Billy Claude
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I wouldn't be surprised if David Tepper was behind a lot of the recent moves that the Panthers have made. He is a vulture capitalist famous for his impatience and abrasive personality. If Goldman Sachs passes someone because of their "loud and profane manner", you know the guy is pretty much of an ass.
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These types of comparisons are much less meaningful in football with such a small number of games compared to baseball, basketball, and hockey. That is why analytics has not had as much success as it has in the other sports.
Last year most of the front-loaded while this year it is back-loaded. That has to be accounted for in any comparison of the first 11 games this year vs. last year.
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3 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:
Up thru this week we have 92 penalties called against us. Dallas has the same. Only Cleveland & Miami has more with 93. Cincinnati has the least with 44 penalties. Find out what that organization is doing right.
It's been four years of finishing near the top of the league in penalties so it must be something the coaching staff is doing or not doing. Some of it maybe that they are coached to be aggressive but false starts are just players not being well prepared.
The surprising thing is that Bills did pretty well penalty wise under Rex Ryan -- they were 32nd in false starts in 2016 with 7 and 31st in 2017 with 9. McDermott's first year it was tied for 9th with 21 false starts while keeping 3/5th of the line (Glenn, Woods and Incognito) from the previous year.
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19 hours ago, Gugny said:
Not sure if this is good news.
- Bills are 6th in the league for the most offensive holding penalties.
- Bills are 2nd in the league for the most false start penalties.
https://www.nflpenalties.com/penalty/false-start?year=2021
McDermott is undoubtedly the best Bills coach since Marv Levy -- but it is concerning that the Bills have been among league leaders in penalties every year since he got here
2018 6th in number of penalties/ 5th in yards / 9th in false starts
2019 8th/14th/2nd (tie)
2020 6th/5th/4th (tie)
2021 6th/6th/2nd
For someone who preaches process, you would expect penalties, especially false starts, to decrease.
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5 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:
Tua Tagovailoa: I don’t not feel wanted by the Dolphins
What gave it away?
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2 hours ago, folz said:
Maybe he was in the Flutie camp and so is referring to Rob Johnson (but if memory serves, Rob played fairly well in the game and we had a chance to win---though I thought and wanted Flutie to start that game too). Otherwise, I doubt he would be singling out, say, one special teamer...saying it was their fault (on that particular play). It seemed the whole ST blew that play...but I guess there could have been one ST player who was meant to play (final) contain and left his post.
Other options: He could put that game on the refs for not calling it a forward pass...but the mental health part of that question wouldn't really make sense then. The refs in that game were worried about their physical health (not their mental health) if they had disallowed the TD in a hostile Tenn atmosphere.
Marcellus Wiley was one of the biggest Flutie guys on the Bills and probably the most vocal.
https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bn-blitz-newsletter-marcellus-wiley-still-convinced-doug-flutie-wouldve-won-music-city-miracle-game/article_c994fd8f-c5fe-5539-b9c3-b5f7af3695f5.html
https://twitter.com/marcelluswiley/status/522896577959309312?lang=en
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I don't think you can judge Mayfield based on his recent play. He is clearly injured and aggravated his shoulder further on Sunday. The only question is why the Browns continue to play him when they have a serviceable backup in Case Keenum. You would think Keenum would give them a better chance than a injured Mayfield.
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43 minutes ago, CorkScrewHill said:
The ESPN Process (PFF likes to use it as well though not to the same degree)
1) Fill in the ESPN "personality" (for our purposes Nick Wright states something emphatically with little basis
2) ESPN posts it on youtube with a title like "Nick Wright BLASTS Bills"
Not that I disagree with you about Nick Wright who clearly has gone to the Skip Bayless School of Broadcasting but Nick Wright works for Fox Sports not ESPN.
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I can believe that there can be a subconscious bias toward star players - "DeAndre Hopkins couldn't have dropped that -- the CB must have gotten there early", home teams, and even perhaps teams that are regarded as well coached. I might even believe that particular referees may even have personal biases against particular players.
