Mike B. in VA
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Seriously. AWill would have been great in this D.
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Would also love to hear your definition of garbage time. Is that the start of the game, the first quarter, or the start of the second?
With Bills fans, it's apparently any time the other team has a lead.
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He tried. He drafted two (including one with his first pick, something the Bills have never done as a franchise). He also tried to re-sign Osweiler at a reasonable rate but the Texans handed him a ridiculous contract.
Seeing how he's played in Houston, I think that was addition by subtraction. Nothing like coming in as a high-priced free agent and getting benched...
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A couple of crap penalties, a couple of bad reads by Orton and a receiver not reading the blitz, and this game is over if this TD stands.
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That's the REAL Flutie Curse.
OK, that was water up the nose. Well done.
I did. The 99 team has the lowest yards/play in team history, 4.3. Better than the 85 bears and far better than the 64 or 65 bills. Tied with 00 ravens. All gone to waste because the little guy couldn't throw.
As someone who watched every game of the '99 season - that was one of the best defenses I've ever personally seen. I'm not old enough to have seen the '65 D, but I've certainly seen the '85 Bears and the Bills' D in 1999 was damn near as scary. Oh, to have a safety like Henry Jones again...
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Criticism of EJ is not by itself an incendiary thing - if the ball is coming out faster and Orton makes the reads faster, why shouldn't Sammy say so? EJ was clearly benched for performance issues, so maybe hearing what they are from the WR perspective will light a fire under him to sort it out - or at least underline than he can learn something from Orton.
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Damn. That was brutal. He looks like David Carr out there, flinging stuff in the general direction of the receiver before he gets hit.
I figured it had to be bad for Marrone to pull him, but this is Akili Smith level bad.
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You get a new QB next year
That happens anyway. Orton is not a long term solution, even if he suddenly morphs into Rich Gannon.
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I know the upside of EJ is probably a qb like Donovan McNabb. Having said that, I'll take it, given the crap we've had since Kelly retired.
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Is the Bears game over ?
No, and they're currently beating the Niners, so...
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Who wrote this?
The Eagles had pretty awesome offense, you know, WITHOUT Maclin. I can't see where signing him would be a priority over improving the defense.
The others are just as bad. How do I get this job?
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Tim Graham is Skip Bayless without a TV show.
I actually don't mind him asking Graham that hack that question, because Graham that hack was obviously being confrontational for his own purposes, not for any journalistic reason. WTF is EJ supposed to say? "I don't think I deserve the job?" "They should bring in competition?"
I think EJ *was* being media savvy. He could have answered stupidly, or just ignored it, or done the "I don't make personnel decisions for the team" line. Instead he made everyone's favorite "journalist" look like a complete ass.
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Here's the article with the context for those slideshows:
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http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/64557588/
I generally agree with what Tanier has to say here. Thoughts?
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Could probably have gotten a 7th rounder
I was thinking that exact same thing when Rodgers came out in sweats.
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His poor footwork has been shown in the all-22 analyses on each of his lousy downfield throws.
The very few long throws that have been on target, his footwork was spot on.
Of all things, this might be among the more correctable QB issues, though.
It's definitely fixable. IIRC it's one of the things Rodgers fixed, and that turned out pretty well.
(This is an interesting read, but only obliquely mentions footwork: http://thesidelineview.com/columns/nfl/can-quarterbacks-mechanics-be-altered )
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I'm not Reid's biggest fan but he was 10-9 in the playoffs with the Eagles so don't think the specialty comment fits
His specialty was losing NFC Championship Games, though I think that was more on his QB than him.
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Just goes to show how statistics can be twisted to show your view point !....
Historically, FO's system has been reasonably accurate in it's prediction of future performance. They accurately predicted that the Bills weren't anywhere near as good as their 5-2 start a couple of years ago when the team disintegrated, for example, and that the 5-1 Trent Edwards team form 2008 was not good enough to be a playoff team.
Their stats generally pass the eyeball test, too, although like any other system you get the occasional "WTF?" moment. It's hardly a perfect system, but has seemed to be more useful than any of the others I've followed.
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Football Outsiders advanced stats show the opposite.
Our defense is ranked 6th while out offense was in the 20s.
The offense was 18th before EJ got hurt.
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That was one of the worst displays of quarterbacking I've ever seen. I knew he would look bad - two weeks is not enough in a new system - but the Vikings would have been much better off with Cassel.
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I applaud and love the message Marrone is sending. If you want to be here you better be working hard and improving weekly. Nobody is safe from the surgeons scalpel.
I think this is the point - it's not even that he started bad, it's that he started bad and regressed. Just like Powell. I like the tone that's being set by this - good coaches hold the players accountable when they don't improve while others around them are. The line as a whole is playing pretty well, and definitely seemed to be better with Legursky in. Dump Brown and get someone who at least has the chance to improve to back up Legursky.
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I like the zip on the ball.
Much better than the Rainbows Tuel was throwing.
True. His arm's not as big as EJs, though. I also saw a guy who was only looking at half the field, and locked on to a couple of receivers.
BTW anyone else notice how after one of the throws Wood © was talking to Tuel and he was making a Rainbow hand motion then making a straight line hand motion?
It seemed like he was saying don't throw the ball like this (Rainbow hand motion), throw the ball like this (Straight line hand motion)???
Anyone else see that?
Yeah, I did.
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Anyone know what kind of compensatory pick we get for Levitre leaving? Or has that yet to be determined?
Probably a 4th, if I understand the size-of-deal thing, and provided the Bills don't sign any big free agents next spring.
Bills untold stories with former S Aaron Williams(Bills PR Video)
in The Stadium Wall
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Also, for all the feels:
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/aaron-williams-bills-retirement