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I've been very pleased with Beane so far. Very rational moves. Extreme emphasis on the future over the present. Obviously, still doing great in the present. Zero regard for sunk cost fallacies.

That's a lot of noise without anything backing it up. Holmes is fine. Inman's counting stats are worthless. He's a random guy that you've happened to have heard of. Move along. You didn't address the point that Inman most likely won't be on Chicago's roster when they are actually trying to compete. Yes their WRs are bad now. Incrementally improving one aspect of a bad team in the middle of the year is just a misguided waste of resources.

The guy was 4th string on the Chargers. I don't see anything that would convince me that he's significantly or even marginally better than our own 4th stringer, Holmes. I think that you're itching to complain about something and Inman is just a guy that you've heard of. If anything, we should have a thread to bury the Bears for making a dumb trade. They aren't good. The odds that Inman is on their roster at such a point in time when they are good is very low.

I have no problem with swapping out the whole DL at once. Our backups are good. DL rotations are one of the defining features of this staff's defensive philosophy, which makes perfect sense to me given how many teams we have seen recently implode in the 2nd half of games after their DL starters get tired. I do agree that we need more pressure in general from the front four. We don't seem to run very many stunts, and Hughes is the only guy with a decent chance of just beating his guy for a sack out of nowhere. I like Lawson because he's an excellent run defender, but he hasn't shown much as a pass rusher so far. Reminds me a bit of mid-career Mario. Our heavy zone coverage scheme is always going to get carved up for yards against a competent QB with time to throw. It's not like our DBs are running to the wrong spots. The zone has gaps and the pass rush is anemic. Until that changes, we are in the business of preventing big plays, limiting YAC with good tackling, hunting for turnovers, and waiting for the offense to commit penalties or incompletions. The Bucs are wild-card hunters just like we are. They have a good offense and a theoretically good but underperforming defense. There are plenty of teams in the league with records from 4-2 to 2-4 atm that are all about as good as eachother. We and the Bucs looked like residents of the same competitive tier, which we are. Yep, he seems like a good late round selection so far. Good fit for what the staff wants to do. I'm not really following how you're turning Thompson's game into a negative. Sometimes backups end up with better stats than starters, it's just the nature of the league and the probabilistic nature of the universe. Just like most people, I would be fine if they chose to get him more snaps next week. It's 99% on the coaching staff. And by that I mean Dennison, since he calls the plays. The objectively correct call was to run a play to the end zone where the only two possibilities are TD and incompletion. The only explanation I can think of is that the coaching staff thought we had a TO remaining. I can only fault Tyrod and Matthews for not insubordinately conspiring to make sure that the play resulted in an incompletion. Confusing thoughts. I don't think even most Tyrod supporters think he is the "QB of the future." He's just a good player doing a good job, that we might eventually replace with another guy, but we don't need to be in a rush to do that. Even at 4-2 I'm not really putting much stock in this season. 1st year of a new staff and multiple vets traded for picks? We aren't even supposed to be good yet, so if we crash back to earth, whatever. The only thing that really matters about this year is establishing a new identity (mission accomplished), leveling up the rookies (including the coach), and self-scouting so that we can decide what to spend our treasure trove of picks on next year. The way the franchise assets are laid out, we are on an upswing targetting a peak 3-4 years from now.

That's not what a check down is. Check downs involve surveying the field and dumping it off to the safety valve after all other options have been exhausted. The playcall was a no-read out, the pass was to be thrown no matter what. So the playcall is almost totally at fault here. Minor blame to Tyrod and Matthews for not insubordiately spiking/dropping the ball if they realized the call was bad.

Our fanbase is so petty. Like clockwork there's a thread on every former player and coach of note. His success or failure is none of our concern anymore. It doesn't affect our team going forward. It doesn't mean that we won or lost the trade.

Lol. Drafting Peterman was a shrewd decision. There's a good chance he develops into a cheap, competent backup that won't automatically lose the games we need him to play. The only downside I can really think of are the fans who think he was brought in to maybe be the man, and won't shut up about it every time the team loses a game.

Toughest games remaining, in order: @ KC, @ NE, vs NE, @ Cincy, vs TB, vs Oak. Predict .500 here: 3-3. Likely wins: @ NYJ, vs NO, @ LAC, vs Indy, vs MIA, @ MIA. Predict 4-2. Therefore my current prediction: 10-6. Predicted division winners: KC, NE, PIT, HOU. My AFC Wildcard Power Rankings: BUF, DEN, OAK, CIN, JAX, TEN, BAL, IND, NYJ, MIA, LAC, CLE.

