Don Otreply
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42 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:
Diggs is better than any rookie until proven otherwise, which is a complete unknown. With 30 mil dead cap next season. It was a bad decision.
Look around the league, rookie WRs are doing very well, Diggs is still good, but he is an azs hole, and nobody likes azs holes, especially when they fall flat in the playoffs for two consecutive seasons, it had to be done, next year he worth even less,
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43 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:
Were we winning with McDermott with the last four playoff performancesby his defense?
I mean really it is past time especially with Belichick available.
If you have read any of my posts concerning the defense…,
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1 hour ago, nedboy7 said:
Which is what? We can win w a couple rookies?We’re we winning with Diggs with his last two seasons playoff performances?
I mean really, it was time, especially with the abundance of WR talent available.
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54 minutes ago, OutOfBubbleGum said:
He was too fashionable for this area. haha
Yes the Pink bunny suit was the last straw,
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39 minutes ago, PauleeeWalnuts said:
I’m not sure about capital. They got a 2025 second, gave up a 6th this year and a 5th next year to move him. Feels like Beane got beat up on this one
Beane didn’t do this trade and not have a plan, the guy doesn’t take a dump without a plan.
Fans always think there guys are worth more than they are, Diggs has been for the most part a non entity in in the playoffs for two seasons in a row now, on top of his whinny BS, this sort of performance gets people fired in the real world, or in this case traded.
Frankly I’m not concerned in the slightest over this, my bet is that the offense becomes less predictable and more dynamic. Chill out and watch what transpires between now and training camp, it’s all good.-
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1 minute ago, LabattBlue said:
I’m guessing Josh is not shedding a tear over the trade. Diggs had become nothing but a PITA.
Very likely the truth,
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10 hours ago, bills11 said:
Josh's playoff numbers are historical it's a team game..he has 21 tds and 4 int in his playoff careers ..for reference Roethlisberger had 36 tds 28int peyton 40-25.. he's a historic level qb the only reason he hasn't won a superbowl is the defence. People forget how the pats defence carried brady at the beggining of his career
Agree, The defense scheme has pretty much failed every post season, yet we continue to roll out the same soft zone / contain style defense annually, at some point one would think that some modifications for the post season are in order.
I as well think Shaw66 in correct in how he describes how Josh can be a better QB for the team, that does not mean it Josh’s fault all the time, it just means he could stand to improve an aspect of his craft, just as our post season defense could stand improvement…, when a team is good like the Bills, it’s the incremental improvements that will put them over the top, jmo.
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22 minutes ago, YattaOkasan said:
Agree on importance of coaching being directly correlated with number of players. But would also posit that coaching importance is also directly correlated with number of stoppages in the sport. Football has a lot which allows lots of opportunity for direction. If you can give better direction you will have an advantage.
And there in lies the rub,
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20 hours ago, julian said:
He actually has operated at that level, in KC taking the lead not once, TWICE inside the final 2 mins but yet again… 13 seconds was too long for McDermott and his D.
This team needs more elite playmakers and they need their excellent regular season D to show up in the playoffs.
It’s not so much the players, but more so the defensive play calling, and the soft zone / contain style defense that needs adjustments in the post season, especially in the last half of the fourth quarter, where the current scheme/ play calling fails with regularity.
We have all watched our opponents offense march down the field and handle the Bills defense with apparent ease. Either the coach is screwing up or the players are screwing up, and both are on the coaches to fix. Me, imo it is the soft zone / contain style defense that needs changing under those circumstances, jmo.
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11 hours ago, FireChans said:
I’m not sure anyone’s done the math.
Um, you know this is the same league that didn’t figure out it was smart to go for it on 4th downs sometimes for like 80 years, right?
Yeah, I’m thinking it’s possible they are collectively a low ingenuity group that does a lot of things “because that’s the way it’s always been done.”
NFL teams watched college players run the read option to great success for like 20 years. Folks like you laughed when it was brought up as something NFL teams could try. “There’s good reasons why they don’t run read option in the NFL,” you cried. Now, of course, just about every team has at least a read option play in their playbook.
Actually folks like me predicted the NFL would become major league college ball years ago, and it has, and will continue to do so, put that in your pipe and smoke it, lol.
you’re going to die on this sword aren’t you…, 😁👍 and yes NFL coaches have been forcing square pegs into round holes for a long time, that’s why so many teams continuously under achieve…,
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6 hours ago, FireChans said:
Do you really think that the kicking game is mathematically optimized?
So I take it you feel that you’re the first guy to think of this, and that no kicker, or STs coach has ever given any consideration to this hypothetical premise? Next thing ya know you will propose a kitchen sink disposal and make millions, millions I say…,
I so do love this board, it shows I’m not the only one with “Ideas” 😁👍
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24 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
I have often made this argument- that a particular guy will make the whole offense - or defense - better and I get it. I made it last year with Kincaid. Samuel may very well be the guy this year.
I think football is more about coachimg than talent. You need a few a few studs for sure, but then it's about having good players and using them the right way. The more I've thought about it, the more important I think the Samuel a question is. I think Brady told McBeane that Samuel I what he needs.
