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I think EJ was a victim of a negative narrative more so than bad play. He was given 14 starts before he was benched. That seems extremely short for a first round pick. Compare his stats in those 14 games to Josh Allen's first 14 games: Passing: Player Comp. Att. Comp. % Yards Yds/Att. TD Int. Sacks Yards Lost EJ Manuel 256 437 58.6% 2810 6.4 16 12 34 -203 Josh Allen 229 408 56.1% 2750 6.7 13 15 30 -227 Rushing: Player Att. Yards Avg. Rush TD Fumb. Fumb. Lost EJ Manuel 69 238 3.4 3 7 3 Josh Allen 111 710 6.4 10 12 4 Player Record EJ Manuel 6-8 Josh Allen 8-6 Passing wise it's wild how similar they are, and I might give EJ the edge there. Josh is obviously the better rusher, but he had 19 turnovers to EJ's 15. Is the difference in rushing and 2 more wins enough of a difference to anoint one guy a savior and the other a complete bust? *Disclaimer: I ❤️ Josh Allen, just thought EJ got a raw deal here and never got a real chance to grow and succeed.

I won't speak to the quality of PFF's grading or service, but I do know that every single NFL team subscribes to them and most work directly with PFF to import PFF grades and data directly to the team's internal video/database/reporting software. Their service is valued because teams simply don't have the will or manpower to grade every single player in the league on every single play. That said, there are a LOT of coaches and FO people at every level who more rely on familiarity with schemes, past coaching connections, or physical potential than grades and analytics. Not sure where McBeane falls on that scale.

McCoy might be paying attention to this more than most think he should because in his world PFF can be a big deal. Almost every (if not all) NFL team subscribes to the corporate version of PFF and use it heavily. Many treat the -1, 0, +1 grading like gospel. When teams create an analytics department, they are hiring some out of work coach or freelance sports report writer to make them PDFs based off of both internal data and PFF data. Coaches use them for scouting and front offices use them for grading free agents. McCoy is around this stuff during his average day at work. Probably puts some stock in to it.

Unnecessary headlines like this are what start to shy people away from talking to the media. Angling for negativity in the coaching search when Kim did nothing but praise Rex is lazy. Potentially damaging a long term bridge here for click-bait that lasts 24 hours. I'm a little surprised by the short shortsightedness of the media here.

Doesn't look too great at 4-1. http://www.sportsclu...st/Buffalo.html

Depends on the conference. UMASS is leaving the MAC because they won't put the money into their other sports to bring them up to MAC level. http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/10677441/massachusetts-minutemen-reach-agreement-leave-mid-america-conference-2015-season

I remember hearing rumblings about this a few years ago. Wiki gives it a decent explanation (Link). There are other articles with Mark Davis' quotes about being 'secondary tenants'. Seems like the real issue. Oakland Raiders as possible co-tenants[edit] There was a possibility that the 49ers' Bay Area rivals, the Oakland Raiders, might share the stadium, allowing its costs to be split between the two teams.[43] The 49ers[43] and Raiders[44] have publicly said it would be an option if possible, while NFL commissionerRoger Goodell is strongly in favor of the two sharing a stadium.[45] Fans of both teams reacted negatively to the idea. Along with the New York metropolitan area (where the New York Giants and New York Jets shared Giants Stadium from 1984–2009 and currently share its successor, MetLife Stadium, which both teams financed), the Bay Area is one of two NFL markets with two teams. The 49ers and Raiders sharing a stadium would not be unprecedented, as the two shared Kezar Stadium for part of 1960.[46] It would also fulfill the late Raiders owner Al Davis' elusive goal of a new stadium, something he had strongly desired since moving the teamfrom Los Angeles back to Oakland in 1995.[47] The Raiders, as it stands, play at O.co Coliseum and are the only NFL team still sharing its home field with a Major League Baseball team; the Raiders' lease on the Coliseum expires after the 2013 season.[48] In the wake of Davis' death, the possibility of the 49ers and Raiders sharing the stadium became a stronger possibility, as the Raiders would be more receptive to the idea. However, by October 2011, the 49ers were far enough along on the stadium to have reportedly already sold over a quarter of the luxury suites, meaning the Raiders would be forced to be secondary tenants.[49] In October 2012, Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis told reporters he had no plans to share the Santa Clara stadium with the 49ers. According to the report, discussions have remained open, although Davis wants to keep the team in Oakland, or a nearby site in Dublin, California.[50]

The lease calms our short-term fears, but we're looking for an owner to calm our medium and long-term fears of the Bills moving. To me, Donald Trump minimizes the medium term (10-15 years), but raises my long term fear significantly even if you give his words of loyalty to Buffalo the benefit of the doubt. We all think/hope that Mary Wilson and the trust want to or feel obligated to sell to local interests. I can imagine twenty years from now, potential sellers like Pegula/Golisano/Jacobs etc. feeling the same obligations. We've seen Pegula and Golisano already act this out. I'd feel much safer with owners who have historical ties to the region or family to leave the team to. Donald Trump is 67 years old. If he lives to the average age of an American male, he'll be gone in about 10 years. The Jacobs/Pegula/Golisano crowd don't have much time themselves, but I can imagine their trusts and families will have much more sentimentality in a sale equation than Donald Trumps'. A sale to Trump would be certainly be fun for the next few years, but imagine what a sinking feeling it will be in 2025-2030 when we are hearing rumors of the Trump trust looking to maximize the value of their NFL team.

It bothers me when people on here say T.O. took plays off and didn't try here. If you're watching T.V. you see T.O. on only small percentage of the plays, since the cameras can't show all 11 players complete their full routes. If I've learned one thing it is that coaches are so damn busy watching the how the play unfolds they don't have time to breath let alone individually evaluate players. That is why they spend until 10pm every night of the season going back over tape of previous games and grading how each player executed each play. If you have access to those tapes I'll listen to you. Other than that, you can't tell me you get a true indicator of a guys performance when you see him 1 out of every 4 plays on your glorious 50-inch plasma, and please don't tell me you can see it in the stadium surrounded by 50000 drunk 20 year olds screaming better than a coach in a silent booth with binoculars. Another thing, during the Colts game last year, I loved to see T.O. play around in the snow, and get up on the Bills bench, stand towards the crowd and get them into it when the team was on defense. I don't know how many people know this, but after the game, T.O and George Wilson both made complete laps around the stadium shaking hands of the fans that were left, they both bypassed the tunnel to get out of the cold and made sure to get every fan that was left in the stadium. T.O then went and took that huge Bills flag they wave around after scores and ran around the field with it, eventually running it off with it into the tunnel and into Bills history. There were only a few dozen fans left in the seats by this time. With the way the players of both teams and the fans wanted out of their and into someplace warm, I thought that was a pretty cool thing for him to do. Is he slowing down? Probably. Is he too expensive? Probably was. Would he have been a 1000 yard receiver in a semi-decent offense? Probably. Everyone on this team was depressed and listless last year. Do we need to resign him? *shrug* Who knows. We just need more players like him who feed off of the competition and hate losing.