Rochesterfan

His job is to win games and get the team ready for the upcoming game. It is not clear that other teams give the number 2 any significant reps - as a matter of fact - I keep hearing more from people saying Jay is the norm - especially with the new CBA. The back-up players seem to typically get about 5% of the snaps or probably 10-15 during the week. How many Reps do you think JA got prior to that first game last year. It was part of the reason many people wanted him starting. The starters get 95% of the reps to get prepared. How many reps do teams get to take during a week - you are limited to a couple of hours of practice during the week and limited days and you are spending time installing plays for the week and teaching the starters what to expect. He would be remiss to basically stop getting the team ready for a game - so that he can give a back-up QB a few more reps when he is not playing. Even then if he moved it to 50% - it is still very limited reps overall especially later in the season as they spend more time mentally preparing. Your GM drafts a QB, but does not suddenly mean the HC has a pass to not try and win. Jay is going to be gone anyway - so he has to focus on the team as it is now. Once they are eliminated they can look to get Haskins ready.

The difficulty is that it is nearly impossible to show 8 individual games in a weekend. The 4 games currently played allow you to show 2 individual games Saturday and 2 individual games on Sunday. With 8 games - you are forced to double up and therefore you split viewership for at least 1 game on each day. Drop 1 team from your idea and have 7 on each side with the top seed getting a bye and you have 6 games on wild card weekend 3 on Sat and 3 on Sunday and that works. I also have no issue with adding a 17th game - especially if they do some neutral fields/large college stadium set-ups or some outside the US.

Chris mentions this because it is not true - he spent his first year in the league with Old school Mike Shanahan and it was the same set-up then. Even Tasker mentioned it on OBL both on the teams he played on and the ones he watched as a broadcaster. Almost exclusively the vast majority of the reps go to the starter - they have to get him ready for the game plan. The back-ups get mostly mental reps or some scout team work because they are not given enough practice time under the CBA to develop both. This would be especially true in a place like Washington where the back-up In Haskins and the starter Keenum are 2 very different stylistic players and therefore if you are starting Haskins you probably need a totally different game plan. The limits in place by the CBA on practice and the need for coaches to win drive the issue with QB development. It was talked about significantly last year with Josh Allen. The team tried to give him as many reps in the preseason as possible because once the season starts the starter gets 90-95% of the limited reps - so it becomes a mental learning game rather than physical.

I don’t think they are basing it on one game. Similar to Fisher in STL/LA - Gruden wants the rookie to have as much time as possible and the owner wants to play him to have a shot at winning. Gruden is dead man walking and now it just comes down to how long before they pull the trigger. Much like LA - this will end with the coach being fired and the QB never looking ready this season - then we will see what offensive juggernaut Snyder tries to lure into his web to get the play he is looking for.

Steve Tasker was talking about this today on OBL - said basically on the teams he was on the starters got almost all of the snaps in the primary offense and the back-ups got almost no snaps and had to run the scout team and it has become more common with less practice time. The back-ups are expected to listen and pay attention in case they are needed for emergency work, but they should get very little work in the offense unless they are needed. It is a huge mental preparation time for back-up QBs.

So Jay Gruden is doing what every other coach does - Back-up QBs run the scout team and starters run the offense due to limited training time. It sure seems like it was leaked by someone with no knowledge of how an NFL team prepares. When they decide it is time to start Haskins then they will do everything to try and get him ready at that time. Anything prior to that takes away from game planning for the rest of the team. That team is a mess!!!

Yes it currently counts and will continue to count until the arbitration is over. If Brown wins the money stays on the books. If the Pats win they get credited for the money on the next cap. The most likely time frame will not see final resolution until sometime mid to late 2020. They could also come to an agreement and settle the case.

I want anything that will begin to remove Tom Brady from the record books. Give me a 30 game season as soon as he retires and remove the stain of him from the NFL Add 5 playoff games to get him out of the post season also.

Chris Brown mentioned this on OBL today and also said that you could see a week to week look ahead of Taylor and Peko with them playing one week and back on the practice squad later as they fill specific needs based on teams they are playing. That would make sense as soon as they are sure Taylor know enough to be able to handle himself in the system.

Hard to know for sure. I think Taylor is more like what they want out of Star as a run stuffer. I think Peko is more like Harry - can play the 1 against the run, but has a bit more QB rush in him. I think for this week and next - I would of preferred Taylor, but I get using Peko. I trust the team on this.

