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I think the biggest thing from this gm is we werent coached to look like we were scared of our own shadow. Team looked like they wanted to take calculated risks. Hopefully Mcd has turned the corner.
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41 minutes ago, #34fan said:
Being a glass-half-full type person
, I see this regime's imminent doom as yet another opportunity for OBD to get it right.
Here's my dream HC, GM, and coordinator scenario...
VP of Player Personnel: Louis Riddick, ESPN NFL analyst, played in the league for 8 years, Former director of pro personnel for the Redskins, and Eagles scout...
-Love Riddick's insight and commentary on ESPN.
General Manager: Scott Pioli, Syracuse Grad, and current assistant GM of the Atlanta falcons... 26 years in the league with a championship player-personnel background.
Head coach: Dave Shaw, current Stanford head coach... Successful positional coaching background in the NFL at the two Positions we need help with the most
QB and WR... Shaw is a proven showrunner with an eye for talent, and a knack for offense.
Offensive coordinator: Marc Trestman, recently fired from Toronto Argonauts, known for maximizing production from QB's..
Defensive Coordinator: Leslie Frazier (Current Bills DC)
If anyone has a suggestion for special teams, I'm all ears.
U should added realistically under topic .
President of football ops - Peyton Manning . PM would bring great knowledge of football especially on offense he would give the Bills instant credibilty. He also has connections to Arians and Tom Moore which he would be instrumental in bringing them to Buffalo.
GM -Dave Caldwell - Caldwell is from Buffalo is a free agent gm in 2019 . DC has a great eye for talent on both sides of the ball and has been one of the best at drafting the last 5yrs. He also does very well at signing free agents.
HC- Bruce Arians - Has won head coach of the yr awards for 2 different teams. He brings great leadership and a vast knowledge of QB and offensive development . BA would be a perfect fit for the Bills.
OC/Play caller- Bruce Arians, Arians vertical passing game is custom made for Josh Allen. He also would have all these assets we have to help the front office bring in players that fit his system.
QB coach - Tom Moore . TM has a great working relationship with both Arians and Peyton . They can talk the old man out of retirement to take on the role of developing Allen.
DC - Keep Frasier and the rest of his staff. Keep continuity on the defense .
ST- Jerry Rosberg from the Ravens . Ravens will be firing Harbuagh soon so Rosberg could be available . JR is one of top ST coaches in the NFL for yrs.
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On 11/7/2018 at 9:57 PM, hondo in seattle said:
The Steelers have had 3 coaches since 1969 and have gone 758-458-2 with 6 SB victories.
The Bills have had 18 coaches over that same span with slightly different results.
Maybe our leadership model is wrong?
(Sidebar: The Steelers have had the same guy - Kevin Colbert - running the draft since 2000. There might be something to be said for stability).
Everyone here wants continuity but it needs to be lead by the right people. These guys are not the answer so we should move on.
The biggest prb with this front office / coaches is philosophical . They just dont got the right mind set to bulid this team. Nor do they have the right people or the answers to develop a QB. Not one guy on his staff has ever developed a QB.
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On 11/7/2018 at 7:53 PM, corta765 said:
A lot of people have been commenting that perhaps McD and Beane should be relieved or at least one changed by seasons end. Here is a look at how long coaches have had to put their program in (for better or worse):
1996-97- Marv sees Kelly retire and follows suit next season after Todd Collins doesn't pan out
1998-2000 DC Wade Phillips steps in and the team trades for Rob Johnson to be the future while adding longtime vet Flutie. Without rehashing Ralph basically forced Wade's at QB hand to the point it was easier to leave then stay. During this time Jerry Butler runs the show with a pretty strong staff including AJ Smith who turned later helped turn the Chargers around with Butler. (3 years)
2001-2003 Tom Donahoe is brought in to be the new GM after Butler resigns. Donahoe at the time was highly regarded for his work in Pittsburgh and hire's hot DC candidate Greg Williams to be the new head coach. At the time it was believed Williams could bring the defense more success while helping to smooth out the QB situation. Johnson flames out but the Bills get Bledsoe from NE. Williams in the end is relieved but was able to bring his program in. (3 Years)
2003-05 Donahoe brings in Mularkey who has some relative success both never gets a chance to put together a full team due to QB controversy and mgmt change with Donahoe being replaced by Marv. (2 Years)
2006-2009 Dick Jaruon gets the longest chance of any Bills coach with over three and half years to get his team and QB with Edwards being the guy he thought could work. (3 and 1/12 years)
2010-2012 Chan Gailey gets his shot but never gets enough talent on defense nor a chance to pick a QB of his liking. EJ was after Chan by Nix/Whaley (3 years)
2013-2014 Doug Marrone chooses to leave after building a decent program 2 years in despite Manuel's flame out (2 years)
2015-2016 Rex is given a roster with a lot of talent but still chooses to remake it as his own. Taylor being brought in is a plus given prior QB problems but his defense never gets a chance to be fully established due to injury and being relieved just 2 years in (2 years)
Overall only Jauron and Williams ever really got a chance to put their true program and QB out there. The rest the cord was pulled before they got a chance or they left. The biggest thing with this you see is how many times the deck had to be refreshed and altered because of a new coach. I really think McD and Beane should get four years just for the fact I want to see a coach for the first time in over 2 decades to truly put his stamp on a team for better or worse.
