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Maybe Yeldon and Foster, though they're not going to fetch much. Can't think of too much else right now; the least likely to be traded is anyone from the lines. D-line will need the players for rotation, and the o-line isn't that thick. Murphy unfortunately stays and rotates with AJ until he is ready to take more snaps.
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1 hour ago, JohnC said:
I consider McDermott's first year of coaching the Bills as one of the best coaching job in the history of the franchise. He got a stripped down and rebuilding team playing to its maximum potential. Getting that team into the playoffs was beyond anyone's expectation. Last year I thought that Miami's coach, Flores, did an equally terrific job in coaching a team that deliberately was tanking for one of the top qbs in the draft to consistently play hard, although clearly outgunned, throughout the season. They finished the season playing well and winning more games than expected and to be honest desired by the organization.
The Dolphins, like the Bills before the installation of the McBean regime, finally have a plan and seem to be executing it instead of taking a year to year ad hoc approach. This is a good situation for Tua to be part of.
McD didn't exactly strip down the roster in year 1, but rather after the 2017 season. His first year contained a lot of the Rex/Whaley roster. Year 2, 2018 season, is where they had a stripped down roster and played better than their talent level. IMO, the 2017 season (year 1) is where they finished about where they should have...9-7.
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2 hours ago, JustWinPlease said:
I think Bills fans better start respecting the Dolphins.
We want respect because of Beane and McDermott...well, I think we should start looking at Grier and Flores in the same light.
I'll wait to ultimately see how it all plays out, but they seem to know what they're doing down there.Spot on. Flores and Grier stripped down the Dolphin's roster ala SF 49ers in year one of the Flores regime and they overachieved. Miami beat NE and Philly, something we couldn't do in year three of the McD era. Miami is going to be a very good team in a few years, both player personnel-wise and coaching.
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5 minutes ago, JetsFan20 said:
Fitz has a tendency to revert back into a pumpkin when folks start talking him up.
And especially when he gets a Fitz-style big contract.
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Fitz won't change, he will have his good games and lose it for you in other games with multiple pics. He's what that team needs right now, no sense in rushing Tua along, especially after an injury and being a rookie. Miami will end up 7-9 or 8-8.
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Hear, hear. Good post. I would encourage everyone to watch and listen to Bishop Curry's video that Shaw66 linked. BTW, he has a Bills helmet in the background over his right shoulder.
It's a shame that a small fraction of police officers have to give law enforcement a bad name. Maybe these events further encourages a discussion of race relations in America as well as respect for innocent people and their property. A lot of small businesses lost, if not everything, a good portion of their property and they do not deserve that. Oh, and some of these businesses are owned by minorities; something that the 'protesters' don't consider.
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35 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:
Hey John, I think the only at Murphy makes the team, if there are other players on the Edge get hurt. I doubt it on Griffin. We already brought in Jefferson, Addison, Butler, H. Phillips is coming back, and I know those aren’t all Edge guys, but Jefferson can do both. This isn’t even mentioning Epenesa.I think Murphy does make the team, this is the last year of his contract. Murphy and AJ probably on the left side with Hughes and Addison on the right. I don't think they're going to throw AJ in sink or swim style, but rather allow him to grow into the position. AJ may not get more snaps than Murphy until later in the season, unfortunately.
Davis and Jefferson are probably the 3-techs, with Jefferson giving them flexibility as to where he lines up; so maybe we'll see some creativity up front, I hope.
Next year Beane will have to invest heavily on the d-line as Murphy will be gone, potentially Star, as well as Addison and Hughes. All those guys will be over 30 and closer to 32-33 years old.
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17 minutes ago, GoBills808 said:
Sort of a larger topic, but run defense is largely overrated nowadays. Re:Edmunds, he is the future of the game @MLB and I'm pretty confident is going to have a breakout season. I hope he improves his reads but as far as 'run defense' being a reason to move him 'outside'...hard pass.
Who were the best defenses in the league last year? I'd say it's some ranking of (in any order) the Patriots, Bills, Niners, Steelers, Ravens as the top 5. Of those 5, only the Steelers had what you could consider a good run defense- they gave up 3.8ypa which was good for 3rd in the league. The rest? 17th, 19th, 23rd, and 21st respectively in terms of yards per carry defensively.
I see. What if there are multiple games this season where we can't stop the run, such as the Miami, Philly, and Cleveland games? Cleveland and Philly beat us, and if Miami didn't have a stripped down roster, they would have beat us. Every year this seems to be an issue for a couple of games.
I understand you have to stop the pass, but you can't let teams average 4+ yards a carry, either. I'm not worried about being a top 5 defense, but an effective one that is difficult to move the ball against, including the run. The rankings will sort themselves out.
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43 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
You’re being ants a picnic right now.And I'm coming for your sandwich.
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On 5/29/2020 at 1:21 PM, Mark80 said:
This is 2020. Run stopping MLBs are no longer the way to go. Fast, big wing span, sideline to sideline coverage LBs are what is needed in today's game. And he's still only 22, plenty of time to improve assignments in the run game, leverage, tackling and block shedding techniques.
Edmunds needs to get better against the run. Part of his responsibility is run defense and gap coverage, which he still struggles with. Edmunds, while having underneath coverage duties, also is supposed to finish up the tackle which the d-line initiates with their gap assignments. There shouldn't be another 200 yard rushing game against this defense going forward; teams have seen we're vulnerable to the run, so they run at us until we prove we can stop it. The run game is not dead and the linebackers are a vital part to stopping the run, even today. If this defense still proves vulnerable to the run, it might be time to move Edmunds outside where he excels in coverage.
