Billy Claude

The picture is of the actor James McDaniel. Mike McDaniel's father died in a car accident went he was four years old. Here is a picture from Mike McDaniel's parents' wedding: https://www.naijanews.com/buzz/people/who-mike-mcdaniels-parents-everything-miami-dolphins-coach-family/ Pictures of McDaniels' parents on the internet often show his mother and stepfather who is white.

He basically said that before that before the game: "Typically against the Dolphins with their high powered offense, it's about points, not yards, and then taking care of the football." McDermott said. "You look at the games that we've played, the first game last season, we were able to take the ball away and score and score touchdowns rather than field goals, and in the second game we had yards, but not as many points. So it's points over yards and making sure we take care of the ball." https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/listen-mcdermott-its-about-points-not-yards-against-miami/ar-AA1qp4YK So clearly he felt that it was more important than usual, that the Bills score touchdowns rather than field goals.

I don't understand this narrative that Jackson cheated Allen out of the MVP last season. Josh Allen was never in the MVP conversation. He finished a distant 5th well behind Dak Prescott, CMC, and Scott Purdy. Once the Ravens destroyed the 49ers in week 15, it was a foregone conclusion that Jackson would win, especially since the Niners vote got split evenly between CMC and Purdy. If you don't think Jackson should have won the MVP, you should have said Jackson should not have won the MVP over Prescott, CMC or Purdy not Allen. The reasons Allen didn't win the MVP are pretty apparent: (1) The Bills didn't finish as one of the top two teams in the league (2) Allen played pretty badly for a significant part of the season when most of the impressions are made. (3) Allen had too many interceptions. In particular, his three interceptions in the Jets game that everybody was watching re-enforced the impression that he is a turnover machine.

Jets' game winning punt return on overtime.

Maybe the prank was to see how many NFL players one could fit in the elevator.

Ok thanks. I obviously didn't read it carefully enough. It makes more sense that the clearly insincere platitude came from McDermott.

Usually I regard Beane as a straight shooter for a GM but "confidence is very high in T. Bass" has to be an out and out lie. Edit -- someone pointed out it was McDermott who said it and not Beane.

It wasn't just Tua, Flores had trouble getting along with a lot of people in the Dolphins organization. He had issues with the GM and with the owner. He had 3 OCs, 3 OL and 3 QB coaches in 3 seasons. He had two coaches step down/ fired 4 months after being hired. His inability to get along with people was the official reason he was fired.

I think the Spurs are a better choice -- no championship since 1960. A lot of heart-breaking losses often due to their own teams stupidity and the terms "Spursy" and "Billsy" are synomyn. Newcastle, would have been a good choice a few years ago but they are now owned by the Saudi sovereign fund and have infinite resources (unless you see Pegula and the Saudi royal family as equivalent).

I don't understand it either. Do fans usually boo a player just for making a play against their team? The only time someone would get booed is if the celebration is way over the top or taunting in some way.

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Hauschka already started fading in 2018 but the 2017 season might been the best season ever by a Bills kicker. His percentage was very good though not great (29 out of 33 for 87.9%), but he hit 7 out of 9 from 50+ yards and all his misses were from over 40 yards. He also set the record for NFL consecutive fgs over 50 yards that season and was special team player of the week twice. None of his misses cost the Bills games since three were in Bills victories and the other miss was in a 37-16 lost to the Patriots. He was also 100% on PATs that season and was 1 for 1 in the playoff game. You might argue he was the most important Bills player in the 2017 playoff run.

It's not just that. He was 40% in the playoffs last year and basically kept the Steelers in the game.

Travis Kelce at #9? Maybe in 2021.

Wasn't there a photo of the Cowboys draft board showing that they had EJ Manuel as a 4th rounder and ? Wasn't there also a story (later denied) that Jimbo Fisher was told people that Manuel did not have the tools to be an NFL QB. I thought that most of the pundits had Geno Smith as the top QB and was surprised that the Bills took Manuel. Pretty much a WTF pick from day one which was fairly common with the Bills in those days.

Nothing lately about it. It was just continuing a long time Browns tradition of bad QB picks: 2005 Charlie Frye (3rd) 2007 Brady Quinn (1st) 2010 Colt McCoy (3rd) 2012 Brandon Weeden (1st) 2014 Johnny Manziel (1st) 2016 Cody Kessler (3rd) 2017 DeShone Kizer (2nd) One can argue that Charlie Frye was the best of the bunch. Evidence that just picking a QB every couple of years doesn't work. The Browns drafting record from 2011 to 2016 was probably the worst in the history of the NFL. Except for Bitonio (2nd round 2014), every high pick they had in that stretch was pretty much a bust.

Allen had a lot of drops last season but he wasn't the league leader. Pro Football Reference has Mahomes at #1 with 39 drops and Allen as #5 with 31 drops. Percentage wise, Mahomes was #1 at 6.9% drops while Allen was #7 at 5.7%. Drops are subjective but it is pretty consistent from different places that Mahomes was #1 in drops. The 49ers as a team remarkably only had 9 drops according to BetMGM. This was barely half of the next lowest team, the Steelers at 16 drops.

Tagolovailoa was #1 with 189 attempts with over 10 air yards in 2023. Allen and Mahomes were close to each other. Allen was #5 with 164 and Mahomes was tied for #9 with 159.

True, but there wasn't much choice; the Browns were the only ones you could count on consistently to screw up more than the Bills during the drought years. Even the Jets would have a decent year once in a while.

So basically you are saying the average guy doesn't understand the difference between correlation and causation. Well, that is probably correct.

I can definitely see the NFLPA supporting something like no player can get more than 20% of the cap in order to spread the wealth around. It would be similar to what they have in the NBA.

It's not a crazy idea to draft a QB in the third or fourth but there were too many needs this off-season. I can see the Bills doing it in the future. It is hardly a novel concept: New England did it repeatedly during the Brady years with Hoyer, Mallett, Brissett, and Garoppolo and Washington drafted RG3 and Kirk Cousins in the same draft.

I feel the the reason for the concern about Diggs missing OTAs was that it was combined with other signs of Diggs unhappiness with the Bills. If it wasn't for that, missing the OTAs would have been a disappointment but otherwise not have been a big deal. For example, Rasul Douglas missed OTAs this year (as well as previous years in Green Bay) and there does not seem to be a lot of concern.

I don't think missing OTAs are a regarded as a big deal especially for veterans. After all they are optional. LOL at everybody jumping on the OP for saying that there might be issues.

As early as 2021 Isaiah McKenzie said it was part of his job to calm Diggs down. Basically the solution isn't always to give you the ball more. He then said without being asked "it's not like he's yelling at Josh or the coaches or something like that". Why would McKenzie make a specific statement like that and who else would Diggs be yelling at if not Allen or the coaches? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYRNREa-Rqk&ab_channel=GoLong Then in 2023, Mckenzie said that 90% of the time you just let Diggs talk but 10% of the time he has to tell Diggs "you're tripping, you can't say something like that." That's got to be pretty exhausting for all involved. At some point you just can't handle a coworker like that even if they are productive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5fSQirmki8&ab_channel=GoLong My guess is that McDermott sat down with Diggs before mandatory minicamp in 2023 and told him he couldn't continue to behave that way to Allen and the coaches and Diggs blew up. If you have ever been a manager you know how these interviews usually go, especially with someone you can't really fire. Hence, Allen's statement that the issue with Diggs wasn't football related in the very narrow sense that it wasn't about Digg's play on the field.