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  1. 6 hours ago, Limeaid said:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/curtisrush/2019/10/07/duke-williams-may-be-the-answer-to-buffalo-bills-stagnant-passing-attack/#6163bbed47b7

    Lots of history there and he seems to know the Buffalo fandom with comments that the WRs are called Smurfs.

     

    Duke Williams May Be The Answer To Buffalo Bills’ Stagnant Passing Attack

     

     

     

    Duke "The Answer" Williams?  Pretty good and I think not used before.

     

    Forbes articles are not credible. You could write for Forbes--they sold that brand out to anyone who wants to put paragraphs together. 

     

    No offense to that guy but just commenting on the website. 

  2. 14 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

     

    Williams was out there last week as a de facto starter, and by physical skills he’s not able to carry Brown & Beas shoes let alone jocks.  Not knocking the Dukester, just sayin

     

    Roberts is decent.  He’s got a full route tree and can both separate & get open.

     

    I have yet to see route running and pass catching in traffic out of Foster and Mckensie.  If we’re starting them we’re in trouble.

     

    The Bills lack a true #1 WR and won't get him this year. 

     

    But Zay isn't that guy and I'll take their current depth over Zay. 

    3 minutes ago, eball said:

     

    You must be pissed a lot.  Draft picks are a crap shoot -- even first rounders.  McD/Beane have done an excellent job of drafting since arriving in Buffalo.  No team hits on all picks.

     

    Zay Jones isn't "awful" -- he just didn't develop into the reliable option they envisioned.  Getting a 5th back after two and a half seasons isn't terrible.

     

    "Pissed" was in response to the Raiders forum post about how "people in Buffalo are pissed he's gone." I was echoing that post and correcting the idea that anyone in Buffalo would be mad about with respect to Zay. I don't really care that he's gone at all (who would?). It was just a bad pick. ***** happens. 

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  3. What I like the most about Josh is progression. There will be bad games (Pats) but he's doing things this year he wasn't last year. Accuracy way up, throwing the ball away, hero ball slowing down (obviously not gone), taking sacks instead of launching impossible passes...and all the things we know remain: arm strength, leadership, 4th quarter/clutch, shakes off the bad plays, teammates love him. 

     

    The biggest issue right now is what he does in broken plays. He's as likely to make a SportsCenter highlight as throw a cringeworthy INT. But even that looks better to me. 

     

    Josh looks like a guy developing a floor like Jake Plummer (4th quarter stud, incredibly fun to watch, loses games with bad INTs sometimes) and an upside at Favre. They are still filling in some pieces around him (like a big body target WR, a RT, and a more reliable TE) but it's coming together and a lot of that is his ability to make people better. 

     

    The fact that he was drafted as a 2-3 year project and he just finished his 16th game to me puts him right on track. 

     

    Mayfield on the other hand may be what his negatives were coming out of college. Maxed out his potential. Teams may figure him out. The GM there did the exact wrong thing in investing a ton of $$ in a skill position lunatic and not spending on the line. The anti-Patriots strategy. But the Browns gonna Browns.

     

    2 minutes ago, Billsfan1972 said:

    Can you imagine how many pages there'd be on here about Allen if he put up a stinker like that? 

     

    Heck after NE the Barkley talk as the better option was real here.

     

     

     

    Niners D is one of the better ones in the NFL, but Mayfield looks bad by any measure. 

     

    His commercials are funny though. 

  4. 1 hour ago, stosh64 said:

    LoL, is this guy for real?

    I have yet to me a Bills fan upset by this move.

    Disappointed it didn't work out maybe but not one PISSED about the move.

    raider-forum

     

    I am pissed about a bad pick in 2017. I could care less about his departure because it doesn't affect the offense (except by making it better in that they won't be wasting snaps when he's on the field). 

     

    Raiders fans reading this: No one in Buffalo cares that he's gone. His stat line last year was the result of him being the only WR who was on the team in game 1 and game 16. Imagine if Hunter Renfrow was your #1 WR, he'd also have 650 yards (41 yards per game) and 7 TDs, but you wouldn't be satisfied. That's how Zay was last year. He was the default WR. Drops, catches with body, no RAC ability, no downfield speed...all the negatives in his college scouting report were right on--total college system WR. But he is a good young kid and I hope it works out for him. 

