Bleeding Bills Blue

When they run the ball well it all clicks for them. Bottling up mixon and the run game is usually pretty key to putting them behind the sticks. Burrow getting healthy adds the threat of a scramble that was missing to start the year on those 3rd and mediums. He's still going to throw it underneath if its there - need to rally to the ball and tackle well. They also have been generating takeaways. Need to win the turnover battle first - but this game will come down to 3rd downs and red zone too.

Clements was a great player - great ball skills. Winfield didn't have the ball skills but he tackled like a bull. McGee had a long bills career. Only one of the ones listed ever got DPOY votes, and has the most pro bowls - and thats tre white. Looks like his bills career might be getting cut a bit short due to injuries unfortunately. The rest were mostly before my time.

So they should just stop trying? They play a ball control style of offense, have a QB who is very accurate, and they are a tough out. Is that enough to get the 4 straight wins to win a super bowl? Probably not - but the ravens did it with flacco catching fire. The Broncos won with the ghost of Manning. The 49ers almost won with Jimmy G. All it takes is a unit (offense or defense) to catch fire at the right time, and for the other side of the ball to do enough. Bengals went to the super bowl and won 2 road games by a combined 6 points. Haven't scored more than 27 in the playoffs over the last 2 seasons - with their offensive HC and all those offensive weapons. The reason they win in the playoffs is that their not particularly notable regular season defense has 13 takeaway's in those 7 games. They also had some pretty serious luck when you factor in that the winning TD against Baltimore in 2022 was a fumble recovery, and in 2021 KC botched a first half situation from the 1 yard line. Punch a ticket to the playoffs, and anything can happen. The likelihood of good things happening goes up when you have a top QB like Allen.

Good to know! At least we didn't waste picks, just a ton of money on that dude.

Was Merriman a mid-season trade?

Having 2 thirds gives us a shot at trades, but i'm reluctant to part with a 2nd when we are likely to have holes at S (Poyer final year, Hyde UFA), WR (Davis UFA), DE (floyd/AJE UFAs), potentially CB (White coming off another major injury), DT (DQ UFA). Too many needs moving forward just to tread water let alone improve without a lot of picks.

Games like this usually come down to a few plays. Can we create a couple turnovers? Can we not turn the ball over? Can we punch it in in the RZ? Can we prevent them from doing so? Who's kicker makes all their kicks, and who's kicker misses?

They let the jets spot the ball!! Insanity

We can't accommodate his base salary this year so the point is moot. If we acquired him there would be no dead money as the 8m dead money is tied to already paid signing bonus, so Indianapolis would be on the hook for that. He does have a 6.5m injury guarantee for 2024. If we traded for him we would have to redo his contract to lower his 2023 cap hit. Either removing the rest and adding void years, or converting to bonus and redoing extension years.

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We currently have 11 draft picks, including an extra 3, an extra 5, and 2 extra 6s. I don't see much of a point cutting elam. No one on the PS is better, there are like no cap savings cutting or trading him, plus you then lose money replacing him.

Yeah - he'd probably be alright playing... actual safety. But when they bring him in for the dime packages i'm holding my breath. I'd rather see Neal tbh.

Zach Wilson was a highly touted #2 overall pick. Now I'm of the opinion that the player makes the biggest difference, not the coaching. But you can't act like a player succeeds with a bad coach. He's the only HC Wilson's ever had. So talent evaluation was wrong - he was not deserving of the #2 pick. HOWEVER - Saleh shouldn't get a pass either. He's a worse player than he was at the start, and that to me comes down to coaching at some level.

He IS saddled with one of the worst QB rooms in the league.

I was more looking at this from the perspective of the person who said there were only a handful of coaches that he would take over mcdermott. So the maybe's don't really represent my opinion? Just... i could see how you could make an argument for that. I agree with a lot of that - i hate the stefanski and arthur smith style since it basically only works if you're in a close game or winning. At least they both realized that to play that style you also need a defense. LaFleur is fast falling into these habits too. I think Taylor is overrated. Belichick the coach isn't bad, he is not a good talent evaluator though.

Never had a losing season. McDermott has had the one, but that team was pretty lousy.

My only issue with Tomlin is like... why is the offense SO bad for SO long? 5 straight years of bad offense now. And it is certainly not an asterisk... but his one SB win was the year brady blew out his knee and they got to avoid manning because of the chargers.

Put him in the maybe column if you want, but everything people dislike about mcdermott are things mccarthy does.

Lets Run down the list then... Yes - Reid, McVay, Belichick, Shanahan, Pederson; Harbaugh, I'm iffy on McDaniel but I'll put him here Maybe - Vrabel, Carroll, Tomlin, Saleh, O'Connell, LaFleur, Campbell, Stefanski, Taylor No - Reich, Eberflus, Gannon, McDaniels, McCarthy, Payton, Ryans, Steichen, Rivera, Bowles, Daboll, Allen, Staley, Smith

I thought the taron johnson illegal contact penalty that extended the drive prior to the phillips one was a really bad call. 4th and 10, no bearing on the play, TJ didn't push him off his spot and evans if anything was running into him.

I think the criticism is a bit warranted since we were plus 14 for a lot of the 2nd half and we stalled out just outside FG range 4 straight times. 10 more yards on any of those first 3 drives and were looking at a 3 score game.

If you want this to be your point, shouldn't you look this up rather than wait? Is this above .500 after the season? at the time they played? Edit - I'm bored at work and did the math and when you take out 2017 (Tyrod and 60M in dead cap), and 2018 (Rookie josh team with no WRs) its not bad at all. 20-13 since 2020.

Depends on the situation - in that one where its like... throwable? Yes. When its 1st and 10 with 5 seconds left I'm not sure I'm even rushing anyone.

From that distance with that little time remaining i don't hate it. I'm not going 0 but i think you can rush 5. Leaves 6 to cover 5 and they likely don't have a play other than everyone get in the end zone.

There's 6M in cap savings which is good... 1.5M roster bonus due the 5th day of the league year. None of his salary is guaranteed and at 8.4M isn't crazy excessive. He was playing pretty well this year, and i know they value his leadership. I'm less worried about an achilles injury than a knee tbh.