Everyone should relax about being underdogs in this game. Cincy has a great defense and their offense has played legitimately good ever since they fired their OC. They are at home and we are coming off of the emotional high of two of the most quality wins the franchise has had in years. This should be a close game.

Fumble Return TD - The ball came loose. It was touching his hand when his arm came forward, but that's not enough to re-establish control. That would be like saying that a player momentarily possesses the ball on a batted pass. 4 & goal Delay of Game - Obviously the point wasn't to draw them offsides. They were snapping the ball if they got the defensive look they wanted. Taking the penalty made no difference to the FG attempt. Tolbert - Not sure why he's on the team. Our backup RB situation is really bad. That one play when both he and Shady were nicked up and the handed off to Dimarco was just sad.

Hyde, Hauschka, Clay, White, Shady.

Sounds an awful lot like the "it's fine, he's an !@#$, it's just how he is" non-excuse, to me.

Completely correct. I can't believe how many people are having difficulty with this. Tyrod has made plenty of other mistakes, it's not like his critics need the last play to be his fault to make their case. On that particular play, he threw the right pass. Zay ran the wrong route. Rookie mistake.

Whether or not those players succeed or fail has no rational bearing on this franchise anymore. I don't see them as being out on a limb at all. These are exactly the type of moves that any new regime can and should make. Their utter refusal to buy into the sunk costs incurred by the previous regime has been refreshing. It is rare to see that degree of rationality.

/thread. The viral notion that the Bills are trying to trade McCoy and Taylor is really emblematic of everything currently wrong with sports reporting. And sadly, a reflection of the practically lobotomized state of the average sports fan. One FFB personality offers a hot take which makes a little bit of sense from a bird's eye perspective, but doesn't really hold up under scrutiny. Casual fans with just as little knowledge as the author mistake his fantasy credibility for prophetic insider access. Lazy non-reporters trying desperately to generate page views regurgitate the hot take as if it were an actual scoop.

I agree we're not losing very much in comparison the last year's performance. Last year, Sammy hardly played and Darby played poorly. We're losing a bit of potential, but we're gaining that back in those picks.

You're assuming that present trends continue. The "trend" in question has two data points, neither of which are identical random experiments as compared to eachother, or as compared to data point 3. This is how people with flawed comprehension of a subject matter convince themselves that they are a knowledgeable expert.

And?

Based on?

White is almost certainly the first string slot guy, so I highly doubt that Darby sees much time there.

Everything is coach speak.

Once again. "Generational QBs" do not fall to #10. The "best player in the draft" does not fall to #10. If Mahomes were so likely to be so great, Cleveland would have just taken him #1. Or SF would have taken him #2. Or Chicago would have taken him over Trubisky. At the very least the Jets would have taken him #6. "Those teams are just idiots" is not a persuasive argument.

If Mahomes were so likely to be so great, why didn't he go 1st overall? Or at least 2nd over Trubisky? Mitch was one of the worst top-5 picked QB prospects in years and he still went over Mahomes. Guaranteed franchise savior QBs are not available with the 10th overall pick. Lottery tickets are.

How exasperating it is, to see anyone at all persuaded by such a misguided and unsupported claim. Once again: 1. At the time the decision is made, no one knows what Mahomes will become. 2. There is substantial empirical evidence pertaining to recent 1st-round QBs indicating that they are unlikely to turn out to be any good. Let alone great. Let alone a "franchise" QB. 3. There is substantial empirical evidence indicating that trading back is beneficial and that even the most objective trade charts currently overestimate the value of higher picks compared to lower ones. 4. KC offered Buffalo a substantial amount on the dollar, even according to those charts which overestimate the value of the higher pick. 5. Whatever Mahomes turns out to be in KC is certainly not exactly the same as what he would have become in Buffalo. So what can we conclude from the above? (1) - The decision made sense given the information available at the time it was made. (2) - There may, in hindsight, have been a better course of action available. (3) - (2) is irrelevant to (1).

No matter what's "in the cupboard," it takes some amount of time to fully implement and familiarize players with the program. New coordinators and new schemes don't just click overnight.