BillsFan1988
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20 minutes ago, Billsfanatixs said:
Look at Mahomes numbers when Sammy was playing vs out. He is valuable, let's leave him on the bench till playoffs 😁
Sammy did earn his title in 2019. He had 366yds on 19catches and a TD in those playoffs. Without him they probably don't come BK vs Houston.
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25 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I guess I'm not quite sure what your intended point is here?
At the start of this season we could say "Beasley's career best of 833 yds on 75 receptions was 4 years ago in 2016 when he was 27 years old. Now he's 31". And dang if he didn't come 1 broken fibula/missed game from breaking 1000 yds in 2020 (did, if you add playoffs).
At the start of last season we could say "John Brown's career best of 1003 yds on 65 receptions was 4 years ago in 2015 when he was 25 years old. Now he's 30 and on his 3rd team in 3 years". And durn if he didn't set a new career best of 1060 yds on 72 receptons last season.
Is your point that to be a good WR who helps the Bills win a guy has to crack 1000 yds?
Or are you trying to highlight the effect of crap QB play and/or how he's used in the scheme on a WR's contributions?
Or....help me out here....??
Sounds like u have alot of excuses all ready to go . How many other wrs in this league can u say that very same thing about bad QB play.
I respect ES game but he's nowhere near the player he once was im just pointing that fact that he hasn't reached 1000 in nearly half a decade . I watched alot of Saints football last yr and he seemed more effective working out of the slot where can find the soft spots in the zones over the middle . He's a savvy vet no doubt that can help us . I'm just saying temper it down a little he's not gonna blow up a D like he did a few yrs bk . What he will do is move the sticks a couple times a gm.
He's our 6mil vet for 2021 following other has beens that received the same deal from us over the last few yrs like Vontae Davis or Josh Norman. I would of liked to see the Bills go another direction get a little younger and faster at the position but what the hell do I know I'm not an NFL GM.
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15 hours ago, newcam2012 said:
Without getting into salary and cap numbers (which is impossible) I would really like Fuller and Galloway in a Bills uniform.
Looks like it's too late for that we blew our load already. Btw those guys aren't old enough to get into Club McBeane u got to be 30+ to get in. Lol.
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13 hours ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:
All I'm saying is he isn't going to give you the 1,404 yards he gave you when he was 27 in Denver.
He's a #3 at this point, and all indications are he will give the Bills 600-900 yards this season.
That's a #3 on this team.
I don't get excited because Emmanuel Sanders is coming. He takes John Brown's spot, who doesn't really make a difference in the trajectory of any team he's on either.
#3 WRS don't add to Vegas win totals or change the betting lines on games. He's a rotational piece on this team. You're telling fans to get excited. I'm telling you I'm not excited. I don't think he is going to do much of note here. He's old, and his best seasons are behind him. He's had a nice career, he was a quality #2 WR for a couple of years. That's a long time ago now.
Also, I posted the leaders in yardage the last few years and their age, because you said age isn't really a factor and I disagree with that too.
For most skill players their best years come earlier, not later, in their careers.
Sanders is past his prime. Not useless, but it's a big signing 5 years ago, not now.
I would like to add to this ES hasn't reached 1,000 yds since 2016 . It's been 5 yrs and he was 29yrs old the last time he cracked 1000 yds.
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2 hours ago, Mcg said:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/EJA572/history/20210317/1757Z/KMIA/KPWK
The same kid that got that hall signing right for sabre's.
Maybe there going for a deep dish! I prefer Imperial when I'm in Buffalo.
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5 hours ago, Tipster19 said:
The guy is a playmaker and he would be a great addition, actually making a softer position for the Bills into a strength. This defense needs a player like Mosley, he could be the difference in making this defense formidable.
What would of made this team formidable was a pass rusher havoc wreaker. Instead we opted to sign a 3rd/4th string Wr. Lol
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11 hours ago, TC in St. Louis said:
Jerry Rice was bringing it when he was 50 years old! How old was Lofton when we got him? Come on, man. Dude's a professional football player. I think Lofton was 33 or 34 when we got him.
Last time I checked those were HOF players. ES is a good to very good player in his prime. He's not in his prime anymore a steep decline can be coming soon . Let's hope it's not this season.
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6 hours ago, Rochesterfan said:
How do you figure?
