GunnerBill
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New Orleans OL isn't good. Peat has been a massive disappointment and Armstead is hurt. Strief bounced back in 2016 but was awful in 2015. I'd have them closer to 20 than 10.
As I said my ranking of them around the top 10 is based on when everyone is healthy. Armstead is a very good left tackle I think Peat is serviceable inside (though remains a problem when he had to flip to tackle when Armstead was hurt) Strief had a really good year and I think Max Unger is an outstanding center. I personally believe the Unger for Graham trade was the moment the Seahawks relinquished any hope of a dynasty.
Theh might not have depth, but when everyone is healthy I think that line is good and I give it the edge over others because there is no obvious weak link.
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Eric Wood has been up and down in his career it is true and he was awful in Marrone's 2nd year but he actually played pretty well in the Roman / Kromer scheme. I think he is a decent technician but he isn't going to flatten his man straight up.Again, I don't think that OL sucks. I do however think that we overrate our center and right guard. I am glad we drafted the kid from Temple.
Jmo.
Miller I am a fan of. I thought he was better than many here thought his rookie year, and he was a solid starting guard in 2016. He is definitely better in the run game than in pass pro but his pass protection faults are more concerntration and technique on specific plays rather than being generally sub par.
I am also glad we drafted Dawkins... because A - RT has been the weak spot and in the pass game at times a liability. B - with Kujo gone I worry about depth behind Glenn at the most important position. Dawkins played LT in college and has been there so far in OTAs etc.
EDIT: for what it is worth and I am not an absolute believer in PFF but I think their end of season O-line rankings pretty much matched what I saw on tape not just from the Bills but around the league. It had the Bills 11th - that felt instinctively about right - and the teams it had ahead of them are broadly the ones I would have had (though one might quibble a bit with the order). For me based on 2016 there is a definite top 8:
Dallas, Oakland, Tennessee, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta.
After that I think you could put the Bills anywhere from 9 to about 13/14. PFF additionally had New England and Philadelphia above them I actually have the Bills slightly ahead of those two, but behind New Orleans (Armstead missing time hurt their PFF grade) and right about level with the Bengals who similarly have (or had) an outstanding LT and LG and then solid but not special C and RG and a problem at RT.
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Carr by no metric had an "impressive rookie year" he started to play better the last 4 or 5 weeks and so the Raiders could legitimately feel good about him and he kicked on in year 2 but the start of his rookie year he really struggled. Carr is the poster boy for letting your guy play his rookie year and accepting the results.
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Same here. Most have completely dismissed him but I think the jury is still out.
They are back. The verdict is in. He sucks. Trubisky will be the starter by week 8.
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Except that he's under contract. But I agree that it's unlikely the team went against Reid's wishes in trading up for Mahomes.
A contract that no doubt contains certain clauses about personnel control. That is just who Andy Reid is.
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Reid is NOT a short term "win now" coach. He is safe in KC for the long term. I just cannot believe a Reid team would trade up that big for a QB unless it was HIS guy. Everything about Andy Reid tells me he is the kind of guy who would walk out should that happen. He would coast into another job no problem.
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Tyrod doesn't buy time... he wastes time. It is there on tape he misses chances to throw to open receivers and asks the o-line to block too much space for too long.
Where I do think he makes them look better is in run blocking. Tyrod's threat with his legs makes defences really reluctant to crash down in the middle of the line for fear that it is a keeper and Tyrod will simply run round the outside of them.
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I've had this bookmarked for a while, and it's still a great read. Really something I wish the Bills would include in their offense: uptempo/quick release/pre-snap reads/only having to read a small portion of the field.
So how do they do it? By playing matchups. 2.2 seconds isn’t enough to scan the whole field and decipher the intricacies of the defensive scheme. Much of Brady’s decision-making comes from the pre-snap alignment of the defense. Once he receives the ball, Brady does little more than read the defenders in a small area of the field to be able to get rid of it so swiftly.
Gotta have a QB who is cerebral and smart enough to run it. Nobody will ever do it as well as Tom Brady.
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Fun topic Jack!!
HC - Marrone (he's an a-hole but was organized and his teams were prepared. Marrone was an easy choice for me here).
OC - Chan (he's proven to be a good OC. He's scored points with some bad talen. This was another easy choice).
DC - Fewell (this is much tougher. I don't love any of the candidates. Greggo has had some success as has Rex. His defense is totally antiquated though. Fewell gets the nod).
ST - Lynn (he has some ST experience. I don't know what other way to go).
With you 100%. Marrone and Gailey were easy choices. And as I had fun elongating their full names to Douglas and Chandler I went for the DC that was easiest to do that with (although I think Gregg is actually his full name... psshht....) In reality Fewell might be the best of a bad bunch there. The best Ds we have fielded came under Mularkey and Marrone.... two offensive coaches. Odd.
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I think DW is done as GM, I think the consensus around the league is the he is a good scout but over his head as a GM. Classic example of the Peter Principle.
