DrMaxPower

Allen is discussed plenty in the article. I personally believe this prevailing attitude that only the QB matters and everything else just falls into place is nonsense. It takes a village, even when you have a QB. Plenty of good quarterbacks have crappy years on bad teams. Chicken or the egg scenario.

Some people have trouble with the truth. Especially these days.

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills-bond-on-and-off-the-field-paying-dividends-afc-east Good article on the foundations that have allowed the Bills to reload instead of rebuild. I think sometimes we are too close to the situation to fully appreciate what we have. For as much as people want to crap on McD, he's one of the best in the league and we'd be hard pressed to replace him with somebody equal, let alone an improvement.

Your ability to come up with endless unrealistic player acquisition scenarios is impressive. I wish I was that creative.

I agree; he's been awful. We're just fortunate the poop didn't hit the fan sooner. I didn't think he was as good last year as many did but he wasn't a problem. He was steady with further development potential. This has been a big step backwards. He's a problem body who will always be high maintenance to maintain his conditioning. I think he was lazy this offseason and it's showing. Another game like last week and I'd be seriously considering inserting Anderson. Either at guard or at center and bump McGovern over.

Anyone who thinks Edwards has been a problem has no idea what they are looking at. Period.

My week just got a lot more productive. I think after this post I won't be opening TBD until after next game. The bipolar nature of a huge chunk of the fan base and the overreaction to this nightmare will make this place miserable. A few thoughts; - they weren't ready to play. I think people vastly underestimate the mental side of the game and things like desperation and 'needing' to win, especially by good teams. Baltimore needed this game. They were at home and juiced up big time. We were fat and happy. Overconfident and not as hungry. The Henry run sucked any mojo they had right out of them. Fans always go 'well they're pros. they should always play hard'. That's just not the reality of how things work. Nobody brings their A game every week. Every team has an F game once in a while. Even great teams. -Baltimore is always a bad matchup for us. It's like a team playing Army. You won't run into another team with this style all year and they are the exact opposite of what our D is built to stop - We are seeing the impacts of the entire LB group being backups. I'm including Taron in the group. Not only are they all in the same position, they are 3 of the best players on the defence -It was all ugly but they got punked on the line of scrimmage. It doesn't matter what anyone else does when the lines are that bad. I'd bench Torrence yesterday. He's killing us. -Calls to fire people are brainless. Get real. The reality is that this team is likely what most of us though in the offseason. A competitive reload but not a top shelf team. Too much turnover, too much dead cap space. I still expect them to make the playoffs. They could get hot, any given Sunday, as they say. We're neither as good as we looked last week or as bad as we look today. Flush it and on to the next one.

Might be smarter to turn off the forum for the next week. Going to be a cesspool.

Which might mean something further than 3 weeks into a season.

Baltimore is the absolute worst team to be down your entire LB core against. This had trouble written all over it.

I'm pissed too but this thread is hilarious. A perfect microcosm of this bipolar fan base. A horrible 20 min and it's like the 1st 3 games completely disappeared from people's memories.

Brady is football Tom Cruise. Great at what he does and a psycho totally focused on perfection. Also the ultimate phony 'good guy', right down to the smile.

I think you sell Spector short. He's a good athlete who seems to generally make the right read. I think people are too tied to his draft slot VS his actual play on the field. If anything, I'm more worried about Wiliiams, whose play is still pretty frenetic. I'm comfortable letting things ride, as long as Bernard is back in the next few weeks.

If we didn't pluck an absolute stud out of the 6th round at the same position I expect he'd be starting and doing at least 'OK'. Benford being a revelation changed the plan. Trading him now is selling at his absolute lowest value. I still expect him to get his chance next year to start. I don't think they'll pay Douglas and they'll slide Elam in to replace him. I think the strength of his camp gives them confidence in his future. If he has a decent year, he might be a cheap re-sign.

