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2 hours ago, Bills Fan in Haiti said:
He was definitely a good player, but he was also the poster boy in his day for guys who got to the Pro Bowl because he got there the year before. He probably deserved the first two or three.
Yeah I agree with this comment. Rueben was very good for many years, but I think toward the end of his career with the Bills, especially toward the end, his play was inconsistent. There were several years that he was maybe a bit more than average and he still made the Pro Bowl. I remember when Donahoe released him in 2003. Most fans were fine with in because he had a phat contract and wasn’t so good.
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1 hour ago, snafu said:
I know this may not be a well received idea, but sometimes creative solutions are necessary.
I believe our offensive line is more well suited for running plays, not pass protection. Allen has a cannon for an arm, so now that he's going to be the starting QB, it may make sense to put the long snapper in for 3d down passing plays. Allen can line up 15 yards behind the line and take the snap, giving him much more time to read the play and make the throw downfield. Groy can be kept in as a fullback to play near the line behind Ferguson.
Unconventional, yes, but I'm convinced that it would work.
This is so hilarious that it’s brilliant
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43 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
We’ve achieved 9-7 record 3 times this century - 2004, 2014, 2017. So there’s a perspective that says “Yea! We made the playoffs! Wooo Hoo!” But also recognize that when you make the playoffs with a record that’s kept you out twice previously, there’s an element of luck involved rather than a pure achievement.
IOW it’s not forgetting, so much as viewing it from a different perspective. Which, BTW, seems to be shared by McBeane “not as close as people think”
I’m sure their plan was built for multiple years. I’m saying that if their multiple-year plan involved allowing the OL to be such trash this year that it’s neutering the entire offense and putting our New Shiny QB at physical risk, maybe it’s a bad multiple-year plan. And if it’s so inflexible that it couldn’t be changed to account for the loss of Wood and ‘Cog, ditto.
It’s just my opinion, no one else needs to share it.
Mr. negative strikes again. Hate to tell you this - but there’s an “element of luck” for just about every team that wins the Super Bowl.
Bottom line is that the 2017 team did exactly what they need to do to get in. The other 9-7 teams had a great chance to get in and they essentially blew it.
2004: After a hellish start the team took advantage of a soft schedule and went on a crazy run. They just needed to beat Pittsburgh’s 3rd string team and they actually got beat down prettt bad.
2014: After a big win vs. Green Bay, the Bills just needed to beat the 2-12 Raiders and then the NE backups. Of course again Marrone’s crew failed and were ourclassed by a group of bad players.
Again the 2017 team needed to win some games down the stretch and they did it. Big pivotal wins against KC and Miami twice. Other Bills team would have faultered. Credit that to McDermott. Stop being Mr. Negative and give Coach McDermott credit. He did more with less.
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5 hours ago, Marv's Neighbor said:
We need to remember that if/when there is a HC/GM opening, Buffalo is always a very hard sell. There's a very short line of people waiting to come to Buffalo as either HC or GM. That's how/why we have had such a string of losers along the way.
Having said that, I hope they are both wildly successful!
This was true about 10 years when Ralph Wilson was running the team and there was a threat of relocation. Bottom line, there are 32 HC jobs in the NFL. As long as you can pay...they will come.
4 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:I would say it depends a lot on HOW the Bills lose however many games they lose.
There could be a tight, disciplined team that generally plays hard for 45 minutes, but got into a hole early and couldn't dig themselves out - or generally played well but threw a couple inopportune picks. I think the Bills could go 0 -16 if they're playing like that, and McDermott and Beane are safe.
Or there can be what we saw last Sunday - a total meltdown in all 3 phases of the game, where (despite McDermott's public line) the team looked under-prepared, some players appeared to be mailing it in, and there are indicators that the coaches' schemes and gameplans were exploited. Someone (Badol, I think) pointed out that the Pegulas do seem to mind negative media, so if the Bills go 4 - 16 but are regularly embarrassed or blown out, I don't think McDermott and Beane should feel too secure.
I disagree with you 100% and will put money down. Listen to the press conferences where McDermott and Beane both stress that the roster “isn’t where they want it yet” and now the team is going to be a work in progress. This is what they’ve said publicly....who know what is said behind closed doors. I feel
that McDermott has prepped PSE that this season was going to be bad one, but that it was part of the “process” and that they have a plan.