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On 11/5/2018 at 1:23 PM, Sweats said:
Rex got 2 years cause he was a buffoon........end of story
If Rex was a buffoon i wonder what we should call Mcd? McDonut? Lol
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17 hours ago, CookieG said:
Yes, he was and it was a really nice surprise, considering how little experience he had in designing a game plan.
One of the smartest things he did, and it can't be stressed enough...he went with what had worked and improved on it.
He saw that Greg Roman's playbook for the running game was working, it needed refinement. Much of the refinement came in from just getting the plays in the huddle on time.
But he knew the team could run the ball and didn't try to screw things up by changing the system. Then we had Dennison, who changed to a stretch play dominant offense because....he never ran another offense and had no desire to learn another.
Lynn doesn't run the same playbook in LA now because he has different personnel and it would be foolish to waste Rivers' talents.
There's a reason Lynn is a head coach now, and that his team is successful.
He doesn't run the same offense but there's defintely elements of it they run alot of misdirection plays.
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1 hour ago, Soda Popinski said:
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.
Carolina has built a front runner team. When they face real comp they get punked. McBeane is trying to build what they have here and it wont work. Who the hell wants to be like the Panthers anyways ?
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10 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:
Chan was the closest thing we've had to a decent OC in the last 20 years. This is a offensive dominated league. Stop hiring DC's for God's sake. Fore every Belichick you get 20 Jaurons.....Look how good Lynn looks with a viable qb....
Lynn is a very good coach look what he did with our 1 deminsional offense in 2016 we averaged 27pts per gm. We had injuries to our wr core all yr starting multiple players coming off the streets.
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10 minutes ago, Soda Popinski said:
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.I think the problem is also philosophy.
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13 hours ago, TwistofFate said:
Anytime soon.
Just finished watching today's press conference, and I can honestly say, this epic failure was not only predicted by this regime, it was expected.
McDermott gave some telling information today, and I believe the tidbit he dropped is what prompted the Pegulas to hire him.
McDermott made mentions of his usual jibber jabber, then reminded the media that he has been part of not one, but TWO franchise turn around. His first coming in 99' with Andy Reid and the Eagles, fresh off a 3 win Ray Rhodes season. His second coming with Ron Rivera, fresh off a John Fox 2 win season.
I remember quite well last year, multiple times McDermott warned the media about the product on the field and not to get carried away as there was plenty of work "ahead " of us.
Let's look at some parallels.
1999, the first thing Philly did was draft a Qb in the first round.
"In 1999, Pederson was caretaker of the quarterback position until rookie first-round pick Donovan McNabb was ready.
The fans wanted McNabb. Andy Reid didn't. And Pederson struggled.
And it was ugly."
"Pederson started the first nine games of the 1999 season, and the Eagles went 2-7 in those games, averaging 11.1 points per game on offense before Pederson was benched in favor of McNabb."
Amazing right?
Peterman and Pederson, averaging 11.1 points per game.
2011
The first thing Carolina did was draft a Qb 1st round, Cam Newton.
"The Panthers opened the 2011 season 2–6, but finished with a 6–10record,[37] and Newton was awarded the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year award"
What is currently happening in Buffalo is eerily similar to both of McDermotts past turn arounds with previous franchises.
I want to be extremely clear, I in no way believe past experiences are indicative of future results, but find some of these past parallels oddly coincidental.
We all know how it turned out for those franchises, maybe, just maybe, we will finally come out on top.
