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My Penn State ass would love that haha.

The Bills have little money invested into the RB spot, and the one high end talent they have is someone who tops out at 15-20 touches a game both running and passing. So yes, Sanders is someone they'd want to invest in, now that they've upgraded their IOL. They need a RT ujpgrade, and if they get that, it probably elevates the OLine to well above average.

I can't see the Eagles spending that much cap space on two relatively premier FA RBs They were already over the cap, so I'm not sure that money was "freed up". But with the restructures and such they probably have ~ 35M in space. They ain't done

Eagles just landed Rashad Penny, they should run not walk to add Miles Sanders

Bumping this. There’s a ton of potential with this defense by running it back and getting a little faster in the secondary, and getting a healthy Von Miller back. Really need to get the DC hire right, as I think they need someone who has experience running a 2 backer system if the Bills fan retain Edmunds - which can be a multiple front D so don’t necessarily have to stick to a 4-3 over a 3-4

I mean you guys are giving Frazier way too much blame and not nearly enough to Brandon Beane. No one forced the Bills to be in the loaded QB conference with an entire secondary of sub 4.5-4.6 players, and have exactly one drafted plus DE over the last 5 years in Groot. Ftazier can only the personnel he’s given and that personell grouping was hugely flawed and Frazier probably had them playing above their athletic talent levels for vast majority of the last 3 years. Like the lack of pro bowl nods isn’t necessarily a lack of respect. It’s also an acknowledgment of the level of physical talent this team has on defense. So I guess be careful for what you wish for, because you might just get it

I’m about out on this but the last thing I’ll say is that if you watch non-Bills football, then getting torched by Mahomes twice and Burrow for a half isn’t exactly evidence of poor defensive scheme or playcalling. Context and relativity matter a great deal here. I mean did non of you watch the Super Bowl?

Again guys, the press release states that FRAZIER decided he was gonna take a year off. He wasn’t fired. You’ll probably hear just that from McDermott and Beane today for the combine.

The defense performed poorly in 2 games across 3 years of playoffs where the Bills have played in 7 games

This isn’t how the NFL fires people. I’d guess Frazier turned down an extension at the last possible moment

As for replacements, first guy I’m calling up is Jerod Mayo

That’s not how this works. He’s also incredibly well respected in the coaching industry

The amount of Truama I’ve suffered because of this man from his PSU days as DC makes me hate this post with the fires of a thousand exploding suns

Wouldn’t cheer this one too much folks. year offs are usually health or family crisis related and of nothing else, Frazier seems like an incredible human being

Thanks for the knowledge drop and help man, I really appreciate the opportunity to get better at knowing Ball! I think you diagnosed my issue. Where I was seeing man, was actually pattern matching zones

But wasn’t it starting the 3rd drive they started playing more man/man zones? It is worth noting that after the first quarter the Bengals scored 13 the rest of the way (3 quarters), and the lone TD was hugely aided by a bad DPI call. Really, the offense was much more to blame than the defense

They played mostly man for about 3.5 quarters, with corners who were at a disadvantage against man and a Dline that was playing its worst game of the season. They also started bringing a lot more blitzes What change would you have suggested of Frazier?

Like I feel like I’m losing my mind. Basic football fundamentals. When do you go “aggressive”? When you can’t stuff an offense playing base. When do you go exotic coverage? When you can’t stop a pass game by moving/hurrying the QB + struggle to cover their WR, or feel it’s a plau rheyre extra protect and you want to confuse them. So Von Miller? He makes the rest of the lineman better, which means the bills don’t at all need to ring pressure to stiff offenses. They had one of the 5 best pressure rates WHILE having one of the lowest blitz rates in the NFL - while Von was playing. And THAT is why you pay that man 20M a year. lMy biggest criticism of this defense is they don’t go disguise coverages often enough. Teams will load up in pass pro and just send 3 out, knowing we’ll be in Cover 1/2/6. I would love to see more disguise coverages because we have the backers that can go from LOS to middle third. Why do I know this? Because I’ve literally SEEN Edmunds do this in of the few times we called a Disguised zone. Here’s the thing, QBs guess when you have everyone close to the LOS. Literally know QB can “know” the coverage when you have everyone out of position. I would love to see more of that once we get Micah back, and a better cover SS in there

Or Von Miller. like people understand why they’re paying him 20M right? RIGHT?!!

That’s a hyperbolic way of describing the defense. It was flat out good when they had Von. Again look at the chiefs game or even the first Dolphins game

They a million percent play MUCH MUCH Better. Von got hurt week 12, and weeks 1 - 11 the Bills were something like 5th in pressure rate. 12 - 18 they were 22nd or so, and add Jones makes an immense difference to the run D, and Hyde makes 2 positions far more effective. In fact I’d go as far to say that the Bengals wouldn’t have scored 20. The much bigger problem is the Bills offense scored 10, and probably still loses the game

I would suspect they’ll be more complex in coverage disguise and schemes with more experienced - and capable - players back there I mean….Josh Allen is still on this football team.

No, I expect them to have a minimum of 4 new starters on offense. Guard, Right Tackle, RB, and Slot.

Because the Ravens pass rushers played far better than the Bills pass rushers did, and gave a much better platform to their 2 elite backers than the Bills 2 elote backer got. The fonts are easy - beat the man lined up across from you. The ravens did a lot more of that than the Bills did

Respectfully disagree with the financial part (I agree you can make a lot of scheme changes). Just think there’s very little space there