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28 minutes ago, boater said:
The Bills just posted these new renderings on FB a few minutes ago. https://www.buffalobills.com/news/stadium-news
I apologize if this has already been reported.
It's a handsome building.
The parking looks inadequate.
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5 minutes ago, Limeaid said:
I do think they will have trouble getting the PSLs they are hoping for but part of it will come from ticket agency partners they have been using the last decade. The cost for tickets elsewhere is higher even than the jacked up prices so the agencies will buy the seats including PSLs and package them with air, hotel and tailgate to fill stadium. This will reduce advantage to home team but there is pressure from NFL to raise prices. I also think this will reduce merchandise sales when fans realize that getting seats for a group of people is impossible except via ticket markup agencies. Most fans I know went to games as younger fans even if now they prefer large screen TVs at home.
Thanks! I didn't know that about the agencies, doesn't seem right.
Is there that kind of demand for tickets in Buffalo for so many people to come from out-of-town that aren't typical fans though? I'm also thinking maybe with Allen here, but once he's gone, whenever that ends up being, not so much.
IDK, seems like the whole modern pro sports experience isn't what it used to be. I think I'm one of the "odd men out" these days. I was at all of the home playoff games except for the Comeback game, we drove by but decided to watch it locally instead. But back then the tailgating was the thing, after that all I needed was a seat. It's nice to have clean accessible restrooms without sewage water all over the floor, but otherwise, IDK, I don't care as much about stadium amenities as most people. I'm only willing to pay so much for that though. The prices, aftermarket, are approaching what I'd pay for a nice long-weekend entire vacation or perhaps even a week at the beach during mid-season.
I don't have seasons because I don't live in the region anymore, but once those PSLs hit combined with double the prices, it'll be out of my price range and out of what I'm willing to pay on principle otherwise. Going to games is becoming like family vacations. LOL
I've gotta admit too, that there's something about making your own wings at home and watching on TV.
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3 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:
This must be the most difficult decision Beane has faced, because similar but opposite of you, I have been staunchly against re-signing him the last 4 years, but have changed my tune after this season.
Edmunds play, and the fog of his responsibilities, makes it almost impossible for us to properly decide whether it is worth re-signing him or not. Couple that with the "what ifs" that pop up when discussing using that money on Offense instead. But there are no guarantees Beane will spend on Offense even if Edmunds walks. So...
I have no clue.
Great post!
Agreed
I see him walking and playing much better in a traditional 4-3. Who knows, but if you ask me, the reason why we only use 2 LBs is because we only have two that are worth a siht. It's a strain on those two as well, not a welcome one I would imagine.
That's gotta be weighing into Edmunds' decision.
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3 hours ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:
Is Edmunds decision the most difficult Beane has ever faced?
If it is, then it's only because we have absolutely no one to backfill, even potentially. That's a problem of his own making. One starting LB drafted in five drafts.
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24 minutes ago, Limeaid said:
Clearly they do not for they reduced capacity. Their advice from Jerry Jones appears to have been reduce number of seats to drive up demand and prices which is odd since his temple is one of the biggest stadium in the NFL.
I don't think that going from 70k to 60k is really going to make that difference tho.
You don't think they're going to have any difficulty then selling tix at over twice the current face value, while charging PSL fees?
I'd love to see that but I'm also not so sure. But my point was that maybe they don't even care all that much of we only sell say 40k of the 60.
Time will tell, but when the topic comes up, it seems like there are a lot of STHs here that day they're not going to pay that much and will watch at home instead.
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1 hour ago, Jrb1979 said:
As far as the average fan goes, if they truly just went for the sake of taking in the energy of the game then none of these other stadiums would be adding in things to make the game day experience better. They would stick with concourses like they always have had. The stadium experience is big part of the game more so now then it ever has before.
Interesting comment. I've only been to a couple of games in recent years, so I'm hardly the one to know, but what I do know is that when I've gone, instead of enjoying the game, many people are filming or taking selfies and other pics, a lot, not just once or twice throughout the game. In fact, last game I was at, my daughter was too busy video recording a huge play that she missed watching it live and it was right in front of us. She was upset about it, but I told her, stop recording and watch the game. I had to say that a bunch of times tho.
I've noticed that at concerts as well. I guess I don't understand it, because as you say, the stadium experience is what it's all about for me. I can't experience it if I'm recording.
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16 hours ago, Jrb1979 said:
IMO I think why many don't want a huge over the top stadium is the cost for tickets at that kind of stadium. Many would be priced out.
