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    Kaepernick Black-balled?

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    14 hours ago, klos63 said:

    Conversely, I might have respect for the anti Kaep crowd if they admitted he's being blackballed and stop telling untruths. He hasn't been offered a contract, hasn't been offered a tryout,  his ability has nothing to do with him not getting an opportunity, that must be very obvious to anyone who wants to discuss facts here. Every crappy QB in the last few years gets opportunities, tryouts at the very least.

    How is that different from when Tim Tebow was released? 

    Official LAMP at the Bye AFC condensed Power Ranking.

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    On 10/7/2019 at 6:19 PM, PlayoffsPlease said:
    1. Patriots - Heavyweight champs, until someone knocks them out. 
    2. Bills - Went toe to toe with heavyweight champ for 15 rounds. Even took a QB knockout.  Lost a close decision. 
    3. Chiefs - Mahomes is amazing.  Chiefs will not be able to compete with the Patriots with their sad sack defense.  The may pose match up challenges for the Bills, who due to Daboll, may not be able to exploit the Chiefs defensive weaknesses
    4.  Texans - the gap from the #3 chiefs to the Texans is enornmous. The edge out the Ravens, because Lamar is just not as good as advertised.  He had a fluke run to start the season, and we saw how poorly he played against a bad steelers team this week. 
    5. Ravens 
    6. Raiders - notwithstanding the popular narrative it turns John Gruden is a good coach.  3-2 and a quality win over the Bears puts them ahead of the rest of the pack. 
    7. Colts - Love Frank Reich.  Team will play over its head occassionally.   Brissett and his jump pass is taking them nowhere far. 
    8. Browns - Probably ranking them to highly here.  Terrible Head Coach.  Second most overrated QB in the league after Lamar. 
    9. Jags - Minshew Madness is a lot of fun, and my assessment is that he will have a better career than Tony Romo.  But he won't be able to overcome the handicap known as Doug Marrone. 

           10-11 -12 -13  . Steelers, Titans Chargers, Broncos.  All basically suck, they just suck less than the teams below them.

            14-15-16 -  Bengals - Jets - Dolphins.  If they did not play each other all of these teams could go winless.  

      

    Bills clearly validated at #2.  Chiefs and Texans both quite far behind.  Maybe those two teams should be swapped 

     

    Reasons to not feel so bad about Patrick Mahomes

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    38 minutes ago, Rigotz said:

    When Pat Mahomes was lighting the world on fire last year, I found myself extremely aggravated that we didn't pick him at #10 in the 2017 NFL draft.

    This year, I've found peace with the idea that he's not on our team and here are the top 10 reasons why:

     

    1. With the first pick in the 2017 draft, the Cleveland Browns (who needed a QB) didn't take Mahomes.

    2. With the second pick in the draft, the Chicago Bears TRADED UP to take Mitch Trubisky.

    3. With the fourth pick in the draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars, who needed a QB, took Leonard Fournette.

    4. With the fifth pick in the draft, the Tennessee Titans stuck with Marcus Mariotta and took Corey Davis instead.

    5. With the sixth pick in the draft, the Jets (lol), who needed a QB, took Jamal Adams

    6. With the 7th pick in the draft, the Chargers took Mike Williams instead of an heir to Phil Rivers.

    7. With the 9th pick in the draft, the Bengals picked John Ross instead of Patrick Mahomes.

    8. All of these same teams ALSO passed on Deshaun Watson.

    9. Yes, we traded down and didn't get Mahomes, but we DID get Tre White and a future first round pick.

    10. That future first round pick (combined with others) turned into Josh Allen, who at the very least has more upside at QB than anyone we've had in a long time.

     

    Hope this makes you all feel a little better as well.

    If the primary goal is to be better than the Browns, Bears, Jaguars. Titans, Jet, Chargers and Bengals, then I say Mission Accomplished. 

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    What are we missing offensively?

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    Posted · Edited by PlayoffsPlease

    6 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

     

    The 4th and 2 was a poor call. But beyond that Daboll had a very good game Sunday. 

    I disagree.  But my bigger issue is play design. The Bills successful offensive plays too often seem to require great individual effort. An exception to that rule was lee smith being wide open on his TD catch. But when I watch  Brady or Winston mahomes or even mason Rudolph this year forty percent of their pass plays seem to be a game of catch between the QB and the receiver.   It is not because only those qbs can complete and eight yard pass or because the receivers are brilliant.  It is because bellichek arians Reid’s and Tomlins teams have better designed plays 

    What are we missing offensively?

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    Play designs are poor.  Play calling of the poorly designed plays is not good either.  There is a lot to coaching beyond game day coaching.  The Bills coaching staff seems to be good at the non-game day coaching.  But average Bills fans have a dozen plays a game where they are all scratching their heads asking what were the Bills thinking. (recent obvious example, QB sneak on a fourth and 2).    Sports have a variety of success measures. In baseball at the major league level if you put the ball safely in play 30% of the time you are a star. If you are a goaltender and save 93% of the shots in the NHL, you are a star.  If you save 90% of the shots, you are just OK, if you save 85% of the shots, you are out of the league.   NFL play calling is closer to NHL goal tending than it is to MLB hitting.  Bills are missing too often during games. 
     

     

    Mayfield is << Allen

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    3 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

    All the media attention Mayfield is getting is that he is horrible.  

    I would be pissed if we didn’t pull Allen in the same scenario. The game was over and the only thing that could happen at that point is a stupid injury. 

    Then Allen would be benched. Words have meaning.  Lets not pretend that Mayfield was not a primary reason the situation led to their being no point to play.  As a sidenote, 22 other guys on the field were still out risking injury.  Half of them in large part because Mayfield sucked.

    2 minutes ago, Joe in Winslow said:

     

    I don't know what media you're watching.

     

    After Monday's game, the national media has been pretty critical. Mayfield's only defenders this week seem to be on WGR.   

    15 minutes ago, cle23 said:

     

    If you truly believe that then you don't know football. He got beat around all night, and down 28 with a minute or minute and a half? Preventing injury and benching are 2 very different things.

    Team on field.  Ass on bench. Not injured. That is benched.   

    Mayfield is << Allen

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    8 hours ago, Rochesterfan said:

     

     

    I don’t think him not playing the last series constitutes a benching.  They were blown out and he may suck or may have read his press clippings, but he was not really benched.

    Browns offense was on the field.  mayfield was on the bench.  That is benched. benching is not a permanent condition.  But it is a simple fact he was benched in the niners game.  

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