dave mcbride

Then don't make blanket statements like the one you issued above. You do agree that swimming is an actual sport that involves athletic talent and that it's quite popular globally, no?

Swimming was a major world athletic sport last i checked. Michael phelps is a better athlete than anyone playing in the nfl. The post i responded to said that blacks were better athletes than whites based, seemingly, on watching football and maybe basketball/sprinting and not much else. The world of athletics is a lot bigger than the world of the nfl corneback.

Tell that to all of the white swimmers and the massive number of white guys throwing 95+ mph fastballs.

Frodo Fumagali!

According to PFF, they were 10th and Buffalo 11th. Close in any event, and the Bills were upper half. https://www.profootballfocus.com/pro-ranking-all-32-nfl-offensive-lines-this-season/

No tasteless Erin Moran jokes yet. I'm surprised.

Casserly was fired regardless of what the piece says. Feel free to keep litigating this, but heading to television wasn't Casserley's preferred choice.

See above. Charley Casserly's May 2006 firing in Houston is a well known recent example.

It's more complicated than that. They really wanted OSU CB Ahmad Plummer, who was drafted by SF right before Flowers. Plummer looked fantastic early on but had bad injury issues that cut his career short. Butler, Adams, and AJ Smith were also all in on safety Mike Brown, a great player who the Bears took in round 2. Their next choice was safety Deon Grant (a good player who actually played in the 2012 Giants-Pats SB for the victorious Giants), who was drafted by Carolina immediately before the Bills picked. Travares Tillman was the last credible safety left when it came time for the Bills to pick in that round, and the Bills drafted for need (they really did need a safety at the time). But they were praying for Brown. It didn't happen, but it's not as if they mailed it in. It was a bad draft, but they had bad luck too. Interesting fact about Deon Grant: he missed his entire rookie season because of a back injury, but played in 16 games every season from 2001 to his last season, in 2011.

It's very comparable, actually, given that they both had the same job title and both were fired immediately after a draft. The fact that he didn't have control simply points to how crappy his situation was. Whaley doesn't appear to have control over the roster anymore now himself. Anyway, I could go on. Here's a more famous example. http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2440274

This is an excellent post. I agree that the Shanahans were unfairly maligned. Some people thought Kyle was a nobody who got his job through nepotism. Nepotism surely played a role, but he's a hell of an OC.

Not saying it's normal, but I found a pretty recent example on the previous page if you go back and look.

Definitely not unpredented. There are other cases. http://www.denverpost.com/2012/05/07/broncos-gm-brian-xanders-agree-to-part-ways-after-four-years-in-denver/

It doesn't, and if the scouts go so does Whaley. No way he survives in this scenario. No freaking way.

They're not picking.

My guy says he's gone, but who knows? We'll know within a week or so. Too many signals pointing to him being on the outs in practically every possible way. He didn't want to keep Taylor, and they did (I am 99 percent certain of this0. He can't even talk to the media, and he doesn't have control over the picks. How can someone like that continue to serve as GM? For his own sake, it's better to be fired and start anew at a position he's better suited for (pro personnel). He's just not GM caliber. He is good at some things, but fell victim to the Peter Principle.

Yup. And you remind them time and time again that they're being paid decent money to do this.

They aren't drafting. McDermott is. He runs the show now.

Whether he deserves it or not, it doesn't look like he will. If they're firing many of the scouts, he'll definitely be out the door too.

I think that's a sensible prediction. It certainly sounds like McDermott will be in complete control of the draft.

Yup. Hard to say for sure, but this has the ring of truth to me based on the Bills decidedly noncommittal follow-up statement.

Apologies if posted elsewhere. Strikes me as big news, and I have to think Whaley will go out with them if it's true. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/04/26/bills-scouts-bracing-for-a-post-draft-house-cleaning/

Agreed.

Re Blount, look at him near the end of the season (final half dozen games), where he was a shadow of what he was earlier. To repeat, he looked s-l-o-w. These guys--especially big guys (e.g., Eddie George)--age fast w/regard to speed. Re AP, he did nothing last year, is coming off of a serious injury, and is 32 years old. If he had run for 1400 yards last season at 4.5+ ypc, the Vikes would have figured out a way to keep him. And don't assume away the fumbling issue - it's huge for Belichick. Gillislee has fumbled only once on 169 touches in his NFL career.

In his final six games including the postseason in 2016, Blount had 86 carries for 241 yards. That's a healthy sample size, and it's 2.8 yards ypc. And he looked that slow too.