Billy Claude
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23 minutes ago, T master said:
True but getting rid of the rest of some what 3 years of Diggs contract is a definitely plus . Beane is up to something he's not going to go through all of this just because the man has been near genius to this point in building a team for today, tomorrow & the future so i'm going to sit back & enjoy the ride .
The only thing that really tweaks me off is i just bought a Diggs jersey last season 😒 any takers ???
No on the Diggs Jersey. Yes on given the locker room issues, it was better to rip off the bandaid earlier than later.
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1 minute ago, T master said:
They are both competitors Josh had a bad game threw a couple of picks to help them win with a less than average QB and Allen was probably rightfully pissed off in that they lost .
I don't believe that Diggs was that upset with the Bills i feel it was more about his age, his drop off in production last season, his catch rate in the play offs, and more th
The Pats use to do this kind of stuff all the time get rid of a really good player a year early rather than a year too late.
The difference is that the Pats rarely took huge cap hits doing that, at least until recently.
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11 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:
Definitely, DEFINITELY no one point out that he made the exact same amount of kicks from his great 2022 season (28) while only missing 2 more FGs the following year.
The point is his 2022 season was not great. It was good to very good. The Bills only lost three regular season games that year. Two of his four missed kicks were in games the Bills lost, both by three points or less.
This is not the 1980's NFL. He was the 12th best kicker by percentage in 2022. That is good not great. Bass has never been great.
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7 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:
I am hoping that Bass gets over his bad season. I like the man and the player.
He does need camp competition. I wouldn't mind a 7th round pick (or a priority UDFA) coming to camp.
I just (for the sake of discussion) want to disprove the "Bass's contract in too expensive to move on from" nonsense.
IF a rookie kicker was drafted in the 7th and made the team the $ numbers look like this.
Bass - Post June cut - $100k 2024 cap savings.
Rookie 7th rounder - $815k.
Bass has a 2025 $3M dead cap but due $4.7M. Equates to a cap savings of $1.7M, whereas the rookie would cost less than $1M.
The 2026, 2027 cap savings would be over $8M.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/tyler-bass-47784/
OK. I guess he could be cut without much pain. I would rather go with him than an unknown. At least, we know Bass has been a good kicker in the past.
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3 hours ago, Rigotz said:
Bass:
4 years in the league. 27 years old. Last year was rough.
In 2022 Bass was 27 for 31 including several clutch last minute kicks you might have forgotten.
In 2021 Bass was 28 for 32 with several clutch kicks ... again.
Butker:
7 years in the league. 28 years old. Last year he was great. The year before he was awful.
In 2022, Butker was 18 for 24 and also had a worse Extra Point % than Bass ever had.
The Chiefs had zero confidence in his kicking two years ago.
Did the Chiefs cry about it or cut Harrison Butker?
No. They let him play and get over his "yips" which is common for Kickers. He rewarded them.
Bass is still a good kicker. He just had a bad season.
It's going to be ok.
Those numbers you quoted are good to very good -- not anywhere close to elite; 87.5% in 2021 would have put Bass 13th in FG percentage out of all kickers who hit 20 or more field goals. 87.1% in 2022 would have put Bass 11th in FG% with the same criteria. The Bills only lost 3 games in 2022. Bass missed field goals in two of those games, both of which the Bills lost by 3 or less points. How clutch is that?
Tyler Butker has been in the NFL for 7 seasons. 2022 was the only season his field goal percentage was less than Bass's best season. He was over 90% in three out of the other six seasons. I think Butker gets a pass.
No one says to get rid of Bass.
The Bills can't get rid of him without pain anyway due to his contract.He at least was a good field goal kicker. That is all the Bills need and it's very risky bringing in someone else. Look at how many kickers the Jets have gone through before they seem to have finally found someone acceptable.Before people say you have to take weather conditions into account, this is true, but opponent field goal kickers have had a better FG% each of the last four years. I don't want to leave the impression that I think Bass is a bum, he is not. I just have never understood the impression from Bills fans that he is an elite kicker. He was perfectly adequate until last year.
