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colin

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  1. I called and they said everyone walked out once Josh fumbled!
  2. That bass miss last week killed us, let's hope it's not the same this week. Did anyone see what zimmer did to get a 15 yard penalty after the pick? That could be a 4 point penalty
  3. im in NJ too bro, Monmouth county. Just a big body who can punch some people in the mouth is a big addition at this point. phillips is too hurt to anchor, star is afraid of the big bad covid so's doing jack for us, oliver has a knee and he's not really a 1 tech anyhow. if it could happen, i'd fire off the 2nd and get q in here and at the least keep the LBs clean for like 40% of our plays on D
  4. he's big and talented, if that price was a 3rd, i'd do it in a new york minute. frankly, i am tempted for a 2nd
  5. the raven's roster is disgusting.
  6. these next four games are the season, and after that we have the bye. really, the next two games are the season. 4-0 in the division and 6-2 means we can drop every hard game and still control the division. our o line must get not terrible in run blocking, but based on mongo coming back i think that's pretty reasonable, dabol has to unplug his head from his butt and figure out some stuff too. we need to be healthier in the back 7, but honesty it more or less comes down to the coaches fixing the d line. maybe trade like the ravens did for a solid player.
  7. im too young to opine, but that hasn't ever stopped me before. our o line coaching isn't good enough. it's that simple. more than any other unit on a football team, coaching helps and hurts the oline. you see kc and ne and gb put in back ups and get sick results, and you see teams like the raiders spend a ton on oline and still get just ok to barely good results. individual talent on the online doesn't help if you have a single weak link. you need talent, obviously, but how they play as a unit is like 80% of it. if you have just a glaring hole, you need to scheme around it at the OC level. i remember we had this LT (gandy maybe? don't quite remember his name). he was really trash. anyhow, he ended up being the starter for the cards and they went to the superbowl and really shoulda won the thing.
  8. if we had traded for watt 3 years ago at the same price, it would have been considered a steal by the bills but in fact would have been a bad trade because he has been hurt just about all the time. trading for him would be a huge almost desperation move. basically throwing in the towel on all of our DL signings, and ensuring murph and houghs are gonezo next season. It could work, but it's crazy risky and i don't think the bills would make that move. would be exciting at least! im pretty sad the FO let shak and phillips walk and just used that money, and more, to sign downgrades. they may only be downgrades because they don't know the scheme, or perhaps our smaller always fresh rotation doesn't work when refs don't call holding on pass rushers anymore, but its pretty clear clown or dude now in minni would have improved our D, even if we had to cut murhpy or whoever. i think we might have won vs kc if our pass rush came on on 3rd down, and our run d made a couple of stops (literally, like 2 or 3 more stops on first or second down runs and we get the ball and cut a score from KC). absolutely disgusting!
  9. i knew it before, but it kinda shocks me we have more cap/salary allotted to our DL than any other team. having 9 (and now 10) guys in the rotation will do it though. iv'e been shting allover them, and for good reason, but there has to be some non talent reason for the drop off from last year. surely there is a coaching thing that can correct it. i certainly hope so.
  10. well, with this guy getting cut, and the benching on monday, the coaches have made it clear they are the boss and the team follows them. They've kinda increased the difficulty for themselves, but this is their chance to right the ship and get everyone on the same page. these next four games will basically be our season IMO
  11. the klien contract is especially insane. like, we run this D which requires frankly too much from LBs, they have to read cover move and tackle, and a mistake in any of those hurts the d more than in many other d's, so we spend not big but not small money on a guy who really can't do any of that as well as the scheme requires. this team hit paydirt w cheaper free agents signing hyde and poyer, lorax, and jordan phillips. they did less well w star and murphy. combine that with drafting (solid on white, edmunds and milano, trash at CB since that and unless oliver just gets awesome when his knee heals, he and epenesa can be added to that list so far) and we just don't have the right amount of young playmakers offsetting underperforming over paid old guys given that we are putting straight UPS driver practice squad guys and benching starters vs the champs, we would be MUCH better off to have passed on some of these barely JAGS and brought in say clowney and a decent nickle cb
  12. aside from just perhaps not being talented enough (which would come down to guys being hurt, getting a bit older, and phillips and shak being replaced by lesser and not cheaper nor younger players, *gulp*) i think we have a scheme problem up front. the stunts and games our DL have been playing didn't seem to work and the 3/5s back up linemen on the KC Oline seemed to know where they would be just about every play. to a decent extent being a DC in the NFL is playing rock paper scissors, we showed scissors every single snap, and the O called rock and smashed us. at some point, you HAVE to pull some tricks and make them guess wrongly. we did that pretty well last year.
  13. how did we end up soaking so much of our cap? did we front load the cap hit of some of our big contracts in order to use it up this year, or have we just ended up over paying for crummy old DL guys and carolina LBs?
  14. we've seen the ups and we've seen the downs, so to me it comes to the next 4 games. how we bounce back form these two horrible rescheduled games going into our bye is the story. 2-2, with the afc east games being must wins in that case, we are alive but fighting miami for the division. 3-1 and we are solid, would be lame if one of those losses was vs NE, but we'd still be in decent shape. i can't fathom us losing to the jets and then winning the next three tbh 4-0 and we are ripping it up with the ship righted. 8-2 into the bye puts us comfortably in the running for #1 seed. My expectation is we win the next two games, and have a good shot at the cards game. if for some reason the D turns into what it was last year and our O catches fire i suppose we could beat the hawks, but i doubt it.
