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Exactly. These PFT reposts are so pathetic.

do we need a running back? Especially a marginal one? Please. Thanks for starting this and soliciting opinions without bothering to offer your own by the way. Solid contribution.

Well i can tell you: no, he ain’t open and that’s his problem. We have no NFL caliber WRs beyond brown and beasley.

26??? Hey still smarter than bledsoe

Has Duke been open? When he’s out there?

foster’s done ZERO this year. I’ll take McKenzie’s occasional contributions over Foster’s lack of any all day every day.

Again, they made it a story to alert their braindead bosses on how annoying those autoads were to their customers. Maybe you think alienating your longtime customers is good business, but I tend to think differently. Deadspin writers were looking out for their terrible bosses when they posted that protest blog.

You can quibble about the talent level of late Deadspin and I can’t honestly argue that the level did decrease at the end, but the editorial shop is supposed to be independent of the business end and if (which i am sure they did) raising the autoplay ad issue internally produced no results then they were entirely within their rights raising the issue publicly through their blog. Being a good journalist (and good consumer advocate) trumped being a “good employee” and bootlicker in that case and kudos to them for that.

so they are “crybabies” because they alerted their readers that they agreed with them on a very annoying ad change that they sympathized with and encouraged the readers to ask for change? Yes sure. I disagree with late Deadspin’s politics for the most part but this ad issue that contributed to the implosion is entirely on management. the real reason why this occurred is G/O media itself - a vulture capital operation who is in the deadspin business to turn a quarterly increase in profit so they can flip it, at any and all expense to the writers, editors, and readers. Gotta get that State Farm money quick after all, so they can flip the sites for a profit before people realize their a bunch of idiots when it comes to modern day digital media.

Lol. Do you enjoy autoplay ad videos with default sound all over the sites you visit? The editors put out the protest blog about those ads because readers complained loudly. Jesus man. Sort yourself out. stick to your supposed “humor” threads that get shut down in 3 hours.

2 things I want: 1) I want Landry to pay for that hit on Taron; 2) I want Kitchens to pull another galaxy-brained move and try to throw on us all day and keep Chubb and Hunt blocking. We win either way.

I always like late-night numerology. It’s mid-week after all. But good on you OP for putting in the work.

i can’t argue with that.

yeah I get you and that’s the right counterpoint to what I was suggesting (again, I don’t know what Daboll’s cooking up.) But what you’re saying, I think, is the sort of offense that is imposed on the opponent’s defense, no matter what. I agree with you I don’t think that’s been established and I don’t think even the coaches may know at this point. I think it is an improvisational effort at this point for McD and Daboll. The offense is, in contrast to the defense, in the early stages of coalescing with all the new starters. We may not see some sort of consistent “strategy” all year on offense. But I do got to give daboll credit for operating on the fly.

zay is a marginal 4 in oakland and that’s most likely where he’ll stay, barring the guys ahead of him getting all 6 of their knees blown out. Oliver, I obviously have higher hopes for. We’ll see. But if Phillips is playing better right now Phillips should play. And that doesn’t make Oliver a bust (yet.)

Thought Duke was that redzone guy?

As would I. also, and apologies I didn’t read this whole thread, but they do get credit. Sure, it may only be in the power rankings. But those are put together by national outlets. Bills are what? 6,7,8 in just about every one of them? That’s credit. Yes, I am sure we would all love a glowing, long-form profile in SI or ESPN of Jordan Phillips or Micah Hyde. Won’t happen until the team does damage in the playoffs (or perhaps earlier, if they can sneak the division away from NE.)

Perhaps the offensive “identity” is being dictated by the Bills’ opponents, week-to-week? Obviously with acknowledgment of the rosters’ strengths and deficiencies? Maybe that’s why we don’t see a more consistent suite of plays or strategies from Daboll? Is that a bad thing? I don’t really care if Allen throws for 400 or 100 yards. I’d like to see penalties reduced on offense and for the team to keep winning. They’ve already cut down turnovers.

it’s not better. It seems they have secured some ghostwriters that still employ some trademark deadspin snark in their writeups (perhaps ex-deadspinners long forgotten who are afraid of showing their face yet?) but a big part of going to deadspin for a very long time was the comments. Comments are obviously still disabled by management because they’d be excoriated in them. Again, whoever these nameless ones are, they’re doing decent work. It is just so bland now overall.

Deadspin caught a groove for a while. It had mostly moved past me by its later run but I always enjoyed Magary. The implosion is not surprising. The Hogan lawsuit crippled Denton and original ownership. Then Univision bought it on the cheap and didn’t care what they wrote. Then G/O bought it from them and want to turn it into an aggregator. Sucks that they’re gone, even if you didn’t agree with their politics. Barstool used to be a cesspit but even I can admit they are getting better. Portnoy still angers me to no end though (mostly for the boston fandom.)

Depends on how you define “intermediate” vs “deep” but he has been pretty good on 10-15 air yard passes. It’s the very long balls, the 9 routes, where he’s struggled. Pretty much. Again, talking about wins and much more goes into that than just QB numbers and QB “style” but Lamar and Allen seem to be examples of molding a new way to win (so long as most other things are buttoned up as well.) maybe Murray is the next one. Not so much success yet, but he hasn’t come in full spread air raid. He has looked decent at times though.

I mean, for the Dez haters, good news: this would never happen with our current coach/GM. It’s sad to see him basically begging on Twitter for a workout, but it won’t be here.

Very good point as well. Dez seems very humble and willing to be a situational guy at this point but you still gotta cut someone to get him on your roster. Doesn’t need to be another WR of course, but it most likely would be. I wouldn’t cut any of those 3 bottom guys you named for Dez, even if Foster has done **** all this year. A workout does no harm. But let’s say it does go reasonably well...who you cutting to make room? dude that was a long, long time ago. You’re not wrong his personal family and maturity issued have been well documented. Long time ago though

By rule I don’t trust any reporter that covers the 3 toronto major sports teams and the Bills. I smell agenda.

How about no. I feel for Dez, a little bit. I think all the brinksmanship in Dallas in his last years there around the QB and other things probably robbed him of some late career fireworks. But no, in my amateur opinion i think Dez is shot at this point. then again, I think John Brown has been awesome for this team so far and those that don’t share that opinion may want to roll the dice.