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harryS

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  1. 6 minutes ago, QLBillsFan said:

    More qualified based on his 24-25 record and inability to develop a competitive offense? In a league being dominated by offensive play. A coach who agreed with the front office that Tua was a better option than Herbert. Who was given a chance by the Dolphins owner and black GM Grier. 
     

     

    Yes, Flores is more qualified for head coach.  He's had decent success as a head coach relative to his team's talent level.  Daboll has no head coaching experience, and the coordinator skillset is different from the head coach skillset.  Additionally, even Daboll's coordinator resume is a mixed bag, as he's been fired a few times from offensive coordinator after producing lowly-ranked offenses before finally landing in Buffalo with Josh Allen.

     

    To be clear, I do think Daboll is a good coordinator and I would've given him the head coaching job after 13 seconds happened to McDermott.

     

     

  2. 5 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said:


    I’m not interested in determining the correct number either, all I’m saying is 3% is a long way off from 58%.

     

     

    We can all agree that the 58% doesn't mean there is pro-black racism or anti-white racism in hiring NFL players, right?  There are probably advantages -- whether genetic or cultural or both -- for blacks to be better athletes.  For that matter, asians are very underrepresented in the NFL.  Again, we are mature enough to understand that there are probably genetic or cultural reasons for the lack of asian players, not incredible anti-asian racism.

    You can figure out where I'm going with this.

  3. 4 hours ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

    I just can’t see the rams avoiding years of irrelevance after this potential Superbowl win so I guess it’s the philosophical question of do you mortgage your whole future to win 1 superbowl.  Beane for better or worse is on the other side of that argument 

    They’re mostly giving up future assets though…I feel like it just has to catch up with them. No first round picks for 7 years by the end of this and stafford will be in his mid to late 30s by then 

     

    Time will tell.  If over a a 10-15 year period, the Rams still have achieved more, despite the Bills having the better QB, we'd have to conclude that they had the superior strategy.

     

     

    3 hours ago, Nextmanup said:

    How about the Bengals appearing in a Super Bowl 2 years after picking their QB in the draft?!

     

    Why compare us to the Rams over a 5 years period!  Look at what the Bengals have done in 2.

     

     

    Bengals feel like they just had a fluky run to make it this season (even though their future is bright with Burrow).  Also, when you draft overall #1 to land your franchise QB, it's hard to give the organization too much credit.  For example, I think the Bills deserve much more credit for drafting Allen because there were so many question marks and naysayers about him.

  4. 1 hour ago, FilthyBeast said:

     

    He's pulling his 'Kaepernick' move and the timing couldn't be more perfect as today is the beginning of black history month.

     

    He'll never coach in the NFL again but is likely going to become a multimillionaire in the process anyway just like Kaepernick did.

     

    This is a very bad take.  Kaepernick clearly had the support of the ruling class, of which Ross is a member.  Here, publicly going against Ross and exposing Ross' misconduct will certainly not enrich Flores.  The ruling class will view this as a black man biting that hand that feeds him.

     

     

    1 hour ago, FrenchConnection said:

    I'm sure that all of this is nothing new. As someone mentioned above, Frazer interviewed with the NYG after Daboll too. But because Flores realized that he's not getting another HC job because of all the stuff that Ross and the Dolphins' GM is spreading around the league about him being difficult to work with, he decided to torch all the bridges to get one final NFL payday before going to college. That's my speculation. 

     

    I think that's exactly right.  All the "Flores just ended his career" takes ignore that Ross was already doing that.  Flores must've felt that he had close to nothing to lose.

     

    Look, usually I'm as "racist" as they come, but I have to admire what Flores is doing here.  Instead of going meekly into the night, he's taking some swings and trying to bring people down with him.   That the Dolphins might suffer at his hands is a very nice bonus.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, harryS said:

    This will be a replay of last year's Super Bowl where a D-line dominating an O-line is the story of the game.''

     

    It'll be a good results for the Bills as it will encourage McBeane to make aggressive moves to bring high-end talent onto the team to support Allen.

     

    The McVay/Snead era for the Rams and the McDermott/Beane era for the Bills both started in 2017.  Both regimes have been highly successful but the Rams are going to be the one who's been to 2 Super Bowls, winning 1.  This, despite the Bills having the better QB.   Hopefully McBeane will think about that a little bit and take some lessons from the Rams.