I agree that that coaching is very important, as an example, look at the UConn mens basketball team, Hurley has turned that program into a juggernaut. Having a group of the right guys is more important than having one guy who is elite, I believe that Samuel will be good, I also believe he will be even more effective with a quality #2 boundary guy forcing defenses to spread their coverage out over a larger area of the field, jmo.
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On 3/16/2024 at 9:30 PM, Shaw66 said:
I didn't say anything about the 85 Bears, and that's not what I meant.
What it takes to win the Super Bowl is what the Chiefs did to the Bills in Buffalo in January: Make it very difficult for a very good offense to score.
Championship games these days are won by scoring in the high 20s and keeping a really good offense in the high teens or low 20s. That's how most games go. To be a champion, you have to hold down a really good offense, and the last two Bills losses to KC in the playoffs, the defense couldn't do it. Offense did its part, but the defense didn't.
It's only occasionally that the winner in those games wins by blowing the doors off the other team. The defenses are two good. Once in a while, yes, but as I said, it's not a sustainable model. You win with effective offense that gets you into the high 20s and really tough defense that makes a good opponent struggle.
The Bills might actually have had that kind of defense last season, with Milano and Bernard and Miller playing, but they didn't. Now, if they all come back, they still are not yet in a position to have that kind of defense because they need help in the defensive backfield and on the D line.
They had the offense last season, or were close, but if Dion getting pushed into Josh, and Samuel replacing Davis will make the offense better. He's a more effective threat. They need a center.
Now, I'm not arguing for a first-round safety or center. I don't know who's out there. And Beane is always a surprise, so I have no expectations. All I'm saying is the notion that the way to win is by constantly giving Josh more and more weapons isn't the way. The Chiefs let Tyreek Hill walk and have never replaced him. Josh had as many weapons last season as Mahomes had, at least until whatever it was happened to Diggs. It's not about more weapons. It's about effective weapons and tough-as-nails defense.
For the most part I agree with what you’re getting at, the flaw with the Bills defense is regardless of who we roster we play the same soft coverage / contain zone defense, that has its well noted flaws.
As to offensive weapons, a more dynamic #2 boundary guy with better hands would make the entire offense more effective, especially with the style of offense the Bills always seem to play, that is the missing piece.
Yes we have a variety of perceived needs at various positions, but we tend to cut this particular corner when it comes to filling out the offense.
We haven’t had nearly as dynamic a WR group since Brown and Beasley were playing well, it’s past time to fill that Brown spot on the roster, we have the slot well filled, again jmo.-
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Hamlin has fallen for one of the classic blunders, much like getting involved in a land war in Asia, or going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line…,
He makes himself look the fool by responding at all…, never wrestle with pigs son…,
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3 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
Where is all this negative talk about Josh? I haven't heard it, but I don't watch or listen to many of the sports shows.
I've said over and over here that Josh needs to get better. For all his extraordinary talents, what wins in the NFL is consistent execution of the play that is called, with the right choices and with accurate throws. Mahomes and Burrows both are better than Josh in that category. Where Josh excels is on the six to ten plays where things break down and you need someone to make a play. Josh is outstanding then. It's the other plays where he needs to be better.
Agree, I have not seen this Josh “hate” that this thread is about. You put it nicely and to the point about Allen’s play, when Josh gets the consistency down he will then have a real chance to win it all with the Bills, until then he will be a very good quarterback that “may” not win it all during his career, jmo.
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Ah yes, those Irish place kickers…,
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So in other words, what y’all are saying is that the product is mediocre at best…,
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No he doesn’t,
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3 hours ago, Rico said:
Yeah, right.
Bet he’s banging his moms girl friends,
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Being that they all knowingly cheated for decades the cloud that hangs over that franchises is fully deserved.
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22 hours ago, Playoffs? said:
Great post. Allen isn’t perfect… but he is not the reason we didn’t advance. Unfortunately for us, Mahomes and Kelce seem to carve up our defense in the playoffs.
Happens every post season, and our good but not great HC runs back the same scheme every post season, and just can’t wrap his mind around making changes so its less likely to happen again. I like McDermott. He and Beane dragged the Bills kicking and screaming out of a 17 year long sh-t show, and I for one truly appreciate that effort, but its time Sean makes some adjustments for Christ sake, jmo feel free to disagree at your leisure.
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5 hours ago, KDIGGZ said:
2 words: Sammy Flat Earth Watkins
I thought he was a Blues guy from the 1940s
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7 minutes ago, DCofNC said:
I call BS on this theory, he had the team under his management for more than half the season, with the bye week, I don’t buy him not being able to teach professional players to tun the same concepts out of a few different looks. What is practice for after training camp? Just re-running all the same stuff for 20 weeks? I doubt that.
Okay, not sure what you’re getting at, in response to my response to another poster but whatever, 😁👍
Diggs traded to Texans for picks
in The Stadium Wall
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You sure are beating a drum about something that is conjecture at best, but whatever, you seem willing to die on that sword,