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  1. 3 hours ago, apuszczalowski said:

    I dont think the comments or lack of an offer end interest in him, I think they are holding off making an offer and signing anything more then a league minimum one year deal with incentives or options until he can be signed off medically. They could circle back around to him closer to camp or the season if hes available and closer to 100%. I think all this says is that right now he still hasnt recovered from the injury.

    In my opinion, this might not really be the case. It's football, signing a guy coming off an injury/surgery is very common (Bills just did it last year with Trent), so I'm sure the doctors have modified their physicals to a guy healing from a surgery, to take into consideration his progress healing/rehabbing, and the management would take their calculated risk of signing the guy who may be on the road to being healthy, vs leaving a guy on the market to be signed by someone else. The feeling I get by Ansah's situation is that both teams don't like the progress he is making healing from surgery, or Ansah wants "I'm healthy right now" money vs a "damaged goods" discount contract value. 

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  2. Just now, FluffHead said:

    Brown, Zay, Beasley, foster, Roberts are probably locks going into camp. If they still draft one that is likely the 6 they will take into the season barring unforeseen circumstance  

    Right. I still think they add someone in the draft. 

    And if someone outside of those 6 reallu impresses in camp, I think Zay might be the first one traded/cut.

  3. 8 minutes ago, Pete said:

    Great move!  Holy shi!.  Going into FA I thought we had holes at C, G, T, TE, WR, CB, Edge, and KR-if we sign Ziggy- Beane would cover each one of those!  Never could I see us adding so much talent pre-draft.  Now we truly can go BPA.  Kudos Beane!

    Is there news about an edge rusher that I missed? Or are you just anticipating possibly signing Ansah?

  4. I don't mind the comp picks, and I don't know what the big scandal is about the patriots getting them.

     

    They had 2 players walk that got in the low teens of millions per year, and that value is dictated by supply and demand. They lost good players, as their contracts they signed when they left proved, and replace them with picks at the end of the 3rd round.

     

    It's against the odds for those players picked at the ends of rounds 3-7 will turn into  $10M+/year free agents, so it's not like it's an endless loop. Goodon NE for being able to find guys later in the draft to have such good value.

     

    I would love for buffalo to get to the point where they can get a system in place where they annually have 10 picks due to them, and sign a handful of vet FAs that are free reguarding the comp pick formula because they were cut from their previous teams, to fill in holes. 

  5. I am REALLY intrigued by the idea of drafting him in the 1st, but I am wary that we might pull a Sammy Watkins again and, at a position of very high depth in the draft, select the top guy at a very premium position, vs utilizing the depth of the position and getting a guy who is still a very skilled player where it is a better value a little bit later.

     

    If they drop back to 15 or so and add a 2nd rounder, I am crazy for the pick because we ended up getting a star TE and a starting guard or tackle with that extra pick.

     

    If we feel we need the best guy at the deepest position, the Bills talent evaluators had better be certain he is indisputably head and shoulders above the 2nd best TE in this draft, instead of how the Watkins, OBJ etc draft turned out to be.

  6. 5 minutes ago, MJS said:

    Pretty good for an undrafted QB.

     

    However, usually it is up to the announces to set up the play and describe the game action. Then the analyst describes the play afterward.

     

    With Romo, they let him talk before the play as well. There are probably some other analysts that could do the same as him if they had the chance and leeway that Romo has.

    I'm not sure about that. Based on how popular he has become as an analyst, that style would be copied by everyone else if they were capable. They're not.

  7. 40 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

    If a QB only completed 50% of his throws, but those completions are for 20+ yards, aren't you better off than hitting 75% of piddly dump offs?

    As far as the pure math of it goes, than yes, averaging 10 yards per completion and completing 30 throws per game is a good number. However, if you're inaccurate at 20 yards downfield, which everyone is more inaccurate on a 20 yard throw vs a 5 yard throw, as I see it, it does 2 things:

    1. Much higher chance of interceptions, inaccurately throwing the ball that deep into the secondary. You can have your 30 completion, 300 yard game, but if you add 3 INTs to that game, you won't win more that 30% of those games.

