DrDawkinstein
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I'm feeling glad we have Dolphins, Saints, Patriots the next 3 weeks.
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Just now, Alphadawg7 said:
True, but also lets keep in mind they both came into very different situations, so expectations are naturally higher for Ben Johnson than McD going into their first years as a HC.
25-23 McD's first 3 years was an over achievement and success as it was a team being torn down to the bones and rebuilt slowly through the draft with a new GM. Ben Johnson took over what was seen as an underachieving team last year that was expected to compete for the playoffs and a divisional title this season under Ben.
Bears have a loaded offense, 2nd year QB that was the #1 overall pick, and an improving OL and defense. So expectations are going to naturally be higher for Ben where as McD having a winning season with a bottom tier roster that traded away 3 of its then best young players in Watkins, Dareus, and Darby to start the season and mid season was a major success as it significantly exceeded all expectations.
So the barometer of what is a successful start to each of their tenures is different, and Ben starting 0-2 is going to face more concerns and scruitiny, especially with all the premature build up he got because a loaded offense he was an OC of elevated his lore before ever being an actual HC.
I dont think they were as different as you're making them out to be, considering the below.
16 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:Yeah, it's the coach that has been there for all of 9 months
People seem to be forgetting that the Bears are the Bears, and have been really Bearing it up the last 3-5 years especially.
It was always a 50/50 shot with Johnson on his own. We'll see.
Just now, FireChans said:There's something fun about watching teams fail to pair HC/GM/QBs together and then be surprised everyone isn't on the same page.
They have to move on from Poles. And really, that's only going to do so much.
They REALLY have to move on from the McCaskeys. Word is they are more likely to sell now that Virginia passed.
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6 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
The limelight is going to be on him. He was the hottest Coordinator out there and he has the #1 overall QB plus other good talent.
The offense actually looks worse this year with Caleb in his 2nd year.
Very early yes but he was the "walk on water" Coordinator. Certainly not a finished product but it couldn't have started any worse IMO.
Caleb looks lost.
If they end up with a top-10 pick, I could see Johnson pushing to move on from Caleb as early as next year. Especially if they bring in a new GM. Then Caleb isnt tied to either of them, and neither of them will want their HC/GM careers tied to a QB they didnt even pick.
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8 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
I feel like that’s a good OC hire especially since Josh knows what he likes already and can provide a lot of input.. really wouldn’t hate that at all tbh
I feel like the McDaniel system kinda became a crutch for tua…it was so good at scheming guys open against bad/mediocre defenses for awhile that he never really developed at qb from the guy we saw years ago..the reads just aren’t so easy in that offense when things are going wrong so it just amplifies one of his shortcomings. that kinda stuff wouldn’t really apply to Josh at all
Wow literally did not notice this happened 😂
Yeah, the league effed him bigly
And Im ok with that
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1 minute ago, PauleeeWalnuts said:
Everyone loves MM but this is ridiculous now, so unreliable to stay healthy. Lost three seasons in a row now to a major injury and leaves them even weaker on D. Hopefully they can make a move
It comes with the position. LBs get hurt a lot. They're basically in a laundry machine with boulders when those big Guards can come hit them with a head of steam. Zach Thomas, for example, was always injured.
You'd think he'd be a bit luckier, but I'm never surprised when I hear about an injured LB.
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5 minutes ago, MPL said:
I know Milano had a nice run blitz on the Jets first drive, but man, I feel like he was already not living up to the preseason hype. I kind of feel like there isn't much drop off between Milano and Dorian Williams at this point.
Agreed. He had a decent run stop but seemed like a liability in coverage which had previously been a strength of his. On the busted coverage play to the Jets TE, Milano ran into our own guy and took him out of coverage.
Not sure we're really losing much here at this point.
Either way, 5 cupcakes until KC. Let him rest.
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1 hour ago, Warcodered said:
Yeah good teams have absolutely clamped down on that Offense in the last season or so.
This is what happened:
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-added-sentence-rulebook-curb-160313266.html
In 2024, the NFL clarified its rules on "cheat motion," a tactical pre-snap movement popularized by Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel and other Shanahan-tree coaches
The new rulebook language specifies that a backfield player in motion cannot legally move forward at the snap to gain momentum, explicitly defining and restricting a tactic that was previously in a grey area.
