Bleeding Bills Blue

NE did lose to the dolphins at the end of the year last year that ended up costing them a first round bye. The question marks surrounding the patriot offense aside, I think they're equally motivated to start a new season strong. I'd go patriots, even with the 6 point spread tbh. I just see that dolphin offense struggling, and i see the patriot offense having a successful game on the ground.

Yeah - i look at it like. All of his horrible stinker games came under dennison... Who was not a particularly innovative offensive mind. I don't think Hue did much to adapt to his skills either.

After last year where somehow winstons ball security was actually worse - but rivers threw 20 picks and fumbled 8 times. Thats pretty awful. 10th in yards but 29th in turnovers on offense. Field position is huge. Combine that with them having the worst takeaway number in football (which tends to fluctuate a bit from year to year) - Tyrod's ball security and a progression towards average in takeaways on defense could lead to them winning some more close games. The reason those buffalo teams won 9 games was typically because we were so boring and ended up net positive on turnover diff every year.

I mean, if they're going to run more read option plays, and attack teams vertically and with boundary passes... thats literally all the things taylor can do well. Allens a solid receiver, he can get open on those hitches and comebacks that the roman offense runs. They can probably move ekeler around to get him some passes too. In any case - he's much better in an offense like that than he was in a dennison west coast style offense. Give him a quick half field read and then take off. Run the ball to get in makeable 3rds.

at the very least he's an upgrade on third downs over both. Good receiver out of the backfield and home run potential.

Oh its just all over twitter and it annoys me. Knee-jerk reaction's!! Apologies if it came off crass. To me - i think its just a switch in position coaches. They won't keep a depth FB on a practice squad, but a guy working with TEs? More likely - especially if sweeney starts season on PUP.

They're not cutting kroft. There's actually more cap savings cutting sweeney or gilliam. Guy missed a single practice and we must cut him?

I mean - whos depth behind knox if not kroft? Sweeney missed all of camp. Smith is 32 and has 60 career catches. Croom is still croom. Kroft will probably never be what he is physically capable of being, but he's a better receiver/route runner than smith. And why make the team worse by moving your slot receiver? We don't really have a replacement in the similar mold of bease.

Yes and no... there were also 4 2000 yard rushers in college last year. There were also 4 teams that allowed fewer than 14 points per game. I think Air-raid style, no-huddle offices have a place. But in the NFL the LBs are bigger and faster. The corners are faster. Those boundary zone read rushes tend to get stuffed a lot more. You're less likely to have the same separation you get in college where it seems like QBs are just throwing to wide open receivers - passes get broken up. Pressure gets there faster. Tacklings so much better. Players are smarter. It's a different game in the NFL. Yeah - those pass-first short passing offenses struggle with tight man coverage. You're forced to adjust from what you're good at - QBs have to make quick decisions.

It's a full buy-in. Good TE's, speed outside, and multiple running backs. Lamar helps with the big splashes and chunks, but they'll run it all day if you can't stop them. Their backs had almost 400 carries and almost 2000 yards. Thats a 5 YPC average and tacked on 14 TDs. Just a bunch of solid o-linemen doing work. Losing Yanda hurts for sure, but they still have good players. I think LJ has some of that juice in the backfield to buy time to make stuff happen, but he also had really good deep ball touch a year ago. Especially on PA. Solid defense all-around too. I do wonder if the pass rush, and loss of a gamer like thomas on the back end will hurt them a bit there though. Their total yardage numbers do have the benefit of the fewest plays executed against them because of the ToP advantage. They also blitzed the most in the NFL, and were somewhere near the bottom of sacks/hurries.

I mean. a lot are just freak injuries. Then other injuries kind of happen after that. You tear ur achilles and then you're significantly more likely to tear the other, or to suffer muscle tissue injuries etc. A lot of these guys spend a ton of time in the gym too building strength muscles. But I'm not sure enough of them spend enough time on flexibility. I remember seeing a diggs workout and everyone was ribbing him on social media, but an actual trainer said - he's building functional strength for his position, not just getting huge...

He doesn't seem to want to be on a tanking team and probably doesn't get along with Marrone.

Happened to Bob Sanders too. 2 full seasons and 2 first team all pros. Every other year he was hurt. Polamalu also always seemed to have lingering issues, not quite the same but u wonder what might have been

I'm sure there are money pieces at stake. But fromms got some baggage, if that came out pre draft he's probably undrafted

Gotta feel like rosen still has more value than a Fromm. Indy might have to keep 3 to keep eason, who also probably has more value than Fromm. I think NE has 3 guys they feel good about - with limited snaps mid-season for backups its tough to bring someone in. You also have to bring them into your active roster with no practices, so you basically have to keep 3. Fromm seems likely to hit the PS imo. If they dont do it week 1 its probably because the Jets QB situation isn't particularly strong with Flacco on the PUP and they could probably fit him in for a week (pay him for 3) just to get an advantage week 1.

Why is he below Mannion? Guys never thrown a TD in his career. Other than that yeah - hes in that hundley, mccarron tier of career backups who aren't very good.

Didn't realize bucs were at 12. Would be nice to see Tommy boy sitting out the post-season to keep that streak alive.

This fits perfectly. We pulled his credentials so... we fixed "the glitch". Probably did it on a Friday... studies have shown there's less chance of an incident.

If he had a lot of salary maybe it wouldn't have happened, but he's on year 1 of a rookie deal.

Thats like 2 weeks from now... losing a fairly likely 2021 53 man roster candidate for no reason is really stupid. Odds are its not a really big deal though so whatever.

You almost have to roll 2 QBs if you do that. Do they want to try and fit fromm on PS, or just try and roll with Webb? Where does Norman/wallace fit with johnson and white? It's a lot of depth for one position and leaving some others a bit more exposed. Looking at something like this if you carry 7. Total Active QB 2 2 RB 4 3 FB 1 1 WR 7 5 TE 4 3 OL 9 8 DL 8 7 LB 6 5 CB 5 4 S 4 4 K 1 1 P 1 1 LS 1 1 Total 53 45

I mean - players will get moved. It happens every year. And 90% of those guys end up on someone else's PS later. The 3 week pay bump is huge for younger players on practice squads, and it gives you a chance to win a job with another team. Buffalo has a couple of decent WRs that likely hit the practice squad. But considering over 30 WRs were drafted, and even more UDFA's were signed - it's still going to be hard to find 1 of about 160 jobs. I do think PS guys with NFL experience - whether on a veteran or rookie deal - will be more coveted though. Most of these guys are brought in as injury replacements. If a team has a serious covid situation i think we're more likely to see a game cancelled or postponed somehow.

We don't even have to sub out a hall of famer for Taysom Hill, we just run those plays with allen.

Yeah, my buddy drafted him in our keeper round (10th round, goes in reverse order from the previous season's finish - get to keep the player for the next season), and i just sent him that and went oh mannnn gonna linger all year bruhhh He's a free safety though. Dallas makes sense - since clinton-dix would likely be playing SS.

Ususally a team carries 9 on the active 53 man roster, and 1 or 2 on PS. To me it would sound most like Dawkins - Spain - Morse - Ford - Williams IOL Depth - Winters C Depth - Boehm T Depth - Nsekhe Protected 9th lineman inactive on game days- Bates or Boettger Depends on who goes down though. If williams is injured for snaps, do you move winters into RG and Ford to RT? Not sure. Thats probably what a lot of these practices are for.