Joeziehmer

We just ate his contract in a tight cap year.

You weren’t a lineman so x-calls and stunts don’t really apply to you, right? Just coverage zones, reads, and man assignments. Not gap line assignments and shadow over line assignments or shade over an offensive line side.

We just ate his contract at $8.5 Million for this year.

Benjamin, a first-round pick of the Panthers in 2014, was in the final season of his rookie contract and was scheduled for unrestricted free agency in March. Any team claiming Benjamin off waivers would owe him the remaining portion of his $8.5 million base salary this season. If he is not claimed off waivers, the Bills would owe Benjamin the remainder of his fully guaranteed salary.- Per ESPN Don’t give McBeane to much credit; as we could have benched him and let him go as an unrestricted free agent.

Love replaces Murphy at the situational OLB and edge rusher assignments this I like. Along with flipping Murphy to a defensive tackle spot and making him use that big body in tight space to force an offensive unit to concentrate teams on him in rotational situations.

Signing Trent Murphy was a horrible long lasting decision along with Star. We have rotational help on the defensive line but no real offensive line and receivers are such a weakness and tight-ends with an aging running back that nothing was really done to fill in any gaps. What McBeane wants is the 2000’s era Baltimore Ravens. Star and Murphy are rotational guys and that’s about it. Over paying for that isn’t helping and wasn’t helping to begin with.

Seeing as how we are not in the playoffs and are pretty much seeing McBeane do nothing with Crossman or KB they are trying to save cap space for next season. To much nepotism with Peterman, Murphy, and Crossman and KB. And, Murphy was where we needed an offensive linemen or receiver option. That’s what is sticking to this team now. We cannot rebuild when half the team is veterans on IR or underperforming defensive lineman flops like Star. We don’t wind up with any OL help or receiver options and waste salary cap space on “process” morale victory players. If it’s a loss end the process already and bring in a Coach and management with drive.

Should have found trade partners while Clay and KB had one good season left. McBeane are in over their heads and they know it. Fans wanting to be die hardship will continually defend them until they get fired and than complain about how players or fans didn’t support them enough.

Would have loved for another playoff trip but the way this process is going and the blowout losses experienced under Sean McKotite against premier teams we really are not growing or moving forward. We are kind of staying in the Dick Jauron 7-9 model at this point in time. Is win now in the process code for morale victories at this point? Hearing there’s always next season and having McKotite keep his terrible Nate Peterman around proved he doesn’t belong in the NFL. To much nepotism and not enough intelligence. An inferior Coach whose not even close to Anthony Lynn or even given a loss Frank Reich.

Drafting an offensive line core would make sense to build around Allen. Sorry, if I don’t place blind trust in the process. Guessing with the Logic of the cover photo anyone who doubts McBeane should be faced with a punishable execution of death by a thousand praises heaped upon McBeane and then having it printed and used to drop on the offender from a very high height.

Rooting for a GM and Coach who should have found a backup like Barkley to translation as starter; before the start of the season cemented in my eyes the nepotism which fans are willing to give and grant a pass too. You guys say it’s indefensible to keep Nate Peterman and yer here you go defending it. You even have McClappy going nuts and demanding DaBoll slow down his rhythm pass practices with Josh Allen during a practice after the Vikes games. They ran out of passes before the Bears game and they proved the low levels of intelligence involved in the process. Hey in a few years though Brad Childress or Mike Vick could come in after the AAF Atlanta Legends bringing Metzlaars back as a line Coach where he also won a Super Bowl Coaching the line with Indy.

X-call is the linebacker signal call to his lineman being an end or tackle. His gaps and calls got blown up and exposed against Miami.

Do you know assignments for gap coverage, shadow zone, not spy zone but shadow and shade coverage along with gap. I’m guessing you talk well but never played. Thanks for enlightening us on that perspective.

The man who signed Trent Murphy who basically got worked over for a lower tier just barely serviceable hybrid that got gashed against Miami? Including on x-calls and stunts; taking the money which could have been used for veteran offensive lineman or on one weapon like Dez and throwing it at an injury liability? Could call it the McWhaley process and do better at giving it a name.

The model is a slow and ineffective x-caller whose stunt assignments got cashed against the Dolphins?

And, he got gashed running stunts and x-calls oh his side defensively. We are stuck for three years with Trent Murphy and could squeeze him down into a tackle spot to free up that gap and lane for a younger healthier body.

Hey having a shared interest with it being okay to suck and participation trophies for Peterman seems to be okay for you folks.

Needing offensive weapons or some veteran linemen offensively and we go cheap but want a defensive “surge” from an injury liability. McBeane has a defensive compliment to Clay now.

Hey, I’m glad you guys are okay with having a Coach who thinks corporate culture trumps a winning strategy (Chargers), along with respecting the football (Bears), and Coaching more physicality (Colts); as well as checking the tapes yet again with a blow out loss to the Ravens. Process right guys, and who can forget losing 22-0 to the Pack who the Cardinals with a worse record beat; oh yeah of course checking the tapes. And, after Peterman’s pick six against Houston refusing to part ways. I’m glad you guys love McBeane so much.

Maybe, squeezing Murphy into a defensive tackle position might be an incentive for him and give us a return on investment? The gap he was playing and the stunt and x-calls he assigned got gashed. He makes smart plays but dumb calls and fits a defensive tackle assignment.

When healthy he gets beat out by Shaq Lawson and has no impact whatsoever.

View this season as over and more fools with rose colored glasses, trusting the methane powered process engine of McBeane, and a cap hit with Trent Murphy for the next GM and HC tandem to deal with. Tying up what limited cap resources we do have in an injury liability finishing up his career on IR... brilliant!

What to do with Trent Murphy when all is said and done? Still battling injuries, when healthy losing out to Shaq Lawson, and becoming rotational with bad knees. I didn’t know we were looking for a compliment to Charles Clay on the other side of the ball. Truthfully a great signing of sabermetrics and playing “money ball” shouldn’t we be developing younger and healthier players? McBeane brought an end to a drought but lost a season and the locker room. Next season cutting Murphy would be a hit of $7.5 Million it’s not like a league minimum. So, do we keep bench warmers to avoid cap hits and hope they fit a rotation for at least a game?

We over paid on Trent Murphy instead of allocating that for more pressing needs along the offensive line or in finding rotation receivers and tight-ends. Allen has to do it all due to fiscal mismanagement and Murphy’s contract is working out to dead money of $7.5 Million restricting what we can do in the futures markets. A net result is a rotational defensive linemen whose getting beat out by Shaq Lawson. Over paying for a guy when there are undrafted free agents for “player development” is right up there with Clay’s contract along with injuries limiting effectiveness.

Al Ziehm have any family relations who played for the Bills? Might be why we take it a little bit more personally. Just saying and living in Maine as I’ve mentioned before when you see competent Coaching not making asinine comments of corporate culture, respecting the football, and Coaching more physicality McDingbat is on the way out. As much as you folks hail him as the next Levy he’s like Dick Jauron.