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$3k, that is my best offer. It said OBO...
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Who gets wacked first, Chris Collinsworth or LaDanian Tomlinson? Both hate the Bills.
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1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:
In what world does Flacco suck as bad as Barkley? There is literally no evidence to support that.
Where did I say that? Try reading a least a few posts up and you'll see my preference as to Flacco vs Barkley for backup.
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4 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:
What good is durability if the guy who’s durable absolutely blows? ?
If your backup didn't at lease somewhat blow, he would be a starter somewhere else. See Nick Foles. Both Barkley and Flacco suck at this point; Barkley is more durable, but Flacco has demonstrated that he can perform in big situations. Most likely Barkley will be here this year and that is it; the coaching staff needs him to hold down the fort and help bring Fromm along.
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41 minutes ago, Gugny said:
I don't understand this sentiment.
Didn't we learn what bringing a QB in his mid-30s who hadn't played meaningful football in a while got us? Derek Anderson was about one decent hit from saying, "eff this, man."
And so is Flacco. He's 35. He's coming off of a serious injury. He hasn't played since the middle of last year. This guy got sacked 26 times in 8 games.
Is Matt Barkley great, or even good? Nah. But neither is Flacco and Flacco is an old statue who's one hit away from being done for good.
So is either great solution if a long-term backup is needed? No. But I'd take 2020 Barkley over 2020 Flacco any day of the week.
You and @ScottLaw both have valid points on the backup QB situation. Given a choice between Flacco and Barkley, I'd have to go with Flacco. Flacco has proven he can get the job done, though not always consistently; Barkley hasn't proven much of anything. The Pats game when Josh went out with a concussion is an example of Barkley not being able to finish off a drive and get the Bills a win. Barkley is indeed a borderline NFL player from the same draft class as EJ Manuel.
As far as Flacco being one hit away from retiring at halftime, that is true. How about an offensive line that can pass protect and/or blocking schemes that make this possible? McD/Daboll/Beane?
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Thank you to those who served and currently serve. To those that made the ultimate sacrifice, we can never repay you, only God can.
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Josh Allen and Tremaine Edmunds. We all better hope this is the case.
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Trent Murphy and Star L.
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20 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
This kid is going to end up the gem of the class
Kickers age like fine wine up till a certain age... This kids snap on his leg and work ethic makes me think he will be a very good kicker for a long time
So Hauska is gone by the end of camp?
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Winfield, Pat Williams, and Jason Peters. All huge mistakes previous regimes made in letting go.
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1 hour ago, Thurman#1 said:
By this ridiculous logic, Marv Levy apparently screamed he was not head coach material when he fired his STs coordinator and his DC after his first year as HC.
Apparently Pete Carroll also screamed he was no head coach, replacing OC, DC and STs coordinator in his first year.
If McDermott can get to a SB with the coordinators he has now, I'll eat crow. Until then, our OC and SpT coordinators remain suspect. Daboll's issues have been well discussed, though Heath Farwell not as much. There was two occasions of blocked punts this past year, the second one where the Patriots saw a blocking vulnerability which didn't get fixed from prior weeks and they took advantage of it.
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2 hours ago, eball said:
Dennison was fired after one season (and he wasn't McD's first choice to begin with ). Daboll got raw Josh Allen and Nathan Peterman to work with, along with no WRs, in his first season. Did you notice any improvement last year?
I really don't understand what is going on in some of your minds.
Nobody twisted McDermott's arm in choosing Dennison as the HC; that was still his choice. McD could have picked someone else, but he didn't most likely because no current or former Carolina Panther offensive assistants or coordinators were available. McD is on his second OC and SpT coordinator in four years. Not a good record, which screams McDermott is a DC, not HC.
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7 hours ago, Nihilarian said:
Fitz had no problem... the rest of the offensive players might have had difficulty adapting to that scheme though. Probably why O'Shea is gone.
Fitz, beside being a very intelligent guy, has been playing pro football for what....13 years? He can grasp these complex plays. Josh, not so much as this was really the first year the coaching staff committed to him as a starter. I think Josh was drinking from a firehose, either by design or not.
