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Ol' Dan has been trying to find a new tune to sing -- ever since his perpetual Curse of the Bambino schtick antiquated itself.
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25 minutes ago, Rigotz said:
Remember Russ Brandon?
I don't remember Russ Brandon, and I don't think he was mentioned on any Bills-related message board.
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9 minutes ago, ngbills said:
My point is we would be talking about how great he was with the 5000 yards and 33TD's and that he just needs to get the int's in check. We would be talking about him despite his int's like he is the best QB in the league. Allen's numbers pale in comparison to Winston.
Derek Anderson says hi. So does AJ McCarron.
Cam Newton is only a year older than Barkley.
Shoulder injury, nobody has picked him up as FA already, I mean how can you explain that away?
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2 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
Is this based on Newton carrying that offense to the SB which upped McDermott’s profile? How in the world do people make such claims without any facts?
Matt Barkley sucks. Nice guy though.
Nobody says that Barkley is good. But Cam Newton is money that this team does not need to spend... on a backup. I will never forget Newton in that Super Bowl, and I suspect that many others won't as well. He literally cowered his way out of winning it.
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1 minute ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
Is this based on Newton carrying that offense to the SB which upped McDermott’s profile? How in the world do people make such claims without any facts?
That was 5 years ago. A lot has changed in his profile since then.
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2 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
Me too. I love having a playoff team with a backup qb who has thrown 10 tds to 21 ints and has a 65.7 QB rating and 1 career win. Like, for real. I could not be more pleased.
Sarcasm though? Newton is old now and he is not what this team is about. At all.
He's what the Bills brought online with Bledsoe, maybe, but probably worse at this point in his career. Absolutely not. Yesterday is yesterday in this league.
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I'm glad that they seem to not be pursuing Newton. Like, for real. I could not be more pleased.
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I think that Brady realized a few years ago that the avocado offerings at Wegman's weren't to his liking and he started thinking about moving on.
Seriously, though. I had thought that he was going to call it a day there a couple of years ago. You should sense the dissonance even back then.
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1 minute ago, Billl said:
His motion has become very slow, as he has to reach back more to get anything behind the kicks. I’m a Chiefs fan and have probably seen 99% of his career punts. He’s a great guy. His kids go to the same school as mine. I don’t know him personally, but I do see him around. He’s a really well liked player and respected member of the community. If he had anything at all left in the tank the Chiefs wouldn’t have let him go.
Bojo though. He drives me crazy. I'd prefer consistent but not flashy play from the position for the time being.
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13 minutes ago, Billl said:
Colquitt is almost 38 years old, has made $40,000,000 in his career in the league, and has multiple local endorsement deals in Kansas City where he, his wife, and his kids have lived for 16 years. He’s not moving to Buffalo to compete for a job that would pay him the veteran minimum for one season that may not even happen. He’ll take a cushy job with a local television affiliate and call it a career.
You know, he could still sign with the Bills and his family could stay in KC. It wouldn't be easy for any of them, but there are harder things in life.
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2 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
The other side of the sensible draft coin Shaw is that fans will start holding them to a higher standard. If they don't win the division this year they will be criticised and rightly so. I agree their jobs are not under threat with a 9-7 year that either doesn't make the playoffs or precedes another 1 and done - it would take a lot for their jobs to be at risk and that is also right.
But opportunity is knocking for Buffalo. I am tired of Cinderella stories. Being better than Chan Gailey and Dick Jauron isn't the test. Being better than Andy Reid and John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin and Bill Belichick is.
This freaking exactly.
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2 minutes ago, IronMaidenBills said:
I think a lot of the older Bills fan have been so spoiled with the incredible talent of the past, that the last 20 years have been incredibly boring. When you get to watch amazing players like Bruce, OJ, Kelly, Thurman, etc, your eyes feed off it. Even other teams talent during those times was amazing. Lawrence Taylor, Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders, Marino, Elway, etc you just get spoiled. Honestly the NFL is lacking in high quality stars like the golden days.
But it it does appear to be changing again. People like Barkley and Mahomes give you that same feeling once again.
Hmm, I had to ponder this for a second or two. Going into the glory years, the Bills had been terrible for 6 years (and yeah, I'm lumping the 1982 season in there) and then laid an egg in 1989 ("same old Bills" was the thinking with many in WNY back then). Before that the 1970s were the very definition of mediocrity -- and with OJ and the Electric Co no less! What I'm telling you is that we enjoyed the ride while it lasted, oh, and those 4 SB losses were crushing. The band-aids the team put on the later 1990s squads were exactly that.
