Kultarr
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Show me the baby.
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I really doubt it. Jauron would've won a game or three and the defense would be playing much better. Even if he was yoyoing Trent and Fitzpatrick down by down.
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Does Chan Gailey deserve to keep his job if the Bills go 0-16 or 1-15.
I just don't see a couple of wins this season. I'm sure they might accidentally win one, but two?
No. But, Ralph has painted himself into a corner.
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Bright young coach that learned a lot on the Bills dime. Good for him.
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Poz hater reporting. He still sucks but a few more games like that I'll reconsider.
Watching the entire video, they show PP screwing up as well as making a play.
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It's tough to make a play from the inactive list.
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Oh, he changed the roster. As did Nix. But have the changes resulted in anything meaningful?
A few Cornell Green types is hardly what I'd call "changing the roster".
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And, in other news, some posters here wanted Mike Martz.
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What about that high-price/profile GM of theirs as well? What was his name again?
Are you trying to imply that Bruce Allen sat on his hands and did nothing to change the roster? That he went to sleep during free agency?
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On Point 1: How does Troy Polamalu or Bob Sanders do it? Both of those guys are in the 5'8-5'10 range and they're not victimized nearly as much. The reason is, IND and PIT both have a pass rush that allows them to make more plays in the secondary. Buffalo does not have one consistent threat to pressure QB's in their front 7. But I still don't see TE's scoring 7 TD's against Buffalo's secondary in 4 games.
A lot of fans love to cite the tackle statistic as indicative of a player's success or failure. I would argue that DB's making a lot of tackles are doing so because the front 7 is so porous and/or the DB is bad and allows plenty of catches.
For my money, I'll draft pass rushers and get myself squared away there before even thinking of drafting a DB. We can see after years of the DJ regime that DB's without a pass rush are almost worthless in coverage. No pass rush and 4 HOF'ers in a secondary would be hard to stop average passing teams.
Some reasons a safety can have a high number of tackles:
1) the offensive game plan was to isolate and attack the S in the passing game because he has inferior pass coverage skills
2) he is in fact the weak link in the secondary and the QB is finding that in his progression frequently and throwing that direction
3) the front 7 can't stop the run so the S has to bail them out
In Whitner's case, I think it is a combination of all three.
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Good play calling. Gailey kept the Ravens defense on its heels.
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I just think that Kelsay isn't a terrible option. He's been moderately productive for a number of years and he's durable. The biggest problem by far is the offense, which at present possesses less physical talent than the defense. The offense is terrible, and it's been so since 2003. They're literally dispiriting to watch as a consequence. They're the worst thing a sports team can be: boring. If I'm managing the Bills, I'd want to focus on making them entertaining first and foremost, and while defense is 50 percent of the game, a team with a good offense is more entertaining.
The offense has been truly terrible. No argument there, old friend. The decision to switch defenses and spend more off-season resources on that project seemed very questionable. I've read a lot of talk about why that was here, but that doesn't change the fact that the offense was the larger issue.
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Yet Fina was a better player than anyone who has come after (except for Peters). I'm not saying Fina was great (overall, he was an average player), and he did break down in the late 90s. But he was better than what followed.
That's more indicative of a problems in the front office (inability to acquire talent) than the fact that Fina was really worth franchise player type money.
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I'm saying what I'm saying because anyone who thinks that the Bills can fill both sides with top players is crazy given the state of the forward passing game.
Our OLBs are a liability and weakness, in my opinion, so an upgrade could be made by just bringing in average players (not necessarily top players) at Sam and Will. The Bills are getting good production (relative to Kelsay) from Dwan Edwards, Akin Ayodele, and Andra Davis and none of those guys were superstar free agents.
It's a rather sad state of affairs that the Bills have so many holes that the contention is that certain positions shouldn't or can't really be addressed and improved, not to mention rather defeatist; but, you may be on to what they are thinking, sad to say.
In football terms, if they are serious about running the 3-4 defense, then having versatile, athletic OLBs is one of the key aspects of running that defense at an elite level. So, I guess I can't really see the point of just slapping a band-aid on it and calling it fine, assuming that the front office is actually trying to build a great team.
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It's likely that this move was made to shore up the locker room instead of the playing field.
Maybe. Back in the day when the Bills were giving John Fina big contracts to stay in Buffalo, several players in the Bills locker room were scratching their heads over the move and weren't sure what the front office was thinking.
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He did look out of position on one occasion in game one, but that might have been from lack of experience. As I said above, if he doesn't improve I'm willing to publicly eat crow. However, I think it's just as likely that he evolves into the position and plays it about as steadily as he did DE - average yet durable with good effort. Not great shakes, but hardly terrible.
