Coach Tuesday

I will worry about this a slight bit later this season when he’s preparing for his first Super Bowl.

(cap)space eater

Power running and WR screens, tons of them.

Correct, I don’t claim to read peoples’ minds. When they release him on June 1, 2022, please remember this take.

I think many of us understand the role Star is SUPPOSED to play. He rarely plays it. You can’t evaluate a player in a vacuum. Because of scare resources and a salary cap, personnel decisions have opportunity costs. Signing Star and paying him what they’ve paid him cost them other opportunities. That’s a fact. Viewing the investment they’ve made in him compared to what he’s actually given them, there is no way that they’re satisfied. Some of it was beyond their control, but that’s what happens when you overpay. Separately I have my suspicions about whether the guy actually loves football, but that’s another matter.

Correct. Although I have doubts about his “impact on the game,” agree it’s a separate point. The issue is he takes up a lot of cap relative to his actual contribution (availability).

Someone explained it earlier - basically to avoid a huge cap hit they have to wait until next offseason. The opt-out killed their plan.

I suspect they planned to cut Star last offseason (or at least force a paycut) but then he opted out and screwed that plan.

Lol “workhorse.” Sure, a workhorse who never shows up to work.

There you are, our resident weather vane pointing in the exact wrong direction at all times. Star’s opt out last year froze his salary and limited their flexibility. He sat out and didn’t even get vaccinated! Now he’s back but has a soft tissue boo boo and is once again clogging up space - under the salary cap, not on the field. On a per-dollar basis no one has been worse for the Bills than Star over the past three years. No one.

Star has been such an albatross. Terrible, awful signing.

This guy Star - the gift that keeps on taking. He’s been a total disaster of a signing.

I thought Zeke looked shot too but remember some guys are still playing their way into shape in September so it may be too early to declare his career over with.

Best thing that can happen is having this crap cost Jerry wins, because his carping actually makes Goodell fidget in his seat. It amazes me how stupidly-run the NFL continues to be while betting is now legal and an activist Congress is looming.

Never change, League.

Not a single Bills clip on the Mic’d Up marathon so far. The NFL can suck it. Let’s go get that trophy.

Yeldon is a veteran meaning he’s expensive compared to a replacement-level rookie.

ok. Wait what?

Keep it going, I will look forward to reading these every week!

Lol “random cutoff” - you are verging on unhinged here. You don’t understand what “statistically significant” means, you don’t understand what DVOA is measuring. Remember when you accused me of hiding several bad games because you couldn’t access the link because you don’t want to pay for the content, and then it turned out to only be one statistically insignificant performance? What’s “obvious” to all is your complete lack of understanding of the subject-matter, your moving goalposts and outright paranoia mixed with your bizarre condescension as if you’re some intellectual titan deigning to explain the universe to us apes… which couldn’t be farther from what is happening here. The Bills’ offense in 2020 had one of the best if not the best overall performances in franchise history, setting numerous records. Both on the aggregate and, with 2 possibly 2.5 or 3 exceptions, individually, did what they needed to do - meaning they performed at or, in most cases, far better than average - to beat the opponent and (as was the original point) affect a positive point differential. You are the only person - literally the only one, there is no one else - arguing otherwise. The argument I was responding to above was that “context doesn’t matter” which you’d think would have been the subject of your flat-earth “nonsense” campaign because of course context matters, of course you’d want to understand why point differential wasn’t higher, whether it reveals weaknesses or trends. So far all you’ve done is trotted out the absurd notion that the Bills’ 2020 offense was a mirage and could barely beat the Jets… something the stats and everyone else’s eyeballs knows is borderline insane.

Apparently it’s “nonsense.”

It was always in Jax.

I think that’s right, though some of it was poor game planning / coaching not to lose, which they improved after the Arizona debacle. Speaking of which, that game statistically was sub-optimal by the offense BUT the offense did what it had to do to win the game in a pressure situation (consistent with the aggregate numbers I posted yesterday) and the defense (specifically Addison) crapped the bed and lost the game.

Somewhat reminiscent of Lori's game week write-ups, which I miss.