B Fan in LA
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Get ahold of your self, man.........it's just a story..........one man's opinion.
I suggest you get a good nights rest.
You'll feel better in the morning...........
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Let's see.............the results of this draft.
We were told by Mr Beane that the way to build a sustainable winning team was through the draft........
Then he acquired more FA than anybody could imagine ......
some will pan out..............most were journeymen looking for a new home........we'll see who stays.
Then he drafts 2 first round quality guys, who will be franchise players for years..........
and the rest are a bunch of undersized, short armed, slow running, unexciting dudes.............
I'm waiting for the Las Vegas odds makers to predict how our 2019 season will unfold before
I congratulate the McBeane dudes. I have a feeling we're going 7-9 this year.
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I think we were all in agreement at the end of last season that the OLine needed to be overhauled, and improved.
I'm not sure what to think about our recent additions, but I like the change.
The Bills are in the business of selling season tickets, and they had to do something to get the fan base excited.
I think they succeeded. I can't wait to see a dramatic improvement.
Go Bills !
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Interesting that Miami waited about 5 minutes after Tyrod was signed to pick up Fitz........
They could'a had Tyrod, the other career journey man..............
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I think the biggest problem with this organization over the past 25 years has been the front office.
The inability to find and develop talent within the coaching staff, and players.
There have been several questionable decisions about head coaches, and their staff.
Sometimes it's hard to know if the draft choices were as bad as they were, or we just never had
a competent coaching staff that could develop players, the way NE and Pitt do.
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19 minutes ago, N.Y. Orangeman said:
Great signing. He is better than Miller, Groy and Bodine.
Looks like an improvement over what we have, and gives us flexibility.
I read we had the lowest paid group of OLine players last year.
This signing might indicate to available players that we are willing to pay for better play.
The real question is whether our new OLine coaches are any good................
Their thoughts were undoubtedly included in the decision to sign Long.
Now the coaches need to produce ................
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8 minutes ago, eball said:
I believe they communicate regularly and make moves they both believe are in the best interests of the organization moving forward. As to who holds the deciding vote if there is a disagreement? First of all, I bet that scenario occurs much less frequently than you think. The reason these guys are working so well together is because they share a unified vision of how to build a football team.
I agree with this, but that doesn't mean I think they are really good at what they do, either.
They've done some very curious things in their tenure..................for example...........
They signed AJ Mc to be the veteran guide for NP and JA, then traded him before the season, and were married to NP.
It took way too long, IMHO before they realized they made a mistake. There were calls from most of the posters
on this board to dump NP as the starter after game 1. The posters were right, McB was wrong.
Then they dragged in Derrick Anderson and gave him the ball with not enough prep. A curious move.
They kept KB in the starting lineup way too long, IMHO. Again, most of the posters from TBD were calling
for KB to be sat down after 2 games. Again, the posters were correct, and McB was wrong.
Who's responsible for these personnel choices ? Probably McDermott.........
but we didn't see Beane handling his end of the process very well, either.
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I think it's a stretch to say that McBeane is making the best of a bad situation.
They hired Juan Castillo, and fired Castillo, because our OLine is crap.
They hired Danny Crossman, and fired Crossman because out ST are crap.
They signed AJ McCarron, and traded MCarron, because he was not good.
They started the season with 2 untested QBs, Peterman and J Allen.
They replaced Peterman, because he was terrible.
They scrambled to replace Peterman, and brought in Derrick Anderson, a washed up QB.
Anderson was injured and they brought in Barkley. Now we have 2 veteran QB's to assist Allen. WTF ?
The 2018 team looked as undisciplined and as confused as it has for the past 15 years.
We haven't got any WR's who can catch the ball.
Josh Allen's game looks somewhat like Tyrod Taylor, "helter skelter"
Everybody talks about his big arm, but he's getting the yards on the ground, from broken plays.
Yes, we had a better draft last year than we've had in the past 5 years, but we lost most of our premier players to trades,
and retirement, so we tried to replace them with Z Jones, K Benjamin, Bodine, and Ducasse.
The Las Vegas book makers say we are the last place team next year.
They put their money where their mouth is.
if you don't agree, take their bet and tell us how much money you made beating the experts next Christmas.
As bad as we are, if Bill Belichick took over the current roster, we'd be in the playoffs next year.
As good as the Patriots are right now, if McBeane took over the current Patriots roster right now, they'd be 6-10 next year.
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What surprises me about this game is the ability of coaching to elevate the play of average players to greatness.
The Rams have a solid wall in their defensive front. They have A Donald and N Suh wrecking havoc, so what do the Pats do?
They run Burkhead up the middle, and he gashes the DLine for 15 yards at a critical time in the game.
The Pats are able to win with players like Burkhead, and Chris Hogan, and Julian Edelman, fer Chris sakes.
Just goes to show you that coaching is the key ingredient in successful franchises.
They don't need Amari Cooper, or LeVeon Bell, or Julio Jones, or Tyreek Hill, or Ezekial Elliott.
If NE and Buffalo swapped all their players right now, the Pats would be in the playoffs next season, and McBeane would turn the Pats roster into 6-10 mush.
Just sayin...............
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The only comment I will add is that when your franchise QB takes off running from a broken pocket,
there is a tendency for the fans to get a sick feeling in the pit of their stomach, worrying that he might
take a nasty hit and bruise his elbow, or something worse.
