reddogblitz

OK, so it's not the offense itself, or Dabol, it's because we had 9 new players on offense in year 3 of the rebuild. If you are a crack GM/talent evaluator, why after 2 years of rebuilding, do you have to flush 82% of your offense and start over? Oh well, Beane himself said he did a bad job of getting offensive talent together or 2018. Well, he did exactly the same in 2019 AND 2017. If the excuse/reason is Dabol's offense stunk because he had all new players and they screwed up a lot, then it's on Beane and he needs to get his act together offensively and find better players that can run Dabol's complex offense. His whole philosophy of moving up to draft a QB with the 7th pick in the draft and NOT adding a lot of talent to help him succeed is odd. now in year 4 allegedly we are finally going to get some top notch WRs. These guys obviously know Defense but I seriously question their knowledge of Offense. After 3 years of rebuilding you're 24th in Offense. OK, stay the course. It's working.

Who are the other two?

I don't hate the man. However, I will stop wondering when we have a top ten offense under his coaching.

A sad loss for greater rock drumdom. As a drummer and somewhat RUSH fan I think he was an excellent drummer. Like a QB has to be in the right offense, he was in the right band. What he did would probably not work for very many others. Put him in the Rolling Stones for example and wouldn't work. Same could be said for White Stripes LOL. He was interesting. I always viewed him as very technical, very methodical, very prepared, and very creative. I found it interesting that before every tour he would compose a new drum solo, write it out note for note, and then play it the same way every night. I read this in an interview with him a long time ago. While awesome, also seemed kindof the antithesis of what most rock drummers I've known/know do (the ones that like to play solos) and what rock 'n roll is all about. Usually one will have a list in their head of some things they want to do and improvise around and throw those things it at some point. I don't mean to take anything away from him I just find it interesting. I saw RUSH twice. Once on the Permanent Waves tour and one years later. Really good concerts. I preferred the earlier stuff where they had the instrumental sections and stretched out. Farewell to Kings, 2112, and Hemispheres are my favorites. I still have the Hemispheres album in red vinyl. If I had to pick a favorite RUSH song with great Niel lyrics it would be The Trees. Love the woodblock part in the song about wood, well trees actually. Just all of it.

I'd say go all Carolina and hire their cast off former thorn in Buffalo's side, Norv Turner.

There is a book about this. It is an investigation into whether the Cheats*** really cheat or not. There are quotes from players, coaches, footnotes, statistics, etc. it is very well done. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15830772-spygate There is a reason the Eagles did a fake walk through and then did their real one in a hotel ballroom. There are pretty strong allegations and evidence that the Cheats*** video taped the Rams and possibly other SB walk troughs. Marshall Falk tells of a play they put in before the SB and never ran it on film. When they lined up for it, amazingly the Cheats** were in THE PERFECT defense to stop it. Peyton Manning never discussed strategy in Gillette locker room cuz he thinks the locker room is bugged. The mysterious helmet radio cut offs at key points in games is also covered. Flutie's comment about Tommy's helmet radio and on and on. That Philly Shuffle would never had worked if they did it int heir official walk through. Would have been stuffed for a loss. But since they had never seen it ...

I realize it's not my team and I don't do video games. But I am hoping the "McBeans" have more of a sense of urgency than a lot of TBDers who seem willing to wait around while the team makes incremental improvements until someday we might win a playoff game. We don't have forever and with the quality vets we have that the "McBeans" vow to keep, the price of football will be going up starting next year with the Tredavian Nightmare followed shortly by THE MAN (Jo$h) himself and others. NOW is the time to make a serious run at it IMHO. Not 2021 or 2022. NOW. You're never gonna have everything. The drought's over. Time to turn the playoff game drought off too. Win a SB. Go BILLS !!

I guess I didn't watch games either. For large parts of the season Daboll seemed hell bent on passing on every play. 41 passes and 14 runs in a wind storm (Eagles) and 46 passes vs 13 handoffs in wild card game among others makes me think so. Our best guy averaging 5 yards per gets 13 carries. If we did sign Henry, he'd probably get about 12 carries per game. Take a shower at the end of the third quarter.