Lawson’s best year with sacks was his rookie year by far - he has not been getting better - he has been getting more snaps with less production per snap. 2019 was more productive than last year as he had 5.0 sacks on 477 defensive snaps. He had more tackles for loss and played better all around.
In 16 games in 2020 and well over 120 additional snaps - he got 0.5 more sacks than Mario Addison for the Bills. (A guy you and several other posters are killing for his production). He also had less overall tackles and less tackles for loss than Addison in all of those extra snaps.
He is younger than Addison, but he is getting paid more than 2x what Addison is paid for less production (both career averages and last season per snap).
Look I liked Lawson and would of been fine with him on the Bills at a reasonable contract - around Addison/Murphy level. At nearly 2x at - his pass rushing is not good enough to warrant that kind of money. Heck Lawson had fewer sacks than Shaq Lawson did for the Bills in 1/2 the snaps in 2019.
Watching the Bengals- he was noticeably on a few occasions, but he never popped. He was Shaq Lawson, Mario Addison type player - getting push - making a few plays, but rarely flat out beating a tackle 1:1. He is a good player, but I think the Jets way over paid - same as they did with Corey Davis - a speed guy with questionable hands.
U forgot to mention Lawson was 4th in the NFL in QB pressures and he's on a team that's losing most of the time. Do u realize how hard it is to do that? If Lawson was playing for the Bills in 2020 he would of gotten more then 10sks and his pressures would of been more so.
The Bills were leading for most of there games which allows Pass rushers to tee off and collect sacks and hurries the fact is as a team we only compiled 39sks and most of those sacks came when we sent the blitz. To me that's flat out awful especially since we spent over 50mil on our DLINE to get those results. Addison never popped on film he never stood out to me he was a awful investment and u know it. Beane had a chance to wipe his hands clean with Addison and Butler but he choose continuity instead of signing 1 of these young stud DEs . The problem with continuity is u can also continue to suck and I think that will be the case here.
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13 hours ago, HappyDays said:
The best thing we could have done this offseason is keep last year's team as intact as possible while making upgrades at our two biggest weaknesses, namely offensive speed and pass rush.
We can draft offensive speed and probably still make room to sign one of the available free agent pass rushers with a couple restructures and cuts. I expect that Beane knows this and will make it a priority.
If we upgrade on those two weaknesses, and hopefully at least a couple of our young players take a big step this year, we are ready to compete for the Super Bowl. Especially with the Chiefs losing starters, the gap has closed.
I would of liked to see at least a upgrade at RG and bring someone in threw the draft to compete with Ford
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15 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Devin Singletary (4.6) and Zach Moss (4.3) both averaged more than the league averaged per carry.........and yet the team average was 4.2........so crediting the success to Allen and pinning the failure on the two lead RB's isn't an argument that holds water.
I will say this........the blocking was so underwhelming for such a long stretch of the season in the run game that I felt that late in the season Singletary and Moss stopped trusting it. They were hit in the hole by unblocked defenders so regularly that they stopped hitting it as hard. I think we saw that in the finale against the Dolphins when early on I thought the RB's left some yards on the table.....and then when Williams came in he ran with abandon thru those holes and got impressive results.
The backs are plenty capable.......the numbers back it up.......they produce and are strong relative to the league in yards after contact.
As for replacing them........Leonard Fournette is a much more impressive beast of a RB than Najee Harris and Travis Etienne...........and he's a career 3.9 ypc RB and only averaged 3.8 last year in Tampa.
If you don't block it up it doesn't matter if you are a generational talent............and if you do block well then your RB doesn't have to be great to put up huge numbers.
Im not pinning all the blame on Singletary and Moss. Im saying they are apart of the blame the other is Daboll vanilla running Schemes and yes of course the run blocking which btw we brought back pretty much the same crew so for us to get better now it's gonna have to be part scheme and part development in Moss and Singletary games. Or we can just hit on a late round pk or maybe even give Ant Will a chance he looks to more explosive then those guys too me.
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4 hours ago, SCBills said:
If we re-sign Feliciano, you have a point.
However, to date there is no reason to believe he’s coming back, and if he doesn’t, that means 2/5ths of the OL (both Guard spots) could be different from what we saw for the majority of last year.
Another Beane shocker . I guess we can take his press conference with a grain of 🧂.