One occasion? Wow, that's being extremely charitable. (As is giving somebody $2.4M as "chump change".)
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Didn't they just extend someone at OLB yesterday?
Sounds from Brown's article that they may be planning to giving him a shot at their Jack position, which wouldn't be great news for Aaron Maybin.
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They did draft a big NT pretty highly, and maybe he'll be good. They need a pass rusher on the weakside before the strong, and if you have to pick one side, I'd take the weak. They're only going to have a chance to get one of those because of the much bigger problem at QB, OT, and now WR (and of course TE, but that goes without saying). Us arguing about Kelsay's value is essentially whistling past the graveyard that is the Bills passing offense.
But what sort of answer is Kelsay at Sam? He can't cover TEs or RBs coming out, and that's a key responsibility of a Sam in the 3-4.
I don't get why you think only the Will dogs in this defense. The reason the 3-4 is effective is because you can send any of the LBs and the Sam and Will are both used. Of course, Maybin has no other role, so he's going to be rushing the passer (I say that very loosely) every single time. But that negates the advantage, the initiative, of running the scheme in the first place.
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What, me worry?
There's a resaon many here are afraid to venture to PPP. Too many dainty feathers.
I'm still amazed at the wash rinse repeat cycle of fandom laying everything at the feet of the coach & GM, when that's never been the locus of decision making in this franchise, save for the lucky hirings and moronic firings of Saban, Knox & Polian.
Indeed. It wasn't Polian that won the power struggle.
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What a horrible article by Tim G. I don't always agree with him, but he is usually fair. Not this time.
The Bills cut both Dockery and Walker last year to save money. They've cut other players before that. Cutting players to save salary isn't a new thing.
As far as TG not providing an argument for keeping Edwards. You must be joking. That's what saying Edwards was a class act and a professional through and through was all about. The guy was a team captain and the starting QB just 7 days ago. He has experience. What if Fitzpatrick gets hurt? Frankly, he's a better option than Brohm, I suspect, if there is an injury. Mike McCarthy, who is one of the best QB evaluators in the game, decided Brohm wasn't worth a roster spot on his team last year.
It's not like the Bills are going to go to the Super Bowl with this move. This isn't a move to make the team demonstrably better. This reeks of a bush league move by the guys that watch the Bills cash flow like hawks. Teams don't build their rosters in late September. You dance with who brought you. Starting Fitzpatrick led to just another loss this week. This doesn't build any confidence in the guys running the team -- it strongly undermines it. Do they have any idea what they are doing? Not to mention that this team already has real problems in attracting 1st class help on any level of the organization. Why would anyone want to play for a team run like this?
Maybe it's time to pull the homer head out.
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I like your 3, and like many others I would add BiB.
SDS--gives us this forum, spends time/money/effort to keep things rolling.
Kultarr--one of my earliest rememberances of this site was Kultarr's Pouch (I believe that's what it was called?). Some very good reads.
Bob--Knowledgeable as they come.
A good starting point.
That was what it was called. Surprised anybody remembers that.
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In other words, he wanted the "TO" treatment!
Sort of sounds like it. He might even have gotten it if the previous regime was still here.
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The major reason our defenses under performed in the Super Bowl run was because Marv failed miserably at hiring good assistants, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Walt Corey cost the Bills the first 2 SuperBowls -
his inability to gameplan and devise any scheme at all wasted the tremendous talent of both Bruce and Bennett.
and that is on Marv
Marv proved his ineptness at identifying coaching talent did not diminish with age as Dick showed so conclusively.
It wasn't a matter of coaching. The Bills defense was built to win in the AFC, which was top heavy with passing offenses with the likes of Moon, Elway, Marino, etc. It was just not built to stop NFC East offenses, which featured massive offensive lines (at the time) and the NFC East ground-and-pound game. Gibbs, Parcells, and Johnson all built teams with OLs that could smash defenses. In a way, it was the Bills great misfortune that the 49ers, who were the #1 seed in the NFC several of those years, were also never able to knock off the hottest NFC East team in any of those years. The Bills would have matched up much better against a team running the WCO. Sorry, but a coach can't snap his fingers and make an undersized front 7 put on 80 pounds of muscle per player overnight. OTOH, against pass-happy offenses, the defense was very effective -- the Bills consistently ruined Dan Marino's seasons.
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Would.
Ah, context is important. I meant my statement from the context of a future where SQ's predictions came to pass, not from today's perspective where everything in the future is an unknown. Thanks for your contribution.
Buffalo News reporting Byrd wants traded by Oct. 29 deadline
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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What "battle" do you think he wins by having an injury, regardless of whether it is real or fake? His contract is locked in for the season; he's not getting more money from any NFL team this season.