In any case, I absolutely believe what is happening here was planned for and expected. It isn't a "tank" per se, but it was an expected result.
So what did those teams win exactly. Oh Yea nothing. Thats great were following teams paths to nothingness! Lol
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4 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:
I like this idea. Basically that's what I was getting at. Kubiak was just the first name that came to mind that didn't already have a HC job at the moment.
The problem is can we sway him into coming in as an OC/offensive Guru . Pegs should open the check book make him a great offer 5yrs 25mil. Thats head coach money.
Arians had health issues before he quit . We can talk him into a less pressure situation by running the full show on offense. Maybe he takes the job. If not then kick Mcd to the curb and give him the HC job if he is up to it.
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22 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
The Rockpile Review – by Shaw66
Just Plain Bad
It’s 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Several hours earlier the Bills have lost to the Chicago, by a score of, as usual, some big number to, as usual, some number less than ten. I’m in the parking lot of the Blandford Service area on the eastbound side of Interstate 90 in Massachusetts. There on the wet pavement is a standard Buffalo Bills cap. Has it fallen accidentally out of someone’s car as they he stopped to use the facilities on the way home from the game? Or was it discarded intentionally, a deliberate and final act to terminate a relationship simply too painful to continue? Should I drop my cap there too, and my other Bills gear, forming a small, temporary memorial to two former Bills fans?
There’s bad football and there are bad football teams. Even good teams occasionally make bad plays or have bad games. In the case of the Buffalo Bills, there is little reason to make such distinctions. The Buffalo Bills are a bad football team that plays bad football and has plenty of bad games.
And to go to the heart of the matter, the Buffalo Bills have bad coaching.
In five of the Bills’ seven losses, the Bills have been uncompetitive on the scoreboard, demonstrating early in the game that they had no chance to win. In one of the seven, the Texans, the Bills made bad plays at the end of the game to lose. Looking back from the perspective of early November, the Bills’ win over the Vikings looks no less like divine intervention than Jules Winnfield surviving a barrage of bullets unharmed in Pulp Fiction .
Someone needs to tell Sean McDermott that he insults our intelligence standing at the podium each week, telling us that the Bills have to study some film, clean up some problems, play complementary football, improve, continue the process. The truth that everyone knows is that the Bills don’t clean up the problems, they don’t play complementary football and they don’t get better. The truth is that although there is some process by which football teams improve and become winners, there is no evidence that McDermott’s process is accomplishing that.
The magnitude of the Bills ineptitude is so great that the examination of any single play cannot properly demonstrate and explain the extent of the failure of the coaching of this team. However, one play from the Bills’ embarrassing loss to the Bears on Sunday is emblematic. With a minute left in the first quarter, the Bills punted, and after a return of zero yards by the Bears, Logan Thomas clearly and unnecessarily hit the return man out of bounds. A fifteen-yard penalty was assessed against the Bills.
Even semi-conscious fans immediately knew it was a stupid play, it was bad football. (By the way, being semi-conscious or worse for that game was probably the way to go.) The important point is not that the penalty was inexcusable. The important point is found in the answer to this question: Why is a football player who has been part of McDermott’s all-important “process” for one and a half seasons making that play?
The answer is that the process is failing, which means that McDermott is failing. Thomas made that play because he has failed to learn lessons that good coaches teach their players. There only a few reasons why he failed to learn the lesson: (1) The lesson isn’t taught – bad coaching. (2) The lesson is taught but not in a way that Thomas actually learns it – bad coaching. (3) The lesson is taught properly and Thomas either can’t learn or refuses to learn it; in either of those cases, Thomas should not be on the team – bad coaching.
Here’s another example: How many times yesterday did Peterman throw into the flat and have his receiver hit promptly by two defenders? At least three or four, by my recollection. One of those plays resulted in Croom fumbling and the Bears returning the recovered fumble for a touchdown, giving the Bears an insurmountable (if you’re playing the Bills) 14-0 lead. A couple of the others left me wondering if all of the appendages of the solitary Bill remained attached to his torso. Yes, Croom should have held onto the ball, but it doesn’t help to leave him 1-on-2, defenseless.
Now, think for a moment how many times you’ve seen a Bills defender one-on-one with a receiver in the flat like that. Dozens. Why is it that the Bears had two defenders out there, and the Bills have only one? The answer almost certainly is some combination of the Bears knowing the Bills tendencies, the Bears having so much respect for Croom that they decide to double cover him (really?), the Bills only have two or three receivers in the pattern, or the Bears have left some other downfield area under-protected that the Bills are not attacking.
