Mat68
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OL - I believe the scheme switch will have an impact.
WR
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Offensive coaching
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Are we talking on paper week 1 last year or what was on the feild all year? I think Wr is much improved depth wise. Watkins is good but was ineffective much the year.
Agreed.
I think we're going to struggle to score 20 points per game. It's going to be a throwback to when we used to have Dick Jauron as HC.
The Jets, Jaguars, Rams, 49ers, Bears are some I can think of that will be much worst. Buffalo will run the ball well. Jones and Matthews is better than Woods and Goodwin. Buffalo will finish the year better than last year. Will it result into the playoffs? I dont think so but they will have a shot.
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I like Zay. He needs to work more on body control and keeping feet in bounds to take it to the next level
He made the tougher of the two catches. He was literally millimeters from a touchdown on the second 1.
Yes, PS.
Hope we don't have to use more than one of those high picks next year on wide outs. What's the free agent crop look like?
Fairly bleek. The wrs in Watkins class all had the 5th year options picked up.
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Maybe it is just because I grew up with them but for me the red helments with current jerseys would be fire. Blue would make sense if we went white more often.
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The Bills make the playoffs. Pretty much nothing woukd surprise me outside of that.
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There are too many good football players to completley tank. The defense will be much better than many think. The run game is still incredibly good with Mccoy. I think Jones and Matthews will be able to make plays. I do not see Buffalo being flashy but they will definetly be competive and most likley better than last year.
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He comes across as a big Dbag. Though I think he is actually a good football coach. Interested to see how much say he has in Jacksonville. If its his call Henne is Qb week 1.
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He seems like a guy Mcdermott would like. Well spoken and well liked. Seems like he will be on feild sooner rather than later. If he has a productive year Buffalo will resign him.
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The loss of boldin and the injury to Streeter and matthews give the best chance to brown. He is fast enough to play outside but imo will take over the slot. Reily, Lewis, and shorts all have a shot. Streeter seemed like a lock now probably IR and waived. The last 2 games will decide the last spot.
If Streater is healthy before week 1 imo the wr will be:
1. Jones
2. Matthews
3. Brown
4. Streater
5. Tate
6. Rielly
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After watching the game film and seeing himself labor down the field had to be eye opening. He is not better than any of the top 4 wrs on the roster. He most likley came to that conclusion saturday in practice when he did nothing but take reps inside.
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The McCoy rumors are not from insiders. This is just people throwing ideas out there. They are assuming that Buffalo is trading the farm becuase they traded an oft injured Wr in the last year of his deal. Imo Getting Matthews and Gaines limited the loss of both players. They got draft capital and did not take a big step back this year. Boldin retiring to me was just the realization he is not a starting caliber wr in the NFL anymore. Buffalo is not deep at wr and he is nothkng more than a slot guy. His pride told him to hang it up after watching the game film.
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Cam Newton is why Jones and Manuel were drafted. That is why the draft is a crapshoot.Good post, thanks.
Pro system isn't the first thing I look for. Trubisky played in a spread but he's deadly accurate and reads the whole field. He was easily the best prospect in the draft. As opposed to someone like Mahomes who not only played in a spread system but also needs to revamp his mechanics.
But I think the bigger cliche than "pro system QB" is "drafting QBs is a crapshoot." I don't think that's true. You can at least whittle down the available prospects. It's easy. You avoid prospects whose scouting profiles read like this:
Those are EJ Manuel's and Paxton Lynch's draft profiles. Cardale Jones is the epitome of this type of QB and I'm struggling to think of a time when one has worked out. This year it's Deshone Kizer. Everyone likes him based on one preseason game but his mechanics and spotty accuracy will catch up to him. Pat Mahomes is a weird one because he has a big arm and he's even generally accurate but his mechanics are a mess, and he's not as accurate on the deep ball as his tape would have you believe. He's one of the few "strong, big arm" QBs I could see actually making it but he's more likely to become Jay Cutler than Brett Favre IMO.
And I don't agree when people say "1st round QBs are more likely to succeed." In recent years that hasn't really been true, because GMs keep taking the same crap prospects with "big arms" or guys that win the national championship as if that even remotely matters.
The success rate seems to still be about 50% for the top 2 picks, and everything else in the 1st round is well below 50%. I remember looking into this, and I found Derek Carr was the only QB taken between pick 3 and 35 that has any sort of success, since Aaron Rodgers was drafted in 2005. But these QBs keep getting taken. How can someone say it's a crapshoot when the statistics are right there? Don't waste mid-1st round picks on strong arms or "proven winners." Find decent accuracy and decent mechanics, that's the pool of QBs you should draft from. That's where the real crapshoot is, it's near impossible to tell which QBs from that pool will rise to the top. But you can literally just read draft profiles of some QBs and know they're not going to make it.
