Ed_Formerly_of_Roch
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Lot will depend on this Sunday and the playoffs. A month ago I was thinking this season out of playoffs, next season good time to retool the roster. But if they win Sunday and got deep, then maybe a small retool is only needed and worth kicking the can down the road some more.
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52 minutes ago, Einstein said:
I was of the same opinion until McD recently said Diggs has no injury.
Prior to that, I figured the Bills could hide behind omission of truth. Now, they would be outright lying. That would not go over well with the league office.
Im starting to think what McD said is true - we just aren’t going to him as much.
FYI - The following is direct from the NFL:
Well I'll believe it when the season ends.
Wasn't Diggs on the injury report back around late Oct, something with his back. Maybe still lingering effects and Bills feel since he was on injury report for it initially, they can get around it and whatever fine they get, so be it??
Allen isn't on the injury report anymore either, but he even said something about the shoulder maybe a week ago, kind of implying it's much better, but could read what he said as not 100%. Add to that the post yesterday about when the season ends, the whole story will come out about it.
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1 hour ago, mrags said:
So one guy made it to being a backup only after 3 years and that proves your point?
what about Purdy. What about O’Connell. Guys that were drafted as backups. We’re not expected to start in any way shape or form and somehow are killing it and became starters.
doesn’t matter the point is, at this point in time, none of those guys are making any real money. They are on rookie contracts and are late round picks or undrafted free agents. Those teams didn’t fork over multiple millions a year for backups. Even if most of them have the cap space for or. Fact is, we don’t have the cap space for it. I feel Having a multi million dollar QB at backups about the same as I do wasting money on guys that only play special teams. Unless you have the cap space and every other position is set, it’s a waste of a roster spot. Again, if Allen goes down for anything other than 4ish games or less, we’re screwed anyway.
The part in bold I agree with, but that's why I want someone as a backup that has a decent chance of winning a couple of games at least against the weaker teams. Yes Purdy, O'Connell became starters because there was no true established starting QB on the team. The QB the team signed to become the #1 for the upcoming season was benched so the backup took over. In that case sure why not take a chance on an unproven backup as you're likely not going deep into playoffs to begin with and the guy your signed as your #1 had some questions to begin with.
That is my point, when a team does not proven starter, it's ok to have an unproven rookie backup. And the names you mention all fit that role on their respective teams with the exception of Huntley, but his first two years he was the #3 guy.
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12 hours ago, mrags said:
Aiden O’Connell, Bailey Zappe, Tyler Huntley, all say hi.
Those three names prove my earlier point. In the case of Zappe and O'Connell those teams didn't have established starting QB's so risk in taking a flier on a low drafted rookie isn't bad as for all the team knows he could be better than the week 1 starter (see Tom Brady)
Huntley is on a team with an established starter, but back in 2020 when he was a rookie, he was 3rd string. So Baltimore paid the salary for a #2 backup, Robert Griffin plus Huntley possibility used up an additional roster spot on him as not certain if he was active all year as the #3 QB or just made active roster as #2 when Jackson was out and rest of year was on PS. They also carried 3 QB's in 2021 too with a 12 year vet in Josh Johnson on the team. Only starting in 2022, did Huntley become the #2 QB as a 3rd year player. Prior he was 3rd string.
So yes those three names all are good examples of exactly what was my point.
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My guess is when the season ends a similar story will also be coming out about Diggs. Whether his will be surgery free or not, who knows, TBD??
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5 hours ago, mrags said:
For anything over vet minimum it’s too much considering the cap strapped hell we will be in. Not to mention, that pretty much no matter what, If Allen goes down we’re not going anywhere anyway.
And the front office will figure out a way to handle the cap. Will they be in great shape no, but likely can afford better than vet min for a backup QB. Yes is Allen has season ending injury the team isn't winning the SB, but if Allen were to be out 3 to 4 weeks even with a backup QB like Mitch T, they could still win some games against the likes of NE, Giants, Washington, Chargers, they could win half the games and keep the team in it till Allen returns. With it's very unlikely they'd win at all with a rookie QB who hasn't played at all who was drafted in the 4th round.
You want to draft him and keep him on PS, fine, but pretty much a waste of the draft pick too then.
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1 hour ago, mrags said:
Draft one in like rd 4-5 and keep him for the foreseeable future.
so if Allen were to get hurt and miss a game or two you want to put a 4th or 5thj round rookie in to take his place???
