GunnerBill
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I think they inherited a team that was closer than it had been for many years and made som major mistakes that set us back... the biggest being Rex Ryan (who it was so obvious to some of us at the time was the wrong man).
I hope they have learned the hard way and Bean and McDermott look like a new way of working but so far besides buying the team they haven't got a lot right from a fan's perspective.
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Where would the money go? The league generates revenue, like any business. They make about $12.5B a year. Where should that money go?
To people who need it? I mean hell I am a red blooded socialist by US standards so feel free to ignore me, but....
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BTW how can this topic keep QB play on the sidelines - TT is not that good.
Because we have numerous topics on Tyrod.
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He isn't even good. I think he is less of an NFL talent than Andre Holmes. I don't want to take that character risk on someone who is at best a #4.
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But he missed as did Hotrod on the play before that (Goodwin in EZ).
Even if Carp HAD made it, game would not have been over anyway.
Correct and people forget that. It wasn't a kick "for the win" Miami who punted on 4th down their next drive would have had to go for it.
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I think the offense was limited due to not having its main offensive weapon on the field in Sammy Watkins
We gave up a lot for this guy....and when he is healthy he is drawing consistant double coverage and beating it.
Its tough to be explosive when your primary receiving weapon is Goodwin......so we relied heavily on our ground game and it did produce for the most part.
We need more out of our pass catchers......they need to make plays for their qb who isnt a guy that is gonna put it on his shoulders and win a game (or has not shown the ability to do that)
Nobody has argued that Goodwin is crap harder than me. Complete waste of time. But the QB's job is find the open guy and throw him the ball. We has plenty of open guys, it is there on film. When Tyrod lofted it and Goodwin failed to track the ball (because he is crap) I was the first to blame the receiver.
I think the passing game was to an extent limited by Roman's design though. They were never trying to be a move the chains, methodical, west coast offense.
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Never thought he was good coming out tbh. Some people thought he was underrated because of off the field I thought he was overrated because of noteriety. 4th rounder on my board.
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Last years offense was built around the notion that the defense would be good enough to protect the lead. The offensive playbook wasnt designed to be explosive. It was all about ball control, not throwing for three hundred yards. Given that, Tyrod did what the coaches asked of him and more. The simple fact is, our defense didnt do what it was supposed to do and the offense was ill equiped to respond. That isnt a Tyrod problem, it was coaching. This is why Rex was let go.
Not quite accurate. Rex's offense was supposed to be big play... it was not a dink and dunk offense it wae chunk plays in the run and pass game. Go check Billick's "Toxic differential".
I think it was a limited offensive passing scheme but not limited in down the field plays. Limited in those intermediate routes. I am not sure Tyrod did do all that was asked "and more." He was very up and down in 2016 even in wins.
I agree that the Defense was a bigger factor in the 7-9 record though.
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Chris Trapasso Retweeted Buffalo Rumblings
Another reminder that the #Bills ran some zone-blocking concepts last season. Anthony Lynn is a Shanahan disciple... just like Rick Dennison
They ran some everything... Roman has just about every variety of run blocking in his scheme. It is true that in game calling terms Lynn as a play caller tendee to rely on more zone run plays than Roman.
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Don't know enough about the Sabres to answer. I don't think the Bills are close... don't think you can think that until the Quarterback is in place.
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The reason Tyrod is still here is also very simple. His decision to accept the contract reduction after his agent had temperature tested the market was based on three factors:
1. Chance to start in 2017;
2. Money;
3. Chance to play for a competitive team in 2017.
Most of the teams interested in giving him #1 and #2 could not, in his mind, offer #3 (see 49ers, Jets and Browns). The other options that might have offered #3 were probably not guaranteeing #1 (maybe the Cardinals or possibly the Texans where they were about to draft their QB of the future).
If the informal conversations his agent had been having had identified someone who had been willing to offer Tyrod money comensurate with his original deal and satisfying criteria #1 and #3 he would not have accepted the pay cut and then the Bills would have had a very difficult decision. In those circumstances my instinct is he wouldn't be here.
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Why does it matter to you that you are right? Who cares-he's the starting QB for 2017 and every Bills fan should be behind him, but clearly a few are not. He hasn't earned a reputation like that as if he were EJ, or Edwards and such, but gosh darn, you're going to make sure that anyone with something positive to say is going to be wrong.
Hahaha. When did I do that? I said something positive about Tyrod earlier in this very thread. And do not insinuate I am not behind him. I am behind every Bills player who takes the field. I just don't understand the constant need to spin the Tyrod situation and can only put it down to the fact that some people struggle to divorce their emotional desire for the Bills to succeed (which I have as much as anyone) from their ability to analyse the reality of what the contract is.
I am 100% behind Tyrod and I have never made any sort of claim that he is in the same bracket as EJ Manuel or Trent Edwards.