     

    7 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

     

    It happens that way sometimes

     

    Who is playing if two of our WR get injured?

     

    One word for you: depth

     

    Williams, McKenzie, Roberts, Foster are all guys I'm fine seeing out there over Zay.

     

    And AJ Green.  

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  5. 47 minutes ago, apuszczalowski said:

    The Bills have had a lot of luck on their side to be 4-1 right now. They needed 4th quarter comebacks to beat 2 winless teams (Jets & Bengals), and needed 4 missed FGs and 2 called back TDs to beat the Titans. The reason they don't get put in the same category as the Pats and Chiefs is that even though they have the same wins, they aren't beating teams convincingly. The Pats and Chiefs and other teams are beating the bad teams like they should, and doing it by a bunch of points.

     

    They are not in the same league as those teams. 

     

    But they are winning close games despite losing the TO battle every week. Last year they won early way on the lopsided end of turnovers. If they start generating turnovers, look out. 

  6. 1 minute ago, Albany,n.y. said:

    I know some will hate hearing this, but that's how the Patriots dynasty was built.  Get a franchise QB and build around him.  Beane has followed that philosophy, making sure he targeted the QB a year before he had the money to follow the Patriots model.  Meanwhile, the Jets decided to follow the Washington model instead of the New England one.  

     

    We are on the same page, two posts apart. 

     

    The Pats are a 20 year dynasty and have had one dynastic player, with only a few elite players along the way around him. 

  7. Going to have some misses, because that always happens, but the Bills are being built a lot like the Patriots. Lots of short contracts, lots of good players. Almost no one elite or irreplaceable. 

     

    If they keep the coaching in place, the system will not be changing every 2 years and all the cohesion will build a winner. I love what Beane is building with players and contracts, and McD is building with team culture. This team may not be quite ready to make the jump to the playoffs because the offense is still in progress but the foundations are laid.  

     

     

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  8. 2 minutes ago, SlimShady'sGhost said:

    I think Josh played smarter and safer on the most part and minimized mistakes.

     

     

    For all the good he did ridiculous stats  muddy things up ...  his QBR - 34.5 and his RAT -  98.3

     

    23 of 32 (starting out 9 of 12), 2 TD's, 1 INT, 71.9 % Completion rate,  

    I mean that ^ looks good to me.  

     

    The INT was ugly but I don't remember a single ball off target. A few smart throwaways, a few drops, and a few on target balls that defenders knocked away at the last minute. 

  9. 70+% completion with a few drops and several intentional throwaways. I am not sure he had an off-target throw. 

     

    He didn't light it up but it was the best game he's had as QB. Smart slides and even sacks. Even the INT was not as bad as I thought looking at the replay above.

    1 minute ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

     

    That looks like some big-ass confusion on route running by someone.  Daboll can't possibly have designed a set of routes that look like that  - can he?

     

    Yeldon looks a mess on that play. Stopped twice but he may have been trying to find space on the broken play and then thought it was going to Beaseley. 

  10. You and John are just a couple of whippersnappers. Unlike you, I had my priorities straight, even at 80. I just wanted a lass in my lap and I was a happy old man. Bah. Politics.

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    You old jerkoffs could have settled the slave thing, and made my life A LOT easier. Instead, you cowards tabled it so that I got to deal with it 80 years later. Thanks a lot.

     

    Founding fathers, founding shmathers.

  11. Works for me. Sounds like the fairest system out there.

     

    BTW, are you paying attention to Arthur Farnsworth's case in Bucks County? I am guessing that he will still B word about this unless there is a SPECIFIC law dictating that these taxes are to be paid on goods.

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    Consumption tax, for me, is a baby step in the right direction. It makes the taxation fairer and the system simpler. It doesn't solve the problem of government bloat (except at the IRS) or the willingness of everyone in Washington to spend my money freely.

  12. This sounds pretty good to me. Rather than taxing people just because they generate money (the premise of which is that we are all slaves), how about a tax on goods consumed?

     

    I kind of like this. IT simplifies a lot, and if you don't want to be part of the "system," you don't have to be: don't buy things (ha ha). Really though, the guys in the bunkers in Colorado would never have to pay taxes again, which should be their right. Rich people pay more, because they consume more, which should make Dems happy. Poor people pay less, because they consume less.

     

    The losers, like in a flat tax system, are the accountants.

     

    Who's with the G-man?

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