Why is Nate Peterman throwing the ball for minimal gain into what effectively is double coverage, where his teammate is outmanned and has no help? Why isn’t he reading the defense, a pretty simple read, and throwing the ball into the under-defended area of the field? Why hasn’t Peterman learned that lesson in a year and a half? (In order to save time, I’ll just copy what I said above.) There are only a few reasons why he failed to learn the lesson: (1) The lesson isn’t taught. – bad coaching. (2) The lesson is taught but not in a way to Peterman actually learns it – bad coaching. (3) The lesson is taught properly and Peterman either can’t learn or refuses to learn it; in either of those cases, Peterman should not be on the team – bad coaching.
I’ll say it again: McDermott insults our intelligence when he asks us to trust a process that consistently fails to change how players play.
Another example: the Bills scored a touchdown (no, that is not a typographical error) and after a penalty against Chicago, the Bills opted to go for two points. What’s the play? A simple fade to Pryor in the deep corner of the end zone. Now, when teams first began throwing the fade into the end zone, eight years ago or whenever, it was novel and effective. Defensive backs have long since figured out how to defend that play; it succeeds only with a precision throw and an excellent catch. In other words, it’s a low probability play. Good football teams rarely run the straight fade any more, unless they have a great thrower and/or a great receiver. Any semi-conscious fan etc.
And please, if you ARE going to the throw the fade, at least throw to Benjamin, who is the one guy on the team who actually has an advantage over the defender.
Like a lot of coaches, McDermott is fond of saying that the coaches’ job is to put players in positions in which they can succeed. What part of asking your backup second year QB to throw a pinpoint fade to your brand new, and previously unsuccessful, young wideout (instead of your number one receiver, whose SOLE advantage is elevating for balls the defender can’t reach) is putting your players in a position to succeed?
Want another example of the creativeness of the Bills’ offensive approach? How about the wildcat? An offensive change of pace that ceased being effective maybe five years ago and that the Bills had run extensively the week before. The Bears had seen it on film and were prepared for it. But wait, the Bills really crossed up the Bears: they ran it with Pryor instead of Shady. Bad coaching.
Want a good play? Early in the game, Croom was split out into the slot, shifted into a tight slot and revealed that the Bears were man-to-man. On the snap, Croom ran a shallow slant across the defense toward the left flat, taking advantage of the mismatch and outrunning his man. Peterman hit him easily. THAT’s modern football. Did we see it again? No.
Some will argue that the problem is talent (or lack of it) and not coaching. Some will say, as an example, that the offensive was unable to open any holes for McCoy all day, and it was unable to move the Bears off the ball in multiple attempts to score from the one-yard line. Those examples are true, but it is equally true that the Bears had enormous difficulty moving the Bills off the line, too. The Bears had no more rushing success than the Bills, and the Bills often stuffed them on short yardage. Offensive line talent is spread pretty evenly across the league, and very few teams win by overwhelming their opponents with talent. (The Bills’ offensive line, by the way, did a good job protecting Peterman. Peterman, on the other hand, didn’t always do a good job finding targets and getting rid of the ball on time.)
There’s no doubt the Bills are not putting an all-star lineup on the field, but it doesn’t take talent to play smart, disciplined football. That takes coaching, and the coaching is failing.
Another example, as though another example is necessary: The punt coverage team losing containment on the return man. Shorthand this time: Either containment isn’t taught (coaching failure), it isn’t taught in a way the players can learn it (coaching failure), or the players are incapable of learning it or won’t learn it (coaching failure). It doesn’t take outstanding talent to cover punts; it takes training and execution of what’s been taught.
Bottom line: a mediocre Bears offense comes to New Era Field and is more or less completely shut down by the Bills defense, gaining only 190 yards. The Bills give up 14 points on turnovers They give up another bundle of points by giving the Bears’ offense short fields on the Thomas penalty, Peterman’s interception, and an onside kick necessitated by all the bad football earlier in the game.
That was a winnable football game for any decent team. It was out of reach early because the Bills are THAT bad.
For years I’ve told disbelieving friends that I travel to see the Bills as much as I do because I’m a loyal fan. I tell them the Bills are working on getting better. Driving home after the Bears game I had a lot of time to think about why I travel to see the Bills. There’s no good explanation other than it’s a bad habit.
