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Mikie2times

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  1. Which has always troubled me because I think something is lurking behind our powerful offense that often doesn't get talked about. I think those drives require precision, timing, and not getting behind the sticks. You will get the best a DC has to offer and those tools along with tempo are what allow you to keep them off-balance. If you look at the two very best of all time in those moments, Montana and Brady, that was the style they played with. The ball was out in a split second, accurately delivered, precise and repeatable. We create our precision and chain movers with the run game, screens, short passes, and QB run game. All of which become less available in that moment. Which essentially puts us into a Brady/Montana like requirement for precision passing. That isn't who we are. We will become inefficient, throw incompletions, fail to establish tempo and get behind the chains. All the things that can't happen in those moments as DC's can become really aggressive.
  2. We make the Super bowl, offense has the ball down 4 with 2 minutes. How confident are you? I'm not at all confident. Regular season, sure, but that big of a moment? I don't feel that I would be. Ultimately we have to become automatic in those spots. All the great teams and great QB's have. I feel we are a long way from that and that lives independent of most the concerns you stated (as valid as they might be).
  3. Your take on this is we made it to all those Super Bowls based on our talent (because clearly Kelly's leadership or ability didn't have anything to do with it) but we lost those Super Bowls because of Jim and his reckless tone setting ways. It's interesting that so many of Jim's teammates followed him off the partying deep end. It's almost like they thought he was, I don't know, the leader. Unfortunately for you, logic doesn't allow all the thoughts you're having to coexist at the same time.
  4. It's not blaming him for the losses, but around these parts he doesn't have any culpability. He should have some. Other plays happened besides the Kincaid drop and again the year prior, even more plays happened outside the Shakir throw. He had game winning drive attempts at Houston and twice vs KC in the playoffs. 13 seconds, he clearly rose to the moment just about more so than anybody in NFL history. But to have 3 of 4 game winning playoff drives produce zero points and get treated like a victim is an interesting thought process by our fan base.
  5. And somebody who has no respect from his teammates wouldn't lead a team to 4 straight Super Bowl appearance. It isn't very hard.
  6. So Dan didn't party? Jim had some immature moments for the circumstances, but to say he wasn't a leader because he partied a bit is really a stretch.
  7. Perhaps, but was Jim a better leader than Marino? Leadership being a driving force behind the perseverance we had in that era. I also think it's a mistake to assume the K-Gun could have been ran in a similar way with other QB's. Maybe it could, that's something we will never know. But I like to think part of it was who he was and how he played vs just a plug and play system.
  8. As for my own unpopular takes, to which I have many regarding our current leadership, I think Josh should take more heat for not leading a TD drive vs KC the last two years. We blame a lot of reasons why those drives didn't work out. But at the end of the day the all time greats get 6. Otherwise they wouldn't be the all time greats. Josh has had more control over his narrative than many seem to think. Plays were there to be made outside of Bass missing a field goal or Kincaid dropping the ball. Sure, without Josh none of it happens. Sure, we can point to dozens of reasons we lost which seem to be pretty low hanging fruit in comparison. But it seems like most people believe Allen has been a victim of circumstance, when the reality is he had the ball two straight years at the end of the game and we just didn't get it done.
  9. I don’t think anybody is arguing Jim is an all timer. So it’s ok to not be in the same class as Marino, Montana, Young, or Elway. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t a cut above the cloth and high level performer for a very long time. He was close enough to those guys. Close enough to be a hall of famer with very few disputing it. Perhaps he has some boosted fan recognition with us because he was Mr. Buffalo before Josh, but he probably deserves as much for what he’s done for the Bills in publicity and name recognition. He was the face of the previous dynasty even if Bruce, Thurman, Andre were batter players.
  10. I thought we were better than Dallas in the last one. We beat them earlier in the year and had them on the ropes in that game.
  11. Kelly played in an era where if you had 20 TD’s and 15 INT’s you could be a top 5 QB. Comparing stats is completely pointless. He was a hall of fame level QB in that era and is certainly in the conversation with Marino, Elway, Moon, Aikman, more than Esiason, Cunningham, Testaverde, Kosar, etc.
  12. Winfield, pound for pound was probably the best tackler I have ever seen. Very good corner as well. As many called out, Odoms probably did it the best for the longest time. If I recall wasn’t he one of the first Free Agent casualties we had? Clements was a very good cover corner and also very physical. His hit on Brady is an all timer. McGee was one of the best return guys I have ever seen and just made big plays. These are the guys from the time I have been watching. I think all 4 offered something unique and it would be hard to rate one higher than the rest.
  13. I’m surprised the “art of the deal” doesn’t involve needing to know what leverage you have.
  14. No. Go to school. If you can't afford it, take out a loan (like everybody else does). Find a job that won't be replaced by machines and that requires enough skill that somebody in Vietnam can't do it. Let capitalism run it's course. Instead what we are hearing is, raise the price of all consumer goods to subsidize job creation for the lower/middle class. That sounds like an awful policy some idiot on the left would create and mind you, I even like some Bernie policies. How did we arrive at a place where the right is pro union and wants to use taxpayer money for lower class job creation? It's not that MAGA thinks WOKE policy should be canceled, instead they just want it to benefit them. MAGA is the new welfare class.
  15. With the way I set this file up it would be very easy to evaluate that (of course, not perfectly, but within reason) Below is the number of draft picks each team has had in rounds 3-7. I summed the total. Then evaluated how many starts were made by these draft picks. Than landed on average starts made per pick. Buffalo is #1, which I feel is directionally accurate. Again, not perfect, but we sort of know we are good in these rounds and this gives some context.
  16. Yup, I see that issue on that now. I grouped OLB and LB for linebacker. It also has "ILB" Good catch, updated below.
  17. No, I just used the straight draft info from Pro Football Reference
  18. Horrifying.... Also interesting is most of the top playoff teams from last year are spending 20%+ on the DL.
  19. Here you go. Pretty balanced for the most part.
  20. I was thinking the other day on how likely it is that we will be drafting a RB. Then thought further on how it seems like we invest a lot at RB in the draft, but do we? It's hard to really say something is a lot without context. So I took every draft from 2017 to current, assigned each draft pick a point value based on the attached draft value chart. https://overthecap.com/draft-trade-value-chart Then I measured where each team is spending the highest budget by position. I looked at it as a % of the total a team has. In the graph below it is stacked by the total draft capitol each team has had since 2017. Buffalo came in 4th to the lowest in that area because we always pick so late. But as far as the %'s go, that is relative to each teams individual draft capitol. So if Buffalo has 37293 and has spent 13.4% at WR, the total capitol they spent at WR is 5,014 (13.4% of the 37293) Note: A good Samaritan called out that the LB category was likely underrepresented and he was correct, it didn't include position "ILB" which excluded Edmunds so he is now added in. That update is down thread a bit.
  21. I wonder how long he looked in a mirror perfecting his mugshot power look. What a tool.
  22. He’s backed himself into a corner a bit with his rhetoric, not that doing the opposite of what he says matters. It will come this week. I don’t think he can survive the pressure if it doesn’t. His own party will turn on him and is already starting to do so.
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