Edit: as pointed out by ColoradoBills below. He can be cut with little cost.
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On 4/7/2024 at 12:56 AM, Beck Water said:
3) the latest is people dumping on Allen for Tim Graham's podcast revelation about the "it's only one ***** game" without the context of it being after the game, while Allen is sitting there taking the loss hard, still in his pads, and the rest of the team is coming over trying to lift him up, and whatever Diggs said wasn't reported (but Allen wasn't snapping at anyone else).
That's strange. The Graham's story was clearly meant to be sympathetic to Allen, not the other way around. Taken out of context I guess.
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1 hour ago, BillMafia716ix said:
Bass has been solid which is why he got paid what he did. I’m not writing him off because he missed a kick
It was way more than one kick. He was extremely undependable the last half of the season. Even his kick in the opener against the Jets that sent the game to overtime was a boink off the post.
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2 hours ago, aristocrat said:
shaq was supposedly 325 and edey is 300? I don’t think he weighs that much. Who knows though. He has no touch around the rimEdey is listed as 300 lbs on the Purdue website. Shaq claimed he was over 400 lbs during the 2002 season.
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I don't understand people expecting anything from Shorter. Didn't he look pretty meh in camp even before he was injured?
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20 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
Of course he can improve.. Tom Brady could improve so could Peyton Manning
Josh Allen went from a short game weakness his first few years... To leading the AFC in pass rating and completion percentage under 10 yards by year three
I'd say that is Master class improvement
He certainly can improve and he has gotten better at areas of his game every single year even if stats don't show it
I've been adamant he will be all world by 30 or 31.. he will have 60 passing touchdowns
I've said it here before and I'll throw it out again
Josh Allen at age 31 season will have 60 touchdowns
I had assumed you were talking about his short game statistics the two or three seasons where he was pretty much last in YAC. No one is arguing that he didn't improve in all facets of his game from 1998 to 2000. Note that 2000 was also the year that he spent pretty much a whole month in lock down where he did nothing but eat and sleep football.
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14 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
He has been statistically elite in the short game since year three...
It's dipped a little bit since Beasley has gone but still in the top echelon of NFL quarterbacks
He's on Pace to have the most touchdowns in NFL history... We need to start supporting the most talented player in the NFL.. not knocking a few of his faults
Which are more quirks that he never got to work out on the bench... So they pop up under stressful situations
The longer professional quarterback has to learn without being thrown to the fire he can work out bad quirks.. Josh was thrown to the fire, survived, became a star... But he still has quirks
I am not saying Allen is not a elite QB. He 100% is, I feel he is the second best QB in the league. I can't regard Burrows as second best since he misses a third of the games and is hobbling and ineffective for another third.
What I don't understand is the concept of (A) Allen being pretty much perfect as he is (which you are not saying), or (B) somehow, if he tries to improve on the things he is not good it, it would kill his game.
I guess I don't know what short game statistics you are talking about. To me, statistically elite in the short game would mean getting the ball out quickly and hitting receivers in stride so that they have good YAC. Both of those have never been Allen's strong points and I see very little evidence that it is getting a lot better, except for a game or two here and there. Ok. maybe qualify it a litte, it did look a litte better under Brady though I would need to see more games before we can say anything.
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9 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
I don't think they are close to being the same case
These NFL teams have recorders which know how long players watch film for...
