P Riv
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12 hours ago, 97bills said:
If we get swept by NE we’re not going to the playoffs, and for the first time I will have serious doubt about McDermott
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19 hours ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
How do we even know what the pats are good at? They are playing the same terrible schedule as us lol is their statement win beating the browns who were missing both starting rbs and baker was playing injured? They seem very similar to us in that they’re blowing out average/bad teams and we don’t really know how they’ll perform against good/great ones
Fair question... I'm just going off the 20+ year trend of how Hoodie builds and coaches his teams. That defense is real, not some statistical smoke and mirrors fakery going on. Anything is possible on any given Sunday, but long term trends indicate the high probability that they will play a certain way. That's what I'm forming a (fan) opinion from. We picked on Hoodie for his bad drafts, letting Brady go, spending lots of cash in free agency to fix the bad drafts, starting a rookie QB, etc. There's no way that will work....lol
Well, it appears at this point that he got it right this offseason and our one year reign is now a dog fight with a hungry junk yard dog. It's going to be fun as hell to watch.
1 hour ago, TBBills said:It doesn't matter how it gets done.
Agreed, but I don't see the Titans winning this one with so many people missing on offense. It's going to be Hoodie vs Tanneyhill with average weapons, not a good look.
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15 minutes ago, Jerome007 said:
Bills have more weapons. They should win.
We have more weapons than they do, but we play their defense, not their offense. If this was a Sep game in nice weather we'd have an advantage, but THEY are built for bad weather, we aren't. It's a night game in Dec. outside, running means a lot more than normal. It's going to be a low scoring affair and a slugfest, probably coming down to turnovers, special teams and penalties. We have more weapons, they have Hoodie and McDaniel's against our brain trust. Unfortunately there is much more at stake for us than there is for them. Preseason expectations, recent struggles and criticism, the past domination in our heads, and the game is at our house. If we lose it's big, for them it just doesn't mean as much and I think they feel that too.
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This is the toughest test all year, this isn't just another game on the schedule. Hoodie literally built this team to beat us, using our weaknesses against us and building up their ability to handle our strengths. The old Parcells mantra was build a team that can beat up your own division, the rest will take care of itself.
Well, we find out next week how playoff ready and capable these Bills are. The potential is there, the will remains to be seen.
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1 hour ago, Bubba Gump said:
It doesn't matter when he only gets the ball 5 times a game.
Teams put extra DBs on the field and pass rushers to stop our O. When we run its unexpected for the most part and against a pass defense, so the running stats are very misleading. If we ran more, they would most definitely drop in yards per carry and may not even be effective. We can't run effectively on obvious running downs against a team prepared for it, which is why we completely rely on the passing game. Our running game is more of a nuisance or gimmick than a threat.
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7 hours ago, Gugny said:
Wasn't your prediction predicated on Cam Newton looking good at the time, Nostradamus?
No, I was referring to this and I should have highlighted:
" All of our eggs are in one basket (passing game, JA17 being a superstar). To me, that's pretty one dimensional and fragile. "
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On 8/3/2021 at 8:32 AM, P Riv said:
There's many scenarios, but what I keep coming back to is that we have a superstar QB1 and WR1, solid WR's overall, and NE is better at every other position group on both sides of the ball. All of our eggs are in one basket (passing game, JA17 being a superstar). To me, thats pretty one dimensional and fragile.
If NE gets somewhere between decent and "good" QB play, they will be a very tough out. I expect to win the division, but its going to be tough and a lot can go wrong.
So here's what I said almost 4 months ago. Wtf do I know... Lots of Homerism in this thread.
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2 hours ago, dave mcbride said:
Not really. He took over a 1-15 Pats team and had them in the playoffs by 1994; BB joined in 1996. He took over a 1-15 Jets team and got them 9-7 his first season there. BB followed him there too. And bear in mind that he RESCUED Belichick from the scrap heap after the epic flameout in Cleveland. He also took over a 5-11 (three years running) Cowboys team and got them 10-6 his first year with Quincy Freaking Carter. And he took over a 1-15 Dolphins team, hired Sparano, and get them to 11-5 in his first season there. And he also gave Charlie Weis his first OC job in 1997 with the Jets. It's pretty remarkable.