The clarified "cheat motion" rule
The new language was added to Rule 7, Section 4, Article 2 of the official rulebook to state: "Any eligible backfield player who changes his stance does not have to come to a complete stop prior to the snap, as long as his actions are not abrupt (false start) or forward (illegal motion)"
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9 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
This doesn’t make a lot of sense for either team to me. McDaniel/grier really aren’t in a position where they’d keep their job if the dolphins bottom out
chiefs seem to have a lot of oline and overall depth problems as parity has been chipping away at their roster.. they should prefer the picks over a wr that will soon be on the downswing. Chiefs will only have interest if the dolphins just let themselves get fleeced imo
Pretty sure both Grier and McDaniel will be fired after a loss to the Bills this Thursday. Good time for Ross to do it with the longer week for the interims to settle in.
From there, any dummy can make the call to trade Hill away for a bag of footballs.
Chiefs will probably take any firepower at this point.
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2 minutes ago, RoyBatty is alive said:
Totally agree.
There were multiple potential penalties on multiple tush push plays, on both sides/
NFL is certainly going to being it up again this off-season and I think they get the 2 votes to ban it they need.
Dean Blandino on the broadcast...
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2 minutes ago, Jauronimo said:
Tom Brady won 4 super bowls after hair plugs, cheek fillers, a nose job, and chin reduction.
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28 minutes ago, BillsShredder83 said:
Will 100% get roasted, HOWEVER, if Brady gets a HC job, I'm 100% bringing in McDaniels (a guy with a major chip on his shoulder) to run the offense.
The dudes brilliant, but the team has turned on him. What he lacks in leadership, he can earn in respect with our guys. Also, there are plenty of coaches and even player coaches, set up as framework where he wouldnt have the same issues here. This job would look like a trip to DisneyLand with Josh running the offense. Also, I see him as a guy recognizing his ceiling and not wanting to leave a coordinator position for HC job, allowing us some continuity.
Fangio (situation is how i picture McDaniels playing out) is a guy good enough at his job to warrant some tire kicking for HC again, but seems like a guy happy to be in the best role for him. Would absolutely love to have an offensive version of Fangio, controlling the offense and not having to sweat a new OC getting a HC job every year.
Quite a take, and I wont roast you.
But I will say, I'd rather bring back Daboll as OC than bring in McDaniel. I think after they banned his cheating double-motion thing, his scheme is donzo regardless where he is.
He'd probably do best going back to SF where Shanahan can help fill in the gaps and develop him to the next level now that his one trick doesnt work anymore.
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Just now, SCBills said:
Schefter on McAfee with some weirdly ominous news about something bad about to break in the NFL and “you’ll know it when you see it” but he couldn’t break it because it’s not out there yet.
Strange…
I was cracking up at all the "Mike McD-OVER" jokes
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I have a hard time enjoying it while seeing the Eagles allowed to false start on every Tush Push.
The NFL better get this addressed before we play them. And better not wait until after the Eagles beat us in the playoffs (Super Bowl) to fix it like they've historically done.
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LOTS of Andrew Luck comparisons being thrown around on various platforms today.
The problem for Joe is, he's only in year 1 of that new, big money contract. So he cant walk away anytime soon without having to give back some signing bonus/guaranteed money. And you KNOW Mike Brown is coming after every penny he can get back.
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9 minutes ago, BillsSbSoon said:
Damn I’m hoping they give tua another 200 mil extension. If we just win Thursday, I think there’s a good chance that will be Mcnerds last game. If we crush them, I think it would be all but a certainty
Is it worth it to do what we did to the Pats last year and just let them win in order to screw them?
Let's face it, the division is still ours.
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Just now, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
Grier and Mcdaniel really botched the rebuild…as much of an a** as Flores was he had those guys competing with a ton of picks/cap space to spend still. I think they woulda been a playoff team with fitz if they let Flores finish off the rebuild tbh then they coulda looked for their next qb
i feel like in that McDaniel/shanahan system run by tua you either scheme a receiver wide open based on putting defenders in conflict or tua is forced to hold the ball and couldn’t find prime Jerry rice if he was out there lol. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me they invested so heavily in wr and never got the oline right
then they went all in on pass rushers and pretty much ignored LBers that could cover and actually contain Josh runnin up the middle
The new regime next year will be stuck with Tua for at least one more year. Which may be ok for them if he serves as a bridge for whoever they draft early next year.
Tua has a cap hit of $56M, and dead cap of $99M if released, next season. But they can get out of the contract in 2027 and save over $20M (while absorbing a dead cap of $32M)
Love to see it. Only way it would have been better is if the Pats paid Mac Jones too.
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7 minutes ago, fergie's ire said:
"Glad to be joined by newest broadcast partner. Thanks for taking over for Kirk as my new color commentator, Peter."
"Woof...woof woof woof. woof. woof woof."
"Well put Peter, couldn't have summed this game up better myself."
You missed the obvious!
Kirk: Peter, how has Miami's Defense looked tonight?
Peter: Ruff!