It doesn't seem as if a lot of people noticed, but when the team put out their "survey" with the likely new prices, I couldn't help but notice that the regular face value price was now going to be more than what aftermarket prices are. I followed aftermarket prices much of the season and noticed that generally speaking they weren't twice face value, until some of the more expensive tickets in the playoffs. But the survey prices were over twice current face value, plus PSLs.
We can talk about Indy, Chicago, Minnesota all we want, Cincinnati even, but all of those locals have a notably bigger corporate base.
What's interesting is what a small percentage, relatively speaking, ticket sales are as a percentage of revenues. I'm wondering if the team doesn't care if it sells out the seats. I'm not sure what the individual ticket sale policy would be. If I were on the business end of this on the team side, I'd be wondering how many tickets at over twice the existing prices, plus PSLs, I could sell, with that being compounded once Allen's no longer here. Since presumably they're going forward with this, it only makes me wonder if they don't care about a full boat. Pegula only cares about the PSLs since that's funding "his" share of this. Even a lot of people here with seasons are complaining about those prices and saying that they're not going to pay them. Some already talking about bailing on the current 12% hike for next year. It leads me to conclude that they don't care and that it probably doesn't matter.
As to the stadium tho, I think that a design like Lucas Oil Stadium would fit Orchard Park much better than a mirrored design that looks like it belongs in some schnitzy metro area or Sydney Australia or something.
29 minutes ago, Jrb1979 said:A good example is something similar to Progressive field in Cleveland. They have an area for kids to play, a patio and bar overlooking the field. On the main level each micro brewery has their own concession with different food at each one. Those are things I would like to see that I have feeling won't happen.
Upgraded seats and a roof over most of the stands doesn't impress me.
So fans leave their kids in a play area and go watch the game?
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34 minutes ago, RocCityRoller said:
Minnesota is a solid comparison and an ideal example, IMO. very modern and enclosed. When adjusted for 2022 dollars, the cost was about what the Bills stadium will cost.
Indy also did well with Lucas Oil Field, it has a unique throwback look. That cost @1billion adjusted for inflation.
The cost of doing business is expensive in NY.
Will be interesting what Green Bay, KC and Chicago do as their time comes for new stadiums.
Chicago already released a bunch of renderings I thought. I could be wrong.
I just looked, Lucas Oil Stadium looks great. I'd take that in a heartbeat. Has a little bit of a steampunk look to it. Very unique.
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1 hour ago, Thurman#1 said:
These kinds of results are what happens when you restrict the field you are looking at all the way down to one or two games. Particularly when the whole team played bad in the second game. You end up with the typical results of looking at an extremely small sample size, which is to say plenty of freakish uncharacteristic results.
LMAO
Yeah, sorry bout that. But since you hadn't noticed, we've had no more than two playoff games in either of the last two seasons, which feed into my points, which explain why the "sample size" is so small.
You've hit on something here though that bolsters the overall point, is that fans WANT a larger sample size of postseason games too. But hey, you can only use what's available.
Thanks for pointing that out.
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4 hours ago, WideNine said:
I have a few comments on this.
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Allen's injury made short to intermediate throws more difficult to make as the way the injured elbow has to flex and the angles needed are more stressed with those throws than deeper ones (locked on Bills has a good pod cast on this with a guest speaker doctor).
- However, even before the injury defenses were starting to pick up on tendencies and dial into how Allen likes to extend plays rolling to the right in the red zone where it seemed that they had come up with some different pressure and robber concepts to bait throws into uncharacteristic INTs.
- We saw less turnovers in the red zone down the stretch so perhaps Allen and Dorsey were able to diagnose those things and come up with workarounds.
- If someone has a good link to a breakdown of those turnovers I would love to see those. I just remembered Allen looking very bewildered and that usually happens when a defender peals away from an expected zone and drifts over to make that INT - where a QB just loses track of defenders after the pre-snap reads.
- Too many of Dorsey's calls seemed to lean into lower percentage downfield throws, particularly in places in games where a sustained drive was really needed to spell the defense and develop some offensive rhythm. We have pass-catching RBs, Knox, and some slot options we needed to use more.
- Upgrading the OL will help, but we need a run game identity that lends itself to the blocking up front that the coaches determine we can do with some higher degree of success, and the personnel packages for those runs that allow for successful play action passes. We have some good speed and shiftiness back there now, but a bruiser between the tackles in the mold of a Raheem Mostert would be great down the stretch with a lead in games.
