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Why must you insist on making posts like this? It's not discussion, it's not intelligent, and frankly it's a great example of what keeps this website from being friendly.

I think this just comes down to what your opinion is on how to build a football team. Personally, I don't think you change your concepts to fit your players, I think you put the players you have in your concepts, and if they don't fit than you get new players. I think the purge of the likes of Gilmore, Watkins, Glenn, Preston Brown, Darby, etc. etc. was a great early example of this. Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott took a year of looking mediocre in order to build a team that adhered to their rigid faith (in the Buffalo Bills).

I agree with you and I don't think there is a direct correlation with Christianity and good football coaching. HOWEVER, I do think that the personality traits of a -->GOOD<-- Christian has some overlap with the personality traits of a good leader of men. Though this is not specific to Christianity and more specific to general faith, and X's and O's are still more important than a head coaching applicant's faith, but with only 32 of these jobs available in the entire world ideally a head coach will have a majority of the desirable traits. IE you shouldn't have to hire the head coach that the dolphins just fired.

I mostly agree. My opinion of a perfect offense is one where you produce not when surprising the defense, but when the defense knew what was coming and we still find a mismatch. In the NFL you can't surprise a defense for much longer than a single drive, and if we want sustainability we need to be able to consistently create mismatches out of the same formation.

That pesky Tim Tebow and his incessant kneeling. I JUST WANT TO WATCH FOOTBALL.

In my uneducated opinion, the way Belichick runs the patriots is definitely different, but with some noticeable similarities. It appears like Belichick is constantly void of the emotional aspect of the game, and is robotically logical about the sport. I STILL think that Belichick wanted to trade Tom Brady and keep Garoppolo for the net gain of draft picks and a negligible drop-off in ability (with a much longer outlook), but I think Kraft stepped in and gave Tom Brady what was in Kraft's opinion owed to Tom. In Belichick's opinion, no one person was more important than the Patriots, and if you can do something that benefits where your faith lies than you do it, and you exercise your emotional discipline.

I think Whitlock had a really good point on this, but I don't think he communicated it well. I don't think Christianity is a requirement for a football head coach, but I think faith is very important. Whether it be a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, or anything in between, I think what's important is having the unquestioned leader of your football team to be an example of selfless faith. Every head coach wants their players to sacrifice their own pride for the betterment of something that's bigger than one person. As someone with a strong faith in Christ, McDermott breeds a productive culture of accountability and creates an environment where the whole building has the same self-expectations.

Your posts are refreshingly reasonable and I appreciate your contribution to this board. We're all here to discuss Buffalo Bills football and not the validity of each other's passion. I genuinely believe that the people that are mad at Dabol running Gore 3 straight times at the 1 yard line, are the same people that got mad at Dabol for being "too cute" on the 2 yard line the drive before. When we got to the 1-yard line after the catch from Knox, I said out loud while watching, "Just run the ball with Frank until its a touchdown or 4th down.". That genuinely made the most sense to me, and even sitting here with the hindsight of the results, I STILL think it was the right decision. Frank Gore is a savy vet who's a power runner with as good of ball security as we could ask for. Oh, and we have the highest offensive red zone efficiency in the NFL halfway through the season. That's near impossible to do with bad playcalling imo.

It always amazes me when this message board is a step or two ahead of the people who get paid millions to make these decisions. I can't decide if there is a chosen few on this board who truly have next level thinking when it comes to football management, or if its just the 1% of excrement still sticking on the wall.

Those aren't sandals when you're south of the Mason Dixon. We call them slides and they're usually just a vessel for your socked feet pre or post basketball shoes/cleats.

Personally, I think that McKenzie is much more valuable to our offense. Like I assume most other bills fans do, I had much higher expectations for Foster after seeing his climb in our offense last year. But if you go back to preseason, McKenzie has made some really impressive catches both over the top and contested, and I think he's a bigger threat/better catcher down the field than most give him credit for. With that in my mind, its hard to imagine the value of Foster when he's not tracking the football. Now I'll admit, Fosters lack of production could be in large part because of Josh's lack of ability to throw the deep ball thus far this year, but regardless of the reason, if Foster isn't getting the deep ball receptions that he thrives on, what is he providing us that McKenzie is not? I just feel like Isiah gives us more options when he's on the field, which should be the goal of every offensive player imo

I full heartedly agree with your assessment. I think Dabol gets a bad rap from fans who don't know the design of the play and only see the execution. We have 9 out of 11 new offensive players, and we're just getting to the mid-way point of the season. An overreaction about our OC is nothing more than that currently; an overreaction. This is the same OC we're talking about getting head coaching interviews this offseason.

I'm big on the eye test when it comes to football players, especially quarterbacks. I have no statistically expectation because I often feel like stats fail to show the true picture of the performance quality. What I want to see out of Josh, firstly, is the moment he's in the pocket before he throws the football, does he have the calm, still, set stance that Tom Brady does so well. The few times I've seen him do this, good things tend to happen. Josh having that calm still moment in the pocket shows me that he isn't panicking, and he's able to calmly asses the defensive coverage to make his decision. Secondly, I want to see a touch throw over the top of a defender. There was one throw to Duke Williams this year where Duke hurt his shoulder, which may be the only legitimately good touch throw Josh has thrown over the top of the defender. Everything else I think Josh does fairly well. Turnovers are more of the luck of the bounce than anything else in this league, and while some of Josh's come on preventable bad decisions, his red zone efficiency shows the ability of Josh when he doesn't need to stretch the field vertically, and can attack the field horizontally.

I don't think you understand how this whole discussion board thing works. IF the offense DOES lay an egg today, then what?