BullBuchanan

NFL deals should absolutely be fully guaranteed. I hope they get it. To offset they should also reduce or eliminate the concept of dead cap.

Fair enough, and I admit I was wrong about that. I'm still not sure a 1 win difference is significant though. Both Rex and McD had identical records over their first two years.

He's maybe the best #4 in football, but as a #2 he's terrible. Sorry. He just isn't good enough.

I remember hearing Dareus say the playbook was too complicated, but I have a feeling he would have thought a coloring book was too complicated. It's definitely a reasonable hypothesis though. Still, Ryan averaged an 8-8 record while he was here and didn't have the benefit of a top 2 QB and a top 10 WR. McD ended our playoff drought with a 9-7 record while Ryan was only able to claim the first winning season in a decade with the same record. If Both Ryan and Whaley were allowed to stick around one more year and were able to select Mahomes instead of trading out of the pick when QB was a glaring need - I think Ryan's history would be written a lot differently.

And what?

Where is the amazing part? Rex Ryan was loved by his players too, and if had the benefit of the Bengals putting the Bills in the playoffs with his 9-7 record like McD did, maybe we'd probably be calling him a legend too - especially once he got Josh Allen. Don't get me wrong, Process McClappy is a nice guy but I'm not sure he's a very good coach, let alone a legend.

he's 31. He could easily play through a 4 year contract at peak performance. I don't get why people keep making a deal about his age when safety is often a good role for older players.

I'm not sure many people are making the argument we should replace Edmunds with Dodson. I would expect a former 1st round pick to be better than an undrafted depth journey and an overdrafted and undersized rookie. It doesn't mean that we don't need better production from the position. Milano had another monster day yesterday with Edmunds out of the lineup, but we didn't see the same from Edmunds when Milano was out.

Except when it mattered though, right? I seem to remember us giving up a game tying drive with 13 seconds on the clock and then allowing that same team to march down the field again for a touchdown to begin OT. Vanity metric like yards/points allowed don't tell the true story of a defense's performance. If you're a good overall defense but terrible situationally (like the Bills), you aren't a good defense.

Yea, no. The issue is that our situational flaws which have resulted in defensive meltdowns are now being exploited more often, like on practically every 3rd down. If you keep giving up 3rd and 20 and 4th and 18, you aren't going to keep defenses under 200 yards passing a large percentage of the time. Also, average is pretty meaningless when you take into account they had 3 games where opponents had 61 or less passing yards. Our schedule last year was a joke.

Is that the game where we played against Teddy Bridgewater and Tua's scrambled egg brain? It's not a recent issue at all. Fraziers defense's have been poor against big passing plays since he got here - especially on drive continuing plays like 3rd/4th and long, or game winning drives. We've fallen apart in these scenarios regardless of talent or roster health.

Murph learned under Miller and I think he takes a page out of the playbook without really capturing what made miller so great. He's got some of that old time boxer announcer in him but he doesn't have any of the pace or dynamics that made listening to a guy like miller or rick jeanneret feel like you were watching instead of listening. As an announcer he's mediocre, as a talk show host he's near unlistenable.

You Thank No.

Hodgins > Stevenson That said. I'm sure Daboll will pick him up.

I don't think either of those things are true. The chiefs get production from playmakers all the way down their roster. They have 3 RBs contributing, 3 TE's a boatload of WRs. They have 10 offensive players with a TD to our 7 - that's significant. They were also pretty banged up on D when they played us. As for higher ceiling, Mahomes ceiling is a Super Bowl MVP. He also performs at peak level FAR more often than Allen and has a higher floor that he hits far less often. If you're starting a team today with the goal of winning a SB, Mahomes is the clearly superior option, if less exciting.

#1 seed?

Not on that route. Look at the play. In order to hit Davis on target Josh need to throw at exactly when the video is at 0:03. He needs to float the ball over the LB but with enough velocity that it doesn't get picked by the safety int he middle of the field and low enough that Davis can make a play on it. It's a near impossible throw. I can't screenshot it because of the website size limitations, but the window is minuscule between #22 & #7 .

Not even a little bit, no.

do you think this is a Bills thing? what do you think film study is all about? this is literally what football is.

It's both a bad throw and a bad decision. Josh is trowing directly into the strength of what appears to be Cover 4. Could he make it? Sure, but this is a game about percentages and this defense is designed specifically to make this a low percentage throw. Against lesser QBs it would be practically impossible, but because Josh is Josh he says ***** you and throws it anyway. This time even he's not good enough to beat the stacked odds against him. Cover 4 opens up the underneath routes which he had in a wide open Singletary. This is not new behavior from Josh. He's done it his whole career and I posted a video from Brett Kollman about how the Dolphins figured him our last year, but just didn't have the talent to beat him. Now they do and apparently a lot of the league has the same playbook. If Josh doesn't adapt, this will keep happening. He can't fix it with better throws. He has to put his ego aside and take what the defense gives. It's then up to Dorsey to figure out ways to get Josh what he wants by countering the defense.

Taking the points seems like easy money. Yes.

that's a hard truth. They loaded up on the D and spent more money on the defensive line than anyone. Yea, they were down Rousseau, but they had Miller and two high #2 picks in Basham and Epenesa. If they chose to fill the reserve spots with 6th round draft picks, that's on them. Maybe they should have re-signed Wallace instead of letting him walk for basically nothing.

And what difference would veteran talent have made? We've had the exact same defensive meltdowns for years. On top of that - Are we going to sit here and act like Jefferson doesn't tear apart everyone? He's had the best start to a career in NFL history for a WR. Micah Hyde is done. Jordan Poyer might be done. Who knows if Tre White will ever come back again and what he'll look like if he does? Injuries are an excuse, and a bad one. It's the GM's job to fill the roster with NFL caliber players and it's the coach's job to get them ready to play. If you can't win football games because your players aren't good enough or aren't performing to their ceiling - that's not a player problem - it's a front office problem.

Well he used to be a a CB. Apparently he's a Safety now? To answer your question though - No, the bad player is not to blame for making a bad play. The person who put the bad player in the position to make the bad play is to blame. Coincidentally, he's also the person that put the good player in the position to make the bad play the last time this same exact thing happened, and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that, etc.