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And again, why are you using Whaley to support your argument? That's a big fail. Any QB that Whaley doesn't like, I'd take the opposite view.
What does that prove. A restructure is quite literally what it says on the tin... the same money re-structured. If I restructure my house I don't cut it in half do I?
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That is a clear indication what this franchise thinks of him.
I don't understand why this is a controversial view on this board. It is as clear as day to anyone who can divorce themselves from the emotion and stand back and look at it logically.
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Again, it's fine to say that you doubt other teams were interested, but it's wrong to state that as an established fact. There are a lot of reasons, other than lack of interest from other teams, that Tyrod may have signed the restructured deal. Those reasons have been covered in other threads at length, not to mention the fact that other teams were not allowed to even talk to Tyrod or his agent while he was under contract. And of course, it's not his agent's decision, it's Tyrod's.
Of course there may be other reasons, but can we stop calling it a restructure. This was not a restructure - this was a contract reduction - both in terms of pay and length.
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Like I said, I poke fun, but it's serious business in some places.
It's a serious business in many, many places. And it is often the "it does not matter to me crowd" who try and turn homophobia into something else as to avoid the issue.
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I have seen it with my own eyes Boyst. My friend did recognise it. He didn't dare get help for living in absolute fear of being exposed.
Speaking to him since the biggest reason he felt he had to end it was because he felt he had no place. He couldn't reconcile himself with the gay community because he didn't want to wear a rainbow flag or go to drag clubs or march for pride but he thought that the friends and community he lived in as a "straight" man would reject him if they found out he was gay. He lived in fear of that ever single day.
He came through it he is a much better person to be around now and he has had absolutely zero mental health issues since. He wasn't someone susceptible to mental health episodes who happened to be gay. He was someone whose internal trauma between the he that the world saw and the he that was true drove him to try and take his own life.
I wonder how many people in that situation you have spoken to? No you'd rather label them morons. Ignorant, nonsensical bile.
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Watching two dudes make out doesn't affect you at all?
I am also in the "any over the top public display of affection makes me a little queasy" but honestly - man/woman, man/man, woman/woman it makes zero difference.
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let this dude live his life. he's a moron, plain and simple. this is about mental health. not about being gay, no matter what he thinks - he has clearly shown to be a retard.
I'm sorry this is total rubbish. Imagine having to be someone else 24 hours a day for over 20 years of your life. If you don't understand that is the root cause of the depression and mental health issue I don't know what to tell you.
You are just wrong.
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I played soccer with a guy who went through very much the same and attmepted a drug overdose (thankfully his sister found him and he was got to hospital in time and survived).
He came out after that and almost immediately the demons were gone. He was an angry, aggressive character that gave way to a funny, charming, laid back man.
Until you have seen the affect that wrestling to keep your true self hidden 24 hours a day has on a person you have no idea the mental torment that can cause.
My thoughts and best wishes are with Ryan O'Callaghan and I pay tribute to the people at Kansas City who saved that young man's life. I've seen with my own eyes how close a friend came.
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Thanks. I will probably be labelled a "hater" or told I think Tyrod is "terrible" but I can only say it as I see it I don't think my post was unfair at all.Really good post. I think people might be surprised at how good Roman's offense was for Tyrod. People in SF started blaming Roman & Harbaugh for Kaepernick's regression as a qb. Well, they left and CK struggled even more.
But I'd love to be surprised to see Tyrod's strengths are as a qb are quick timing routes. I don't see that but who knows.
And like you, I'd love to be proved wrong. Tyrod is an easy guy to root for.
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I don't think Jones makes it past the first cut.
It's McD's team now and any unproven leftover has a slim to no chance.
There is no first cut now. Just a single cut down day.
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So where I think Vic is right - the pay cut and contract slashing tells you all you all you need to know about how the Bills actually view Tyrod - the best option for now but not a viable long term option.
Where I think he is massively reaching - that the pay cut is likely to have any effect on Tyrod's mental state when the season begins. Tyrod just never comes across as that type to me. He is a guy that has never done anything the easy way as a QB his whole career. He has always been fighting the odds. To even be where he is is a fantastic underdog story of a competitor who takes knock backs as challenges. I expect Tyrod to be the same Tyrod we have seen through two years. He will be conservative with the football but will lead his guys and make some plays. Same ceiling, same flaws but the same competitor he has always been.
What has been mentioned in this thread that I do question a bit is the idea this offense is a perfect fit for him. I think people look at the boots and the rollouts and presume that.... but this offense also relies a lot on timing routes and really accentuates short range accuracy. They are areas I think Tyrod still has questions to answer.
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Still? It's only June
And he had about 2 weeks with the playbook. I bet he is getting first team reps by the 2nd week of camp.
Stop with "Schedule is Hard"--Analytics says it BS
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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This. Absolutely this. If people think the original post was "analytics" they don't understand what analytics means. It doesn't mean "anything with numbers".