Pirate Angel
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I believe they are shopping Oliver, if they can find a buyer the talks will heat up on other receivers. Right now we don't have the cap space to think about legit FA receivers, im not sure if they would release him, not sure what 20 tackles with a 10 mil cap hit is worth, It may turn into a Marcell Dareus where you take what you can get for someone to take him off your books, but then again Marcel was a solid DT.
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1 hour ago, RG Murdock said:
Stop, your making too much sense. Folks here tend to WAY over analyze every Bills move. Bills had no real quality backups to often injured lately P&H. This solves the issue. EZ -PZ ...... 3 paragraphs not needed.
Sorry... fire everybody!
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Great signing, you know at some point Hyde or Poyer even both are going to go down. This guy can actually step in and play, not having a quality backup at safety hurt last year.
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purple people eaters, Iron Curtain, Buffalo geriatrics....Its gonna be huge
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2.5 sacks, 20 solo tackles for 10 Mill??? He was the biggest disappointment in that Cinci game, .5 tackles vs backups
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Wouldn't surprise me if they traded Oliver to unload that cap hit
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An NFL RB has to be able to kick it outside and beat the defense to the corner, Singletary cant. He fumbles to much and isn't reliable as a pass receiver.
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Bye Buffalo Bills
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On 2/12/2023 at 10:48 PM, Einstein said:
The halftime adjustment he made to torment the Philly defense will go down in the history books.
Mahomes doesn’t deserve the MVP award. Reid does. Did you see the last 2 TD passes? How perfectly scripted those were? How wide open he got the pass catcher on BOTH occasions? How Mahomes only had to not screw it up?You guys can all talk about McD’s regular season success. But I envy the Chiefs playoff and Super Bowl success. They even traded a HOF WR and STILL won the SB the next year.
Eagles o-line dominated. Reid still won. Mahomes got hurt. Reid still won. No excuses for Reid. Just success.
And If my Aunt had Balls she'd be my Uncle.
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He doesnt like losing playoff games so the solution is go play with Dak Prescott? Thats like wiping before you poop
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7 hours ago, balln said:
I mean ….. your head HC is a defensive coach. You don’t fire your DC….. so why hire a senior defensive coach????? It’s bizarre
Don’t need a bandaid ! Need an overhaul !
Fraziers contract is up so there is no need to fire him...This may be his replacement so they can keep the scheme.
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23 hours ago, BobBelcher said:
So let’s say Oline is the priority. Ok, that is understandable.
But my problem is, over and over again, when we get to the playoffs, PASS RUSH IS THE PROBLEM as soon as we face off with one of these Top 5 QBs.
Meanwhile, when we see those same QBs struggle, why does it happen? Pressure. Consistent pressure, without relying on the blitz.
Yes. I realize how much draft capital we have WASTED on the DL… but what do you do if the DL remains insufficient? Knowing it is a critical piece to a Super Bowl team.
It’s kind of like teams that miss on a franchise QB in the draft. Just because you tried once and failed, does it mean you have to wait before you try again? No. You have to keep making it a top priority until you get it right.
fortunately, we have that piece in Allen.
But I would argue that DL is going to be slightly more important than OL for us. They should both be priorities, but there seems to be so many successful starting OL in the league that were Day 2 picks, so I would say, load up on OL in Rounds 3-6, but in Rounds 1&2… I think there are other players/positions that can have a bigger impact for this team, especially in the playoffs.
Yeah we’ve got Von, but coming off an ACL, he might never be the same player again for all we know. Do we bank on that? Because if it’s not him, and we meet the Chiefs/Bengals in the playoffs again, it WILL be the lack of a pass rush as the reason our defense gets completely run over and just how pissed off would that make us?
OL and DL. Both very important. But one thing I keep noticing is more often than not, when teams make a run in the playoffs, when they take down the top offenses in the NFL en route to the Super Bowl and then WIN the Super Bowl, they also had success against top QBs because they deployed an elite pass rush that cripples the entire offense.
And when they lose, like the Bills in 2020, 2021 and 2022… their pass rush was usually lacking.
it’s how the giants beat Brady twice
its how the Bucs beat Mahomes
its how the bengals shut down the bills offense
and it’s how KC beat the bengals
oh yeah, and it’s how the Rams closed out last years Super Bowl too
A healthy Von Miller and a healthy secondary will improve the pass rush.
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It's been the same all year, a great knock out punch but no jab.
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1 hour ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
I’ve spoken with numerous fans of football, many teams….
Common consensus is Allen is an afterthought. Somewhere between Rivers and Newton.
