Buffalo Junction
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In related news….
New Balance is exited to be extending their sponsorship of Toma, and will be celebrating the extension with a hybrid lawn mowing and golfing training shoe to be released on Fathers Day 2024.
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10 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:
I agree with that last paragraph up to a point. McD is the Head Coach. Let's treat him as that. Put a real DC in place (I think Holcomb called plays in the past?), and let's see if that makes him a better HC who has to run the offense and defense. If he can't, then it's time to look elsewhere. Coordinator and HC are vastly different roles, as you point out.
Yup. Holcomb called plays last year as interim DC in Carolina, and before that as DC in Arizona
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I hope he’s not sick or dealing with a tragedy.
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If Benford is transitioning to safety then getting a FA to start for at least the beginning of the year is a good idea. It’s a position in flux due to Poyer (FA), along with Hyde and Hamlin’s injuries. I’d almost want to see a vet like Adrian Amos brought in on a 2-3 year deal to cover a Benford transition and possible injury to Hyde who may be gone after this upcoming season.
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Excellent opportunity for Webb. He’s certainly put in enough work to earn a reputation around the league to get this job. Perhaps he’ll be ready for an OC promotion when Dorsey/Brady move on.
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36 minutes ago, Manther said:
It is not over. But, he is being extremely stubborn and unrealistic and it is negatively effecting his career.
He does not have an agent, correct? Another example of being stubborn and counting every penny. Rarely can someone double dip both ends AND win. He seems to not be the exception.
Richard Sherman and Roquan Smith did it, but there are a couple notable differences. Neither are QBs, and they both scored much higher on the wonderlic. Sherman graduated from Stanford. Roquan Smith majored in economics and has a track record of shrewd contract manipulation going back to national signing day.
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I hope Lamar gets paid and resets the market. Allen is already signed long term to relatively team friendly deal. A monster deal to Lamar early in the off-season would put a ton of pressure on the Bengals, Chargers, and possibly Jaguars later to tie up their cap with exorbitant QB contracts and guarantees moving forward.
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52 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Yeah I gotta' disagree with @C.Biscuit97 that KC receiving corps sucks.
Kelce is great, obviously, and the position he plays is basically a slot receiver which makes for tons of what amounts to "easy pitch and catch" for Mahomes. Then Juju is a solid #2......and a high end slot receiver. Basically their corps is built from the inside out which is a philosophy the Bills should be using, IMO, rather than trying to patch up the slot with modest talent again.
Outside MVS and Gabe Davis are the closest equivalents of two WR's types of production as you will see in the NFL. MVS clocks much faster but they make the same kind of plays and failures.
And KC knew that all wasn't quite enough so they went out and grabbed the big play talent in Toney.
Their WR corps doesn't have that 1A + 1B that it had in years past but it's deep, with 3 players who should be on $10M+ aav deals after Juju re-signs and recent 1st and 2nd round picks in Toney and Moore.
The bigger difference is that KC shored up its Oline, and turned it into a strength. That improved the running game and allowed Mahomes extra time to find the 3rd and 4th option. Couple that with the best offensive coach in the game and Kelce and you have a formula that works. Their WR corps doesn’t suck, but it’s a lot of guys who fill specific roles and need some additional scheming (Reid’s strength).
By contrast, we had a first year OC trying to scheme around an Oline that too often had Knox’s routes delayed while chipping, and Allen playing off script after his first or second read. This Bills team certainly needs more talent at WR, but without fixing the Oline they won’t be able to use upgraded talent consistently. They absolutely need to find some improved physical talent though. Maybe shore up guard, see if they can nab a Paris Campbell on a prove it deal, and find a reliable slot. No clue how they do it with the current cap, but 🤷♂️ it’s gotta happen.
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21 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
Zay Jones looks like a 1980’s Dominican porn star that does his scenes in a bedroom with a faded lime green colored wall and a flag in place of a headboard.
Nah. He’s chasing Tina Turner now instead of Jesus.