However, to believe that the NFL tells officials to favor one team vs. another is to believe that either Goodell can keep this secret from 31 mostly billionaire owners or that these hyper-competitive owners get together and decide who is going to get the calls and who isn't. To me this is just completely lubricous. It is a sad statement on the critical thinking of society as a whole if many fans believe this.
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Definitely best mic'ed up session so far, however, I found it funny that after the game, Allen was telling people who lost 40 - 0 "keep doing what you're doing".
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Good article. The importance of interpersonal relations is obvious but often low zero priority.
The Bills are lucky in that both McDermott and Beane are excellent communicators who have reputations for being honest and forthcoming with the players, staff, and even the press. The contrast with Doug Marrone (players seem to hate him), Rex Ryan (fire your offensive coordinator after your defense gives up 35 points), and Doug Whaley (seem to never take responsibility for any mistake) could not be more apparent.
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I applaud him for taking Milano minimalist philosophy and not going crazy with the car (though perhaps not the best choice).
So good for him as long as he didn't buy himself a Lamborghini.
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At the end of the season press conference that year, Beane said they would make a strong effort to bring Shaq back but that Jordan Phillips had earned the opportunity to determine his value in the free agent market.
It was clear they wanted Shaq back and from all indications they made what they felt was a reasonable offer to Shaq (though obviously not matching the Dolphins offer) but did not want Phillips,
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The Giannis Josh Allen comp is dead on but I don't see the Tom Brady Lebron comp.
Lebron was, and to a certain extent, still is an athletic freak, who was one of the mostly highly heralded prospects ever. The only things Brady and Lebron have in common are they are both older and have high ball IQ.
A much better comp for Tom Brady is Steph Curry. Both were not as super highly regarded coming out of college but have accomplished much more in their careers than expected from their more limited physical attributes.
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Keeping Sweeney over Hollister might also have to do with the salary cap. Hollister would have cost 300K or 400K more than Sweeney. It's not much, but with the Bills seemingly very close to the cap, the difference may have been enough.
I am sure they would have loved to get rid of Christian Wade's 660K but with him on IR they will just have to eat it.
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I expect Hollister is going on the Jag's 53. He probably told the Bills he would not accept going on the practice squad so I doubt very much it had anything to do with keeping both Fromm and Webb.
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Conclusion: playoff teams usually do very well against rookie qbs.
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23 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
I would definitely say less reliable than the Gazetta article that published the whole list of Juve salaries. Gazetta is the number 1 Italian sports newspaper. They say his salary for playing soccer last year was €31m. I think you can pretty much take that to the bank. I am sure he more than doubles that with endorsements and his clothing brands etc.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/cristiano-ronaldos-juventus-salary-revealed-13189267
It looks like Ronaldo's 31M Euros salary is after-tax. I believe soccer salaries on the continent are usually quoted after-tax while in the UK (and the US) it is usually quoted pretax.
I assume Italian taxes in that bracket are likely around 50% so the larger number $71M number reported elsewhere is likely pretax.
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31 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
That Ronaldo number isn't correct. The Juventus salaries were all published by Gazetta Dello Sport last year and Ronaldo was their top earner on €31m per year with a huge gap to Matias De Ligt on €8m as the second highest earner.
Not sure what the $78m number is - might be his total income including endorsements etc but it is not his salary. His salary is €31m per year.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/football/highest-paid-football-players-2021/
Not sure if this is a reliable website but it agrees with Forbes and a bunch of others -- the claim is Ronaldo got 51M pounds from Juventus and 34M pounds from endorsements -- unless somehow the Juventus contract is not all for "playing". Of course, you know more about this than me. I found the gap interesting and also that Paris St. Germain will have 3 of the 4 top paid players in the world next year.
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15 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
Messi aside (and there are lots of reasons why he is an excpetion) there are no soccer players earing that much. The top paid player in the Premier League (richest league in the world) is Kevin De Bruyne on about £20m a year - which is what? $28m?
