HappyDays
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From Jordan Schultz on Twitter:
"#Bills are in "preliminary talks" 2 sign Jeremy Maclin, per source. LeSean McCoy is recruiting the WR and the team wants him onboard as well"
Wow this might actually happen!
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Anyone else see strong parallels between the gun control debate and the Muslim immigrant debate? Seems to me most people are hypocrites on this subject. Do you believe in sacrificing freedoms to prevent violence, or not? If 20 people were killed at an American monument tomorrow, we all know what the online debate would look like. But which side is arguing what depends on if the killer is a white guy with a gun or a Muslim with a car. This whole thing is nuts to me and I feel like I'm the only one who sees it.
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Small sample size.
You know Crusher I agree with you. It's way too small a sample size to make definitive future judgments. Which is why I was a big advocate for bringing back Tyrod even if it meant picking up the option. Because IF those numbers aren't a fluke - if he can legitimately replicate those numbers when his weapons are on the field - then we have a top 15 passer on our roster.
I know what you would say, that you are confident those numbers are a fluke. And I'll respond that I'm confident they're not. We could spend a lot of time going back and forth. Or we could just wait and see since Tyrod is coming back regardless. We got what I wanted, a chance to see if we have something in Tyrod. I'd think you would be interested to find out as well.
As a point of comparison, Derek Carr was awful his rookie year in 2014. A passer rating of 76.6. Only 5.5 YPA. In 2015 they got Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree. Maybe it's no coincidence that in 2015 and 2016 Carr's stats went way up, and the two years are pretty similar too - 91.1 and 96.7 passer ratings ; exactly 7.0 YPA in both years. I'm not gonna try and argue his development was entirely, or even mostly, the product of better receiving weapons (although can you confidently argue the opposite is true?). It sure is interesting though.
Receiving weapons matter for QBs that aren't named Tom Brady. The Bucs have one of the best young QBs in the game. It didn't stop them from acquiring Mike Evans, Desean Jackson, and now OJ Howard. Only in Buffalo is asking for more reliable weapons seen as a statement that the QB isn't good enough. And only in Buffalo is the bizarre assertion made that "the QB makes the receiver." I for one think it's a symptom of watching Brady terrorize our division for over a decade, we've lost perspective on how the rest of the league is built.
Now I'm genuinely curious Crusher - is there anything in this post you really disagree with?
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Exactly. This proves Peterman is the next Brady/Montana.
Is anyone saying he is the next Brady? I just see some folks excited for his potential. I know that's too much positivity for some people. Can't imagine being this miserable about the team in June...
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I wanted us to treat this offseason as if Sammy won't play more than half of his games. Signing Maclin would satisfy that for me. I hope we get it done.
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For now, Taylor knows exactly what he is: a one- and possibly two-year bridge until the team finds its long-term answer at quarterback.
The pressure from that isn't exactly immense.
Vic's reporting has really fallen off. So Tyrod has no pressure because he knows he's just a bridge QB. Okay Vic. Real nice.
Media around here is awful.
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Watkins and Woods combined stats in those 15 games... 101 receptions 1515 yards 11 TDs
What is it like being this bad at statistics?
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That's now how politics works. Both sides try this crap. "Well let his VOTERS foot the bill since they're the ones who wanted it!" "If you're pro-life you should have to be a foster parent." "Let the pro-immigration people house all the immigrants." Welcome to a compromised society. We're all in this together.
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Rational scientific people don't think this was a smart decision. Lots of people in the industry, like Rex Tillerson, wanted us to stay in the agreement. Because whether Trump likes it or not the rest of the world is changing, and we will be locked out of the negotiations. American companies export to other countries and vice versa. We rely on international agreements like this in a global marketplace. Noot to mention the mountains of scientific evidence that climate change is real and it's manmade and we need to do something about it. There is nothing good about us pulling out.
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These sorts of analyses don't take coaching into account. I'm hoping the switch from Rex to McDermott alone is worth a few wins. I firmly believe we should have been in the playoffs last year. We needed to not have three 200 yard rushers last year, that's literally the only difference between playoffs and not. If the scheme makes our run game better we should be in a good spot. Still not sold on McDermott. But that will be the deciding factor.
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They traded a former 1st round pick to obtain a player they once drafted with a 3rd round pick.
Alllllllrighty then
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I have no dog in this fight. But if you are going to exclude some games from Tyrod's stats, for comparison sake you need to also exclude those from all the other QB's stats. I hope you have the time to go through every QB's games and decide which games to include, and which to discount. Good luck on getting a consensus!
I don't think that's necsssary. He said "middle of the league" which isn't very specific, and it's hard for me to imagine us moving down from middle of the league based on a few other teams having a couple games without their starter. If you want an exact measure we'd have to go through every single team but for a quick analysis taking those 3 games away and saying "middle of the league" as a general statement is fair. IMO
Not that it really matters. TOP and 3&out % don't correlate well with playoffs or championships.