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8 hours ago, UConn James said:
To cough the ball up at the 2 yard line in his ONLY job? Taiwan should have kissed Josh & Gabe on the feet for saving his @— on the next play with a 98-yard TD. There was another major flub he made on ST this season too, but it eludes me rn.T Jones is getting quite long in the tooth (34? 35?) and his play does not justify a vital roster spot. Keeping Kumerow on the roster when injured meant we lost Hodgins… who may or may not be a steal for Daboll & Schoen / NYG… and then we were forced to scrounge up John Brown & Beasley late in the year.
ST is important and all that jazz… but… not as much as it once was.
Touching the ball on that punt which ended up as a turnover. Doesn’t devalue having core teamers, but it does accentuate the need to pay the correct guys if you’re paying for specialists; same as every other position. I’d like to see better roster management on teams, as well as Oline, Dline, WR. Kumerow should have been put on IR.
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9 minutes ago, Victory Formation said:
Packers have stumbled upon some unreal talent over the years, but they only got two rings out of Rodgers and Favre combined. I’m not sure if it’s because they’re not a big market team or if they’re playing money ball. They do draft well but I don’t think they’re committed to winning.
Ted Thompson was certainly a moneyball guy. I can’t recall him signing a single big ticket free agent during his whole term as GM. The biggest was probably Julius Peppers who they got at a considerable discount because he wanted to play as a 3-4 rush backer to wind down his career.
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47 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
Get rid of punting.
Why not. It worked against New England the other year.
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4 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Ed Oliver is better than an average starter. He isn't consistently dominant which I know is what you hope for from a top 10 pick so I can take disappointing. But that doesn't make him average. When he was fully healthy this past year he was one of our better players.
As good as Oliver can be at times, he tends to not be a primary difference maker. He will beat 1 v 1 matchups and often not they washed by double teams, but if you take out Von and/ Jones he tends to perform in the average range. By that I mean he doesn’t make splash plays often or usually keep the second blocker in a combo from climbing to the second level.
That said, him not developing further could be due to injuries, or it might be on coaching. I don’t have an answer there, but I do think he has the potential to improve.
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4 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
It’s the old special teams are 1/3 of the game thinking. The NFL changed the rules which allows for no return the majority of kickoffs. Coach to the rules. The best kick cover teams allow around 20 yards a return. Most of the NFL is right around 20-25 yards a return.
If the rules stay the same just kick it out of the end zone. Getting a few yards extra isn’t worth it.
I’m not worried about kickoffs. The issue is that many of the best special teamers (guys who stay in the league and get paid) excel in multiple roles on teams. Experienced upbacks usually call and change protections on punts and are also some of the best tacklers in kick coverage. While going for touchbacks will eliminate KO coverage it still leaves blocking and covering punts which are frequent spots for turnovers or flipped field position.
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Playing to Beane’s strengths would be trading 2nd and 3rd round picks for starters and drafting rounds 1, 4, 5, 6 & 7. His first round record isn’t bad; Allen (top 3 QB), Edmunds (gonna get $18+MM), trade for Diggs (all pro), Oliver (average starter), Rousseau (stout starting DE that’s improving), Elam (showed flashes). Oliver has been disappointing, but he was a consensus top 10 talent.
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Because having good special teams usually won’t win you a game, but bad special teams play can often lose you a game. The tighter the game is the more influence special teams has with turnovers, field position, and momentum. Poor jammers or up backs can lead to turnovers, bad gunners can lead to big returns, bad holders lead to missed field goals, etc. There’s a reason why guys like Taiwan Jones and Kumerow make rosters every year.
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42 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
The bigger worry on Basham is they said he was under consideration late first where they took Greg. I honestly think that was just an evaluation whiff. He was likely sticking out on their board at the end of the second so much so that they had to take him. But he isn't the guy they thought he was. I remember he had one super fan on this forum in the run up to that draft and I kept asking him "how does he win in the NFL?" And I never got an answer. As I suspected the reality was - he doesn't.
