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  1. 5 minutes ago, Coach Tuesday said:

    "We're just in the second year..." he's practicing his explanation to Terry & Kim...

     

    I would bet he told them at his first interview that it will take 3 years to rebuild the team, and that it will take a couple hard years to get there. He's alluded to that line of thinking a few times the past couple years. I'm sure he didn't trade Sammy Watkins without Pegula's blessing. He has a blank check for 4-5 years before Pegula even thinks about firing him.

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  2. 7 minutes ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:

    His first OC hire was 900 year old Rick Dennison who ran a 1970's offense. 

     

    And if yesterday is any indication, we'll be doing the same this season, dumping the ball off on 3rd and 9, and trying to run McCoy straight into the line out of Shotgun. 

     

    Yes and his first fire was also Rick Dennison, who he replaced with a Saban and Belichick disciple. If anything we didn't run the ball enough yesterday. You can criticize plenty of things about this regime so far but they definitely have not overvalued RBs.

  3. 7 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

    If EJ Manuel completes 6/15 passes for 74 yards, folks would be calling him a bum.

     

    Did you honestly think Allen's stat line resembled his performance? Football stats have meaning but not until after at least 100 reps. If you watched Allen yesterday and thought he played like a 56.0 rated passer I don't know what to tell you. He doesn't look like EJ at all. EJ's problem was that he was too scared to do anything on the field. He hesitated and second guessed himself and his accuracy was terrible. Allen has the opposite problem, he sometimes tries to do too much out there. And he hasn't really been inaccurate.

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  4. 50 minutes ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:

    I think what you really are seeing is a Coach who honestly thought running the football and playing defense still wins in the NFL. 

     

    We have spent exactly 0 draft picks on RBs since McDermott took over and we traded up for a QB. We let Gillislee go for a 5th round pick. They know you can find RBs like Murphy in FA. I don't know what you're talking about.

  5. 30 minutes ago, Dablitzkrieg said:

    Go through the schedule and find me 4 wins.  Not happening.  I will gladly eat crow if they get to 4

     

    I hope you're right. 6-10 would be terrible. Yesterday made me feel good that the plan is going exactly as it should. Nick Bosa plus 9 other draft picks plus $65 million in cap space plus a year of experience for Josh Allen. Anyone paying attention can see next year is when this thing is supposed to turn on.

  6. 14 hours ago, apuszczalowski said:

    They were the ones who believed Nate Peterman is a starting QB

     

    They know he isn't a starting QB. You think they traded 2 2nd rounders and used a 1st round pick on Josh Allen to make Nate Peterman the starting QB? There is a plan in place and it requires Allen to develop. Peterman is a placeholder. Nothing we do this year matters.

  7. I'm usually one of the most optimistic fans around. But I don't know how anyone thought this season would be good. It was obvious going in we'd have a top 5 pick and now it's looking like #1 or #2 overall. There were plenty of clues along the way. We waited until the end of free agency to sign the last remaining QB. We have $50 million in dead cap. We drafted a raw QB and raw MLB with our top 2 picks. We lost our two best O-linemen to retirement. Now yesterday was worse than I expected but that's fine. I'd rather have #1 overall than #5 overall. This is the tank season.

  8. 1 minute ago, Kelly the Dog said:

    That's not the point. It's not fair to them. And if either of them thought that was the case they would demand to be traded (Shady) or retire immediately (Kyle)

     

    The Browns went 0-16 last year. Did anyone of note request a trade when they started Deshone Kizer for most of the year? How about the Colts when they started Curtis Painter for 16 games in a deliberate effort to get Andrew Luck? Kyle Williams has been with some truly terrible teams in his career. Sorry if it isn't fair. I'm sure Shady didn't think it was fair that his team won the Super Bowl two years after he got traded. That's life in the NFL. You don't always choose where you go

  9. 1 minute ago, Kelly the Dog said:

    You don't convince Kyle to come back and waste one of Shady's last prime years if you're tanking. 

     

    Harrison Phillips will learn a lot from Kyle. He and Shady are leaders. They've been around a long time. McDermott values that a ton. Tanking doesn't mean you have to field a team of replacement players only. And honestly if both Kyle and Shady got season ending injuries our final record wouldn't be any different. Their being on the team has no impact on our draft position.

