Haplo848
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#2, 12, and 18. I say 12 because the best place to watch Bills games (or any football games, whatsoever) in my town also happens to be a Steelers bar. I hate the Steelers. And it's worse, cause one of my friends is a Steelers fan, and we normally hang out there during games. So definitely a #12. #2 and #18 alternate, depending on where I am and who I'm with.
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Quoted on Buffalobills.com, when referring to the need to institute blitz packages as early as OTA's, here is what the head-coach of the Bills said:
“Everyone in OTAs now is doing it,” said head coach Doug Marrone. “We have to get our players ready. You think about how training from an offensive standpoint, we’re getting the technique correct and then you’re going forward and working on those technique and fundamentals. Then for the quarterback he’s going to throw a route versus air. Then the next point is decision making. So the faster we can get to situations where is it zone, or is it pressure? Now they have to make decisions on the field and the better they’ll become and the better the evaluation for us.”
Whew. I can't follow that. We could be in for some painful post-game press conferences. But, I suppose that doesn't really matter. If he wins, I could care less whether he puts a grammatical sentence together.
That's not that hard to understand. He's talking about the progression of going from the simplest fundamentals (such as 'throwing against air,' aka no defense) to trying to read the defense ("So the faster we can get to situations where 'is it zone, or is it pressure?'" where the single quotes denote what the QB has to get better at doing, figuring out what the defense is doing. That last part may cause trouble, but it is a problem with how it's written, not what Doug said). Finally, they progress to making game decisions, and getting faster at it, making it easier for the coaches to evaluate them. What's so difficult about this?
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If Hard Knocks was something that could only be seen by Bills fans and not hurt the team in any way, I'd actually be interested in watching that show for once. However, even with that caveat, which is completely implausible, I'd still be against it. With all the rookies and young guys were relying on this year, it would be an added distraction that would take away from time spent learning the play book or practising. So no, I'm definitely against it.
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Personally, I just don't understand how they can justify putting the Raiders ahead of ANYONE. That team is so devoid of talent...
Also, how in the world do they justify putting the Super Bowl winning team at 8th? Until the season starts, they are the undisputed #1...
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Seriously? You're already redoing the draft? We all want real football to start, but it's only been a couple days since the draft, give it a break. We had all those mock drafts before the draft that we can now mock, don't add your own to it.
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This sucks, I really wanted Ertz and Hunter in this round, and they go 2/3
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Has anyone ever seen anything detailing each teams cumulative preparation day difference each year? The Bills this year, play three teams coming off a bye, and play three teams coming off of a Thursday night game so that they have 10 days to prepare instead of 3. The Bills play the Falcons after their bye, but the Falcons are one of the teams that play a Thursday night game the week before, so that's only 4 days extra to prepare for the Falcons. We have 3 extra days to prepare for the Bengals (the Browns and Bills play on the previous Thursday so there's no net gain or loss against the Browns). That's plus 7. However, we also have -21 from the three teams coming off byes, and -6 from the other two teams playing the Thursday night before they play us. That's a cumulative total of 20 extra days that our opponents get to prepare and rest up for us that we don't also have. I looked at it last year, and found a net loss there as well.
The Patriots, on the other hand, have extra days against the Bucs (+3, Thursday night game), Panthers (+7, bye) and Ravens (+1, Ravens coming off Monday night), while they have a loss against the Broncos (-1, coming off Monday night game). That's a net gain of +10. Is anyone else pissed off bye this lack of parity and blatant favoritism?
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I went to the Jags home opener against the Bills about 5 years back, and my girlfriend at the time and I were both wearing Bills jerseys and hats. We got some good-natured heckling and repeatedly told to "go back to Canada," but other than that, it was all good.
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I would go even further. When you pick top ten in a draft your pick needs to be a day one impact starter that is elite at his position in the draft class. Chance Warmack
The bolded word is the problem with what you're proposing. Guards don't have nearly the impact that almost any other position does. If you want a game changer, than you don't pick a guard. You can get a very good guard with only slightly lower talent and ability for a lot cheaper later in the draft. Picking up a guard at 8 would be the definition of stupidity. It does not help us in the slightest.
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Not to dampen this guys attempt, but his chances of a comeback in Washington are long, at best. Cousins and Griffin? I do not know if I would want the 3rd QB to be White. I would rather a more veteran journeyman type to help teach and coach from the sideline.
I'm pretty sure the goal for the Redskins is to have a fast mobile QB to replicate an RG3 offense while RG3 is injured, then drop White once RG3 comes back unless White shows a lot more than he has in the past. White's goal is to play well enough that SOMEONE (maybe not the Redskins) likes him enough to put him on a roster for the season
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It's simple. You pay the people who perform and are difference makers. All else are expendable and replaceable. Doesn't matter the position, doesn't matter if you're already stacked at that position, you pay the difference makers and find ways to get them on the field. The 49ers did it with Navarro Bowman, paying a second MLB huge dollars, even though they were already giving large amounts of money to Willis at the same position, and they find ways to get both of them on the field. The salary cap is not increasing very much, if at all, yet the amount that the best players are paid keeps increasing. It's got to the point where if you have $10 million to spend on two positions, you take a guy worth $9 million/year, and one worth $1 million/year, not two guys each worth $5 million.
In summary, it DOES NOT MATTER what position we pick, as long as we pick a genuine game-changer, and pay them to stay around when their contract comes up. Levitre was good, but he simply wasn't a game-changer, and so he's gone. If the Bills want to compete in this league, they have to stop filling every hole with someone worth a few million a year, and find those incredible players that are worth the $10 million or so a year, pay them, keep them around as the core of the team, and fill in around them with young, cheap talent or cheap replaceable parts. It's how you win in this league.
