dave mcbride

Good piece by Breer, which is no surprise. Good writer.

My own view is that what you say above is inaccurate. I believe that Whaley wanted no part of Taylor and wanted him gone. That's what all the signs pointed to, at least as I see it. I'm happy to be proven wrong, but I suspect that I won't. Also, while I agree with you on a more meta level about him pushing Manuel on coaches, it is 100 percent the case that he pushed him on Lynn. Taylor, coming off of his best game as a pro, wanted to play, and Lynn wanted to play him. Whaley did push Manuel on the coach in that instance.

Simon: I'm speaking for myself here, but Whaley lost me on Tyrod, who I like as both a player and competitor. What do you think of Taylor, and what do you think of Whaley's own views on the qb position? I think it's pretty clear beyond all doubt now that he was the biggest backer of Manuel in the NFL. That last game against the Jets must have horrible for Whaley, and I seriously felt bad for him because Manuel is not unlikable. In any event, I thought his jacking around of Taylor near the end of last season was mystifyingly wrongheaded. Edit: I take your point about the backstabbing/lying.

It has been clear for some time that Whaley felt this way despite being completely wrong. His qb vision killed him. Drafting a stiff like Cardale (this is a prediction, yes) doesn't reflect well on his qb eye either.

Absolutely - I agree.

Taylor has been better than mediocre the last two seasons. Having a 26th and 24th ranked defense in DVOA is what killed them.

Really interesting. I thought whaley was gone all along so his firing is no surprise to me; I also thought the battle over QB was at the root of the dispute. That appears to be the case. I'm a Taylor supporter, so I'm glad McDermott won. But obviously this is a huge season for TT. With Sammy in effectively a contract year, things are lined up for him pretty well.

ST is important. Carolina arguably lost the SB because of a badly blown tackle on ST.

26th in DVOA. End of freaking story.

To quote Jim Rome from 25 years ago: have a take, and don't suck.

As i have said elsewhere, no one effing knows whether Mahomes will be good or not, and if they claim that they do, they are completely full of it. We were also playing frodo of the nine fingers in that game. One of Brissett's fingers on his throwing hand was hurt to the point of uselessness.

Seems like a great pick. A better talent than Woods, who i still like as a player.

I do; i think 1B4IDie is basically right. But I discount future picks. Not everyone does. To each his own.

These guys have no idea what they're talking about w/regard to Mahomes. No idea. None of us do, honestly.

I think KC is better than you say because of the coaching, but it is the case that their pythagorean record last year was 10.1-5.9, and they were helped with ridiculously close and arguably lucky wins against Atlanta, SD, Carolina, and Denver. Almost all were basically decided on the last play and involved flukes. They also went 2-0 in OT. The Atlanta game was the most ridiculous one; ATL had just gone up by one point late in the game and went for two to take a 3-point lead, and Berry returned an INT for a pick-2. They lost one tough one to TN on the last play, but by my count they went 4-1 in nail biters. They lost 19-17 to TB, but it was 19-10 when the Chiefs scored very late (garbage time, basically). TB dominated them statistically. Furthermore, their 6th overall DVOA ranking was bolstered by being #2 in ST; they were 13th on offense and 14th on defense. ST performance fluctuates wildly from year to year.

Dareus was really misused. I expect a huge season from him provided he stays healthy.

43-21 the last four seasons.

The KC franchise has actually-employed-by-an-NFL-team draft experts who will tell us otherwise. Who the hell knows? It's going to take time to shake out.

The Jets game was weird - he was in position on a lot of those plays and simply lost jump balls to tall receivers. It happens. Re that Hogan play, c'mon. That was all Meeks. He blew the coverage. Anyway, all CBs get beat from time to time. QBs had a 70.6 rating against him last season, and he came up big against Pitt and AZ, both teams that have good QBs.

No one here (myself included) has an effing clue about how good Mahomes is going to be, and those who are claiming that they do know are full of it. Let's wait and see how this plays out.

Don't look know, but Carson Palmer is on a path to a HOF-level career when it's all said and done. 44K+ passing yards, an 88.0 lifetime rating, and the teams he has led have a winning record when he starts. And I expect AZ to be very good this season. They were WAY better than their record last year. They lost a ridiculous number of close games because of weird errors and ST miscues. Their expected record last year was 9.4-6.6 and they ended up 7-8-1.

This just in: Gilmore had a really good season last year overall. It's not even really debatable.

They were second that year, not fourth. http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamdef2014 The Bills D was 26th this past season: http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamdef LOL. So true!

Yeah, this is about right even though it feels all too familiar for us. You do need corners, and that's not debatable. I have no opinion on the player because I know absolutely nothing about him.

That about sums it up. I'm just PO'd about the third rounder, which i don't call a "third" but rather the 91st pick. The pats and a number of other teams believe that this draft is about 75-80 legit starting prospects deep. I feel the Bills should have gotten a late second given the 17-slot swap. Oh well.