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15 minutes ago, apuszczalowski said:
Photo of Him and Gronk driving his new car through the streets of Tampa?
Gronk's car apparently looks like his junk, which Brady admires.
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Not sure what we're supposed to get from this. Doesn't look any different than Fitz to Stevie Johnson.
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6 hours ago, NoSaint said:
he did say directly and indirectly.those other streams are only lucrative because you tune in
4 hours ago, MJS said:I did say directly and indirectly. Eventually the money comes from the pockets of the average fan, or I guess more broadly just the average American.
Yes this was mentioned, my bad for not catching what was being referring to. At some point though, I would think the average American will get turned off by the amount of money some of these players make, by way of the NFL revenue streams, and stop watching. Between that, the amount of rules introduced, as well as the NFL dipping its toes into social justice issues, I wouldn't be surprised if some people stop tuning in at some point in the not too distant future.
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25 minutes ago, MJS said:
It's fans that demand players be paid so much. Players get a percentage of revenue. Fans pay their money to the NFL, directly and indirectly.
If you don't want players to be paid that much, you need to stop watching. Otherwise you are literally demanding that they make millions and that the owners make billions.
Personally, I'm fine with that. Their ability is rare and I want to watch them play.
I was under the impression that TV revenue and corporate sponsorships provide more revenue than fan attendance at stadiums. No?
Agree that if one thinks that players make too much, as well as the NFL, stop watching.
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11 hours ago, GreggTX said:
That's 5, but I was considering Singletary too. I want it to be Oliver, but he's going to have to show me that he deserves that kind of respect.
Actually two - Singletary on offense and Oliver on defense. I want to be fans of the others I listed, but still too early to tell since they are rookies or first year FAs. But yeah, I went a little overboard. Anyway, I'm not concerned about Oliver's recent DUI since I think he will get past it. Toward the end of the season, he showed promise of being a dominant 3-tech; I figured he would struggle against pro centers and guards at first, but I think he's getting there.
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If SF can't get a deal done with him, I would trade Knox, Sweeney, and throw in Croom for Kittle
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17 hours ago, njbuff said:
And Darryl Johnson is stil in the picture at DE, along with Mike Love.
I recall seeing this. Doesn't exactly give me the warm fuzzies. These two are depth; not sure why McD thinks he's going to work wonders with them as he hasn't shown the ability to do so with the line.
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Probably Devin Singletary and Ed Oliver. Also hoping I take a liking to Zach Moss, Quinton Jefferson, and AJ Epenesa
1 hour ago, BillsMafia13 said:Never went from love to hating a player so fast. Garbage move and response
Yeah, that was pure crap and the dumb animal pretty much got away with it. One game suspension (wow) so he could be back the following week for the NE vs Pitt primetime game. It's all about money and ratings with the NFL, not player safety, regardless of what they want you to believe.
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6 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:
This is why the Trillion Dollar NFL needs to suck it up and pay the refs, what, $250k/year to go full time. Spend the offseason in "ref camps" where they all meet and get on the same page about the rules and how to call games, and then spend the summers working in various Team Training Camps, working intensely with the team on how they will call games and what will fly and what wont.
Instead, they spend most of their year at their accounting and law firms, and put on their "ref caps" only when needed. Such bush league BS from the NFL.
At this point I do think the NFL needs full time refs. Part time refs worked well enough in the past when there wasn't an over-abundance of rules to protect defenseless receivers, QBs, Brady, and whoever else gains the league's favor. Now the game is highly controlled, and even engineered, to protect stars and encourages the offenses to score 40+ points per game.
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I like the "Sunday Night Special" the following week -- 4-2 Rams at 4-2 Cowboys; Sunday Night games were a treat. I honestly think now there are too many games spread out over too many days; back then NFL games were something to look forward to. Today, I feel that it is taken for granted. Really cool to watch these games from yesteryear.
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From what I gather, Croom is there while Pegula's daughter goes shopping during the day.
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1 hour ago, njbuff said:
I think Star snaps are going to go way down and Murphy is maddeningly inconsistent.I hope so regarding Star, though I wonder. At the 1-tech, I believe it is Star and Harry; we know what we have in Star but not so much with Harry as he rotated in during his rookie season and was injured all of last season. I'm fairly certain Jefferson will be the 3-tech along with the other DT that was acquired from Carolina.
Inconsistency is a problem with Murphy. He will rack up a bunch of stats during a favorable matchup one week, then the next week or two he will disappear from being easily handled by the RT. Murphy is the modern day Chris Kelsay -- try hard, high motor, lunch pail guy who you can't rely on to make plays. Sounds like they're going to bring AJ in as he shows the ability to get more playing time.
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2 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:
Yea I'd love it, just cant see it happening.
It doesn't seem like McD and Beane are going to change the defensive line around beyond what has already been done. Doubt we see Clowney or Everson Griffen or anyone else come in. It's mind boggling why they believe in Trent Murphy as much as they do, as well as Star.
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This should be a good thing. Too many of Riverron's play reviews were nonsensical.
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Which players do we trade away during training camp?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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While that would be nice, the 1-techs right now are Star and Harry. Star is a known quantity, Harry not so much since he only rotated in during his rookie season and missed all of last season. In addition, Star just re-worked his contract which goes through 2021, I believe. He certainly won't be cut since that would be cap prohibitive. Star (and Murphy) are here this year.