Kyler Murray watched very little film.. so much so they put it into his contract he had to.. Johnny manziel when they reviewed watched zero film
Josh Allen has statistically became elite in the short game... Impossible to do unless you do a lot of film work
There is a difference between watching film on your upcoming opponent... And watching NFL film in general
His week-to-week opponent doesn't matter as much because he is played so uniquely... What he needs to do is watch tape of how 25 other teams has played him across years
Which he obviously does because he's a world-class quarterback
I have to disagree Not that Allen is not a world class quarterback, that this by itself means he definitely must be watching enough film. I agree that he is probably not watching it at Johnny Manziel level. I hate to always go back to the same point, but teams play Kyler Murray uniquely also. Allen's film watching habits were so poor that his friends in the Bills QB room tease him about it and a very friendly interviewer asks him about it, that must have been pretty noticeable indeed.
I am not aware that he is statistically elite in the short game. I have not looked at the data but it doesn't seem like it from the eye-test, which of course could be wrong. I agree that he definitely looked better in the short game after Brady came in and there were some games where the short game really looked very good.
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30 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
Listen he certainly can be more dialed in... He's very relaxed at times which is what you want but he's too relaxed at times
When he is focused he is the best in the world ... Remember he's 27.. i have no doubt with maturity he will be the best at 30
OK, then we partially agree then.
I just find his explanations, i.e., excuses, for not watching film cringe-worthy. My test is to put the words into the mouth of Kyler Murray and ask how people would respond to that. Kyler Murray watches film too with his coaches etc.., what Murray was not watching was the stuff they told him to review on his own. If it was that noticeable thatthe others QBs in the Bill's QB room were teasing Allen about it and that McAfee heard about it, Allen must have watched very little film indeed. Hopefully with the ex-gf and Diggs drama gone, it will be easier for Allen to focus.
I feel that all those QBs working out with their receivers stuff is just for show anyway. Even if Allen had wanted to, chances are Diggs wouldn't have shown up and all you would get is questions about why Diggs wasn't there.
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The Bass-o-matic thing was never correct. Bass was never an elite kicker. He was an above average NFL kicker who was good enough for the Bills until last season. Bills opponent kickers have had a higher percentage every year since he has been with the Bills so it is not just weather conditions. Hopefully, it was a nagging injury and he will return to his above average form which is all the Bills need.
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13 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:
Eedy is fucking Frankenstein !
That's why Burns isn't built for the NBA.. he just doesn't have the length
Super poor man's tim Duncan
I don't think he's a top five draft pick... Probably more of a role player in the NBA than a dominant star
Edey is a Super slow Tim Duncan. Zero chance of being a top ten pick, I am guessing early second round.
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4 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:
Completely out of context
Allen said he is played differently than every other QB so film isn't giving him what it does to most
Because he isn't played the same
I am saying if any other qb says this they would get laughed at. I am sure teams don't play Kyler Murray the same way as other qbs either.
If you feel that is reasonable, fine, for me, this is the kind of excuse you expect from a high schooler, not from someone who could and should be an all time great.
I repeat, Allen has very few turnovers in the playoffs. You can't be at the top of your game all the time, but that says if he is prepared and focussed he can be much more consistent.
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30 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
Dude just got manhandled by beanpole Zach Eedy
Ok,. I'll bite. Zach Eedy is listed as 7' 4" and 300 lbs and probably weights a little more. Maybe not quite the BMI of a typical NFL interior lineman but how is Eedy a beanpole?
Chet Holmgren is listed as 7' 1" and 209 lbs, Victor Wembanyama is 7'4" and 210 lbs. Those guys are beanpoles.
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4 hours ago, 90sBills said:
I’m not sure if the watching film part is true but there seems to be a lot of smoke about it since last season. What’s clearly accurate is his deficiencies in processing reads and game situational awareness. In short the mental part of being an elite qb. Hoping that he recognizes that and is doing everything he can to improve.Allen specifically said he doesn't want to watch "too much" film. I am sure Kyler Murray feels the same way.
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58 minutes ago, bearstobills said:
Two words....Albert Einstein
No theory of relativity, he's just a cut-rate university professor
Off topic, but actuallllly .... Albert Einstein made amazing scientific accomplshments totally independent of the theory of relativity. For example, his Nobel Prize was not for the theory of relativity which was still somewhat controversial at the time. Einstein would not have, in any way, been a cut-rate university professor even if he never thought about relativity.
