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that's a fair point. i would love metcalf, but chandler jones is my offseason goal

id love metcalf, but not if it cost us resigning oliver or davis, but i suppose there may be a way. number one thing for me this offseason is chandler jones. i think he can be gotten for a reasonable level given how good he is. he's exactly what we need.

we are being coy!

the british incorporation of slang terms is great. perhaps the most literal nation on the planet (washing up liquid, people carriers, lifts, go to the toilet, etc). they incorporate various slang terms (seems like a lot of them are west indian in origin) as quite well defined parts of speech but are baffled by the sort of looser more intuitive way that americans use slang (however, they also don't tend to constantly misuse words based on assumptions that other people using those words knew what they were saying, like middle class, and exponential). instead, they seem to invent entirely new sectarian languages like cockney slang and polari. if football was played there like it is here, there would be some unique football language that no one else understands.

lol, this is all of course the divine comedy of a racial spoils system where the boundaries get fuzzy (contrasted with ethnic distinctions which dominate the rest of the world and are the historic norm). it reminds me of the old obscenity/pornography law debate where someone said "i can't define it, but i know it when i see it". it gets interesting when two people look at the same thing and don't both see it. i do remember reading somewhere that this guys is a real wunderkid wrt to blocking and running and preparation, pretty similar to the rams HC. this guy isn't as handsome or cool as mcvay seems, but being young might prove to be a big asset for nfl coaches. soon, if not now already, they aren't managing squads of millenials but squads of zoomers, who often identify and relate move via internet subculture(s) rather than anything else. i remember ditka was on tv after his failed stint as the new orleans HC, and when asked about what was different with the players of that day vs before (who at that point would all be no younger than youngish gen x) and he said he didn't understand the low self esteem they had because when they made a mistake they would say "me bad". of course, they were saying "my bad" which is simply a claim of ownership, and one could read as a promise to focus more and do better next time, but it was entirely lost on ditka.

im still a die hard bills fan, but outside of the bills (and like the odd playoff game, but that's even slipping) i don't care too much. 3 hours a week to watch the bills is all i like to spend watching. i browse this board, but that's cuz im at my desk at work.

if he retires this soon im putting (ahead of) in the same group and justin smith and dan hampton. two guys who just brought a wrecking ball from snap number 1 in the nfl and just impacted the game in in an almost unfair way. there are and have been lots of great DTs in the NFL, but few could just make basic plays offenses regularly run become useless.

the rams clearly are and were the better team, they dominated the cinci oline, were just monsters on 3rd down, and manufactured scores with a mash unit of WRs. but boy oh boy do they make a lot of mistakes. the one long TD was pretty clear OPI, but the number of just bad throws to covered guys short of the sticks hitting the ground, the Bengals WR just snaking through coverage and guys turning the wrong way, and sloppy special teams make me think they aren't a focused and disciplined unit overall. id like the athletic or someone to cover exactly what changed for the rams DL in the 2nd half, and late in the 2nd half it seemed. they went from not doing much to destroying the hapless bengals.

lol, it makes no sense, i feel like i'm taking crazy pills

i agree w you dude and think this fishing for excuses for a guy who shot a woman walking into her office is sad and woke. that said, i don't think he killed someone, did he? looks like he just hurt her, not killed her. people often treat mental illness like witchcraft, it's a magic thing and when someone is under the spell then they are being mind controlled and nothing they do is there fault at all!!

are you high? what on earth does your response have to do with my post which you quoted? how do i want to go back to 2017?

OK, i don't follow them much, but imo your description is accurate (so who is the smartest baldwin?). one thing i'm thinking, w kromer the beach barbarian as our OL coach, tom foolery which spain describes will not happen again. the one thing he's had everywhere he's gone is mobile, agile, and hostile interior line play. the fact we went into the season and lost vs pittz w mongo and ford, and williams at RT, and like the moment we switched in brown (who is super raw and plain old makes errors) and slid over williams we had a very obviously better line, tells me either the coaches didn't get guys as prepped and/or they straight up didn't figure out their best 5. now, i dunno how much better spain woulda made our team, but him and bates in there to start vs pittz gives us a shot at a red zone score and home field advantage. you hate to see it!

two losses on special teams super blunders. blocked punt vs pittz, 13 second massacre vs KC. he gotta go!

Nah, those teams were putrid, and we were never close to having a shot in our division or making the playoffs. We had a horribly unbalanced team that nearly made the playoffs under Saint Doug. Both were losers, but Mularkey was simply more of a coward.

he sucked, but mularky sucked worse. ironically, mularky was some kind of genius in scripting opening drives. mainly due to the run game design. i remember the bills were horrible under him, but scored on like 11 of 16 opening drives that season.

