BuffaloRush

Wrong! They went 9-7. Who’s getting facts wrong now, pal?

Sorry guys....I screwed up and forgot that Kubiak took over. The point is still the same, Vance Joseph was a bad hire

Thank you....my bad

This guy works for Optimum Scouting. The same company led by Eric Galko, a former teacher with a total of 1 month experience. For real. Take this dude’s scouting opinion with a grain of salt

Right that’s why I think he should be on the hot seat. Outside of signing Manning, he has failed miserably at finding a QB and there doesn’t seem to be a plan for the future. I see Keenum as more of a stop gap, game manager QB, but I guess we’ll see. Sure but John Fox won the Super Bowl with the Broncos and Elway fired him in 2016 after he didn’t make the playoffs. He didn’t get the benefit of the doubt and IMO I’m not sure if Elway should either

The result since Manning retired: 2 seasons 13 wins, 19 losses 0 playoff appearances My bad, I meant to quote @Binghamton Beast

I disagree.....this is not about Politics, Poll or Pundits. We are allowed to talk about topics that aren’t necessarily Bills related, you know...

PPP?

LOL either way I’m happy for Reilly and I would love for him to succeed. He seems likw he really loves Buffalo. I don’t fault the Bills for moving on. He really didn’t do much to earn a roster spot.

I don’t follow the Denver Broncos much but if I did, I’d be less than thrilled with the job John Elways is doing as GM. Sure he gets a tremendous amount of leeway and goodwill given his 2015 Super Bowl and of course his legendary career as Broncos QB. But he needed, perhaps the greatest QB in NFL history. But with the greatest QB of all time on your roster, you can make the argument they should have won more 1 Super Bowl, and that those teams were underachievers losing several times to inferior teams. Plus, the years after Peyton’s retirement Denver have been disappointing. After winning a Super Bowl, Denver barely had a winning record and failed to make the playoffs. But the wheels came off completely in 2017. IMO, Elway has been responsible for several major decisions that have failed big time. - Hiring Vance Joseph who at the time was the defensive coordinator of a Miami defense that was near the bottom of the league. This hiring decision baffled me, I never saw anything from Joseph that made me think he was a quality HC. He turned in a 4-12 season with a roster that Elway felt was ready to “win now.” - The plan at QB has been a mess. Elway has had no answer since moving on from Manning despite being regarded as one of the greatest QB’s ever himself. What should be his forte has been a struggle. It started with moving up to draft Paxton Lynch as the franchise QB. Today they released him after a little over 2 years. This should be regarded as a tremendous failure, the type of move that would get other GM’s fired. Keep in mind, drafting Lynch in 2015 would be akin to drafting Bradford or Allen this past year. It was a tremendous whiff. Not to mention, the team felt confident enough with to think that Trevor Simian was a competent starting QB. Again a huge miscalculation. - Hiring Mike McCoy as the OC To fix the offense and save the QB situation. Again, this was a miserable failure. Not sure if this one is on Joseph or Elways but given McCoy’s previous experience in Denver and the fact that Joseph was a new coach, it would not surprise me for Elway to have been involved with this hire. Either way, this was a disaster and McCoy was gone a few months later. - Could Elway’s decision to pass up on a quality QB prospect (Allen, Rosen, Jackson etc) and roll with somewhat of a journeyman QB in Case Keenum, lead to his departure? Between these issues, if I’m a fan I’m really wondering if the franchise is headed in the right direction. Does anyone else feel this way? I’d be curious to hear from any Bills fans that love in Broncos country.

I knew the Cardale experiment was over in Week 17 of the 2016 season. Whaley ordered poor Tony Lynn to give him the start, to avoid an injury guarantee to Tyrod Taylor. Cardale was absolutely abysmal and showed no signs that he could be a decent QB in the NFL. After watching him play I said to myself “well, that’s why he was a 4th round draft pick.” Thanks for another bad QB pick from Whaley

This was Doug Whaley’s QB of the future.

I create as many threads as I wish. If you haven’t noticed, I don’t follow the self-imposed rules of message board etiquette that people like you made up. If I want to post a new topic, I’ll do it. You don’t like it? Tough! Quit your whinging It does none of us any good to have to search through a thread of 200+ threads.