  10. 1 hour ago, Kelly the Dog said:

    If I HAD to bet I would say Nate starts because McD is stubborn. I don't even think NP should be in the league. 

     

    It won't be because he's stubborn. It's because he knows what this season is. I suspect if you could get an honest answer from McDermott he'd tell you last year was supposed to be the same way. They didn't trade Watkins and Darby in preseason and Dareus midseason because they were trying to win a lot of games in year 1.

    1 hour ago, billsfan11 said:

    The fans will turn on everyone including McD if they start Peterman and he stinks up the joint again.

     

    It doesn't matter what the fans think. I have a feeling that when McDermott interviewed for the job he told Pegula that he needed 3 years to get the team in shape and the first couple years would be difficult and potentially disappointing to the fans. And Pegula gave him the green light.

  11. 1 hour ago, Wayne Arnold said:

    I fully expect Peterman to start again next Sunday.

     

    They don't want to ruin Allen around these trash players and they know that as soon as they start him, there's no turning back.

     

    Not saying I agree with it.

     

    It almost certainly won't be Peterman but I could see them signing a veteran who hasn't been signed (like Matt Moore) to take over for a few weeks. McDermott talked to Joe Buscaglia after the game and he said when deciding who the QB will be he has to look at "the people around the QB." Interview here:

     

     

    That makes me think they know the offense is crap and they might not want to subject Allen to that. If they really want to embrace the tank they will just stick with Peterman. Nothing would surprise me at this point.

  12. 29 minutes ago, Kelly the Dog said:

    In mop up performances you cannot really say with any certainty whatsoever that a QB, any QB, would have been able to do that earlier in the game. It's possible he could but also just as likely or more that he couldn't. It's an unknowable no matter how much you know or don't about football. 

     

    What you CAN see however are skills. Josh showed a lot of skills in his less than a half that Nate cannot do and it wasn't just arm strength. And yeah, perhaps he wouldn't have done that same thing against starters but arm strength, accuracy, poise or lack thereof in pocket, awareness, ability to throw on run, looking to second and third options are all skills that can be known in mop up duty whether that exact same performance would have happened against starters or when the game was still close or not. 

     

    It's the same as in preseason. You can't pay attention to the stat line but you can watch the individual performances and make judgments. He played a glorified preseason game against 1st stringers and he played very well.

  13. 10 minutes ago, MILFHUNTER#518 said:

    You were all over the gameday thread saying dont put him in until after week 4. Thank you for being man enough to change your position.??

     

    The big thing that changed for me is my opinion of the pass blocking. It looked much better. Not great but serviceable which is mostly all you get in the NFL these days. Allen looked quite good. So I'm at the point where I think he might as well get some experience. We'll still end up with a high draft pick.

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  14. 6 minutes ago, StrikeParry said:

    But Allen has done nothing to contradict that feeling that we DID screw up...yet. Let’s all hope you’re right, for our collective sanity’s sake.

     

    People said the same thing about Watson, that we made a mistake not drafting him. But he didn't look good at all today and it's not like the Patriots defense is elite. It's going to take a lot more than one game for Mahomes to prove anything. I mean I get it, he's making good reads and getting the ball to his playmakers. That's all you can do as a QB. But he hasn't done anything to make me think he could play with our roster and be successful. Every one of his completions have been routine throws. One thing I'll give him credit for is no interceptions. I expected some turnovers.

  15. Just now, BillsEnthusiast said:

     

    Cheetah has me 30 fantasy points ?

     

    He's an outstanding receiver. He is definitely top 10 and if he keeps up this kind of performance he'll be top 5 before long. The one TD pass was a standard short pass over the middle and he just put on the burners to take it 50+ yards. Another pass Mahomes threw too high in double coverage but Hill jumped up and brought it down with perfect timing for a 30 yard gain. Our receivers can't even catch a ball that hits them in the numbers.

  16. 2 minutes ago, Coach Tuesday said:

     

    He didn’t sign Poyer and Hyde.  He has signed ZERO free agents of quality in two offseasons.  His plans at G, WR and CB have crashed and burned.

     

    Beane and McDermott are tied at the hip. I don't separate their decisions at all. Everything we did last offseason belongs to them, good or bad. The weak point I agree is WR. Benjamin isn't good enough to be a #1 receiver. They have to address that next year. I don't blame him for the offensive line. We lost 2 starters to retirement and no one in the NFL is able to find quality players.

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