On defense I feel like we lack some creativity and aggression on that side of the ball, we have coaches that are great with working out of defensive systems that are likely easy to teach and minimize risks. That will work against most QBs, but down the stretch against elite QBs you have to be willing to go after them, jam receivers at the line and challenge routes - you cannot sit back and wait.
With that in mind, we also cannot ignore our lack of size on the DL, when Jones went down against the Bengals our DL got pushed around and they made it look EASY and they were able to run at will. This took a lot of pressure off their passing game. This defense does not work period without interior DL players that have the size and strength needed to successfully anchor or get push against double-teams to both collapse the pocket, and redirect and/or stuff the runs.
Not much to disagree with there, but that puts it on the coaching and on Beane, and I agree with that. BTW, I was actually defending Allen.
It's difficult to tell, since we don't know the plays, the "strategy" to the extent there is any by Dorsey, Allen's audibles, the conversations between Allen & Dorsey. To that extent, while I understand what that doctor said in the interview about Allen not being able to throw shorter effectively, I noticed that he really hadn't been doing that to the extent that he had in '21. Whether that was Daboll vs. Dorsey, who knows, but he also didn't excel at it regardless. That's been a weakness of his since he's been here. I'm sure that it's correctible as Allen's pretty Brilliant. He's impressed me with his intelligence.
Again, my biggest concern is that they piss him off by not doing their part to help him out, and he opts out of his contract after three more seasons. Like I implied, if that happens, good luck getting a dime for PSLs in that new stadium.
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Allen's injury made short to intermediate throws more difficult to make as the way the injured elbow has to flex and the angles needed are more stressed with those throws than deeper ones (locked on Bills has a good pod cast on this with a guest speaker doctor).
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12 minutes ago, BillsFan2313 said:
Agreed on Mahomes, but that was before Beane was hired. Like I said though, you can say Beane got lucky Allen was there, but he did a lot to manuever to get to #7. Past regimes never manuevered to be in position. For example, why not make the leap for Big Ben, instead of getting back in the first for Losman. Beane also had a deal in place with Denver to get to 5, but they wanted Chubb. Allen was Beanes guy and he got him, lucky or not.
Roger, my mistake, but the rest of the points remain. Beane can't draft otherwise. That's why we're even having this conversation.
Again, we can sit here and talk 'til we both fall asleep, LOL, but we have no power to change anything, we're simply pissing into the wind. But Beane has an opportunity, perhaps his last, to stifle his critics and put up an A Draft, which is probably what it's going to take, and unfortunately for him, his picks are going to have to produce to a relatively high level as rookies. But if he fails to do so, then after 6 seasons and now his own "best" draftees rotating out, how long should he get, and there's not another position that's going to carry him like Allen did, so he's going to sink or swim on his own.
Right now, without better drafting however, we're the Phillips-led Chargers, the Ryan-led Falcons, or the Fouts-led Chargers at best. ... especially since come playoff time the side of the field that Beane has pumped the greatest round 1 & 2 resources into, routinely allows opponents to score in the 30s. The franchise has an opportunity to do better. It's all going to come down to Pegula deciding how long he wants to give our OJT GM an opportunity to do that. I would strongly suggest that if Allen doesn't start getting some OL-men, that he's going to bail after the '25 season with his opt-out. Wouldn't you. That'll do wonders for our PSLs in the new stadium.
Pegula needs to start thinking longer term here, on several issues.
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1 hour ago, BillsFan2313 said:
Yep. Diggs 5th rd, Hill 5th rd, Adams 2nd rd, Kupp 3rd rd, Jefferson 1st rd mid 20's to name a few.
... and to ride your point, you're never going to land players unless you draft 'em.
In 5 drafts now Beane has used a 5th ('22) Skakir and 4th ('20) Davis on WRs. That's in in the first 5 rounds.
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On 2/17/2023 at 3:40 PM, FireChans said:
The Bills should trade for Mike Evans
We should have drafted Evans instead of Watkins in 2014.
Better drafting eliminates such needs. Just sayin' ...
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3 minutes ago, BillsFan2313 said:
Finding a franchise QB is the hardest part, and Beane did alot of maneuvering to get into position to be able to draft Allen. That trumps anything past regimes have done.
Well yes, BUT past regimes never even had the opportunity to draft Allen. You can only do what you can do. There hasn't been a draft where we had a top-10 pick with a QB that even approaches Allen on the board at the time we picked. Imagine that they had, put Allen on that team instead of Losman.
