OCinBuffalo

Depends on your rating scale, doesn't it? What if one of the five turns out to be the best in bed, all time? How would you know? You have to wait until after you made your choice to find out. See? It all depends on your rating scale. One, some, or all 5, could be absolute freaks. Would you rather have a 10 out of 10 "rated"...dead fish? That would be torturous. She looks great...but every night you keep trying to convince yourself she's going to be better this time. This is a beauty contest at best, with no real, objective way to know what these QBs are: until they are on the field, in regular season games, and, only after starting at least 20 of them. Both Joe Montana and Tom Brady were considered <. I still say Montana is better. But, regardless, they were both "rated 4 out of 10". You just never know, until you know. Trent Dilfer is the best example of a "rated 10/10"...dead fish. He looked like sure HOF material...but...dead fish. EDIT: And the poor Tampa fans had to keep trying to convince themselves he was gonna be better this time.

How about moving Cordy Glenn BEFORE his sell-by date? I still can't get over the getting a 3rd for Tyrod. That's great GMing. But, it won't matter to the pessimist/simplistic poster if we don't win. They seem incapable of processing nuance: when the team does something good, it's good. It may or may translate directly to Ws. But it doesn't mean it wasn't a good move. And, judging everything on Ws/playoffs has a backlash: when the Bills DID make the playoffs? Many of their backs, and other parts, got lashed.

Yep. You can say that again. Every single day of this pain in the neck journey I'm on, has been about that balance. It never ends. Every decision is always couched in: do we go for the now, or have patience and develop our own stuff/people. I'm not working in the same business, and certainly not with high risk employees(we don't hand out millions to rookies here). So I can't really say I understand their problems. But, I can sympathize with their process: which turns every decision into a bull ride.

Read my edit. It's not self-serving. It's more that the players themselves know that A) they can and will be questioned at any time, even in the grocery store and B) they have our undying support, provided they provide undying effort C) there is no pedestal/we don't put glass around our players here(see the Sabres walking to the bench vs the Dallas Cowboys) and D) they are part of something unique to Buffalo. We care about them as players and people: not about what some guy says about them, or how often or for how long s/he says it. Sorry, but it seems that putting that culture at risk, so that you can hear more about the team, from Jax, might also be considered self-serving. And, know this: I make the trip to Miami every year. I'm part of the sea of blue that you see. I go to the Jets/Pats aways when I can. Some years I've gone to more away games than home games. It all depends on work.

Compare that to finding a C who can call protections. Explain why so few WRs were taken this year, while DBs were drafted like hot-cakes.

No. Not saying you're wrong re interesting story lines. No, because this is not Buffalo Bills football. The Big Tree is Buffalo Bills football, where, if I want to know what a player thinks, I can look down the bar and just ask him. EDIT: We have a way of doing things here, a culture, parts of which existed even before McDermott got here. McDermott has done a fine job incorporating that(See: how he has adjusted his style to conform with the informal "council" of team leaders), but also contributing parts of his "process"(oh look out! Yeah, I said it. Get past it.). Frankly I don't see how Hard Knocks fits with any of this, and I would be shocked if McDermott wen along with it willingly. Now, my understanding of the contract says that sooner or later, every team is compelled to participate: the Bills will have to do it. Perhaps the show will die out before it gets to us, perhaps it won't.

See, this is what I'm talking about, even with WR. It's a 10x harder to evaluate QB than CB. Same thing with O line. Doubly so with C. If a C is never given a chance to call protections, because the coach does it, then how does he transition to the NFL? It's a dice roll: use the Wonderlic! WR shouldn't be hard, but it is now, because colleges refuse to coach them properly. Most WRs in college learn nothing about reading Ds, because the coach does it for them. And, most WRs don't learn all the routs, because the coach only wants them to run 3. This makes evaluating a WR, in terms of success in NFL, very difficult. So, difficult, that this past draft only a handful of WRs were taken in the first 2 rounds...compared to years past. NFL teams have learned their lesson: college coaching is simplistic, and often debilitating to a WR's game. Thus, this is not "this staff's" problem as much as it is a problem for all staffs.

If one knows going in that the hosts are slanted, then, what's the problem? When the hosts present themselves as objective, then act like homers, that's the problem.

