colin

ya, very few of my thoughts are even approaching original. it's pretty clear to me josh just didn't trust his guys near the end of the year. i think that's the reason for us just blasting the ball deep so much. if you can't count on precision on short routes, you risk turnovers close, so you might as well go deeper where the rewards are bigger and teh penalties are smaller. i think either mckenzie is always out of position, or josh has zero faith in his hands.

he's a pure JAG. allen has made brown and older beat up bease look like dynamic threats, when they are in fact very limited and can be erased by a D. he and mckenzie run just trash routes way too often and have bad hands. they just don't have any special talents or skills. upside take: an above average to good wr in his place would add a ton to our O

its crazy to me how a regulated trust can just get away with anti consumer stuff like an exclusive contract.

this is an example of why i don't hero worship players (i might gas them up when they play well for us, but that's just fun!). most of these guys are trash, garbage, or scum. the fact that most of them go broke after making millions is enough to look down on them, let alone the criminal and moral stuff. they look at the fans as good when we pay for them and root for them, and i look at them as good when they play well for my team and that's it. a fair and equitable arangement!

he's a jag or a jag+, but nothing more. can pass block and runs hard, but no speed and a total liability in the passing game. w allen forcing the entire nfl to D him w light boxes, a decent rb and OL should be able to just mash away for yards, looking like how mixon looked against us in our last game (behind pure practice squad scrubs no less).

agree w teh above, does feel like a scapegoat move. i haven't heard that they re signed the ole turtle yet, so i still hold out hope that he's gone. im thinking they brought danna in because they expect to train up some new safeties which we will likely be drafting. i really hope it doesn't come at the expense of WR and OL help, but if it did i would be anything but shocked.

not sure how feasible this is, but i'd like it if we could sign a solid LT (knowing it would cost some) so that we can kick dawkins to LG, or move him to RT, or what have you. Dawkins, Morse, Hyde, Poy, Edmunds, Tre White, Oliver, Basham, AJE and once his contract is up Von will all be off the team in the next 2 seasons or so IMO. We have option value on the DL on rook contracts, so maybe one or two will be kept, but these are guys we should either replace in the draft cheaply when the time comes, or via FA. as far as FA goes, i think we do quite well in value signings (jones and initial py and hyde contracts being stellar) and out right star signings (von and diggs, altho we also traded for Diggs). I think we will be better getting our stars via trade or FA than hope and a prayer drafting. obv happy to get some drafting, but i think we've hamstrung ourselves mostly on re-signings. Hyde and Poy new contracts, White 2nd contract, Dawkins, and the combo of Milano/Knox/5th year options on liver and edmunds. not saying those last 4 were bad individually, but the combo of them w our roster construction has put us in a goofy spot.

if the D doubles diggs, knox isn't great at getting open quick, we have no screen game, davis is not a route runner, mckenzie is not trusted nor should he be, so who is getting open with a quickness? compound that with not snap to snap horrible play, but just total jail breaks once in a while, and you got yourself a bad line stew going!

this guy is 38 and was a physical NFL player who got the most out of his talent/speed. is he even older than jerry houghs? if the lights aren't too bring for him, he'll be in a sweet position wrt credibility and energy/relatability.

the d needs pass rush, the rest can be filled in schematically (assuming we run the same one). we need WRs and OL. not sure i'd pay for a RT, would rather pay up for solid interior guys (more than one) or a LT which would let us move dawkins to RG, bates to C and ditch morse, and then we some options on the right side, including the draft. i'd go ham and extend guys to sign another solid wr. letting edmunds walk is part of that. daquan jones (who didn't break the bank) being out kills our run d, miller being out killed our pass rush. that tells me we need to pay guys like that, and not the back 7 guys we love over paying even tho our scheme protects the heck out of them.

so i can't believe this hasn't been mentioned, but the reason why this is a problem is it gives the O an advantage and stops the D from timing the snap when the clock is nearly out. if it was a hard penalty at 0 seconds, then the O has to be more honestly about when they snap, getting lined up and set sooner, and less room to audible, and it gives the D a real shot at timing the clock as well as the snap count.

the net stats of allen vs burrow in the game where they crushed us weren't all that different. after a fast start where our unprepared d had their pants down, it all came down to quick hitter passes and running the ball for a million first downs. we basically locked them down w man coverage, but faser is a decrepit turtle of a man so he made sure to keep the area around the yards to go marker open and free of bills players. burrow is a great and skilled qb, but he's a lot like matt ryan to me. he's very good at doing what he's supposed to do, and as long as there are good plays called and great playmakers he can tear a d up. if any of that is gone or the pass rush gets to him, it's kinda over tho. allen is superman rescuing our trash franchise and dragging us kicking and screaming towards the promised land.

