PolishDave

You can't do the math dude? It's third grade level math. Can you tie your sneakers?

Castillo first please.

So Castillo promoted to OC then?

If you honestly try to measure the effectiveness of either the passing game or running game based solely on total yards you are doing it wrong. If you want an accurate picture, you have to account for number of attempts. Otherwise it is terribly misleading. I get you are doing that on purpose though. Because without doing that you would have to agree the rushing attack went from "the single best rushing attack of the modern era" to "just average. That is a major FUBAR by any reasonable standards.

What are you basing that guess on - his subpar "Fitzpatrick like" interception when he was put in as QB? How many interceptions do you think the Bills needed to throw in order to come out with a win against Jacksonville in that game? 8? 10? more?

I don't want to run him off. I think McDermott does though. - Probably because of durability.

Yeah. Of the 5 he is probably the best and worth keeping if he stayed healthy.

There are 5 guys on the line. 1 guy does not make the unit good at pass protection. And as I said, Glenn has a very good chance of being gone.

Is Julius Peppers done? I know he is getting old. But 11 sacks last year and he is cheap? 1 year deal?

How many games are you willing to throw away if there isn't any improvement right from the start? Are you going to throw a whole season away on him again? And if not, what great offensive mind is going to be available part way through the season to come in and bail your season out? Things to think about if you really want to keep him for next year. They should hire him. He could show up to work in a tow truck towing the General Lee behind him. Then we can change that stupid train whistle during the game to the same sound the General Lee's horn made. Der ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner! And bring back the cheerleaders all dressed in skimpy ass Daisy Dukes! Oh yeah! And we can rename the Big Tree to The Boar's Nest.

Glenn likely won't be here. This group has never been a top offensive line in pass protection and you are going to notice it a lot if and when the Bills get a true pocket passer. He will be sacked in that pocket with regularity and (probably) throw a lot of ill advised passes as a result. They need upgrades in pass protection badly for their new QB whoever that might be. Unless they are going to get another run-for-your--life guy which nobody wants of course.

Hey I get to leave more smilies again! Woohoo! Earlier it told me I was out of them for the day. Invision software lies!

Dude... Pollock is a fish You meant to call me a Polak. Just so we're on the same page.

Gotcha. I'm out of likes and thanks for the day. So I couldn't leave you one. I think I have invested WAAAY too much of my life on this board in the last 24 hours. Yikes! My god. What is wrong with me?

I get what you are saying. I just don't understand how that has anything to do with or relates at all to whether Baltimore ran the same offense then that Buffalo is running now?

Ahh yes. He does go over the top. I have noticed that. I honestly don't read most of what he writes because it is usually WAY too long. That guy is here too. I think he is a Peterman fan.

Really great post! I find myself questioning how bad Dennison really is. It could be that his one major blunder was not understanding how poorly this roster would be able to execute what he was about to ask them to execute. I have to fault him for that. It is his job to evaluate that and adjust accordingly. And I have to fault him for piss poor halftime adjustments which I think separates good coaches from bad ones. He seems very bad in that regard also. I wish we could get an in-depth explanation of how they saw things at the beginning of the year, why they chose to do things that way and what their thoughts were when they started changing back to what worked last year.

I guess I don't notice them because I don't hold hatred for Tyrod. I have no other explanation for why I don't notice them. Well, I guess I have seen some praise here and there that was over the top, but it wasn't people volunteering that praise unprovoked day after day thread after thread post after post. It was one or two guys saying it and then moving on. The negative stuff however is day after day, thread after thread, post after post - and it's about a guy who is very, very likely heading out the door. Get me? And the negative stuff gets so over the top and so overdone that it provokes people to come out and defend against it - which then makes it look like everyone loves the guy - which they don't.

Oh yeah. I was mad then. That was momentary though. Happens at various times when people post some things. I get over things quickly. I know better. It is a forum. Trust me. I'm not mad. I would rather laugh or walk away before getting lingering pissed. I try to practice that emotional intelligence thing I talked about in another thread on here - the one where Shady looked pissed after the game.

Do you think that quarterbacks go off all by themselves and come up with their own way to attack the defense in an upcoming game? If they do that, they are doing that on their own time as an extra effort kind of thing. Since when has it become primarily the quarterback's job to determine how to attack the upcoming defense and what weaknesses the defense has? The coaches and coordinators are supposed to do that. Maybe the quarterback and backup quarterbacks catch something the coaches miss. Great. I really don't think that is primarily an expected skill the quarterback is supposed to be great at. If he is, why they hell have coaches at all? I thought coaches and quarterbacks sat in a room together watching film of the defense trying to identify weaknesses where anyone in the room can speak up and point something out. And then maybe the coaches and quarterbacks spend extra time on their own in private doing extra analysis trying to catch more things. Failure to notice ways to attack a defense is the fault of a coach not a player.