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Kai Forbath (Kicker for the Redskins) has to go on this list
Also, if you want to throw in stupid names from Madden, you can go with a guy named Aaron Aaron, another with the last name St. Saint, and finally, a CB with the last name Ladyman
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I'm gonna laugh when no QBs go in the first round
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None, their going to save the cash and carry it over to next year when they might actually have a chance of doing anything with their season
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How come I get the feeling this year will end up being like the 2010 draft? We pass up a QB in the first round, people start yelling to trade up or pick one in the second, and they don't, then this year's Jimmy Clauson goes a few picks later. We get back on the clock in the third round, and all the QBs that people have been saying we need to pick in the first round are still there in the 3rd...
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People on here seem to think that it's unlikely that the Bills will move up in the draft, as the Bills have so many holes and only 6 picks with which to fill them, not to mention the fact that the QB class next year should be better than it next year, so trading next years picks would be a horrible idea as well. Therefore, the Bills should just hope that Geno Smith should fall to them. However, three teams traded within or into the top 6 picks last year on Draft Day, not including the redskins epic trade up for RG3 that happened before the draft. Is no one else worried that if Geno starts to drop to us, some other team will trade in front of us for him? Teams flat out know that we're going to take a QB this year, probably in one of the first two rounds. Is no one else worried about the Jets moving in front of us? The Titans, if they're unsure of Jake Locker? Or possibly a team that currently is set at QB, but is looking towards the future?
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He reminds me of Blaine Gabbert
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Has it ever been called besides the Brady game? There was one play in the playoffs, can't remember which one now, that I and a lot of people thought it should have applied, but it wasn't called.
I've seen it called in many games. It's just never been on such a big stage or so obviously a fumble since Brady's tuck rule. I think we even benefited from it once this past year.
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The Buffalo Bills switched from a 4-3 defense to a 3-4 defense for 2 years back to a 4-3 defense last year and now it looks like they will be going back to a 3-4 hybrid this year. This after signing Mario Williams to a $100 contract as a 4-3 defensive end. Now Mario is going to play a lot of outside linebacker in a 3-4 defense a position he doesn't like or want to play. Just another reason why the Bills continue to lose ever year. They cannot even find a defensive identity and stick with it nor do they have the players to play this 3-4 defense. The Bills have the worst linebackers in the league and now you need 4 to play a 3-4.
Can you picture Mario Williams covering a back in coverage? It will remind you of Chris Kelsay when they tried to make a linebacker out of him. The Bills also signed another 4-3 defensive end in Anderson last year. Where is he going to play in a 3-4? Yes, I know the Bills will play some 4-3 defense but after signing Williams and Anderson to mega contracts these players will play part time or out of position.
This team continues to be a joke under Buddy Nix's leadership as the record shows. This team will compete for the #1 pick in the draft next year which may not be a bad thing because they may have a chance to pick a franchise QB in 2014.
Without a franchise QB for 17 years since Jim Kelly retired, no wide receivers other than Stevie Johnson, no tight ends or linebackers this team will win 4 games this year. There isn't enough free agents or draft choices to save this team this coming year.
Now somebody get me a god damn drink.
Just wanted to point out that Anderson played a lot of 3-4 OLB in the Patriots defense, as well as DE in a 4-3, and we converted him to a pure DE.
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He's been talked about. He's also been dismissed a bit because of how raw he is. I think he was a starter for only a single year
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Any chance you could reorganize the "career" stats into "career/year"? I feel like that's incredibly misleading, as I would guess they haven't been starting for the same length of time, have the same number of games played, etc. Other than that, though, I feel that your assessment of the QBs is INCREDIBLE. The passer rating means nothing to me, as it goes past the nonsense passer rating that the NFL uses, but other than that, it's definitely worthwhile. The stats from the webpage, though...not so much
Sure, completion percentage at each depth is important, but it doesn't tell you too much unless you know how often they threw in that range as well. If the short passes and screens are all a QB throws, and so they're so used to throwing those throws that they complete more than usual, that tells you something about the QB. Likewise, if that's all they throw, and so the safeties are drawn up into the box and never over the top of receivers, the few throws made down field would be easier to complete because of less coverage. Most yardage in the redzone is a useless stat as well. What if the coach likes to run it down at the endzone? What if you get down to the 1 yard line and then can't punch it in? If I get down to the 1 yard line every single drive, then stall out, I'm still going to have good redzone yardage. Finally, average distance of throw also means nothing, it's the average distance of COMPLETION that matters.
Anyways, really good post, I'm just ranting about misleading statistics. I'm told not to take my work home with me, but considering I'm still in the office writing up astrophysics proposals past midnight on a Saturday, I guess I have an excuse...
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The Bills need a productive receiver! Tall and fast do not necessarily translate into production (see TJ Graham). Austin is dynamic, if we have a chance to get him, I say yes! With creativity, he could be a deadly weapon. Much like Jackson in Philly.
I hate when people compare Austin to Desean Jackson in Philly. Completely different builds. Jackson's much more dense, so although he's short, he can still take a beating. Austin will get destroyed in the pros. All those underneath routes he ran in the highlights where h could just run through the defense untouched? Not happening in the NFL. He would get destroyed. Players are bigger and faster, which means that Austin will get hurt and play in maybe half the games each year, at most
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He doesn't really outrun too many people in that video. He seems more quick than fast. Also, I'm pretty sure he's known for his drops, and hasn't been playing football for very long. It seems like he has incredibly high potential, but that's pretty much all it is at this point.
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Personally, I liked the "Ye Greasy Arses" and the "Delightful Chums We Had a Tendency to Oppress"
Interesting comment by Brian Moorman about the past Bills
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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See, this is why I feel we need Bobby April back, not so much why we need Brian Morman. Brian Mormon in his prime, I'd be good with, too