Can't be... didn't PFF give our whole OL 40s and 50s last week? They've been dictating the style and pace of games. It bodes well for the future. I think there's less variability week-to-week when your strong up front.

I really hope Taron is back for this game. Obviously winning is the priority but I would love to see Douglas/Benford/Taron erase this jerkoff. That will be almost as good.

If this was the week 7 depth chart, go ahead and draw conclusions. Freaking out over the 1st depth chart of the season is crazy. It means SFA. Let's wait and see who plays how many snaps and in what roles/situations.

Beane thought he could buy Diggs' compliance. One of his biggest mistakes. Money just makes makes you more of who you are. I'm sure he'll be on his best behavior after getting his desired new start and being on a 1 year deal. No matter how he performs in Houston, it was tight to move on. He'd never replicate it here again and would would have just continued to be the rotten apple in the barrel, spoiling the bunch.

Most of the people making a stink seem to be overlooking the fact that they are starting with the plays from Brady's install for the week. They aren't picking random plays out and getting the coach to run them. I seriously don't get the negativity about this. People think players are robots. They do everything equally well and always perform at 100% effectiveness. In reality, every player has things they do well or struggle with. Quarterbacks have routes they are more comfortable throwing. Receivers have routes they think they can get open on. If the guard doesn't think he can make his reach block, or cut off a flowing backer on a play, I want to know before I call the play and get blown up. That's before you get to the buy-in it creates. When the coach calls your play, you better make it. This is not unusual. Lots of coaches have similar practices.

Groot has 10's of millions of dollars at stake. Career year incoming. AJE has been consistent - 6ish sacks at 35ish% snaps. He should push double digits in a larger snap share. Miller, we'll see. Boom or bust. He'll either play fairly well or be largely useless. Over.

I do not think he's the 'slot only' guy a lot of people peg him as. I think offences are gradually moving away from the 'prototypes'. Teams are finally starting to use motion to it's potential. That, combined with bunch formations can get different styles of receivers a free release. I think he winds up being the 2nd leading receiver behind Kincaid. 800+ yards.

I think the biggest thing that is creating division in opinions of the weaponry is the TE position. Not everyone places the same value on TEs. Knox and Kincaid are a really strong duo. Not sure there is a better pair in the league. I could honestly see 1500 yards from them next year if they stay healthy.

I think there may be something to the overall theory but I think you're getting ahead of yourself a bit. Paying $25-60 million for WR 1/2 severely handicaps your ability to build the rest of your team. Doubly so if you're already paying a QB. It seems like almost every draft the last few years has been a 'strong' class. What, 4 of the last 5 years at this point? People are already talking about next year's WRs. The college game has changed and they are churning out WR talent like crazy. Eventually it becomes the new norm that you can re-fill your WR room through the draft and spend elsewhere. It isn't there yet, but I would not be surprised if in 5 years this is what the 'smart' teams are doing. Everybody is looking for the next advantage to exploit, the next opportunity to be the forward thinker on the cutting edge. I could see it happening at WR with the explosion of both salaries and new talent.

They haven't been able to get passed the best team in the league. That doesn't mean the whole operation is a failure. If not for some truly rotten injury luck I think they would have done so a couple times.

This place has been miserable AF since the draft. The worst it's been since 'Wrong Josh'. Everyone wanted a Playstation for Christmas but when they came downstairs, there was a bike with socks and underwear. Instead of realizing that there's nothing wrong with a bike and we really needed new socks and gotch, it's tantrum time. Are we going to have to endure this endless whining for the next 6 months? Sounds like a fun way to be a fan... Last off-season people were losing their minds because they intended to run Spencer Brown back out there and they didn't sign a MLB. They said their guys were in house and they believed in their development. Seems to have worked out OK. That's what good teams do. Can we not take a breath and wait and see? 2nd best record in the league over the last 5 years says they deserve at least a bit of confidence. They aren't the morons people want to make them out to be.