The Big Cat

Thank you for this.

True, but actually being able to see the game, lift your elbows and order food help build a pretty sturdy case, too.

Station or Delilah's?

Me in a couple weeks arguing with my Pats* fan buddy: -Dude, refs blatantly favor the Pats*! -What are you talking about, bro!? -I've heard first-hand accounts! -Dude, from who? -Some guy on the internet has a buddy who just had a baby, and his uncle reffed the Rams Super Bowl! -The baby's uncle or the internet guy? -Internet guy's buddy. I think. What difference does it make!? -Ha, alright, bro.

If yes: him, Chandler, Williams and Watkins would be damn tough to cover.

Always a couple of wizened Bills fans that have to chime in and remind us that football doesn't start in May.

If it's change you craved, then at this point--at the very least--you should favor what Whaley's done.

Who abstained??

I always said that Fitz + Gailey = best formula to maximize Stevie's mojo. Take him out of the improvise, throw to a spot offense and he's not the same. I know I know "he spent 2013 injured."

I know I'm the wrong messenger to deliver this, but let's be serious: can anyone argue--with a straight face--that Mike Williams isn't an upgrade over Stevie? What we need is a comprehensive flowchart of the Bill's offseason maneuvers. If I come back in a bit, and nobody has created one yet, then I'll know what I'm doing this afternoon :-)

Perfection? So if I were to search any of your posts in 2012, none of them contain complaints about how Spiller was under utilized in Chan's offense? I seem to recall that never ending (justifiable) chorus in Bills Nation.

He was also our leading receiver last year, and the best Bills tight end in over a decade. But whatever. Not to mention, I guess uticaclub, in spite of casting negativelly every other rostered tight end, really had his hopes set on a former UDRFA WR who "converted" to tight end by gaining 25 pounds.

this FO is a disgrace what's the plan? there is no plan why isn't there a plan? i have plan why don't they follow MY plan?

I'm not.

It's a shame OBD didn't consult TBD when picking their offensive playcallers. A lot of seasoned experts here.

Without looking at the numbers Offensive Line: Chiefs Eagles T-Bills/Redskins Bears Quarterback (passing attack) Eagles Bears T-Redskins/Chiefs Bills (not that far behind) Also, in the prior post, I meant to say i CAN go along with that.

pro-football-reference.com makes it really simple to organize data like this. as for the holistic perspective on CJ's struggles, I can't go along with that. But, it does let him off the hook for the plays where he--and he alone--could have done much better to produce. EDIT: no there's an important edit, if ever there was one!

And again, this concept is used to deflect the value of his "yards per carry" since he doesn't steadily earn 4.6 yards each time he touches the ball. I understand most backs don't, but CJ (as the charts above indicate) really does have top-heavy gains which skew how his production looks on paper.

Yeah, not only did he have the longest run of the group above (77), he also had the second longest (61) and the shortest (-9).

Yeah, but those are league-accurate hex codes.

I promised there would be graphs. Here's how CJ arrived at his 4.6 ypc compared to Shady McCoy (5.1 ypc), Jamaal Charles (5.0 ypc) and two other backs who also ran for 4.6 ypc, Matt Forte and Alfred Morris. The bars represent the percentage of carries at the designated yardage found in the x label. The data shows us precisely what we'd expected: Spiller as a disproportionately high number of weak carries (0 yds and 2 yds) but also has a disproprotinate number of long carries (his 77 was longest of this group).

It's not hyperbole. Not totally, at least. I'm putting together a graph to show this very point. Stand by.

Right, and I'll concede that Hackett probably would have had more success with Spiller out of the spread. But is that what we really want? Also, the play against the Browns was a broken play that he bounced to the outside and found daylight. Again, I LOVE the fact that we have a guy who can do that, but a much more impressive run with his long run for TD against the Falcons. THAT'S the kind of vision and patience, that if shown consistently, would make this guy a !@#$ing God among men. And let me be clear: 933 yards and 2 TD's is lousy...for CJ Spiller. And that's all he should be compared against.