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Long Suffering Fan

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  1. Two things on why we should not trade Trubisky. 1. If he does well and signs a big contract elsewhere, we get a compensatory pick. That can be as high as the end of the third round. This is based upon the size of the contract. Considering the money that QBs get, the compensatory pick should be high. We will also be up against the cap and won't be signing many players from other teams to offset that. Of course, if someone comes with a first round pick, I would consider it, but that is not going to happen. 2. Don't go down the road of, "we can't win the SB with Trubisky anyway." That is not what he is about. His presence on the team is about home field advantage. If he has to fill in for Allen for a three game stretch, he could be the difference in home field in the playoffs if he picks up a few wins.
  2. I think it is ridiculous that he is not higher....and I don't think that is homer bias. - Not only did he set the sack record. - He did it while playing in a 3-4. - And while playing in a defense that often rushed three and rarely rushed more than 4 (I don't count it as a blitz unless the rush includes more than 4). Blitzing lessens double teams, collapses the pocket, and increases sack numbers for everyone because of clean up sacks. - And was dominant against the run. Sack numbers are supposedly the gold standard for DEs in this league, yet many with high sacks are not complete players. Leading in sack numbers while defending the run, in a non-pass rush friendly offense, maintaining containment, sniffing out screens....How is he not in the top 2-3 defensive players?
  3. Argh! I missed it! I was planning on being Yolo's 60,000th reaction and he is already at 60,003. 😀
  4. Peyton Manning had the same philosophy and it makes a lot of sense. If your play selection allows you to get a first down in one or two downs, it gives you a margin for error. You can have a drop (I'm looking at you Dawson), or a blown pass block (Ford....), and it doesn't kill the drive. The pre-McBeane Bills - their play selection was predicated on needing all three downs. That meant that one mistake often led to a punt. What is a good offensive third down percentage? 40%? 50%? It doesn't take a genius to see that planning on going to third down all the time, when you need 4-5 first downs to score on a normal drive, is going to lead to a lot of stalled drives. The Bills offensive philosophy right now doesn't count on them being perfect and I like that. Actually, I love that.
  5. This is actually a VERY good sign for the team (and not surprising). I am someone who loves designer games, however they are only really enjoyable with the right people. There are games that I love, but would never play with certain family members. The fact that parts of the team play together regularly means that they really do get along and like each other. Catan is merely an okay game. Absolutely ground breaking for its day. It opened the way for even better games - Everdell, Wingspan, Isle of Cats, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Terraforming Mars, Clank, Caverna, Bunny Kingdom, 7 Wonders....I could go on. And, no, I am not making up those game names. 😀
  6. You've got to love that highlight. We watch plays from Motor last year and you see him hesitate and you see him look slow. Then you watch this side by side and it is almost jarring. It is a flash that gives you hope, but this is one play in preseason against a defense that was fielding lots of guys that wouldn't have made the team and blew a gap assignment in a big way. This is his third year so maybe he has learned how to read blocks better and has learned his blitz protections. IF that is true and IF he has multiple more flashes like this in preseason again, then I think we would all be super excited about him. Right now I am more excited about Breida. He seems like a younger version of Wade who also grew up with all those important football fundamentals his whole life and has already made an NFL team.
  7. Come on. It is an off season thread. Haven't we already established that you have to go into these things with the lowest expectations possible?
  8. They haven't updated Retro Bowl to the 17 game season yet.
  9. And a 16-0 season each time....just like Retro Bowl.
  10. Jauronimo is dead on here. I'll add that Maybin had no base and seemed to have not enough power down low. What he did with his frame for the draft was a bit deceiving. Another reason Rousseau could never be Maybin is that Maybin was drafted 11th (?).....and because we passed over Orakpo to get him. Even if Rousseau is a bust, and I do not think he will be, those two reasons mean he could never be as big a bust as Maybin. BTW, normally I don't like to play Captain Hindsight on draft picks, but Orakpo was the obvious, blinking, neon light choice that everyone could see would be a good NFL player....well, apparently not everyone.
  11. "What your favorite NFL team says about you." Where I was born.... (in my case, within 5 miles of Rich Stadium - well, it wasn't there when I was born, I got there first, but it was on its way)
  12. Dude, have you seen your avatar and forum name? 😄 I've spent my whole life seeking revenge...
  13. When I first read this I thought it was your suffering as you succumbed to the virus. Like you were being funny about how you were going to live your life and then then tacked that on on the end. That's ridiculous, he wouldn't type that out, he would just say it.... ...perhaps he was dictating. Too much Monty Python...
  14. Not to be pedantic about it, but it is actually just the opposite. Doing a push up is forcing you to extend your arms. It would be easier if the band was stretching and expanding on the up stroke. If that were the case, when he straightens his arms that would mean he is not lifting his entire weight because some of his extension would be made easier by pushing the band down. It is a center of mass thing. It is a similar principle to how kicking makes it easier to do pull ups.
