Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Changing schemes every year is not good for overall growth either.

Way too many posts from people wanting/ thinking the team needs all pro's across the board. You can't afford that. Two very good LB's which the Bills seem to have can make the third guy look much better Just like 2 good lineman will make the weakest look like he should be in the Pro Bowl.

I can see for the Bills to get to the next level needing five to six new starters on offense 3 lineman, #1 & #3 WR, new RB, and maybe if they can find a #1 TE though I think that may more come from the draft, next season he's still the backup Defensively ideally a pass rushing DE who needs to be double teamed, a LB to replace Lorax, but again could be a mid level pick who becomes the starter in 2020 and a CB Two good lineman and 1 good WR thru free agency and a CB (but not as another thread suggested Ramsey) the rest thru the draft. Also some short term mid range salary FA for depth And I'd use my #1 pick on WR or DE

Based on your logic, Doug Marone must be the 2nd coming of God. In his first year he took Jax within one quarter of one game from the super Bowl. And with a vastly inferior QB than Andrew Luck. If only we had kept Marrone as coach imagine how many SB we'd have won by now.

Wonder if people in NE are mad that they are getting the Bills Fish game as opposed to the likely better, Indy Jax game. Understand why, they wanted to a game involving two AFC east games, but if I lived there, would probably rather see the other one.

I agree with all the fives and most of the fours, though to be honest, I'd give Marrone another year. Hard to fire a guy who was less than one quarter of football away from last years SB. Could put more of the blame there on Tom C for not getting a better QB. And barring a complete late season flop, I'd give Garrett another season too. If you're going to fire a head coach, you also better have an idea that you can find a better replacement as opposed to re-cycling someone else's failure.

Seems hard for any running back to flop in the NFL I'd imagine QB's have the most busts, and thinking of the top of my head, can't recall many RB busts, then again they don't get all the publicity to start with, so the busts likely go under the radar.

Well this sucks for my fantasy team!

Love for Buffalo?? I don't recall a single thing he did or said that showed that?? What things are you talking about?

Oh God!! I've been hearing about Kaizen's for the past 25 years at work, now I'm hearing about them here too! I think the true translation of Kaizen is common sense, but hire some expert who uses big words and charges high consulting fees and you're onto something big!

Yes I understand the rule, but don't like it. Hey this thread was started by someone complaining about a rule he feels should be changed, personally I think this should also be changed. And if I were given the power to only change one rule, I'd change the play being dead once the ball crosses the goal line before I'd worry about fumbling out of the end zone, if for know other reason that it seems to happen more often.

Yeah I've seen that one too, is rather unfair, they need to come up with something better.

I think all endzone rules are kind of strange. A player dives head first untouched (no one touched him) into the end zone and as he hits the ground loses the ball, it's still a TD where as if that happened on the 20, it's a fumble. Or extends the ball over the goal line then it gets knocked out of his hand still a TD.

While I agree Mayfield is the best to date, I just think he may have the lowest ceiling. One of these types that once defenses see him some more, there may be little improvement after year two or so?? Alot of his game in college was improvising on broken plays, eventually defense will figure that out.

Think he's better suited for college as the roster turns over every four years. Even then he struggles with people it seems

And your'e a bad poster too. But at least some day the Bills could be a good team!

Would think it would be a Marriott since they are a sponsor of the league.

First of was he really that good, or is a result of their line was just bad so someone has to make the tackle. The Bills didn't allow him to leave, he was an UFA who chose to leave, did the Bills try and get him to stay, did they make him any offers, the only people who know that for certain are the Bills and Brown. Was he worth the $4 mil + $2 mil SB he got from Cinci? Per Rotoworld, the answer is NO, nor do his stats look like he's worth it. And now here's on IR. While he was good, he is a long way from the potential game changer that Edmunds is. You're not building a top level defense around Preston brown, while you can around Edmunds.

