Simon

This might turn into an Old Man Yells at Cloud rant, but damn do I miss how games used to be managed and broadcast. And it revolved primarily around just two things: 1) There were fewer flags on the field and when there was one, the head official announced it while they walked it off and on to the next play we went. Now every time we see a flag we have to first have a 5 person group therapy session among officials, maybe some discussion with one of the coaches justifying why the call was made, notification for the home crowd and then after a minute or two another announcement for the viewing audience and then maybe a couple extra commercials while they communicate with the home office regarding the minutiae of whether a guy caught the ball. Referees used to generally try to stay invisible but now the league and networks have decided that they can use them to create some pointless, stupid drama to attract casual fans while most of us who just want to watch some ball have to sit through a ridiculous overdrawn process to manufacture drama that has nothing to do with the actual game. 2) They used to show replays after almost every snap and would often show a couple from two different cameras so you could see what had happened on the play. What do we get now? We get an inevitable closeup of some guys face walking back to the huddle, or a shot of a coach on the sideline talking into his headset, or maybe if we're really lucky a promo for some vapid, idiotic television show that will be off the air in a year just so they have an excuse to advertise their own network that I'm already watching. I want to see a replay to confirm who pulled and made that sweet block at the second level, or to check out where the Free was at the snap and whether he was late because of the design or because he's slow. Instead, I get to stare up Joe Burrow's nostrils for 15 seconds while some stiff in the booth tries to convince me what an interesting guy he is and get me engaged on a personal, emotional level when I really don't give a shlt what time he goes to bed. It all comes back to the fake manufactured drama that the networks are trying to sell that has nothing with the game, and because they're so focused on that nonsense they're missing a ton of actual drama that takes place on the field. We turned the TV on to watch guys play football, not to watch referee performance art and Jersey f'ing Shore.

After two days and nearly 100 posts, the total number of people who are outraged appears to be.......... Zero. Have you considered that all this outrage that you seek exists less in the real world and more in your mind? Perhaps it was even placed there by folks who want you to be outraged by other folks' imaginary outrage. What an outrageous thought....

I bet he had one pissed off pig.

I suck with salary cap and contract stuff so I have no idea what he might have been worth on the open market when the contract was signed. Judging by the other extensions/re-signings that Bean has done, there's no real pattern of him wildly overpaying so I'd guess his contract was pretty close to what his market value would have been at the time.

Probably better to just nudge the tires gently so he doesn't end up under your scalpel.

No, having to read yet another unrelated stream of consciousness personal anecdote was punishment enough.

Knox got that contract because he's a versatile player who works hard, at the time looked like he also had more upside to get better and was also the only TE available in a very bare Bills cupboard. That's it. It had nothing to do with Allen, imo. If Allen has any effect on personnel decisions, it's that the Bills seem to focus more on using resources to beef up their D and less on their offense because they think Allen can just turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

I've been thinking about this some and I think the way we run option routes is one of the three things that Joe Brady can immediately tweak to make the Bills a better offense. I don't necessarily mean we should intentionally decrease their usage (which he isn't going to do anyways) but I do think they'd be better off by being more circumspect about exactly who is running those routes. We've seen Davis have multiple issues with his choices, I like Shakir but he isn't very effective with this yet either, Harty has a limited route tree, Sherfield has no chemistry with anyone yet, etc. Diggs is really the only one with the chops for it and Kincaid has enough upside that it's probably worth the growing pains to continue asking him to do it if just to get better with Allen. Outside of those two guys I'd like to see Joe Brady really limit option routes for other guys.

Stefon Diggs distances self from brother's tweets on Bills

Don't big league me with your elitist British ales

Gabe Davis is not going to run away from a bunch of NFL DB's. They are just too fast.

That's the 40 sitting on your chest. Stop drinking at work, you lush.

This is not true at all. Diggs route on that play was specifically designed to get Kincaid free and he ran it to perfection.

That must be why his fellow players in the NFLPA recently voted him as the 5th best center in the entire league. But I'm sure you know better than the guys he goes up against every week.

I think it's more just human nature that one coach will tend to defend another coach when he's under attack by a bunch of half-clueless fans.

This is actually one of my problems with that 2nd blitz call. Aside from the fact that you're telegraphing to a veteran QB that you're again leaving your corners out to dry, that entire series Oliver was pushing the pocket down after down after down and there was not a thing their OLine could do about it. There was minimal upside to sending the house there again. There is no longer any element of surprise to create doubt or confusion, a veteran like Wilson is not going to take a sack there, none of our our DB's or LB's are particularly effective rushers, dropping that DE into coverage does nothing to improve it, etc. But there is a significant downside there where an unsuccessful blitz likely costs you the game in that spot, which it did. It was a foolish gamble with way more negative potential than positive. All that needed to be done was to defend the sticks on 3rd down while the inevitable interior pressure forces Wilson into a too quick decision. McDermott is a bit of a micromanager with an observable tendency to overcoach games and that was another example of it right there.

I'm pissed because you beat me to it by 3 minutes

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Wow, what a gawdawful analysis.

Please spare us all the Twitter drama.

At least we shouldn't have to worry about it again any time soon.

He's probably trying to say that they should have been getting plays off with less pace. But that's stupid too, because the only time the offense ever gets in rhythm is when they run it with pace.

Take the Twitter drama somewhere else. Like maybe Twitter.

Another great observation going after a guy who busted his ass again and was arguably the best Bill on the field tonight. Your powers of perception never cease to amaze.