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2 hours ago, NoHuddleKelly12 said:
Without digging into the research as a franchise however, have they ever had a real, sustained playoff run over the course of 5+ years like we did (we at least have 2 solid franchise eras to refer back to)? Even when they had Sanders, he was often a one man show IIRC, and the team still went nowhere.
They have a championship pre superbowl era
2 hours ago, Another Fan said:It seems like it. Does their fan bases passion equal Buffalo though overall?
They are passionate and get defensive however they always think they are going to lose in the last minutes. Way more than Bills fans. I am not sure if that makes them smarter or less passionate but they seem to have more last minute losses. They never celebrate before zeros are on the clock.
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Fold? How do people think this is being funded? They have lots of money. Do you think the people involved would have signed on if the NFL was backing them? They aren't rich guys, they are NFL guys.
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13 hours ago, ColoradoBills said:
I have used those exact words "Kaizen is common sense". I posted earlier about US business doing a top down philosophy which is your expert consultant way.
That way almost never works properly.
A simple football example would be for a Offensive Lineman who NEVER gets a false start penalty to explain his technique to the rest of the offensive line
AND the coaches. That technique can result in less false starts for the OL and the coaches have another tool to train new players.
The principal is suppose to be that the management (coaches) don't have all the answers and need the workers (players) assistance in improving the team.
Common sense like you stated, which seems to be a lost art.
It goes way beyond common sense. A Lean Six Sigma approach involves mapping and MEASURING your process, and implementing a control plan. Your "common sense" approach has you trying to fix anything and everything because it is a "pain point". Data driven decision making is the difference between a process improvement approach and common sense. The Bills approach is aimed at fixing those things that effect their key performance indicators. That is why their approach is more efficient. Plus it has to be because GM and Coaches opportunities are brief.
6 hours ago, bmur66 said:Six Sigma blah blah blah
People aspire to be part of something bigger
Lead with your heart. The heart is where the passion is. It is where you connect to peoples minds and when you can do that you are able to lead them to their higher level needs.
Lead with empathy and understanding of common needs.
Explain what and why. The people will tell you how.
This will bring fulfillment and happiness into their lives
Happy people are better at their work which in turn makes the organization better.
All of which are part of Lean Six Sigma facilitation and change management :-)
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I am a Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma and Innovation - go ahead, make the title jokes if you must. I am always looking at McCoach through a Lean Six Sigma lens. I always thought it was funny that McCoach called it "the process" instead of "my process" or "our process". The fact is every team has a process, even Rex. I was skeptical by this verbiage but McCoach has his documented /mapped which most coaches don't do. Most importantly McCoach MEASURES his process. You realize the power of Lean Six Sigma when you map, measure and eliminate the waste and defects in your process. When I realized McCoach knows what he is doing in his practice of structured problem solving and data driven decision making was when I heard a response to a media question around the most incorrectly and overused phrase in sports "analytics". When asked about a specific data point , coached responded with "some data points are more important than others . That leads me to believe he understands "KPIs = key performance indicators. Good processes are measured and tweaked to drive their KPIs. He gets this and it is why he is true to his process. But know that the process is constantly changing to drive the KPIs.
Coaching an NFL team means managing a massive amount of variables and and human error. Following a structured approach like McCoach is a great way to do it.
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12 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:
Interesting. Toyota's version of a Six Sigma type thing. I'm not big on such management jargon, but if the players buy in, well, then I guess it's working. The thing I hated about Six Sigma when I worked in an organization that embraced it was how unrealistic it was about error rates in a non-mechanized setting. Literally speaking, you'd want to reduce error rates to 3.4 per million opportunities ... in the NFL world, that would be something like no delay of game penalties called in the entire history of the NFL ...
Your tying the Toyota Production System to just Six Sigma. It'snot done that way anymore, it is Lean Six Sigma. 90% of the time Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma are implemented incorrectly which is why it fails. Your environment needed Lean weaved in with Six Sigma to eliminate waste (Lean) , not just defect reduction.
Sorry, implementing Lean Six Sigma is my work life
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3 hours ago, thenorthremembers said:
A role no one should get paid nearly 16 million dollars a year to play. Money like that should be reserved for penetrating defensive tackles and defensive ends.
But he was a penetrating D tackle. 10 sacks. That is why we signed him big. We had to.
A lot of DTs mail it in after their second contract. See Albert Haynesworth and other DTs signed by the Redskins.
