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1 hour ago, Call_Of_Ktulu said:
Tua is not a QB that can carry a team. I’ve never been impressed with Tua.
I think that we’ve seen his ceiling. It’s funny how some Miami fans and even some Bills fans will advocate to “build around him.”What? He already has arguably the best WR in the NFL, the best WR2, a fast group of running backs, 2 high priced FA’s on the OL, along with 3 other premium picks at OL.
Not to mention one of the best play callers in the NFL.
How much more does he really need?
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Not gonna lie, I’ve enjoyed watching the downfall of Miami this season only because their fans and media members have been so obnoxious about the “revolutionary” offense that “couldn’t be stopped.”
Everyone points to the TEN loss as the turning point of the season, but I think it was week 3 Buffalo. Sean McDermott wrote the blueprint how to stop Miami, which every team followed. The teams that had the personnel to emulate, usually won.Now there’s major questions about both HC and QB and I think Miami’s only option to run it back with both in 2024.
I think McDaniel is a really good offensive schemer but still has a lot of questions as a HC.
Then there’s Tua who I feel McDaniel really propped up with his scheme. But he consistently struggles when you take away his first read and defend the middle of the field.
It’s a completely 180 from earlier in the season. Not a great position to be in
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I have to say, I hate the fact this game is going to be played tomorrow in such bad weather and that it will ultimately impact the game…maybe even decrease chances of victory
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2 minutes ago, davefan66 said:
I’d expect a change in date/time to be done early this morning if happening. Kinda hope for Monday 1:00, but 4:00 seems to be the earmarked time.
I’ve done a lot of stupid stuff in my life when it comes to winter weather. Put myself at risk, and others. Both at a young age and pretty recently. Not looking forward to going tomorrow. May not go if it’s as bad as some forecasts. I know I could drive and be just fine tailgating and sitting in the stands. It’s the other idiots causing accidents, getting stuck that concerns me.
it’s not just putting a few people at risk. It’s looking like 75,000 or so who will all need to travel during winter storm advisory-
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5 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
Wow. Thought for sure it was Vrabel.
https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-hiring-jerod-mayo-as-new-head-coach
There we’re reports in the media that Mayo rubbed some the wrong way in the org and that his future as Patriots HC could be in question. I guess that was the Belichick camp maybe?
I thought Vrabel was a slam dunk for that job.
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43 minutes ago, since79 said:
I remember a snowy Steelers game where Le’veon Bell never sprinted to the hole. He hesitated and short stepped his way down the field. He destroyed us in the game. Last year in our Snow game against Cinci, our offensive game plan was for a good track. Players were slipping and sliding on our side all over the field. They seemed most concerned with cleaning their shoe off between plays and being distracted. In their mind they were out of the game and it showed. Meanwhile Cinci came with the correct game plan, better plan for poor footing and they came to execute.
There are valuable lessons there. Training staff get it right this time on foot wear choice. Coaches come better prepared with and executable gameplan. Players get you head right and don’t let the conditions distract you. Have an attitude that you are above the conditions. The Steelers have to play in it too. Tomlinson will have everything right, he showed us before in the game I mentioned.
I hope the lesson was learned……
That wasn’t the snow game. That was just how Bell used to run behind the Steelers OL in 2016. It was a combo that worked well until he decided he was going hold. His career was never the same.-
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1 hour ago, Flip Johnson said:
It's not about his brain.
Marc used to talk about 'balance' as one of the most important and underrated attributes for a RB.
Thurman and Shady did not have amazing straight line speed but they had balance.
This will be a good test for Cook
Who the hell is Marc? Marcus Allen?
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9 minutes ago, JerseyBills said:
dude said McDaniels should be COY lmao. When his O plays great defenses they stink - Buf in 2 gms 17 ppg
Bal in 1 game-19 ppg
right - that’s why I’m questioning the credibility of his information and the sanity of the OP for presenting this as solid evidence.
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The trendy thing in the Buffalo media now is to predict a close game or even a loss for Buffalo.
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Just now, Neo said:
“Allen hurts him” means so much success can be attributed to a superstar quarterback that the ranking of the OC decreases. In other words, more is expected tomwhom much is given. Look at KC with Reid.
What kind of metric is that though? That’s why I criticized the OP for positioning this information as thought it was legit. It’s some kid on the internet playing PFF -
They did sign AJ Klein so I think there’s a chance they show a true 4-3 but it’s not teams haven’t tried to run when Taron is on the field. He’s just very good and he allows them to stay in Nickel without getting victimized.
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You have to consider the source. It looks like a college senior with 1,500 followers on Twitter. No affiliation with any reputable outlet.
Patton Analytics? PATTON?
