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My point it - Its far far better than what we have had under Mcdermott the last 6 years

That means you imagine getting to 5 AFC championship games in 6 years and winning 4 of them - I loved it !!! McDermott's teams have fallen far far short of that !

Mcdermott initially coming to Buffalo and adding clear direction to the chaos that was under Rex Ryan was a big positive - but that is apples and oranges to the coaching needed to take a sold team to the point it can win it all = when already given multiple years to do so Yes Mcdermott has won many games the last 5 years - but he has perhaps the top QB AND the top spending owner in football - thats massive !!!! Mcdermott & Beane have both benefited greatly by Pegula being able and willing to write checks to keep the flow of talent in - that will get you into the playoffs annually - does anyone really think with Josh & Pegula in place if we changed from Mcdermott we really would not make the wildcard round of the playoffs?

I was shocked when a reporter asked Dorsey about his play calling in the series near the 7 minutes left in the game mark and up 11 In that series we ran it on 1st down with incomplete passes on 2nd and 3rd down saving a critical minute for the Jets Reporter basically asked didnt he consider running the ball 3x there to run clock and force the Jets into using some timeouts - his response was not a thought at all - he wanted to keep the offense balanced We cant have an OC living in a bubble not differentiating between play calling in the first quarter from calling plays in a 4th qtr with a lead - we will get burned by this

Sounds like a perfect target if we get a chance 6ft 5 310lb NT "People write [negative] stuff about Shamar Stephen, and I get it because everybody just looks at stats," Vikings Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Line Coach Andre Patterson said. "But if you watch film and you ask Eric Kendricks if he had to pick anybody to go to the game with that he'd make sure that guy was there, I guarantee he'd tell you it's 93 because 93 is not going to let anybody get to the second level and block Eric." So, we called up Kendricks. The 2019 All-Pro linebacker wasted no time standing on a table for Stephen. "First and foremost, I just think Shamar is completely underrated and really not appreciated as much as I appreciate him," Kendricks told Vikings.com. "I appreciate Shamar so much because his game isn't very flashy, you know what I mean? He knows what he needs to do; he's going to take on some double teams, he's going to hold his point of attack, and he's going to win his gap."

Which is just a reminder why trying to apply absolute statistics by PFF is an inexact science at best Baseball with its 162 games is the perfect sport for stats and analytics - Pro football not even close

Compensation update: Lions are trading a 2021 6th-round pick to Cowboys for DE Everson Griffin,

Fans??? Try sports writers - it was Larry Felser who led the charge with columns demanding the Bills should draft Flutie #1 overall - and he ended up drafted in the 6th or 7th round. Larry also wrote Jim Kelly could never win a big game before our 1989 playoff game vs Cleveland and demanded Reich should start over the 1st ballot HOF QB

Play your division twice as we do now = 6 games + play 11 of the 12 other AFC teams = 17 games Keeps schedules similar - stops the ridiculous easy/hard schedule - creates a true AFC Champion I have no desire to play NFC teams at the cost of creating major differences in strength of schedules like we have now

Divisions were fine when you had 5 teams /division - you were sure to get a quality Division winner in each. The only worries were the AFC/NFC Central because they only had 4 teams and could sometimes have a Div winner at 8-8. Now with all divisions at only 4 teams its very likely wild cards would have far better record than a division winner. Go back to 3 Divisions and you will get top division winners again. Also let teams in the AFC play only the other AFC teams keeping many of the schedules fairly similar compared to the wild differences between hard/easy schedules we see today.

Look at the other top QB's - Drew Brees, Phillip Rivers, Andrew Luck , Russel Wilson - all went multiple years without making the playoffs often due to cap hell - Belichek makes sure the Pats year after year dont get into cap hell Of course Belichek is better with Brady than without - but Belicheck has designed this entire team both offensively and defensively Brady - plays QB in a great system - has zero to do with anything on the defense Belicheck - designed the defense and the game plans -designed the offense and the game plans - head coach - manages the salary cap -makes all trades - makes all drafts

Its a bit ironic that although the offensive line is the most important unit - it rarely works well in free agency (teams keep their good linmen) and you dont spend top 10 picks on offensive line. Your line needs to be drafted - and you get them 2nd half of rd1, in round 2, rd 3 , rd4

In return for Peters we received Eric Wood (for 5 yrs on a rookie deal) + the millions in salary cap freed up each yr in not having highest paid LT in football

What many who love analytics wont admit is that football is very different from baseball - baseball with a huge sample size of 162 games and performance less dependent on teammate is a perfect sport to analyze and break down statistically. Football has none of that - its useful when looking at team 4th down trends, 1st down trends etccc but its far less useful when trying to show individual A is better than individual B by looking only at stats