oldmanfan

Others have mentioned a few. You can go back to Johnny Unitas playing semi-pro ball in Pittsburgh. To me the point is that, while it's a longshot, it's still a shot. So if you see a kid like Jackson that has some raw physical skills, why not put him on the practice squad and take some time with him?

It was alpha. My bad.

You started a thread on how Jones would get cut and I thought you were nuts. I even predicted he’d catch the firs TD pass of the year. I’m not so sure you’ll be wrong. He has to catch that ball, and there are guys like Phillips and Foster ready to take over.

Math is a difficult concept for some. Thanks for emphasizing that.

Ball placement is a measure of precision and not accuracy

And how many times does one factor out of many that affect a variable get beaten to death. I have said this many times before and will do so again here. Let's say a QB throws 30 passes a game and completes 16. That gives you very close to the 52.8% completion percentage to harp about. Now let's say he completes 18 of 30. That is the magical 60% some seem to be obsessed with. That is a difference of two completion a game. Now go back to last season and see how many drops or throwaways he had. That alone gets you where you want to be. I have said continually all off season that Allen needs to continue to improve, he needs to get better at his reads, get better at going to check down guys (which looked better in the first pre-season game). And he needs receivers that actually catch the damn ball. All of these are areas that should improve this coming year. So can we please for the love of God quit harping on this completion percentage nonsense as if it means anything about accuracy? Can we please for the love of God quit criticizing Allen or any QB, for hitting guys right in the hands and somehow blaming them for the incompletion? Can we please for the love of God quit dissecting each and every throw a second year QB makes in a preseason game as if it will definitively prove or disprove the guy's worth? If this is the depth of what some will do to critique Allen, then there will never be a QB for the Bills, nor probably has there ever been a QB for the Bills or for any other team for that matter, than could withstand that microscopic level of scrutiny.

How many times on this board does it have to be brought up that completion percentage is not the same as accuracy? I don't know what Cosell and others wanted on this pass. If he puts it out front more, then the safety might be able to make a play on the ball, or it puts him in a better position to cream Jones and knock the ball out. He hit Jones right in the hands between the CB and safety, right in the hands, and he dropped it. When hitting a receiver right in the hands between two defenders is cause for being critical of the QB, I think that takes critiques to a ridiculous level.

Crazy amounts of money

Not saying you are berserk and apologize for giving you that impression.

Did I or did I not say Beane would lose on his calculated gamble if the Morse thing did not work? So quit telling me and others I approve everything they do. I don’t. I just realize that and I dont’ go berserk if a decision doesn’t pan out.

I think you’re one of those who believes you have as much knowledge as Beane when making decisions. You’re wrong. Doesn’t mean his decisions will all be correct.

Give me a break with the everything’s awesome junk. I said Beane made a calculated gamble on Morse and if he can’t play then Beane lost. What I will absolutely guarantee is that Beane had a helluva lot more date available to him before pulling the trigger than any blowhard on a message board.

Teams do not let free agents walk. They get outbid.

One of the facts is he got thoroughly evaluated in the off season. Why do you discount that fact?

We don't act like he is a petulant child . He is a petulant child.

I would tell him to walk, and I would then have all the owners and Goodell stand up and say no one is going to have him in their team and dare him to claim collusion.

If Morse can't go it would seem Feliciano is the starter. Long then backs him up.

Well said.

Then the Raiders should just tell him he doesn't get to play and tear up the contract he signed. Enough is enough with this moron.

If you look back at Morse’s interview with WGR he talks about some extensive testing in the offseason which indicated he didn’t have much recurrence risk. I presume the front office knew something about that. I think this is a classic case of folks here thinking have more knowledge that the fromt office. Beane took what I’d call a calculated gamble perhaps, but he had a lot more data available to make that play. And if it doesn’t work out then he lost.

He played it with a messed up hand last year. And it seems clear Feliciano is the main backup.

The worst case scenario is that Morse cannot come back and they reach an injury settlement. In which case it was pretty smart for Beane to have also brought on both Feliciano and Long, both of which can play the position.

The only generational player that ever played Guard was John Hannah.

I rewatched and it seemed to me the throw to Brown down the left sideline he was trying to go back shoulder and they weren’t on the same page. That should improve with time.

My guess is the starting front will look like this: Dawkins/Spain/Morse or Feliciano/Ford/Nsekhi