OK, back to football.
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47 minutes ago, junior said:
Where did you see that?
Last off-season there was a very similar thread after a "story" from Jason Whitlock about the Diggs-Allen relationship. I understand that Jason Whitlock is not very reliable and I am certainly not saying Whitlock was correct but it definitely counts as a whisper. We had essentially the same thread last off-season and that didn't come out of a vacuum.
As stated upthread, I don't begrudge him taking a few months off and having a little fun to recover mind and body. I am much more concerned about how little film he watched which was confirmed on the McAfee show. McAfee asked Allen about it, which means that Allen not watching much film is a well known fact around the NFL. There was also a story that the backup QBs (Case Keenum and Matt Barkley) used to tease Allen about how little flim he watches. These would also count as whispers.
Before people come back with but he explains that "I don't watch a lot of film because teams play me differently", IMHO, that is a pure BS excuse.
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34 minutes ago, Brand J said:
I think he fears paralysis by analysis and would much rather try to figure it out in real time. It’s no secret why he averages nearly 3 seconds to throw the ball, he’s not always sure where he’s going with it presnap. But like others have said, even if Josh isn’t obsessive about football to the point he lives in the film and weight room, he still has played well enough in the playoffs for the team to win it all. It’s those around him that have let him down. Where would he be if he put in all that extra work? Conventional wisdom says he’d be even better, but he seems to know what’s best for his process, so it’s not necessarily a given that he’d be absolutely better.
I feel the "paralysis by analysis" is just an excuse. Similarly to the "I would get psyched out if I study too much". There are students who study too much but none of them are the ones who study too much are the ones who worry that they would get psyched out by it.
To me, the fact that Allen throws very few interceptions in the playoffs is an indication of what he can be when he is well prepared. You can't be at the top of your game all the time but you can be more consistent. Last season there were two or three times where DBs specificly said that they baited Allen into throwing interceptions. This should not happen (certainly not more than once) if you are prepared as well as you should be.
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Of course Allen is relieved. If you ever worked with or managed a toxic colleague, it's a breath of fresh air when they are gone even if they were a high performer.
The question of whether the Bills are a better team is another story but at least it will be more fun to go to work.
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36 minutes ago, DabillsDaBillsDaBills said:
Has there been even a whisper of resentment towards Josh Allen other than from Diggs?
And I will stress the word whisper as Diggs has never said anything negative about Allen in public.
Of those 2 guys only 1 of them spends every February and March tweeting cryptic ***** intended to stir up drama.
Of those 2 guys only 1 of them skipped voluntary OTAs in 2023 and had the head coach "very concerned".
This isn't a new topic, of course their were whispers. There were whispers last off season also, where people on this board fell over themselves defending Allen.
I myself have no problem with Allen taking a few months off. I am much more concerned that he doesn't like to watch film to the point that the other QBs in the room tease him about it and no, the " teams play me differently excuse" is the kind of BS you expect from your high school kid about why they didn't study.
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11 minutes ago, Ya Digg? said:
So DeCosta is an interesting name you bring up. I feel people around here generally see him as a good GM, but he’s had a lot of misses on draft picks. They have been throwing draft pick after draft pick at wide receivers in the first three rounds ever since they drafted Lamar-have any of them been a huge hit?
I feel that De Costa still gets a bump reputation wise from the glow of Ozzie Newsome. The wide receivers may be limited by Jackson but Marquise Brown hasn't looked great in Arizona either.
The Allen-Diggs Relationship in Decline?
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So all those "click-bait" journalist were right after all. Its hard to believe a few photos of Allen and Diggs giving each other pats in the back would be enough for people to believe that there weren't major issues in that relationship. I am just surprised that Diggs was professional enough not to go public during season.