Kirk: Peter, how are things going for Mike McDaniel this year?
Peter: Ruff!
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Mike Brown kicking himself for paying Tee Higgins now that they'll have a top 10 pick and could've just reloaded with another top WR, again!
Maybe they'll pick an OL to protect their QB, but doubt it.
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1 hour ago, eball said:
Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit and just licking their chops over this one…🤣
They're probably not too thrilled with having to get all their personal stories ready as they work hard to vamp and fill air time through an entire 2nd half of a blow out.
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29 minutes ago, BarleyNY said:
Let’s not revise what was said. Lotta people said to give him what he wanted, which was $15M AAV. Or didn’t even put a number to it at all. It’s difficult for me to understand why those fans get to take a victory lap on this. OTOH, some of us wanted him extended for almost exactly what he ended up getting. I was very happy with where it all eventually landed. He got a little more guaranteed and a little less AAV than I estimated. Beane held firm and did a great job on this one. Kudos to him.
This is a greater revision than anything else posted so far. Maybe not for your specific posts, but you can certainly go through the many pages of the many threads we had here on the subject, and you will mainly see angry Bills fans working extra hard to disparage Cook as a person and a player, most of the time wildly inaccurately.
You will see far more posts about how he isnt even worth $10M year, all the things he cant do, how he's nothing special, how we should trade him away while we can, or punish him by running him into the ground this year and wearing out his body or even injuring him before we let him walk.
Any reasonable posts like yours, or @Doc Brown's stance, were the tiny minority.
And even then, at this point, had we signed him to $17M/yr and sent the fanbase into a conniption, by week 2 we'd still all be here saying it looks like a good deal now.
So lets not revise what was said and pretend the fanbase was totally reasonable and just worried about getting the number right. The personal attacks speak for themselves.
I wasnt the one who bumped this thread, and I never intended to, and I wont go back and quote the many, MANY posts that were just bitter and wrong. But they still exist.
6 minutes ago, BarleyNY said:It’s difficult to take anyone who uses the “it’s not your money” argument seriously. It shows a complete lack of understanding of how the NFL works and how good/great teams are built.
Obviously it’s about cap space and the use of scarce resources (cap & cash) to build a roster. Every dollar that is overpaid to a player can’t be used effectively elsewhere.
As for Cook’s contract specifically, it was much better than you realize based on your post. Beane did several things well with it, including:
- Maintaining his compensation for 2025. He didn’t tear up the last year of the current contract so it only factored in at the existing $5M+.
- The first three season of the extension are at $10M cash, not $12M.
- So Cook is under contract for 5 seasons, but the first 4 total $35M CASH, or under $9M AAV.
- That’s a far cry from $60M over the same four seasons. A team can do a lot with $25M.
- As for the final year of the deal, Cook will be 30 so I’d look for some sort of rework or a release by then depending on how he is holding up.
I was happy to see that Beane didn’t set a bad precedent by caving to the pressure exerted by Cook and his camp. Holding firm and getting a market value deal done will discourage others from trying similar tactics - rather than encourage them to do so. Great job on this one by Beane.
It's difficult to take anyone seriously who is worried about a couple extra mil on Cook's contract and what that does to the cap, when we have contracts out there like Knox and Samuel.
If cash/cap allocation is your main issue, then start somewhere else. Paying our best players aint it.
We could have paid Cook 4/$60M+ and be fine. It isnt that contract holding us back.
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Tre was the biggest nice surprise from yesterday. Very "Strong" (pun intended) in the run game, and I didnt notice him much in the pass game, which is a good thing.
A lot of that could do with the level of competition we were facing yesterday, but it's still the NFL against NFL players and an old, oft-injured Tre held up very well and even flashed at times. Was nice to see if even just for the nostalgia.
Looking very forward to what this secondary looks like when we get Taron, and even more so, Hancock back.
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Just now, Big Turk said:
Cook has become one of the best goalline RB's in the NFL with his ability to run away from people laterally, jump cut out of a phone booth and then something that has really surprised me, his ability to shrug off contact and keep moving forward.
And not only that, he has become elite, perhaps best in the NFL, at contorting his body so that he gets a hand on the ground and then continues forward by driving his legs or pushing off them, especially near the goalline. Saw it yesterday on his short TD run, saw it in the Chiefs playoff game on that unreal 4th down play where he put his hand down and then launched himself into the EZ via his legs from 2 yards out....
Dude is becoming an exceptional goalline RB.
I noticed yesterday on his stat line, his TDs were 1yd and 44 yds. Showcasing how he gets it done from any distance now.
And on that 44 yarder, he juked right thorugh a tackle, running through contact. This is no longer the James Cook of 2022.
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