  15. if that kelce super catch (that the did a quick snap after to avoid a replay) was ruled incomplete or kecle just didn't magically scoop it, they likely woulda had to punt from deeper and not scored the FG. so his stats were good, but i still don't think mahomes lit it up as much as the boxscore says
  16. keep in mind we basically play a 4-2-5 and the two LB positions are largely interchangeable. this is a schematic flaw in our D at this point, because both LBs have to do so much. if you look at historicly good tampa 2 ds or whatever the hell you call what we run, you see other worldly good MLBs, that one HOF LB in tampa, urlacher in chicago, kueckly and davis in carolina, the list goes on. i suppose the one hope we can have for our D would be the championship run dungy had in indy, where sanders, who is a SS but basically played like an extra LB in the run game, came on late in the season and just started murking fools. if milano and edmunds can magically go super sayin (or whatever that dragon ball thing is) and become human cruise missiles, then maybe we can stop sucking.
  17. i wrote a post that was basically this but using way more words and rambling and ranting.
  18. mcd has obviously done some good things, but there are a few signs that are extremely troubling 1. the horrible record vs top level teams. it's really starting to look like he has built a can crusher. 2. the personal stuff. letting philips and shak walk, to hire in some carolina rejects at bigish contracts who just suck, benching tyrod (i understand why he did it, but that kind of stuff can lead to mutiny) and now benching philips and murphy (which lead to an even worse DL performance). it looks like desperation of a coach who is losing control. 3. no cohesiveness to what the team does. by this i mean, the bills often come out w a script that does well, but if something goes wrong (roberts tapping the ball to Tenn last week, brown letting a ball bounce off his face and hands last night) it takes a lot of the mojo out. in both of the last two games, we had a strong TD drive after a putrid first drive (we even had a lead last night!), which i think is part of the script. once those scripted plays run out, the entire coaching staff has no feel at all for the game. you can't be so so so awful in the 3rd quarter as consistently as the bills are without some kind of coaching error/issue. basically, my theory is the other team adjusts to our script, and we fall flat on our faces. you also see this in the sort of degree of difficulty we have to go through for success. every stop on D is some guy like screaming around the field making some big stop, or a sack, or an individual pass break up. we don't seem to have the whole D smother the O like we see happen to our O so often. on O, we have these insane over the top passes (at least one of which should have been caught last night) or allen dodging free rushers and rolling out to throw a dart to a guy who found a hole in coverage. I think if we had a better coaching staff when it comes to managing the game, we'd make actual adjustments and execute plays that don't require some kind of heroic effort for regular results. someone commented our coaches are great monday to saturday, i think that's 100% it. they can get guys prepared for what they run during the week, but between the D requiring every single guy to be mistake free to work, and dabol playing mad scientist and having just no bread and butter plays or formations (except 4 WRs, which he decided was working to well so he got away from it) so our guys don't have the reps to perfect them.
  19. phillips and shak were big at their positions. shak was able to beat up RTs and make plays vs RBs, phillips was a gap jumper, but all that heft moving around caused problems for the O. i figured we'd be upgrading or flat replacing them. NOPE
  20. moss really blows so far this year. not fast, not a power back. that pick really reminds me of zay jones. this front office is obsessed w like athletic freaks (who are projects) and guys with great all around college careers who have no special ability to be useful in the NFL (ford, zay, moss). i'd say knox, josh, and edmunds are freaks
  21. totally.. dabo is back on his bullsheet. up the gut runs w our slowest to the hole RB (39 year old frank gore in rookie form, what a great pick up that was!) are simply wasted plays. the best we can hope for is 3 yards, and since we run them out of a formation we are not effective passing from, when we run play action (and we did) it really doesn't do jack., we had the flea flicker that came close to getting a deep TD, and the one other shot to the end zone where they threw a flag but picked it up (the kc d was mugging us all night, coulda been more laundry but it wasn't). aside from Dabo simply not putting good structure into the O (he calls the odd funky play that works, but the bread and butter is lacking) we can't run block, have zilch for TE or RB passing threat. this means that unless we have at least 3 and more likely 4 wrs out there (which was effective early in the year, so we stopped it) the game of rock paper scissors just plainly favors the d. weak sauce
  22. so allen kind blew last night, but mahomes was nothing special either. mahomes had a couple ducks absolutely rescued, the one catch on that drive leading to the FG (where kelce caught an almost hit the ground ball) would have looked really different if the refs called it an incomplete on the field, and if josh threw a pass that far behind it would have gotten some real groans here (myself included, i get all spazzy too). the weather and the turf (i don't think we have fixed the slippery turf) was not helping footing at all. my 6 year old daughter who just started cheer last night, after i told her the bills played really well to start but bad the past 2 games, said maybe they had spirit but don't have it right now, and they need to get it back. it was a silly cute thing, but honestly, there is some goofy truth to that. our team either kinda all puts it together or all falls apart. we don't tend to have the spark plays that get the ship righted enough. i think that's a function of a lack of confidence and a lack of leadership. i get the feeling that the players are not trusting the process. on D especially.
  23. the weather and the d strategy worked to help us on that front. the tactics of our d though, the actual play calls and such, left something to be desired more than a few times. the execution by our d line and to a lesser extent our LBs was disgusting. on the other side of the ball, their d played hard and dirty all game, and our guys kinda wilted. i think brown is still hurt and we just can't run the football. lots to work on
  24. good point Opie. also, this makes me think our hot starts were a bigger benefit than they even looked at the time in the first 4 games. we basically need to establish a good O and get a lead to bail out our D some. the rams showed a disciplined quality O can mash us up in a big way, even with a full roster. kc may murder us if they get off to a good start and we stink it up. we will need all cylinders to be firing out the gate.
  25. id take him for a 2nd. an extra talented body upfront and a big dude given a second chance is often a good thing for at least a year or so. it would protect our LBs from blockers and allow them to make some plays.
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