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Not necessarily. As I've said before, lots of kids who play OT in college end up playing OG in the pros. If Ford is a better pro OG than he is a pro OT -- and physically that seems likely to be the case -- then he should be playing OG and they need to find somebody else to play RT. It's the old trying to fit a square peg into a round hole thing.
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Bleacher Report predicts Funchess to Bills
SoTier replied to BillsMafi$'s topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Actually, the Bills need more elite playmakers AND they need better subs at the skills positions on the offensive side. The Bills have a decent QB, 2 decent WRs, and 1 decent RB. They have a promising rookie TE. Duke Johnson should not be the WR3. Frank Gore and TJ Yeldon need to be gone next season. The Bills need to be active in FA to bring in better offensive skills players for 2020 -- as well as upgrading the OL. And a big absolute 'NO!' to Funchess. He's not as good as Johnson. -
Adored Browns mascot Swagger passes away at 6
SoTier replied to HOUSE's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Horses, like dogs, have long been domesticated -- more than 5000 years -- and hawks have been used for hunting for more than 3000 years. Taima the Seahawk is an Augur hawk and was hatched at the World Bird Sanctuary in St Louis MO. His handler has 30 years experience as a falconer. He has a business that uses birds of prey to control bird, rodent, and rabbit populations in the western states. The raven mascot for the Ravens come from the Maryland Zoo. They are African ravens that are more amenable to handling than the common ravens that are indigenous to western Maryland. At one time I think that the Bengals had a live tiger mascot but that was quite a while ago. -
Since Ford seems to be a better fit physically as an NFL guard than as a RT, I'd prefer the Bills move him to RG and add another RT. It's pretty common for collegiate OTs to be moved to OG in the pros because the NFL game is much more specialized. A great/good OG is much more effective than a mediocre OT.
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McShay - Bills pass on WR and take RB Swift in 1st.
SoTier replied to PIZ's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I think that it depends upon what happens in FA and in the draft. They need another solid veteran WR next year, so going after one in FA makes sense. Since this is a deep WR draft, there should be very good prospects available in Round 2 although they might be a season or a season and a half to develop. It's also possible that the WR that the Bills really like is gone by #22. I don't want to see them trade up to take a WR because they are going to have to start to pay some of their own homegrown players if they are serious about becoming an NFL power, so they need to replenish their roster with youngsters on rookie contracts. Having one good RB isn't enough for a playoff contending team. The Bills offense suffered in 2019, especially later in the year, because neither Gore nor Yeldon were good enough. Except for a great OL, a good/great running game is a QB's best friend. If Swift is a better prospect at RB than any of the available WRs are prospects at WR, then they should go with Swift. Don't sacrifice playmaking talent for need, especially in the first round. The Bills need playmakers on both sides of the ball. -
I think I misstated the segment's premise. I think it was actually about the fan bases that were most deserving of a Super Bowl. During it, they listed the teams that had never been to the Super Bowl and those that had never won the Super Bowl but I don't think that they were only limiting it to teams that hadn't won the Lombardi.
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He picked the Lions. Kyle Brandt picked the Vikings -- he called them "they were the Bills before the Bills" in regards to having lost 4 Super Bowls in 7 years. Pete Schrager picked the Jets.
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For those of you who missed it, the Bills got a double shot of love on GMFB this morn ing. In a segment on teams that hadn't won a Super Bowl and which fan bases were most deserving of a Lombardi, Kay Adams went with the Bills and Bills Mafia. The other teams were the Vikings, Lions, and Jets. The GMFB crew also voted on their "Angry Run of the Year" from their weekly Angry Runs segment. Dawson Knox won for his Week 3 catch, winning over Mark Ingram, George Kittle, and Shy Tuttle.
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Andy Reid just punched his ticket to Canton
SoTier replied to Big Turk's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
At least the Bears took a QB in the first round. The Bills needed a QB but they passed on Mahomes to take Nathan Peterman. -
Who Is Your Least Favorite Bill of All Time ... and Why?
SoTier replied to Gugny's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
IIRC, there was a near mutiny among the Bills vets due to Bullough's methods, but I don't remember the details. -
Who Is Your Least Favorite Bill of All Time ... and Why?