Mahommes is new Brady, Burrow is new Manning….
so far it all holds up.
sucks we could’ve had that guy
He plays more like a Favre or a Steve Young...spectacular plays mixed with disaster. Generally a good dude that his teammates like.
Payton Manning has 13 playoff loses, he was 30 years old when he won his first Superbowl...thats alot of attempts, patience-
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14 hours ago, Lagoon Blues said:
Cook better learn to be a better blocker in the offseason if they let him move on. Blocking is a MUCH more important element to a RB in our system than people give credit.
Our offensive line cant block why should our RBs?
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12 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
As the Bills lost to the Bengals in the AFC Divisional Round, I wasn’t ready to step off the ledge. I hoped they’d win, but I expected they wouldn’t. I hoped a truly competitive playoff team would emerge in January, but I hadn’t seen much evidence of that kind of dominance in December. It wasn’t their year.
I guess I’ve mellowed. Worst case, I’m losing interest, but I don’t think that’s the case. I had tickets and a hotel in Atlanta, and I had a hotel and a rental car in Arizona. I was interested.
For now, however, I think less than I used to about what went wrong and what needs to be fixed than in past years. I have developed a healthy respect for all of the things I don’t know about football, and I no longer can pretend that I see that one thing the Bills need to fix to get over the top. If it were easy enough for a guy sitting in his family room to figure that out, someone in Orchard Park would have done it already.
What it takes to win a Super Bowl is a complex, almost unknowable combination of factors, many of which are completely or largely outside the control the General Manager and the coaches. The extreme example was the COVID pandemic season, when the rules that governed practice, travel, and schedule all changed and kept changing throughout the season. Teams had to figure out on the fly how to accomplish the training and preparation necessary to play the game at a high level under circumstances they’d never seen before. Even short of that extreme, the variables are constantly changing, and each team is challenged to respond. Coaches keep experimenting with approaches to offense, trying to find ways to move the ball consistently and score, and as they do, defensive coaches adjust their approach to defense. What works changes from year to year, even from month to month. Players come and go, with a quarter to a third of the players on the roster changing annually, and as the players change, the things the team can do effectively on the field change. The process, from April through February, is like 75 people trying to complete a giant jigsaw puzzle while the picture being built is changing before their eyes.
In that kind of environment, just getting to the point where your team is one of the half dozen that have gotten good enough to compete in the playoffs is a major accomplishment. The winner will be the team that can keep growing and building a team that can play at increasing levels of physicality.
The winners also invariably talk about how the team is a family, how much they care for each other. Some people think it’s a cliché, but it’s said so regularly that I’m sure it’s true. The winners must come together, not just physically and technically, but emotionally, as well.
It is amazingly difficult and unpredictable, and every year the winning players and coaches are justifiably proud of what they’ve accomplished. And there’s no shame in falling short.
The Bills fell short. I think the emotional roller coaster of the Bills’ 2022 season was too much to overcome. That is, it simply couldn’t be expected that they could accomplish all of the technical things – the training, the study, the learning, the teamwork, the offense and defense growth and development, the insertion of inexperienced players, like Hamlin, Jaquon Johnson, and others into the lineup – all of that and more, while struggling with the extraordinary events of the 2022 season. The Bills were central to or lived through three national news stories: the Topps murders, the blizzard, and Damar Hamlin. Those events were, at the least, big distractions, and more likely difficult and draining once-in-a-lifetime emotional challenges. And they lived through Kim Pegula’s health issues and the death of Dawson Knox’s brother.
On field, what went wrong? Plenty, I’m sure. Josh Allen didn’t have an MVP season. Teams figured out how to slow down the Bills’ offense and how to attack their defense, and the coaches didn’t implement strategies and tactics to counter what opponents were doing. Losing Micah Hyde for almost the entire season was a major blow; he more than anyone else is key to the Bills’ defensive scheme. Losing Von Miller for the late-season and playoff run hurt the pass rush, as did the failure of Greg Rousseau, Ed Oliver, and others to develop as defensive threats on their own. The offensive line was not nearly effective enough.
If I had to point to one factor in the Bills’ playoff loss to the Bengals, I’d say “pass rush.” The real difference in the game was that Joe Burrows regularly had time to throw, and Josh Allen didn’t. One play stands out for me: I believe it was Allen’s incomplete pass deep to Diggs up the left side on third and four, the Bills’ first possession of the game. Allen was flushed out of the pocket to the right, found Diggs, and threw. Diggs was open, but Allen threw the flat deep ball that we saw a lot from him in his early years. He had plenty of room to throw to open space toward the middle of the field, and Diggs could easily have adjusted to get there. The right throw would have been completed for a big gain or possibly a touchdown. Allen didn’t have time, and when QBs don’t have time they rush their throws.