His ONLY shot of getting a GM job again (if he even wants to stay in scouting, he could go back to Wall Street and earn a fortune) is to take a VP for Pro-Personnel type job or an Assistant GM job in a place with an established veteran GM and make himself the go to "in house" candidate when that GM retires. Or go into a team, and KC may become that team, where they are not going to have a traditional GM but where the HC will be an omnipotent all powerful decision maker and Whaley could just scout.
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i think it would be perfect for him. He can be a talent evaluator but not make the final decisions (Reid would obviously do that) so it would play to his strengths
True and Andy is comfortable in front of the mic so Doug wouldn't have to do that.
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Rodgers receivers were spooked that day because Gilmore hit them early. We pressed, we got physical and we hit them in the mouth. Up front and on the backend. People talk about the Nelson drop but if Green Bay won that day it would have been totally undeserved. The Bills physically battered them. We were set up at that point to beat finesse teams... witness a similar destruction of Luck and the Colts on Rex's first day in situ. The crazy thing is under the Bully Builder we went from that to a bunch of kitty cats who allowed three 200 yard rushers in a single season (I think it was 4 times in history before 2016).
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I mean, that is all you got out of my post. SMH
I got the same as I got out of your last 100 posts. Trolling of anyone who dares to suggest Tyrod is not the long term answer at Quarterback by misrepresenting their opinion or avoiding engagement with their argument.
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I feel that he also stretches the pocket way too far, and never climbs up into it. Contrast the size of his pocket to that of someone like Matt Ryan, who will climb up into it to extend the play. TT's pocket is three times the size. How much harder is it to pass-protect when the O-line has to have eyes in the back of their heads to know where the QB is?
Indeed. They are asked to protect too big of a space for too long.
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If it wasn't an agreed upon move I find it incredibly hard to picture a GM making a blockbuster trade for a QB against Reid's wishes. I find it much more likely that Reid would carry the juice to get the GM to make the move despite reservations. Still most likely though was they just agreed.
Yep. Andy Reid gets what Andy Reid wants. To believe otherwise is to ignore his history. Mahomes was a Reid pick, I don't have a single doubt about it.
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The Raiders were 10-22 the first two seasons under Carr. He's very good now, but our QB is 15-14 in his first two seasons and that's deplorable to some. Carr's average yards per game is 238 through three seasons. like I said, he's very good and I wished we had him, but TT is not terrible as you and some others think. In Carr's first two seasons, he had 53 total TDs and 25 INTs. TT in two seasons has 47 total TDs and we know he rarely turns the ball over.
C.Biscuit has NEVER claimed TT is terrible. You are trolling at this point.
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Mike Ballard left to become GM of the Colts.
Chris Ballard.
I think that it's possible that the Chiefs win about 6 or 7 games. They have made some baffling decisions this offseason. The margin for error in the NFL is small and if they ball doesn't continue to bounce their way we may reap the rewards.
Could see that. Not sure I see any worse than that tho.
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Or Dorsey was behind it and Andy doesn't like what he sees from mini camps
Hmm. Possible. Knowing Reid though I suspect mine is more likely. Underminging GMs on power grabs is part of his MO. He never wanted a GM in KC but they insisted after the mess of the final few years of his omnipotence in Philly. They got him a guy he picked to work with... I suspect Andy Reid pushed for Mahomes maybe even against Dorsey's advice and this was an inevitable conclusion.
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But far too often the guy was running for his life immediately after the snap.
I can't disagree that happened some (and it came mainly from the right side of the line) but I think it was a tiny percentage of time comapred to the number of times Tyrod had 3 seconds to throw it and didn't and then got hit.
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I think this probably tells us Reid was behind the trade. The truth in Philly seemed to be the more powerful Andy got the less successful the team was. Chaos ensuing and a 2-14 season would be nice. I don't see it though.
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We were still 8th in sacks last year. If healthy I think we could lead the league in sacks. Hughes in double digits, Marcell too, few from Kyle and Shaq 8 or so. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
We were.... but usually from feasting on poor teams. We will have to sack better offenses to be near leading the league in 2017.
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Todd Downing has been Derek Carr's QB coach and OC since 2015. He was EJ Manuel's QB coach in 2014. I don't think QB coaching matters as much as people think it does.
No he hasn't. He was promoted to OC this offseason.
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HC: Douglas Marrone
OC: Chandler Gailey
DC: Gregory Williams
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Arguably the worst DW move of significance.
Agreed.
Raiders sign Carr to 5 year/125 mill extension
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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These two come down to much more than FO. The answer is though that the Redskins have won more than 8 games four times in the period of the Bills drought and made the playoffs on all 4 occassions - twice with the same 9-7 records that haven't been good enough to get the Bills in.
Considering that for most of those 17 years Washington was throwing a lot more money at players and coaches than the Bills and that they are not in a division with the greatest coach and Quarterback of all time I don't think it is that big of a stretch to say that their FO has been as dysfunctional as ours.
I'm sorry but explain to me again why Kansas City are on this list?