GunnerBill
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IDK about easy, but I share your optimism re: possible 4-1 start.. The Division flurry to end the season is different, but if we
re EVER going to make the playoffs again, we have to start whoopin' these teams every year.
I meant it isn't a stretch to imagine for me not that the games will be easy... just to clarify!
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He obviously says "process" way too often.[/quote
You can never have too much process.
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I actually like the schedule. I think there is a chance to get started and on a roll. I could easily see us 4-1 through 5 weeks before the bye.
I think McDermott will know how to shut down Carolina better than anyone, I don't believe Denver will be good (history says take a Wade Phillips defense, remove Wade Phillips and you just have an average defense) and I think Cincy and the Jets are beatable.
The season will be made or broken by that run after the bye... Buccs, Raiders, Jets, Saints, Chargers, Chiefs.
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I have thought Allen was a slider all along. After the last few days I can see Allen and Foster being available much later than people expected.
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So Bills going to Kansas City in week 12 at 5-5 and in the hunt sufferng a heart breaking loss in a game they should win and limping to a 7-9 finish feels pretty Billsy......
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Did you think Wentz and Goff were first and second overall pick prospects, let alone round 1 prospects?
1st rounders? Yea. Top 2 in the draft? Never. Didn't like either trade up.
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Yeah, a scary thought.
Don't get me wrong I wanted McDermott - he was my choice of the guys out there..... but I don't get to sit in interviews and ask the questions and evaluate the responses. I do worry that when it comes to these decisions Terry and Kim feel the pain of losing as much as us and get swayed emotionally.
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NFL execs opine regarding who will be the 1st QB taken:
Also, draft gurus discuss how they mis-evaluated guys:
https://theringer.com/2017-nfl-draft-biggest-misses-scouts-executives-9b7afdd89a7e
Love the second link Bandit. Cheers for that. Really interesting read. I like going back and trying to work out why I was wrong on guys too. Even the 4 or so years I have been doing this I get some wrong and like the guy says about Robinson it is very rare you have missed the weaknesses you have just found ways of talking yourself around them or you have seen the strengths but spent too much time worrying about what guys can't do and missed the other way.
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The Pegulas are all in on their people..... until they are not. They need to stop acting like emotional fans and start taking hard headed business decisions. I hope rational thought was behind the McD hire and not just "hey he used to be a wrestler..... that's kinda cool".
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We'd probably have Garrett Grayson instead of Ron Darby
I doubt Marrone was up for going the rookie route again. Nick Foles or Sam Bradford would have been his likely targets in my opinion before those two swapped teams.
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Welcome Graeme from Bratford. What is the latest with the Bulls have they gone totally or is there still hope of a saviour on the horizon? Such a shame. Those early Super League teams were fantastic fun to watch. I'm a British born and British based Bills fan but not old enough to remember Terry Price trying out for Buffalo .
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Marrone was not a very likable person. But he coached hard and his players played hard. When he left and Rex entered the door this franchise was dramatically set back. One wonders where this team would be if Marrone would have stayed longer?
Yep. It is hard to project because had Marrone stayed in 2015 who would have been the Quarterback? We know that Rex was a major factor if not the only one pushing for Tyrod. If you had the 2015 roster with Marrone as Head Coach and Schwartz as DC the Bills are a playoff team in my opinion, but you likely wouldn't have had Tyrod at QB and that might well have kept them out.
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Perhaps.
But it's really not necessary.
Difference between the option and franchising him is just a few million bucks against a massive amount of available cap space next year..............and that buys them a whole year to either extend Sammy long term while he is a year younger........or maybe just to decide if Sammy is going to heal or turn into a Bill Walton-like foot injury career disaster.
I am entirely with you on this one.
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Plenty of talk about Peppers across the other threads. Kirby and I discussed him yesterday.... in the non QBs to avoid at 10 thread.
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As I've said before, I'll happily take a 6-10 season. Just as long as I can see the roster evolve and see a plan unfolding.
#TrustTheProcess
Agree. A bit like Marrone's first year where I saw a bit of an identity despite the record staying stagnant and they reshaped the roster a bit to fit what he wanted, began to implement an aggressive pressure based D etc...
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I think those 3 will go in the 1st too. Kizer might..... but I think he is dependant on a team trading back into the 1st.
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Maybin was NOT a cute pick? I'm thinking the two of you have completely different meanings in mind for the word cute here. Maybin was a classic cute pick, IMHO. So was Whitner. Spiller too.
Watkins the pick, no. But Watkins the trade-up, absolutely yes. We were sure we were much smarter than everyone else and had to trade up for a WR in a year that was a historically terrific WR draft year. Sigh. Manuel. Flowers. Maybe even Lynch though it turned out to be good value. If he hadn't lost interest in all things Buffalo he might have been an all-time bright spot. Maybe not, but he's on the bubble.
McGahee too.
I supported a couple of those picks at the time, but a lot seemed cute. And most of the cute ones didn't work out.
That's a lot for a franchise that hadn't gone cute for more than a decade or so before that.
So I think Maybin was cute and Spiller was cute it was the classic "we have a higher value on these guys than the rest of you because we are going to be able to use them in a way the rest of you simply can't fathom." Whitner was not a cute pick for me... that was just a reach for need. They were taking a safety in the 1st because they had a desperate need.... Huff was the 1st one on their board but went before the picked so rather than looking at "who is next on our board?" they asked "who is the next safety on our board" and took Whitner. That was a need reach not a trying to appear smart reach. I put EJ more in the reach for need category as well rather than "cute".
To me a "cute" pick is where a team is trying to be clever and show they aren't constrained by the orthodoxy. That was Maybin and Spiller for me and I agree you could argue the trade up for Sammy (though not the actual selection).
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Just on the debate above I don't see any way this is a playoff team in 2017, but then I said the same about Miami in 2016....
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I will have to find it again, but a writer for one of the football websites took Graham apart on this. He added up daft picks on rosters only from drafts since Whaley has been GM, and found no significant differences between us and other teams.
Not to say Whaley can't be better at drafting, but it's just another example of unjustified criticism.
This.
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None of the O linemen.
Agree with that too. I have a bottom of the 1st grade on Lamp (as a guard) and he is the first offensive lineman on my board. That said I think 3 or 4 go in the back half of the 1st, but personally I wouldn't touch them there.
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3 (maybe, .bust potential is through the roof. This team is in need of staters and couldn't even consider using a pick on that guy. Even in the 3rd I'd be hesitant.
I actually like Delano Hill late though.
I think that feels about right to me. I do think someone will take him in the first though.
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It's Peppers by a mile.
Haha. What round would you be willing to take him in?
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I won't join in with the celebration. This is simply the final act in a terrible story of wasted life, both that of a talented young man on the wrong path and those of the people who he killed or had a hand in killing.
2017 NFL Schedule Predictions
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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No way we lose to Denver in my opinion. They are going to suck this year. Defense will take a big step back without Wade and I don't like either of their Quarterbacks.
I can actually see them somewhere in the 4-12 range. (Edit... by them I mean Denver).