BullBuchanan
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CB or DE - bank on it.
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Why do you think the Bills should have won? The strategy seemed pretty sound given our injuries and the opponent to make the game as short as possible. We went into the half with the lead and with less than two minutes on the clock we had a chance to go up 4 and the players didn't execute.
I never wanted McDermott hired int he first place and will be glad to see him canned, but what exactly did you want him to do that he didn't do yesterday? Our team was outclassed in every phase and still had a chance to win. I give him credit for that.-
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2 hours ago, SCBills said:
IF the Bills are able to maneuver around his cap hit and someone offers a Second Round Pick. Do you take it?
Where there's a will, there's a way and I think it's a no-brainer to trade him at this point if not for the dead cap. I was on his side over the summer, but he's just negative energy at this point. Weird vibes and doesn't back it up on the field. Gets shut down, again, by Kansas City. Fumbles on the first play. Drops a 65 yard bomb in the 4th Quarter from Allen and makes a gesture intimating that it was on Allen.
I'm over it.
I'd rather give Allen a couple Day 1/Day 2 Wide Receivers to go with Kincaid, Knox, Shakir and Cook at this point.
The dead cap hit might make this completely impossible, but if the Bills can get creative, I think we're better off. The relationship just seems like it's run it's course.
lmao
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2 minutes ago, boyst said:
if the nfl is fair he will 100% be punished by the league letting us drop him without a hit.
Pretty sure the Pats were on the hook for Aaron Hernandez's cap. Don't see it happening.
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hes a disappointment, but far from a bust. unless he takes a step, hes probably a backup quality player during his next contract imo
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6 hours ago, Billsfanatic8989 said:
Yeh....I am guessing most of the fan base does not share this sentiment.
I do. Expecting a Super Bowl after the way we played this year was lunacy. We struggled against everyone after October and very few players stood out as having a great year.
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6 hours ago, boyst said:
not if we get rid of Fraud Miller. I am expecting that to happen. the league fully should.
umm, you know Von has a massive dead cap hit right? We can't get rid of him until after next year.
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2 hours ago, chongli said:
impossible to keep AJ Epenesa and unlikely to return Floyd.
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1 minute ago, BeastMaster said:
In all fairness...our defense was Swiss cheese like it always is when we play a top flight QB in the playoffs, plus the injuries. KC has had a top flight pass defense this season.
I don't think Mahomes was as impressive today as you're making him out to be. Switch Allen and Mahomes and he struggles against their defense and Josh carves us up
Mahomes doesn't tyically struggle against merely good defenses. He has too many ways to deal with them and no small part of that is having Travis Kelce. You would need to throw things at him he's never seen and overwhelm his targets in a way no one has ever done to stop him. Maybe the ravens or 49ers can do it, but I wouldn't bet money on it.
I acknowledge that our defense was pretty bad today. Douglas really shouldn't have been starting as it was obvious his injury was holding him back despite being in pretty decent position most of the day, and being stuck with Klein at LB #1 was a liability. Most disappointing however was our completely healthy and exorbitantly expensive D-line that was invisible all game. We certainly got bit hard by injuries, but that group was who we needed to show up and they didn't. -
In my mind, our best shot will be when Andy Reid retires. As long as he's there, the offense will continue to be an unstoppable machine. Allen played a great game that would have been good enough to beat most teams today, but Mahomes was flawless and their offense was unstoppable. If today didn't put to bed the ridiculous notion around here that Mahomes is in anyway inferior to Josh, than nothing will. I say that to take nothing away from the incredible and elite talent that Allen is, but only to say that your strategy simply can't be to have Allen go out there and outperform Mahomes in the playoffs, because it will never happen.
We scored methodically today, but KC scored at will. We're going to need an historically good defense and an offensive scheme to rival theirs. The former may never happen, and I can't see the latter happening as long as Andy Reid is coaching and our personnel talent pool is limited exclusively to people who have worked in North Carolina. -
1 hour ago, BuffaloBill said:
Open at the end of the game.
Bass kills our season
Bills lose by 3
If Bass makes the kick, you're giving Mahomes the balls with 1:45 seconds and pretending that you're going to stop him when you've done so once all game. We lost on 3rd down, not 4th.
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If there was ever a time for Dorian Williams to break out, today is that day.
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3 hours ago, Dubie54 said:
And most importantly at 100%. We have to hope that we can avoid any more in-game injuries, particularly at LB and Corner.
there's no chance any of them are at 100%. they all got wrecked with knees and ankles. You don't just come back from that ina week or two while trying to practice. We just have to hope they aren't liabilities and dont re-injure themselves.
