Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Any idea who took D Johnsons spot on special teams

First off the posts and comments weren't about what "I want out of Allen" It's about what is needed to get sports writers, TV shows, etc to say Allen is an elite QB. That was my point. The fact that you like to break things down into half seasons is fine too for you, but your take on it isn't going to stop the talking heads from saying what they are saying. What they say certainly doesn't matter anymore than your take and likely you may even have more data than they do to back it up, but again the point of the thread or at least a subset of the posts was about how unfair Allen is judged. My comments were what IMO needs to happen to stop the bad press. Playing "decent" would go toward showing this season wasn't a fluke and has nothing to do with what I want out of Allen.

OK but the press isn't breaking it down by the half season, they are just looking at full seasons. They want to see some level of sustainability. Plus too there is a ceiling for rating so to expect further improvement will be difficult. Not that staying the same would be an issue, but even that factoring in the level he's playing at right now could be difficult due to injuries, dropped passes, bad luck, etc. At this point we don't even know what next years roster will look like. He has to overcome a bad, but somewhat justified narrative from his first two years, so will take more than one season to win over everyone.

Who you talking about Vrabel??

The one thing Allen needs to do to prove he's the best is come out next season and prove he wasn't some one year wonder. Doesn't even need to be as good, just play decent. Then he'll get all the praise. In fact, you could make the argument Jackson was a one year wonder to some extent.

At the end of the game handshake, you could hear Harbaugh say to McD, "Win it all"

No it wasn't always 4 and 8 on Saturday. Back in the Super Bowl years both Saturday and Sunday were 1:00 and 4:00 Even the conference championship games were 1:00 and 4:00. Maybe within the past 20 years they started adding the night games and then also went to the 3:00, 6:30 Sunday schedule.

Not sure if the Bills receivers are better at getting open with Allen scrambles or Allens scrambles allow him to break free better, but Rodger's just seems to scramble to throw it away.

OK that was the one game I didn't recall anything about.

Thinking back to the Super Bowl years. 7 home games over the 4 seasons, don't recall any where weather was all that terrible. First year the Miami game was light snow, the 51-3 Oakland game was above freezing I believe? Maybe the next year against Denver wasn't too good?? 3rd year Houston comeback game was fine. Last year played KC in the title game believe was OK, don't recall the first game, was it Miami again? Never had any night games to deal with either were always 1:00 starts ll the years

Didn't realize that was done here, or maybe saw the results but didn't realize it was done by multiple people selecting. You'll sometimes see the BN Bills beat reporters doing one, but that's still only being created by 2 or 3 people.

Guys like Kiper and McShay and maybe a few others that do the scouting and mocks basically as their full time job likely have quite a bit of information too. Never really heard, but do wonder do they even have small staffs themselves? Then you have other sports writers that once March or April roll around, there isn't much else to talk/write about so they put out their own mocks. Those are probably based on little real information and study. But even the Kipers still likely have orders of magnitude less information than the worst GM in the league has access too. To me the problem with mocks is that it's all one guys thoughts. This year the Bengals are picking 5th I believe, so there will be mocks out by different people stating who they are likely going to pick, but it's based on the same guy predicting who the 4 teams ahead of them will select too. The real draft one team does something different and it can change alot. 3 years ago if Cleveland hadn't passed on Nick Chubb, we'd likely have traded up to #5 with Denver for Allen, wouldn't have had the pick used on Edmunds as I'd assume that other 1st round pick would have been need ed to get to #5 and who knows what else would have changed roster wise as a result. What would be neat to see is to get 32 of these guys together who do mocks and let them each pick in order. Now each guys mock selection will be based on who the people before them selected too. Would be interesting to see how many of their own mocks then come close to a 32 person mock.

How? Unless some of their contracts run out, they can't leave other than for a promotion, so really only two promotions could occur from a Bills position coach to OC and DC. Maybe if Dorsey doesn't get the OC job, he could ask to leave and the Bills would grant it. Even on a 13-3 team, there's also usually at least one coach let go at season end too so could be someone else the Bills wanted to move on from anyway. When do coaches contracts typically expire anyway? After the last game, I'd assume? I know front office contracts typically expire the beginning of May, right after the draft.

They had a video interview last week. I'd imagine they want to have a face to face interview before offering him the job. I did read that for the 4 teams that win this weekend, there's no interviews allowed until a week from Monday, obviously the two losing teams next weekend, no restrictions, the other two teams do still have some restrictions on interviews allowed, likely early next week would be allowed. I'd imagine still no face to face because of Covid concerns, where as other years, the Chargers could have easily flown to western NY and interview Daboll next Monday in Buffalo. I do think sometime coordinators lose out on jobs if their current team keeps winning as the new team doesn't want to wait that long. Could be the Chragers have a plan B if the Bills win this week and again next week and Daboll gets the short end of it?

True, but don't think it's too common for a coordinator to get fired then get hired the same off season for a HC position. As one other poster stated Kingsbury did that, but they are few and far between. Usually need some time to build your resume back up again.

YES I did!! 👍

On top of the maybe 3 other threads asking the same thing, my only comment would be three positions have now filled, and one other, Detroit rumored to be close to filling, the chances drop down for Daboll. Still have Chargers and Houston left, but the opening for both HC and GM are dropping. In addition there probably are couple of other names still out there considered better ones too. Now that Brian Schottenheimer is no longer employed, I wonder if he'd even be in the running for a HC job, admittedly not the best thing on your resume that you fired from last job. Well hopefully will get this in before thread is shut down!

I'd imagine it works the same as players on the Bills roster. They are property until the end of the NFL year, which is sometime early March. That's why so many upcoming FA end up re-signing with their existing team as the existing team has exclusive rights until then and no one else can legally talk to them. So yes I think they could end up signing Stills to a contract to replace Brown, but would need to be much cheaper, like 1/2 of Browns contract not just a little cheaper. I'd resign McKenzie but also want to keep Roberts too.

So do I as a matter of fact. And I do pay for a subscription fee for it too.

Yeah they'd be better off going the Bills route and pick a GM who has worked with Rhule, at least they'd be on the same page. And Rhule might tend to listen to him more then also if it's someone he is comfortable with and respects.

Is the Ringer a subscription site or free?

Saw a post by Mayfield of the 4 teams left in the AFC, he's the oldest QB among them.

Both Johnson and Epenesa are young. Believe Jefferson can also play end and he's pretty young too. But overall would like to see improvement on the pass rush.

Drill another well! I had thought about Sherman awhile back, think he'd be a good depth signing. Without knowing the cash for 2021 have no idea how they can or can't afford them. To free up money, cut Morse save $5 mil, Brown $8 mil, Butler $8 mil, Addison $8 mil, Restructure/extend Smith, Matakevich, Hyde and maybe a couple others could free up close to $35 mil Not sure I'm liking what I see of Trey Hendrickson 13.5 sacks this year, but 9 of them came in the first two weeks of the season. What happened after that? Are there any better options? If not then I'd keep Addison Norman is a free agent, nothing to cut. Think between Morse, Feliciano and Williams, you keep two of the three and it's either Feliciano and Williams or Feliciano and Morse. They still will be short one spot on the line, use a 2nd or 3rd rounder on him

I'm not in disagreement, but I think many here back in September would have disagreed with us. Agree too like this upcoming off-season, very unlikely 7 draft picks will come close to making the roster. But you never know when you might draft the next 7th round super star.