HappyDays
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I'm guessing this is the logic behind it. I hope McCloud or Foster can step up. It's a sad state of affairs when releasing Jeremy Kerley is widely seen as a questionable move.
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1 minute ago, BillsEnthusiast said:
They must really like Ray Ray
He had a good connection with Allen in preseason so let's hope that translates.
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1 minute ago, Dablitzkrieg said:
I'm assuming they plan on moving Zay into the slot now and McCloud is healthy to return. Still, very odd
So I guess our #1 is Benjamin and our #2 is Foster or McCloud? And Zay in the slot. Or maybe they like Holmes. I really don't know to be honest.
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This is a very strange move. Is McCloud healthy? Did something happen behind the scenes?
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4 hours ago, ScottLaw said:
As would I John.
I just think they holding on to a top LT like Glenn and trading up for Allen could've easily been accomplished by giving up other assets such as draft picks which they obviously had available.
Keeping Glenn wouldn't have solved anything. Dawkins is fine at LT. Glenn never played RT so who knows if he could have been good there. But our bigger problem is the interior. We did use a 5th round pick on Teller. If we had used say our 3rd round pick on an interior lineman then people would complain we didn't draft DT which was another need. Or if we hadn't been able to get Edmunds people would complain we didn't replace Preston Brown. We were never going to replace all our losses in one offseason, especially once Wood and Incognito retired.
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4 hours ago, Iron Maiden said:
Bill's fan thought process.....
Off season : This is year 2 of rebuilding...we are getting rid of Whaley's mistakes and the cap nightmare....it's going to be a rough year....our Oline will not be competitive...get ready for a long season...we will be rewarded for our patience in 2019.....
After a week 1 loss....WTF !!! we suck !!!!....our HC and GM have no clue.....
Believe it or not many fans expected us to be competitive this year. We shouldn't have been competitive last year either. The coaches are doing their best while they completely rebuild the roster.
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1 hour ago, chris heff said:
What would indicate that these guys have a clue? If the plan was to draft QB of the future why trade Taylor? Taylor could have held the place and mentored Allen certainly as well as McCarron.
Do you honestly think the mentorship of Tyrod Taylor is worth more than the 65th overall pick? Some of the takes this week have been insane. If Allen is going to be good it makes zero difference which backup QB was here in his first year. I see people in this thread saying we should have signed Sam Bradford for $20 million?? The guy is a knee injury waiting to happen and he was terrible against the Redskins. By waiting until the end of free agency and trading McCarron we saved ourselves millions in cap space rolling into next year, and got a free 5th rounder out of it.
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7 minutes ago, Wayne Arnold said:
Bengals coaches make our coaching staff look like middle school gym teachers.
Marvin Lewis is in his 15th year as head coach of the Bengals. Head coaches hired in 2017 or 2018 were 2-10 this past weekend.
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Last year after the Chargers game we went out and beat the Chiefs, and in fact went 4-2 in our last 6 games. If the players were going to revolt it would have happened then.
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1 hour ago, Kelly the Dog said:
The fiasco is believing that Nate Peterman can play in this league. Because of this fiasco, we had a national embarrassment, players questioning their coach, and no backup quarterback when our starter may get abused. I don't think you are considering what effect this has in the locker room and on the team. It was a disaster and it remains a disaster if NP is asked or forced to play again.
At least 10 teams a year have QBs that can't compete. Maybe 3 teams have backups that can compete. The Browns are 1-31 the past two years!! I don't think their players are revolting in the locker room. If Allen goes down with an injury I want our backup to be terrible. I don't want to win another game this year if that happens. The players will get over it. Stuff like that is way overblown.
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Of course the plan all along was to let Allen take over. That's why they traded McCarron. They think Allen is ready to start now. Who cares about one loss in a season with zero chance at a Super Bowl. Bills fans are so reactionary.
5 hours ago, Ayjent said:Come on any article that lauds the Star signing should be looked at a tad skeptically.
Star was good on Sunday. The Ravens couldn't get a consistent run game going. Star takes up blockers and allows the LBs to be aggressive. He's doing exactly what they're paying him to do.
3 hours ago, Kelly the Dog said:Getting Allen through the accumulation of picks has zero to do with the fiasco of the Peterman Principle that McD and Beane are wholly responsible for.
What is the fiasco? We lost a game? Who cares. We're not going to win a lot of games this year. They declared an open QB competition and some people here didn't want to believe it was really open. Peterman won the open competition, then utterly failed in a real game. Now Allen has his opportunity to learn on the field. You only have to hit on a QB once. If Allen ends up our franchise QB no one will care 5 years from now that they incorrectly judged Peterman as a viable bridge starter.
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7 minutes ago, PlayoffsPlease said:
yes. any sane person would have kept mccarron if they thought the peterman debacle was remotely possibly week 1. bills screwed the pooch wasting reps on peterman this summer and starting him week 1.
You're making my point for me. They didn't keep McCarron because the plan all along was to hand the reins to Allen when the opportunity presented itself. Peterman played awful and Allen looked pretty good in mop up duty. There's the opportunity. McCarron was never going to take over for Peterman.
And if they wasted reps this summer so did every other team with a 1st round QB. Do you think Tyrod Taylor, Sam Bradford, and Josh McCown were ever thought of as the future of their franchises? I firmly believe in open competition at the QB position until you have an entrenched starter and clearly McDermott does too. Peterman won the competition, period. He was given his opportunity and failed. So now Allen will develop on the field. If Allen becomes a franchise QB no one will care that we started Peterman for a game.