Meh, military logistics, are military logistics. Now or back then. You have a hungry army, you have a big problem on your hands. You either solve the problem, which the Crusader leaders tried to do by asking the Byzantines for food, or, you don't, and the army solves it for you/them. But hey, never forget that both beer and salami were invented as ways to provide logistical support to an army, keep it focused on the task at hand, and not on pillaging the countryside. Perhaps you don't like salami, but beer?

Um, if that rule applied to every poster on this board? The football board would close down, but PPP would still be going strong. Hell, we have a hard enough time with rule A around here. Rule C is a killer. Rule B is subjective, so I don't think you can really call it a rule. Example: there are some posters who are genuinely interested in the minutia of the draft, others find it boring.

I would argue that identifying NFL d-backs, and drafting them correctly, is a lot easier to do, for anyone. Why? Because the position is much more reliant on innate talent(you can do it or you can't), and, it's very easy to see them on film, since they almost always alone. Their concepts/responsibilities are, compared to those of ILB/OLB and even DEs, less complex. It obviously depends on the defensive scheme. See: Rex Ryan's defense relies on a SS to be a Rhodes Scholar, which is why under-talented Jim Leonard was successful in it, and made it successful both for the Ravens and the Jets. It is also the reason that our iteration of it was so successful when Aaron Williams played, and so atrocious when he didn't. But Ryan's defense is the exception. Generally speaking DBs in general, and CBs especially, are all by themselves in the defense, which makes their success/fail rate easy to measure. If something is easier to measure, it's generally easier to make good decisions about it. Not saying the Bills don't deserve credit. Orwell said "To see what's under one's nose requires constant struggle." The Bills have been struggling, and good CB draft picks are the result.

Christ Boyst I didn't even see you. Like I said: whacka-mole. Shameful oversight on my part. Does Tiberius even do football? I've always held the belief that the Molson_Golden(like, um the most obvious paid to troll TSW name of all time)/Gator/Tibs handle is connected to some sort of API that just spews Media Matters talking points, and the name is changed every few years to "fool" us. I have to say: I've never seen that "poster" do any football. Hey, not saying it hasn't happened. Perhaps each name changeover means a new person running the handle? But then again, if my theory is correct, how much football do we expect out of...it?

What is the O/U on this guy being "done" responding to this thread? See? I have to be up right now, because of Ze Germans. They are doing their usual ball-busting 2 hr meeting @8am their time, and WTF do I do after? Whatever feels good, man. So, hey, I got the rest of the day/night. These Fs don't care what I do...as long as I am on the call. In about 5 minutes I am going to tell them that they are doing a fine job of engineering the problem, but, that they are working on the wrong problem. It's gonna be fun. Back to this clown: Free Will, or Cognitive Dissonance: you make the call!

You know, it took me more time to make the Slow Lurch clip than it did to write the OP. However, given the content of the replies...I am inclined to believe that Slow Lurch is going to be added to my arsenal of standard replies. I'm growing quite fond of it. I mean, it doesn't come close to this: There's No Reply At All or this: Pretty Much What I Do Around Here yet. But, I can see the potential.

I design entire mobile architectures for 5k employees(some days, some days it's just 5) for a living. So yeah...you've just drawn another conclusion based on ignorance. I was designing mobile systems when we still had to shove WiFi cards into slots of PDAs to make them wireless BEFORE the IPhone ever existed. Yet, you presume to tell me about mobile messaging? Beep! Again: you're quitting because you're making 1 choice, based on your 1 option: retreat. Don't try to play it off: your own words are quoted in my posts above, and there they shall remain. Your only savior is the guy SDS hired to maintain the database: s/he decides if this thread gets archived, or ceases to exist. If it's the former, your "choice" remains a mockery for eternity. Some day historians and anthropologists, trying to understand the "Beligerent Internet Opinion/The Willful Ignorance Era" will make great use of you. Dude: my advice to you is it's 3 am. Go to bed and STFU, now. I have a work reason to be up. You do not. You're going to feel awfully stupid after posting that "extremely unique" makes any sense, any time. Degrees of uniqueness? You used the correct word: rare. Does rare == unique? (EDIT: I ask again, do they not talk themselves right into it? ) Like I said: Go to bed and STFU(order of operations doesn't apply here). You'll thank me in the morning.

