dave mcbride

Thanks - I did not know this about Rex and Hogan.

None of the guys who end up being cut will know the Bills' offense, and none will help the team. The best you're looking for is a 14 catch td specialist like Justin Hunter.

The browns' dc drove off ted williams years ago because he was "too fat." Williams is one of the stupidest people in modern nfl history from a strategic (not tactical) sense, esp with regard to team building. He is poisonous. I don't give a damn about hayden, but let's not forget that.

Um ... Sandy Koufax is one of the greatest pitchers of all time, and it's not even remotely arguable. HOF votes are based on career counting stats and five-year peak stats, and koufax's five year peak is about as great as you'll ever see. You're a good poster, but do you know enough about baseball to comment on it? Koufax had a total of 46.6 WAR between 1961 and 1966 (staggeringly great) plus two dominant postseason WS-winning performances and 5 straight ERA titles. Christ, man: Koufax's ERA in 4 world series was 0.95 and he won 2 world series MVPs. More to the point, Koufax did nothing until his seventh season in MLB.

Levitre had an excellent season last year. Your point? He's a good player. The Bills let him leave. He will therefore be discussed. It is what it is.

The issue, I suspect, is that acl injuries are 9 months recovery time max now given the advances in surgery. He is now 13 months removed from surgery. He had a simple acl tear. He is not injury prone or anything like it. It is an injury that the VAST majority of pro athletes recover from in 9-10 months.

But the critique in the OP is objectively wrong.

Umm ... No offense, but you're the one not understanding the cap here. They could cut him with ease.

Just saw this. Good post.

Good piece. I bought everything he said except re Watkins. I am not at all convinced he is injury prone, and he wouldn't have been hard to keep. I have a feeling we'll regret his departure. We shall see.

Meh - whatever. In Schwartz's first season as the Eagles' DC, they finished 4th overall in defensive dvoa. They finished 17th the year before. http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamdef

I am 100 percent fine with him.

Preseason.

It's really just the Bills and nothing to do with preseason. Going back to 2012, they've never finished better than 22nd in penalties assessed. They were dead last in 2015 too. https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/penalties-per-game?date=2017-02-06 Coaches can only do so much, by the way. They matter, of course, but the Bills appear to have a roster with a lot of penalty-prone players (i.e., dumb players). That shouldn't come as a shock.

You're assuming he made the call. I'm not assuming that at all. Tom Coughlin, a legit hall of famer, is also a bona fide dictator.

LOL. True! Yeah, Kelly was the better run blocker and better RB than Marino. I have to give him that.

yup. There's the money issue too, which wasn't Marrone's call.

Yup. I don't have an issue with the Bills' approach to the QB situation. But then I'm a Taylor fan and would love to see him succeed.

Terrific piece. I know the hate for Marrone on this board is strong, but my god - what is he supposed to do? Bortles is TERRIBLE!!

The opening kickoff of game one of the regular season is your answer.

What does it say?

It's a Bills-and-football board. The best posters here by far are the ones who have a clue about what's going with other teams.

I know that what I'm about to say is debatable, but I really think that Dareus is their best player in terms of talent and potential. Shady is a great player, no doubt.

Moreover, if teams really believe in a qb and have a chance to take him, they aren't going to trade away the chance to take him for a boatload of picks. If the Jets really love, say, Darnold and have the ability to draft him, they wouldn't trade that chance away for a mountain of picks. Nor should they. Just look at the haul the Colts got for trading away Elway's rights. Does anyone think they made the right trade?

I think Mario Williams in 2014 was better. Takeo Spikes' 2003 season was better too. I also think it's arguable that Dareus' 2014 season was better than McCoy's 2016 season. Let's not forget that the Bills D in 2003 was first overall in defensive DVOA and second overall in 2014. Using Pro-football-reference's overall-value AV measure, here's where things stand: Mario Williams in 2014: 18 Spikes in 2004: 17 Dareus in 2014: 17 McCoy in 2016: 13 18 is *really* high.