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13 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:
Barkley had a nice game
But I start Allen. Let's not waste time. Barkley is not any sort of answer.
Barkley threw for 230 ish and 2 TD which is nice but hardly something to change course over
I might give him 3 TDs. It is not his fault Benjamin was on the field.
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3 hours ago, billspro said:
I do believe he played QB in college at least.
I looked it up a while back and he did coach QBs once before. In the mid to late 80's at a lower tier college.
I wish I was kidding about this.
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50% of that dead cap are contracts Beane signed in less than two years! That does not bode well for his cap management skills
They are not all Whaley clean up moves contrary to popular belief for people who don't want to put in the Spotrac research team.
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Paste the story please
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On 10/18/2018 at 10:40 AM, JGMcD2 said:
McDermott trusts Beane. They work in conjunction. I'm not sure where you got the information that our "baby GM has been begging for credit since he was serving coffee in Carolina." It's also interim GM, not intern GM. Those are some pretty disrespectful words considering it takes a hell of a lot of effort to get to where Brandon Beane is today. I don't care if the NFL doesn't have patience for Beane's approach, the Pegula family does and that is all that matters.
I would disagree the Rams are the model. Sure, they had the #1 overall pick that happened to be a QB, which is one model to build a team (young QB on rookie contract and build around him with talent). They also have the best non-QB offensive player in the game. Not to mention when their regime came in they had free money to spend on guys like Woods, Watkins, etc. We weren't in that position, everything in the NFL does not happen in a vacuum lol. Our cap situation is different than the Pats and the Pats is different than the Rams and Rams different than the Packers.
I don't understand your whole Spotrac thing. Sure 50% of the contracts are from Beane and 50% of Whaley... but that's just 50% of the players signed and cut... not the cap hit lol. Of course Beane is going to have around 50% of guys on there, he's currently the GM, and has had to cut guys. Nobody cares about the 38K cap hit from Ruben Holcomb or $500 cap hit from Quan Bray. We're looking at Dareus, Wood, Glenn, Taylor, Williams, Ragland, Incognitio, Washington. Those guys are 8 of the top 12 dead cap hits... all Whaley signed contracts. Sure, Wood and Incognito are unusual circumstance but the problem is guys like Dareus, Glenn, Taylor were marginally productive and eating up roughly 1/3 of the cap when they were on the active roster... if Beane didn't move them when he did, our team would be in a poor position not only this year but for the remainder of their contracts. He took a hit this year, to build things back up the way that he and McDermott believe is the best way.
The whole 50% of the guys cut were signed by Whaley and the other 50% were signed by Beane doesn't make any sense. Sorry.
50% of the dead cap dollars, not guys. You didn't do you action item before posting. This isn't twitter - LOL
Also I am not being disrespectful at all to how Beane worked his way up. It is commendable but you could argue that working in one organization your whole life is not the best way to prepare for the hardest job in sports, in a different organization. Maybe the hardest job since it is the Bills.
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It is time for us to stop linking these guys together just because it is convenient. They have completely different roles where they have to interact, agree, and coexist. Does anyone here think they spend more than one hour a day together?
We have a good coach, not perfect, but pretty good. Our baby GM is not looking good at all IMO but the jury is still out.
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21 minutes ago, ngbills said:
No. He was a QB that did not throw multiple picks per game and could at least run the offense and not let games get out of hand. He limited turnovers and could use his legs to mask issues with the OL and lack of other weapons. He kept you in games if the Defense played well. If the Defense struggled it was going to be a long day. Not a franchise QB but a decent placeholder until you find one.
Taylor only threw at guys when they were already open. Since Benjamin doesn't go after the football, someone is going to have to convince me that Tyrod's limitation wouldn't have made Benjamin better for us.
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23 hours ago, joesixpack said:
I'm sorry, this is a terrible take. Like truly awful. There was no insecurity in the "tear down." It was done purposefully, and with a concept in mind. Get rid of over-paid average, take the hit this year, spend next.
That's ALL part of a rebuild.
That is all well and good if you are an expansion team. However in the NFL you inherit players when you get a job and that means coaching difficult personalities not just "your guys". Recklessly moving every player from the previous GM and bringing in subpar talent from your old team is insecurity IMO. Our baby GM has been begging for credit since he was serving coffee in Carolina and especially after he was intern GM and didn't get the job. The NFL does not have the patience for Beane's approach. This guy would be getting roasted if he did not have a fantastic coach bailing him out. McD wins in spite of Beane.
