Boatdrinks

Trouble is there was simply now way you could start Peterman in an NFL game again. Anderson isn’t good, but Peterman is a QB everyone knows cannot play in the league. He doesn’t bring a circus, he brings humiliation to your franchise. I don’t think any of Anderson’s INTs went back for six so that’s an improvement. I saw him make a few throws that would have been intercepted if NP had tried them. The bar is laughably low, but Beane and McD created this. You’re just not going to get anyone decent at this stage of the game. That they brought Anderson in at all shows how awful it really is.

Exactly. The hand they were dealt was pretty close to the NFL average. Setting records for offensive futility isn’t OK, regardless of your greater plan. It’s a flawed plan if it requires being the worst in the league by a mile .

Good players can be found all over the draft. The trouble with a complete teardown of a roster is time taken to reload. Coaches don’t get 5 years to succeed, and it shouldn’t take that long if you keep some quality elements of an existing team and work around them. The current FOs plan is doomed to fail because it depends on being much better than the historical average at drafting players. If they hit on a good amount of them ( track record is mixed at best right now) they’ll still run out of time. We all know what the methods of improvement are. The draft is only so many rounds and they are at an extreme disadvantage for attracting FA offensive players.

The previous regime managed to be consistently mediocre. Should be able to tweak that with a few improvements . Why do people believe you have to be the worst in the league before you can be any good ?

They forgot you have to score points for yards to matter much. 300 yards being a high water mark after 7 games is quite amazing.

Lack of vision and an abundance of ego.

I’d say no. Absolutely not. They got to 9-7 with Marrone but didn’t get the oddball tiebreaker.

No one in their right mind could put this on Anderson. It’s much more deeply rooted than that.

Interesting ? It would be unwatchable. Not just because of the football either.

They have to go where the great players in the draft are. It’s D line high in 2018. Fix the offense by other means than the first round of the draft.

MNF has got to be wishing they could implement flex scheduling.

It can work in baseball. The playing field for obtaining players isn’t a level one by design, but you can win with a bunch of young stars at one time. You’ll never keep it together long, but you can win a Championship that way. It doesn’t work in football though. It’s an easier leap from avaerage to good than from awful.

I guess if you make moves that bring your team to the absolute bottom of the league, selling better days ahead gets a lot easier.

Yes, although I wouldn’t classify the SuperBowl teams as an aberration . They were the outlier in the history of the franchise, but not a happy mistake. They showed what could be done when competent people are put in place. Getting Kelly back after the USFL folded was part happenstance, but Polian an Co put together a nice roster. Ralph then fired his best GM before he should have.

It was about what I expected, with an extra turnover or two. The defensive no-show didn’t help matters. It’s still astounding that the Bills braintrust’s plan to bring along a raw Josh Allen consisted of Peterman and a guy off his vacation in October.

Maybe worse. At least ‘85 you had Bruce Smith. His talent was apparent, but his motivation wasn’t there yet. Those teams were obviously lacking in talent, and I don’t see Beane pulling off a Polian impression.

Nope, not even close to ‘86.That team was on the way up. It took another year ( and there was a player strike in there as well)

He said they were set up to fail. What would the point of that be? Sorry, but these guys aren’t going to ace every draft pick and get great FA signings to boot. Even if you buy what they’re selling, the OPs premise is planned failure by the enitire organization. You never plan to be the worst , at least not in football. It doesn’t work and just brings another housecleaning. It’s incompetence and poor execution of an even worse plan.

Damn, but I think you’re right. And those teams were beyond horrible.

He may be ( marginally ) better, but his sorry a$$ isn’t good enough to save this calamity. Hard pass.

Okay, and just what is the endgame? Sorry, the theory doesn’t make sense.

They can’t possibly like this WR corps. It’s a disaster. If they like it, they don’t understand football. Actually, that is possible.

It doesn’t matter in the end, but Anderson. Peterman would throw 3 INTs in the first quarter.

It’s not surprise. It’s utter disgust. Rebuilding or not, worst in the NFL by a mile isn’t acceptable...ever.

Benjamin shows his true colors ... total bum and half a$$ed effort on the route and post INT