Please stop posting from randos on the internet… these “analytics” mean absolutely nothing
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5 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Replacing Sexy Rexy and his brother Blubbo. Wizard Beane followed the next year.
No he didn’t… Beane followed 4 months later. Not the next year. He was drafting Josh Allen in 20183 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:Now we wait and see if he's a Marty Schottenheimer or an Andy Reid. Marty won 3 straight division titles and made the playoffs four years in a row out of five as the Browns head coach and made the playoffs 7 out of 10 seasons with the Chiefs (who obviously were 2nd in the division to the Elway-led Broncos most years) and he didn't have a QB anywhere near like Josh Allen.
FYI Marty is a really bad comparison… he has a post season record of 5-13 over the span of 18 seasons.
Sean McDermott is 4-5 in 6 seasons.
So many McDermott will be on par with Marty is he never wins another post season game.
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8 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:
"Difference Maker" is someone the opposing DC is scared of. Very good is what Kincaid and Cook are. Allen, Diggs, Morse (perhaps past his prime now, but previously), those are difference makers on offense. Someone like Hill, Lamb, St. Brown, Kyren Williams, McCaffery, Mostert, Kittle, are difference makers on offense.
True… but Kincaid is a rookie and I do believe he has the potential to be one of the best TE’s in the league.Notn sure if Cook will ever get beyond “very good,” but there’s definitely a chance
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54 minutes ago, Rigotz said:
Thought it might be interesting, as we head into the playoffs, to discuss a few times in recent seasons that we were all wrong and Brandon Beane was right:
- "Wrong Josh" - don't you wish you had Josh Rosen right now?
- "Undersized LB" - letting Tremaine Edmunds walk and replacing him with a tiny LB in Terrel Bernard?? Disaster!
- "Pay Shaq! Pay Phillips! Pay Poyer!" - Beane let all of them walk and all of them came back on cheaper contracts.
- "Don't pay Ed!" - Remember your reaction when you saw the big Ed Oliver contract?
- "Another RB who can't handle a full workload!" - Cook is way too small to ever be a true lead back.
- "Pay Gabe Davis" - what a difference a year makes. Wish we locked Gabe up last year at $12M/yr.
- "FIRE MCDERMOTT" - this would have been Beane's call, if it happened.
I'm sure there are many more, but those are just from the top of my head.
How about that Rasul Douglas trade?
2022 Draft Class:
1st - Elam - TBD
2nd - Cook - STUD
3rd - Bernard - STUD
5th - Shakir - STUD
6th - Benford - STUD
7th - Spector - Possibly good depth!
2023 Draft Class:
1st - Kincaid - STUD
2nd - Torrence - STUD
3rd - Dorian - TBD
5th - Shorter - TBD
7th - Broeker + Austin - our team was too deep to keep them
Beane has been en fuego.
Do you have any others?
Brandon Beane does not oversee Sean McDermott. He couldn’t fire him even if he wanted to.
One move you left off was rolling with Spencer Brown at RT. At last season’s presser he cited some reasons why we haven’t seen his best football yet. Many of us assumed he’d be the same player he always had been. But he has stepped up.
To the same effect though, Beane said something similar about Gabe Davis and was wrong.
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1 hour ago, zow2 said:
The Buffalo Bills are purposely leaving a roof off the new stadium, in part because of money...but a huge part is that they want outdoor football to continue. They feel like it's an advantage to have teams come up here and wilt in this weather and crazy environment.
That being said, they better not lose the Steelers in our damn weather. They did a poor job of preparing for Cincinnati last January.
I agree. Out of all the teams in the playoffs, Pittsburgh is probably the one you want to draw. You can’t make any excuses - certainly not weather.
As far as the roof - you are correct. In fact, I believe the data in the stadium survey supported a majority who preferred outdoor football conditions. But I believe this information was just shared to highlight the real reason which is the cost associated with the roof.
I don’t think the additional cost would justify creating a new roof on the stadium. Maybe a few more concerts or shows during the winter but overall Buffalo is still too small of a market to support the major events large cities bid on - certainly not the Super Bowl.
So with NYS looking the spend the lowest amount of state aid and Terry wanting to spent the lowest of amount of non-state aid, the left a roof off of the proposal29 minutes ago, Process said:Pretty sure AccuWeather/weather channel etc are useless when it comes to lake effect snow
At lot of these forecasts are… I remember the Miami game last season was supposed to snowy and very cold. It snowed a little bit overall the temps were in the 30’s.
Weather changes fast
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9 minutes ago, sunshynman said:
Exactly! Build a team where this is an advantage. Or at least plan for it to be used as an advantage!
Beane has explained multiple times in the past that drafting a big, strong armed QB that could throw in the elements is why they were drawn to Josh. At least, that was his story.