I had the thought when drafted that they might have him add 15-20 pounds and move to a hybrid DE/3-tech role as he was at his best pass rushing when bumped inside at Wake Forest. Basically take a shot at getting what they didn’t get from signing Quentin Jefferson. 🤷♂️.
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14 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:
This is very, very bad news for anyone who wants a real investment on offense.
Edmunds is a pretty good LB, but will he command elite $$?
To anyone celebrating him leaving, expect yet another 1st round defense draft pick. Either S, LB, or good old DL.
WR after round 4. OL we can do without because Allen can always run for his life, which is an "advantage" for us and part of his skillet apparently.
If they take the $18-$20MM Edmunds gets in FA and use it to sign a pair of starting Olinemen I’ll be fine with them drafting a defensive player in the first.
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22 minutes ago, Nephilim17 said:
I heard Beane got some bad intel that the NFL was going the way of the CFL with 12 men on the field. Since no one knows what the 12th guy does in the CFL, Beane got someone who doesn't do anything really well but is almost a lot of things in football.
Nah. They want him to lose 20 pounds and gain an extra tenth on his 40 so he can play safety. If he’s really prodigious and gains 2 tenths of a second they’ll bump him up to corner.
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1 hour ago, FireChans said:
Sure, he had a system. He also found a lot of diamonds in the rough in UDFA or cast-offs from other teams.
But he still sucked at drafting lol.
BB drafted 2 Pro-Bowlers in the last 9 years. We drafted 2 ProBowlers in 2018. If Beane goes another 4 without a single Pro-Bowler, he needs to go lol.
2017 was even better. 2 all-pros (Tre & Milano) and a probowler (Dawkins). Interestingly, if you add in FA McDermott added 4 all-pros and a probowler. Could use some of that juice this off-season, particularly in the draft.
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12 hours ago, Paup 1995MVP said:
Bradbury pulled his shirt. He got burned and got caught trying to make up for it. Is defensive holding only supposed to be called in the first half? The refs almost always call PI or holding when you grab the receivers jersey.
Bradberry has always been overrated. He is nothing special and got caught moving inside too much against a pretty slow receiver in JSS. All he could do was hold. Tre White looked like that when he came back this season. Because it wasn't called early doesn't mean it shouldn't be called at crunch time.
I don’t care who the corner is, or how talented they are. It’s the referees job to set standards for calls on the field of play early and maintain consistency with the standard they set. It’s the players job to adapt to that standard. Inconsistency in officiating leads to controversy more times than not.
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9 hours ago, streetkings01 said:
The ball wasn’t in the air. The WR ran a whip route(terrible one at that), the DB was holding before he even dropped his hips to explode back they other way…..the pass was in the air once he got loose. It was holding…..We’ve seen Tre White get flagged 4-5 times this season for the same thing.
The issue is that the refs hadn’t been calling that penalty earlier in the game. Bradberry got away with the same grabby coverage on several similar routes during the game. Changing what is and is not going to be called in the last five minutes of the game incenses the fans and causes controversy.
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2 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:
Have to imagine Reids kids are proud of him
They’re too stoned to notice
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1 hour ago, Mango said:
I think we should probably start with the fact that Saffold is a FA. So the entire premise is we sign and package him for a 2nd?
Trading Morse to the Packers is equally unrealistic. They have a starter (Myers) on a rookie contract, and have a solid track record of developing centers (JC Tretter, Corey Linsey). No way they’d trade for an expensive vet with a long concussion history.
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CTE Treatment
in The Stadium Wall
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There are some studies that show increases in neuroplasticity with treatments of psychedelics. It’s very early in the research stage thanks to the schedule 1 legality issues. There are some notable examples of former fighters, solders, etc using psychedelics to help cure depression, ptsd, and other problems which are often symptoms of CTE. I’d have to look for more information, but there’s a bunch of literature one can dig through.