Under Sean McDermott, the Bills are enjoying great success. There is no reason to complain about him or his abilities, not yet. Ten, thirteen, eleven, and thirteen wins in the past four seasons, four and five in the playoffs. Andy Reid won his first conference championship game in his sixth year and didn’t win another one until more than ten years later. Zac Taylor has already lost a Super Bowl and a Conference Championship game. Sean McVay is looking more lucky than good. Kyle Shanahan doesn’t have a Lombardi.
The sports news media, particularly one Associated Press article after the Bengals game, made a big deal about the Bills going “all in” to win the Super Bowl this season. That’s simply wrong. Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott have always been very clear that their objective is sustained, long-term success. The Rams went went “all in” last season, trading for Von Miller in his free agent season, signing Odell Beckham, and it paid off for them. Then they collapsed. The Bills signed Miller to a six-year deal, with the likelihood that he’ll play at least three. The Bills made no short-term plays to win it all this season.
The Bills have become a dominant team in the NFL, a team that should be in the mix to win the Super Bowl for years to come. It didn’t happen in the 2022 season, and that’s disappointing, but it’s easy to see that things simply didn’t fall together the right way this season. Now, they’re in the process of building for next season.
With the amount of injuries we had throughout the season im surprised we won as much as we did, I know we are supposed to come here and demand firings but that is a credit to the coaching staff.
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Should be able to get decent interior lineman with our first 2 picks. They'll sign someone cheap to compete with Spencer Brown, Morse most likely will be a cap casualty. Hopefully they can find a stud in the draft.
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Some inventive "gimmicky" play calling to keep the defense honest wouldn't have hurt anything, maybe commit to the run. It's got to be hard to play the online when the defense knows to rush every play.
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8 hours ago, zow2 said:
McDermott is safe for one more season anyway,, but he should up his game on those post game lockerroom speeches. They are getting pretty stale.
This year the expectations were the highest of anyone, and they grossly underperformed at the end.
Next season the expectations will be moderate. And he better overperform big time.
You think they may be different when the cameras aren't there?
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5 hours ago, Trock said:
He’s good. We don’t have to make another hole. You want him gone?
Imagine if the “old lady” was that annoying where she would get in the way of a pro player’s career?
Or she just wants him healthy and see his kids grow up without becoming a CTE wackjob
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21 hours ago, Scott7975 said:
Dont want to get a ban for comparing our team to the teams playing in the GDT so I am putting it here. Im totally convinced its coaching. KC its killing that Oline. Their players arent better than ours. Jones is a beast but really nobodies outside of that. The difference is how they actually play the receivers tight and not 10 yards off and back up at the snap. Burrow cant throw quick because it aint there for free.
Same story on offense. Allen may not be Mahomes but he is elite. Their offensive design and coaching is second to none. I feel like Dorsey is just backyard football. A lot of people say "Josh wont take the underneath stuff." I believe he would if he was coached to and the plays were designed to.
Yeah Andy Reids are hard to find if there was another one available we would probably consider it.
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2 hours ago, BeastMode54 said:
Whether he is here next year or not, the guy has had 7 concussions, and we haven't drafted a center since Eric Woods. I know LG, RG and RT are positions that get talked about as far as upgrading. But Center has to be a high priority
He has a wife, young kids, and money. Hard to believe the old ladys not in his ear telling him to retire. My guess would be he will make the Bills release him in order to keep his guaranteed money? Not entirely sure how that works, but 7 concussions he cant possibly think its smart to keep playing.
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Trade back in the draft and acquire another 2nd and addition midround pics and use them on interior lineman.
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On 1/26/2023 at 9:39 AM, Alphadawg7 said:
I mean did you watch the Bengals and Dolphin games? It’s a what have you done for me lately league, and his defense was carved up by a depleted Dolphins team and then utterly embarrassed by the Bengals. Too much focus always on recency bias in this league. You can be great one day and a problem the next.
2 weeks ago McD was beloved, untouchable, had some COY support growing, and now has his head being called for. Josh Allen was a top 2 QB by most standards 2 weeks ago…now he’s suddenly the new Phillip Rivers and people turning on him.
A lot can change in 2 weeks in the NFL
The defense was sold in the Dolphins game, turnovers and playing aggressive on offense when up by 3 scores was the issue.
If Hopkins not available, then what? We DO need another good WR!
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If they could "easily" obtain a 2nd or a 3rd he would be gone. He's very average at best and comes with a high price tag from being a top 10 pic.