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Based on how people are talking about the weather in this forum and the impact it will have on the offense:
Steelers 3
Bills 0
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13 minutes ago, boyst said:
to clarify. i do not want to hear the garbage on the dome or no dome. but i want to hold my comments until after the next few weeks and see what is said. i don't think i'll change my mind that we do not need it but if we get two back to back weeks of miserable weather than i will be annoyed and look to find fault in anything possible. especially if we lose.
Personally, I like dome idea and thought it was a better investment than an open-air stadium. But it was clear that NYS and Terry didn’t want to spend the money.
With that being said it’s like - What do you expect?”
This isn’t luck or a lousy draw. This is winter in Buffalo, NY
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44 minutes ago, boyst said:
The premise remains the same week after week. Place your orders on the players, units, teams, coaches, weather, or anything you'd like. You can choose to buy a player because he's cheap and a penny stock, you can sell a player because he is crashing and you want out. You could also sell high. There is no rules for this, it is just make believe.
Buy: Fornette. We need him this week to be consistent and secure the ball. With the weather being a factor we may struggle to score 20 points.
Sell: Cook. I don't see it being a week we should rely on him.
Hold: Domed stadium. We got what we want. A home field advantage guaranteed through at least 2 games. If weather plays a factor where we struggle through these games we will hear an overwhelming cry for a dome. If we do not struggle and more specifically weather is reasonable in the divisional round we may have less commotion. Regardless, we will not be getting a dome but I still want to see how things go in the playoffs where the environmental factors are an obvious issue historically.
Sell: everyone who knows what the weather is like in Buffalo in January and complains about it anyway.-
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17 hours ago, rusty shackleford said:
Yeah it stopped because of the holding penalty on Ramsey. The hold resulted in 5 yards added to the end of the run so we accepted. I don't think declining it would have stared the clock again either.
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20 hours ago, PBF81 said:
We seem to be hit-n-miss.
We've played against almost none of the league's top-10 RBs. Swift (5th) posted his fourth best game of the season against us. Mixon (8th) we shut down. Mostert (10th) we shut down in the one game early in the season, but Achane had a great game in his place.
Etienne (11th) had his best game of the season against us as did Jax otherwise. Barkley (16th) had his second best yardage game of the season against us.
Harris is 7th and the Steelers rank 13th in Rushing. The only teams we've played among the top-12 in rushing are Miami (6th) and the Eagles (8th).
10 of the 17 games we've played have been against teams ranking 22nd or worse in rushing including the three worst. (30th, 31st, and 32nd)
7 of 17 are among teams ranking in the bottom quartile.
FWIW
Without running an analysis, we seem to give up big plays rushing. We seem to be focused on our pass rush and TFLs, so once a play breaks down defensively, we seem to be exposed at the second level so to speak. If true, that's why much of this game rests upon McD's shoulders.
Achane had a big game? He rushed 10 times for 56 yards which was boosted by a 21 yard TD. They held him in check the rest of the time.The whining about the weather is one of the most annoying parts about Bills fans.
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On 1/8/2024 at 12:15 AM, WEATHER DOT COM said:
It's going to be very windy.
It might be pretty snowy. Will know more by the middle of this week.
It only there was a strong armed QB who could throw the ball in all types of weather
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Tom Brady definitely came out on top in the whole “who made who” talking point.
Bill is still an excellent defensive coach but he is clueless and outdated when it comes to running an offense. He’s also extremely consecutive in his game day approach. In these areas it seems like the game has passed him by.
The problem with any team than wants to hire him is that he will require GM/roster control. He’s operated that way for decades and has the cache to earn the right.
But over the past 4 years he’s shown that he is really bad with personnel - especially offensively. Look at the draft picks and free agents he brought to the team. Almost none of them worked out successfully.
These were his solutions at QB since Brady left:
2020: Cam Newton/Brian Hoyer
2021: Mac Jones
2022: Mac Jones (big regressions)
2023: Mac Jones (bigger regression)/Bailey Zappe
The other red flag on Belichick is his approach to hiring coaches. He seems to be very insulated and will only hire coaches he personally knows, has worked with in the past, or even his own family.
It sounded like his solution to fix the offense was bringing JMD back.
1/15/24 Super WildCard Playoff GAMEDAY Bills vs Steelers Pregame Thread
in The Stadium Wall
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Can someone please explain how that Freiermuth catch was not called a fumble? Even the analysts on CBS at halftime had no idea what Gene Steratore was talking about with the ball grazing his helmet.
I’m completely dumbfounded with some of the bizarre rules in the NFL that appear to defy what our eyes tell us. I’m just glad the Pickens incompletion was turned to a fumble because I was getting ready for a dumb explanation from Geno to tell me why that wasn’t a catch.