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10 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
Technically, Whaley was the GM. But if you look at the 2017 Draft - the way in which it was handled, the type of players selected, and how quickly Whaley was let go after the Draft - it's pretty clear it was at most, just Whaley's board with McDermott selecting the guys he wanted.
Lol. Even if true, "The board" is where all the work is. McDermott was hired 3 months before the draft as a first time head coach. He had no idea who Dion Dawkins was until he saw Whaley's board.
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43 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
And the way he speaks and his outlook on life is tremendous which I put to Doug Whaley in drafting him
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I think whoever has the ball last wins.
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Bill knew the odds. If he came to that conclusion every time he'd be right a hell of a lot more than he was wrong. In New England, Brady was the centerpiece of the team around which everything else revolved. In Tampa he was just the final piece of the puzzle - not unlike Stafford with the Rams. He did win one Super Bowl, then had a career season and then promptly looked like a shell of himself. It was worth it for Tampa. Would it have been for New England? I guess Kraft says yes, which is easy in hindsight.
I don't fault a coach for looking at an all time great player and deciding that he has more years behind him than in front. It was Bill's job to make sure the team is perpetually in a state to win, not just year by year.-
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2 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
Your evidence that he wasn't bad because he had 2.5 sacks?
Ed Oliver played 50% of snaps and had 9.5 sacks.
Let me guess....PFF is more accurate with Davis than they were with Oliver.
You know Oliver played well this year but you won't come out and say it because of the stupid statement below. Sticking to your guns.
nope.
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5 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
"A thing". Yes of course, you can find several million of them.
But to say someone is so bad they shouldn't be dressing? We can find that?
Let me see if I can find a talking head saying that Aaron Donald is so ineffective that he shouldn't be dressing. You think I can find it?
Probably yes. By the way, Davis had 2.5 sacks while only playing 45% of snaps. based on that alone, I'm guessing there's more than a tad of hyperbole coming from your boy.
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Just now, Royale with Cheese said:
Baldinger says he shouldn't be dressing. So yes, it's completely the exact opposite of what PFF's assessment is. Baldinger is saying he's useless, PFF says he's doing well.
If you want to find a talking head saying a thing about any player, you can absolutely find it.
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33 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
When it's that big of a discrepancy, its legitimacy can be questioned.
It's great that you defend PFF player grades but have no idea how they grade them.
So when you have something as bizarre as Ed Oliver being graded as average, I think actually rated him below average and Jordan Davis performing well....I think it's pure BS.
In your opinion, outside of PFF, has Ed Oliver been below average this year in his play?
Is Brian Baldinger completely off his rocker with his assessment of Jordan Davis's play?
I don't have a professional assessment of Ed Oliver. I know he's made some great plays, but I haven't broken down his tape and looked every one of his plays to build an aggregate score. While he has made great plays, i do know he hasn't looked like prime Aaron Donald or JJ Watt. Not that that means anything.
As for Brian Baldinger's assessment. It's one guy with a super subjective opinion. Not sure if he's completely off in his assessment, because he doesn't really say that much that takes away from PFFs assesment. He can be a limited factor in pass rush due to his weight and still perform well on his assignments without performing to potential or desired impact. -
11 minutes ago, Stroke 17 said:
I try so hard not to listen or care what outsiders say about the Bills but this week has been hard for me to ignore the idiots and excuse makers as to why the Bills were able to beat the Steelers.
One narrative is, the Bills were supposed to beat Pitts because they had injuries to their best player. Correct me if I'm wrong but the Bills also are dealing with injuries. The Steelers would not have even been in the playoffs if they hadn't squeaked out a win against the 3rd stringers that the Ravens fielded the week before.
Mike Tomlin is a great coach. Is he really, So what if wins during the regular season, he's a loser in the post season of late. He so smart he made the decision to go with Mason Rudolph! well if he's so smart why did it take him 14 games on inept offense with Trubisky and Pickett before making the change to the guy who had been on the team for the last 5 years or so.
Pitts got a break because they cancelled the game because of the pitts run game not being as good as the Bills. AHHH not so much.
They say, Josh Allen is a turn over machine he will cost the Bills. He definitely has his share of picks but the dude is a player. I ain't getting rid of him for any other QB in the league.
I don't know if the Bills are going to the Super Bowl let alone win it but I know at 6-6 they were written off as underachievers. I thought it was close to over at 6-6 and I am the most optimistic Bills fan to ever live, they proved me wrong, shame on me.
See you all on Sunday, rain, snow, cold, wind Tay or no Tay. I so want this game, please be loud and proud!
They're killin me Whitey, They're killin me! GO BILLS
Who was saying the bills were losing to the steelers? The Bills were 10 point favorites.
