BillsShredder83

^^^ I said the same thing but not as well as this. Complaining Ed is out, I fully get, it sucks!!! Blaming them for a hard practice, when its football, is a bad take. I still prefer this approach to teams that let starters hit it hard in pre-season games!!!

what will that look like in 2 years by comparison? What will the NFL salary cap look like next year? Or in 2 years? Its been 10+ years of Fan community getting sticker price shock, anytime somebody at any position, who is top 5, signs a new deal. 1. You need a QB 2. You need to protect a QB (more than LT) // You need to disrupt passing game. To me DE > LT, because one player can have much more effect than the other. Have a nasty LT? Pass rush LB can go to other side. Elite pass rush makes your DB's lives so much easier. DE is by far the 2nd most important position in the NFL. Salary cup is always going up. Next man up at a position is almost always going to reset the market.

Ive said it a million times, injury bug bit us. Von was not some guy known to miss games at all, and was a fluke thing on the worst field (at the time) in the league. You know that Detroit and NYJ/NYJ field had (det-replaced it) & has (jets/giants till use) like a 20x rate of ACL injuries?? S*** bit us 2 times in like 3 weeks; thanksgiving and then Tre during a game we shouldnt have even been on that field, was moved because of a storm. Anywho, Beane assembled a SB caliber team, and that was the best we've ever seen the defense. Being afraid of random injuries is useless. Do you refuse to date a girl because she could get in a car accident and die? Do you walk to work everyday because cars can kill people? That was a good move/signing that likely delivers a Lombardi if a fluke injury or two doesnt happen. Winning a Chip absolutely has some luck involved. Some things you cant help... doesnt mean you throw away the dice and stop playing. You do what you can to increase your odds, and pray for the best. Defense was monstrous before that G*D* field in Detroit dry dogged our season in 2 games. Thank God its gone, and the NFL should shame Jets/Giants into getting rid of that field. Its like hosting a Ferrari race on a gravel track... except their are billions at stake, not hundreds of K's! Band together and refuse to play on it till fixed!!! Quit being cheap short term, at the expense of crazy long term consequences!!! NFLPA should weigh in too. State theyre all refusing to play on it.

Ya know, I get it, obv were all pissed about this... but thats called hindsight. The defense and the team as a whole needs some hard practices. Not only early conditioning, but when you dont participate in pre-season, this is kinda what you're signing up for. Not the injury, but ya g2 make up the grind somewhere in the scedule. I cant believe im typing this, but maybe this is one of those "blessings" in disguise... where we have a weaker portion of the schedule coming up, and this can help us stay fresher later into the season / post season. Admittedly a glass half full post, but dang, what else can we especially as fans do?!

If this is the case, hopefully the NFL is communicating this, and hopefully we learn to do this is a skill. Still angry at the early Chiefs playoff games where we were getting G*D* mugged at the line (DBs shoulda wore ski masks).... and then were out there playing with a different set of rules VOLUNTARILY. We need regular drills/practices where our DB's learn how to do this effectively, and teach our WR's how to run through it, show high effort to work through it --> as thats the only way youre possibly getting a flag. If you flop, give up, throw your hands in the air and look to the ref... help is NOT coming. Work on the correct optics/attitude to earn the catch or the call!!

Fixed that for ya!

Man if this is the year he (Oliver) finally puts it all together and plays consistently like this... Id be shocked if we don't get our ring. Im not expecting his stat line has to consistently look like it did, or even that we need multiple huge splash plays outta him every game. Just need his to be a disruptive force and command attention from OC's. Imagining what that could do for the development of all the young guys around him, and Rousseau. Dudes been a plus player, but we've seen him struggle to close out plays with sacks. Big Ed could absolutely be the catalyst to help Groot really turn the corner and have a 12-15sack type season.

Article Now THIIIIS is how you do journalism here. I stole and gave this its own post out of the Ty Dunne thread, because it was such an interesting read, deserving its own attention. First thing that jumped out, was how well buffalo managed to follow what this article laid out, with Josh. I mean damn, I have almost no doubt the Jets would've ruined Josh. Even before reading this I always suspected it, but especially after reading this. Think about it. No team picking a qb at the top of the board, could be picking the wrong guy as often as s they do! Even if you were actively trying to pick the wrong prospect on purpose... you'd eventually pick a good one. Arians mentions 'scars' its too bad those seem to be permanent, because we'd have a lot better parody in the NFL 'dumpster diving' for QB's behind teams like Chi, NYJ, and CLE. Last thing I noticed, Kevin O'Connell 's comments make a lot more sense seeing JJ McCarthy last night! I was thinking dudes on the verge of getting pulled. That pick 6 he stared down the WHOLE way, was making some awful reads & decisions. I dunno what that staff told JJ at halftime and after that rep... but dang he settled in nicely for end of 3rd and 4th quarter. Admittedly I was thinking BUST at half time... I thought dang, they got no evals on him from last season, and here they are starting year2 & season 1, with the next Zack Wilson. That's its going to take them an extra year to be able to move on BECAUSE of his injury. I was wrong last night, and falling to the same mistakes discussed in article. Really great piece I enjoyed the hell out of!!!

From who? The guy that runs his website (him) LOL. McD took the classy road in doing that follow up meeting with him last year. Because coach is class. Other than that. There's not a real front office that'd give him any access (which is where his Bills beef was born out of). So having no sources inside a front office, hes limited to sources grapes guys out of the league... who also get to hide behind anonymity, while clearly having something to gain by doing so (trying to clear up their reputation- again - anonymously).

Nobody should be presenting the "other side" as a sole source, unless you're explicitly pointing out how the opinions are split. "Out of 34 sources a handful had this strong opinion" or "nearly all of the sources had this to say." Its lying by omission and intentionally misleading. This could've been 4 people out of 34. Or it could've been 32 of 34... but we'll never know... but you can be sure, if his opinion was the prevailing feeling of the majority of voices he heard, he certainly would've made that clear. THEN you'd have an article. Anybody defending this, sees him at holiday dinners lol

Yep. Seek to reach one fan base at a time with these impossible to ignore accusations at a time. Its actually a good business model, albeit a s**** exploitive one. I think the more embarrassing part is a Bears channel having him on without doing their research into what he is. Not only a garbage article to promote, but to let this dude try and trick their fanbase into paying for this. Boiling pot of excrement, they should know better, if they did homework on the dude.

Yep. Only seeking out the most biased opinions. "I sought out multiple sources for this article" ..... and then land exclusively on all fired guys, who have never done anything in the league. Im not a Caleb Williams guy (he is a punk) but this story was written before he talked to anyone.

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That's supposed to be after a 1st down though

Willing to eat that when I see how decimated we already are week 1. Not kidding. Both sides of the ball had some of that. It just means now that its go-time, their is no room for any feet dragging. All-in from here out. They'll be fine