Haplo848

Personally, I liked the "Ye Greasy Arses" and the "Delightful Chums We Had a Tendency to Oppress"

People say this like it's an inviolable oath. It's also not true. Offenses have been winning the playoffs and Super Bowls in recent years. In the Giants/Patriots Super Bowl last year, the Giants had the better defense. They were 22nd in the league. The Pats were 30th. Meanwhile, the Pats were 3rd in offense, the Giants 9th. Going back to '91, the Super Bowl winning team had a better offensive rank than defensive 15 times, while defensive rank was better only 6 times (in '96, Denver was first in the league in both O and D). The other team that got to the Super Bowl had a better offensive ranking than defensive 18 times, and better on defense only 3 times (again 1 tie. Philly was 8th on offense and defense in 2004). You can look it up for yourself: http://www.nfl.com/features/freakonomics/episode-15 In summary, defense DOES NOT win championships. Offenses do.

"Oh wait" is right. Baltimore did NOT have a good defense this year. They were 16th in the league. What got them to the playoffs and won the Super Bowl for them was their OFFENSE. These aren't the Ravens of years past. The defense was worn down and beaten up. It's the offense and their explosiveness that got them by.

Personally, I'm more a fan of getting a weapon for our new QB in the first round, like a WR, then taking a QB in the second. Build around the offense. I want to put my new QB in a position to succeed, not turn him into a bust with bad habits from being on his back all the time or not having any open targets. Throw a TE in there in the 3rd round if there's one worth it. Once I've taken care of my QB, then focus on the defense. With better coaching, and playcalling that ISN'T completely predictable, it will be better than last year as is. Add a few new LBs and it will improve by leaps and bounds

I disagree with the OP COMPLETELY. He's a big guy with room to fill out, he's an athletic freak, and in all those highlights, I saw him getting by on pure athleticism. He doesn't yet have the moves and counters you see from most DEs. If he can learn them, he will be incredible.

You mention nothing about a new QB...

I'm glad I'm not the only one to see this!

Okay, he's definitely an electric open field runner, and if you can get the ball in his hands, he can do good things for you. My question is, how easy is it to get the ball into his hands? I couldn't really tell from that highlight reel how good of a route runner he is, nor how good his hands are. Any opinions on those?

For some reason, his footwork kinda reminds me of Peyton Mannings footwork, always moving, allowing him to plant and throw whenever he needs to. However, that doesn't mean I think he's going to be Manning. In fact, it makes him look kinda skittish in the pocket. And he needs to get rid of that jump throw he occasionally does. Other than that, I saw a good delivery and armstrength, but not that great accuracy. Even open throws and completions weren't really right on the money.

I feel like the best way to go would be to get one of the big name DCs even if they are likely to be gone after a year or two IF you can also bring in an up and comer to one of the position coaches spots for the sole purpose of learning from that DC and be ready to step in when he leaves and keep some continuity. If you can't do that, then you would be completely starting over again as soon the DC leaves, and I would prefer someone who will be around for a while

The problem with this post is that I don't care how much we run the bowl with respect to the rest of the league. The problem is that we should be running AT LEAST as much as we pass the ball. That's what our offense is best at. It's not what every team is best at, so the fact that we're ranked 9th does not matter to me in the slightest.

Let's them audition for other teams for next year, as well as their players since the players don't have to transition to another scheme right at the end of the year. It's the only thing that makes sense to me.

Personally, I prefer "Ryan Fitzpatrick, as a backup, because we locked the playoffs with a rookie QB"

I just find it amusing how many plays I recognize from Madden...

I wonder if this brainiac said to the police "I'm Jonathon Amaya with the Miami Dolphins, I'm worth millions!"

You do realize this means he going to have another 6 touch game again, right?

1435 yards on 218 attempts, with 9 picks. Going by their formula, that results in (1435 - (9*50))/218 = 4.5 adjusted yards per attempt

Everyone has been tearing apart the past few Bills performances, trying to figure out what's wrong, but surprisingly I haven't seen anyone mentioning the 2:00 drills in the past game and a half. Of all the parts of those two games that were pathetic, I felt they were the most. In AZ, with almost 2 minutes left, we don't even try to move the ball, and instead just try to burn time. That fails epically as we only burn 15 seconds off the clock, giving it back to the Cards with about 1:30 left on the clock, and tried our hardest to lose the game. Only Carrington's tip and Byrds OT interception saved us. Against the Titans, we had the ball in the lasts 2 minutes and seemed to keep to the same strategy. Only a 15 yard penalty tacked on after a catch seemed to give any impetus to the offense, letting them think they had a chance to score. Even then, it seemed like they played to make sure they got a field goal, and that they didn't even try for a touchdown. In the 4th quarter, we got the ball back with over 1 minute and two time outs left. We try and dink and dunk it down the middle of the field on first and second down, burning time and timeouts while going a total of 8 yards. Incompletions on 3rd and 4th down and its game. All in all, we have the worst 2 minute drill I have ever seen. It's beyond pathetic.

If they're trying to predict who the RotY will be, any top 10 rookie list that doesn't include Andrew Luck isn't very believable, I feel like. Compare last year to this year, and just like Manning was the only reason the Colts were good, he's the reason that they're at the very least competitive. Plus, he has the whole 1st pick of the draft going for him, so he has name recognition from that alone. People probably wouldn't vote for people like Glenn, Kendricks, etc., simply because they don't know of them enough, let alone how well they've been playing. If they're simply putting together their own RotY competition instead of the official one, then I could agree with it.

Didn't Nelson walk around on the sidelines before being put on IR? I thought I remembered seeing him walking around and thinking "Okay, good probably not too serious if he's walking around on it." We all know how that turned out.

Thanks for posting these each way. Very handy. I'm down in State College, so I'm just out of the region for the Bills game. Looks like another trip to the sports bar for me...

I just really can't help feeling like this game will somehow manage to be a shoot-out, despite how the offenses and defenses have looked in preseason

Eh, I'm not gonna worry about that one 3rd and long play, and instead will salivate over Mario Williams being matched up against the Jets' human turnstile at RT, Wayne Hunter, or whoever they find to replace him for week 1.

I remember that game. Wasn't it an incredibly low scoring game due to the field (6-3 or something, Steelers over the Dolphins) on MNF? Edit: It was a 3-0 win of the Steelers over the Dolphins. Here's a video of the punt:

I could only watch 3 minutes of that 12-13 min interview. My thoughts on it were this: 1) While in the film studio, I would have sworn that I was looking at an interview from the 80s 2) When it showed Maybin in practice, he really looked like a high schooler out there