If you think I’m THE Dunkirk Don then you are either trolling or a terrible investigator. Still I am a huge fan of the legend that is Dunkirk Don so I’m happy to play along

Thats a bit of a gray area. He techinically did not make the final 53 man roster. So anyone who said he was on the team is technically incorrect. Congrats! Not only did you outscore everyone here at TSW but you also outscored members of the Buffalo Media!

Surprise surprise....someone is whinging about threads. Things will never change here

The EJ Manuel pick angered me to no end. It was clear he was a very average QB at FSU. It was enfuriating to see Buddy Nix talk him up and then to have Doug Whaley overspend on Sammy Watkins to justify the EJ pick. This was just a terrible pick

Thank you! I have a new contest coming up later this week.

He also dropped an INT that he had in his hands against NYJ, which really could have been a momentum swing

It was on Pat Moran’s podcast I believe. He said “everyone thinks they can be an analyst or scout.” He even called Galko out by name. His point was that he (Gabriel) has decades of experience working in NFL personnel departments. Galko was a former teacher with no NFL personnel experience and now he’s analyzing draft picks?

Thank you to everyone that helped submit their entry for the Pick The 53 contest. This was a very fun way to follow the Bills preseason - which at times can be somewhat boring. If you are interested I have another prediction idea that I can share next week. I think it will be a lot of fun as well. Well the results are in. While many roster spots went the way we thought they would, there were a few surprises as well. I did decide to change the way I did the scoring. Instead of assigning 2 points per correct answer, I changed it to 1 point. This way a "46" lets you know that someone correctly predicted 46 roster spots correctly. Also please note, the Bills roster only has 52 players and not 53. As a result the highest score is a 52...not a 53 But without wasting any time, I'd like to congratulate TSW member @betop who achieved the highest score of 50/52 or a shocking accuracy of 96%. Below are the top 15. (Sorry couldn't find a way to add a table to this message) RANK NAME SCORE ACCURACY 1. @betop 50/52 96% 2. @TheStandard 49/52 94% 3. @TPS 49/52 94% 4. @Pete 48/52 92% 5. @The Bills Blog 48/52 92% 6. @billsfan2298 48/52 92% 7. @Csharp 48/52 92% 8. @BuffaloRush 47/52 90% 9. @Robert Paulson 47/52 90% 10. @Watkins101 47/52 90% 11. @loveorhatembillsfan4life 47/52 90% 12. @flipjohnson 47/52 90% 13. @Dunkirk Don 47/52 90% 14. @N.Y. Orangeman 47/52 90% 15. @mattynh 47/52 90% *16 others tied with a score of 47 So the question is, how did TSW hold up against the journalists who follow the Bills? Pretty darn good if you ask me: RANK NAME NEWS OUTLET SCORE ACCURACY 1. Joe Buscaglia WKBW-TV 49 94% 2. Nick Wojton Bills Wire USA Today 48 92% 3. Matt Parino NY Upstate 47 90% 4. Sal Maiorana Democrat & Chronicle 47 90% 5. "Crooked" Mike Rodak ESPN 47 90% 6. Brian Gailford Buffalo Rumblings 47 90% 7. Matthew Fairburn The Athletic 47 90% 8. Fernando H. Schmude Cover 1 46 88% 9. Derek Kramer WGR-AM 45 87% 10. Evan Przybylak Buffalo LoDown - Fansided 44 85% 11. Jay Skurski Buffalo News 44 85% 12. Matt Warren Buffalo Rumblings 43 83% 13. Kevin Massare Bills Wire USA Today 43 83% In case you were wondering, here's some more data for you: Lowest score: 38 Highest Score: 50 Average Score: 44.21 or 85% accuracy Median Score: 45 Frequently missed questions There were the players that people missed on - either by predicting they made the team or by predicting they would be cut etc. For instance, out of the 186 responses received, only 11 people predicted that Corey Coleman would be cut from the team. That means only 5.9% of respondents correctly predicted he was not making the team. Robert Foster had much greater odds - only 4 people picked him to make the team! That means only 2.2% percent of respondents correctly forecasted his fate! PLAYER Correct Answers Accuracy Rate AJ McCarron 19 / 185 10.3% Taiwan Jones 75 / 185 40.5 % Corey Coleman 11 / 185 5.9% Robert Foster 4 / 185 2.2% Rod Streater 86 / 185 46.5% Nick O'Leary 67 / 185 36.2% Logan Thomas 89 / 185 48.1% Conor McDermott. 76 / 185 41.1% Lafayette Pitts 46 / 185 24.9% Tanner Vallejo. 49 / 184 26.6% Dean Marlowe 88 / 177 49.7% John Ryan 48 / 157 30.6%

