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ndirish1978

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  1. 17 hours ago, NewEra said:

    Sheesh.  Imagine Miami adding Ramsey and Poyer.  I’ll be really disappointed if he goes there.  And I fully expect it to happen.  No taxes and has a house there.  Makes too much sense 

     

    Fins and Jets getting better and we're getting worse. Not the most fun offseason. Hard to replace Edmunds and Poyer on this D.

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  2. 4 hours ago, JohnNord said:


    Same man… I think the idea for Bernard was that he could play a Shaq Thompson “big nickel” or maybe give the Bills 3rd LB in a 4-3 defense.  The problem is both scenarios take Taron Johnson, one of the best players on the defense, off the field.  So if Bernard isn’t a replacement for Edmunds or Johnson, why draft him?  To replace Matt Milano in ‘24?

     

    The past few years, the Bills seemed to be in love with the idea of hybrid players on defense who had position flexibility.  Taron playing CB/LB, AJ/Justin Jefferson/Boogie Basham at DE/DT and Bernard at LB/S

     

    With the exception of Taron, no one else has been able to excel at either position 


     

     

     

    Yeah versatility isn't a great help on the Dline when the versatile players stink at each position. 

  3. My expectations are a wild card spot and that's about it. Like other on the board I think it's a big mistake to move forward with the same coordinators, though I'm not on the fire McDermott train just yet. I feel a lot of frustration because it seems like the organization is great at presenting a vision and pushing forward to realize that vision but it very very poor at making adjustments even when glaringly needed and that's at all levels:

    • At the HC level we see things like rotating starters or letting people clearly not succeeding stay in starting positions when we clearly need to cut bait on them. We drafted Elam in the 1st and I think it's fair to say we wasted a lot of his development this season. 
    • At the coordinator level we are so concerned with being multiple that we don't pick a strength and dictate terms to the other team on either side of the ball.
      • Frazier's "bend don't break" defense only works if you can get sacks or turnovers, in games where we get neither, we are in trouble. 
      • Dorsey cannot call a game. Feels like he just lets Josh call whatever he wants. There is no concrete identity to the offense. We did not have a single complete game this year on offense, that is damning. 
    • At GM level we see BB consistently drafting BPA but it's not working out, you have to consider need a lot more. Boogie Basham and Bernard should never have been picked where they were when there were positions of greater need with good players left on the board. I like Beane's FA signings but his drafts have left a lot to be desired.

    Then you have press conferences like we just saw from the GM where he basically said "we're gonna just keep moving forward with what we have, we don't have money to spend on big FAs, so we've basically just got who we've got." But at the same time he acknowledged we are behind other AFC teams, so basically we're just "hoping" we get better? I don't really know what the plan is here. 

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