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1 hour ago, PBF81 said:
Forums do a lot of thinking with their ***** when signings like this are made.
His signing was an enormous risk to begin with, and the reason for Beane having to sign him was because at that time and after four of his drafts prior to that, he was unsuccessful at securing an impact edge-rusher for us.
Anyone thinking that it was a stupid and far too risky signing was chastised, which supports your first statement replied to above.
At the end of the day, Beane took an enormous risk to overcome his poor draft production. He's getting quite a pass on that acquisition.
Either way, that ridiculous risk has played out, and that was far from a reach in terms of occurring, between injury and age diminishment, and the performance part of that deal has not worked out, nearly at all except for 10 games.
Given how much money he's gotten, that's an absurd amount of money per game.
It's highly questionable as to why he deserved a week off.
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2 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
Why file the police report then?
Well obviously the two of them have talked since the incident and this is what she’s saying now, but the police are required to file a report once responding to a call and seeing evidence (her bruises, etc.) of a possible crime. So she didn’t file anything, the cops did. -
8 hours ago, tomur67 said:
Wondering if Pegula has some people or person ( outside the organizatjon ) that gives him advice as to hiring or firing coaches or other management positions? Anyone ever read or heard?
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A lot of people here deluding themselves into believing McDermott has “run his course” and “his time is over” are going to be very mad come end of season.
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2 minutes ago, QCity said:
I heard he had a month's supply in his stomach.
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Just in case anyone has fam or friends flying in or out of Buffalo airport and are reading some stuff here and elsewhere, it is NOT closed. A small international charter (Signature Airlines) voluntarily paused int’l arrivals/departures, but that’s it.
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19 minutes ago, Nitro said:
He is a sad case. I live Indy and he was a know drinker and rumored pill popper. It was a matter of time before he got caught. Totally clueless dude.
Pretty sure those rumors have long been confirmed as fact. Wasn’t he found with, let’s say, “more than a month’s supply” of opioids during the very arrest he’s talking about?-
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KC not impressing at all.
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Lol all this arguing about a close play and no one has the sack to actually post a clip of it. Never change TBD
2 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:This nonsense needs to stop. Splash plays happen every week in the league that are RUINED by refs blowing their whistle in the middle of play
every turnover is automatically reviewed.
There is ZERO need for a whistle to be blown when a play like the Douglas Fumble Recovery and lateral to Hyde happens
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3 hours ago, Silvercrw said:
If you look at the numbers James Cook has 697 yards on the year 2nd to only Christian McCaffrey. Crazy because I would've never expected that.
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2 hours ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:
Pierce (?) is an extremely underrated back … at least he was. Singletary being behind him is not a slight on him
It is Pierce my bad on the spelling - he is good as a 3rd rounder (which is where RBs probably should be taken.) so it’s no big slight on Motor but I was just responding to the OP who probably has seen only his last two games and commenting off that.
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3 minutes ago, Herc11 said:
I may be wrong, but isn't a lot of his lack of production up until now because he has been the #2 behind pierce? Now that pierce is hurt and he is the #1, he's playing well.
And Moss was tearing ***** up until Taylor came back.
A better case can be made for Moss yes.
The fact that Singletary was behind Pearce kinda tells you something doesn’t it?
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3 minutes ago, Chicagobills said:
Is it just a coincidence that both Singletary and Moss look much better on their new teams?
You’re basing this off what? 1 and a half games? Singletary’s done next to nothing all year before last week.-
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On 11/14/2023 at 7:46 AM, Araiza Curse said:
Lol I don’t even care at this point. Let him waste Allen for all I care. So tired of it all.
Yeah it certainly seems like you don’t care, after posting this **** and replying repeatedly.
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4 hours ago, NewEra said:
Easy. Make Kingcaid the first read on every pass play. Followed by Diggs, Cook then Shakir. We’d win the Super Bowl as long as 17 stays healthy.
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2 hours ago, JerseyBills said:
Don't know who they are but the both guys are 100% spot on and I agree that Stef was talking to his circle , which prompted the ridiculous tweets by his brother. I love 14 but starting last year, leaving the locker room, as a captain, is a terrible look and unacceptable. Then missing OTAs, the cryptic tweets. Like grow the F up man, if you have something to say, say it yourself!
Maybe he's truly a cancer in that locker room , idk but it wouldn't be the first time in his career.
https://x.com/pickasidepod/status/1724899655514050908?s=20
Gronk chiming in on Diggs - https://x.com/jasrifootball/status/1724909131751100651?s=20
I mean, maybe I’d agree with you if it had any impact on the play on field. It doesn’t. Stefon Diggs, weird as he may be to some, has never, ever not shown up to play. He wants to be the best and he wants to win. Period. If he’s pissed it’s for good reasons.
