RunTheBall

I would love for Miami to trade Tua to Houston and then have Watson get convicted and go to jail. Couldn’t happen to a better franchise. Btw, I’m over the “Flores is a great coach” shtick. He 100% blew the Fitz/Tua situation and already has a bad rep with agents for cutting guys a year after he lured them there. He’s going to be the next on a long list of Belicheck assistants who flame out.

Here’s the thing, they don’t want him him to be a middle of the field run stopper. McBean loves him for his length and disruption of the passing lanes. If this guy would just catch the 2-4 balls that hit him in the chest every year we wouldn’t been be even having a discussion about him. I agree he needs to take step forward this year and be more of an impact linebacker but I have no doubt they are picking up his 5th year or signing him to an extension. McBean loves them some Edmunds no matter what we think.

We could have the number one rated O and D and people on here would still find something to complain about. It’s the friggin preseason people, there is very limited information you can gather from it. Yeah, Allen and the receivers looked in sync but if you read anything about practices the last month that’s been the story. All putting up some stats against GB scrubs does is make us feel good but I think it was a good idea to get the first team O some reps in a game situation. Other than that, I’ll worry about the run D when the bullets start flying for real. I have no idea how much effort is put in during the last preseason game when the over riding goal is to come out with no injuries.

Some of you guys are hilarious. No one we are talking about is getting cut. McBeane isn’t going to blow up the locker room by cutting Bease to send this message. Never going to happen.

I’ll think about worrying once the injury report for Pit comes out. This team is extremely conservative with injuries and I have no problem with that. Covid is the wild card and will effect all teams at some point.

New England fans are the biggest bandwagon fans in the nation. I’ve also been in NE for 19 years now. The one thing I’ve noticed the last couple years - SILENCE. No one is talking Pats. It’s like they barely exist. The only talk I hear is from a few true die hard NE fans who understand the ups and downs of a franchise and were there before Brady. If they have a few bad years they will be talking Hartford Patriots again and that stadium will be empty. Those are NE fans. Bandwagon Bills fans are annoying but that comes with success. They tend to go all in on the Bills Mafia shtick but whatever. Those of us who have been through the ups and mostly downs (including my 2 kids who have never known a good Bills team until recently) get to enjoy the sweet taste of success that a bandwagoner can never experience. Only when you’ve been through the dark days can you truly appreciate what we have now.

Spare me the sanctimonious BS, I absolutely loved that hit and the best part about it was Fields’ head band going flying off too. It was an absolute yard sale on the field haha. It’s preseason and means nothing so give me a break. If Josh got hit like that I’d say next time switch the protection so you don’t get whacked by a free rusher. It wasn’t dirty, it deserved a flag in today’s NFL. That’s it.

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I hope they pay Lamar Mahomes like money. Then they will be stuck with him for at least half a decade. I think Lamar has hit his ceiling and Baltimore will continue to be a playoff contender but will have to get used to making early exits. He’s been figured out. That doesn’t mean he isn’t a good player btw, I just don’t think he’s going to improve his passing much beyond what we’ve seen and as the years go by those legs will fade.

This is good therapy. I think it’s great to remember where we came from and to keep perspective on the team as we attempt to climb to greatness. I’ve been a fan since I was born in the early 70s but moved away after college. So many fans from other teams when they hear I’m from Buffalo bring up how awful it must have been to lose 4 Super Bowls and I have to explain that yeah it sucked to lose but we had 4-5 straight years of expecting to go to the Super Bowl! That was our mentality and it was great. 16 years of mediocrity and suckitude was much worse than losing Super Bowls. My low point was the Rex hire. I was outright laughing at our team at that point. I enjoyed it for what it was, an absolute sht show of an organization with a clown head coach who was more entertainer than coach. For the first time in my life it didn’t hurt to lose, I expected it and felt the team deserved it because of how awful the franchise was inside and out. Once Pegula cleaned house in the front office, especially all those holdovers like Brandon who were absolute losers, I started to believe again. He needed to fumigate the entire place to exterminate the culture of losing that permeated everything Buffalo Bills. We were a joke of a franchise and I give Pegs credit for seeing that and making the change that needed to me made. I liked McD, thought he had potential, and absolutely loved his message of process, accountability and culture. Loved the JA pick, he was the only QB I really wanted though I would have been happy with Darnold at the time. I saw the glimmer of greatness very early on but had no idea if he’d actually achieve it. I was all in after the Dallas 4th down. You can’t teach that level of intensity. You can’t coach a kid to want it more than the other guy. That play, more so than leaping Bar in MN showed who JA was. Enjoy the ride, it won’t last forever but we’ve got some good years ahead.