Hah, you present being done as though you made a choice. Here's a hint: choices don't exist without options. You are done in this thread. But not because you had the option to choose to be done. No. You are done because you admitted you didn't even read the 5 sentences of material required to say something intelligent in this thread, then, tried to backpedal once I called you on it. As I'm writing, right now(I love this new feature) I am getting little bleeps that tell me you, in fact, aren't "done" with this thread. We used to have to deal with timestamps. Now? I get to hear the "beep" of your desperation. What a shocker/and a fun addition. Beep! "I'm (done) cause I've said a lot of nonsense and am getting whipped!". Beep! "No, this time I really mean it, I'm (done)!" Beep.

No. I was presented this...on my phone. So, I clicked on it. Which, ostensibly was the both the NFL's, and writer's intent: to send me a message, entailing their best work. So, having settled the question: it was presented, I did not seek it out, the next question is? Should I prevent the NFL website from sending me any more utter nonsense from unmitigated morons? Right now? It's 6/5 and pick em. Hey, you know, with your backpedal ability, you should seriously consider trying to secure a combine bid. Senior Day? UDFA camp workout? I mean, the whole NFL is looking for your backpedal ability, the only question is: can you plant your foot and come back to the "ball", or, are you "too stiff in the hips"? Buddy, I do things on a daily basis that influence more people that you can possibly imagine...and...I've been doing it at the NFL level since I was 23. There is no such thing as retirement from my profession.

Nah. In this thread, I'm well on my way to consuming you, aren't I? There's a very large and long trail of posters and posts that I have...excreted...after I was done with them.

Stupidity: making the choice, to draw conclusions based on ignorance. You haven't read his write-up? It's at the top of the damn page. What? You're too lazy to read 5 sentences? (See? They always talk themselves right into it. Most times I hardly have to do a thing.)

Again, I work with the material I am presented. The people on this board have known that for years. All too often, fools talk themselves into untenable positions, like the "You shouldn't be sad if you liked the Allen pick" idiocy above. My MO for this handle will never change: I find stupid and destroy it, every day of the year.

WTF do you want? Consider: the unmitigated moron wrote what he wrote. If there were only 1-3 stupid things, that's all I'd have said. If so, then it's what? 60 words? But he went full retard, didn't he? Why is it my fault that the man packed so much stupidity into his post? What, are you feeling a little insecure? Did you read through his "write-up" and miss 6/10 of my points? Dumbest: the tittle of this thread. Sorry, but there is no word quota when it comes to crushing stupidity. Stupidity is a cancer, and whether it takes 1 word or 1k words, it must be destroyed.

Yes, and my uncle would be my aunt if he wasn't dead, and also stupid enough to tell me that Ryan Miller sucked...in October...of the season he won the Vezina, because: the team doesn't like him. More or less, it's my job to enlighten the unmitigated morons that abound. It's no secret that I tend to bring my work practices to this board. Where's the upside in accommodating the ignorant/stupid...for anyone...ever? The trouble is: instead of 3 dimensional chess, which would be interesting, I too often find myself playing 3 dimensional whack-a-mole. I find that the more we allow unmitigated morons access to unearned wisdom(Examples: saying "win/win", because you heard somebody else say it...without the experiences necessary to achieve it, saying "let's unpack this", without the intellectual rigor to unpack a backpack, etc.), the more cliché replaces actual didactic preparation, introspection, and objective examination of the facts, which require, real, work and talent? The more turds get their wings. Hence, cliché, the absence of thought, gets misused, and, we get: The asinine Acceleration of the Curve Hypothesis, on offer above. Or, how we arrive at the Bills, being a constant 15-20 power ranked team, with Tyrod somehow existing as a Schroedinger QB, whose presence, and, lack or presence, can not only be measured, but must always be the reason why we stay at 15-20 regardless of statistical outcome. Tyrod : Global Warming :: Tyrod : Climate Change.