SoTier replied to Gugny's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
My least favorite Bill of all time is Russ Brandon. I'll excuse Wilson for hiring him because Wilson was an old guy who couldn't adapt to modern NFL, and probably believed that Brandon's bill of goods was viable. Since Brandon also convinced the much younger and competent Terry Pegula to not only keep him on but promote him, speaks to exactly how persuasive Brandon was. Until he was fired for lying to the Pegulas about his sexual harassing of a Sabres employee, he gave Bills fans 12+ years of misery -- and his influence may still permeate the Bills organization. Brandon controlled the Bills from 2006 through 2018. During the 12 full years that Brandon "reigned", the Bills had 2 winning seasons -- 2014 and 2017. They made the playoffs once in 2017. They won 83 games over 12 seasons -- an average of less than 7 games a season. Brandon hired my most hated Bills HC of all time, Dick Jauron. Brandon blatantly manipulated the fan base with big $$$ FA signings that masked the reality that the teams he and his minions were filled with bottom feeder players. Bringing in Terrell Owens in 2009 was the most egregious example. I think the Bills sold 55k+ season tickets because of that signing. My biggest concern about Beane as the Bills GM is that since he was hired when Brandon controlled the Bills that he shares Brandon's "money ball" philosophy. Hopefully, winning football games rather than making more profits means more to Pegula and Beane than it did to Wilson and Brandon. -
Gregg Rosenthal says "Make Josh Allen's life easier"
SoTier replied to HerdMenatlity1's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
This. I think that what Beane does this off season will tell us whether the Bills are building a Super Bowl contender or one just "good enough" to make the playoffs more often than once every two decades. -
Gregg Rosenthal says "Make Josh Allen's life easier"
SoTier replied to HerdMenatlity1's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I disagree. McDermott and Beane -- and Beane's predecessors, Brandon and Whaley -- gutted the team of offensive talent between 2017 and 2019. They got rid of starting caliber players -- Robert Woods, Marquise Goodwin, Sammy Watkins, Richie Incognito, Cordy Glenn, and LeSean McCoy -- and replaced them with JAGs and non-NFL caliber players. That's not "focusing" on the offense, it's simply swapping out good players with cheaper ones to save $$$. The Bills drafted Allen and then literally threw him to the wolves without a competent QB coach, an NFL caliber OL and receiving corps. Again, that's not "focusing" on the offense; it's simply placating the fan base by giving them false hope in the person of one player. McDermott and Beane only started to address the mess they'd created on offense in 2019 with the addition of some OLers and receivers, but in a modest way. The 2019 OL, WRs, and RBs were not nearly as good as those units that McDermott inherited when he became HC. At the very least, the Bills need at least 2 more starting quality receivers, another quality RB, and additional upgrading of the OL for 2020. That's a major investment, and it's necessary because of previous failure to really focus on the offense. Fans who think that the Bills offense is "good enough" are deluding themselves. -
I'm much more optimistic about Allen's chances of becoming an elite QB than I was before 2019. If he can again make significant strides in the off season and throughout next season, he'll be an excellent QB. This past season, there were limits to what the Bills could do on offense because they didn't have enough good weapons on offense, and that may have held Allen back. One of the keys to Mahomes' success has been the quality of the weapons available to him -- and how many he has. On another team, Mahomes would still shine, but probably not nearly as brightly. I want to see the Bills give Allen the opportunity to shine as brightly as he can by giving him more and better targets supported by a running game that's more than Singletary and a has been and a never was ... an upgrade on the OL wouldn't hurt, either. If the Bills don't support Allen well enough next year to let him demonstrate just how much ability he really has, how can they honestly evaluate him, good or bad, when it's time to move beyond his rookie contract? They need to figure out if they have a $10-15 million QB or a $30-35 million QB, and next season would be the best year to do it.
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If this draft is as deep in WRs as the draftniks claim, then this is the way to go. A vet like Green would give Allen an instant target and give time for the rookies to develop. IMO, a history of concussions or chronic knee issues would be bigger detriments to signing a player than having an ankle injury.
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That "nonsense" is going to be around until Mahomes retires unless Josh Allen becomes an elite QB himself. Deal with it.