My Bills caps and my sweatshirts too, and my zubas and my Bills Santa/elf cap are still in my trunk, but to be honest, I don’t know why.
GO BILLS!!!
The Rockpile Review is written to share the passion we have for the Buffalo Bills. That passion was born in the Rockpile; its parents were everyday people of western New York who translated their dedication to a full day’s hard work and simple pleasures into love for a pro football team.
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54 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:
Just a thought that I had. McDermott needs to find a guy that can let him be more "hands off," for lack of a better term, on offense. McDermott knows defense, and seems to have the right leadership skills to be a HC. But we need someone who truly can run the whole show on that side of the ball to let McD do what he does best. Kubiak just seems to be the guy that would fit that, as he's run a full team, so could run the offense quite well.
Not sure he'd take the job, or if we'd be interested. Just thought I'd throw it out
I was thinking bout something like this but instead of Kubiak how bout Arians. Hire Arians make him assistant HC/QB/OC coach. Give him full autonmy of the offense even let him help choosing the players we get in the draft and free agency on offense.
Arians is a perfect coach to develop Allen. His system is custom made for him with all those intermediate and deep passes in his offense. He also helped develop QBs such as Big Ben & Luck and he also had a big influence on rejuvenating Carson Palmers career.
This is a no brainer even if u have to fire Mcd to do it.
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1 minute ago, Wayne Arnold said:
I’m going to go ahead and call bullspit on this one.
Really. This team is on track to be outscored by 300 pts. It cant get worse then that.
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2 hours ago, jrober38 said:
Don't we have a bunch of cap space and 10 draft picks?
How are McDermott and Beane going to convince any free agents to want to come here?
This message deserves an award. How's Mr McClappy gonna talk offense with these perspective free agents. Whats his selling point ?
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2 hours ago, Wayne Arnold said:
You must not have been around the previous 17 seasons.
Ive been around for 30 plus never seen a Bills team this bad.
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2 hours ago, BigBuff423 said:
Pay a tax? Huh? Everyone complains about how all they want is to be relevant and make the playoffs, McD and staff do that IN THEIR FIRST YEAR, and now we're demanding perfection? Did anyone miss how terribly mired in mediocrity this team was for years? How many campaigned for "Suck for Luck" and now the Bills are actually doing the rebuild and fans don't want to anymore and want to fire the architect and contractor before the frame has even been finished on the house? Man, I've said it before: some of the best fans in the world are Buffalo Bills fans, but some of the WORST fans in the world are Buffalo Bills fans....
No patience, no vision, no ability to remain positive toward the future and yet miserably complain every time the team tries to do something right...yikes. We're not the laughing stock because of record or Offensive woes or stupid table breaking b.s.....fans become the laughing stock because they refuse to accept the pain of getting better for the future AFTER they've asked for it for going on 10 years. Woof....
First of all u dont know me . U dont know what kind of fan i am . Im not about to start telling u what kind of fan u are either. The problem is we are still not relevant. We haven't been relevant for nearly 20yrs.
Lets see now u said we are
#1 Not Patient- well after nearly 20yrs i don't know how much patience i have left.
#2 No Vision - i beg to differ on this one. I was never sold on McBeane from the get go. I never joined the process . Actually i predicted a horrible season this yr and i dont think these guys will ever build this team into a real contender. My vision is basically 20/20 with these guys. My vision is incredible i have begged this team for over 20yrs to draft players i have scouted its a hobby and a passion of mine to scout players and i would do it much better then these fools we got running our team. Im not gonna start a list of players i loved in the draft threwout all these yrs but ill tell u this i thought Mahomes was gonna be great and i got Allen being a bust.
#3 - Not positive - well this one was sucked out of me over the yrs by this team. I used to be the kind of fan they gave this team the benefit of not anymore not after all the hell they put us threw.
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20 minutes ago, BigBuff423 said:
You mean the same HC that gave this franchise it's first playoff birth in nearly two decades just last year???
And yes, they needed help, but when it's every other team in the NFL who makes it into the playoffs - via Wildcard - they're not torn down the same way this fan base does it with the Bills. Fact is, they still needed to win games to put themselves in a position to be in the playoffs, external help be damned.
And for those who presume a rebuild occurs in two years is either 1. 10 years old 2. older, but similar maturity.