4 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:Possibly. However, when your other ten players are performing 'Swan Lake' on the field, and you still run Gore straight up the middle, the complexity is blunted.
Playcalling was another problem...
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Doesn't Daboll have the same problem? I recall John Brown mentioning that this offense is the most complex he has been in.
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One last paycheck before retirement.
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13 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
But then you’re stuck. Goff was in the MVP conversation a couple years ago. He might not be great but it’s silly to just think any guy can just step in. I liked Dalton more than most. He’s probably the best back up in the league. But it’s a little silly to just assume he’s replace what Dak did since never has in his career.
you get stuck in qb purgatory. But if you put a Goff, Tannehill, Alex Smith on the Bills, they won’t have had a 17 year playoff drought. But they aren’t really getting you anywhere long term. It’s a crappy no win situation. Josh Allen right now is not more valuable to the Bills than Tre White. Personally, I don’t think he will ever be as good at his position as Tre is at his. But he potentially could make over 2 times as much. That’s crazy.
But again, the NFL is not going to regulate the salaries of lesser tier QBs. They will make what their teams give them, whether the team uses the Dak and Goff precedents or not.
I get your point about being in QB purgatory, a number of teams will have that problem. I also don't think a Goff, Tannehill, or Alex Smith would have solved our drought problem; the coaching problem needed to be solved, first.
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54 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
In hindsight, we should have probably drafted him. But he will be one if the few qbs who will deserve his money.
the nfl needs to do something about this though. It’s a joke how much qbs who aren’t good are getting paid.
What is the league going to do about this? Teams don't have to pay the Jerod Goffs of the world $30M/yr. You can go out and get another QB.
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48 minutes ago, Call_Of_Ktulu said:
If these QB’s get into the 50 mil range do you think they will surround their 50 mil $ man with crap O-Line? Or Crap weapons? It will definitely be the defensive side that gets hit the hardest.
If they adopted the rule change next year of WR’s needing only one foot in bounds for a catch we are well on our way to seeing games in the 40 to 60 range.
You're right, the defense will suffer if you pay one offensive player that much and surround him with other higher than average paid players; unless the cap goes > $200M very quickly.
I wasn't aware of that proposed rule change change. I can see the plusses and minuses in this. The plus is that there is less debate about was it a legal catch. The negative is that the offense receives more preference, and yes, we will start to see more game scores in the 40s.
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4 minutes ago, Call_Of_Ktulu said:
50 mil a year will have a huge impact on the kind of players that you can surround Mahomes with. If more rules are put in place that benefit the offense I can see 80% of the cap going to offense. Teams will start messing with no name defenses paying low level players 2 mil a year.
Great. I look forward to game scores in the 77-74 range. I'll quit watching and following if that happens.
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1 hour ago, YoloinOhio said:
I did not know that Grier was with the Pats. But I did know that his brother played for the Sabres
He started out as an intern then regional scout in the mid 1990s. Grier graduated from UMass Amherst.
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25 minutes ago, Don Otreply said:
He’s a young guy, that stuff is ancient history to his generation, that and it was funny...
He would have been 17 or 18 at the time of the 2015 season SB. As another poster pointed out, Epenesa noted that he didn't follow football growing up. I guess as a fan, I knew McD and Beane were former Panthers, like I know that Chris Grier and Brian Flores were former Pats.
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5 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
He would have been about 17 during the SB year, probably didn’t follow their careers at that point. That interview was pre draft so just one of 32 teams he was talking to.
Wouldn't draft prospects want to get some background knowledge of the organization they are interviewing? I'm just thinking of this like a job interview, which I could be wrong in my assumption.
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11 minutes ago, Limeaid said:
Some have more things to do that surf football boards.
You don't have to surf football boards to know when half the current staff was formerly part of an organization.
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I'm a bit shocked that Epenesa didn't know McD and Beane were part of the Carolina Panther organization during that SB.
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Ryen Russillo podcast/Josh Allen review
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Totally agree. Patience will pay off with Josh. I know he makes some bad decisions/throws, but that is part of the growing process; I want to see McDermott and Daboll let Josh sling it and not try to manage the game. I suspect that may have been a big part of the problem last year, that Josh was trying to be too careful with the long ball.