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What is this website? It doesn't cite a source or anything. Can't see it happening at this point. Sammy is here for at least the season and we'll see what happens after that.
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Sammy isn't getting traded this year so I don't understand the point of the discussion
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Wilson doesn't have a top 3 RB in the NFL, for starters.
So you think with a top running game, Wilson could have a better offense? Say... the 6th highest scoring offense in the league?
Actually in their Super Bowl season in 2013, Seattle had the 18th most total yards (4th in rushing, 26th in passing) and were 9th in points per game. Very similar to the Bills offensive stats from 2015 and 2016.
I personally would not trade 2 1st round picks and a starting level QB for another QB that hasn't shown he can elevate the team around him. To be fair there are only about 4 of those QBs in the entire NFL right now and they're all about to retire.
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Anyone else notice Rodak's reporting got better, or at least less combative, over the last few months? I wonder if someone at ESPN said something to him.
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I'd run to the phone. Wilson is a star.
No. Ravens game.
Russell Wilson lost a game last year against the Rams where his defense held them to 9 points. The Seahawks scored 3 points in that game. I mean if we're only using one game to make our judgments... Or we can go with the 6-6 tie against Arizona. Or when they only scored 5 against Tampa Baby. Or 10 against Green Bay. This is all just from 2016.
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Yea still have no idea who made what decision this offseason.
Just how the Bills like it so if **** hits the fan they can blame it on the guy who's no longer here.
Whaley had nothing to do with the draft. I will never believe that he did. The Bills are publicly doing him a favor. We drafted multiple players that visited Carolina but not us. We drafted from schools that Whaley didnt typically draft from, and ignored schools that he typically liked (FSU, Clemson). We drafted a QB with a relatively weak arm. It was nothing like a Whaley draft, and we are better off for it.
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Sherman is one of a couple players that I would have no problem seeing get injured
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Then it should be an easy fix. Constitutional protections do not extend to foreign nationals seeking visas.
This is far from a settled issue:
Trump supporters might be surprised at how far the Constitution extends toward non-citizens once they're inside the country, however. Cases extending back to the 1800s, including ones brought by Chinese immigrants challenging the arbitrary seizure of their property, have established the rights of non-citizens under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments including due process and the right to a jury.
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4th circuit court of appeals upheld the block on Trump's travel ban in a 10-3 decision. They used basically the same reasoning as the 9th circuit did, that Trump and his surrogates were very up front about the true intended purpose of the ban, and that there was no evidence to suggest immigrants from the chosen countries were an undue danger to national security.
Might end up going to the Supreme Court. We will see.
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@g_hodges6
Overly appreciated to be apart and help @buffalobills be the best organization we can be!!!! It's go time 🙏🏽🙌🏾 #billsmafia
Thank you @buffalobills for the huge opportunity to be apart of something special... excited wouldn't even describe the feeling 🙏🏽
Players that want to be here. I like it.
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Why would government hitmen not steal the belongings? A panicked robber turned murderer would run without stealing anything. The band on his watch was torn indicating a struggle. His hands, knees, and face were bruised. There had been a string of gun robberies in the area.Seth Rich was shot in the back twice. He was not robbed. I'm trying very hard to come up with a scenario that this was a robbery gone bad.
I'm getting my info from here:
http://www.newsweek.com/seth-rich-murder-dnc-hack-julian-assange-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-492084
It looks to me like Seth was approached by the robbers and foolishly tried to fight them off. That is how botched robberies turned murder usually go, the victim fights back and loses. He had just been talking with his girlfriend on the phone when it all happened.
And again - there is still zero evidence he had anything to do with the leaks. It all started as conjecture because his death looks suspicious. And it started up again because of Rod Wheeler and Julian Assange. There is no one else claiming to know anything about Seth Rich.
A government murder operation should have been much more sophisticated. They could have shot him in the head and taken all his belongings. They could have planted fingerprints. Instead he was shot in the back and nothing was taken, and there is every indication he struggled with someone. Why would he have been struggling with a government hitman? Must be the worst hitman of all time.
IF he was murdered by hitmen and it was staged to look like a robbery - isn't it just as likely that he was murdered by Russia out of fears their leaker would be revealed? Where's the evidence that the DNC was onto Rich? There isn't any! Just an unsolved murder that people want to read into.
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Jeremy Maclin (Agrees to 2 year deal with Ravens)
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted · Edited by HappyDays
Interesting stats from Cian Fahey on Twitter:
Tyrod Taylor is recruiting Jeremy Maclin. 3.34% of Taylor's yards were created by receivers on off-target throws last year, 26th in league.
Taylor's yards per attempt jumped 0.74 when adjusted for WR mistakes/created plays, third highest in league