So i guess we have to pay a tax for that fake playoff team we had. Does anybody actually look at the 2017 Bills and think wow what a football team? The reality is Mcd has been outscored for 2 yrs now . He found a way to turn us into basically a expansion team.
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1 minute ago, jrober38 said:
I can see the connection to the Cowboys, but not the Titans. I think Vrabel is actually a forward thinking guy.
One thing I'm sure of is that we're not trying to play like the Cheifs, Rams or Saints. Sean McDermott has not shown he wants to play football the way those coaches do.
Its really sad this team makes me feel sick. Iv'e been watching the Bills for over 30yrs never felt like this about them.
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17 hours ago, jrober38 said:
No surprise here.
We have a HC who ignores the math, and wants to run the ball and play defense and likes punting on the opponents 40 yard line when it's 4th and short.
Our HC has absolutely nothing in common with any of the top coaches you see around the NFL.
This is Dick Jauron 2.0.
His dream team is the teams on MNF yesterday the Cowboys and Titans. We are building to play like them.
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11 hours ago, John from Riverside said:
The bills are doing exactly what they are trying to do get a top 5 pick in this next draft
i don’t like how bad they look on offense either but the fact is they are trying to avoid overpaying for free agents in the offseason to fix this mess
you do that by drafting high because less of a chance to screw it up
This season is LOST it was always going to be LOST if you can get your mind wrapped around that it will help with your sanity
It does not matter if you lose by 1 or 100 a loss is a loss
This team is tanking so it can acquire blue chip talent and not have to pay for it they are going to target specific free agents and draft at the big money positions
be patient
Stop giving these guys a excuse of a tank. This is not in anyway shape or form a tank. Not by purpose not at all. Even if by some chance it was you shouldnt look this bad as a team.
McBeane need to go.................. .
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On 10/30/2018 at 2:54 PM, BillsEnthusiast said:
Come on Scott. I'm talking about Kareem Hunt, Travis Kelce, Tyreek Hill, Sammy Watkins, and a stellar offensive line.
The problem with this is you act like we are not allowed to have guys like this. The problem is the men running this football team they can't find or develop offensive talent . They also don't have the philosophy to build an elite offense. Mcd is a defense first coach and everything else needs to complement his D. His view of a great offense is a strong running gm that keeps his defense fresh and keep the gm close so we can steal the gm in tge 4th quarter with a couple fgs.
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On 10/30/2018 at 2:45 PM, oldmanfan said:
Because facts are dangerous things around here.
Since your bringing up facts. If u dont have a coach that can develop a QB nor can he bring in or develop offensive talent . That guy shouldn't be your head coach or even worse in this case the defacto GM/Head Coach.
Im tired of people making excuses for the lack of coaching or talent . When the guy that there protecting Mcd is the sole reason for these prbs.
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4 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
Say it all you want. If ranting like this makes you feel better, fine. But it has nothing to do with reality. McDermott and Beane will be here in the off-season planning for free agency and the draft. They will undoubtedly look to bring talent into the offense, and despite the moaning about it being a bad FA class there are lineman out there like Stafford and Paradis that would help this team immensely. They hopefully will find guys like Poyer and Hyde, solid players who were a little bit under the radar but have done very well for us. And they have the draft. People slam their ten picks for having some of them in lower rounds, but they can either package them or depend on their scouts to find guys like Milano or Johnson from this past year. People slammed Jones, but he is starting to come along. Dawkins will be their fixture at LT. They drafted what they hope to be their long term QB. So quit with the stuff about not having a clue on offensive talent. Daboll depending on who you read has done a pretty good job with concepts, although there is criticism that can be laid there (like running shotgun too much last game).
This board is replete with these kinds of posts. Exactly what purpose do they serve, when everyone here knows that Beane and McDermott are coming back? The only possible scenario where there would be an iota of a chance of that not happening is if the team loses the rest of the year, with huge losses in each game. And that's not going to happen. McD has shown he can fire up his team to perform even after big losses. My prediction at the beginning of the year was 6 wins. That's pretty close to what they'll get, maybe 5. And they'll then have to have a productive off-season; that is on them. But turn it all upside down yet again, with a GM that's had one draft and one off-season? That is not happening.
So continue barking at the moon all you want if it makes you feel better. Some of us will continue to exist in the real world.
I guess u dont like the facts. Keep living in your fantasy world.
If Zay pans out, McD's first two drafts are awesome
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Amazing how 1 win vs a team that quit in the Jets can get Bills fans motivated.