Bleeding Bills Blue

That guy who completed less than 50% of passes for a sub 6 YPA with the 13% sack rate last year? We got pick #65 for that guy AND his terrible contract. Every evaluation of QBs that doesn't include sack rate bothers me. Allens being sacked 21 times in weeks 1-6 (13% - HORRIBLE) and 7 times in games 11-16 (3.7% - basically brady's % last year). Completion percentage is your percentage of passes complete vs. incomplete - but if you dont factor in sacks it makes no sense. They're WORSE than incompletions and almost as bad as turnovers. Mariota completed 68% of his passes a year ago... but he also had an 11.3% sack percentage. Excluding scrambles he was sacked 42 times on 370 drop backs. If you just converted those all to incompletions he'd have a 61% completion percentage and a sub 7 YPA. Watson was sacked 62 times and if you factor in the 384 yards lost, and include those as attempts... his YPA is 6.66. I just think its annoying that they dont mention it.

That's i think the biggest thing with him. Nobody watched him play, especially at the end of the year.

One would assume the Rams make it again. I think bears or pack take that division. And we'll say philly and NO win the other. The wildcard would then be between Dallas, Carolina, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, and then maybe the Lions. It'd be a surprise for sure.

They made the splash signings though. Bell, Mosley, Crowder, Kalil - and they drafted quinnen williams at 3 who is supposed to be a stud. Pundits loved darnold pre-draft, and love him post-draft. Everyone hates allen cuz reasons. I dont hate the analytical look at him because numbers dont lie (except the 4% drop rate... that just seems wrong with benjamin on the team for several weeks) - but i do think you have to look at him and see that there was some development from beginning to end of the year. My biggest issue with the allen "haters" isn't that that they think he may not be a good QB, or that he may never develop. My issue - They actively root for him to fail... so they can be right

Yeah - Considering GB/Chicago/Min in the lions division, and the broncos with the chiefs and chargers? Yuck - not good for either.

Yeah - its just the usage in a Gase offense. Crowder is going to see the most targets assuming he's healthy. Anderson is going to see that - 100 targets with a 50% catch percentage type of year imo. Yeah - we have them beat there, our depth is honestly strong there too. I'm hoping we pass the ball the entire game against them. Force them into man coverage - use Allens legs to buy time to make plays, as well as pick up some easy firsts.

Mosley's not a slouch - he is however overpaid. I think part of what buffalos practicing is different combinations of spreading 5 wide to play to the Jets weaknesses. Spreading wide like that is going to force you into favorable matchups with beasley and mccoy.

I think Darnold is already on a trajectory to being a great QB. I'm not sure how Gase got that job. He's not the QB guru he makes himself out to be. From a yardage perspective his offenses have always ranked in the 20s - unless he had that Peyton Manning character basically co-offensive coordinating and playing HOF level QB. Then again - they almost hired Mike McCarthy... so they gotta be happy that they didn't do that.

You almost have to stack passing lanes against Gase offenses though. Almost all the passes are really short - with the occasional deep shot.

Knox should be interesting - i bet he doesn't do anything and everyone gets alarmed. I'm personally just happy he's practicing and healthy.

I put Bates - I like an underdog and considering we signed Morse and Long - still have Bodine... a UDFA tackle from Penn State is looking good completely out of position? I love it.

I think the luck in the Von Miller game was that the refs felt the need to call that a penalty... He was clearly joking. I think that Matt Ryan play was a pass... but hey the refs didn't see enough to overturn. The colts were playing a backup QB so i feel like we should probably win that game anyway, but i also think that amount of snow made that game basically a coin-flip. The OPI call bailed us out on the conversion too - a borderline call. Dalton throwing a TD on 4th and 12 against a top 10 defense in a game that meant nothing to them - is lucky. They were an alright team - but they got some lucky calls that year.

Took 3/4 from Jets/Fins. Von Miller not helping up Tyrod cost them the ball and a chance at the game. - Pretty lucky Falcons win with the weird matt ryan fumble 20 yards down the field that got returned for a TD in a 1 score game. - Really Lucky Tre white with a huge play in the bucs game to clinch it (Tyrod was great in that game). - Offense did enough Raiders cant stop turning it over. -Given away Big win over the Chiefs with Tyrod coming back after the Peterman benching and playing normal mediocre turnover free football. - Lights out D Lucked out in the snow. -Really lucky that shady is the best blizzard RB of all time Dalton miracle pass to put us in. -I'm not sure there's ever been anything luckier They were VERY lucky that year.

I mean - Whaley panic extended him... then we had to panic bench him so we didn't get stuck with his contract.... Then we had to panic re-negotiate with him... Just about the only smart move that was made with TT was trading him for way more value than he was worth.

I think X? He's the guy thats pretty much always in the same place now? Or is he the Z? I never know what the difference is.

they play away games against NE, Chicago, Jax, Tenn, and a mexico game against the chargers. 16-0 is a pipe dream. They get houston, and baltimore too. All of those teams have solid defenses. I can honestly see them starting 0-1 against the jaguars.

... good point.

Over the last 2 years buffalo has had basically - a bottom 5 offense. Teams like that typically win like 3 games. So to have made the playoffs - proves to me that this guy has some chops.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/miami-dolphins/mario-williams-3849/cash-earnings/ The guy made 120 million dollars in his life. Can't ya just go fishing and enjoy yourself?

Just saying - this guy looks more logan thomas than anything else. There will be other scout QB options for the practice squad.

Fine - get me a scout QB that's better than the 5th string Tight end from last year.

He was an injury settlement, then once he could pass a physical he found a job here. We had like no options, and he signed and started in less than 2 weeks. He backed up peterman against the bears after signing like what 3 days before?

I just don't see the point to a developmental QB when you have a 2nd year QB starting. Especially one who has shown nothing at all so far.

Yeah - when an owner is expecting the team to be mediocre-bad... it makes sense to save cash. We had a very cheap team the last 2 years, thus more profitable for the Pegulas.

He's just not a very good player anymore