Frank Gore - great mentor for Singletary

[Shaw66]

On 9/3/2019 at 9:57 AM, oldmanfan said:

I think Gore beat him out for the veteran role.  Simple.  Hope Shady does well in KC, no ill will towards him at all.  Hope he does great until we beat him in the AFC championship game.

I think this is correct.  I think when they signed Gore, they thought the he and Shady would be the 1-2 guys.  Then when they got Singletary, the question became whether there would be one senior leader in the running back room or two.   Over the course of the summer they decided it had to be one, and Gore was the one.  In a sense, it's an example of what McDermott says - everyone is competing for his job, every day.   Gore won.  

 

I think everyplace you look you see what McD preaches - position flexibility.   In some ways, Shady was the add man out.  I think they wanted three running backs, and Gore, Motor and Yeldon gave them the most flexibility.  Singletary made Shady's shiftiness unnecessary, and Gore made Shady's leadership unnecessary.   

 

There are three threads going on right now - Singletary, Oline and Smoke Brown - that all are making the point that the units are all built with position flexibility.   The receivers, the running backs, the oline, all can play different positions, different styles.  THAT's what's going to be tough on other teams.   Can the other teams match sustained excellence?

[ganesh]

On 9/3/2019 at 12:59 AM, BillsRdue said:

I'm kind of sad that Shady's gone. Wish he could have restructured at the 4m mark and stayed, like the D. Thomas situation in NE. I'm hoping Gore has some fight left in him and Devin turns out better than expected. I'm 50/50 on Yeldon.  If Shady tears it up in KC and we flop here, it's going to look like a really stupid move. 

Beane and McDermott spend most of their day with these players. I believe they know the best in evaluating these players against their vision and requirements. If their vision is flawed, the results will be there to show for them and their fate will be decided by the owners of the team. 

 

They made a decision on who to keep and they can only focus on whom they kept.  Hope they evaluated correctly.  Go Bills!