     

    One other thing about this.  The Rams have the best special teams in the league by DVOA, so it's not like their strategy has cost them depth or on the margins.  At least not yet.  They are still a well-rounded team despite having elite talent in many places and despite given up many assets to acquire that elite talent.

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  6. This will be a replay of last year's Super Bowl where a D-line dominating an O-line is the story of the game.''

     

    It'll be a good results for the Bills as it will encourage McBeane to make aggressive moves to bring high-end talent onto the team to support Allen.

     

    The McVay/Snead era for the Rams and the McDermott/Beane era for the Bills both started in 2017.  Both regimes have been highly successful but the Rams are going to be the one who's been to 2 Super Bowls, winning 1.  This, despite the Bills having the better QB.   Hopefully McBeane will think about that a little bit and take some lessons from the Rams.

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  7. You can still root for the Bills in these final three games because not all outcomes are equal and/or irrelevant to the Bills, imo.  For example, what if KC gets destroyed in the Super Bowl again?  That would cause them to have a lot of angst and uncertainty about their "dynasty", and maybe they follow up the Super Bowl beatdown with another Super Bowl hangover like they had for like half the season this year.

     

    Furthermore, what would be the concern about McBeane?  That they're too aggressive in trying to win a Super Bowl, or that they're not aggressive enough, or perhaps neither?  I would say my concern with them is easily that they don't end up being aggressive enough in acquiring elite talent fast enough to help Josh Allen out.  So wouldn't the Rams winning the Super Bowl be a nice message to send to McBeane?

     

    That's why I'm rooting for the Rams to spank KC in the Super Bowl.  I believe that's an outcome that would increase Buffalo's chances in coming seasons, however slight the increase.

  8. one thing I don't want us to rally around next season is thinking that home field advantage will be the difference in beating the Chiefs.  they're absolutely good enough and a veteran playoff team enough to go into Buffalo and win, especially since McD served up the mental edge to them.

     

    but we shouldn't pretend like it doesn't matter, especially against non-KC opponents.  The Titans will be much easier to beat at home than on the road.  Same with Baltimore, Cincy, and most of the other AFC contenders.  The Perfect Game probably doesn't happen in Foxboro but rather something more akin to the regular season win in Foxboro, etc.

  9. 1 hour ago, JGMcD2 said:

    The top ranked Madden players have their QBs take 15 yard drops and run the same 4 plays all game. Maybe we should do that too? 

     

    I was obviously referring to the situational football aspect, as that is where McDermott failed miserably.  Madden players can play like 20 games a day, so they run into 4th-down decisions, 13 seconds left decisions, etc at a much higher frequency than NFL coaches who only coach 17 games a year.

     

    Like I said, it's why the young online poker players are the best in the world.  They just see so many more hands than the old-school guys who aren't 8-tabling online.

    Madden is not my preference, btw.  I want the Pegulas to pay for a proprietary simulator software for situational gameday decision-making.

  10. If some proprietary simulator can't be developed, then McD should just play Madden 8 hours a day to get the reps he needs.  The top 100 ranked Madden players in the world would run circles around him for gameday management.

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  11. The only way to improve is reps but unfortunately NFL teams only play 17 games a season, and when you're a very good team like the Bills, many of those games don't even put the coaches into high-leverage clutch situations.

     

    McD needs to spend 8 hours a day with some sort of situational football simulator software, so he can increase his reps.  It's like how the best poker players in the world are 22-yr-old computer dorks who play 8 tables at once online.  They can see as many hands in two weeks as Doyle Brunson sees in a year.

  12. 4 hours ago, CountDorkula said:

    i'm with ya 10000% on this.

    I don't think Beane is. He basically said he would draft a DE in every round if he could and that he believes that is how you build a team and that is his philosophy.

     

    Id expect another significant investment in the DE position this year, which frankly makes me angry. 

     

    I agree.  McBeane can waste draft picks on the defense for the next decade, and they'll still give up 30 to the Reid/Mahomes Chiefs.

     

    The path of least resistance is to give Josh weapons and protection so he can score 40.  But I doubt our braintrust will will figure this out.

     

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