Bleeding Bills Blue

Would be nice... Honestly our depth at the position isn't bad. PB, 2 rookies (basically 3 with ragland), hodges/humber, and lorax who might be playing end/edge rusher by the end of the year with the depth we have as it stands.

3 downs? Probably not - and in some games his role will be very limited. However, he can tackle better than probably anyone else on the team and he isn't a terrible zone coverage player. Seeing as we had a ton of missed tackles last year as the year went on, he'll definitely get some snaps.

He'd have to be really bad... which no one has indicated that he has been. He's under contract for 2 more years and Preston browns a pending ufa. Would be rather short-sighted

People tweak hamstrings... it happens.

They are head and shoulders above the rest of the league. Doesn't matter who they're facing... 5 rings. They haven't had a point differential less than 100 since 2005. Top offense, near the top defense every year. Brady has won the division every year hes started since 2002. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nwe/

The same team wins our division literally every year. We could have like any other QB (brees, rivers, rodgers), and we're not winning the division this year. We drafted a QB each of the last 2 years btw.

dolphins at 3?! they have tannehill! EDIT - just read the note about disregarding QBs. I personally think Ajayi is overrated, but thats me.

i mean... it might? But he wasn't going to get the reps he needed here. So whats the point in keeping him?

I feel ya - i feel good about zay as a solid contributor. I think boldin waits it out a bit. Who know's though, we may have watched him run and just decided he doesn't have it anymore.

Yeah i suppose. I just feel like... the depth at safety was terrible last year. We lost Z brown, and gained ragland and hodges. Lost gilmore, gained white. Lost NRC, gained johnson. I worry about the DE's more than anything. Hopefully they're looking at that as the season approaches.

I feel like Whaley kinda... put us in a cap conundrum. We haven't been active in FA in the last what 2 years? We gave dareus ridiculous money, glenn is overpaid, and clay is massively overpaid. We even overpaid for Shady.

i dunno - we were 7-9 a year ago. Our highest paid player barely played, and didn't play well. Our highly drafted WR barely played. Starting safety almost died. 1st round pick barely played, 2nd rounder didn't play at all. Had a terrible lazy HC and AHC/DC. Why are we so much worse?

I mean - it sucks that we drafted him where we did. But Beane/Mcdermott saw you in OTAs... and apparently they saw enough. If you can't complete passes with no pads on, how are you going to do in a game?

I look at it like - if you end up moving on from Tyrod, you at least have the slight buffer of yates in 2018.

1140 yards and 11 TDs (no picks) in 4 playoff wins will get you a pretty hefty paycheck.

3 years in and get a pension? Thats pretty sick. He also made 1.8 million dollars and is only 26. Once he retires he should get like.. a free 20 grand a year. Only thing that isn't clear is - do you get this when you "retire" from the NFL? Or when you retire from like, working all together. And all this stuff: A Joint Replacement Program provides assistance to former players who require medically necessary joint replacement; A Medicare supplement program helps to pay for Medicare supplement insurance for those 65 or order and covered by Medicare; Life insurance for those under 55 years of age; A neurological care program with no out-of-pocket expense to retired players; A spine treatment program with no out-of-pocket expense to retired players; A discount prescription drug card; And priority access to assisted living facilities.

there are also some scrambles there. He had 95 rush attempts from the QB spot, i imagine at least half of those were scrambles.

The draft is so different now than it used to be. You used to want to go as early in the draft as possible to get that huge bradford payday. Now you enter as early as possible to get to UFA a year beforehand. We were 4th from the bottom in sacks allowed. SF, CLE, and LAR all allowed more sacks, they just had more QBs. 15th in yardage surrendered from those sacks.

Replace him with Brees or Cousins... Brees chases a ring, or Cousins wants a solid team instead of a disaster in SF.

In the NBA/NHL i always liked the idea that the day you become mathematically eliminated you get a new set of standings. The team with the most points (2 for a win 1 for a OTL in hockey, or just wins in the NBA) from that point on gets pick 1 and so forth. If you're eliminated on the last day of the year you pick highest of non-playoff teams. it adds some stakes to late season games for bad teams. In the NFL they could just add a lottery, but a single player isn't always the game changer in the NFL that it is in the NBA/NHL.

So if he put up a drew brees stat-line (5000 yards and 37 TDs) and our defense tanked, you'd say get rid of him?

Yeah - big red flag there. There were small improvements here and there, but those were largely in like.. prevent defense formations. I want to be able to drive down and put 7 on the board before half-time.

I just wish wouldn't break the plays down himself. He's great on those broken scramble plays with both his arm and his feet. The problem is he too often will take off when theres an easy play to be made right in front of him. I actually like designed QB runs, he slides and gets out of bounds more often than not. The read option and triple-option plays were killer for us last year in the red zone.

I don't even mind scrambling, just... theres a time and a place. He scrambled into sacks, and mistakes way too often when there was an open pocket in front of him.

I think one thing I'd like to see that he never got a great chance to do would be pre-snap reads/audibles. We struggled so badly to line up quickly and get play calls in during the first 2 years. I know part of that is on Tyrod but a lot of it falls on coaching as it was a known issue with Roman before we brought him in. Using motion to better recognize coverage, setting up the o-line, and adjusting the snap count to slow down pass rushers.