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Yes, yes we are.
"Can't miss players" don't exist. We traded too much to take Sammy, and for what? Where did it get us? Yes, I blame Whaley for that. And that trade is a huge stain on Whaley's already mediocre resume.
If Ej was a franchise QB it would have bern the right move. Whaley tried to get over the hump. Best shot was with Marrone than he over played his hand and lost.
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Week 10 is the deadline, not week 1.
Injuries happen. Its doubtful to me that he makes the 53 but isnt on the roster week 10. Only way he gets hurt and they do an injury settlement.
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Sammy Watkins didnt win the Buffalo Bills football games in 3 years. The offensive production was not much different with or without him. Imo Zay has potential to become a number 1. Matthews will be another productive reciever for Buf. The Bills playoffs hopes and chances are about the same they were in June. Alot of things would need to go right to get in.
Looking at the Bills roster objectively you see that the best football players on the team around or over 30. They are pretty old my NFL standards. There is one possible elite player in Daures. If he is not you are married to for 3 more years. And lastly there is no franchise qb or elite talent at QB. Buffalo going forward needed to ability to add young talent. Whether it be a qb or skill players.
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If streater and Matthews are not healthy soon Holmes will be forced to stay.
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Yes. Very much so. He will be a very relible target over the middle from the slot. He is not suited to play outside anymore. Thursday showed that. He is a great downfeild blocker and will help the passing game. He isnt going to light the world on fire for us but he will get 3 to 5 catches a game and make some clutch plays and contested catches.
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I remember in 2012 there was a lot of high expectations for the team but it became one of the most forgettable seasons in recent memory. I myself was pretty optimistic that year. Similarities I already see:
-The Bills were 0-4 in 2012 in the pre-season so far were 0-2. I know it's pre-season but I remember saying it that year as well.
-In the QB spot Fitz looked shaky that whole pre-season just like Tyrod does now
-Back in 2012 I remember somewhere in Buffalo they were at the time burning all things that reminded us of the years 1999-2012 such as Drew Bledsoe and Lynch jerseys. In the same way this year feels like were cleansing ourselves from Rex & Marrone.
-In 2012 the first game was against the Jets. In 2017 the first game is against the Jets as well. The outcome was ugly in 2012 and I still consider it one of the worst games of the drought.
Look I really really hope I'm wrong and everyone can get some good laughs at my expense at the end of the year. But based on the pre-season that year I'm not feeling too good.
This team has much more talent on the roster than that team had. Imo.
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I hate all that 2-3 years talk. In two to three years will have to likely replace for age or contract reasons, Dareus, Hughes, Kyle, Shady, Cordy, Wood, Richie, Clay and still upgrade several other positions. Then again a real franchise quarterback might be able to offset some of that.
This is why Buffalo needed the 6 picks in the first 3 rds. The best players on this team are on their second or third contracts. That nucleous of players have not accounted for any degree of sustained success.
If Matthews can get on the feild soon I feel Buffalo is improved on all phases of the game compared to last year. You can argue that last years team was more talented but where wildly inconsistent.
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I think they have more faith in Ragland than many believe. They are not putting much on him while he comes back from his knee. By mid season i think he starts pushing brown for the mike.
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I think both gains and hodges get in the starting line up sooner rather than later. Hodges will take over for Humber at the will and nickelbacker. Gaines is going to start opposite White.
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Im intrested to see how Taylor response. Seems like the only wr hes had any chemistry with was Watkins. Zay looks like he can play. Taylor needs to build trust and chemistry with him quickly. At this point no clue what kind of impact Matthews can provide. The passing offense is nothing more than a work in progress.
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Inside Boldin will be fine. I doubt you see boldin line up outside maybe once a game come regular season.
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Taylor had a bad game. Doesnt seem to have any real chemistry with any pass catcher. Him and Zay need to get together. Matthews adds another dimension that we havent seen yet. Preseason game 3 is usually the best berometer of where the team is at. A little gameplaning and for the most simulating a regular season game for the better part of 3 quarters.
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Its preseason so I dont want to read too much into it but Dennison to my knowledge has never called a game. He has been offensive co ordinator multiple times but the head coach in to instances was the play caller.
WRs who makes it?
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The health of Streater and Matthews will impact Holmes. If they practice next week Holmes will be cut and and every signing needed to get to the comp 3rder.