" works when you know the assignments are going to produce results if done correctly. When the assignments aren't well designed people start going off script. I suspect they will figure their way out of it like they did in 2017 after they played the worst 3 game defensive stretch in team history.........a softer schedule helps a lot.........they have probably played 3 of the 5 best teams they have on the schedule and are 4-2.
  21. The tape is going to say.........."well it wasn't really his fault that they couldn't stop the run"............and then in pass coverage it will be "well you can't expect him to stay with that TE or that WR" like on those 2 back-breakers on KC's last scoring drive. Sometimes you need to make plays. The Bills defensive identity is "not hard nosed and not making plays"...........sounds like Tremaine is taking a leadership role at least.
  22. Zay Jones is not coming back to the Bills obviously.............if John Brown can't get healthy........which seems like a good possibility........ then I could see the Bills in the market for a replacement. Kenny Stills might be the guy.
  23. I was intrigued when he was a restricted free agent and later on the trade block. He could really juice up the interior pass rush if he still has it. He was no slouch at DE either.
  24. It would be one thing if he just got suspended. He literally QUIT football because he wasn't allowed to openly use MJ. Always loved the talent and maybe there is a lot more to the story but it might be harder to sell the "we value players who love the game of football" to the locker room after bringing in a guy who made football such a low priority.
  25. Yeah he is just in a state the past two seasons where it's hard to envision him ever being able to play fast there. There isn't a light switch for instincts. Whereas you could see real flashes of instinctive play immediately with Josh Allen at QB...........that's never been the case with Edmunds. When a MLB is talented and instinctive you frequently have those moments in games where it looks like he and the guy with the ball are the only ones out there. Even on Edmunds best plays it's not that way........he is often one of the least visible players out there. It's frustrating to watch talent like that get wasted. Not the first time a Bills regime has played a gifted player out of position and squandered talent but it's one of the more egregious examples, IMO. Beyond the Bills organization themselves........if I were Edmunds agent or family member I'd be beside myself watching him struggle playing a cheaper position and getting beat up in the middle.............Edmunds' father played one of the more demanding positions and was a star but injuries sustained at TE quickly derailed his career. I'd want him outside where he has a chance to play a long time and earn a lot more money.
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