Ethan in Cleveland
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McDermott starting Peterman against the Chargers on the road to keep the media from asking him how his defense gave up over 200 yards rushing at home to the Saints
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3 hours ago, The Jerk said:
I remember Chan's second season started out great.
Went into KC and laid a major beatdown on the Chiefs.
Won a shootout at home against the Raiders.
Finally ended the losing streak against NE after being down 21-0.
Then the rest of the season happened.
I was at KC and in Buffalo for both games. KC is a great away game to visit.
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6 hours ago, Buffalo Barbarian said:
Ted Washington, to stop the run.
Metzelars because we need a great TE.
You realize in ten years in a Bills uniform Metzelaars had less than 3000 yards receiving and only one season over 600 yards. He was never great but sadly probably the best of the worst position group in Bills history.
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In order based on current team need,
1. Bruce
2. Will Wolford or Jason Peters
3. Kent Hull
4. Ruben Brown
5. Eric Moulds
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Good OC. He was fine as a HC in terms of game decisions. He just picked the wrong DCs. Dave frickin Wannstedt ended his career as a HC.
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Thurman Thomas SuperBowl XXV
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He is a top 15 LT when healthy and there are multiple teams with tens of millions in cap space. If he is cut he will be paid by someone unless his medical report is bad. If that is the case he might need to sign a one year prove it type of deal. Somehow I don't think it will be in between. If it is felt he can play, first Cincy won't cut him and second if they did he will get paid a lot.
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1 hour ago, jwhit34 said:
Probably for the league minimum or close to it. Probably gave him a small signing bonus (less than $100k) so if he doesn't make the team it really doesn't matter in terms of dead cap.
Signing any of the squids (last 10 on the 53) is fine. They will go to camp with 90. With Alexander and Sirles signing they have 51 under contract that were on the 53 at some point this year (some went to IR). They will draft 10 players which gets them to 61. With all the cap room maybe they use $60 million of it and sign 10-12 players that have played in the league (a few expensive guys but probably 4-5 that will probably cost no more than $6-7 million total if history is any indicator). At a minimum that makes the competition much better than in the past: 70-73 guys who have played in the league or are '19 draft picks. That means probably less than 20 roster fillers, which includes any undrafted FA from the '19 class, of which they usually have at least 6 of those guys. That leaves maybe a dozen roster spots for filler guys, which is probably half as many as in the past. So that's good.
They will not draft ten guys. McBeane's history is wasting picks and moving up in the draft. Fortunately the only wasted picks they can use are day three picks. They will package the late round picks and probably try to get a higher 2020 pick. The only way they use ten picks is if 3 of them are PK, P, and LS.
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They need a young pass rushing OLB in the first round not a DT.
I think a veteran DT would be wise but not top priority. They need to spend their FA dollars on ay least two high end starters on the Oline. Add in the glaring need at TE and DT falls even further down the need list.
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7 hours ago, mjt328 said:
Assistant O-Line Coach from the Colts.
About 9 days ago, everyone was raving about the Colts blocking and how we needed to build our O-Line just like them.
They drafted a G at #6. That is how you build the OL. Not with a coach.
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TE is the historically worst position the Bills have ever had outside of perhaps PK.
Researching before I posted, I found only Ernie Warlick has ever made the ProBowl as a TE. I didn't know much about him but after reading a bit he sounds like he was a great player but for a short period of time.
The rest of the bunch have been physically average neither possessing speed or size to any dominant degree. Metzelaars was tall but never a dominant blocker. He amassed just over 100 catches during the four SuperBowl years COMBINED.
Even an aging Tony Gonzalez would have been the best TE in history had he not blocked the trade from KC to Buffalo.
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Just now, teef said:
they really don't need to make the playoffs next year. it will be disappointing if the bills win 7, but i'm willing to be the pegulas would be more than happy to give this staff another year.
Sadly I think you are correct. I would not agree with it but I think you are correct. McD talks his process crap and i'm sure the Pegulas eat it up. Yet his process and Beane's moves made the roster worse, was wrong on every challenge in 2018, and had one of the worst penalized teams in the NFL.
1 minute ago, HardyBoy said:Third place schedule impacts two games, that's it, you play 7/8ths the same schedule as the rest of you division. Plus teams going from third in a division to first each year is really common (except the AFC East...fml).
Two games against AFC 3rd place finishers plus four more against Jets/Miami. Add two more games against the 3rd and 4th place finisher of the NFC division they play next year and that is 8 games against bottom feeders. The time to win is at hand.