When Tyrod used to leave the pocket, I would start to scream, and scream and scream until the play was over.
Tyrod never seemed to move forward in a straight line. He looked like a pin ball.
At least when Allen takes off he's usually making forward progress, at some point in the play.
For some reason, I don't get as worried when Allen is running..............Tyrod used to scare the heck out of me.
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9 minutes ago, ProcessTruster said:
Trust the Process
We just lost to the 3-9 Jets, at home, where they needed to come from behind in the last few minutes and win the game.
Who are we going to beat ?
Trust the process ?
"Process" is something you put in your hair to take the curls out..................
Beane is a dumb kid learning how to be a GM, for the first time.
McDermott is a dumb kid, learning how to be a HC, for the first time.
J Allen is a dumb kid learning how to be a NFL QB, for the first time.
They/we have a long way to go to get to the playoffs again.
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10 hours ago, MrEpsYtown said:
Drew Kaser is better than both of these guys. I wonder why he didn't get a look. The job is Bojorquez's anyway I suppose.
Hey, who says they are done with this ???
I'd say Brandon Beane has found himself a dream job here in Buffalo and won't stop fiddling with the gears until there's
nobody left sitting on the couch, watching TV.
He's dabbling this season like it's a video game, or something...........
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My guess is that Doug Marrone is going to blitz early and often to get Allen rattled.
That strategy is probably going to work, and Allen will have a difficult game.
We likely lose.
Then the Dolphins away. Things tend to unravel for the Bills in Miami.
We likely lose.
Home vs the Jets, we likely win.
The Lions have a decent pass rush, something we don't seem capable of defensing.
We likely lose.
The Patriots next. We likely lose.
Home against Miami. Let's hope for a blizzard. We likely win.
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It was bad enough reading the whole story, but then somebody quotes it again ??????
Arggghhh !!!
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Um, we beat the NY Jets...............a terrible team............with a new QB, who was sitting on his couch 2 weeks ago, unemployed........
and we should be thinking.................what ?....................playoffs ??
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There is a good argument to start Barkley one more game to see if he's for real, or not.
But I think we need to plug Allen back in again when he's ready and let him get some experience.
It's very likely Allen ends up in concussion protocol before the end of the season and we can watch Barkley again.
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7 minutes ago, WildBills said:
You realize Barkley was going to be the #2 on the Bengals this year until he got hurt. There's absolutely no way possible that Barkley is worse than Pete Naterman.
We're about to find out.................
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I was thinking that after the blow out loss last week to the Bears we finally hit rock bottom.
But tomorrow we face the Jets with Josh McCown and we're stating another guy off the street.
If Barkley had all preseason and the regular season to prepare, he'd still suck tomorrow.
That's why he's not on anybodies roster.............how can we be doing this ?
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Allen isn't even the strongest armed QB we've had on the Buffalo Roster in the past 2 years.
Allen has a gun, Cardale Jones has a cannon
If arm strength mattered, Cardale Jones would be our starting QB.
And on the other hand, Tom Brady has done pretty well with his noodle arm............
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So let's look into the crystal ball and image this..................
If Barkley starts and plays the whole game, how may INT's do you think he'll throw ?
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1 minute ago, RochesterRob said:
It's like both of these teams are saying "Darn it. It's all about draft position."
The playoffs are out of the question for both teams, so it's about giving young guys a chance to perform, and draft position.
But they're not going to ask KB to drop a ball that hits him in the hands so they can get a better draft choice which they will
then use to replace him....................
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Just now, 26CornerBlitz said:
Sounds like they want Allen to start with Barkley as the 2nd choice.
They ought to want to crawl into a box and hide until spring...........
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Start Peterman and let him play the first half..............
Bring in Barkley for the 3rd quarter..........
Let Allen wrap up the 4th quarter.......
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28 minutes ago, ctk232 said:
Really confused by this response. But sure, to answer your question, all of those names are recognizable to me with the exception of the emboldened. I'm also curious where you got this list and if they are all QB2's on the depth chart, but regardless, my point was that to be a good backup in the league, you cannot also still be learning the game at this level. It's just not something that's physically possible - is Peterman as good a backup in the league as any, or is he still underdeveloped and "learning the game?" The latter sounds more of an excuse for his actual play thus far being as bad as it is. Given performance thus far, Peterman is the worst QB on the entire list, statistically speaking.
If you are arguing that he is both still developing and just that terrible, and that the entire list you gave is all QBs of equal caliber, talent, understanding of the game, and performance, then I'm just not seeing what you see. I'd take most every other name on that list over Peterman with the exception of the guys I don't know. But even that unknown is better than the known ceiling of development that Peterman has.
I made the list myself.
I went to NFL.com and went to the home page for every NFL team and looked at their depth chart, as of this morning.
My point is that when I look at the list of backup QB's currently in the NFL, my guess is that half of them wouldn't do any better
at winning in Buffalo than Nathan Peterman. Not all of them, just half of them. Or maybe just 5 of them.
Tyrod Taylor used to be the franchise QB, he's on the list and he would do better.
AJM is also on the list and he didn't work out, so they got trade value for him.
Fitz is on the list and better than NP. So is Teddy B, and McCown, and Foles, and I'm not sure about any of the rest.
They ALL could turn into interception machines with this Offense and Daboll calling the passing plays.
A Few Thoughts about the Giants game, in no particular order
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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As always, a great read Virgil. Thanks !