To add to this point made, Star really has (or had) insane talent. he was often thought of as the number one talent in the draft they year he came out (i think he ended up top 10). he's massive, fast, strong, not fat, explosive, all the things you get given by God, but i think at this point in his life, he clearly doesn't love it and obviously does not do every thing possible to be the best he can be. This is a pretty standard issue w super talented interior DL guys in the NFL. Parcels used to say CBs and DTs are a planet issue, there are only so many people on the planet w the natural ability do to what they do, so you have to accept them as they are (probably why he always built his team, billicheat too) through linebackers and safeties, who are always total football heads. part of why darnold is so dominant is that he is talented obviously, but he's not really that big or imposing. he works out like a olympian in the offseason, does all these different kinds of training, and mentally wants to win as much as anyone. if Star was like that he'd probably be a hall of fame guy, but he ain't.

so much dude, the constant magic tricks he pulled off lead to some great plays, but it doesn't have to be so hard

I think this might actually be a good situation for him. if watson can't play, he has a built in excuse year one. if he does, he will win some games and generate some excitement. i know the watson situation is really bad, but he may also trade him for some valuable pics. compare that w daboll in nyg, who very likely is going to waste a year trying to improve a not great qb, and then go into a new draft needing a qb. at least lovie might be able to get some value for their great qb, potentially leading to drafting another one, and it's a bit of a moon shot, but maybe the watson situation works itself out and he can play for them.

Biggest thing i recall about Kromer, aside from his protective Oline instincts kicking in even on 40 dollar folding chairs, is we always got into our blocks with a quickness. talent is obviously the strongest requirement for football players, but having the technical work done individually and as a group so that they operate like one set of pistons off the snap goes a long way to disrupting the flow of the opponents D line. That's gonna help us with all the unique runs our team can do because of number 17. The other thing, and this made me insane the last couple of years, he might actually have guys ready to handle a stunt. i remember throwing my hands up in disgust more times than i care to admit watching our OTs and IOL just totally flub really simple stunts which ended up blowing up drives (i think a big holding call vs jax came on one of those, which took us out of scoring range, which took us out of the #1 seed).

i can't think of a superbowl that has had less interest than this one.

if instead of just looking at all coordinators, you look at ones who's teams have good records, or have good stats for their side of the ball, and in particular filter that via how much credit is broadly given to the OC/DC vs the players (dude out of colts w the corpse of wentz as qb, for example), then you might still get a different answer. the idea that "population A looks like X, so population B should look like X as well" should be examined a bit more closely if one is looking for honest answers, but as in most cases i doubt that one is.

so what you're saying is bring in chandler jones? agreed!

i think the truth is somewhere between what you are saying and the general take that the bills have a really good D (it's really not the best, despite rankings) so net net i think i agree with you -- we simply lack playmakers. the problem is we are paying our D and especially our DL just a ton of money, with 4 guys (2 1sts 2 2nds) on rookie contracts. we should have a monster DL given what we've put into it, but we just have a deep set of JAGS+. we need at least one monster up front.

to me the groot and basham picks don't make sense. i can see drafting one of them, but drafting both with our holes at TE2, CB2, OG/C just seemed like going all in on pass rush, but doing it at a sort of half pace, since we didn't go after anyone after low balling jj watt (that was a smart move tho, not paying up for him). i think aj epenesa being so terrible necessitated the pick of groot and or basham tho. out single biggest issue as an organization at the moment is the big resources we have dumped into the DL and front 7 just haven't gotten enough return. oliver is nice, and i think groot will be a player, but all the free agent money and pics we have in there haven't really gotten us what we need. all these JAGS look a lot better if we get a stud or two in there. i'm going hard for chandler jones this offseason. he, oliver, phillips and groot on the line can get your qb feeling queezy.

in short the bengals saw what was beating them, and had already put in the work to have one in the chamber to fire off in that situation. they changed up their coverage and pass rush, not to defend every possible thing all the time, but to take hill away. our problem on D is we sort of defend everything all the time. it gives you great average results, but in a give situation you are defending things that the O has no interest in attacking while not having quite enough to stop what they do want to do. if the pass rush is working, the McD defensive system is murder on a good passing team (see the carolina D vs manning in the super bowl, only problem was cam did just enough to give the game away, but manning was putrid). we just don't quite have the pass rush we need, even tho we dump so much into it. a better DC (and imo if mcd was our DC, or spent more time as our DC he could do it) would have had something in the back pocket like this. the most obvious example of this is how bad we as a team flubbed 13 seconds. the kick was a joke, but you can make the argument they were scared. the d that followed was literally insane and i am still convinced someone in our staff thought they had no TOs. rushing 4 and literally not covering only works when you can't let them get out of bounds.