I do think it's pretty great that Belichick is 0-2 in SBs against the "other" Parcells assistant, Coughlin.
True, Coughlin has his number, too bad he's retired. I remember when Parcells replaced coach Mac of Syracuse fame in NE. I thought that team had some talent on the roster, but then Parcells cut most of them...lol I recall he got rid of Hart Lee Dykes who I watched at "Rich Stadium" as a rookie make some ridiculous catches, then injury, then Parcells, then outta the league.
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3 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:
Good points, but I'd add that job #1 of a coach is hiring a good staff. It's why I'll always place Parcells as my number one: he promoted BB to DC and brought him nearly everywhere he went, hired Tom Coughlin, and revived Sean Payton's career after being dumped unfairly by Jim Fassel (the reason, I think, why the latter never got a NFL head coaching job again).
Interesting take on Parcels. I always looked at it like Parcels never climbed the mountain without "little Bill". Parcels basically fizzled out in Dallas, did little in NE until little Bill showed up at Ass't HC/DC, same thing with the Jets.
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7 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:
They were talented on D, sure, but every team has talented players. Their offense was very low-talent, though, and the QB was a dump-off artist game manager. Their RB was a relatively slow-footed but big Bills cast off. Their most talented skill player was Troy Freaking Brown, a guy who had a great career but who probably wouldn't have started for most teams given his physical talent level.
Agreed, but Belichick wasn't coaching the offense, that was Charlie Weis. Weis was a brilliant mind by himself and I would say it was him that was responsible for Brady's early development as well as that of Josh McDaniels.
Hoodie was responsible for how good they were at complimentary football and the emphasis on special teams that most franchises don't have. It was an outstanding job of coaching, way better than whatever that was last year in a pandemic while in cap purgatory.
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3 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:
Do you honestly believe that Bill Belichick's coaching job was better last season than in 2001, a year in which they had a miraculous SB run with a completely inexperienced QB?
Not me, I was just taken back by the idea that the 2001 team wasn't "that" talented when it had 3 HoF'rs on it and other pro-bowl players, all on defense.
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14 hours ago, Billsfanatixs said:
Back in the Superbowl years, or just prior if I recall correctly, the call outs of players not digging deep enough lead to 4 Superbowl appearances.
Very true, that sold a lot of Buffalo News newspapers back in the day!
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12 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:
The talent level was higher, but not that much higher. And they had a top 10 defense in 2001 because of ... coaching.
Hoodie helped build that defense in 1996 when he coached it in SB 31. Milloy, Law, McGinest, Bruschi and Otis Smith were all starters in a previous SB under Belichick, and to them you can add the talent of Vrabel, Roman Phifer, Terrell Buckly, and Ted Johnson.... That was a great defense, clipped us twice.
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9 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:
How could you say this after 2002? His QB went down and he went with a completely inexperienced late round pick. And he outschemed everyone on his way to a SB victory. They were not that talented at all.
Not that talented? They still had the defensive nucleus of the team that went to SB31. That and Ty Law, McGinist, and Seymour are either in the HoF or headed there soon. Their defense that year was incredibly talented. The offense, not so much.
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18 minutes ago, PatsFanNH said:
But BB rarely paid more for 1 or 2 players..
Yes, he paid 12 and 24 (all 3 of them), thats about it.
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2 minutes ago, PatsFanNH said:
Lol didn’t read my entire post did you? “They had less than 1 Million until all the opt outs” which happened just before the season and all the good FA were gone. The Patriots had the highest number of opt outs in the NFL. Thus opening space up.
oh and FYI the Pats had over $20 million locked up in QB, most of it for Brady and the Bonus he got the year before.
That was last year, the bills from all those SBs had to get paid. Looked like Hoody on a bargain hunt and empty wallet.