As long as we're on the topic, let's not forget that he overlooked Mahomes, and his hand was forced into drafting a QB that season. Beane's lucky that Allen came along. It was hardly an astonishment of the imagination that we drafted a QB in a QB rich draft, we all knew that they would likely draft a QB, right. Peterman sucked.
But either way, how much credit are we going to give him for drafting Allen five years ago amidst a slew of poor draft picks generally speaking otherwise. How long can Beane's reputation live off of a single draft pick. He's fortunate that he did draft Allen, we're low-end by our "Last 20 Years" standard without Allen. Also, his lack of ability to draft well is now costing Allen, both injury and wear-n-tear/abuse wise, but also by keeping the offense entirely one-dimensional. Allen is everything offensively more so than any other team we've had.
He's reasonably taking heat now and has a perfect opportunity to turn an A Draft coming up. Let's see what he does. But why am I envisioning a WR in round 1, an OL-man in round 2, and an OLB/DE in round 3. He's got a lot of holes to fill, but at some point not addressing the OL adequately, and he's been far from that, is going to cost him his job. We've been drafting DLs rabidly, and shuffling WRs in and out of here annually. On the OL it's been dumpster-diving with the exception of Morse, who may not be long for the NFL anymore. Centers age out faster than any other positions.
We need to draft at least two OL-men in rounds 1-3, presumably in the 1st-round. Our hand is forced at OL just as it was at QB then.
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11 minutes ago, Dopey said:
Routinely?! We’re 4-3 in the playoffs the past 3 years.
I watched the same SB losses as you and 3 of those losses were not due to coaching. We lost the first one due to “wide right”, not coaching. Skins loss, coaching. Dallas was heads and shoulders a more talented team.
Crazy? Nah. Off base on some things? Definitely.Yeah, between "13 Seconds" last season, which was major-league WTF territory, coupled with horrific defensive performances, at home, by our illustrious #2 ranked defense nearly losing to Skylar Thompson, who let's face it, no one ever heard of before that time, and being humiliated by the Bengals allowing them to do whatever they wanted offensively, also well into WTF territory, yeah, I'd say routinely at this point.
I also wouldn't call our 38 point defensive effort allowing 439 yards and 29 1st-downs to the Chiefs to end our season in '20 anything other than humiliating either on the defensive side.
"Wide Right" never should have gotten to that point. We should have had that game put away much earlier. The second Cowboys game we were leading 13-6 at the half, got demolished 24-0 in the 2nd half. Yes, that was coaching. They said that Jimmy Johnson was throwing chairs around at halftime swearing up a hurricane, while Levy was reading Hemmingway quotes to our players. Go rewatch the game, watch 'em come out of the tunnel, and tell me that the delta wasn't coaching there.
We had better talent than the Giants, and comparable or better talent than the Cowboys. Kelly was better than Aikman too.
Either way, don't leapfrog the point, the point was that [for whatever reason] us fans went through that, and simply "making the playoffs now" is not the standard anymore. The standard is at least getting to the Super Bowl, but we can't even do that once despite having one of the top two QBs in the league.
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2 minutes ago, LEBills said:
I wouldn’t give Gabe away but he is a WR3 not a WR2. If you can get a third or better for him on the last year of his deal I probably take it. Parlay that into a rookie on a four year contract that you think can be a WR3 or better. I like Shakir too, but we need more than Diggs and Shakir. Kumerows spot should be given to a cheap rookie. He is 31, was injured most the year, and his value is in being a special teams gunner.
We are a good team, there is no doubt about it and I’m thankful for that but doesn’t mean we should settle for mediocrity anywhere on the roster should always be looking to improve.
We have to hope that this past season of dropsies is correctible. If it is he'll be a solid #2. If not, let him walk in FAcy.
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11 minutes ago, Yantha said:
I'm not giving up on Gabe just yet. It's his contract year so he'll be playing for the contract of his life.... why miss out on that... and if he's not playing well, Shakir sees the field more. I think Shakir is going to be special.
I'd also keep Kumerow as the 5th WR. They can't all be WR1's.
I complain too. But remember what it's like to have JP Losman as the starting QB, missing the playoffs time and time again...
Perspective.
With this roster, we're in the middle of what would be called "1st world problems" outside of the NFL. I'm good with that, but want to see a Superbowl win.
Funny that you mention Losman, if Allen were on that team he'd be doing better than he is now. The only talent he has that's better than what we had then is Diggs.
Our OL back then was Peters, Gandy, Fowler, and Villareal. While hardly our best OL in Bills' history, it's notably better than what we have now.
