HappyDays
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I hate the discussion about "if" the Bills go 6-10. I think everyone here agrees anything under 9-7 will be a disappointment. Unless Allen gets injured, if they go 6-10 the process has failed.
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I'm so confused about this contract. Why are they doing this now?
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31 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:
I think to this point it's more than ok to be critical of these guys.
Eh I really don't think so yet. This year, absolutely. They went for a full rebuild. It's crazy that we've won as many games as we have. But it's year 3 and the team is full of their guys. If they don't show improvement fans have a right to be upset.
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7 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:
He could have watched tapes of Watson playing against a GREAT Alabama teams in the Championship Games and listed to Dabo Swinney talk about him.
Selecting a franchise QB is a career altering decision. Teams are scouting these QBs over the course of a year, sometimes even longer. It isn't something you decide on over a 3 month period when your scouting department isn't even set. That's why I thought a total rebuild made sense. We geared up to take our franchise QB with a full season to prepare for that decision. No matter what McDermott might have thought of Watson and Mahomes, and I'm guessing he didn't have much of an opinion on either, it was not a realistic option at that point. This can all be traced back to the Pegulas hiring Rex Ryan. That hire set the franchise back a minimum of 3 years.
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10 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:
K-9, can anybody possibly defend passing on 2 highly skilled and accomplished quarterbacks and drafting a first round corner? The team was starving for a QB. And it doesn't matter that White is "good." So was Gilmore but we had no quarterback!!!
Bill what information were they going to use to draft a QB? GMs don't just read scouting reports like us fans do. They have to meet with the prospect. They have to interview college coaches, high school coaches, people that know him personally. McDermott took over 3 months before that draft. How was he ever going to draft a QB in the 1st round with no information to go off of? It was never going to happen.
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10 minutes ago, Limeaid said:
So are claiming that Coach McD liked when he said he used information from Whaley's scouts and he either took Carolina's scouting reports or Beane fed him while he was assistant GM in Carolina?
No doubt in my mind. Look at the list of Panthers pre-draft visits from 2017:
https://panthergf.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/2017-draft-prospect-visit-workout-meeting-list/amp/
Tre'Davious White
Dion Dawkins
Tanner Vallejo
Zay Jones
Notably absent from that list is top QBs. Why would Carolona have scouted QBs? Beane and McDermott had no information to go off of.
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2 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:
You can't use that as an excuse to pass on Mahomes and Watson after the fact
I mean, of course you can. Beane and the Panthers weren't scouting QBs. You wanted McDermott to draft a QB in a QB class they hadn't scouted? That's nonsense.
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1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:
Well we could have simply not taken up (or more accurately renegotiated and then taken up which is what we actually did) Tyrod's option in 2017 and selected Watson or Mahomes that year.
Blame Pegula if you want. We didn't hire the next GM until after that draft. So who picks the QB, the defensive coach coming from a team that wasn't scouting QBs? There was no chance we were taking a QB that year. They certainly weren't going to go off of the scouting done by the lame duck GM and scouting staff. They had to cobble that draft together from Carolina's draft board. It's a miracle it went as well as it did. The eye was always on 2018 for drafting a QB, and if Allen turns out to be good the first 2 years won't mean a thing.
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I hope the Bills don't plan on playing Zay more than Foster. That would be a big mistake.
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Not entirely related, but:
Yeah, they'll definitely figure something out.
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12 hours ago, Rocky Landing said:
I put Zay above Foster (which is, essentially what makes him a lock). I see Foster as a dynamic talent, but limited in his role on offense.
I think that's crazy. You could see on the tape in the latter half of the season that teams were game planning to stop Foster. Safeties were shadowing him down field. I didn't ever see that kind of attention given to Zay. Foster is a threat to score a TD on every single play. Zay is a decent route runner but he has zero ability to make plays happen all on his own. Foster had his faults, especially early on, but his skill set is a nightmare to defend. I'll take the "limited" dynamic talent over the JAG with a full route tree.
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25 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
It’s crazy to say how good they will be at this point.
Why is it "crazy" to watch two players play, evaluate the context and progress, and make predictions about who will end up better?
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4 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
but are ready to call Jackson a bust after a season which he played on the playoffs?
Yeah, he played. Did you watch the game?
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55 minutes ago, Dablitzkrieg said:
A typical response from most on this board. You clearly missed the point, but that's ok, you usually do!
What was the point? That I'm not allowed to feel good about the team in May? This forum is filled with people that are addicted to football. I wouldn't go around my office asking people why they aren't paying attention to OTAs - I'd be the crazy person in that scenario. But by the same token I don't know why there's a whole genre of posters who makes it their duty to inform this group of crazy Bills fans that we're getting too crazy. No thanks. I'll get excited right now.
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1 hour ago, Dablitzkrieg said:
It is day 5 of OTA's.
Yes, it's May. If you're not interested in any football between OTAs and preseason, the forum will still be here in September.
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This would have been a top 5 catch for the Bills last year.
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1 hour ago, Putin said:
Should we wait till at least the pads come on before we give up on him ?
I don’t remember R Foster lighting it up in OTA’s last year ,
True but Foster came in promising speed and separation. He had faults but he delivered on that promise. Williams comes in promising contested catch ability and he's dropping the ball, literally. Not a good start for someone that was already fighting an uphill battle.
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50 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I think we had a QB running with the 3’s last off season, it’s his offense now
Not that Williams is the same sitch, but early days, early days
No kidding. But right now I would consider Duke Williams a longshot to make the roster, and this thread is pumping him up as Jones's replacement. That isn't looking even remotely possible right now. I'm actually kind of fascinated by this WR group. Brown, Foster, and Jones could all conceivably start on the outside but I can't see us running a bunch of 4 WR sets. I guess there will be a heavy rotation there.
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Again, a good sign from OTAs that Zay has the inside track:
Jones, Brown and McCloud seemed like receivers that had the most reps with the first team in practice this week after Foster was featured a lot last week. Foster still had a few reps and Andre Roberts was sprinkled in as well. Jones looked like the arguable class of the group. His quickness and route running led to a highlight-reel touchdown catch in a red zone drill. Allen split some defenders and Jones made a nice grab before easily trotting into the end zone. Jones as so excited he ran over to Bills general manager Brandon Beane, who was standing in the back of the end zone, for a quick celebratory hug. Fan favorite Duke Williams struggled hanging on to the ball throughout practice. He had a few drops and had trouble when Johnson was on him in coverage.
I'm happy to hear Jones looks improved this offseason. We might want to give up on the Duke Williams dream. He's struggling to catch the ball and is stuck with the 3rd team.
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20 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:
I thought Daboll did some excellent scheming last year, but the talent level was so poor that it was hard to detect.
I agree, and what Daboll did in the latter part of the year was nothing short of miraculous. We basically played like a league average offense after the bye week. Considering the offensive line, the rookie QB still learning on the job, and the mediocre pass catching group that's impressive. Obviously there has to be improvement this year but I'm optimistic about Daboll. I thought we had a real NFL scheme that should have been more successful than it was.
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It won't happen. The NFL is doing better than ever. No one wants to walk away from that money and kill the market's trend line.
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Well I promised myself I wouldn't get overly excited from OTA's, but I feel comfortable saving a spot on my wall for Josh Allen's hall of fame jersey.
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Hard Knocks better double their staff. They're going to have trouble keeping up with this group.
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John Warrow’s High Praise For Beane & McDermott Regime
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Who was it that said you've forgotten more football than other people have learned? I'm beginning to think they were right.