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9 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
As of March 17, 2021, the Patriots are projected to have $69,030,131 in cap space for 2021.
The Patriots rolled over $19.6 million in 2020 cap space.
Without much money tied into the quarterback position, the Patriots have a ton of cap room to make some moves this offseason. It will be interesting to see how Bill Belichick plans to shape this roster.
And they spent all of it
I think Judon may be the only lock at LB for them, who knows with Collins, van Noy, and Hightower. That's a lot of money to tie up in older veterans. I wouldn't be surprised if they keep one, then spend the money on another high priced LB and a CB. I don't see them paying Jackson. They seem more or less set just about everywhere else, so they may just keep their own.
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14 minutes ago, 78thealltimegreat said:
New England had a qb taking well below market value for years because of Kraft was funneling money to him by cutting large checks to his foundation and his wife is the top paid super model in the world and now Jones is just playing within the system the run a lot and he throws six yard passes…Allen’s contract will be considered a bargain in a few years anyway
Was it that far below market? In 2018 he was at 10.73% of their cap, Allen is at around 6% of ours.
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The Bills roster has 8 guys sucking up 50+% of the cap, Allen is the poster child and fall guy for that. Stephen A is basically saying that if you earn the money, then pull that weight. 8 guys should be responsible for 50% of the reason we win by that line of thinking. Anything less, and they are frauds, also by that line of thinking.
I don't subscribe to it, but it does carry some weight and some relevance. This is what we've always had here, the only difference is that we have a legit franchise QB. The fact remains that the front office is not frugal with star contracts and we never have the quality depth that wins championships.
How does NE have more talent across the board with more cap space? Look at the contracts in the top and middle of their roster compared to ours. Their's are more of a gradual slide down, where as ours are like dropping off a cliff from top to middle. I think that has been, is, and always will be our Achilles heal.
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7 hours ago, CircleTheWagons99 said:
Arizona
Nice, 1 out of 32 can't be wrong!
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4 minutes ago, jkeerie said:
I also think they need to put Josh under center. It opens up play action, so that opposing defenses don't know what's coming.
Exactly. I don't know of any team in the league that runs effectively/consistently from the shotgun.
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8 minutes ago, BuffaloBills1998 said:
You’ve heard of contract restructures correct?? And Josh even said himself he’ll restructure his contract in order to
get more talent here
Sounds great, but I'm a skeptic who needs to see it first.
.A front running team with that's top heavy with contracts won't be a front runner for long.
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Personally I think its mostly scheme, then RB talent, then OL. The scheme drives the type of player you need to run it properly, RB and OL. We used to watch Denver year in year out plug in what seemed like anybody and they could run effectively every year. That scheme that Mike Shanahan used always produced a highly productive running game. I remember lots of trap plays, smashbacks, wham blocks, etc. which required smaller more athletic OL and stocky, tough RBs. His scheme produced something like 8-10 different 1000 yd RBs.
I don't think this scheme that we have is capable of being run heavy when it needs to be type of offense. That and we don't have the personnel in place to be able to make it work that way. So to me, all three issues (scheme, RBs, OL) will keep us from being able to run effectively week in week out.
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14 hours ago, BuffaloBills1998 said:
Well what the ***** do you want them to do? Moan and groan over today’s loss and be completely bummed and depressed? That’s good that they’re being arrogant. I would be concerned if they just came out defeated and didn’t give a *****
What we want them to do is humbly admit that they played like trash, didn't show up when it counted, and make a commitment to getting in right. I thought that kind of accountability was directly implied, not sure why you choose to assume what you did.
If they don't show some resolve, this season is going to be derailed by soft attitude, really nothing else. Whatever changes they choose to make after the season should be interesting, considering we have about 1/3 the cap space available that NE has. 50% of our cap is eaten up by 8-9 players.
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They have an all star LB Corps, maybe best in the league, and you give us the edge? lol
Hightower, van Noy, and Collins probably have more playoff experience than our whole roster and they're the main reason(s) that defense is playing the way it is.
Fact is we have Allen and Diggs, they seem to have everything else.