We are Bills fans, how the hell could yo know what a proper rebuild looks like? Is this what the Rams did? Aren't they the model?
21 hours ago, T master said:Wow ! I'm going to do 2 for 1 to buffalostu2 it's never to late to learn from our mistakes you can always learn its the seeing & admitting the mistake that is the hard part but we can always learn from our past !!
I don't see how you can not say that the team is in a better place as far as contracts go, sure this year is tight but that is not at the doing of Bean he isn't the one that had written up or agree'd to the contracts that are now paying off dead money on the cap he is the one that is rectifying the situation left by the previous man in charge .
As far as it taking 4 picks to get Allen i'm not seeing where or how that came into play sure Bean & company had to trade a couple picks a 1st & a later round pick to get Allen but that was better than trading 2 consecutive 1st round picks for a WR especially with who was still on the board at the time !! Mack being selected the pick after the Bills in that draft .
I'm with joesixpack this post & the one prior aren't anywhere even close to making sense IMHO !!
Just to add to it the D is now in the #3 spot in the NFL if this rebuild isn't working then where does that stat fit in along with the players they have gotten the past 2 seasons (White, Phillups, Edmunds,Johnson,Milano,Neal,) to boast the defensive play for years to come just saying !!
If they focus on offense in next years draft to add to what they picked up this year & last (Dawkins,Jones,Allen,Teller) along with the cash they will have freed up by getting rid of the bad contracts they should be in much better shape !!
I don't violently disagree with your points. I don't mind the draft day trades to get a QB or Edmunds. The cap situation however is Beane's mess more than Whaley's. Go to Sportrac and look up the dead cap. 50% of those are contracts Beane and 50% are Whaley. In just two years. He is not just cleaning it up. Do the research and you will see.
I love what we have done on D. But that D ranking is only for yards. The #3 D in the league doesn't get blown out two games in a row do they? Granted they are playing better and headed in the right direction. I go with scoring which I have been criticized for only using one stat.
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Keeping Tir-od would have meant millions more available for free agents. His 10 mil in dead cap plus the McCarron signing would have never happened adding even more $ back. Money that could have been used on O lineman or receivers. I think we would also have more wins with Ti-rod. Josh could start the end games once/if we were eliminated but who knows with this improved D.
Granted this would have shaken up the draft trade but we still could have got Josh and maybe Edmunds too. Probably not Harrison though.
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2 hours ago, John from Riverside said:
Really no alternative...you cant put Peterman back out there again
I wonder if Peterman turned over McDermott's desk and said "Don't F-ing start me!"
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36 minutes ago, TaskersGhost said:
It's too late for McBeane to learn from their mistakes. They're in with both feet now on Allen.
The bigger question, or questions, are A, if they whiffed so badly in assessing Peterman, who IMO was never anything other than a 5th-round QB, at best, why should anyone think that their assessment of Allen was any better? Granted, Allen's the better QB, but who knows by how much, and frankly, that's not the question.
The question is whether Allen was worth turning 6 day 1/2 picks into three with one being Allen at essentially the cost of four of those picks, or whether he wasn't. Given the riskiness with the pick, enter B, has McBeane's approach to rebuilding the team been a good one?
I have no idea how anyone can support the notion that they're rebuilding strategy has been anything other than abjectly horrid. 10 picks next year aren't going to help them much since they're all, other than one-per-round, on day 3. Those aren't the kind of spots where starters are frequently found, they're spots where role-players and depth players are drafted. You can package 'em all up but you're still not getting enough to rebuild the team by any significant measure. That opportunity was this past Draft.
McCoy's days are over and they have no one to backfill on a team that has relied on rushing. We all know the rest, they essentially need an entire cadre of WRs, particularly after whiffing on Jones last year while letting Smith-Shuster pass, they'll need a better TE, and almost an entire OL. That's an impossible scenario for any GM, Polian had more to work with back then and it took him several seasons.
They're going to sink (likely) or swim on Allen now. But more importantly, doesn't one have to question the methodology of selling the farm to draft a risky QB that has the same exact traits of past major busts (Locker, Russell, Leaf, et al), while putting that same QB on an island as if, even if he were good, he'd succeed without the protection and passing options? Then factor in this ridiculous and unhealthy reliance on the GM's and coach's old team's players, players that are average on a good day.
