2020 Our Year For Sure
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Okay so I checked out the playoff scenario drawn up by professional Bills nerd Chris Brown and found his analysis to be thin and containing a lot of Bills-friendly what-ifs. Here are my predictions for how the rest of the season will likely shape up for all AFC "contenders." By my good sense, the Bills are out of reach...(home games capitalized)
TEAM WEEK 13 L3Opp Outcomes FINAL REC
NE 9-4 HOU Win 10-6
jax Loss
ten Loss
BAL 10-3 CLE Win
pit Win
BUF Loss 13-3
SD 11-2 KC Win 14-2
sea Win
AZ Win
INDY 10-3 CIN Win 13-3
hou Win
MIA Win
CIN 8-5 ind Loss 10-6
den Win
PIT Win
JAX 8-5 ten Win 10-6
NE Win
kc Loss
And the following teams finishing 9-7 will be- NYJ (minW, miaL, OAKw), KC (sd L, oak, W, JAX W), DEN (azW, CINL, SFW), BUF (MIAW, TENW, balW)
with TEN (JAXL, bufL, NEW) and MIA (bufL, NYJW, indL) finishing 7-9
Do you realize how close this scenario is to us making the playoffs? All we'd need is for Jacksonville to lose one additional game, and we're in!
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So now we are going to let him go to another team because we dont want to potentially "overpay" a GOOD player ALL the time and who is a PLAYMAKER some of the time? That is the type of thinking that has gotten us to no playoffs in the past 6 years. We need to stop getting rid of players because we dont want to overpay them. Think Pat Williams, Ted Washington, Antoine Winfield, Sam Cowart ... etc
But were any of those guys bad decisions? Excluding Antoine Winfield, each of those guys' performance went down a level around when they left Buffalo. Donahoe cut ties with those guys just in time, in my view. Especially Sam Adams, Teddy and Cowart. These players didn't prove to be worth the contracts that we would've had to show them in order to keep them around.
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Seems like we get alot of guys who lose significant parts of their rookie seasons. Losman, McGahee, Roscoe, Everett, McCargo, Youboty...other than Willis, just bad luck.
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Isn't that what McCargo is for? I don't know much about him, but I do know we should give him time and a chance to show what he can do next season. I don't see us using back-to-back 1st rounders on defensive tackles when we have other needs (particularly on offense).
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You really are a glass half-empty guy, eh? Two years away at least? You're saying it's not reasonable to expect a playoff run until 2009? Rebuild the DL? Schobel and Kelsay/Denney have had great years. We don't know what McCargo can do b/c he got hurt. Re-sign Fletcher, Clements, and go after OG and LB in the draft and free agency. It's not rocket science, and it certainly shouldn't take another two years to accomplish.
Why does everyone have it in their head that linebacker is a priority? Ellison has shown himself to be a solid player whenever given the opportunity and looked especially sharp yesterday. If we get Fletcher-Baker back in here we'll have 4 quality linebackers, 2 of which are younger players. In my view the linebacking core is much like the secondary this offseason. If we can re-sign the big-name UFA, we don't need to address it any further.
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We'll see if Ralph gives Marv, Modrak and Co. free reign to actually use it.
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And it looks like the most likely scenario is for us to catch Jacksonville. It would be tough to catch Cincy, and we may need them to take care of Denver besides. At least we know we have the tiebreaker on the Faguars if its just us and them.
Stranger things have happened...
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I'm no expert here. All I know is that I haven't heard his name called too much, haven't seen him making many plays on the ball and haven't noticed him making many tackles. He's pretty much been invisible to my untrained eyes.
Now I realize he's a rookie trying to get acclimated to a whole new level of competition, and probably trying to learn to work within a system thats competely foreign to him. I'm not questioning the decision to make him the starter and I'm not suggesting we should even consider benching him. I'm just asking those who may understand better than I:
Where is he on the NFL learning curve? Is he at the point in his developement where he should be? Does he look like he can play in the cover 2? When do I see the ball hawk I was told we were getting in the draft?
I'm not being impatient here, just looking for someone's opinion on how Ko is progressing. I'm perfectly willing to wait and let him develop. Thanks, and go Bills!
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I don't think he ran much different today. i think he saw holes and hit them like he always does. If there wasn't, he would have danced. If there were these holes against other teams, he would have exploded liked he did today. You may be right, I may be right. It's an opinion. No one on earth knows the answer.
Does Steve Fairchild know the answer? Or do you believe that even the coaches don't really understand whats going on here?
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Bill, do you still think Gandy is that terrible? To me, he's looked decent at LG, and him and Peters have been playing well together. I would not mind at all if they re-sign Gandy and keep him at LG. IF him and Peters are developing a chemistry, theres no reason to break that apart.
Now, we need to focus on building a solid right side of the line. IMO, the top "need" spot on the O-line is RG. Preston has been holing his own, but an upgrade wouldnt hurt. I suppose if we sign steinbach, we could shift gandy to RG.
If we're gonna move Gandy to the right side, there's no point in keeping him IMO. I feel like we can find someone better through the draft to play that spot. But if you're going to bring him back to play on the left side for the reason that he's developing chemistry with Peters, that makes sense.
Also, Keith Ellison really impressed me today. In all honesty if Fletch comes back I think we can chill with the LB draft talk.
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Thanks Lori, thats what nobody has mentioned yet! When you can NEVER run the ball to convert on 3rd and inches, 1, 2 or 3 yards of course your 3rd down offense is going to look bad! But blaming that on the quarterback is foolish. He shouldn't have to drop back to pass on 3rd and 2 in the first place. We need 3 new interior lineman that can get a push off the line of scrimmage if we want to be able to keep the O on the field.
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He actually copied and pasted my post from about 2 months ago.
Caught in the act! 
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double post...
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He plays like an average an NFL cornerback for at least 3 complete seasons, and then suddenly looks sharp in the 2nd half of his contract year. I'm not saying thats DEFINITELY the cause of his improved performance, but I do question whether he'll bring the same intensity to whatever defense he's a part of next season. In other words, it looks a bit sketchy to me.
I guess I'd still be aggressive and try to re-sign him though. We just can't create another position of need on this team when we can instead hold on to the hope that Clements will play at this level consistently from now on. I'd take my chances with him.
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If JP was among the worst NFL quarterbacks in the redzone, it would mean something. It DOES mean something that he's among the best. Lets pass more when we get down there see if this holds up and if its something we can take advantage of.
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And would you pick the one who looked like a pro bowler before his injury, or the one who looked like one of the worst starters in the league as soon as he lost Randy Moss? Bonehead decision.