Don Otreply
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3 hours ago, NJKBillsfan said:
I think Skip Bayless said it best. He's a good athlete with a big arm but he doesn't seem to have a good feel for playing QB and there's still concerns with his accuracy.
He had 2 bad games in the playoffs alone.
T-o-l much, asking for a friend...
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When that is all you’ve got to show for your season.... I guess ya gotta cling to something....
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41 minutes ago, frostbitmic said:
Bring him back, don't force him into a life of having to sell his meat.
...Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light......
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9 hours ago, Limeaid said:
Well at least there is a precident:
The refrigerator sized guard was malfunctioning since he got new contract and when he got to Tennessee he was mysteriously injured when he was not when he got on plane.
That is true, it is also true he was a force during the 19/20 seasons run game, as well didn’t allow a sack that season. We miss that performance level on the O line, he and Ford when healthy made a difference, as compared to the 20/21 season. Beane needs to find a guy to replicate that for next year, just my thoughts.
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1 hour ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I have a theory, with only fragments of supporting evidence, that the root cause of the run game problems this year was a "low interest rate" early in the season.
Hang with me a second, and I'll explain what I mean.
What was the single most important question for the team to answer this season? IMO: "Will Josh Allen be that Franchise Guy for us, or No?" McDermott and Beane had made it clear before the draft, they wanted a guy who could "operate from the pocket" as a passer. They acquired Diggs to go with Brown and Bease. They'd upgraded the line. Josh Allen had spent the off-season reworking his mechanics in pursuit of accuracy. It was time to "Rut Hog or Die"
So, with no OTA or minicamp and abbreviated training camp/no preseason games, and then with turmoil on the OL after Feliciano was injured - I think they gave the Run Game the "Bum's Rush". I believe every scrap of time Daboll could wrangle got spent working on the passing game, trying to nail down routes and timing concepts that Josh hadn't tried before.
My evidence for this is:
1) Beane explicitly pointed to run blocking as a problem and said to achieve balance, we need to practice, emphasize, and work on it. To me, that implies lack of practice, emphasis, and work on it last training camp and early in the season
2) Daboll mentioned practicing 50 plays, 48 run 2 pass before the NE game. Result: 190 rush yards. McDermott mentioned the run game as a focus for the bye. Next game LAC: 172 yards. So somehow when we practiced, emphasized, and worked on the run game - it worked.
I don't think they expected the run game to be as poor as it was, for whatever reason. I think they felt the practice they gave it was "enough".
But if it was the thought, I can't argue with the prioritization to do everything possible to make the pass game work correctly and answer that critical Year 3 Question "Will Josh Allen be that Franchise Guy for us, or No?"
I hear ya on those thoughts and do not disagree. I mused in another thread that the running game got short shrift, in that Daboll gave it little attention. I do suspect that the refrigerator sized guard (Spain) was missed to some degree, that, on top of Fords injury didn’t help the run game issues.
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27 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I agree, he needs to focus in on the details of the blocking and blocking technique at one spot.
My concern for Ford is that he spent his rookie year injured, and then in addition to the groin, knee etc injuries he showed up with on injury report, he was observed wearing a brace on one arm or shoulder and to be struggling blocking to that side. I'm not "up" on the niceties of what injuries get reported or not. Beane said of Ford "he's played more games injured than he has healthy".
Maybe it's just bad luck, and he'll address it and heal up and come back healthy and stay healthy. Or maybe his body just got too beat up in college and he can't handle it any more.
I don't think he needs to powerlift per se though, I think he needs to train differently to get strong but avoid injury.
I agree our run blocking was better in 2019 but I'm not sure losing Spain was the root cause.
Not so much the root cause but certainly part of the difference, both he and Ford have a bit of a mean streak and as a combination it is missed in our current run game, jmo.
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Not surprised in the slightest.
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21 hours ago, BigPappy said:
All I know is that the run game on both sides of the ball regressed without both of these men. Is that a coincidence? Time will tell if they are both back next year. That said, as someone else pointed out, Carolina's run defense regressed when they lost Star when they thought he was replaceable.
2019s run blocking was better by far, the difference on the O line was and is no Spain, and an injured and then IRd Ford, with them gone/out the run game on offense has been woeful, and has been equally less good on the D side with Star’s absence, as well as Shaq and Jordan being gone, your point is spot on, some fans here don’t see the obvious that is starring at them.
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2 hours ago, dave mcbride said:
The Jets have the draft ammo, a tradeable young QB who still has promise, and the cap space. They make too much sense.
If Darnold goes to Houston, his career is basically over, Houston’s owners are, dare I say, worse than the jets, that boy is screwed, he must have done something really bad in his last life...
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20 minutes ago, Bangarang said:
Why are people so obsessed with having a more balanced offense? Do you want to take the ball out of Josh’s hands after he had an MVP caliber season and helped us be a top scoring offense?I don’t want to run it a lot more, just be better when we do. This offense is about throwing the ball.
You are correct, I agree completely with your last paragraph, it is spot on.
I truly hope that is what Coach means when he says we need to run the ball better, I hope he concentrates on effective blocking schemes so we can actually run the ball, vs upping the volume of run plays, which would not be the way to go.