Well, that's this "process" that we keep hearing about ad nauseum to the extent that the phrase has become all but anathema to Bills fans and soon will be entirely anathema with absolutely no one wanting to hear it anymore.
Either way, McBeane has this team going in reverse, and honestly, who thought that that was even possible when they got here.
But make no mistake, a crescendo of terminal criticism is going to hit them sometime during or immediately after next season if they don't start producing noticeable positive results, and I wouldn't bet much that they're even in a position to make that happen, and right now, unless Allen steps up his passing play they have no chance. It shouldn't have been difficult for a QB to at least match Taylor's passing numbers, even with sub-par receivers and a sketchy OL, but as of now Allen's simply an expensive "poor man's Taylor." He doesn't run any better than Taylor, comparably, and his passing isn't even what Taylor's was, astoundingly. Again, not sure "where to from here," it's not a mess that I would have made for myself so don't ask me for solutions to a seemingly unsolvable problem, but it doesn't bode well for the future, any aspect of it.
I am in the same boat as far as displeasure with Beane and his insecure tear down. It's not a rebuild, it is a tear down IMO. Adding two players with first round picks does not signal a rebuild. The cap is in the worst position it has ever been for the Bills. And before you say that he had to cut the previous contracts you may want to research it - 50%+ of the dead cap are contracts from Beane's own doing. The real problem with Beane is he hasn't even learned the hardest lesson of being the Buffalo Bills GM. It is difficult to lure free agents to Buffalo as a destination and on top of that New England runs our division. Posters are going to say they go where the money is but then why are we the only team in the league where guys don't even show up when claimed and/or quit at halftime. Most of us were born in Buffalo and love it, but 22 yr old soon to be millionaires who only see it on TV when there is a snowstorm have different opinions. Unless Carolina's entire offense has their contracts expiring I don't see how Beane can rebuild this offense next year no matter how much cap space. Especially with a stronger defensive as opposed to offensive free agent pool and draft class.
I do think you went too far in writing off Zay Jones and Shady already though.
I do think you went too far in writing off Zay Jones and Shady already though.
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We have a really strong defense and I think that goes without question. But to say we are the #3 defense is not accurate IMO. Games are decided by points, not yards. Therefore I believe we are the # 13 ranked scoring defense and I think that is more realistic. Are we playing better than that yes, because #13 is obviously skewed because of the two early season beatings.
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13 hours ago, billspro said:
We have two great safeties and two great LBs.
10 draft picks and 100 mil in cap room, we will have a playoff caliber roster next year.
Who are you going to sign on offense with all that cap room? It's a defensive draft and defensive free agent class. We did it backwards - rookie GM
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All the top FAs next year are on D. We are going to go from near 60 mil in dead cap to a roster of only 60 mil the next year. Nice tear down Beane but don't forget about the rebuild.
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At what point are we adding talent instead of subtracting it?
Also I think some history might be needed to erase these crazy expectations on trade value of a 30 year old RB making 10 mil.
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1 hour ago, Cruiserplayer said:
The long return yesterday was not a result of the lack of hang time. Conversely it was timed perfect for our defender to be there and be in the correct position. However said defender came in at the wrong angle and tried a one armed tackle which allowed the Titans returner to bounce towards the opposite side of the field that was not being defended.
On this play I thought Bojorquez had an angle to make the tackle and just peeled off to avoid contact. I know it's not his primary job but it annoyed me.
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Ugh have we not jettisoned enough players already? We have 90 mil in cap space next year and we are complaining about how much guys are making? Does anyone really think we are going to spend 90 mil next year? We can't just get rid of players because they didn't meet the round they were drafted in or aren't pro bowlers.
If Shaq were a fourth rounder, would you cut him?
So you want to get rid of Star after four games and suck up 50 mil in dead cap. '
Horrible post. I can't believe I was suckered into responding
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18 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:
Looked like the ball was moving before the knee was down. Not enough evidence to overturn.
The ball should move when you are getting sandwiched and it is allowed to move. But that doesn't mean he was fumbling it. I thought it was a bad call.
Henry Anderson on Pat McAfee show defends his dirty hit on Haushka
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I agree. I hope coach addresses this. All you have to look at is Aaron Rodgers getting hit while sliding last week to see how a team should take care of their own. No fights or excessive penalties but someone better be in their face. Not turning to the refs and begging for a flag.