Making the playoffs as 6th or 5th seed after a 17 year drought was awesome. That said, we don't want to become the Cincinnati "One 'n Done" Bengals. What we have after 2 years is a good start, nothing more. We have a Championship Caliber D. Don't waste it. Now it's time for Josh to kick it up a notch. If he can't this year start looking for someone that can.

You know what this means. Norv Turner is available !!

What QB did we draft and abandon resulting in 20 years of futility? Todd Collins? JP Losman? Trent Edwards? EJ?

I hope we re sign Phillips cuz he gets a lot of sacks. Shaw is a nice player too. You can't dump everybody.

I get what you're saying. But at the same time, if the Cheats*** ST coach and player was not prepared he would have ZERO percent chance of getting a TD on that play. That's why I said what I said about Louis.

"Chance favors the prepared mind." -- Louis Pasteur

How was it a fluke? It was a combination great play by Cheats** guy and one of our guys not blocking him (#42 whoever that is). Kicking Teams is a very important part of the game where execution is as critical as any other play. Marv understood the importance of kicking team's play. Seems McDermott does not. A HUGE area for improvement in 2020.

QBs job is to win.

Yet our coach says competition makes us stronger. If Josh crumbles because Marcus Marriotta is on the team, he's not THE GUY anyway. I actually thinking bringing someone in to push Josh is not a bad idea. Goes for any position. Not to mention the fact that if we get on a run and Josh gets hurt, we still want to have to chance to win. Think Nick Foles or Jeff Hostettler or Earl Moral or Doug Williams..

The Senator's favorite guy, Mike Leech, signs an extension with Washington State and one month later takes the job at Mississippi State.

First off, never believe anything Beane says. He's posturing always. He tells the truth as often as a politician.

Mike Evans would have been the one person we need to catch that pass in the EZ to Duke or the jump ball to the FB and bingo, we win! Mike Evans is EXACTLY the kind of guy we need to help Josh be all he can be. 24th in yards and 23rd in points. 49ers are only in the third year their rebuild too.

This is all well and good. Great comebacks vs the Jets, Dolphins, and Titans (2-4). But against good teams later in the year the comebacks dried up. He had a chance vs Clevelend, NE twice, Baltimore, and of course the Texans. Zippo. 2 things. Need to do better earlier in the game so late game heroics are NOT needed. Need to do better in comeback situations vs better teams in the big games. Even the great comeback guys only do it 60% of the time or so. Matt Stafford has a lot of comebacks too. Hopefully a more talented O can help fix these things.

It's called contingency planning. I'm thinking Beane does this too. Or at least I hope he does.

Or, if you hang onto your QB that you drafted high too long thinking he just about to hit it, you end up like the Dolphins with Ryan Tannehill or the Bucs with Crab Legs. If next year Josh doesn't make big strides you have to consider cutting bait. Don't go down with the ship. Otherwise you may end up not in QB purgatory, but QB limbo instead. Neither works.

I have no idea what Josh will or will not do in the future for the Buffalo Bills. He has shows us some really good and some really bad. For that reason, we should try to upgrade out backup QB position THIS YEAR. We have built up a good team and D. Would be a shame for Josh to go down and then us have to waste another season because we don't have a decent backup. Would also be good to have someone to push Josh a little. If he can't handle that, he ain't the guy. Competition makes us stronger, right? Where have I hear that before? "QB is the most important position. Backup QB is the second most important." -- Joe Gibbs Joe had a decent backup (Doug Williams) Then there's also the Nick Foles/Jeff Hosstettler/Earl Moral situation where you have a good season going and the starter gets hurt but since you have good backup you can roll on. This is nothing to do with if Josh is THE GUY or not, just being prepared. With the way Josh plays, he's one Jadeveon Clowney hit away from IR. We should be prepared. No sense putting all your eggs in one basket.

He would have to beat out Nate Peterman first.