Teams draft QB's in late rounds when either they don't have an established starting QB or they basically have no other needs for the pick.
Think the Bills best plan is to keep doing what they've been doing, sign an experienced QB who is at the point he's not getting a starting QB job in the league. But maybe go for someone with a little better skill set than Kyle Allen. Mitch may be available again or the guy they had last year, but someone of that level.
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31 minutes ago, Buffalo03 said:
Right...because a new training and conditioning staff would stop someone rolling their leg in the turf and eliminate ACLs and Achilles tears
14 minutes ago, vincec said:Actually, I don’t think any of these apply to the Bills.
1. Injuries haven’t been bad compared with other teams (like Miami).
2. Getting a DC is a possibility, but it’s McDermott’s play calling that I would miss. He is calling the defense much more aggressively than Frazier did and I think it’s really starting to come together with Douglas at CB. They’re getting a lot of pressure, sacks, and turnovers but still not giving up many big plays. That’s a good combination.
3. They have a lot of experience on the coaching staff.
39 minutes ago, YattaOkasan said:1) OL has been super healthy this year and Josh has the longest active starting streak for a QB over Mahomes by a lot. Combined with our recent history of not getting hurt (2017-2021) I think our luck just caught up with us the past two years. Maybe the criticism is the way they handled the London game, but that doesnt seem like a reason for firing if we have done well in the normal situations.
2) Why? like i would want him to get one but are you saying hes not calling the plays at the right time and situations? I think he is as we lately keep stiffening up when teams get in FG range.
3) Maybe. Hes not mistake free but also has some good decisions even lately. Wish he was getting more flowers for calling TO on 3rd and 1 with 2:41 to go when we were in shotgun. Coming out of TO did buffalo shove for a first down.
I 100% disagree next season is a make or break season for him. We just set a franchise record for 5 seasons with 10 wins in a row.
You totally lost me when you just said you copied it from Miami board. Start a new thread for this stuff and get it out of the game day thread please.
My point in posting this was it just sounds like something folks here would post, maybe not the identical same things, but the basic concept of the "sky is falling" like many posts here are all about. As good as Miami has looked for most of the year, their posters are sill just as worried as around here.
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3 things for next year
1.They need a new strength and condition coach. In my 40 years of watching football, I have never seen a team lose so many top front line players in one season like I saw with the team this year.
2. McD must get an Defensive Coordinator to call the plays he designed at the right time and in the right situations.
3. McD needs to have an older assistant coach on the sidelines with him to serve as a calming voice. Because I am convinced that sometimes he is just not thinking straight in game situations. All that being said, next season (meaning 2024) should be make or break for him
What does everyone think?
Actually this was off the Miami message board and I just shorted McDanials to McD and changed the one word of offensive to defensive coordinator. Is kind of funny reading other teams board as you'd think from reading posts here, we're the only team in trouble like this.
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33 minutes ago, chongli said:
Yeah, that's the thing. Until consumers stop buying, the the corporations will keep raising prices or engaging in "shrinkflation".
Add to that, everything you read is how consumers are dumping cable and satellite and going to streaming. So the NFL is following the trend and putting the game on a streaming platform exactly what everyone is going to. But now fans are complaining. Supposedly either in 2024 or 2025 ESPN will launch a standalone streaming service following that trend.
Read an article the other day think it was in Kiplinger how for under $30 could have a decent streaming options of Peacock, Paramount, Hulu and one other one service. Would allow you to watch network channels through them. Admittedly this setup didn't do much for sports lovers.
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23 minutes ago, chongli said:
But the counterargument that the NFL would give is many fans at one point did not get NFL Network, or Amazon Prime.
Can add ESPN to that list too. Yes the NFL should just turn down money being offered to them so fans can save $6.
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4 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
I’m sure it’s both of what you guys said to an extent. Pats were rallying to the underneath throws very fast so Josh probably held the ball to hit some chunk plays more often than he should’ve. The interior oline did not pass the eye test at all in the first half though. They were getting smoked…that’s been the common theme when the offense looks bad
doesn’t mean josh is blameless but it definitely contributes
im not sure what changed at halftime but they seemed to be holding up better in the second half
Morse had a talk with them! Hey I'm just quoting what I read in article.
But do think the "talk" resulted in them figuring out what was the issue and doing things different in 2nd half. What that was, he didn't say and beyond my knowledge to see from watching game.