I’ll place $100 in an escrow PayPal Account that he stays this season. You in!’????
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3 minutes ago, Bangarang said:
Not a chance either get fired this year no matter how the season goes.
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I’m trying to find that prob bet but can’t figure it out. I want to be $5K
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Interesting tidbit from WGR...according to Jerry White there is a prop bet that places Coach McDermott as one of the 5 coaches most likely to get fired. They gave him 1-5 odds of getting fired. I know little about better but I am considering betting my life savings against it.
IMO, the Bills can go 0-16 and there’s no way Coach is getting axed. There are a plethora of reasons. The first is practicality. In his first year McDermott led the Bills to the playoffs. Period. That was unthinkable a few years ago, and breaking that streak was huge for both Coach and this franchise.
Second are the Pegulas. The love Coach and treat him like family. They gave him a lot of power and authority and he delivered.
The third is continuity. The Pegulas are conscious of their reputation of getting rid of coaches. They also know the history of the Bills. Terry is rumored to have consultants to discuss business with and they will preach continuity as well.
The last is that McDermott and Beane were probably very clear in the time their “process” would take. I have no doubt that Terry gave Coach his word that he was committed to five years and would give him some time.
Either way, I’d put the odds if Coach McDermottt getting fired at 5%. Jerry White said he feels McDermott is one of the safest coaches in the NFL. I would agree. What say you?
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In a time when role models in sports are hard to come by and good character is sometimes forgotten, it’s nice to see an athlete like a Nathan Peterman on our football team. He is humble, soft spoken, professional and generally very likeable. He also demonstrated a strong work ethic and dedication to the Bills.
With that being said, I feel very bad about his NFL career. On paper it seemed like a Hollywood script. A 5th round draft pick that is an all-around good guy, gets his shot starting thanks in part to his coach’s unwavering confidence. After a disaterous football debut in San Diego, he uses this bad experience as motivation and tirelessly works hard at improving. His hard work pays off, and he gets a second chance to redeem himself and..... he failed almost as bad!?!?!?!?!
This just doesn’t seem right. Call me crazy but this kid deserved better. From what I have read Nate is one of the first players to arrive at OBD sand one of the last to leave practice. I personally witnessed him signing autographs for EVERYONE who approached him at St. John Fisher, while about 90% of the coaches and players were already in the locker room.
I think that starting Josh Allen was the right move by Coach McDermott. He had no choice. I only wish that the story was different for Peterman. He seems like a very good guy and hopefully we’ll get that Hollywood ending....just at a later time.
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3 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:
For sure. Just highly doubtful he’s getting cut especially without anyone to replace him with. I also think thr lack of pass rush was a huge contributor to the secondary getting lit up.
Oh yeah he won’t be getting cut, unless he continuously screws up. I don’t see it happening, but if anyone steps up, I can see him getting bumped down the depth chart
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11 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
This is from Joe B’s all-22 on Gaines
I guess but those were two huge throws he gave up. And you can argue a better play could have changed momentum. The 2nd and 26 was inexcusable
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8 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
So Taron Johnson still isn’t practicing with the injury .... he was in the slot last week so assuming he’s out on Sunday, Gaines back to the slot and Vontae active on the outside? Lafayette Pitts? That’s literally all the have on the roster and they just cut Ryan Lewis from the PS. I assume White will follow Keenan Allen.
Really can’t put Gaines on the field. He is a known liability. Davis seems to not be so good himself!
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On 9/12/2018 at 1:37 PM, Alphadawg7 said:
Lets just look at a recent example of this...Goff and the Rams.
After his first year, many thought little of him and that he was a bust. Lots of meh and very few signs of hope.
Year 2: Rams heavily address the offensive deficiencies on the OL and WR. What happened next? A second season that had him on the MVP voting list.
Question: What are our MASSIVE deficiencies right now? OL and WR.
Next year, its possible Bills could turn a real corner by adding some actual talent on the OL and WR spots. We got a lot of young and veteran talent on the defensive side of the ball. Especially with guys like Edmunds and Phillips entering their 2nd years, Tre his 3rd...we should have a solid or better defense. Retool the OL an WR's next year in both FA and the draft first and foremost, we have invested a TON into Allen, he deserves more than 1 season on the worst offensive roster in the NFL before we make any conclusions about him.