When you consider that there's only one team in the conference with a worst record, the odds that they will all fall apart is rather low. There's five teams with a two game lead on us and three of those five have already beaten us. Recently I went back and looked, (to 2005 I think it was), there's only been one team at 8-8 that made the playoffs as a wild card. Surprisedly (or maybe not) there were more 8-8 teams that won their division than got in as a wild card.

McBeane wasn't here in 2017, McD was yes. So are you asking why they didn't draft a QB in 2017 like Mahomes? If that's what you're saying, the Bills along with the rest of the league didn't value him that highly. And I was responding to your post about all the guys the Bills let go and now have dead cap, now you're on a different subject. And looking at your list with the possible exception of Glenn, even if they had taken a QB in 17, highly likely they still would have dropped the other players. And in some cases, their salaries were higher than the cap hit, so again explain how they would have afforded to keep all these guys?

Yes but if they wanted to hire a GM in January, you're likely limited to those out of work as doubt teams would give up people on their payroll to another team 3 months prior to the draft. That's the reason front office contracts all expire May 1st. From what I've read here, teams are not required to let front office people under contract take jobs with other teams . So now your choice in GM's is pretty much limited to people other teams have fired oh and 80 yo Bill Polien and his useless son. Seems like every year, next years draft class is always better until you get to that point of the draft, then it's not as good. Agree you could be correct about 17 being better than 18, but are you thinking that somehow the one guy we had hired would have known that and instead drafted Mahomes. None of the other teams 1 thru 9 drafted him, nor were the Bills likely flooded with offers, so basically he wasn't that highly valued. So far he's looked great, but Prescotts best season was his rookie year too when teams had no film on him. So I'll wait at least other season or two to see how good he really is and see how well the class of 18 pans out.

And they didn't really stack their offense until after their rookie season. So if he had selected a different coach/GM the results would have been different? For the most part about 30% of QB's elevate to franchise level so if Allen flames out, the only thing you can say about McD and Beane is welcome to the club.

And then we wouldn't have Allen or Edmunds or maybe both. They traded people like Glenn to get picks so they could move up to get the QB they wanted. Whether they picked Allen or Rosen or whoever, they needed draft capital and by winning as many games last year as they did, they needed a lot. Probably if they had only won 5 or 6 games last season like many expected they could have drafted the same players as they did without needing as many extra picks and maybe could have hung onto Glenn. Or they could have kept the picks they got for him to draft others. TT backup QB... At $16mil Great idea! If we had kept TT there wouldn't have been money to sign Star L and likely some of the other lower salaried guys they signed. Doubt they could have afforded Kyle Williams $5 mil So explain to me where in your plan would you have got the money to sign these guys without cutting half the team?

A better title for this thread should be "If the Bills look at drafting another QB, how will they ever have time to develop either? With todays CBA that limits practice and off-season time, there's hardly anytime available for the #1 QB to get enough snaps, now you bring in a second person to share the time. You'll quickly have no idea if either are any good. I read a couple seasons back that the backup QB typically gets about a half dozen snaps each week with the 1st unit. I think everyone seems to feel the Bills should have a vet backup, so that means the new guy is QB #3 which puts him with the scout team and getting no reps with the starters. Someone posted to the thread, "Look at NE they draft a QB every season. Well that's easy to do when you have an established starter, you don't need to worry about giving him time, in fact probably even better to save wear and tear on a guy like Brady. They also aren't using high draft picks on them either. Where as if you feel you're looking at an upgrade over Allen, as many would argue, it probably will also need to be a 1st round pick. So now you'll have two 1st round picks that neither get enough time in practice to develop. If there's no improvement at all by the end of the2nd season what typically happens is you try and go with a different OC that will use a scheme better suited to the QB's strengths and blame the problems on that. If after another season still no improvement, then may be time to look for a replacement which in Allen's case would be after season #3, but even then Allen would still have one more season under contract.

Hoping he Giants end up behind them as could potentially get some extra picks from them as they need a QB