Brandon Beane end of season press conference 1/27 11am

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

6 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

It sounds like they really messed Epenesa up with his weight loss. The guy did exactly what they wanted, and then the Bills basically changed their mind. 

 

I bet you they have him bulk back up to 270-280.  Coming out of college, I thought he was more of a bulky, set the edge, 3-4 type DE-- not a speed guy.  There is a role in this defense for a player like that.  

 

[dave mcbride]

24 minutes ago, Bangarang said:

We were 24th in rush attempts per game. TB was 28th, KC was 23rd and Green Bay was 15th. 
 

KC and GB were 11th and 6th in yards per rush respectively. We were 19th and TB was 26th.

 

TB is worse than us running the ball. All the teams in the conference championship game live and die by the arm of their QB. 
 

 

You gotta factor in QB scrambles on passing plays into these stats. Brady doesn't scramble. 

[YoloinOhio]

 

[Rc2catch]

Lol reading this comment section you’d think we are Miami blowing the big game to get in the playoffs. 
Funny how some of y’all are missing for weeks at a time until we have a loss. Beane knows what he’s doing. We complained all those years for a stable front office who plans ahead and retains players and isn’t afraid to make a big move. Nothing is going to be perfect but they’re building every year and keep getting better. What good is the negative complaining doing? Everyone sees the needs and where we’re short. They’ll fill the spots they can and coach up the rest. 

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

Just now, dave mcbride said:

You gotta factor in QB scrambles on passing plays into these stats. Brady doesn't scramble. 

That's a good point! We don't want Josh running as much next year.

[LABILLBACKER]

31 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:

 

did you notice that literally every team besides ours in the conference championships have a balanced attack?  you need it.  being balanced does not mean "running 50% of the time," it means being effective when you do.    If you're one dimensional, which we were,  it's much easier to defend.  our inability to score against the WORST red zone D (KC) was very telling.  

And there's your winning answer. KC literally ignored our RB's all night and dropped 7 in coverage. Those that want JA to keep chucking it 90% are delusional. 

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

Anyone else wonder if we had a third running back with speed and pass catching ability to mix with the other 2 guys if things wouldn't be better. More like NE always does with multiple backs filling roles. Of course that would mean replacing 33 yr old gunner Taiwan Jones on special teams.👀

 

For crying out loud, we should be able to have some guys on special teams who contribute to the offense too. I don't know if Antonio Williams and a speed back are the answer, but I'd like to see!

[Rc2catch]

1 minute ago, D. L. Hot-Flamethrower said:

Anyone else wonder if we had a third running back with speed and pass catching ability to mix with the other 2 guys if things wouldn't be better. More like NE always does with multiple backs filling roles. Of course that would mean replacing 33 yr old gunner Taiwan Jones on special teams.👀

 

For crying out loud, we should be able to have some guys on special teams who contribute to the offense too. I don't know if Antonio Williams and a speed back are the answer, but I'd like to see!

I do find some of the emphasis on special teams only players agitating. 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

1 minute ago, D. L. Hot-Flamethrower said:

Anyone else wonder if we had a third running back with speed and pass catching ability to mix with the other 2 guys if things wouldn't be better. More like NE always does with multiple backs filling roles. Of course that would mean replacing 33 yr old gunner Taiwan Jones on special teams.👀

 

For crying out loud, we should be able to have some guys on special teams who contribute to the offense too. I don't know if Antonio Williams and a speed back are the answer, but I'd like to see!

 

Both James White and Rex Burkhead are free agents.  They need to replace Taiwan with one of those guys. 

[TheFunPolice]

I want to hear Beane say: "We are going to draft a big, sloppy 350+ pound DT to play next to Oliver and encourage him to hit the downtown food scene once he gets here. "

 

 

[78thealltimegreat]

6 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

Exactly what I said the chiefs game they gave Josh throws to Knox cause they didn’t think Knox would do anything after the catch 

1 minute ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

 

Both James White and Rex Burkhead are free agents.  They need to replace Taiwan with one of those guys. 

