Richard Noggin

You might want to cite this articulate and helpful article; I'd especially like to know whose perspective this is I'm reading and mostly agreeing with. The author has a slightly less bullish outlook on the cap than the author of that Green Bay piece linked above somewhere, but his projection is nonetheless rosier than the coming roster purges of a salary cap bottoming out at a depth of $175 million. For the majority of us, typing or reading about fears of "austerity" due to abysmal $175 million budgets is...well, ridiculous. Especially over the last 13 years of financial squeezing in so many sectors...but um, sorry. Back to our regularly scheduled football talk. More fun than discussing our own lives amiright.

There is room for more creative alignments under McDermott. Due to his uncommonly diverse skillset, Lorenzo Alexander, for example, lined up all over the front-7. Even Edmunds himself lined up on the edge in what I think was essentially a 5-1-5, against the 49ers and Patriots* (him and Hughes on the edges with Klein off the ball in the middle). I think the Bills D should tap into that kind of matchup-driven creativity more often. Give a guy like Edmunds more of a narrowly-defined role on each play. Let someone else read-and-react.

PASSING game coordinator, turns out. Green Bay HC's brother. I'm actually glad it's not the RUN game coordinator, to be honest. Do they have a run game coordinator? I know that's a Shanahan family business, that productive zone blocking scheme. (Google tells me they DO/DID have a separate run game coordinator, who's now been promoted to OC, Mike McDaniel; been basically everywhere Shanahan has been.)

You really think he could be successful with his hand in the dirt? Wouldn't that illuminate his other apparent weakness? Aside from a lack of instincts, posters here also observe his inability to get off blocks against linemen. Obviously any EDGE guy spends a lot of snaps going up against OTs, but the further off the ball they lineup the more likely they are to matchup against TEs, RBs, even WRs. Or at least have a running start/some space when dealing with o-linemen. We're not exactly disagreeing, but 4-3 DE is the only position (within reason) I DIDN'T suggest. I know 4-3 DEs and 3-4 OLBs are somewhat interchangeable. But Edmunds to me seems uniquely suited to being a versatile 3-4 LB all over the formation. Or, at least, use him more creatively in the current defense. Let Klein play the Mike full-time, and use Edmunds all over the place: DE, OLB, S, SCB...wherever the matchups make sense. Let him use his length and speed to disrupt. Give him very specific jobs. Possibly related: man I miss Lorenzo Alexander.

Just because Culley was a fraud of a QB coach in Buffalo, and has since been responsible for a wildly unproductive WR position group (the position he played back when, innit?), his current role as Assistant HC suggests that he probably possesses some of those broader leadership and management qualities so essential to that style (CEO/non-coordinator type) of NFL head coach you're pointing to above.

Sounds like many of you/us are identifying Edmunds as a guy playing out of position so far in the NFL. Who thinks he'd be a much better fit either at SLB or WLB in a 4-3, or even more so at basically ANY spot at LB in the 3-4? I've seen 3-4 ILB mentioned once or twice the past few days. Personally, I keep imagining him as a 3-4 OLB, or a standup EDGE guy in whatever alignment. He HAS played that spot a couple times this past season, in fact (against San Fran and New England, I believe). As a standup EDGE his size and athleticism would be more important than his processing and "instincts." Plus he could probably still put on 10-15 LBs and be a scary specimen. These aren't exactly new ideas here on the boards, at all, but I am seeing posts in this thread that seem to be saying this without wanting to actually say it.

Well this got sorted out, then. Nice work, everyone.

Heeeyyy

Of those cuts (which I mostly agree with) I could see Jefferson sticking (let him play hard for another deal elsewhere). Financially all those guys make sense to jettison, minus Morse (savings roughly equal to dead cap PLUS the hole at a vital position). The others seem like no-brainers.

Cam Lewis, anyone? Also flashed in his VERY limited opportunities.

That play call was so terribly representative of Daboll's flaws as a play caller. Now of course, Brian Daboll designs and installs an effective, modern NFL offense. But in the heat of a game against aggressive and multiple opponents, Daboll's sequencing and the marrying of the run and the pass seems to get really disjointed at times. Like he can attack a specifically targeted weakness, repeatedly, when his otherworldly QB is dealing, but he struggles to call a balanced game that helps to keep the defense OFF balance when things tighten up. They didn't have answers tonight to the multiple questions posed by an aggressive Spagnuolo attack.

The link you've provided in no way supports any ranking of the candidates. So of course I'm curious who's telling us McCown is #1 and Frazier is #2?

I REALLY would like to see McKenzie featured this week. The Bills offense is more dynamic (or at least more creative/multiple) when he's in the game plan.

You know, I love this particular discussion. I believe that fans dislike Frazier because they want more blitzing, more aggression. Frazier seems like a somewhat passive play-caller. Runs a reactive scheme. But we're probably under-selling Frazier's gifts as a teacher, as a mentor, and as a steady, respectable presence (crazy career pedigree and a really solid dude), and most of all, as the leader of a defense that excels against the pass. In 2021, would you rather have a defense that is built from the back-end forward, or from the front-end back? What's more important: to be strong against the pass or to be strong against the run? That's reductive, but it's also an important philosophical question. I think I want great pass defense first and foremost. Especially if we're going to have a high-scoring offense to help make opposing teams one-dimensional.

Worked my second job (server at nice restaurant), now that we're back in business. Was busy enough that I didn't think much about the game for 6-8 hours there. But alas, here I am. Thinking about the game and little else.

Attack like, physically? Off the field? Definitely Mahomes. /thread

There is much irony embedded within this quote. I appreciate the onion that is you: so many layers to peel back, and it just keeps getting more noxious.

I'm getting sick of these Bills Mafia hooligans... (J/K Congrats to this guy on winning his ongoing battle!)

Imagine being that wrong.

VCR lol

By his own admission, he's planning to get knocked down a lot.

I did contemplate running through a wall, but that's more about wanting to escape this office than anything that human bicep said in his press conference.

Right. He blows a bit harder, you could say.

Don't get a lot of Shakespeare on the board. I used to have that entire passage memorized... Strutting and fretting and whatnot.

That's such a baldly disingenuous hot take. Doesn't even sound like he means it, at all. I didn't read other reactions to this take in a previous thread on the board, but...some Bills fans are probably bottom-hurt about this, aren't they?