JohnNord

This is mostly true. Also the same people who used #FireBrianDaboll are now suggesting that the Bills block any head coaching interviews! IMO what pissed of so many Bills fans isn’t the projections, as much as it was how arrogant and snarky the Barnwell’s of the world were when discussing Allen.

We have a stud DE - AJ Epinesa!!!!!

If he can stay healthy and maintain the average level he was at from 2016-2018, it would be a huge boost. They can line him up on the outside or at slot CB. I do worry about his health/age but As long as he can stay healthy, I think he’ll be better than some are predicting I hope not. It sounds like the Bills would to keep him around

Hellllllllllllllo Josh Norman BTW This Nick guy is a clown

Teams lose off bye weeks all of the time. It it an advantage? Maybe. But I don’t think it’s as big of an advantage that’s Impossible to overcome

Given how the NFC West is playing, 9-7 might win the AFCE! It just shows how it those divisional games are - in particular the 2 versus NE. As far as the rest of the scheduled, I find that teams always lose a few games they should win and a win a few they should lose. It usually evens out

Most people thought he would never be good because the PFF’s of the world said he wouldn’t be. Allen is a case study why you shouldn’t always take everything the Analytics crowd says as fact I don’t think so. Darnold would be in a great spot in Buffalo and Allen probably isn’t starting anymore in NY. There so much more than goes into the success of a QB prospect outside of their college stats and measurables. So much is dependent on the situation they are drafted in.

Draft Twitter is a thing! By that I meant the usual PFF crew and sites like the Draft Network etc

The name that kept popping up with Allen was Christian Hackenberg. Many of Twitter analysts made the comparison quite a bit

To an extent you are right and the analogy between Allen and Darnold is spot on. But IMO where the analytics crowd was wrong was their projections of Josh. Sam Monson claimed Josh would never be a better QB than Baker Mayfield. Also claimed that Josh would never complete higher than 58% of his passes and would need short dump off to do so. To me, it shows a lack of understand in the role that the organization and coaching plays in the development of a prospect.

The issue is EVERYONE thinks they can predict success in the NFL. When the truth is - it’s a big crapshoot. There are so many factors that result in the success or failure of a draft pick. As you’ve seen in Moneyball there’s a natural tension between the analytics and old-school scouting crowd over whose method is best. Stats and data vs. measurables and intangibles. With the analytics crew, it’s the classic case of data rich, insight poor. They wanted to be the smartest guys in the room. I believe they tried to project Josh using the same data for other top QB’s without considering the context or understanding how pros develop a prospect. That’s why his metrics rated so poorly compared to the other top guys. So hearing that a prospect that they rated so low, mentioned as a candidate for the top pick, just didn’t compute (pun intended!) As a result they really began to dig their heels and double down on their numbers which said that the odds are unlikely Josh will be a good pro. This led to many snarky tweets to essentially say “see we told you so, he’s really bad.” IMO it goes back to proving that their method is the best. Some of the skepticism on Allen is actually fair based on his less than impressive college numbers. But the bleak projections, that people like Sam Monson made, are just ignorant. It shows he has no idea about the nuance involved with developing a prospect.

Wayyyyyy to early to be discussing Milano replacements!

Here’s why I don’t like Aaron Schatz and the crew at PFF. This is a clear dig at Bills fans who are slamming Schatz and FO for been completely incorrect on their projection. It’s also an attempt by FO to qualify their initial projection to connect Allen to Fizpatrick.

There’s a very good chance that instead of bringing on a FA, Justin Zimmer could get activated from the PS and could probably see some playing time in the DL rotation. He’s a bigger guy and a decent run stopper

Interesting? You’ll be sleeping for a while

I think he’s only going to have a larger role on the offense as the year continues. Given the pending cap situation we could see possibly see Gabe replace John Brown or Cole Beasley in 2021

He’s gotta be back at practice. I would bet he’s active this week

Exposed how? It seems like the Rams took advantage of a bigger OL and fo the second level faster

weather in Buffalo has and always will be highly overrated

I see what you are saying and it makes sense but I’m not writing off LJ anytime yet only because the Baltimore offense is built around what he does well and because their defense (at least this year) is one of the best in the NFL. Roman is trying to run the same ball control, big play offense that he installed in San Francisco and Buffalo. The only difference is that Jackson is a significantly better runner than Kaep or Tyrod. Whoever said that Baltimore is not built to play from behind is exactly correct. When Lamar is down the entire offense seems to press really hard and ends up making some mistakes. It happened against Tennessee in the playoffs and it happened last night But given what LJ and the Ravens can do on the ground and given their defense, I think Baltimore will always be a tough out

This really sucks. I’m glad the Bills didn’t play these teams over the past 2 weeks but it just takes 1 positive to affect so many players/teams

I know what you mean. They were never going to shut out the Rams and they were out scored only 14-7. But I think the amount of time the defense was on the field, started to wear on the defense in the 4th when they were out scored 15-7. That phantom INT was a pretty pivotal point in the game. Just like with the Houston game, one more stop or 1 less turnover could have resulted in a completely outcome.

I’m not seeing any evidence statistically or otherwise that he’s fallen off. In fact Hyde and Poyer are probably the strength of the Bills defense. Has he dropped off a little? Maybe but I don’t think it’s a concern. You should be concerned for the Bills D-line and LB’s

They no doubt are going to try. Also you’ll see them try to confuse the Bills Lb’s pre-snap, use play action and then throw the ball in the middle of the field to James White and Edleman

On paper this makes sense. But given his last run with the Bills, he doesn’t seem like someone they’d want to give a 2nd chance to. Also, there has to be a reason why Marcel is still a free agent and why teams have not taken a look at him. Ive heard people on Twitter clamor for Snacks Harrison. I’d be ok with that signing