Burkhead here would be amazing 

[Mark Vader]

31 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:

Tampa also has stars all over the place. WR, defensive line, LBs, CBs. They are stacked. We have Allen, Diggs, and White and a bunch of solid guys and JAGs. 

And yet Tampa Bay was not a dominant team this year.

 

Oh yes, they are in the Super Bowl, but look at their schedule. They were 1-5 against teams with winning records.

 

The Buccaneers are a beatable team.

Edited January 27, 2021 by Mark Vader

[Malazan]

45 minutes ago, Bangarang said:

Why are people so obsessed with having a more balanced offense? Do you want to take the ball out of Josh’s hands after he had an MVP caliber season and helped us be a top scoring offense?

 

I don’t want to run it a lot more, just be better when we do. This offense is about throwing the ball.

 

I think most people mean 'balanced' in that opposing defenses have to defend against the run and can't simply know the Bills aren't going to do it and if they do it's going to pointless

[teef]

6 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:

Again he reiterates support for the defensive line and RBs.... don’t see many moves happening there unfortunately. He’s mismanaged the cap on the defensive line badly, IMO.

are you happy to be back in upset mode?

[SCBills]

1 minute ago, Mark Vader said:

And yet Tampa bay was not a dominant team this year.

 

Oh yes, they are in the Super Bowl, but look at their schedule. They were 1-5 against teams with winning records.

 

The Buccaneers are a beatable team.

 

We, as currently constructed, can beat Green Bay.  

 

The problem is, of course, Kansas City is, and likely will, stand in the way of that until we can beat them. 

[Mark Vader]

19 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

We won't be hunted. KC is the only team to be hunted and they're doing all the slaughtering. Josh believe it or not will improve more. But we absolutely have to build a strong run game. I'm not saying we have to tell Josh to stop throwing but we have to give him a fighting chance. Brandon will need to find a better RB & DE. Too 2 priorities. 

Hunted might not be the right word to use, but we will not be overlooked anymore either.

[YoloinOhio]

 

[somnus00]

42 minutes ago, SCBills said:

 

This.

 

KC is built on Mahomes throwing the ball, but he can throw to WR's, a TE (Kelce), a RB and they can run the ball.

 

Green Bay is built on Rodgers throwing the ball, but he can throw to WR's, a TE (Tonyan), a RB and they can run the ball.

 

Tampa Bay is built on Brady throwing the ball, but he can throw to WR's, TE's (Gronk/Brate), a RB and they can run the ball.

 

Buffalo is built on Allen throwing the ball, and he can throw to WR's.  

 

What a simple, yet effective way of putting this into perspective.

[Rc2catch]

2 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:

Hunted might not be the right word to use, but we will not be overlooked anymore either.

I didn’t listen just read the tweets but I took it as the East teams hunting us cause we finally took the division. 

[Mark Vader]

4 minutes ago, SCBills said:

 

We, as currently constructed, can beat Green Bay.  

 

The problem is, of course, Kansas City is, and likely will, stand in the way of that until we can beat them. 

That's why we have more work to do.

 

Beane & McDermott will do what they can to get us there.

[Wayne Cubed]

3 minutes ago, jeremy2020 said:

 

I think most people mean 'balanced' in that opposing defenses have to defend against the run and can't simply know the Bills aren't going to do it and if they do it's going to pointless

 

Here's a question, does running the ball more "balanced" beat the Chiefs? Or does getting Josh another weapon in the passing game do that? 

 

No doubt the Bills need to run the ball more effectively when they do run. Is that up front with the OL? Or is it the scheme?

[Sharky7337]

Did anyone ask him why his DL acquisitions blew?

[Coach Tuesday]

17 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:

Again he reiterates support for the defensive line and RBs.... don’t see many moves happening there unfortunately. He’s mismanaged the cap on the defensive line badly, IMO.

Has he?  They can easily get out of all of those contracts this offseason except Star’s, and that’s only because Star opted out.

[dave mcbride]

25 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

And there's your winning answer. KC literally ignored our RB's all night and dropped 7 in coverage. Those that want JA to keep chucking it 90% are delusional. 