It is also worth saying though that those soccer stars play upwards of 50 games per year for that money. When you break it down per game NFL players are extremely well paid. Not saying that is right or wrong, and the top of the pyramid in the NFL is smaller (ie. number of soccer players who earn over $20m per year will be much higher than the number of NFL players that do) but the top NFL stars are paid more than all but 1 or 2 soccer stars.
Three players last year had higher salaries than the average salary in Allen's new contract -- Messi $93M, Ronaldo $78M, and Neymar $71M (not including endorsements). Only two this year since Messi took the pay cut in the move to PSG. Shocking the separation between the very very top players and everybody else. The next highest is Mbappe at under $30M.
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2 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
I wonder what they were offering for him? Crazy that we still got Diggs and still managed to land Sanders a year later without having to give up any draft picks.I guess I should read the article more carefully. It is not entirely clear that the Bills made an actual offer. It might be that they were just had serious talks with him.
The article says he got a "two year deal worth up to 19 million" from the Saints.
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38 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
Didn’t Buffalo try to trade for Sanders at some point the last couple of years? Or am I confusing him w/ Antonio Brown?The Bills made him an offer to him right before the Diggs trade.
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https://www.nfl.com/news/13-teams-above-85-percent-threshold-for-player-vaccinations
13 teams over 85%. Average is 73%.
The large difference between teams is surprising. It would be interesting to know how the different teams handled the messaging.
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21 hours ago, Rocky Landing said:
This probably isn't worth its own thread, but I've been discussing with friends who are fans of other teams how important depth is to a team, and how this will be especially important with the upcoming 17 game season. This Bills team is deeper than any one I can remember, and I suspect its depth stacks up to maybe any other team in the league.
So, I thought it would be an interesting exercise during this slow offseason, to look at what a Bills team would look like, made up entirely of depth players. Some of you may take issue with some the players I've got as second string-- which is fine. I'm interested in the discussion. The competition for depth on this team is fierce. And also, several of these players are in the conversation for starting positions, and certainly, some of them will be starters come September. Anyone who has a different opinion of what the Bills second string would currently look like, I want to hear it. But-- prove me wrong-- such a Bills team would be in serious contention for the AFCE. Not favored, perhaps... but not the Jets, either.
OFFENSE:
QB: Mitch Trubisky
RT: Ryan Bates
RG: Forrest Lamp
C : Jon Feliciano
LG: Ike Boettger
LT: Spenser Brown
WR#1: Gabriel Davis
WR#2: Jake Kumerow or Duke Williams
WR#2: Isaiah McKenzie
TE: Jacob Hollister
RB: Singletary or Moss or Breida (It could be any one of them!)
DEFENSE:
DE: Efe Obada
DT: Harrison Phillips
DT: Justin Zimmer
DE: Greg Rousseau
LB: AJ Klein
LB: Tyrel Dodson
S: Jaquan Johnson
S: Damar Hamlin
CB: Dane Jackson
CB: Rachad Wildgoose
NCB: Siran Neal
The 2nd string offense is definitely better than the Bills' starters in the 2018 opener:
QB: Nathan Peterman
RT: Jordan Mills
RG: John Miller
😄 Ryan Groy
LG: Vlad Ducasse
LT: Dion Dawkins
WR 1: Kelvin Benjamin
WR 2: Zay Jones
WR 3: Jeremy Kerley
TE: Charles Clay
RB: Shady McCoy
When does chasing the almighty $$$ overcome the sanctity of the sport???
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Not all revenue is shared. About 40% of it is not (based on the Packer's report from 2019). A winning teams makes more money than a losing team -- certainly much more than a change in a few percentage points in the Super Bowl ratings.
Most of the owners have their wealth coming from other sources and I would guess most would gladly take $10M off their huge profits (note they would still be making a lot of money) to be able to lord it over everyone else at the owners' meeting.
Otherwise why would the owners give such long guaranteed contracts to head coaches if it doesn't matter. If it was primarily about profit everyone would behave like Ralph Wilson did in his last decade and just hire cheap assistants. Nor do I think that that Chris and Woody Johnson enjoy the sell the team chants every time they stick theirs heads out at MetLife.