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33 minutes ago, Inigo Montoya said:
Couldn't agree more. What a horrible roster Beane and McDermott put together this year.
They only made it to the AFC Championship game.
Amateurs....
While I fully agree with your sarcasm, better use of currently available personnel / acquiring more impactful players in two or three other positions would certainly help, not just with competing against KC, but more handily beating the others team we play. Jmo.
Go Bills!!!
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For me the season ended already, maybe if we are lucky both QB will go out with some sort of severe groin pull that’s so bad that they limp for the rest of their lives, a guy can hope right?
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1 hour ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Good question. I think you'd have to say "no one knows"
Drafted by the Giants in the 3rd round in 2017
Cut and put on the practice squad the following (2018) season after a Regime Change
Cut and put on the Jets practice squad in 2019
I don't believe he's taken a snap in the NFL
I think it's fair to say that if he were viewed as talent/potential-less he wouldn't still be on a roster
I think it's also fair to say that if he snapped anyone's head around he'd have been given a snap or two by now
All good points, it appears Matt Barkley is safe, with an outside chance that Fromm is actually good, and applies pressure for Barkley’s spot...
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It was that way from looking at the coaches game plan... 😂😁👍
I joke, I joke 😁👍
Go Bills!!!
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Like it or not The game plan was not particularly good as we all saw, and there where not what one would call appropriate adjustments made at crucial points during the game.
It is in all our hopes that this was the last time that the coaches coach in this fashion ever again, there are multiple reasons we lost, coaching decisions are at the top of the list.
live and learn as the saying goes... We shall return with a vengeance!Go Bills!!!
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4 hours ago, MJS said:
Singletary is puzzling to me. I really expected a big year out of him. He looked pretty dang good last season. Not sure what happened.
Our oline really regressed in run blocking too, for some reason. Daboll needs to fix that and get more creative with the run game.
I'm all for trying to trade for or draft a big time running back. A guy with speed and explosiveness.
The O line run blocking difference from last year is that we lost Spain, and then Ford was playing injured then he was out on IR, last year run blocking was noticeably better with those guys on the O line. For some reason or another no one seems to see this or even brings it up, oh well..
Go Bills!!!
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2 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:
Does Davis Webb replace Barkley?
Is Webb a better weapon as s back up? I ask because I never hear much about his actual capacity.
Go Bills!!!
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This just goes to show that refs by and large wing it game to game. This obvious and ongoing farce has become a running joke. It is on the owners to do something about it, which is the same as saying nothing will be done about it.
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Frankly it’s unlikely that either of them are brought on board, both are to old, to slow, and to expensive.
We need to up grade our run blocking schemes first and foremost, and Dane is the current up and coming CB2 as things stand presently. Sherman is just as slow as Norman and we have two RBs that are not what is called fast by NFL standards. This would be a step backwards or sideways at most.
Go Bills!!!
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11 hours ago, DCofNC said:
He clearly out played his deal this year, I bet he threatens a hold out if he doesn’t get paid to match production. All this FA talk and we are about to enter the situation with 50-60M a year in the QB and 1 WR, lots of people are going to be gone.
I’ll go ahead and say your wrong, Diggs got a boost in pay when he signed in Buffalo after getting a new contract/more pay shortly before he left the Vikings. Diggs would be a massive tool on all fronts to insist on additional money at this time, that and Beane will tell him as much, only in a more professional manner should he choose to go down that road.
Go Bills!!!
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18 hours ago, Steptide said:
Imo this is the buggest reason they lost. I was screaming for it last night. They were trying to push the ball down feild way too hard
Josh will hopefully take to heart that gaining 4 to 6 yards two to three times per set of downs is a good thing and needs to be a more noticeable part of his repertoire. Josh has matured a lot this season, his continued drive to be better will incorporate this concept more fully I am quite sure. There are lots of reasons for the poor performance, from the dinged up receivers Corp to play execution and calling, and overall game planning on both sides of the ball. The Bills will have learned a valuable lesson, and they will be back with a vengeance, jmo.
Go Bills!!!
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I have been frustrated with some of the personnel choices on both sides of the ball on occasion, it’s as if the association with certain players is more important than performance in some instances, frustrating for us fans for sure. The Yeldon usage is a case in point.
Go Bills!!!
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17 hours ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:
He's certainly flashed. Beane wasn't in love with him in the draft and admitted that they took him because they needed a CB and he was next up. But they do seem to have a knack for acquiring secondary talent.
Beane as well stated that he picked BPA at positions of need for most of the draft, so nothing new with the “need” choice, it’s how the vast majority of draft picks are taken league wide annually.
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1 hour ago, machine gun kelly said:
Don, I was confused as well, so SDS if you could just let us know how to easily edit of you want to change something. I also don’t know unfortunately in this new dark version (which I love as much better on the eyes) know how to delete a post of mine. I don’t often as I try to be thoughtful and not demeaning to others in a post, but every once in awhile like to just rewrite in a different manner the post.Hapless told me how, you tap the three vertical in line dots in the upper right corner of your post, a drop down menu will give you the options you’re looking for.
EJ Gaines released
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No, it is not, but, we gotta have more than the trillions of worthless mock drafts to talk about... or that we paid someone too much , 😂