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I thought this group couldn't run block though. What happened with that.
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1 hour ago, BADOLBILZ said:
The running game was disappointing and the backs were part of that but I think we have it out of perspective.
They were pretty much a middle of the pack running team........about 19th in ypc and attempts but 11th in big plays(20+) and 3rd in the % of their runs that went for first downs.
There is a perception that they are really bad at it, but relative the the rest of the league they aren't.
As you said.........they can get A LOT better if they just block better. Their RB's are unspectacular but they also have very good #'s in terms of yards after contact........they are more than sufficient if you give them a gap to run thru. The Bills OL really struggled to block for the run last season.
I think those big runs came mostly from Josh .
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2 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:
Don't get me wrong, Aaron Jones is the man and I would love him in a Bills uniform but I think he is gonna be commanding too high of a salary.
Chris Carson is said to average about $7-8 million a year on the market which honestly isn't to bad. Before last season in which he was hurt he had an 1100 yard and 1200 yard season and has been reliable as a pass catcher out of the backfield. Maybe something like a 4yr $30 million contract is reasonable. That would come out to about $7 million a season.
I read somewhere that Chris Carson is the best back in the league when it comes to broken tackles and he is a bruising type of back.
As far as Henry, he's young, talented and would easily improve our TE corps. A nice weapon for Josh. Beane sounded like he wanted to improve the TE position at his end of year press conference so I'm interested to see what happens.
I'm not saying to sign both but one or the other. Both would be helpful
How bout Mack for Vet min ?
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44 minutes ago, SCBills said:
If we re-sign Feliciano, you have a point.
However, to date there is no reason to believe he’s coming back, and if he doesn’t, that means 2/5ths of the OL (both Guard spots) could be different from what we saw for the majority of last year.
I really believe it was a mixture of Scheme, Blocking and the Backs that was the problem running last season.
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2 hours ago, Thurman#1 said:
Great logic.
And no, we absolutely did NOT go less power last year. Just the opposite. Less pulling. More power. That's why the guys they've brought in have been big strong and not especially athletic. They haven't brought in a nifty interior guy since Morse, and they've switched OL coaches since then.
How's this for a comeback with equal argumentative logic and power: "Our backs don't suck. Just face it."
Convincing, right? Thank you. I got it from you. Credit where credit is due.
Thing is, Beane agrees with me and disagrees with you. And yes, he's bringing back most of the OL, they were really good at pass protection, and that's what this team values most in an OL. Which will not help any new RB any more than it helped Moss and Singletary.
And I'm sure they want a game breaker in the backfield just like you. It's just not likely to be as high a priority on a team that has one of the highest pass:run ratios in the league as it appears to be for you.
But they're clear that the OL was most of the problem last year, even if you're not.
Bills ran mostly inside zone in 2020 not much power. Btw power running Schemes have pulling, counters, sweeps there's definitely a ton of different concepts in power it's not just plowing up the middle on every play.
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3 minutes ago, BillsFan1988 said:
We actually went away from man power scheme last season to more zone scheme. That was actually a very bad idea considering our backs don't have the speed necessary to threaten the outside much.
Our backs suck just face it. Btw Beane wants to throw the oline under the bus but he's signing those guys back so don't believe everything u hear.
Singletary is not a game breaker he's a game wrecker that Mcd doesn't trust. Moss looks like a the old version of Frank Gore. These guys are JAGs u even said it just solid we'll I don't want solid I want a game breaker in the backfield that's what this Offense is missing.
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1 minute ago, Thurman#1 said:
They're not just JAGs, they're solid, good backs. No, not breakaway threats, but good players. Their YPAs a
And it wasn't the RBs who were the problem, it was the line and the system. How many times do we need Brandon Beane to say this before we know that they are indeed the answer.
The Bills have been going towards a power scheme since they switched OL coaches last offseason. The RBs aren't the reason they're not doing sophisticated running schemes.
This team wants to throw the ball most of the time. As well they should. And for a team that wants to do that, spending a 3rd, a 3rd and then a 1st on an RB just is not smart resource management.
I expect that they might well go RB on day 3. That could be an upgrade. But I think they feel that the upgrade will come from the development of some of our younger OLs, some more OL continuity and more offseason work time together, maybe drafting another OL earlyish, Cody Ford staying healthy, etc.
