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dave mcbride

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  1. Meh. Ed Oliver is hardly Cicero, so I don't expect much on the public speaking front. I don't take any of this stuff seriously. He wants to make money and he wants to sack quarterbacks. All ok with me.
  2. Why would anyone have an issue with Ed Oliver wanting to reach an incentive by actually getting more sacks? That seems like the most straightforwardly positive-for-the-team individual incentive I can think of. If he gets sacks, the opponent is likely to score fewer points.
  3. They’re both pretty good players. The Bills used up 4 years of a running back and let him move on, which all smart teams do. Cook is pretty good too. It’s all fine. Motor was terrific today, and I was quite happy for him. He seems like a good team player and a good person.
  4. My big takeaway today : this league is so week-to-week and there is SO much parity.
  5. Nice with the crude personal insults! I am truly impressed! I am even more impressed by the fact that you are accusing me of this despite my never having said one positive thing about Belichick. I was simply pointing out that the record you claimed for 2008 was not in fact correct given the faulty way the NFL accounts for QB wins. I meant nothing more and nothing less. More seriously, calling people d**k riders is extraordinarily juvenile. Not cool.
  6. I did read what you wrote. You said he went 10-5 that season, and I presumed you were using the ridiculous NFL qb victory accounting system that gives a qb victory to matt cassel in the Bills’ 2014 opener because they ran a trick play where tyrod taylor split wide. Cassel didn’t play another play. Anyway, using common sense accounting, he went 11-5 sans Brady in 2008.
  7. 11-5 in 2008. Brady went out of that game in the first quarter; cassel played the vast majority of the game.
  8. They need a qb, full stop. Do NOT overthink this. That’s what bad teams do.
  9. maye, williams, penix, and nix are all better prospects than jones.
  10. Assuming you guys have a high pick, you pretty much HAVE to take a QB. It'd be crazy not to. It's a good QB draft, and if they're top five, they'll have a shot at one.
  11. outside of that bills game, he has looked like this all season. Any internal pressure and he starts looking down to either run or take a sack (usually the latter). He crumbles. He is a bad qb.
  12. Mac Jones is TERRIBLE — a sack magnet. He just crumbles in the pocket. How did the Bills freaking lose to THIS offense??
  13. The Bills’ o-line talent isn’t that bad and is in all likelihood better than average at the moment. They have no injuries, and lines across the league are in way worse shape because of injuries/mediocrity.
  14. This is really good; thanks! I love his points about the lack of FGs and how horrible the run scheme is.
  15. I don’t think he’s injury prone; he’s not getting soft tissue injuries. The foot issue resulted from a person over 300 pounds landing/stepping on his foot. I think everyone gets injured when something like that happens. Just bad luck. But yeah, it’s all very frustrating.
  16. Foot this time. Broken bone, apparently.
  17. Truth.
  18. He’s genuinely injured. I wish fans would think hard about that and factor it in before they pass judgment. https://buffalonews.com/sports/professional/nfl/bills/inside-the-bills-greg-rousseau-gutting-it-out-through-foot-injury/article_b48a8a66-7fdd-11ee-a5ce-ffae0985a19b.html The Buffalo Bills’ third-year defensive end is trying to play through a foot injury suffered in Week 4 against the Miami Dolphins. The injury forced Rousseau to miss the team’s Week 5 loss to the Jaguars, but he’s since tried to gut it out. “It’s tough, for sure. It takes some getting used to, being hurt, playing with something,” Rousseau said Thursday. “But, I mean, it’s part of the game. … ”Right or wrong, defensive ends are judged largely on sacks. While those haven’t been there for Rousseau the last month, there are signs he’s close. He had two quarterback hits against the Bengals, and his grade of 89.6 (out of 100) from analytics website Pro Football Focus was the second best on the Bills’ defense, behind only Tim Settle (90.3) for the game. On the season, Rousseau’s grade of 82.6 ranks fourth on the defense. … “I feel like I am getting better week to week,” said Rousseau, who estimated he’s playing at about 75% right now. “There were some rushes I wanted back at the end of the game, but the first quarter, I had two QB hits right off the bat. I feel like I’m rushing pretty solid. I’ve just got to keep getting better.” McDermott agreed with that assessment. “Any time you’re coming off an injury, it’s not easy,” he said. “You’re not yourself and so you’re dealing with it not only physically, but mentally, and I saw some things this past game that I thought were ‘Hey, he’s starting to really get back into who he is.’ With all the injuries suffered to the Bills’ defense, it’s imperative that the defensive line lead the way for the rest of the unit. That’s part of the reason why Rousseau didn’t miss more time with his injury. … That approach has earned the respect of his teammates, who have a better sense of what Rousseau is battling through. “He could very easily say, ‘No, I don’t want to. I’m going to wait until I’m fully healthy,’ kind of put himself above everything,” defensive end A.J. Epenesa said. “He’s humble enough to play through things. He’s still an elite player when he does that. Watching him out there, knowing he’s hurting, and him doing the things he’s doing to sacrifice his body and to make plays for us as a team and as a defense. We know Greg as a person, and we know that’s the kind of guy he is, so it doesn’t surprise me, but it makes me feel good to know you’ve got teammates who really care about you and this team. Having guys like Greg in the building make it fun to come to work every day.”