If 40+ years of fandom has taught me anything it's that being a Bills' fan makes you anything but spoiled.
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I remember when the Bills did this kind of *****.
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3 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
Oooh! I forgot Spiller! Oh, how I wanted Spiller to be good!
I'm laughing at my lack of insight here. I totally thought that you were talking about Spiller!
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Fair assessment, and I really like that you back referenced guys like Spiller. It's nice that this team could be in a position to fill spots with these guys rather than to clamor over we should be rooting for late round picks like Xaiver Omon once the season is already lost.
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2 minutes ago, Ethan in Portland said:
Wrong QB, Beane. He has a rag arm.
True, but 5th round QBs to me is like buying a "manager's special" in the meat department. It probably won't kill you, but it's not filet mignon.
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Could be a decent backup, and if he's coached up then he can be traded for a 1st rounder in the future. It must be true; I read here on TBD a few days ago. ?
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Maybe it was a stool sample?
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3 minutes ago, inthebuff said:
Favre going from Atl to GB would be the biggest example of a backup QB going for a first rounder
Yeah, I forgot that one... how could I?! My mistake.
But still, it's rare to have first rounders be given for backup QBs, and to have them be successful at that.
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44 minutes ago, Billl said:
I think plenty of QBs have potential. What’s lacking are coaches who have the ability and available time to spend grooming them.
Correct, and much less for the second stringer. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the number of cases in the NFL where a backup QB was traded for a 1st rounder.
Here's what I've got thus far, off the top of my head, and from the late 20th/early 21st century:
- Trent Green (kind of an asterisk here because he was destined to be a starter before injury)
- Rob Johnson (OMG)
I'm sure that this list is incomplete, but is just off the top of my head.
What I'm saying is that asking for a first rounder for a backup QB is rare, but it's possible in many cases (Google this -- I just did) to get a second rounder, in particular if you bundle another player. Most recent cases I can think of were Jimmy G and Matt Cassel.
Having written all that, it's never a bad idea to look at QBs. I just don't happen to agree with the POV that backup QBs can be groomed into being traded for higher draft picks most of the time.
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It's Maybin and by a wide margin.
Honorable mentions:
- Erik Flowers
- Mike Williams
- CJ Spiller
I couldn't bring myself to add Watkins to this. Not a good pick given the roster at the time, but Maybin and Flowers and Williams were totally inert. CJ Spiller was a pick that wasn't required and he was never really used correctly anyways.
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While I like and respect Arians, I'm thinking that the 2020 version of the Bucs have all the offseason flair of the 2000 Redskins.
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1 hour ago, Buffalo Boy said:
He wasn’t then, isn’t now nor ever will be a playoff caliber QB.
Our current coach quit on him , mid season for Peterman. Many on here think McD suddenly lost his mind.
Maybe, just maybe, a defensive genius of a coach knew an awful, ineffective running back posing as a QB when he saw one.
TT had nothing to do with where our team is now. Had we stuck with Peterman we would have had a higher draft pick and wouldn’t have had to trade up for a QB , preserving valuable high draft picks.I know, the drought was broken. I, and a few others on here were saying who cares then also. It was a tank season and we already knew TT sucked.... as did McD.
But, throw him a parade and have a warm fuzzy when you think about him if it makes you feel good.
Nobody is going to throw TT a parade. Please. We all knew that he wasn't the answer at some point, but trashing the guy is completely ridiculous.
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I took Wonderlic many years ago as part of an employment pre-screen, and I did ok. I don't know the score, but they told me they had a baseline score, and they would never disclose it to candidates. It was a heady, and very quick decision making process. And it had next to nothing to do with the job that I was offered. The same company also did this psych/color evaluation where it would prognosticate your role and professional slotting in the company. Full disclosure: no, it wasn't the CIA or anything like that. And yeah, I got the job, and left like 5 years later.
Takeaway? Cool test, but worthless if you want to determine employee success. I wish that the NFL would stop this garbage.
Bills 2020 Motto per McDermott "Find a Way"
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I like McD, but this slogan sounds like the title of a song by Fleetwood Mac, and maybe it already is.