You’re conveniently leaving 1 piece out of thread equation. What helped Goff the most was the guy calling the plays. The Rams most important hire was Sean McVay. Were not going to get a coaching change in Buffalo and probably not even an OC change anything soon.
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No idea why Coach McDermott gave Peterman that second start
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Stories went around the news today about what Zay Jones’ mother had to say about KB.
Sal Carpaccio reporter it and said something about Zay’s father fighting with Bills fans in defense of criticism to their son. I check it out and it is legit. All in all, this is an epic Twitter account.
For those of you who don’t know, Zay’s dad is Robert Jones #55 who played for the Dallas Cowboy teams that beat the tarp out of the Bills in the Super Bowl.
In this tweet below, he goes back and forth Kevin Massare from the Bills Wire for saying that Zay was a bust. This has been happening over the course of three days:
Then Robert got on Sully’s case. This was too funny:
He also got into an epic threat with John Warrow, who did a very good job of articulating why he was critical of Zay:
He’ll also defend his son against random trolls:
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4 hours ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:
..that is an ETERNITY around these parts......his extensive body of work is more than enough to come to a conclusion, right?.............
Look, I said if Allen doesn’t work out. If he has a good year and shows some talent, we are set
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4 hours ago, Wayne Arnold said:
We all wanted to believe that Daboll’s putrid tenure as NFL OC was due to poor personnel.
While watching the game on Sunday I was disappointed by the lack of imagination/creativity and struck by how seldom the receivers were able to get open - which is a strong indication of scheme issues as much as it is (or perhaps more than) wide receiver talent limitation.
Kurt Warner and Doug Farrar have confirmed my fears that Daboll might in fact stink.
Here’s the thing.... Sal Carpaccio spoke about this on his Extra Point Show. He said that the Bills were down 26-0, and it escalated fast. They were down by so many points that they never had a chance to establish their run game. Then with Allen in the game and with it being the 1st game of the season, he didn’t want to put too much on tape.
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14 hours ago, COTC said:
Let’s wait until the new regime comes in.
Wont happen until 2022, at the earliest. For now stand by Coach McDermott and GM Beane
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As always, Coach McDermott made the right call. I do however wish that Beane had signed a veteran QB that could have gotten the team through the 5 game stretch of hell. Allen will have to learn on the fly. If he doesn’t have the goods, let’s draft another QB next year
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5 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:
I’ll jump in. Why should it stop? You’re telling me that Watkins, Woods and Hogan aren’t a much better trio than any three you can find on the current roster? Really?
No that’s a reasonable statement to make.
My problem is that when we let Hogan and Woods walk a few years back, there wasn’t this kind of outrage. Fans understood why we did it and were largely ok with it at the time. In fact, many supported the move. A few years later, they suddenly are all emotional and now they don’t support it.
Take Sammy Watkins. People joked about him being a “decoy” now those same people are pining for him back on our team!?!? It’s pathetic.
My point is, you can’t have it both ways. It’s looking back in hindsight, and it’s foolish. People want to use these moves as a strike against Beane, when they themselves probably would have done the same thing.
Move the F on
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6 hours ago, SoTier said:
Facts:
- Marcell Dareus started for the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.
- Stephon Gilmore started for the NE Patriots in the last SB. He had an INT for the Pats against the Texans on Sunday.
- Cordy Glenn is now Cincinnati's starting LT.
- Nigel Bradham was a starter for the SB Champions Philadelphia Eagles in 2017.
- Woods caught 56 passes for 781 yards and 5 TDs in 12 games with the LA Rams in 2017. He caught 3 passes for 37 yards in his first start for the Rams in 2018.
- Marquise Goodwin caught 56 passes for 962 yards and 2 TDs in 2017 for San Francisco.
- Sammy Watkins caught 39 passes for 593 yards and 8 TDs for the LA Rams in 2017. He caught 3 passes for 21 yards in his first start with the 2018 KC Chiefs.
- Preston Brown is the starting MLB for the Bengals in 2018.
- Ronald Darby started for SB Champions Philadelphia Eagles in the 2017 Super Bowl.
A lot of romanticizing going on here☝️☝️☝️
You are either don’t understand my original point or you are choosing to spin your “facts” to support revisionist history.
The whole idea behind this thread was how Bills fans are so dramatic when it comes to former players/coaches, the second they have any success with other teams. In fact the outrage is so great, it almost seems as though some fans here are in tears when they post emotional responses like your above.