  19. You have completely lost me and your logic is baffling. In the Cincy playoff game last season, the Bills were missing arguably their most important player on D (Daquon Jones) as well as Von Miller and Hyde. They were also missing Hamlin (no great shakes, but better than who was behind him), White was a still a shell of himself, Poyer was extremely banged up (knee and elbow), and Oliver was playing with a bad arm that severely hampered him. They went down to the Bengals for a number of reasons, but defensive injuries were HIGH on the list — especially the loss of Jones. This year, you celebrate McDermott’s four games with a healthy roster. Fine. But they’ve gone to absolute crap since the injury bug hit, and it’s understandable. Not only do I think your argument makes no sense because you’re not comparing like to like and you’re also using a small early-season sample size to lionize McDermott’s D, you fall prey to an age old fallacy: it’s all the coaches and the players are interchangeable. They are not. Good players really matter, and when good players go down, it has a negative effect whoever the hell is coaching. Also, by way of comparison, in the first four games of the 2022 season, a mostly healthy Bills’ D allowed on average 234.5 yards and 14.5 points per game while averaging 2.25 turnovers forced per game.
  20. In the two or so years before Sanders joined the Bills, he was at or near the top of the league in gaining separation. I think he led the league in separation average for NO in 2020. The Bills tried to trade for him in 2019/2020 because he was such a perfect fit for Daboll’s scheme, but they didn’t get him until 2021.
  21. SF was 4-4 (and then 5-4) in 2022. The Giants were 6-6 at one point in 2011.
  22. I think the issue with Damar is that he gave up the highest passer rating in the league among all qualifying players last year. I know it's not all him - scheme and context matter - but it was over 140. That's really bad. Basically, he's a massive coverage liability. He does some other things well, but safeties do need to be able to cover.
  23. He's a really good player. It's pretty obvious by now. Great pick.
  24. The Bills D's experience with turnovers forced is not luck but a rock-solid trend under McDermott: 9th in 2017, 8th in 2018, 10th in 2019, 3rd in 2020, 3rd in 2021, 4th and 2022, and 1st through the first five games of 2023. Over the last four games, they've been dead last not because of bad luck, but because the remaining players aren't good enough. They've fallen from first to 11th, which while not bad is deceiving because of how sharp the fall has been. In any event, the current ranking is the worst in McDermott's 7 years as head coach. Their boundary corners have no nose for the ball and are happy to simply defend passes. They're missing a turnover machine in Milano too. Rasul Douglas actually has experience making picks, so maybe it'll get a little better. It can't get any worse.
  25. Again, I have my issues with the offense. But the offense has always feasted point-wise on turnovers. Their D was third in turnovers forced in 2020, third in 2021, and fourth in 2022. 1 turnover in four games just doesn't cut it. All I'm saying is that points are harder to come by on longer fields, and their drive starts are way worse than they were in the first part of the season. It has an effect.
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