I don't know this for a fact, but something tells me that the offense Baltimore ran back when Dennison worked with Tyrod there as a QB coach was not the same offense that Dennison ran this year. I honestly don't know. My intuition tells me it is extremely unlikely. The one advantage with bringing in Dennison should have been - that he knows Tyrods strengths and weaknesses already. Therefore he should be better prepared to design an offense that Tyrod can execute well. Obviously that didn't happen. Is that 100% Tyrod's fault - A reasonable man would have to say not a chance in hell. Tyrod didn't design this offense. His previous coaches designed better ones for him than Dennison did. Hard to argue against that. Where are all of these threads comparing Tyrod to the greats of the game? I must have missed them. Count the number of threads started to praise Tyrod. Count the number of threads started to bash him. Count the number of posts in other threads unrelated to the quarterbacks where some poster comes in and interjects praise for Tyrod where he doesn't deserve it. Then count the number of posts in other unrelated threads where some poster comes in and interjects blame on Tyrod when the thread isn't even about him. You don't have to count them do you? You already know how that is going to turn out. That is my point.

Not mad at all bro. Frustrated from lack of clarity. It is the one of the weak parts of forums. Hard to be clear unless you type a full page. And then nobody wants to read it - TLDR. ------------------------------------------------------------------- I do get sick of seeing Tyrod blamed for things that clearly aren't his fault or that aren't even mostly his fault. (like the Jacksonville defensive signals) And it does get old seeing the same people keep repeating the same thing post after post thread after thread (even outside of QB threads) about how bad Tyrod is at this and how awful Tyrod is at that. And he sucks at QB because he can run too fast for an NFL QB. And he sucks because he can avoid a pash rush longer than any other QB in the NFL. And he sucks because his mom's fat too. And he probably doesn't like Polish food. And he probably eats wings with a knife and fork. Like at some point you need to quit complaining and just move on eh?

I don't get this place sometimes. Sometimes it is just impossible to have a clear (on-point) conversation. When I specifically BOLD things in a response to people I assume that they know THAT is what I am responding to. And not all the other stuff they wrote. Wrong assumption on my part I guess. This has happened with other posters too. I bold something in their response thinking they will know that is SPECIFICALLY what I am talking about - and then they respond back to me with something I was not even talking about. It feels like talking to a wall. I usually go back and correct my grammar when it is horribly wrong. I fix my typos a lot of the time for the sake of clarity. I try to use bold letters, capitals, quotations and brackets for added clarity when I write. Even after doing all of that, I guess my communication skills still truly just suck. - Like as bad as Tyrod sucked in that playoff game. I thought I was better than this. Sorry to waste your time. (And sorry to waste mine.)

I did not talk about any of that. Tyrod sucked in the game. I said that he did. I specifically bolded the part where you blame him for not exploiting the hand signals that Jacksonville defenders used. That isn't on him unless you know that the coaches made an emphasis on that and integrated it into their game plan. You literally blame him for every single friggin thing. The team around him isn't great either and neither are his coaches. Let's be reasonable.

Excellent well thought out and well explained post! Coaching is more than just desigigning a scheme that can work. You have to teach your guys to execute it too. That is like at least half of the coaches' duties. If the players can't execute what you are telling them to do, well then you aren't doing your job well enough. You either aren't teaching them or you are asking them to do too much. People like to just blame the players for lack of execution. That is only fair if you think all players are superstars and should be able to execute anything thrown at them. There probably aren't more than 3 or 4 players on each team that can execute anything thrown at them. The truth is - different guys have different things they are good and bad at. It is up to the coach to devise a system they can execute and teach them to execute it exceptionally well. This again lends more weight to the idea of simplifying everything until you can execute all the basic stuff really well. Then build on that and complicate things more as you go on. But most coaches (in my guestimation) start right out with complicated stuff and keep trying to run it even when their team has proven they can't execute it. And say the players just aren't good enough. Maybe they aren't. But if they aren't, it is at least partially the coaches' fault. Does anyone think that this BIlls' offense is executing these plays with a high degree of success in practice? I don't. At least not against live fire action. Maybe in walk throughs. Because how could you possibly suck that bad in the game if you are executing them well in practice?