All depends on the type of seizure he gets, their frequency, and how well controlled they are with meds. Teams will absolutely take this into serious consideration because he’s going to be exposed to multiple head bonks. Maybe not full on concussions, but there is no way a QB doesn’t get his bell rung multiple times in the NFL. You can bet teams that are interested in him are trying to figure out if there are increased risks. IDK if there’s any increased risk.

I hope so, and I haven’t given up on him. I would have liked to have seen a bit more improvement from him after 3 years. If he would just catch a couple of those balls that hit him right in the chest we wouldn’t even be having the discussion. It holds true that his run defense needs to improve though, both in gap awareness and shedding blocks. I don’t think we should trade or get rid of him.

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that Edmunds isn’t going anywhere. McBeane love them some Tremaine. They are willing to tolerate his almost complete lack of gap awareness for what he offers in defending the passing lanes in McD’s zone defense. This is way more important to McD than stuffing the run. Not that I agree, but it explains why you haven’t seen him moved to OLB and why they will 100% pick up his 5th year. I loved the pick, I wish he developed into the player I still think he could be but I’m rapidly losing faith. This year is a make or break for his long term outlook but the 5th year option will be picked up regardless.

Schobel was the king of the garbage sack. He rarely made a sack when it meant anything. He only showed up against the Cheatriots and then he’d get 3 garbage time sacks because we were getting blown out. Decent talent, probably slightly above average DE, but he is the post boy for misleading stats.

I still don’t get all the Darnold love that exists on this board. His ceiling is a backup QB. Even Josh who was 10x as raw and had just as bad a team his rookie year showed flashes of brilliance and most had the feeling that with a little time he just might develop into a franchise QB. You could see that potential in his rookie year. I never saw that with Darnold. As bad as the Jets mismanaged him, Darnold has shown nothing except once in a while tossing a great ball out of the structure of the offense. I don’t have anything against Sam I just haven’t seen anything that warrants all this optimism that he’s going to be anything other than a backup.

Eh this is a nothing burger. Mahomes always seemed to me to be kind of a dick but he’s a phenomenal talent. That limp sure got worse after playing like crap when TB started rolling though.

All the talk has been about Brady, which is exactly my point. He no longer plays for your team, he couldn’t stand NE and got the hell out just like Gronk. The discussion about your current team has been completely absent. One bad season in 20 and you’d think they were the Lions. The fact is there seem to be more Brady fans than Pats* fans, which is about right for frontunners. The few true NE fans I know can’t stand Brady for bailing on NE, they root for the colors not the player.

All these supposedly Pats* fans rooting for Tampa just prove what we already knew - NE fans are the biggest bandwagon fans on the planet. If Jim Kelly and Thurman made it clear they hated Buffalo and would either retire or get out any way they could (that last TB restructure) the overwhelmingly majority of Bills fans would hate them on another team and rightly so. That’s exactly what Gronk and TB did, they couldn’t stand NE anymore. As I’ve stated before, I live in NE and there has been ZERO Patriots talk this season except for a few die hards. You wouldn’t even know the team existed in this media market. They are lucky fans weren’t allowed at Gillette they probably wouldn’t have been able to fill it. Hartford Patriots in under 10 years!

It’s hard to say because we can’t know if that TB team which dominated KC plays the same against us with different match-ups. My gut tells me we don’t have the front 7 to pressure Brady consistently and he would have carved us up. The TB MLB White is everything we want Edmunds to be. A fast, disruptive, playmaking MLB. I loved the Edmunds pick but he needs to show up next year and start making some impact plays or we need to move him or move on. So what’s the explanation for the refs FINALLY calling the KC DBs for raping receivers all game long? They have been doing it all year to the point that its embedded in their defensive game plan. The Bills fan in me wants to say its because he was playing the GOAT and Brady always gets the flags. Maybe Arians called the refs everyday before the game and said “Hey, KC holds every defensive play all over the field, do something”. Anyway, I never thought I’d say it but I found myself rooting against KC (not necessarily for the Bucs) because they and their fans are such a bunch of douche bags. It’s not because we lost to them, they were the better team, I just don’t like the arrogance. Plus, I loved the thought of Belichick watching his legacy get crapped on by Tom because the narrative is definitely shifting towards “It was more Brady than Belichick” I loved Brady getting in Mathieus face, and loved Winfield Junior taunting Hill after the 4th down. What a bunch of punks those guys are. I’ll always hate NE most but KC is rapidly becoming a favorite team to hate.

