Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I get it, but my point is the Bills could have blocked it or offered Culley a similar position here if they wanted. Makes me wonder if they were more on board with it and encouraged it.

Started reading the thread at this point, saw Clemson coach who worked with Lawrence, thought you were suggesting bringing in JP!

This kind of makes me think this was an agreed upon thing by the Bills! Or Culley read the tea leaves and figure Palmer is the guy Allen is getting his direction from not him.

It may be Washington's only option as sounds like they don't have any $$ available to sign even a halfway decent FA. Even if Smith comes back the year after and does well he'd be what 38 by the 2020 season. Or they do sign a half way decent guy, the team may win 1/2 dozen games, enough to not have a high draft pick next year either. So pick up a a QB now, at leas then you have a reason to right the season off. Barring a miracle likely Gruden will be firedafter this sxeason anyway, so if I'm thr GM, I'd be more in favor of building for the future.

could see where half way thru the season Allen gets hurt, so in theory Barkley is now the starter and Anderson the backup. But instead they cut Anderson and sign a new backup, then Anderson joins the coaching staff. Or better yet Anderson to IR due to a hang nail in case there's a rule forbidding a player to become a coach mid-season.

Completely agree on a training camp type intern position.! The article quoted Kyle, "Ill be back in a couple of weeks for some house related stuff" so sounds like he's already left town. When he retired he commented one of the reasons was so he could spend more time with his kids, think he commented about currently often only being able to watch his kids game s via Facetime. Maybe they use to do that before the kids reached school age, but as stated above would be difficult for the kids to attend two different school systems during the year. As an aside the kids may enjoy that setup as go to school in NY i n the fall where school year starts later, then down south in the spring where the year ends early. My guess is the family is here in western NY though training camp, then wife and kids head south. Kyle likely flies down on their offs days maybe twice a month, a few extra days on their bye week, wife and kids will come north on a couple trips, maybe spend all of Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks here. But in between they're apart. Likely now that the kids are older they are complaining about making the trips north too as missing their own activities. So can't imagine him taking anything close to a full time coaching position at this point other than maybe his kids HS team in a few years.

Agree, great mind, but think offenses have figured out enough how to counter his defense. So what does any good coach do, they come up with new wrinkles which Rex did. The problem though was Rex's new ideas became to complicated to execute. You heard more than once about players being confused and not know what to do. I think that was due to him over complicating things. You can argue that KC is the best team in the AFC next season, but alot can happen before they and NE end up meeting up in a playoff game.

Where I'd locate them is along the side lines, behind the bench 20 feet up in the air in a scissor lift. They can share the space with the TV camera guy that goes up and down the sideline. You'd go back and forth along the line of scrimmage. My thought is a view from up high may be more helpful as the players keep getting bigger and fast in size.

What I don't understand in a situation like that, when the play first happened they said on TV "The officials are huddled up" Why don't they just huddle up for an extra long time, talk about the weather, where to go eat after the game whatever, just to kill some time. And while they're huddled a couple of them look up out of the corner of their eye and watch the replay on the jumbotron. Then say oops, and throw the flag. Yes they'd get ripped for throwing a flag maybe 20 seconds later, but probably less so than what's happening now. And at least they 'd know the right call was made. They could always say we were just checking to make sure no one saw a tipped pass or something else and it took awhile to figure things out.

I think there is alot of truth to this argument. If your rookie QB is really good, pay them whatever they want to keep them. As was pointed out a guy like Prescott, if you pay him what he likely will want and can get on the open market you can easily find yourself in trouble with not enough $$ left to surround him with good enough players to compete at the highest level. Guys like Tannerhill Flacco, maybe Daulton also fall into this bucket too. Often when you get to the 3rd contract it sometimes gets a little easier as by then the QB has made enough money that he may take a little less to keep some other talented players around. Could Allen fall into this boat, too good to let walk, but not quite good enough to go all the way with, likely will know in another year or two.

Smart move, won't have to worry about the guy getting arrested for DWI as judging from his pic, he's not close to being old enough to drink!!

You saw about 6 replays of the obvious missed call. What you don't see nearly as clear is where exactly all the officials were standing and what direction they were looking. Was it rigged, no but totally bad missed call that likely would have won the game for NO. I'm sure each official within the crew has specific things to look at, likely one of them job is to watch the sideline, another is something different. Could be the one who was supposed to be looking at contact turtned to look at something else?? There's always going to be obvious missed calls, maybe the solution is each team gets one penalty challenge per game. Based on today's replay rules, you can't do anything about that. Maybe it's time to change that to allow it to be reviewed.

Easy come, easy go!

I got 450 reasons to root for the Saints!

Yeah would agree from a practice standpoint, same offense is a good thing, but seems when the starter gets hurt having a different type of guys often works out well.

Is that good thing or a bad thing? Often the back up comes in and if a totally different type of QB he has some success as the defense hasn't planned for this style of attack.

At the time the rumors were that Woods wanted to go to a west coast team since he was from there. At a minimum if he could be convinced to stay east, why go to a team as shaky as the Bills were..

Likely his leash will remain until team ownership is finalized.

Maybe he figures go to NJ in two to three years I 'll have another easy shot at HC when they fire Gase.

Because then you'll have the same problems that the Bills had this past year. No QB gets nearly enough reps to know what's going on. Likely Rosen with one year experience would win the competition just like Peterman did here. I think a big issue with the bill's offense this year was lack of continuity in training camp, both at the QB position and also the o-line. Every game they were trying to find the right combo, but in the long run, that may have hurt them in developing as a unit. At QB the receivers didn't get enough practice with any one QB and the QB's themselves didn't get enough time on the field either.

OK, but if the Bills had drafted Mahomes in 2017, sat him last year and started him this past season, do you think he'd have even been in the discussion for MVP right now. Prescott looked pretty amazing as a rookie to, imagine what he'll be when he gains experience they were saying. 3 seasons later he's no better, maybe even worse at least statistically.

I think one of those guys or a similar type WR on the roster would be helpful, but still need to get an outside type of guy. Foster could become a good #2 and think Zay may be better suited for the slot. Having one of these reliable always makes the catch type of guy as you're #4 could help. And maybe Oh Canada is #5 or maybe he jumps all the way up to #2 for all we know.

I'd be in favor of Saturday too, but will never happen as Saturday is the lowest watched night for TV and Sunday night is the highest rated.

Except in the NFL a number of them would have been incompletions as only had one foot down inbounds. Not faulting him they were still some amazing catches, but those are the rules in the NFL.

I think they got along pretty good until they first leaked the breakup. Just recently I was looking to see what the latest rating on Get Up have been, but couldn't find anything more recent than late last summer. I know the show was doing terrible at that time and they were hoping for a boost from football season and recall they made some changes to the line up to try and improve. But haven't seen anything since to know if it helped at all or not.