On the DL we had Kelsay, Williams, and Schobel.
At LB we had Spikes, Fletcher, Crowell
In the secondary, Whitner, McGee, Clements, and Simpson.
I'd trade that roster for ours apart from Allen in a NY second. We were 7-9 that season with two 1-point losses, one 2-point loss (once to the Pats), and two 3-point losses. In three of our other four losses that season we put up only 6, 7, 7, and 20 points. That's 12-4 minimum with Allen, possibly better, and a likely division championship over the Pats who were 12-4.
That's the difference between Allen. Now, remove Allen from our team now and we don't even make the playoffs and "The Last 20 Years" is still going on.
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4 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:
People realize there are more than 1 round per draft right?
Why is everything always about the first round pick? Especially when drafting late. Most of the top 20 WR's in football were not taken in the first round, it is not the only place to find a WR.
Let the board fall the way it falls, we have plenty of holes on this team to consider with our pick, take the BPA. If its a WR, great...but it could also be an OL, RB, or even a defensive player if we suddenly have some big holes to fill.
But to just say it must be a WR and then have to reach to get a WR at our pick would be a mistake. Personally, I think it will more than likely be an offensive lineman the way I think the first round board falls that will be the BPA. However, if Bijan does last to our pick, I have a hard time seeing anyone else that would still be on the board and be ranked higher than him.
Makes sense. The only thing that I would add is that any RB that we draft would be less effective because our OL sucks. Gotta put the horse in front of the cart there. Same regarding Allen's play, which impacts the receivers.
But at the end of the day, the fact that this discussion is even out there strongly suggests that Beane ain't cuttin' it.
Having said that, what all of a sudden is going to make him start cutting it, and moreover, how is more not cutting it going to correct it.
Anyone with common sense knows the answer to that.
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1 minute ago, Herb Nightly said:
I'm OK with the WR @1....but isn't Guard more of a need than tackle?
Well, unless you think that Spencer Brown is the answer. IMO he's not far behind the trajectory that Ford took.
As I see it we have needs in 4 OL spots. C, both Gs, and RT. Dawkins is signed only for two more seasons, so is Morse but it'll be surprising if he lasts the next two seasons between age/diminished play as 31 is old for a C, and injuries/concussions. Some people say that Van Roten can play C, but will he be any good, he's never started a full season at C. We've seen enough of this kind of approach to stocking our OL.
Anyway, that's just my take, but you cannot neglect an entire unit for five straight seasons and expect to have a Ballard, Woolford, Hull, Ritcher OL. We have the opposite end of the spectrum, a bunch of guys that swap out every season giving Allen zero continuity in terms of chemistry with his OL. It's incredibly unfair to Allen. It impacts the RBs too. Singletary will probably do much better elsewhere than he's done here because he'll probably end up somewhere where he'll get 250 carries and log 1,200 or 1,300 yards. He's only had 20+ carries five times since he's been here, he's averaged 4.7 YPC in four seasons. They don't know how to balance their offense. Imagine what Singletary might do behind a good OL.
It's beyond unfortunate the wasted and misused talent here. At least the issues with McD and Beane are bubbling up, finally.
6 minutes ago, Dopey said:What are some of you complaining about?
Oh, I don't know, maybe getting routinely humiliated in the playoffs with coaching in the playoffs that makes people utter angry words and which renders them speechless.
Many of us watched this team go to four Super Bowls straight, lose because we were outcoached, not because we didn't have the talent to win, and simply "making the playoffs" and being preseason favorites ain't cuttin' it.
Call us crazy.
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6 hours ago, Inigo Montoya said:
I think McBeane hoped Josh would be enough to get the job done on offense but he can’t do it alone. They need to change their philosophy and go offense heavy and build an offense around Josh that will score 35 points a week and dare teams to keep up.
I think that they've really been trying to put the other pieces in place without having to pay through the nose for them (Free Agency), but they've simply failed.
The big problem is that Allen's taking twice (if not more) the wear-n-tear that he should be if he had A, a solid and regular OL to develop chemistry with, like Kelly did, and B, relatedly, a decent running game and a coaching staff that knew how to balance the offense like that. McD clearly doesn't. If they don't correct that, put yourself in Allen's shoes, he has the choice of more abuse as he gets into the meat of his prime after the '25 season, and risk cutting his career short, or he can cut himself loose and go to a well-coached team that has a solid OL. As much as he may love Buffalo he may decide that he'd rather be in the shoes of other QBs that have more support and better coaching and a GM & scouting staff that know how to identify solid OL-men in the drafts. It's a valid concern.