No one is trading for John Brown. That’s Bill’s fan fantasyland thinking our players are better or more valuable than they are. Only way Brown stays: 1) McBeane thinks his decreased production is solely a result of injury and not losing a step 2) He restructures. It’s that simple. Given the salary cap next year, I think Brown would be amendable to a restructure and I think he stays assuming #1 is true.

Hahaha no one in this league is giving up a first for Sam Darnold. If the Jets trade him they will be lucky to get a 3rd. He’s done. A bust. You don’t play 3 years in the league and regress like he has just because your team sucks. I was never a Sam hater, I thought he had some potential to be a starter, but I’ve watched most of his games and he is HORRIBLE. His main problem is he has no idea where to go with the ball. He just doesn’t have the mental acuity down enough to be successful. Yeah, he will roll out and make a Wow play here and there out of structure but he’s on to backup-ville after his time with the Jets is done.

The Wizard Beane will have a solid offer for Milano. He has to in order to send a message to the rest of the team that guys will get paid commensurate with their production and availability. I don’t think it will be enough but it’s possible in this low cap upcoming season that it will be. I’d expect Beane to have a few guys on the radar in the same salary range as offered to Milano that we could make offers to to plug that hole if Milano leaves. There are going to be a lot of guys on the FA market who are salary cap casualties this season. I don’t think he will draft his replacement in the first. Edmunds is here to stay at MLB. McD LOVES the guy. I don’t necessarily agree but all this talk about Edmunds going to WLB or whatever is never going to happen. We are going to pick up his 5th year option no question and unless he implodes he will be at MLB for a loooooong time. No way Ford goes to RT, that experiment is over. I think he may be a bust but I’m hoping this season was all a result of injury and he can fill a guard spot as a solid starter. IDK. I expect Morse to get cut and Feliciano to slide over to center for this season and we draft his eventual replacement. I agree with others and hope we can retain Williams. We probably need to offer him more than we’d like but I can see Beane doing that considering what a solid job Williams did and goal #1 has to be to improve that O-line and get some running back in the offense.

I hope this puts to end all the talk about not needing any semblance of a running game. I can remember so many threads full of clowns saying “We don’t need to run the ball at all” “Daboll sucks he called 3 run plays in a quarter”. Well, you guys got your wish and we got absolutely destroyed because of the imbalance. You were proven 100% wrong so save your crap takes next season. Knox is a huge disappointment. I was really hoping he just needed some time and reps but he sucks and it’s time to move on. He consistently whiffs on assignments and still has concentration issues catching the ball. I’m not saying cut him outright since he’s on a rookie contract but we need someone to come in and start so we can attack the middle of the field. Brown is gone unless Beane thinks his poor production is 100% injury related Edmunds will get more time and they will pick up his 5th year option.

We know Daboll has the ability to design the offensive game plan to attack a defenses weaknesses. The only reason I can see that we played right into KC’s hands on offense was Daboll knew we didn’t have the RBs or TEs to take advantage of the KC defense which is their putrid LBs. It’s disgusting how easily they exposed us and I don’t think it was because Daboll didn’t understand how to attack them, he had no faith that we could do it effectively. Knox is a huge disappointment. I really expected him to be a weapon this year but he didn’t progress the way I hoped. Singletary regressed, probably a combo of poor blocking, lack of touches and a sophomore slump. I don’t care how we do it but we need a couple players that are at least competent enough for us to attack the middle and get defenses out of the 7 man coverage schemes that stymied us a few times this year.

Romo has gotten way too full of himself. He’s a full on cheerleader for the guys he likes and has been making more mistakes lately (I think it’s just a cramp, Jim!). I fully expect him to be jizzing all over the press box every time Mahomes takes a heroic step with his injured big toe. He will be flat out cheering for the Chiefs all game long. Gonna be hard to listen to unless we are kicking butt and we get to listen to him try and make excuses for Mahomes or cheer an attempted comeback.