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Kind of funny reading some of the threads, there's one titled
I'm Now Done With McDaniel
They must have stole the one from here titled: "I'm Now Done With McDermott" They didn't even have to change the first 43 letters of McD
Many other threads too sound just like ones around here.
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2 hours ago, UmbrellaMan said:
He’s doing it without Reggie White in front of him too like Seth had.
Your forgetting he has Von Miller
1 hour ago, BigAl2526 said:I remember how last season many fans thought Bernard was a wasted pick because all he did was play special teams. I do think it took him a while to adjust to the pro game, but I think now he's a pleasant surprise to all of us and maybe to the coaches as well.
Goes to show you how little all us expert posters here really know. Can add Allen, Knox, Brown, Oliver to name a few to the list of TBD whipping boys who the coaches believed in more than the fans ever did.
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1 hour ago, MJS said:
Yes, the Cover 1 guys mentioned that as well. Playcallers have a tendency to over think things sometimes. I remember that a lot with Daboll, Dorsey, and now Brady, too.
But I'm a firm believer in running things over and over until the defense proves they can stop it. If it is working, keep doing it. Good job by McDermott making that change.
What I highlighted above may be true 10 times that when the play caller is an ex QB. I could imagine Dorsey often thinking to himself, boy what I could have done if I had JA's skill set. Let me live vicariously through him now and call the plays I always thought about, but I didn't have the skills to pull off.
Ex QB's are probably great QB coaches as Dorsey was with Daboll, but scare me as an OC.
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Haven't found anything about this. Assuming the Bills win next week does Miami fall to #5 or #6 behind Cleveland if Cleveland also lost? Records would be the same and they didn't play each other. Cleveland has a better conference record, but not certain that is next tie breaker for wild card seeding.
If so then 2nd weekend likely could have either KC or Miami in Buffalo assuming Bills win 1st weekend.
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Could try NBC.com or an antenna
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I know it's only Jan 1st, but so far this is the dumbest post of the year.
I posted in another thread if difference between winning and losing was the 5th vs 6th seed, then yeah, but to give up 2 definite home games and likely playing the second week in Baltimore is crazy.
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I'll bet he didn't pay for that drink, else he wouldn't have thrown it.
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22 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
I hope you are right. The worry is that a guy isn’t getting the immediate PT he wants and is gone.That was a big problem with Jimmy B every year as he'd never play more than 7 or 8 at most deep.
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20 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
That plane @ LHR had plenty of room!
The differences between MDW, ORD, &
LHR are shocking. Midway is a postage stamp. I might wanna think about continuing to fly outta here after seeing this! 😆
Heathrow: They can flutter all they want
O'Hare:
Now the postage stamp, Midway, holy dear Lord! 😆
No room for error. 10,000 people would get wiped out! No wonders they almost shut it down before rehabbing it. It really does belong elsewhere!!!
Doesn't matter how long runway is if wing tip hits the ground. So are all three of these pics taken at exact same distance? If not the scale can make one look much bigger than the other.
I've landed in Vegas on a 95 degree day and updrafts had wing tip very close to hitting ground. Maybe not a big deal if tips hit as you'd think they' make runways narrower and undercut the sides if it did matter more??
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12 minutes ago, mannc said:
Let’s not forget, Miami is already in the playoffs no matter what happens next week, and they are very banged up. Not saying they won’t be trying to win, but the game probably won’t mean as much to them.
difference between the #2 seed and the 5th or 6th seed and playing on the road pretty much every game for Miami so yes a lot going for them to win. Haven't even seen if Miami loses, do they end up with 5th or 6th seed?
If Bengals still had shot could see Cleveland not playing starters as not much difference for them between 5th and 6th seed, but big difference here for Miami.
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It seems like it's the easy throws too that he struggles with. 7 yard pass to someone wide open he misses. But then makes great pass 15 yards in tight coverage.
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22 minutes ago, wjag said:
Joseph inactive I don't get. Von, a blind man could see that coming.
21 minutes ago, Not at the table Karlos said:I haven’t been impressed by Joseph. He seems to play very upright.
Think Joseph only played like 30 snaps last week. With Jones back he can play close to that many , add in in AJ back which mean Groot can shift inside on a few plays. Last but certainly not least, from everything I read, last week, both Settle and Ford out played Joseph.
Milano discusses his injury for first time
in The Stadium Wall
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But what about the spleen?
Sounds like they someone had a hit taken out on you!