dave mcbride

You have to score in this league to win games. I'm not denying the need for a pass rusher, but pass rush was one of the least of the Bills' problems this season. Hughes, Murphy, and Lawson are all at least decent pass rushers and have another year or two of high productivity left at the very least. Hughes ain't close to being done, and there is a long history of DEs playing well into their 30s because they hone their craft over time. Not one -- not one! -- of their offensive linemen, outside of perhaps Dawkins (who wasn't great but has genuine physical talent and hence potential), is remotely good. They are literally all bad. As for the pass rush, they had 36 sacks (a respectable number), but also a ton of pressures relative to other teams. The D finished 3rd in the league in net passing yards per attempt, which is a key stat. Opposing pass offenses had a very low rating of 82.6 too.

Gotta agree with Hapless--dragooning in his role as a DB coach for Tampa to punctuate your claim is akin to me arguing that Daboll (who, to be fair, I like so far) should never be fired because of his multiple SB rings. Which would be sophistry.

Beane said last year what everyone recognizes as basic common sense: that QBs don't fit into this calculus if you don't have one. Also, there were more than a few people had had a top-five grade on Allen anyway (he was of course extremely polarizing). With regard to Edmunds, they didn't draft for need; they traded up (which should not be conflated with drafting for need!) for a guy who a lot of teams had top ten grades on--including, presumably, the Bills.

This team desperately needs offense, and Lawson is an average-to-above-average NFL player at this point. If you want to compare, I'd say he's probably comparable to Robert Woods with regard to how fans viewed him going into his year 4 season. They shouldn't be drafting for a replacement when they already have a decent player there and when the extension isn't that expensive given their cap situation. I'm not opposed to drafting DE if the guy is elite, mind you, but they simply have to fix the desperate offensive talent situation. They'll never go better than 9-7 without truly committing to a serious upgrade on that side of the ball.

I think this is a terrible hire, but in fairness Ernie Accorsi was a sports reporter (newspapers) before becoming an NFL exec. The era in which he started was very different and far less complicated, though.

I don’t think trade downs should always happen; sometimes it’s best to go for the lower-rated but still very good player if you feel like you’re that one position away from having an elite team (not the norm, to be sure). It’s just that the Bills have so many needs on offense, and the more picks you have, the better the chances that more will pan out. https://www.nber.org/papers/w11270

Um ... the Pats are the most analytics- heavy franchise in the league. Ernie Adams is all I have to say. https://www.google.com/amp/s/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/02/01/eagles-patriots-both-relied-on-analytics-to-help-them-reach-the-super-bowl/amp/ and http://onlinedsa.merrimack.edu/new-england-patriots-data-analytics/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/11/19/patriots-use-analytics-but-belichick-dismisses-analytics-websites/amp/

Jeezus H. Christ. The Raiders are the NFL equivalent of the Trump administration -- hiring folks because the boss hears them talking on TV. What a clusterf**k.

That's way too extrem of an example. In real life and not including qbs, it's more like the 5th rated player vs the 14th rated player. That's why trade downs happen. And trade downs are what the bills should be focusing on anyway. They need a many picks as possible.

Williams is a central valley, CA guy just like Allen. There may be some bonding potential.

The difference between 14 days and 13 days is meaningless, but more importantly, the Pats will one day less of rest going into the conference championship game than their opponent (7 as opposed to 8). Nothing to see here.

I have heard before that he can.

I want her to do well - i want more women announcers - but “fracas” with a short “a”??!

Why wasn’t hauschka placed on IR so we could be fielding an uninjured kicker?

Good for mills.

wow.

Looks like McDermott implemented the Nick O’Leary plan.

?? Enunwa was hurt almost the entire season this year. He has been literally limping through games. He demonstrated last year that he’s quite good when healthy. He’s a good player and the contract is very reasonable given that the Jets have ~$100 million in cap room next season. He has been playing on a bad leg most of this season. He is ten times the player Jones is. It’s not even really debatable who is better or who has more upside, actually.

When he's healthy, he's definitely better than a scrub. Not sure why you would say that. He's been nicked up this season. With contracts, the thing to remember is that you're not paying for past production, you're paying for projected future production.

He doesn't need the money. He's very, very rich.

McDermott was SERIOUSLY outcoached last Sunday. It was as bad as I've ever seen for him. A low point.

Yes, the article is actually quite positive! I have no idea what the OP's point is.

Ted Washington was better than all of these players. Granted, he only spent 6 years on the Bills, but in all of those years the Bills' D ranged from above average to elite.

I love the idea of Bell (he is significantly better than Conner, in my opinion), but IIRC the Jets have more cap space than us and allegedly want him a lot. He'll choose NY over Buffalo for the obvious reasons if it comes to that.

It'll be Miami because of Gase's shaky position there and because of Kyle Williams. The Bills will be playing harder; of that you can be almost certain.