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This is sound advice, cut the cancer out of your lives and move on. It's liberating.

I think he will justify defense every step of the way and ignore the offense. Just my opinion. Hopefully Beane isn't going to let him. We need some balance. Now if it's the RIGHT CB, and we know we are getting a guy who can make our secondary elite, i'm ok with it as long as they use every other pick from rounds 2-4 on offense. OL/WR/TE have to be stocked with some talent. But also don't be surprised if he only signs one FA olineman, and it's not an elite free agent either. Then we draft a lineman late. He really seems to have no regard for the Oline at all.

Don't be surprised if we draft a CB with our 1st pick.

I agree with you from here out his development is the most important thing. But can he really develop with a bad oline and no wrs? All he can do is learn bad habits. Now if he's watching from the sidelines he can at least see what is going on downfield without taking the hits. he can be in Daboll's ear and hear his thinking from one play to the next. Andy Reid didn't play Mahomes until he was ready. Allen isn't ready. This offense isn't capable of winning so to say we're taking is just acknowledging how bad we are as an offense and how far we have to go to get back to being competitive. A top 5 pick affords us the ability to draft a blue chip prospect or trade back and acquire more picks. It helps, but not as much as developing Allen and getting him some weapons on offense and some blocking does. I think the 80 mil in cap space goes further to helping Allen because we can get ready to play guys who do not need to be developed. Plug and play.

Shelving Allen will not hurt his development at all. With no OL and terrible WRs he isn't going to learn anything but bad habits like looking down at the rush and not keeping his eyes downfield. Or leaving the pocket due to fake pressure. shelve him. Fix the offense and let him learn next year.

yes yes praise the checkdown....

McDermott is all over the place with this #2 CB spot. They go with Gaines all season, then they cut him?? now brought up a guy from the PS to compete as well.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't the one that had already been injured.

That foot issue is never going to go away

I noticed that on hard knocks. Guys got a swollen diaphragm or something from yelling over the years. I did coach football for years, and I loved it. I miss it actually. But I don't miss the parents.

I agree with you. I think the idea was to try and be dynamic on offense but the execution has been atrocious. Then Norv Turner has this renaissance in Carolina and Cam Newton is loving it. Stings even worse.

that have never been hunted, and there's a 12' fence around the property.

That's a lot of stuff I agree with. Honestly not sure why we brought in DiMarco to begin with. He can't have more than 10% of the offenses snaps.

Really begs the question what the hell is Houston doing on their Oline??? They had Watson, they had Hopkins, they had a pretty good defense. What are they using their draft picks on? I know they gave up their 1st in 2018 for Watson, but jeez, draft some help on the Oline.

LOL yea it does. It says the bar has been lowered to sub-terrainian levels.

I don't disagree with you. Every coach that comes in here has the same mindset "we're going to change the culture, and build a team that can compete in bad weather". Can we build a team that can compete in the NFL in 2018 and not 1978 pretty effing please???? They all want a solid running game and a great defense. Meanwhile the Eagles/Rams/Chiefs are all building world beating offenses, and the Falcons and Saints are right there too.

It's more than that until the entire FO was cleared after the draft, we were a wash in old holdovers that had "done things this way for the better part of half a century". That old school mentality permeated OBD. But we whiffed time and again on quarterbacks. The team has no identity. McDermott is trying to establish one, similar to what they have in Carolina. Solid defense, and trying to by dynamic on offense. It works in Carolina because they have the QB. Whether we have the QB or not is another thread. But the common denominator in every regime since Wade Phillips left is the lack of a QB. We lose, coaches get fired, another guy comes in and cleans house, whiffs on a QB, rinse repeat.

Lorenzo is decent as a pass rusher when we use him but as a linebacker he cannot cover backs well and that's a mismatch.

Peterman cut, Castillo fired, Crossman fired, a backup QB, Benjamin waived bye bye to, Vlad gone, Bodine gone, Mills gone, I want a ticker tape parade for Kyle Williams wishing him farewell and thanking him for his contributions to the team, no one has suffered more than the fans, but Kyle made the Bills watchable and I never stopped rooting for him. I want Gaines gone, Zo gone (we'll miss him but he's a liability on defense). Shaq traded, none of our WRs do I want back other than Zay Jones, and if a team was offering a G or C straight up I'd consider it. Still not sure how this is year 2 of a rebuild when basically I want to nuke the entire offense.

It is still possible to have a dominant defense in the NFL of today. I just don't see anyone winning a super bowl without an elite QB. The Eagles got their rings last year with a backup QB, great coaching, and a dominant defense. But it was more of a fluke than anything I don't think we'll see that kind of thing happen again.

7-9 was my prediction going into the season.

Jacksonville's defense started to flounder when Marrone doubled down on Bortles and himself. They made no play to upgrade the QB position when it's what they were lacking.

wow so we're down to moral victories in a 41-9 loss. that's not good.

that would be nice to see.

Does he? Vlad is Castillo's boy and he already benched Miller last year for him. I doubt Teller gets a fair shake.