PlayoffsPlease

Assuming that Gilmore/Dareus/Kyle/Mario/Cordy/A. Williams/ etc. are considered Nix guys or predecessor guys, who are the top players Whaley gets credit for. Jerry Hughes and Lesean McCoy seem to be the only two. Maybe Preston Brown. But really, other than hughes and an RB with a bloated contract has Whaley really added talent that is more than role players?

Real question, do you think getting away with holding on multiple occasions (holding is cheating) or having 1 lb PSI less in the football makes a bigger difference in a game?

Tannehll only played QB 1 year in college and has shown steady improvement in the NFL. Personally I think they over paid because Tannehill has a pretty decent chance of not being a long term answer. In recent years Rex Ryan was instrumental in a disastrous QB contract with Mark Sanchez and Doug Whaley was the second in command for the nearly as disastrous Ryan Fitzpatrick contract. So all of us here at twoobd should hope that its simply Miami's turn to screw the pooch on the QB contract.

Please show the math on that. Or just tell us you made it up. Both are good.

You shouldn't dis our Native American friends like Ms. Warren.

Did you read the stories in the links? An actual US Senator, Bill Bradley - altered basketballs almost every time he played.

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/throwback/201501/bill-bradley-knicks-ball-tester-air-deflate-basketball-pressure-patriots-nba https://twitter.com/ToddRadom/status/560485232038928384/photo/1 "I remember one playoff game against the Bullets, somebody sneaked in a rebounder's ball, and he went crazy. Screaming at the refs. When he'd scream, the veins in his neck would start popping out. He'd get red in his forehead and face. He was very disturbed that they had sneaked in a live, rabbity ball. He hollered loud enough and long enough, so they brought back that dead ball that he liked."

A corked bat has a much more dramatic effect on hitting a baseball, then deflating a football 1 psi does. Not even close really.

Because their is a permissible range of variance for the PSI of the balls, and different teams may want to be at different spots with in the permissible range so as to match the balls they used in practice all week. People have dramatically over estimated the impact of how far out of range the patriots balls were. Ask youself this, would you rather face Tom Brady week 2, or would you rather the Bills have permissionould to inflate their balls to whatever pressure they would like.

NFL really missed out on the appropriate penalty. They should just allow all of the Patriots opponents to deflate the balls or inflate the balls by the same amount that the Patriots did.

Only in Buffalo do people see the change to Rex Ryan as a massive upgrade. The rest of the NFL followers see the Bills replacing Marrone with a coach Marrone beat twice last year, a coach who has never developed a QB, a coach who has never developed a very good NFL offense, and a coach who hasn't been playoff relevent since EJ Manuel was in high school. Once the rose colored "we have just replaced kay stephenson with Vince Lombardi" glasses are removed, the rest of the analysis tracks the QB situation. In the last several years only 2 or 3 QBs total with regular season passer ratings in the bottom 10 have made the playoffs. The Bills appear to be in that position. The national media isn't personally biased towards the Bills. No national media prognosticator improves their stature by being wrong. They have every incentive to get it right, they are far more objective than the fans of teams are. If you are struggling to see how the media looks at it, it is most likely because you can't get past your fan bias.

This "pattern" business is nonsense. Its like saying that chan gailey's propensity for running and getting away with illegal pick plays should be combined with not reporting mario williams' injury, which should combined with suspinsions that greg williams as a bills coach encouraged bounties. Going back to the original analogy. Perry probably threw a spitter in 100% of the games he ptiched the last 10 years of his career. There is a rule in place regarding football inflation rates, with a described penalty of a modest fine, because it is truly not a big deal issue.

There are a lot of ridiculous comparisons of deflategate to things like the pete rose situation, PED use, or intentionally harming players with "bountygate". There seems to be a complete lack of perspective. A reasonable analogy would be Gaylord Perry and his use of a spitball. Everyone knew it, he got caught. And yet people were able to get over themselves and enjoy him for the talent he was. He was eventually elected to the hall of fame for all of his legitimate accomplishments. All of the interweb physicists who are concocting reasons of why a 1 lb decrease in ball pressure is directly related to winning multiple super bowls need to get a grip on reality.

Are you saying the GM's have no idea how these guys will perform in the NFL? Do they really get paid all that money just to guess?

By the "whole country", do you mean talking heads on tv and radio sports shows and avid football fans who post on message boards? Or do you mean everyone, like the guys rioting in Baltimore?

Well intentionally injuring other players is completely different than under inflating a ball. To use a baseball analogy, it would be like comparing a batter going after a pitcher and actually beating him with a bat, or a pitcher throwing a spit ball. People really need to get a grasp of proportion on these issues.

I love fans who think they understand the NFL better than Bill Polian. They insight and depth of analysis they bring to the table is always precious.

They are.

In my opinion, the improvement to the Bills coaching staff is vastly overestimated by Bills fans in general. Rex Ryan has never developed a single very good offense in the NFL. Not one. His last several seasons with the Jets were clear failures. Marrone owned him twice last year. This isn't to say Marrone was great or even good, its just that Rex, while charming, hasn't been relevant himself in quite a few years. Hackett wasn't good. But Roman has no one on this roster remotely close to Kaepernick talent wise, and he could only take that offense so far. The Bills defense was very very productive in 2014, it is not likely the 2015 version will be more productive. It may be more interesting or exciting, but there really isn't much room to improve on the production side.

The jets defensive line is on par with the Bills now. It is nice that Brady has an automatic four games to dread on his schedule.

Terry's resume is flawless. None of the other guys in the room seem that smart. It really is no competition at all

Jets A Pats B+ Dolphins B Bills C- http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000488889/article/2015-nfl-draft-final-quicksnap-grades-for-afc-east-teams I have to agree that the jets seem to have killed it.

Watch for the eagles to trade Bradford and Kiko (whom I am sure Pettine loves) to the Browns for 12 and 19, and then bundle 12 19 and their own #1 to the titans, and then they will take Mariotta. If they pull that off, when all is said and done, the Eagles will have traded a QB that they "wasted" a fourth round pick on, an RB with a good amount of NFL mileage on him, and their #1 to get a guy they think is their franchise QB of the future. And they signed last years NFL rushing leader to fill the "hole" they created by trading McCoy.

Gailey sticking with George Edwards after year 1. And his self proclaimed offensive genius which was nothing more than getting away with borderline illegal picks. Terrible coach. Terrible hire. Terrible to retain him after the first year, terrible to retain him after the second year, and inconceivably terrible to waste a third year with him. For "continuities sake" For all the Marrone hate, he actually earned the only winning record for the Bills this century.

I guess this means Whaley is pretty hit or miss. If he had Ebron ahead of mike evans or OBJ, he really can't evaluate talent well.