silvermike

Even leaving aside his evaluation of the Bills, does Prisco know that he's picking football scores? 19-18 against the Pats, 24-16 against Miami, 20-19 against the Giants, 19-13 against Miami, 17-16 against the Jets, 26-16 against New England, 18-14 against Houston, 23-18 against Philly, 19-16 against Dallas, and 21-16 against the Jets. How often does an NFL team score 16, 18, or 19 points? And he has it happening 12 times for or against us this season? Did they abolish the extra point or the forward pass when I wasn't looking?

Oof. On the plus side, we've got him on an (expensive) option in 2016, so the new money will start coming in 2017-2022 or so. That's pretty far future, and we're not that booked up for most of it. On the other hand, since the Gilmore extension will go past 2020, we'll be in a new CBA, and it's harder to predict the cap.

Coaches are free to negotiate an opt-out in their contracts, as Marrone proved, or a right to interview with other teams for a promotion or whatever else.

...what?

Broadly speaking, I would say the candidates are: 1.) Coaches (likely to be) fired after this season with offensive experience: a.) Tony Sparano (HC-Raiders) b.) Marc Trestman (HC-Bears) 2.) OCs working for coaches (likely to be) fired after this season: a.) Marty Mohrninweg (OC-Jets) b.) Greg Olson (OC-Raiders) c.) Ben McAdoo (OC-Giants) d.) Aaron Kromer (OC-Bears) Note - worked with Marrone in NO. e.) Dirk Koetter (OC-Falcons) f.) Greg Roman (OC-49ers) 3.) Offensive Coaches fired after last season not working as OCs: a.) Rob Chudzinski (Former HC-Browns, now "Special Assistant" in Indy. b.) Mike Munchak (Former HC-Titans, now OL coach in Pittsburgh, never been an OC)

Today's entry in the meaningless stat department. It's so specific, it doesn't really tell you anything other than that he was used on special teams. 3,000 rushing yards in your first four seasons isn't special. It's been done 109 times, and 98 of those guys ended up with more rushing yards than Spiller for that period. 49 had more receiving yards. Now you're down to special teams, and neither of those numbers is anything special. CJ's 1157 kick return yards puts him 4 above Al Edwards for the same period of their careers, but behind 407 other players. His 302 punt return yards are a non-state. It's less than Dick Jauron finished his career with. I don't hate CJ. But that's a line that just says he was used sparingly on special teams while being in a RB committee.

Or Ralph could have moved the team to LA in 1997.

A guy who did it before, 8 years ago, without even a college-level DC job since. He spent the two years before he got to Buffalo as a collegiate position coach.

That 2005 team that was 2nd in passing yards allowed was 29th in rushing yards allowed, on its way to a 4-12 season.

Henderson is not necessarily going to maintain the same scheme as Pettine. He came over with Marrone from Syracuse, not with Pettine from the Jets and Ravens (although he was a Jet pre-Ryan, and a Ravens assistant in the distant past.) He's 8 years away from his last DC jobs, where he was not successful. I'd take a long look at Wade. Jim Schwartz is available, and despite Detroit's struggles, he ran some solid defenses under Fisher in Tennessee. Steve Spagnuolo had some moments in New York (though tanked as a HC and had a very bad year in New Orleans).

Coaches generally don't make trades on their own. Tampa had a GM. Mark Dominik wasn't looking to get himself fired to help out his coach's friend.

One better: let's expand the season to 62 weeks so you can play everybody twice - once at home, and once on the road. Now, I know what you're thinking: there are only 52 weeks in a year! Psshh. What else are doubleheaders for!

They were down to our one yard line twice and came way with zero points. Them's the breaks.

It's not like Aaron Rodgers was sitting there and we traded out of the spot and grabbed Losman. He was a juco transfer with a good first season at Cal who would come out a year later. Drafting Losman at all was the botch job, failing to see that the team would be in position to draft Aaron Rodgers a year later was not.

Bear in mind that they passed 14 times on that final drive.

There's no rule requiring a season-ending injury to be put on IR.

That's all true about Mark Sanchez, too.

So, what's the official TBD **** list right now? 1.) Colin Brown 2.) Shawn Powell 3.) Aaron Williams (back from his one-week reprieve?)

The Browns scored on drive starts from: BUF31 (FG) CLE26 (TD) PR CLE26 (TD) BUF32 (FG) CLE43 (FG) and INT. Two real drives against, one entirely to blame on a depleted secondary. 20 points were given up before the defense stepped on the field, given the starts in FG range. 3 more came from the doorstop of opposition territory. They got beat twice and forced six punts. I can live with that.

Steve Tasker never returned a kick or a punt for a TD. Not sure about blocks. But man, a guy who is a reliable special-teams tackler is worth something in this league. Tasker was the best of the best, but I'm not going to knock a guy who does that job well.

Hmm, too many games, too many injuries if they're all in a row. Let's just have every team play every other week, from March through December. Then go to the playoffs, take February off for the draft and free agency, and start it again.

If we're going to do this, I'd like to see a bigger commitment to depth on defense. If we can't keep them off the field, let's get enough mid-range guys to keep the personnel shifting long enough to give them some air.

I'm not agin' it. You'd also be sure that each playoff game would be a rematch of a regular season showdown. I'd even be OK with expanding to LA and San Antonio and keeping a 16 game schedule. That way you can keep a home/road balance.

One of the most important services agents apparently provide is deflecting blame away from the players. Byrd hired him, Byrd keeps him, Byrd agrees with his decisions, yet we all yell about Parker.

It's awesome that we didn't have to even worry about it, but I really question when, in the 3rd quarter of a close game, it's worth burning a time out to change personnel or revise a playcall, especially on offense. I think I'd rather just take the five yards and regroup. 2nd and 4 becoming 2nd and 9 is probably better than losing a time out, right?