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Just add two new pieces to the line, add a WR, and draft an OLB and this team can easily win 10 games on a 3rd place schedule. They don;t even need to use all the cap space to fill all the problems. Bodine was just above awful and if he is the worst player on the line then that would be ok. Personally I would bring back Mills and sign veteran C and RG, draft an OT, and find a TE somewhere. Then have to hope Teller and Dawkins get better
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2 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
I don't think they need to make the playoffs in 2019. I think they need to improve... 7 wins they probably stay, 8 or more and progress from Allen they definitely stay.
2020 is the year when I think they HAVE to make the postseason again. By that point this will be their team lock, stock and barrell.
7 wins in year 3, playing a 3rd place schedule and you give them a pass? 7 wins can't happen unless Allen gets hurt. If Allen bombs then they both get fired. They pushed all the chips in and used multiple picks for Allen. I think it was the right pick but if he regresses then they have to lose their jobs. It doesn't take long to get better. Must make playoffs in 2019 barring injury or crazy tiebreaker scenarios
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Barring no injuries, it is playoffs or bust for me. Three years is more than enough time in today's NFL. They chose to go the rebuild route and they are the ones that created the dead cap space. Therefore they must produce in 2019. Anything less than the playoffs and I fire both of them unless there are mitigating circumstances like crazy injuries or they win 10 games but still end up out of the playoffs on tiebreakers.
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On 1/8/2019 at 6:29 AM, Chuck Wagon said:
Using the Bills in that scenario was always dumb. It's pretty clear all the talk about us being the worst team in the league was way off base.
With Peterman at QB I don't think they win 2 games all year
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14 hours ago, matter2003 said:
An excellent job? His defense finished near the bottom in every statistical category...
You mean the guy who got almost 25 PPG from this offense over the last 7 games of the season? Not the best performance in the NFL but pretty damn good considering what we had to work with...
Maybe you should actually be aware of the facts before you post silliness
You missed the point. Daboll's offenses in the NFL have not been historically that good. And yet he keeps getting OC jobs. Its the same thing. Only of course Daboll is white and now on the Bills staff and Joseph is black and not a Bills hire. The analogy is spot on.
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59 minutes ago, BillyWhiteShows said:
Didn’t they announce the Dennison firing before they hired Daboll last year?
1 day apart
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Byrd may have been the luckiest player in Bills history. Many of his INTs seem to be terribly thrown balls where Byrd wasn't even in good position to make a play on the WR. But he is still the best of the list.
AW was ok at safety. A bit overrated.
Parrish was dangerous at times.
Dawkins regressed this year but is still solid.
Darby will be an interesting story to play out. He was given away for a rent for a year WR that was terrible. He has played well for Philadelphia though injured twice. I was ok with the trade because I thought Darby played fairly poorly in year two with Rex but then again so did the entire defense.
Rest are awful. What a terrible track record of drafts. And then add in all the picks given away to move up
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Oh please. Drafting Mahomes would not have brought Andy Reid, Tyreek Hill, and Travis Kelce.
If and it is still to be determined, Allen and Edmunds are high level players for years even if not MVP caliber they make that trade everytime. A DB, MLB, and QB will be the cornerstones for the team. Now they just need to fix the line and get a WR.
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25 minutes ago, NewEra said:
Needs lots of improvement vs the run. I believe we should sign Thomas Davis and have him play SLB while Lorax plays a bit of everything along the DL. Davis can then teach Edmunds certain keys that will help him with his calls going forward,
Draft a pass rushing OLB. That is the missing piece on this defense. Let Shaq and Lorax rotate at DE.
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LOL. Even in a season highlights video they can't find one great catch.
Off-season can't come soon enough
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6 hours ago, Chicken Boo said:
At #9, any offensive lineman that won't be playing LT come September.
So you would you have passed on Quenton Nelson if available at 9? Or are you saying there are no OL worthy in in 2019?
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#8 made more great catches in one single quarter of football than the entire Bills WR group did in two years.
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If you could add ANY former (non QB) Bill in history to this team now who would it be
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Bruce and Thurman are of course two of the three best players in Bills history. I agree with Bruce at top value, as adding a pass rusher opposite Hughes is a great idea. I want to target OL in FA and add a pass rushing OLB in first round.
But you can't understate how bad this OL is. Therefore if you want to make the biggest impact to 2019 with a former player, you can make an argument for any one of three or four top OL the Bills have had over the years.