he'd be great if he said less. he just needs a good editor.

so, this guy could be a coach or run camps. he knows more different nfl approaches and playbooks than anyone else. he could also bring in, no joke, like 300 different nfl pros and coaches at any time. imagine if he were your uncle and you had a d1 scholly? he could tell you EVERYTHING. i personally want him to be an analyst or something like that, want to know what he's learned, and funny stories.

i get that there is no shot mcd is gone this season, next to no shot dorsey is, and im not sure but like 50/50 or so that fraser gets re upped. that's the reality for the bills, but it's also completely true as pointed out above that many if not most winning pedigree teams would absolutely bounce coaches out the door for what's happened. miami (not that they are such winners) barely lost to us in our house right before we quit vs cinci, they fire the DC. baltimore gave cinci hell while we laid down, and even tho they did it w a back up qb (could you imagine the bills w josh injured? talk about no shot) and lost on a fluke play, and they fired the OC, a year after the DC got the door. philly is in the bowl and ditched the HC that won them a chip before (maybe that wasn't the greatest move, but clearly they will not accept bad results for too long). i agree w the OP, if mcd isn't ready to not re sign fraser after the past two exits, he just wants to go along to get along and isn't the ruthless alpha who brings home lombardis.

sounds pretty good. i think it's culling time. poy and edmunds have to walk. cost/benefit isn't right (although i still kinda have hope for edmunds, he seems like a coach killer, never as good as you think he should be). I'd trade oliver if i could, or i'd keep him for one season. not the worst guy to have trying to show out for a contract IMO. i'd roll w the dbs we have under contract, we have a ton and they have shown enough (we had a top 3 D 3 times and number 1 i think twice with levi friggen wallace at cb2). if a daquan jones quality value guy is available at DT im all for it, ow a LATER pick into DL is fine. i'd look to sign at least one solid starter, potentially paying bank for an LT and moving dawkins to LG. i hope morse retires, i'd ditch him and use bates to replace him (downgrade but not huge). spencer gets another shot at RT, but we need to draft at least one starter at OG (or C i suppose) and at least one T who can push either of our current starters. i'd also sign the best WR w a decent speed/size combo i could. We have to put picks into WR and i think TE. we have one guy who can play TE and that's weak. i'd take a late RB for a bigger body. first 4 picks should be OL times 2 (unless we sign 2), WR and WR/TE. our coaches got a rag tag squad on D to be number 2 in 2018, and that's with rookie allen and the least amount of offensive talent i've ever seen on a bills team (puts pressure on the D). i think firing fraser would be a good change, and im fine w anyone mcd would appoint or just have him take it over himself. i personally think he's stepped in a few times to take over the d calls and they always make the team better. fraser is a spent force. honestly, if we get two new bodies who can play at RB and TE, add two blockers (and even getting brown healthy might count as one) and an actual WR (even TD Jesus would be an upgrade, but not enough) then this O could be really good. w oliver in a contract year, final year AJ, 2nd to final year Basham, and 3rd year groot, and of course miller coming back, we have plenty of guys on the DL, we can just have the better ones play more snaps (imagine that!) to make up for losing phillips and lawson to whoever signs them/UPS.

by our standards this was a great draft. while jj at the pick is a better value than diggs for the pic due to age and contract cost, there were 6 wrs taken before or just after the 22nd pick in 2020. lamb is nice, but not as good as diggs, and the rest are not even close, ruggs is out the league!. honestly i agree w the takes that hodkins was a good pick, not beans fault that mccoach ditched him. if we did this like every year, traded a pick for a sure fire guy and drafted with that ~ level of success, we'd be in a much much better place.

philly has a sick roster that covers up for hurts. he's not a good passer, i kinda over rated him before seeing more of him this season. solid overall guy, top12 at the qb position, but not due to his passing acumen at all. kc and cinci both built their teams similarly, but kc has a sick qb and a sick OL, which always gives them the advantage in the playoffs. both have risk taking Ds that do better in big games than week to week. we have too much breadth and depth, not enough stars, and our coaches need to wake up. playing the same schemes based on good regular seasons but bad playoffs just doesn't make sense in teh playoffs. our team quits one game a year because they see the corches just calling plays from the dusty old textbook when it's not working. every team has bad days but our coaches need to have good ones in the playoffs. i do think a new DC (even mcd taking over) and a little talent can get us there. allen diggs cook knox and our pieces on D are solid.