I am perhaps the biggest fan of Dunkirk Don. Really hope he posts again

Thank you to everyone that helped submit their entry for the Pick The 53 contest. This was a very fun way to follow the Bills preseason - which at times can be somewhat boring. If you are interested I have another prediction idea that I can share next week. I think it will be a lot of fun as well. Well the results are in. While many roster spots went the way we thought they would, there were a few surprises as well. I did decide to change the way I did the scoring. Instead of assigning 2 points per correct answer, I changed it to 1 point. This way a "46" lets you know that someone correctly predicted 46 roster spots correctly. Also please note, the Bills roster only has 52 players and not 53. As a result the highest score is a 52...not a 53 But without wasting any time, I'd like to congratulate TSW member @betop who achieved the highest score of 50/52 or a shocking accuracy of 96%. Below are the top 15. (Sorry couldn't find a way to add a table to this message) RANK NAME SCORE ACCURACY 1. @betop 50/52 96% 2. @TheStandard 49/52 94% 3. @TPS 49/52 94% 4. @Pete 48/52 92% 5. @The Bills Blog 48/52 92% 6. @billsfan2298 48/52 92% 7. @Csharp 48/52 92% 8. @BuffaloRush 47/52 90% 9. @Robert Paulson 47/52 90% 10. @Watkins101 47/52 90% 11. @loveorhatembillsfan4life 47/52 90% 12. @flipjohnson 47/52 90% 13. @Dunkirk Don 47/52 90% 14. @N.Y. Orangeman 47/52 90% 15. @mattynh 47/52 90% *16 others tied with a score of 47 So the question is, how did TSW hold up against the journalists who follow the Bills? Pretty darn good if you ask me: RANK NAME NEWS OUTLET SCORE ACCURACY 1. Joe Buscaglia WKBW-TV 49 94% 2. Nick Wojton Bills Wire USA Today 48 92% 3. Matt Parino NY Upstate 47 90% 4. Sal Maiorana Democrat & Chronicle 47 90% 5. "Crooked" Mike Rodak ESPN 47 90% 6. Brian Gailford Buffalo Rumblings 47 90% 7. Matthew Fairburn The Athletic 47 90% 8. Fernando H. Schmude Cover 1 46 88% 9. Derek Kramer WGR-AM 45 87% 10. Evan Przybylak Buffalo LoDown - Fansided 44 85% 11. Jay Skurski Buffalo News 44 85% 12. Matt Warren Buffalo Rumblings 43 83% 13. Kevin Massare Bills Wire USA Today 43 83% In case you were wondering, here's some more data for you: Lowest score: 38 Highest Score: 50 Average Score: 44.21 or 85% accuracy Median Score: 45 Frequently missed questions There were the players that people missed on - either by predicting they made the team or by predicting they would be cut etc. For instance, out of the 186 responses received, only 11 people predicted that Corey Coleman would be cut from the team. That means only 5.9% of respondents correctly predicted he was not making the team. Robert Foster had much greater odds - only 4 people picked him to make the team! That means only 2.2% percent of respondents correctly forecasted his fate! PLAYER Correct Answers Accuracy Rate AJ McCarron 19 / 185 10.3% Taiwan Jones 75 / 185 40.5 % Corey Coleman 11 / 185 5.9% Robert Foster 4 / 185 2.2% Rod Streater 86 / 185 46.5% Nick O'Leary 67 / 185 36.2% Logan Thomas 89 / 185 48.1% Conor McDermott. 76 / 185 41.1% Lafayette Pitts 46 / 185 24.9% Tanner Vallejo. 49 / 184 26.6% Dean Marlowe 88 / 177 49.7% John Ryan 48 / 157 30.6%

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No but I’ll be you $200 he made it