The problem is, at the time when many of these players left there was no outrages. In most cases, fans were fine with players leaving. They either weren’t good enough with the Bills (Goodwin, Bradham, Brown) or they weren’t worth the bloated contract they would be given on the open market (Gilmore, Sammy, Dareus).
I will admit that there was a lot of outrage when Beane came in and got ride of Sammy. Looking back though, it certainly was the right call considering that his production doesn’t warrant the type of deal he received. Though @SoTier seems pretty impressed with 3 catches for 21 yards or 39 receptions in 2017 on one of the most prolific passing offenses in the NFL.
My point is....and I’ll put this in bold you can see it clearly. YOU CANT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. You can’t say “don’t let the door hit you on the ass” when the Bills didn’t resign an oft-injured Goodwin or an unspectacular Robert Woods, and then a year later say BEANE NEVER SHOULD HAVE LET THESE GUYS GET AWAY. It’s revisionist history or romanticizing. Pretending that players were better on the team than they were in actuality. The level of intensity of the romanticizing is where I coined the term “Emotional Romanticizing.” It almost seems like an unhealthy obsession for many fans here including @SoTier
This emotional romanticizing needs to stop. It must stop. Because it makes our
fan base look foolish. Support Coach McDermott. Support GM Beane. And Support QB Peterman or QB Allen. Either way, support the Bills. Enough of this emotional romanticizing.
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Just now, Batman1876 said:
So we would have been in better shape if we got another QB in 2014? Which one Bortles or Johnny football? One year is not enough evaluation time. Drafting another QB wastes draft resources, reduces the time both QBs get 1st team reps, and creates a situation that is not productive for development. It’s not a secret plan that no NFL GM has been smart enough to think of, its an awful idea that has never been done for a reason.
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1 minute ago, Batman1876 said:So we would have been in better shape if we got another QB in 2014? Which one Bortles or Johnny football? One year is not enough evaluation time. Drafting another QB wastes draft resources, reduces the time both QBs get 1st team reps, and creates a situation that is not productive for development. It’s not a secret plan that no NFL GM has been smart enough to think of, its an awful idea that has never been done for a reason.
Wait you thought EJ was the franchise QB!?!?! LOL
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1 minute ago, Augie said:
AMEN! It’s not that I want to see Peterman, I just don’t want to wreck Allen. Some will say give him the reps, I say go a few more games taking losses, and getting his beak wet. Next year could/should look very different. Have a plan, and stick to it.
Thats a fallacy.... you really can’t “wreck” a QB. They either have it or they don’t. Some people get the Bills “wrecked” EJ. I have a feeling he could have sat for 4 years and still have been the same QB he was. Good ones are great from the start
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1 minute ago, Kirby Jackson said:
16 games? Was Peyton Manning good at the start? Jarred Goff? Carson Wentz? Pat Mahomes? Jimmy G? Cousins? Alex Smith? Just stop, quit while you are behind.
It is an atrocious idea to trade Glenn, a 1st and 2 seconds for a guy that you are going to evaluate. If the Bills need a QB in 2019 it won’t be Beane and McDermott here to make that choice.
Kirby we both know that the Pegulas love both Beane and McDermott. They are going no where - even it means drafting a QB in 2019.
Also outside of Goff and maybe Smith, all of the QB’s on your list showed tremendous flashes their rookie year despite some initial struggles. I’m just saying, if we don’t see these flashes from Allen during the regular season, if the Bills have a very high draft pick, and if a highly-rated, promising QB is in the board then it should be considered.
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3 minutes ago, Happy Gilmore said:
You will be waiting a while. Might as well get comfortable.
No not too long....just until about May 2022
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Just now, Kirby Jackson said:
It’s a terrible idea which is why no one ever does it. Allen is here through at least the next 31 games as the QB. If they determine at that point that they need someone else they will take their shot in 2020. You aren’t going to invest this much in a QB, give him the worst OL and WR group in the league and then pull the plug. The entire thought that this is possible is ridiculous. It happened once, 30 years ago.
Here’s the thing with QB’s, the good ones are good right from the start. Happened with Brett Favre, Russell Wilson etc. I think at the end of 15 games you should know what you have. What’s the difference going QB in 2019 vs 2020?
Today should be a landmark day in Bills history... let's get pumped!!!
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Allen better good or the Bills might become the first team to draft a QB in Top 10 in back 2 back years