We actually went away from man power scheme last season to more zone scheme. That was actually a very bad idea considering our backs don't have the speed necessary to threaten the outside much.
Just now, BillsFan1988 said:We actually went away from man power scheme last season to more zone scheme. That was actually a very bad idea considering our backs don't have the speed necessary to threaten the outside much.
Our backs suck just face it. Btw Beane wants to throw the oline under the bus but he's signing those guys back so don't believe everything u hear.
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The Magic Beane has a DE trick up his sleeve and his name is Carl Lawson. Lawson was 4th in NFL at pressures on a bad team that's pretty hard to do considering teams are usually running out the clock on them . We'll restucture a player or 2 and get this done I feel it in my bones. Lol.
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9 minutes ago, Thurman#1 said:
The only time that Beane or McDermott have done that is when they spent the previous year accumulating massive amounts of draft capital with the intention of trading up for a franchise QB.
Maybe. Maybe not. Opinion.
And comparing the behavior of two teams is perfectly fair, especially when replying to someone who said that the Chiefs went to the SB the year after drafting an RB in the first. And again, when the Chiefs picked an RB in the first, they had not picked RBs in the 3rd round the previous two years.
I personally am more interested in countering the Chiefs than copying them, but when a guy suggests we copy them, of course it makes sense to point out the differences between the two situations.
I agree it's better to counter then to copy. I also agree that our blocking wasn't the best last season but I believe it was a mixture of Scheme, Blocking and our backs that didn't allow us to be better more efficient running game. We faced 6 man boxes almost more then any other team and our backs couldn't make those teams pay for it.
Now we know Singletary and Moss are limited in there skill sets so that might have alot to do with us not running more sophisticated running Schemes. Btw how many times do we need to see Singletary benched during a playoff game to know he's not the answer? He was benched in 2019 vs Houston and also benched vs KC after that crucial dropped pass that in my opinion changed the whole complex of the game. If it's not Ettiene or Harris or even Javonta Williams I would love to see an upgrade in our bkfield somehow. I'm not a believer in Moss or Singletary there just JAGs
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7 minutes ago, Thurman#1 said:
Yup. And selecting that RB provided the kind of rocket fuel to their team performance that allowed them to go from winning a Super Bowl all the way up to losing one the next year.
I also noticed that they had NOT taken RBs in the 3rd round two years in a row.
Did KC struggle against the better teams in 2019 when they won the Super Bowl despite being 23rd in the league at YPC?
Adding another weapon seems like a good possibility. That it would be a running back is not a necessity.
Ettiene is a much better prospect then CEH . With that being said we're not KC people need to stop comparing the 2 teams not fair for either of them.
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On 3/11/2021 at 6:00 PM, BADOLBILZ said:
They won't be SB caliber for long if they draft for need and ignore positional value.
I was thrilled when the Chiefs took CEH in round 1 last year........RB availability does not move the Vegas line for a reason.
As fun as it is to see a RB who can break a few long ones and average over 5 yards per carry..........your average pass attempt should be 7-8 yards if you have a good QB.
Handing the ball off is not your best play as much as it is just a necessity to do a certain % of the time.........and that fraction of a yard difference between an average one and an outstanding one just isn't that impactful over the course of a season.
This might be right in the regular season but as we seen in the playoffs if your 1 demensional your going to struggle against the better teams.
Ettiene will make our offense matchup proof and all world in my opinion. His abilities in the run gm as well as the pass would open things up for others.
Our offense was a machine last season now we need to add another weapon or the league will catch up with us.
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12 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
Beane loves them 30+ defensive lineman.
More like he loves them 30+ at any position. Lol
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19 hours ago, yall said:
Good friend of mine with pretty accurate sources tells me he has reason to believe Star Lotulelei is gonna get cut. Based on what he shared with me, seems very possible.
From a cap perspective, does it make sense? I didn't get the feeling he was a likely candidate for release.
From what I read he saves 4.7 mil on the total cap but there's alot of dead money.
Maybe he's not in shape to come back or the Bills got word that he might opt out again .
I absolutely HATE our team’s focus on Special Teams
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Yea Man and why do we only activate only 2 RBs on game days? And why do they both somehow look like versions of the 37yr old Frank Gore. Why? Lol.