That's not accurate. KC blitzed Allen relentlessly throughout the game. They basically had 5 sacks (the intentional grounding counts as a sack for me), and they were all HUGE losses - 5 takedowns for 69 yards, which is basically a 14-yard loss every sack. The intentional grounding was a 16-yard loss.

Edited January 27, 2021 by dave mcbride

[Blank Stare]

29 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

This would be a HUGE mistake to not bring Milano back. He’s a difference maker on defense. Yes, he’s been banged up some, but he’s proven a difference maker when he’s on the field. If they don’t get rid of all these non-impact JAGs at over-inflated salaries on the Dline to keep Milano, they are making a mistake and he’ll go star elsewhere. 
 

Unpopular opinion: I’d prefer to keep Milano  over Tremaine. I don’t dislike Tremaine like some others on here, but Milano is far more instinctive, is a difference maker, and is typically around the ball. 

[Mark Vader]

Just now, TheProcess said:

This would be a HUGE mistake to not bring Milano back. He’s a difference maker on defense. Yes, he’s been banged up some, but he’s proven a difference maker when he’s on the field. If they don’t get rid of all these non-impact JAGs at over-inflated salaries on the Dline to keep Milano, they are making a mistake and he’ll go star elsewhere. 
 

Unpopular opinion: I’d prefer to keep Milano  over Tremaine. I don’t dislike Tremaine like some others on here, but Milano is far more instinctive, is a difference maker, and is typically around the ball. 

I like Milano, but his injury history is a concern.

 

Can't give him top money.

[LABILLBACKER]

48 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:

 

it's the ability to do it effectively when needed.  we couldn't.  KC did, Tampa can, Green Bay can.  

Daboll abandoned any semblance of a running game way early in the season. He won't have that luxury this fall.

[YoloinOhio]

 

 

[DrDawkinstein]

Just now, TheProcess said:

This would be a HUGE mistake to not bring Milano back. He’s a difference maker on defense. Yes, he’s been banged up some, but he’s proven a difference maker when he’s on the field. If they don’t get rid of all these non-impact JAGs at over-inflated salaries on the Dline to keep Milano, they are making a mistake and he’ll go star elsewhere. 
 

Unpopular opinion: I’d prefer to keep Milano  over Tremaine. I don’t dislike Tremaine like some others on here, but Milano is far more instinctive, is a difference maker, and is typically around the ball. 

 

Not at $14M/year for Milano. He isnt that good. He's the best of what we have now, but that's not saying much. For a coverage LB, TEs kill us. And he's still a liability in open-field tackling.

 

Milano will hit the market, and some team will prob over pay for him. I'd trigger Edmunds 5th year option, but he needs to improve big time in order to get that 2nd contract.

 

Draft Milano's replacement this year, look to draft Edmunds replacement next year.

[YoloinOhio]

 

[Rc2catch]

1 minute ago, TheProcess said:

This would be a HUGE mistake to not bring Milano back. He’s a difference maker on defense. Yes, he’s been banged up some, but he’s proven a difference maker when he’s on the field. If they don’t get rid of all these non-impact JAGs at over-inflated salaries on the Dline to keep Milano, they are making a mistake and he’ll go star elsewhere. 
 

Unpopular opinion: I’d prefer to keep Milano  over Tremaine. I don’t dislike Tremaine like some others on here, but Milano is far more instinctive, is a difference maker, and is typically around the ball. 

Keeping milano over Edmunds isn’t really an option though. The only way milano stays imo is if his market is ice cold. It only takes one and we see every year in free agency someone throw crazy money around. 
I could see Jacksonville or Indy tossing Milano a big payday 

[NoHuddleKelly12]

1 hour ago, Bangarang said:

Why are people so obsessed with having a more balanced offense? Do you want to take the ball out of Josh’s hands after he had an MVP caliber season and helped us be a top scoring offense?

 

I don’t want to run it a lot more, just be better when we do. This offense is about throwing the ball.

I don’t disagree with you necessarily, but want to add that an effective rushing attack would also open things up for Josh even more, and improve the Bills’ play action game, which imho was often just window dressing that the coverage didn’t really have to respect (might as well just have snapped from shotgun every single down). Can you imagine Josh with even more pocket time at his disposal??