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1 hour ago, PlayoffsPlease said:
They have appeared to be completely reactionary this year, and its a stretch to think this is some sort of expected contingency out of some elaborate planned out scenarios. They screwed the pooch with Peterman. They accepted that and moved on.
So what are you saying, you don't think it even occurred to McDermott that Peterman could have a meltdown game again? It didn't cross his mind as a possibility that Allen would be starting sooner than later? That's crazy. Of course they were prepared for this.
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1 hour ago, Kelly the Dog said:
I know. And several veteran posters here, myself included, before the game gave several clear reasons why that was dumb, and all of them came true.
Some of us thought it was a good decision even with the understood risk of a Peterman meltdown. Now Allen's way is cleared. No one will be calling for him to be benched in favor of Peterman. All the pressure is off. We also got an extended look at Peterman and it turns out he's probably not even long-term backup material. It makes no difference that we lost the game. This year isn't about racking up wins.
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7 minutes ago, jrober38 said:
I think whoever lost the competition between Peterman and McCarron were getting traded.
Very few NFL teams keep 3 guys and we were going to be no different. I don't think Allen has much to do with anything.
If Allen was ready, he's have started last week.
Everything I know about McDermott tells me he thinks through every possible scenario. He knew Allen was one injury or bad game away from starting. If they didn't think he was ready they would have kept a 3rd QB. Peterman won the competition but he was never going to start the whole year unless he took the league by storm. I don't think they wanted to start Allen this early if they could avoid it but they aren't blowing up their plan.
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4 minutes ago, jrober38 said:
No self respecting veteran QB is signing with us as a realistic option to start for at least 3-4 weeks.
We took a risk only keeping two QBs on the roster, with a combined 2 professional starts under their belt and it appears to have backfired.
They knew the risk. They traded McCarron because they think Allen is ready. Whether that's true or not we will find out starting this Sunday.
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12 minutes ago, VW82 said:
4. Touch. Everyone killed Benjamin for that dropped TD but that was at least partially on Allen. He has a tendency to throw everything 100 mph, and in that instance there was no need to gas it like that. The window wasn't that tight. We've seen him do this a bunch already over the course of preseason.
Nope
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8 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:
Lmao. He absolutely is better than Peterman.
Yes that's why I said "not much better" than Peterman. He looked just as bad in preseason game 4 to be fair. But either way the 5th round pick we got for him is worth more than him being on the roster. If we want a vet QB there are still a few out there. It makes no difference if it's Matt Moore or Derek Anderson or whoever.
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2 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:
If they had even a McCarron they could have brought Allen along slower. They don't have that luxury.
They do have that luxury. They could sign Matt Moore right now. The fact that they haven't means they think Allen is ready right now. I can't believe people are questioning the McCarron trade. He isn't much better than Peterman. It's shocking we got a 5th rounder for him and nothing he brought to this team is worth more than that.
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2 hours ago, Fadingpain said:
I guess Josh Allen suddenly went from "not ready" to "ready" in 72 hours, mostly because Nate Peterman sucks.
McD doesn't have a F-ing clue.
At what point did McDermott say Allen wasn't ready to start? The decision to start Peterman was two-fold. First McDermott declared an open competition and Peterman looked the best throughout training camp and preseason. He clearly won that competition. Second it is much safer to start Peterman first because if he looks bad you can make the switch to Allen no problem. If they didn't feel Allen was ready they would have signed Matt Moore by now. I suspect their plan all along was to let Peterman play the first 3-4 games but he was so bad in Baltimore they're changing it up earlier than planned. The plan is exactly the same as it was, just a little ahead of schedule.
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2 hours ago, ngbills said:
McDermott said, when asked if he regretted starting Peterman against the Ravens. "I felt like that was the right move and I'll take that to my grave."
It was the right move. Transitioning from Peterman to Allen is easy. No one can question it. Doing it the other way around would be impossible. No matter how much Allen struggles no one will be calling for Peterman to take over. If Allen ends up good no one will care about the decision to start Peterman in the first game of Allen's rookie season. No one is still talking about Tom Savage.
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2 hours ago, Kelly the Dog said:
In the 6-15 stat line one of those incompletions was a play that 98-100 NFL quarterbacks get sacked on. It was absolutely outrageous that he escaped the sack and threw the ball away for an Incompletion.
Yeah Allen will be fine. I didn't know if his balance would translate from college to the NFL. But once Terrell Suggs ran into him at full speed and he didn't go down that question was answered.
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10 hours ago, Virgil said:
It kinda sucks that we could pick top 5 and so far there isn’t a game changing talent. People keep saying Bosa or Oliver, but I would hate to see us keep spending picks on defense when we have so many holes on offense.
I hope Allen shows enough to be the guy and there’s a RB or WR that just blows everyone away.
The bust rate for top 10 WRs is way too high.
And we're likely to have the #1 overall pick. Next year's class has elite pass rushing talent so that's what we should draft.
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They gave him a higher grade than they gave Sam Darnold FWIW.
Bills Release WR Jeremy Kerley; Sign DT Robert Thomas from PS
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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This is going to be an experimental year. That's why they were willing to eat cap in exchange for getting a look at Corey Coleman. They will see what the young receivers can do tomorrow and if it doesn't work out my guess is they will bring Kerley back.