That makes sense - what I find interesting is the releasing of Curtis Akins - wasn’t that the LB that was with Cincinnati and basically brought in just that week and then released. Maybe he didn’t fit, but maybe we got some info from him. Hall was signed back to the PS and I think we still have an opening. Very Curious!

That is fine if you ignore the fact that in that game the Bills had already tried to move within 2 minutes and a major adjustment by the Giants had caused issues with the Bills previous drive and that almost cost the Bills points to let the Giants back into the game minus an amazing defensive effort. After the failed drive and with longer to go and getting the ball after the half - McDermott made a strategic decision to allow his offense to regroup rather than risk letting the Giants back in. You saw the potential consequences at the end of the half against Cincinnati when Josh fumbled and a lucky break occurred with the ball/player being ruled out of bounds. We missed a long field goal, but that easily could have been Cincinnati ball on the Buffalo side of the field - completely altering the game and momentum. Sometimes it is ok to kneel down and take a big lead into the half - just as sometimes it is ok to punt. It may be a bigger win to not score and hold your momentum rather than risk a turn over and giving the other team life.

It certainly could be both, but the point is - this was not something that just started - this started last year as Josh showed what he could do. Even with limited talent last year - he started making more choices to go for it and was more successful.

The conversion also had an impact on the Bills drive. It made the Cincy lead only 3 points - so the Bills could be more aggressive on their drive once they got into FG range. If they had not gotten the 2pts and needed the TD because they were down by 4 - it makes the Bills drive much harder and even if they score - it makes the Cincy drive afterwards easier because of the score. Of course what we will never know is the impact on the rest of the game - tons of other choices may have been different.

If they go for 2 pts - the penalty was 1/2 the difference from the 2.

Kroft is already on the roster - we do not need a spot for him. I don’t think they can get rid of an Olineman right now with Feliciano hurt and Ty getting banged up weekly. You need the Oline depth and you should be ok activating either of the guys on the Dline to fill in for Harry.

Is he learning or does he actually have more horses on offense now so going for plays have a higher percentage of working? For people that think he is conservative or a mini Jauron- just look at last year later in the season as Josh progressed and the Bills went for more 4th and shorts with his athleticism. McDermott is a good coach and he has a pulse on the team and makes decisions based on team and situation and he has a pretty good feel - even if not everyone agrees.

Then with all the itching of the Bengals coach and the McDermott patting - you get this: What a way to shake hands - hope they don’t do it in the shower - might get awkward. ?

Just to add to his takedown of the Ryan brothers ???????????

The Jet sweeps were the direct result of the Bengals weakness. They struggled mightily to have edge contain and maybe you remember their ILB - Preston Brown - when he was always to slow to the outside rush game. To me this is a great sign from Daboll- he recognized the Bengals weakness and put together a plan to attack it even without their best stretch RB in Motor. Against the Giants - they struggled against Play Action - he attacked with a bunch of Play Action after using Zero against the Jets. The Jets weakness was the CBs and they attacked the Jets with a ton of passing to the edges early. I do not care what anyone says about the offense - I think Daboll and that staff have done a great job of recognizing weakness and exploiting it and therefore teams cannot just expect a singular offensive focus. It also means that we are running different plays week to week which is why some of the execution falters, but they will get better as the year goes on. Preston Brown talked about multiple times that things they saw on film in weeks 1 and 2 ended up being misdirection in this game and it took a while to adjust. Hence the ability to move early and then teams adjust during the half and Daboll adjusts again in the 4th.

I didn’t think it was a punch - looked like a forearm shove, but yeah hit him right in the throat and the guy stayed down. Then comes back back in to get destroyed by Knox. Should of just stayed in the blue tent.

That would be my guess - he was brought in to be a steady veteran that McDermott wants in every position group. It seems that whatever he is brining the young DLine seems to like and they are all playing better. They can cut him next next year or keep him as a veteran back-up depending on what Vincent Taylor or whoever else they use to fill in goes. His playing time has dwindled as these guys show more and more. People should be happy with that.

Stinks that the injury occurred on Ezra’s day with his family around. Harrison really seemed to take to that cause and the family. Very Sad!

Saw that with my wife - we were dying and the kids are like what happened. It was just a weird day overall.

So maybe that means the Bills will be ready for a tough game and NE which has coasted - won’t be as ready. The game will come - let it play out and start the thread next week. Starting it it this week after another victory is just crazy to me unless you are trolling. You seem to keep coming in and doubling down on your take so have at it - the game will be played whether or not you have already put it in the loss column.