Exhibit 1: RANK 20 BILLS 1 The Bills' slow lurch downward since the loss to the Jaguars in the Wild Card Round is not indicative of panic-worthy events. Rather, it's a reflection of how strong the team is right now. So,Bills Mafia, if you loved the Josh Allen choice, don't get angry. Because that pick doesn't do much to help the team in Week 1 of the 2018 season. He has an uphill curve ahead of him, although there are plenty of people who enjoy exaggerating that curve. Allen should be accelerating it. AJ McCarron is also a bit of an unknown, but he has flashed potential. Tremaine Edmunds (Round 1, No. 16) should get on the field rather quickly. By the way: That guy turned 20 on Wednesday.TWENTY. I was driving a Mitsubishi Mighty Max with no power steering and working at Bank One at 20. (Yeah, that place is defunct.) Ok, let's take this journotarded abortion, one piece at a time. 1. WTF is a "slow lurch"? These two words don't belong together. It's like saying "extemely unique". A lurch, is a lurch. It cannot be, by definition, slow. Something is unique, or it isn't. Justice and Truth are also words that lose their meaning, or become antonyms, once modified. See: Weak Justice, Half Truth, Social Justice, Social Truth. Here's the only Slow Lurch that makes sense. 2. IF we have "slowly lurched" downward...8 slots, from playoff team(minimum rank 12) to 20, how? We have gotten rid of the QB that kept us consistently out of the top 12 last year. So, who did we lose to create such a slide vs. who did we add in FA, never mind the draft? IF Tyrod is why we lost 8 spots, then seriously, WTF? He can't be the reason we don't break the top 10, AND, the reason we go down to 20, at the same time, after making the playoffs. This is farcical. 3. Panic-worthy events? 4. Followed by: "a reflection of how strong the team is right now."? We are a "strong" 20th best team in the NFL? What in the Sam Hell is this guy saying? JFC, we could power warp engines on the # of contradictions this guy can create in 2 sentences. Contradiction drive: you warp space/time with so many contradictions...it just gives up and takes you where you want to go. 5. Why, if I loved the Allen pick, would I be angry? Wouldn't I be angry if I didn't love the Allen pick? 6. It's Uphill Climb and Learning Curve, not Uphill Curve, you child. There are also plenty of people that enjoy laughing at your exaggerated coherence. 7. Really: "accelerate that curve"? How the F is Allen supposed to accelerate a curve? Consider: a curve can either be a 2 or 3 dimensional construct. One can traverse a curve, but then you need to add the 4th dimension: time, to measure where we are on the curve at any point. But how does one accelerate something that exists objectively in physical reality? Folding it upon itself, at the sub-atomic level, just ahead of our traversal, or from the other end, seems to be the only reasonable solutions. And even then, it's F'ing pointless, when we'd rather travel to the other end of the curve by folding space, traveling through subspace, etc., to avoid the damnable restriction of the curve itself, which only allows us to move by its 2 or 3 dimensions. I'm pretty sure Allen isn't here to teach us all arcane magic, or extra-dimensional physics/space travel. So again I ask: WTF? 8. We get rid of Tyrod, the Power Ranking Whipping Boy, replace him with McCarron, who can be no worse(well, in terms of power ranking excuse-making), and we go down 8 spots? 9. We lose Preston Brown and gain a physical freak of nature...and...down 8 spots? 10. Who the hell cares what you were doing when you were 20, why is that in this write-up? Unless...perhaps you are like, um 22, now, and this is the best writing you can do, and somehow, for reasons passing understanding, this is why we dropped to 20? For the 500th time I ask: 1. When/why did they stop paying editors to edit, and instead, do...whateverthef they do now? 2. IF you can't even get past the first phrase without contradiction, why the F do you have a job in writing? 3. Is this the media, our protectors, that deserve our unconditional respect ? Seriously, these are the people that are going to "defend democracy", or make sure it doesn't die in the dark, or whatever. No. These are the people that spread idiocy, otherwise known as "the dark", and unfortunately, it falls to people like me to turn on the light, or put out their lights, as necessary.

that video was impressive. He got to the 2nd level, he pulled, and he had quite a few pancakes. It's just one game, but, he was very consistent in it.

O line pass blocks all F'ing day, and never runs the football, if the secondary can't stop the other team from passing in my world. That does 2 things: 1. Significantly increases the fatigue of the O line, thus increasing the chance for injury 2. Forces the QB and every blocking scheme, on every play, to be near perfect. While I fully understand the need/want to run the football, I also understand that running is pointless when you are down 2 TD in the 3rd qtr.