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dhgold

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  1. I feel Bass has been erratic all season. In game one (Jets) his game tying FG was a lucky doink and it's been downhill since then. I don't know how he was AFC special teams of the month in September. Trying to find a positive slant: a month ago I felt similarly but worse about Martin but he suddenly became an effective punter. Hoping against hope that Bass can turn it around. A bigger issue IMO is that the CBs and LBs the Bills played for most of the game are from way down the depth chart. And Mahome's is coming to town in five days.
  2. I bodged the image insertion. Was supposed to be a an image of Norwood in SB XV.
  3. Is Bass good: no. Do I trust him: hell no. What th-2874404779about in a high-pressure playoff situation.
  4. I don't feel like wading through this entire thread to see which way the wind is blowing, so I'll just ask: are you, Bills fan, rooting for the Chiefs or the Bengals? I'm rooting for the Bengals. My logic: I don't want the Bills weasling into the playoffs as a six seed, but if the Bengals win, the #2 seed is just a win over the Dolphins away.
  5. I agree with OP, Josh's accuracy has been subpar for at least the past two weeks and I suspect it has to do with physical impairments of some sort. I also agree with OP's fundamental point that JA has been missing a lot of throws that he normally makes. He was abysmal in the first quarter.
  6. This PFF chart indicates that PFF views Dotson's play as nearly as good as All Pro Fred Warner. Major caveat, Warner has played more than twice as many snaps as Dotson. The chart is fromm an article about pending free agents who've raised their stock this season. I was surprised by this bit of ostensible good news in what has mostly been a very disappointing season. Do the All 22 film-watching gurus of this forum think Dotson has played this well?
  7. I'm sure this has been brought up in this or another thread, but special teams have cost the Bills the season.
  8. I haven't been following this thread so it's likely that someone else has already brought this up, but why don't the Bills have a better punter?
  9. "Jeudy is not as good as Garrett Wilson or Chris Olave. That was never the argument. He is however better than Gabe Davis, and certainly miles better than the guys we have lower on the depth chart. And you know Davis has never had a 1,000 yard season either, right? In fact Jeudy had 136 yards MORE than Davis last year while playing 213 snaps LESS, without the benefit of an elite QB and an elite WR1 drawing attention away. This isn't even an argument. The only possible reason to push back on trading for Jeudy is his contract and the draft capital we'd have to give up for him. And personally I'm sick of always playing it conservative, always worried about how the move will impact us three years from now while Allen's career slowly slips away." Have you actually watched Jeudy's play as a Bronco, beyond what might show up in highlight clips? Having watched all of Davis' NFL career and a lot of Jeudy's, my "eye test" tells me that I'd much rather have Davis on my team than Jeudy. A lot of Jeudy's yards last year came in game and season garbage time. Davis is a frustratingly consistent source of drops but he's also made a lot of important catches in his career. FWIW, PFF rates Davis about 5 points better than Jeudy this season.
  10. I live in Denver. Jeudy is held in very low regard here. Mark Schlereth, he of the three Super Bowl rings, is a host on Denver sports radio. He's been down on Jeudy for a long time, as have most of his fellow radio hosts (which include former NFL receivers), but he has gone nuclear recently, essentially saying Jeudy is completely worthless and that the Broncos should cut him ASAP. I'm not sure I'd want him on the Bills even if he were a waiver wire pickup.
  11. Much of Jeudy's production last season came during the last third of the season, garbage time for the Broncos. Sutton last good year was for seasons ago, before he blew out his knee. He's in the doghouse in Denver. The book on him is that he can't separate and won't block. Bills should only consider him if Broncos are covering a good part of his salary and they don't want anything significant in return.
  12. I live in Denver. During the three years that Juedy has been on the Broncos, he's generated more negative news than positive. He's hurt a lot, he drops a lot of passes and he's prone to emotional melt downs. Yet he's still one of the Broncos most valuable assets. No way the Bills should offer anywhere near as much as I'd imagine the Broncos would want for him. IMO, Bills resources should go into improving the OLine.
  13. I live in Denver where of course this was a big story. One of the stronger explanations proposed says that Russ created this charity to bolster his NFL Man of the Year canidacy, put his friends in charge of it and barely knows what it's doing. Broncos supporters believe his heart is in the right place but that he lacks "street smarts" and is being taken advantage of. Since the Broncos traded for him, there's been one thing after another that had to be explained away or looked past. The one pure positive is that he set an unofficial record for time spent signing autographs at training camp.
  14. I'm torn on this issue. On the one end, McDermott resurected the Bills, changing the organization from a laughingstock that never sniffed the playoffs to a perenial contender. You could make the case that he's the best coach in the team's history. On the other hand, I still haven't gotten over 13 seconds, a total coaching failure, and am still actively pissed about the top-to-bottom piss-poor performance the Bills put forth agains the Bengals. The peformance against the Bengals was so disappointing that everyone involved deserves some blame but ultimately when the entire team fails to show up and nothing changes throughout the entire game, the preponderance of blame has to fall on the coaches. I'm afraid that McDermott is a very good coach but not one good enough to win the Super Bowl. Conversely I'm afraid that if the team replaced the coaching staff, they would end up with something much less competent and it would be right back to cellar dwelling. I live in Denver where I've had a close up view of how quickly a team can go from elite -- Super Bowl champion ! -- to a hopeless laughingstock stuck on the coaching treadmill.
  15. Born in Buffalo in 1960, within a month of the Bills. I'm a retired software engineer. I've lived in Colorado for more than 30 years. I'm retired and spend much of my time climbing mountains and rocks. In the early 90s I was the first person to climb a 300' high rock tower in Utah's Canyonlands National Park. As the first ascensionist of that peak I got to name it. Since then it's been called Bruce Smith Tower. (Climbers also name the specific line of ascent; the route we took up the tower is called Sack Dance; it was the era of "bad things, man".)
  16. This thread is TLDR so maybe someone else already pointed this out, but Greg Rosenthal, whose opinions and predictions generally seem solid to me, just published an article at NFL.com where he said that the number one thing the Bills need to do this offseason is NOT resign Edmunds. He thinks they should put whatever cap room they have into the offense. I totally agree with that.
  17. The list isn't perfect --I don't know how Edmunds came out ahead of Milano. However, if you take 30 seconds to actually read the Yahoo article you'll that some of those listed didn't actually play enough snaps to be given a PFF ranking. For example Matakevich is unranked meaning his grade is for the few snaps he played which were mainly in garbage time. Yahoo should have restricted the list to those who played enough to qualify for a ranking. Now that I'm done defending PFF, I do wonder how Basham came out with a higher rating than Poyer.
  18. The Bills need to apply their limited cap resources towards the offensive line.
  19. Someone might have already pointed this out, but of the 32 Bills players ranked by Joe Buscaglia for The Athletic, Saffold has the lowest grade for the season, D+. Saffold's weekly grade was also regularly at or near the bottom. It bears repeating: The Pro Bowl, what a joke.
  20. I don't understand why people want to get rid of Morse. It seems like he's one of only two effective players on the Bills most problematic unit.
  21. +1 for all the negative things OP said -- Bengals kicked Bills collective asses, particularly in the trenches and coaching staffs. What a pile of crap.
  22. He's not Bill Walsh (who is?) and 13 seconds will probably haunt me to my grave but the bottom line is that in the 17 seasons before McDermott the Bills went to the playoffs zero times while in the six seasons he's been the Bills head coach, they've gone to the playoffs five times. Overall, a job extremely well done.
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