  15. I've been on double secret probation for quite awhile so I have to be doubly careful. I'm blaming that for my low post count. It's the only explanation. Not that we don't have our share, but I thumbed your post just for this. Beating the pats twice is maybe the most satisfying thing that happened last year (to be clear, by far the most important thing from last year is that we found out we have a franchise QB).
  16. Blue on Blue, that was a great. It was a relaxing but interesting, Saturday morning off-season listen when there is not a lot of other content. Thank you for posting it. A couple of things that stuck out to me: (nothing below is an exact quote - typing from memory) Him talking about elite WRs - several times, when talking about the pass game he specifically called Steph and Beas elite WRs. He also talked a lot about how what made them elite was separation. He never mentioned Brown. I like Brown, but in an unintended, reading between the lines way, I think he revealed that at least some Bills players think the same way of Brown as probably most of us do. Steph and Beas are in a class above Brown. Remember, he was here for 2 years in this latest stint which means he saw what Brown was 2 years ago as the uninjured number 1 WR. Called Dawson Knox a freak show athlete that has a bright future. He is big enough that little guys do not want to tackle him and he is athletic enough to get separation. We can only hope he has a bright future. Taliking about his high catch-target % and his high TD % - If he caught a TD pass, it was not uncommon for a defensive coach or player on the other team to give him a hard time teasing him after the game - man, why are you doing me that way? They haven't thrown you the ball in 5 weeks. - He said that the Bills would often take that play out of their playbooks for the next 2-3 weeks until it got off the most recent film. Talked about how being drafted in the 5th round by the Patriots with Gronk and Hernandez on the team and how it made him doubt he could play in the league. Then he gets cut and he is talking to his high school sweetheart wife with their third kid on the way and they have college debt and they are donating plasma and eating Ramen noodles to get by. Just a humble, likable guy. The type of guy that you wouldn't mind hanging with.......I still don't want him back, though. 😃
  17. I played tackle at the youth level. I also played intramurals and for my frat. Later I played flag as an adult. Oddly, I learned more about the game playing flag - different route concepts, plays, and even defensive concepts I see on the screen all the time. Maybe that is a bit of a statement on the direction the NFL has taken. But, no, I don't think playing experience is at all necessary to understand the game.
  18. I agree with that sentiment. We are good enough to have "a ticket to the dance" on likely a yearly basis. That is all we need. By that, I don't mean ticket to make the playoffs, but ticket to be an actual contender. Once we get to the dance, you never know what can happen. The way the offense sputtered does not worry me. The defensive game plan in the last game does a little, but this staff has shown the ability to improve.
  19. This article is behind a paywall: https://theathletic.com/2365170/2021/02/05/buffalo-bills-free-agency-matt-milano-daryl-williams-john-brown/?source=weeklyemail While some people like Joe B and some don't, I have fallen in the first category ever since he was learning his trade at WGR. My basic premise is that a lot of sports opinions, including my own, are bound to be wrong and at least Joe B puts some effort in. A couple of excerpts and summaries of the article: - While $175M is the floor, there has been some talk of it being higher than that for next year. It would need to be at $181M for the Bills to be right at the cap as of now. This accounts for the $3.7M roll over from this year. This does NOT include any current free agents like Mongo or Milano. This means that there HAS to be some cuts - not just that they would be nice, but that they are needed. - There is this take on Trent Murphy that I find hard to argue with: While understandable, this was still a mistake by McBeane. Having an extra $7M this year would have really helped to sign someone like Mongo or Milano. - His guess (because that is really all it is at this point) at who are cut is Brown, Butler, Jefferson, and (everyone's favorite) Lee Smith, for a total saving of ~$20.5M. He also predicts that there will be a contract restructure for Addison, Morse, and Klein for some additional savings. - With those numbers in mind, his prediction is that Milano will be kept if the cap is $185M and not kept if it is $175M The whole article is worth a read and I recommend it. There is a lot of detail and a lot that sounds right. I am looking forward to see how close he actually gets.
  20. Their bromance is good for both of them and for the team. I just hope that it never gets old. It does comes across as "real" (as much as we can tell from so far away), so hopefully it won't go south under adversity. They are both obviously competitors and competitors can clash when things are not going well. Of course, I would sign up for things always going well so that it will never come to that. 😊
  21. Teef and Hap, Just excellent posts. You both said everything that I would have said, except you said it better.
  22. Eh, I'm busy. Seriously, though. I don't think they are idiots and I am almost never critical of game plans because I don' know what they studied in the film room. However, once the product is put on the field everyone can see it - coaches, fans, experts, and non-experts alike. What I absolutely do NOT understand is stubbornness in sticking with something that is so obviously not working that drunken TBD posters can see it on their TVs.
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