Josh Allen, on the other hand, it’s hard to tell sometimes.I don’t care what his brother says on X either.
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1 hour ago, Buffalo Barbarian said:
There is no way he is checked out mentally, he wants to win just like everyone else, especially after throwing picks the last thing he is going to is gently roll the ball off his finger tips. He had to think Cook had it.
I mean maybe? Don’t get me wrong I hope you’re right and it’s a physical thing with the shoulder that hopefully gets right soon.I am not one of those body language experts or whatever they term themselves but just looking and listening to the guy makes me think there’s a mental aspect to this too.
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12 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
He's a shill. He invests a lot of time in telling fans that they are wrong to quiet the critics of the organization............this helps preserve his job with the team.
But when the organization makes a turn that undermines the sales pitch he has to have a response.
Perhaps he thinks anger makes it seem like the organization was pushed into making the decision by critics.
Either way........as a shill you gotta' take anything he says with a grain.
Under the cover of a little bit of time he can just do what he did with Tremaine Edmunds...........talk him up and shout down critics when he was with the team..........then say the same things as the critics did after he left the team.
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19 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:
You literally quoted his entire post word for word and complained about the length... that's odd as well.
yeah - it’s called a quote and i’m not going to sit here and shave it down when basically he’s making a single point and it’s wrong. What aren’t you getting here?If this guy didn’t fancy himself this board’s Bill Barnwell (minus actual facts of course) then the quotes wouldn’t be so long ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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2 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
Boston Globe writer Ben Volin says it’s “scapegoat season” in Buffalo, with Ken Dorsey being the latest scapegoat (less than a year after Leslie Frazier was the scapegoat). That "scapegoat" crap is what commercial journalists drag out every time a team fires a coordinator in mid-season. (It's like dragging out the "rust" discussion every time one baseball team sweeps and then has to wait a week or more to play again. At least rust is a real thing; this scapegoating is not.) They say it because some portion of the fan base believes the head coach should be fired; identifying Dorsey as a “scapegoat” (without proof, of course) proves, doesn’t it, that McDermott is the real problem. These headhunters imply that the Head Coach should understand he's the problem and - what - fire himself? Quit? The journalist doesn't necessarily believe it, but saying that the OC is simply a scapegoat is playing to the people who want the head coach out, and not journalism.
So, I think Volin is taking a simple, hackneyed way out instead of doing his readers a favor by explaining what's really going on.
The reality is that a lot of people who understand the Bills had the same view of the team as I did in preseason - that the defense would be solid, and the success of the team would be measured by the success of the offense. Success of the offense depended on (1) Dorsey running a good offense, and (2) Allen executing it. We're now seeing those two questions being answered. In other words, if the Bills were going to have a difficult season in 2023, the most likely reason was exactly what we're seeing.
The team's defense has been decimated with injuries, but even so, they've kept the Bills in games. They are middle of the league average in yards allowed per game, but they are fifth in the league in points allowed per game. It's actually quite an accomplishment that McDermott as HC and DC has built a defense that is somehow surviving the injuries and still making opponents work hard to get something.
It's the offense that has disappointed, not the defense. Allen is not performing well, and it's possible he's lost focus, hit a wall, or something, but that's less believable than he running this offense well. He still can make all the throws better than anyone ever, but he isn't making them. Sometimes he seems not to be decisive, and yes maybe he just can't master reading defenses and executing the offense. But, it doesn't look like that's true, and even if it is, no one is going to give up yet on his talent. He's a generational talent, and it's just a stupid play to trade him for a boatload of picks and players, or whatever.
So, that means, one way or the other, Dorsey is the problem. Either Dorsey is failing to design a quality NFL passing offense, or he's failing at training Allen to execute. If he's failing in design, you have to move on to someone else. If his offense is fine and he can't get Allen to execute, then, again, you have to move on, because you're committed to Allen long term, and you need to find an OC who can harness Allen's talent.
Dorsey's offense last season didn't look good as the season wore on. He picked up from where Daboll had left off, but he failed to build the offense further (and he has more to work with than Daboll had). Still, it was clear to me that he is a talented guy, and it was his rookie year. If you believed in his potential, you needed to give him another year to see. If you didn't believe in his potential, then you shouldn't have hired him in the first place.
Now, ten games into the season, the Bills are five and five. The offense, after an early season explosion, with Allen looking all-worldly, is getting stopped consistently by most every defense they see. Whatever it takes to be a good offensive coordinator, whatever creativity it takes to keep tweaking your offense as the opponents tweak their defenses, whatever that is, Dorsey doesn't seem to have it. In his second season, his opportunity to prove the brass wise, he is looking somewhat less capable than in his rookie year. This team is now top-10 in yards and points per game, but they've fallen way off from their league-leading production in the first four or five weeks. Now, they are struggling, visibly and statistically. But even if they plateau around the top-10, that is NOT the expectation with this offense. The whole point is that with a talent like Allen, top-10 simply isn't enough. If your offense with Allen isn't top-3, then your offense is failing. (That’s true if injuries weren’t a problem, and Dorsey hasn't had many injuries. In fact, I think he started the same offensive line for all ten games.)