    2. Having short-to-midrange accuracy in the passing game is incredibly effective in wearing out a defense, vs all of the shots being taken 20+ yards downfield. If you are going somewhat deep every time, eventually you will run into a defense that will be able to stop most of those passes, and you will be ending the 1st half 6-17 for 48 yards, which is what we did on offense for almost the whole 2/3 of this season. If teams know they have to defend shallow routes with the same veracity that they have to defend deep routes, than both the running game and the deep passing game open up, but most importantly, the team keeps clicking off 1st downs, and stays on the field.

     

    I don't know exactly what the league standard number is, or what Allen's current number is, but I feel like if Allen can get his completion percentage on passes 5-15 yards from the LoS to be >65%, maybe even 70%, just on those throws in particular, I know we have a keeper. All of the 4th quarter comebacks, all of the yards/game, that will all come, if he can execute at this rate, I feel.

  8. 19 hours ago, Buffalo Barbarian said:

     

    hard to be a good coach with bum players

     

     

    The way I remember it, he wasnt really fired because he was a bad coach, or had bad players, he was fired as part of both a housecleaning after Rex, and also because of that incident where he and his son beat up some guys for trying to steal their chairs in their back yard... something like that... didn't come across as good on their part.

    He had good players during his time here, though- probably one of the best OLs in the last 20 years. Glenn was a good LT, Incognito and Wood were Pro Bowl level, Miller had his best year under him, and even Mills... uhm... well, the other 4 guys were good!

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  9. I've heard good things about that Rams OL coach... oh wait, the Bills fired him 2 years ago. Damn.

    Well, I believe the Chiefs and Rams both have high profile OL FAs this year, one a guard and 1 a center... if you ask me, I say we overpay and throw a combined $17M- $20M at these two guys, re-sign Mills and draft a RT with our 2nd rounder, and we still have approx $70M to spend on skill positions and 9 more draft picks to find another 5-6 starters. 

    I wish Madden came out at the end of the super bowl, I would love to get the game right now, I would love to get a copy and build this team myself. This offseason is looking exciting.

  10. I say, make it untimed, so there's no "running out the clock" element, and guarantee each team 2 posessions.

    At the end of those 2 possessions, if there is STILL a tie, put the ball at the 50 and you have 4 downs to score somehow, and whoever outscores the other guy after each round wins.

  11. QB arm strength is at a premium in the elements. I know Peterman has improved in this metric this offseason, but still to a level of just barely passable by NFL standards. However, on a slick ball, accuracy actually is pretty vital, too, to out it exactly where the receiver can bring it in, instead of having to make a circus catch, which they won't bring in, with the wet ball. I feel Peterman is more accurate than Flacco, but obviously has worse arm strength. I think Flacco wins out.

  12. 46 minutes ago, BrotherChazz said:

     

     

    Oh, and if you're worried about weather...why go to a Bills game? It's all about the experience of being there. Rain, snow, or shine, it's still a blast.

    I'm not really that worried about the weather honestly, except for maybe a cold rain storm for 3+ hours in early December. Everything else I'm fine with. 

    Thanks for the recommendation. So you prefer the 300s to the 200s?

    48 minutes ago, LeviF91 said:

    That being said, if you want to avoid most of it the clubs are probably your best bet. I can't see the Bills or Jets being great this year so you'll probably be able to pick some tickets up for a pretty reasonable price once the game is a little bit closer, time-wise.  

     

    Truthfully there isn't a bad seat in the place. I often sit in 333 which has a fair number of longtime season ticket holders who are pretty well behaved. YMMV

    Do you recommend the 300s to the 200s? 

     

    How do you get into the club's? I think the section I'm really interested in, the Pepsi Club, has ZERO tickets available for this game... which I just find hard to believe. Probably like 7,000 seats there, if I had to guess. Does availability for vacancy open up in these club areas open up at later date, closer to the game? I imagine the Jets game would be able to be grabbed up as both teams could stink in early December.

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