i think we can get pressure if we have a monster or two up front, like w did w von and like mcd did in carolina w greg hardy. my biggest issue is we have incongruent coverages along w our front 6 strategy way too often, and good qbs figure it out quickly. we seem to be unable to add in the right amount of wrinkles. it's either vanilla, or too many checks so we get guys running scott free like vs cinci. the real issue w platooning the DL for this team is that we end up w street FA guys and practice squad players coming in and performing about as well as our 2nd and 1st round picks because how much of a statement can you make in 21 snaps? meanwhile, we have just the lowest level of trash on our OL, fat bodies giving up and saying they are tired, while a quarter of a billion dollars qb runs around and tries to find the one single nfl wr we have signed. the bad news is where we are new, the good news is a couple lucky big men draft picks and some wise investing and we fix most of our talent issues, we just gotta hope the coaching side gets corrected.

that post game smack video from those kc players was funny, and answered a lot of my questions about how so many NFL players make millions but go broke shortly after they stop playing

it's true we have a talent issue at key spots, but how can any rational fan not see how badly our coaching has been in our playoff exits? no matter if we were ahead and gave up the lead, or behind and just turtled (we seem to alternate that on playoff losses) the coaches had ZERO answers. no change ups, no wrinkles, nothing. on top of that, the blowing of the big lead in houston, kicking the FG at the end of the first half vs KC, 13 seconds vs kc, and the rah rah bs and family time prior to not practicing to play cinci at home. our coaches have blundered in terms of scheme, in terms of preparation and in terms of game day adjustments. on the topic of talent -- having talented rookies sit, or plowing free agent money and high picks (2 firsts, 2 seconds, and our biggest external hires outside of diggs) into a D line where PLAYERS SIT ABOUT 2X TO WHAT THEY PLAY, is just asinine. the star model of franchise building (tampa, kc, rams, cinci all follow it, maybe SF too) where you get some just absolute studs and fill in the rest as best as you can seems to be the way to go. i used to think the biggest risk was injuries, like how losing von and our safeties seems to have turned our d into swiss cheese, but other teams seem to be able to have injuries and simply make adjustments. cinci w the destroyed oline and baltimore missing their mvp qb come to mind. i think we've spent our cap on our coach's fanciful ideal of half the roster being rotated in and out and over paid for a squad of super Jags, while picking guys high and letting them sit while our starters get older and make mistakes. i think the biggest take away is that our FO seems to have crossed the line from steady even handedness to outright arrogance. running the same paint buy numbers d in the play offs after the opponents have figured it out, along w bringing back lawson, phillips, beas, and brown shows me the coaches think they have the special sauce and they just need someone who can run it correctly, including street free agents.

ok, so you are arguing for a ban on football then, or maybe we just make it flag, right? you have to actually make up your mind and not just virtue signal both ways. either an injury on the football field that flirted with death (but where the player is totally fine an walking around 3 weeks later) is too bad of a thing to accept and you just cancel the season, or you handle it and carry on.

like edmunds, oliver is a good player, but not a great player. great players make players around them better. poy and maybe hyde last season, tre white for his singular best season. based on what we have seen this season on the DL, Von Miller and to a lesser extend Da'quon Jones are the DL we have who make the DL around them better. the sad part is we put so much into it and don't have much to show on the DL. the happy part is fair market value Free agents like jones can come in (and costly but good ones like miller) and simply improve our team. so we gotta find more of them, and while oliver is on the squad next season and i hope he gets 15 sacks, just like edumunds he only seems to make marginal improvements because he's getting tapped out in terms of his ability to impact.

it's the scheme/coaching and drafting. guys on our team who we drafted who are good are just good, allen, milano, tre before his knee, etc. guys who we brought in are just obviously good too, diggs, miller. the only guy who left who has been solid is teller, that was a whiff for quentin spain, the uber quitter. frankly, given we have the super qb, i think we should do what w did w diggs and what the rams have done a dozen times (it seels) and trade picks for players we know are good (if we can't just sign them as FA). trading a 3rd or 2nd for a sick pass rusher or sick OT (or even WR if they are out there) would do so much to improve this team. and while we might have to let a edmunds or poyer or Tre white next year walk, i think we'd be able to handle that.

not every having wheels and screens going to the RB and TE positions effectively, and the fact the our 2 and 3 wrs are cheeks most of the time is the reason for this imo. riddick is clearly onto something tho, which si why im all for dumping edmunds and poyer and so on. we need passrush and blocking