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Chargers moving on from Philip Rivers after 16 years
SoTier replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I don't think I could vote for Rivers myself, but I think he may eventually make the HOF. He certainly isn't a first ballot guy. Many fans forget how talented those Chargers teams were early on in Rivers' career. They had monster defenses led by Junior Seau and Shawn Merriman and prolific offenses. They would win 12, 13, 14 games in the regular season but fizzle in the playoffs. Later in Rivers' career, the Chargers weren't nearly as talented but it seemed whenever they put together a playoff contender, Rivers' poor play left them either outside looking in or one and done. In his career, Rivers has only led his team to 2 playoff wins. Rivers is the anti-Eli. A lot of critics diss Eli in HOF discussions because his stats aren't outstanding compared to other QBs of his generation, but Eli helped his team win games more often than he caused them to lose them even when those Giants teams weren't all that talented. When he had some good talent, though, Eli came through. The name of the game in the NFL is winning, and when Eli had the opportunity, he took his team to two Super Bowl wins. In fact, Eli has as many Super Bowl wins as Rivers has playoff wins. -
Chargers moving on from Philip Rivers after 16 years
SoTier replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Rivers has always thrown too many picks at inopportune times in games. He is what he's always been, a very unclutch QB who plays small in big games going back to early in his career when the Chargers were loaded with talent. -
In 2018, the Bills QB coach was David Culley who's experience coaching QBs consisted of 1 year at a small college program back in the 1980s. He had other coaching experience but wasn't specifically a QB coach. Since position coaches are charged with teaching/improving players' techniques, and Allen certainly needed help with his passing mechanics, the Bills should have brought in an experienced position coach for QBs, even if that meant reorganizing the offensive coaching staff. With an adequate QB coach, Ken Dorsey, Allen made spectacular progress in 2019. I think that he could have made even more progress if he'd had better coaching in his rookie season.
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Matthew Stafford and Phillip Rivers say "hi." Moreover, prior to the emergence of Mahomes, the Chiefs were a perennial contender with Alex Smith at QB, and the Vikings have been a regular playoff team without having that great QB. It's not so simple as acquiring a QB; the team has to provide that QB with protection, weapons, and a defense, too. Even the GOAT Brady couldn't get the Pats to the Super Bowl by himself. Great post, and dead on. The biggest issue I have with Beane and McDermott is that they haven't demonstrated much urgency in giving Allen the support he needs to prove himself, starting with their failure to hire a bonafide QB coach last season to help Allen improve his game.
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Why not? The Chiefs have had 7 straight winning seasons. They made the playoffs in 6 of those 7 seasons, and have won the AFC West the last 4 years. Last season they just missed going to the Super Bowl against the eventual SB champion Patriots, and this year they punched their ticket to the Big Show emphatically. Moreover, the Patriots have built a dynasty of 20 years duration without being great at drafting well in the first round. Over the years, so many of the players who help create that dynasty either weren't drafted in the first round or were some other team's first rounder ... Brady, Gronkowski, Edelmann, Welker, Seymour, Moss, Gilmore, etc. Sour grapes much?
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I think that Eli will make the HOF, possibly even on the first ballot, because he came up big when it counted most. Winning big games and making clutch plays in big games counts more than stats. Eli came up big repeatedly in the Giants two Super Bowl runs. In 2007, he literally carried the Giants' offense, throwing for almost 5000 yards, one of the few wild card teams to win a Super Bowl. In both Super Bowl runs, the Giants won the NFC Conference Championship in OT. In both his Super Bowls, Eli made key passes to lead his team to the Lombardi.
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Off-season: Expected and Surprise Cuts
SoTier replied to ngbills's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Totally agree. The biggest reason for the Bills failures during the first 16 years of the 21st century was because they did not keep the good young players they developed. It significantly impacted the draft because they too frequently used their first and second round draft picks to fill the holes they created by either trading/not re-signing their best young veterans. For myself, I'd like to see the Bills add a quality WR in FA because they need one immediately -- they still need to determine if Allen truly is a franchise QB, and giving him better targets is the best way to do that -- and the draft is always risky. After that, I think that they'd probably do much better upgrading the middle and bottom of the roster with FAs rather than sinking most of their cap space into a couple of big names. -
Off-season: Expected and Surprise Cuts
SoTier replied to ngbills's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
You are missing the point that Rc2catch and I are advocating that the Bills shouldn't get rid of Kroft just to clear cap space and/or current salary without having somebody better already signed. Teams have to be at/under the cap when the season starts, not during preseason. The Bills have plenty of cap space and don't seem to be likely to pursue many high priced FAs. I think that they may give out 1 expensive contract to 1 key player with the rest of their signings being much more modest just as in 2019. Targeting a particular FA doesn't mean that a team lands that player. Just because a rookie played well in his first season doesn't mean that he will continue to improve. Many good looking rookies disappear after their initial season. Moreover, if the Bills really "believe in Knox", then why pursue another, much more expensive, TE in FA? It might be wiser for the Bills to go with Knox and Kroft and look to upgrade other positions where they have a real need like WR and RB.