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https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-ranking-all-32-nfl-offensive-lines-this-season For what it's worth, PFF actually had the ravens o line ranked higher than the Bills last year. In 2015 they had them ranked #13 and Buffalo #9 - https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-ranking-all-32-offensive-lines-this-season In 2014 Baltimore was ranked the #3 O line in the NFL - https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/2014-pff-offensive-line-rankings Football outsides had the ravens ranked the #8 pass protection line last year, and the Bills #31. http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ol In 2015 the ravens ranked #2 in pass protection by F.O. - http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ol2015

I thought he was getting pushed back at times & having trouble holding his ground + stopping the rush. Don't get me wrong, he looked good at times too. Check out the cover 1 podcast that was just posted here today if you're interested. They review the offense game film and you can see Wood struggling at times. They actually specifically talk about the wood injury around 24 minutes in. https://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/195480-tyrod-taylor-film-session-vs-eagles/

Huh. I didn't take it that way at all. I thought he was referring more to the media, not fans. I kinda liked that he was annoyed by the tanking talk. I thought he made some good points as to why they weren't tanking. The Jets are tanking. Cleveland tanked. The Bills are not tanking. As far as his press conferences, I don't see how they could even be put in the same ballpark as Whaley's, IMO anyway. Whaley has some big time trouble with public speaking. I thought Beane has been better than Whaley by miles... His public speaking ability was one of the first things I noticed about him.

I've heard he is one of the more well respected line coaches in the NFL and I know he was very highly regarded for the work he did with that Eagles o line in his time there. I know there was a bit of a bidding war between Baltimore, Chicago and Kansas City when he was let go from the Eagles. I thought our run game has looked good overall this preseason, with the o line opening up some pretty nice holes. I can't really blame him for Mills and Henderson's play. It's not like Mills was good under Kromer last year either - he was the same turn-style last year. Henderson is trying to come back (and recover) from a serious disease that had a major impact on him. If Glenn were playing, LT wouldn't be an issue... Even Wood is coming back from a broken leg. I'm sure he's not back to 100% quite yet (as far as being in shape, knocking off the rust etc). I agree Ducasse shouldn't be starting over Miller anymore, but let's wait and see if he even makes the roster, let alone starts over Miller when the regular season starts. If he does, then it's obviously an issue (assuming his play continues to be so terrible). It's only been 2 preseason games though guys! (and they have new systems on both sides of the ball) The O line is pretty much 1 on 1 during preseason. They're not really giving extra help to the spots on the o line that need it like they will in regular season. No reason to overreact yet.

Seems more like pure speculation than an actual trade rumor. That article isn't all that well written IMO, either. They bring up Buffalo letting Woods and Goodwin walk like it's some insult to Taylor, but make no mention of the guys they signed to replace them and that they probably upgraded the WR corps in general over what they had on the field most of last season. Then they assume Shady is unhappy here because Maclin chose Baltimore. I just couldn't take this article seriously.

I realize that. The poster I was responding to was talking about having Bortles (under his 5th year option), Peterman and a drafted rookie in 2018. I'd have no real issue with taking Bortles as a salary dump for a good draft pick.

Wow.

Bortles 5th year option is $19 million. No thanks. lol

They just said on the John Murphy show that Doug Marrone said there will now be an open competition for starting QB between Bortles and Chad Henne, splitting 1st team reps.

Were there grades up for the rest of the O line yet? Definitely be curious to see those...

Definitely has to be a tough job to try and evaluate certain position from that game - I'm trying not to overreact as it was just a preseason game but like you both said, the O line... just wow. I haven't re-watched the game yet but It seemed like the QB was under pressure almost every play while Philly's starting D line was in there. And forget about stopping a blitz... lol. We are totally screwed if Cordy Glenn misses any substantial amount of time, and if Dawkins isn't able to take a big step forward to grab that RT spot. Hopefully the Vlad Ducasse experiment is over with now too. Watching that o line, I couldn't help but wonder if the Bills have possibly the worst LT/RT combo in the entire NFL right now. Tell you something else - I'm really missing Kouandjio at the moment. He sure would be nice to have playing LT right now. I don't quite understand why they cut him so quickly. If it was the off field incident, I don't think he was ever even charged with anything was he? You can't have an entire team of choir boys... seems like a short sighted move right now, especially considering Glenn was recovering from injury.

Fantastic stop by Ragland!

McDermott with his first challenge win!

Holy cow our 3rd string defense is getting eaten alive here.

He stayed with him fine. He just needed to get his head around and he could have made a play.

That was really cool to see the entire Bills team come out to sorround Streator on the cart like that.

Ah man I hope Streator is ok. He's been having a great camp and a nice game so far.

Good job to get the ball back Peterman!

Holy crap these penalties are getting beyond ridiculous.

EJ Gaines!!

Ah so close

What a catch by Zay Jones! Has he stepped out of bounds last play we'd still have a time out left though.

Kine of surprised Zay Jones didn't step,out of bounds there.

Nice throw Peterman!!

Fantastic run by J Will!