Are there other problems with the Bills? For sure, and that was completely apparent against the Broncos. The special teams had three really bad plays, the final being an inexcusable procedural penalty that cost them the game. The defense seems to be getting gashed for the big play more frequently, and it is bending a lot and breaking sometimes. But, as noted, the injuries are serious - their best safety, their best corner, their best linebacker, their best interior defensive lineman ALL are out for the season. (And their best edge rusher (Von Miller) has not yet recovered to anything like what he was. He said he was going to play early, and he is playing. But it's common to take more than a year to recover from an ACL, and he's right on schedule. We might not see the real Von Miller again until next season.)
Look at the scores in the Bills' losses: 22-16, 25-20, 29-25, 24-18, 24-22. It's a team that has a defense that keeps the Bills in games, despite their injuries. It's a team should have a top-5 offense with Allen but instead has an offense putting up numbers that are no better than ordinary.
And finally, is it possible that for some reason (personality, ego, whatever) McDermott will never allow an offensive coordinator the freedom necessary to run the offense? In other words, is McDermott the problem? Well, yes, sure, that's possible. But the question is the same as with Dorsey: did you believe in him when you hired him, and do you believe in him now? When the guy has put together winners like he has, it's hard not to believe in him for a while longer. He's intensely committed to winning. So, yes, maybe the problem is McDermott, but let's say we bet: You can bet on the future career of the second-season offensive coordinator whose offense isn't getting it done; I'll take the future career of the fifth-winningest coach (%) among all active NFL coaches, behind, LaFleur, Belichick, Reid, and Tomlin and ahead of McCarthy, Harbaugh, Carroll, and McVay. (Oh, and total wins among active coaches? He's ninth, ahead of McVay, Shanahan, Vrabel, and Lafleur.)
So, no, Mr. Boston Globe, sir, moving Dorsey out of there in mid-season has nothing at all to do with some "scapegoat" nonsense; it is, in fact, the logical decision under the circumstances. Maybe with a change, you can find a way to salvage the season, but whatever happens, you know now Dorsey won't be the guy in 2024. If he's not the guy next season, then at a minimum you can try out someone from your staff to see if he might be the guy.
GO BILLS!!!
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I mean, everything you said about Dorsey and his deficiencies is true, but the reasons why some are calling him the scapegoat after his firing are there and you just choose to ignore them or dismiss them away, which is odd given how excruciatingly long these always are.
Both Beane and McDermott have said they’ve tried to alter Allen’s game for the sake of his longevity. That all on Dorsey? Nope. And Allen is different now, one can presume some of that from both the GM and (mostly) the head coach is at least partly to blame. And if you agree that it is partly to blame, then yes, Dorsey is, at least partly, a scapegoat.
But yeah, go ahead - Dorsey was the tumor they cut out and everything’s fine now. So simplistic.
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16 hours ago, steven50 said:
I know its all doom and gloom but I'm gonna try a little glass half full post.
The only road to the playoffs is through winning the AFC east, wild card is out of the picture now. If we beat the Jets, Fins Pats, and chargers we would finish the season at 9-8
I can see Miami losing to: Titans, Cowboys, Ravens, Bills and raiders (and/or splitting with Jets) which would finish them at 9 -8 (although if they split with the Jets AND lose to the raiders that would be 8-8)
We win Tie Breaker if both finish 9-8.
Playoffs.
What do you think are the odds?
I think you should talk to your doctor and see if you need to decrease your dose.
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So many people forget Minnesota last year.
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On 11/14/2023 at 1:07 AM, transplantbillsfan said:
Good solution to keep bumping it so it stays on page 1.
also pretty petty to keep editing the thread title as things have gotten worse and worse for your little fan club! 👍 -
12 hours ago, Buffalo Barbarian said:
With Josh's mishandling of the ball on hand offs , it makes me wonder if he has numbness in hands because dropping the ball twice while handing it off should just not happen, thats pee wee level stuff. Maybe he's getting pain killer shots thats making it difficult to feel the ball , could also explain his errant throws ??
I highly doubt it, but if so, then the onus is on the coaches and training staff to ID it and tell him he can’t go.
But given the rockets I’ve seen him throw in the weeks Allen got dropped and fell on that throwing shoulder, I doubt it’s a physical problem. The dude is checked out mentally. I have no idea why and not going to pretend I do like everyone else on this board.
Fixing the Officiating
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Yeah I’m sure the NFL and Congress will get right on that. Thanks for sharing your diary entry.