[Luka]

We are a team that has play makers on offense and a great secondary. We can not control the line of scrimmage on either side of the ball. Sure, our pass blocking looks great at times. Allegedly our pass rush is good, even though the sack numbers aren't there.

 

But when teams come out and hit us in the mouth, we fold. When we need to control the tempo of a game, we can't.

 

I'll never be sold on Edmunds being the physical, smart game changer this defense needs in the middle. Ed is constantly double teamed because we went into the season without a 1 tech and never addressed the need. Last year they had the line fixed after it got abused the beginning half of the season. Then they let both Phillips and Taylor walk. Went out and paid a fortune for more Panthers players that under delivered.

 

Beane needs to re evaluate his pro scouting department and get into McDermott's ear a little bit. Tired of the cronyism. We need the best player possible at every position. Not the guy you knew from your old job. And now he's talking about being up against the cap? Shouldn't be with the talent level on the defensive side of the ball.

[CaptnCoke11]

5 minutes ago, TheProcess said:

This would be a HUGE mistake to not bring Milano back. He’s a difference maker on defense. Yes, he’s been banged up some, but he’s proven a difference maker when he’s on the field. If they don’t get rid of all these non-impact JAGs at over-inflated salaries on the Dline to keep Milano, they are making a mistake and he’ll go star elsewhere. 
 

Unpopular opinion: I’d prefer to keep Milano  over Tremaine. I don’t dislike Tremaine like some others on here, but Milano is far more instinctive, is a difference maker, and is typically around the ball. 

It’s going to be very hard for Buffalo to sign any of their own guys unless they release a slew of players like Brown, Butler, Addison, Jefferson, maybe even Morse and restructure Diggs again to lesson his hit in 2021.  Very challenging off season coming up for Beane.  FYI Spotrac has Buffalo projected at -5 million cap space right now but that could change once the official number comes out.  

Edited January 27, 2021 by CaptnCoke11

[Matt_In_NH]

23 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:

Again he reiterates support for the defensive line and RBs.... don’t see many moves happening there unfortunately. He’s mismanaged the cap on the defensive line badly, IMO.

Maybe he has....but don't take his word for it....what GM's say in front of camera's does not always line up with what they do down the road. 

 

Being a GM in the NFL means you will get it wrong a fair amount of time, those who get it right more often go deep in the playoffs.  I live in NE and they all complain about how bad a GM and drafter Belichick is....yet he has won 6 SB's and went to 9.  Here they say they mismanage the WR position

[Blank Stare]

1 minute ago, Mark Vader said:

I like Milano, but his injury history is a concern.

 

Can't give him top money.

I don’t think he needs to be highest paid at his position to come to an agreement. I also have some concern with injuries, but sometimes they just happen. Eric Wood was one of those guys. We stuck with him and he turned into a pretty damn good player. Milano may never have another injury that forces him to miss time. We should reward our own that we drafted and developed. Not Mario Addison or Vernon Butler. Cut them and give that money to Milano. 

[Coach Tuesday]

Just now, ScottLaw said:

He said he thought the D Line struggled early but came together towards the end of the year and started playing a lot better. Gave credit to the DLine coach.

 

Sounded to me like he wanted to give them more time together. Maybe I'm wrong. 

He misevaluates their talent for sure but he didn’t screw the cap up - they’re on very team-friendly deals, if he wants to let them walk and try again he can do that fairly easily.

[Mark Vader]

3 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

How many times are you going to post this?

[Coach Tuesday]

Just now, Mark Vader said:

How many times are you going to post this?

And I still don’t understand what it means.

[JohnNord]

My takeaways:

 

Bills will upgrade the DL (but like Ed Oliver)

 

Bills still believe in Tremaine Edmunds (UGH) don’t expect a change.

 

Matt Milano is probably gone (said the same thing about Shaq)

 

John Brown is probably gone 

 

Don’t look for any crazy additions at CB or in the secondary.

 

Expect a new TE