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7 hours ago, John from Riverside said:
I would actually trade Oliver over Davis because he would get more
Over $10 million in cap space
Probably at least the third round pick or a second and a fifth
They’re not trading both
Trade Oliver bring in a veteran, solid, three tech and draft one
Use that $10 million in cap space on the offensive line
I wouldn't trade Davis. He didn't have the massive drop issues until this season. It may work its way out of his system. It's worth another year of keeping him around for sure. It's difficult to chuck that playoff performance against KC. Getting rid of him now would be hasty. If he hadn't had his drops he'd have easily been over 1,000 yards, maybe even 1,100 or 1,200. I can see him shining. Granted, his drops were of the WTF variety this season, but it's worth one more for relatively cheap for him. He's just under $3M in cap and cost. If he happens to shed the drops he'll be worth much more than that.
Oliver on the other hand won't be worth what he gets, to start. Otherwise, he's in steady-state mode, we know what he is. He's a player that shows up every fourth or fift game and plays lights out, plays well in another few games, and then is invisible for a third to half his games. He's shown the same thing now for four straight seasons. It's difficult to game plan with a player like that, and not that we do any game-planning, but who knows who'll be coaching here after this season. It's better to have an average player that plays similarly all season, every game, at least you know what you're getting when he's in there.
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2 hours ago, ScottLaw said:
I think there would be quite a few up and coming offensive coordinators who’d gladly take the job and walk into a situation where you already have a top 3 QB to work with….. You’d think they’d have second thoughts if the Bills fired McDermott after going 7-10 or something similar next season?
Assuming that you mean an entire regime change, no, I don't think so, because any good GM will easily see that our drafting hasn't been good and whether or not they do, they'll realize that they can to a whole lot better. I would think that any GM or Coach would love to come to Buffalo, particularly with a brand new stadium coming shortly after they got here. I think that it's pretty clear that McD's not getting rid of his coordinators unless they walk for other jobs.
It may be good to get another GM/HC before Allen's opt-out year. We might have difficulty after that if he were to leave, and the odds of him staying would presumably be better after a season or two of working with the new coach. Our timing always sucks tho, so expect the changes at the worst possible times.
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9 hours ago, KOKBILLS said:
I hope most of the pressure is coming from inside both of them. Beane and McDermott have never come across as unintelligent to me. Ever...There's a needed gut check, and that's the big question right now IMHO. Can they be humble and self-scout to see the most obvious things? Because as good as they are, they got a lot wrong, and squandered some amazing Draft opportunities along the way. They have to get that fixed. They have to improve tactically on both sides of the ball...They have talent...They have plenty of talent if the holes are upgraded.
The top 5 HC and GM have to prove they are top 5 this off-season if they want to win a SB...They have to get the formula right...We'll see...
What concerns me is that they talk a great game but don't live up to their own standards.
They talk about accountability, character, etc., and McD always talks about handling things as a team afterwards. But when the Defense fails ridiculously over the past three postseasons, do they hold anyone accountable? No. They use the Safeties Coach as the scapegoat, the one position group that actually played better than any other, and without one starter completely all season, and with the other starter missing some time and not at 100% much of the rest of the time. That's not character. It's scape-goating, not coming clean, and hiding behind others. Fans and media are noticing, I'm pretty sure that the players are too.
Diggs' airing of grievances and now Poyer's seeming slap in our face with favorable implications about playing for the Fins are not good signs.
At the end of the day however, the team is hardly getting the most and best from what it has. "13-Seconds" and our performance against the Bengals (and Fins) both at home, make that abundantly clear. That's an ongoing and seemingly never-ending problem.
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1 hour ago, starrymessenger said:
So lets draft a safety # 1.
... or a DE, we haven't drafted many of those on Beane's watch.
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Stadium Renderings Part 2
in The Stadium Wall
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If everyone's standing the whole time it won't matter re: the seats. Seems as if the entire lower bowl never sits down anymore.
I'd prefer the standing room areas which presumably would be at the club level, and less expensive, if everyone's going to stand anyway. At least you can shift around up there.
Agreed. IDK tho, maybe it's me, but the style of the stadium seems a little out of place out in the suburbs like that.
I wonder how long it's gonna take them to fill in the hole where the current stadium is and turn it into parking. That's a whole lotta parking that they're gonna need. It looks like the new parking around the stadium, while it looks nice, holds about half the cars of the existing lots.