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1 hour ago, hondo in seattle said:
So, wait... You're saying your smarter than us PFF critics because we don't understand "the intrinsic nature of player evaluation" but you do? I'm not sure why you're taking low shots at the intelligence of fellow mafioso, but I disagree.
Most of us don't like the notion that you can reduce a player to a set of numbers. Let me give another example. Maybe Diggs is playing with broken ribs. The injury will lower his grade. But it won't lower the way a coach evaluates him as a player. PFF lacks context. Their graders don't know what the position coaches have been telling the player, the playcall, the assignment, the assignment of the guy next to the graded player which may effect his decision-making, his injury status, and so on.
Additionally, how PFF grades each play and how they weigh (or don't weigh) different things is ultimately subjective. Let's talk about weighting for a moment. Let's say the Bills call a run to the right. Shakir is lined up on the left and completely muffs his block. So PFF gives him a -2 grade, even though it didn't impact the run. The next play Shakir makes a tremendous one-handed grab and dances through the defense for a dazzling 63-yard TD that wins the game with just seconds left. PFF grades him a +2, their highest grade. Shakir's PFF average for those two plays is ZERO. But a coach would call him the hero of the game. Weighting matters.
The idea that you can entirely remove subjectivity from football evaluation is absurd. Maybe PFF knows this, maybe not. I don't care. What I know is that their attempt to reduce players to a metric is flawed. And while many of their grades seem accurate, some clearly are not.
I don't hate PFF for trying. In fact, when the Bills acquire a FA, one of the first things I do is look at his PFF grade for a ballpark estimate of his value. But if I wanted a better evaluation, I'd talk to a coach.
PFF accounts for weighting, and they would never give Shakir a -2 for just a missed block. If you look at their rubric, those numbers are reserved for explosive big plays. That said, you're absolutely right that it doesn't account for a player that's a big outlier. Let's say you have a QB that throws 2 passes in the dirt or out of the stadium and then throws a hail mary TD. He proceeds to do this every drive of his career. He'd be the all-time greatest QB ever, but he'd likely have a worse score than a guy that dinks and dunks it down the field and only occasionally scores. Now of course in reality things aren't that extreme, so if you have a guy that plays mostly solid, but has huge screwups you probably end up with a higher score than you'd think or vice-versa.
That doesn't make the system or analysis flawed. Every system has limitations. The flaw is using it to ascribe value that was never intended. You need to be real with what the data tells you and what it doesn't. It should be one piece of the puzzle. More often than not data should make you ask questions, not tell you answers. It's a very common mistake. Even c-level executives do it in fortune 500 companies - even when we tell them not to.3 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:Just because you explained it, doesn't mean it made sense.
This is straight from PFF. Their "metrics" states that Jordan Davis performed very well in his role.
And it grades Ed Oliver as average.
Explain this.
"PLAYER RANKINGS
The grades allow for easy player comparisons, whether using an overall grade or a facet grade. While we believe the grade is an excellent baseline for how well a player performed his given role, we also believe the using the entire context is crucial when evaluating players. Perhaps a slot receiver had to play more than expected on the outside or a nose tackle was forced to play more three-technique than his coaching staff initially desired. Both players are being evaluated based on what they did, and that context is important when using the grades. PFF+ allows users to sort by player grades, but they can also see the simple and advanced stats that tell the story for each player."
Man, all you had to do was read one more sentence.
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23 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
LOL then this entire thing doesn't make any sense then.
Within their grading system, he has the 10th highest score? Is it not based on performance or something lol.
How is he scoring so high on PFF when he's doing nothing on the field? Is no effort and walking on the field a metric they score favorably or something?
https://www.themirror.com/sport/american-football/philadelphia-eagles-bench-draft-pick-267699
"Davis in particular has come under scrutiny as former NFL offensive lineman Brian Baldinger delivered a brutal assessment of the physical condition he believes the 23-year-old is in.
“It is clear that [he] is out of shape,” the 64-year-old PHLY Eagles podcast. "I gotta believe they fine him every week. He’s overweight, and it shows. He’s not pursuing the ball, he’s nothing in the pass rush. So if he’s going to play with the effort and be overweight like that, then you think that they’re a man short in rotation.
“He’s not effective right now, they need another guy inside in their defensive tackle rotation. I’m not sure why he keeps dressing, he's ineffective. When plays are going on, he’s basically walking on the field, it’s bad effort.”
I already explained this to you, you just didn't want to hear it. It's clear you'd rather just make something up to believe.
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Huh? Dude had a massive year despite routinely getting benched for Von Miller and is likely about to make stupid money.