BuffaloHokie13

I'm less concerned with the average and more concerned with the consistency, personally. I haven't updated my '24 points' spreadsheet for this past year, but maybe I'll dust it off. Over the past 3 years the big issue with the defense has been that it's jekyll & hyde even though it's overall average points allowed has been reasonable. I drew my line at 24 points per game previously, but here's a look at this past year using your 20 PPG barometer: 20 points or less: Defense held opponents to 20 points or less 11 times in the 17 games we played last year. In those games, the average points scored by the opponent in those games was 13.4 The Bills went 8-3 in these games. Over 20 points: Happened 6 times last year Opponents averaged 37 points per game Bills went 1-5 in these games That 23.6 point swing is massive. The average swing in my study across the entire league over 2015 & 2016 was 10.4 and the highest over those 2 years was 17.1. Maybe the 20 point mark skews the data for a wider swing? Nope. Using the 24 point mark our averages move to 14.2 and 39.8, which is even worse at 25.6.

Maybe you misread. Bledsoe was absolutely NOT a top 8-12 QB when we had him.

The person I heard about it from would be described the same way, I'd imagine.

No, he really wasn't. You could try to argue it for 2002, but he was nowhere close in 2003 or 2004.

Is he? He's started 4 games in the past 3 years. 201.5 YPG, 6.2 YPA, 4 TDs (3.08%), 3 INTs (2.31%), 4 Ls (100%).

Had a pick on a tip drill today

A desperate move by a failing OC trying to assign the blame to anyone but himself.

The ones who benched him after 30 mins and admitted to the team it was an error to start him?

Why not both?

How are you logically getting from 2 TDs and 6 INTs in ~5 Quarters to 15 TDs and 4 INTs in 10 games? He isn't going to go from a 1:3 TD/INT to a ratio over 3:1 in an offseason. Also, we aren't going to go 10-0 with a QB putting up 1.5 TDs per game.

Watkins and Glenn are both gone. Time to move on boys... ?

And your thought is that he should continue to not get experience to remedy this? To be clear, if Allen started week 1 he would be our most experienced QB by week 5.

Yes. As I said, you're choosing which part of history you will accept as variable. Simple yes or no answer: If the Ravens won any of the games they lost before week 17 (overtime to CHI, 3 points to TEN, 1 point to PIT) -- would Andy Dalton's through have meant anything to the Bills' playoff chances?

No, that is definitely arguable. You are just choosing which portion of history you think is questionable.

That L doesn't matter if Flacco shows up in London. The ticket being punched was a culmination of the entire season, not a single play.

I don't know. I figured you'd blame Flacco's 28 yard performance against the Jags for why we got in over the Ravens.

Says the guy on another team's message board with nothing to contribute but senseless defenses of his own team's pathetic wrongdoings.

It's tough to catch passes over the middle when you've never played a snap in a live game.

Trent Murphy. Dark Horse: Rod Streater

Agreed. A different discussion, but agreed.

That's the point though. His grievance is for collusion, which would mean that more than 1 team entered an agreed upon pact to not sign him. Reality is that he simply isn't good enough to be worth the headache that comes with him. Best of luck proving it.

That only works on the whole if you think that every play is going to be a net positive. There are certainly plays, especially when the pocket is collapsing that quickly (NYJ & LAC), where the correct thing to do is ensure ball security and take the sack. Also, several of the sacks were after Tyrod extended the play and the play had broken down, and at least 1 was for no loss. You can go through those clips from the article in the other post if you'd like, but the issue in the Jets game wasn't his reads under pressure. It was a complete and total meltdown of the OL on a short week resulting in a pathetic run game and a higher percentage of busted plays due to a lack of time/adjustment. There is a large gap between good and 'not able to' that several folks here like to pretend doesn't exist.

Kaep clearly was.

You don't think there's much of a difference between a turnover and keeping possession of the football? You don't think there's much of a difference in opponent's field position for a punt and a turnover in your end of the field? You don't think there's much of a difference between keeping the game within 10 points for 3 quarters and handing the opponents a 30 point lead by halftime? Seriously?

So he was capable, just not good enough to elevate the rest of the offense. We saw what a QB who isn't capable of making reads under pressure looks like last year, but it wasn't Tyrod.