Buffalo Barbarian Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 (edited) So can we find any lineman on the practice squads, like philly took our jack Andersen? Calling @GunnerBill EDIT : not sure what the position coaches are doing but maybe we need Dline and Oline specialists , like QBs have to fix their game, to make these guys play better. Its too late to bring in better people so this team needs to find a way to play their positions better, working on fundamentals is a good place to start. Edited November 22, 2021 by Buffalo Barbarian 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnerBill Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, Buffalo Barbarian said: So can we find any lineman on the practice squads, like philly took our jack Andersen? Calling @GunnerBill We would be lucky. The position is very thin league wide and injuries are biting in lots of places. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangarang Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 Should’ve kept Bobby Hart 1 1 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 Time for the coaches to earn their money & coach these guys up. 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweats Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 So, the FO refused to address the Oline for the past 2 years and we think they are going to magically find some guys on the PS within the next few weeks? Wow......just wow 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hapless Bills Fan Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 12 minutes ago, Sweats said: So, the FO refused to address the Oline for the past 2 years and we think they are going to magically find some guys on the PS within the next few weeks? Wow......just wow We drafted 2 OLman in the 3rd and 5th round We signed 2 OLmen who had shown ability to play in the league (Forrest Lamp, 2017 2nd round pick who has struggled against injuries but started 16 games at LG for the. Chargers last year and Jamil Douglas, 2015 4th round pick who played 29 games in the last 2 years for Tenn (started 5). It’s apparently not what you wanted (what did you want?) but it’s not “refused to address” either. We have in the past found PS guys who have come in and played better than our starters, but I was hoping we didn’t have to go that route any more 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MAJBobby Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 Play Doyle why can he not perform like Spencer Brown when he was forced to play and then secured the starting RT. ford isn’t it. Try Doyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
97bills Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 I’m out of here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 23 minutes ago, Sweats said: So, the FO refused to address the Oline for the past 2 years and we think they are going to magically find some guys on the PS within the next few weeks? Wow......just wow Its not that i think they will its more of thats all there is left , and maybe just maybe they will see what a disaster today and most of the games this season this oline has been and try to fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillyG Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 24 minutes ago, Rico said: Time for the coaches to earn their money & coach these guys up. This is it right here. We have who we have. Maybe time to change things up a bit. Right now you cannot convince me Doyle or Bates are worse options than Ford. If they are then why have we hung onto Bates this long? Why even take Doyle if he's worse than Ford? My biggest knock on Daboll is that it doesn't always seems like he puts his players in the best position to do well. He gets locked into what he wants to do and it hurts the team. If he doesn't have the answers and Bobby Johnson doesn't have the answers to find the best 5 we have and get them on the field in a blocking assignment that they can AT LEAST look somewhat competitive with then we need to find people that do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruffalo Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 I'd try and sign Forest Lamp, you have to think at this point it's unlikely that Ford sees the field again in any capacity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 minute ago, Bruffalo said: I'd try and sign Forest Lamp, you have to think at this point it's unlikely that Ford sees the field again in any capacity Can we after the injury settlement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillyG Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, Bruffalo said: I'd try and sign Forest Lamp, you have to think at this point it's unlikely that Ford sees the field again in any capacity I believe he was signed by The Saints a few weeks back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 minute ago, No Place To Hyde said: I believe he was signed by The Saints a few weeks back. Ugh, we cant win for losing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruffalo Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, No Place To Hyde said: I believe he was signed by The Saints a few weeks back. Unless I'm wrong he's on their PS so we could sign him to our active roster. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangarang Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 20 minutes ago, MAJBobby said: Play Doyle why can he not perform like Spencer Brown when he was forced to play and then secured the starting RT. ford isn’t it. Try Doyle Doyle was horrendous the times he did get to play in the pre-season going against backups and guys out of the league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJBobby Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 (edited) 1 minute ago, Bangarang said: Doyle was horrendous the times he did get to play in the pre-season going against backups and guys out of the league. So wasn’t Brown. And it is no longer the Preseason. Edited November 8, 2021 by MAJBobby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in STL Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 23 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said: We have in the past found PS guys who have come in and played better than our starters, but I was hoping we didn’t have to go that route any more This happens for bottom feeders, not contenders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruffalo Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Just now, Bob in STL said: This happens for bottom feeders, not contenders. If we were talking about our skill positions I'd agree with you, but we've got to do something about our guard play. If everyone can get healthy again so we have Brown and kick Williams inside we can probably limp through the season, but holy god it was bad today. I never want to see that line combo again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hapless Bills Fan Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, Bob in STL said: This happens for bottom feeders, not contenders. A fair point. But at the same point I think we should look hard at the PS of every team in the league with a good to great OL. Because it seems more and more obvious that Ford isn’t who we thought he was. Dawkins and Williams aren’t who they were last season. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruffalo Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 11 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said: Dawkins and Williams aren’t who they were last season. Dawkins at least has a plausible excuse with the really rough time he had with COVID. Williams has just looked bad, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for it. He doesn't even look like he's mentally ready for the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsDiehard Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Russell Okong available...played LT for Carolina...move him to RT, Williams to RG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solomon Grundy Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 hour ago, MAJBobby said: Play Doyle why can he not perform like Spencer Brown when he was forced to play and then secured the starting RT. ford isn’t it. Try Doyle Or Bates. Can't he play center/guard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJBobby Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Just now, Solomon Grundy said: Or Bates. Can't he play center/guard? According to Bills he can play every position and that’s why he is here. But when someone goes down he never gets on the field. So I don’t know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solomon Grundy Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Just now, MAJBobby said: According to Bills he can play every position and that’s why he is here. But when someone goes down he never gets on the field. So I don’t know. It boggles my mind. He has to be a better option than Ford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Take the whole offense and do this every day for the next week...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blank Stare Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, Solomon Grundy said: It boggles my mind. He has to be a better option than Ford Saving him for injury. 🙄. Yet, they field ***** in front of him. Coaching staff gets a little cute with roster decisions sometimes for my liking. Just play the guy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
par73 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Building an OL and running game should have been the offseason goal. Ship has likely sailed this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blank Stare Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Serious question - When does Beane go for it? All in on a particular season? I thought seeing our weaknesses, he would’ve made a move at the deadline. Like the Rams with Von Miller. Window wide open in a watered down AFC and we stand pat with glaringly obvious flaws. “Be patient”. “Build through the draft”. Great, let’s build through the draft. Hows about hitting on a few of these second round picks? I’d rather trade a 2 or a 3 for a proven commodity if we are just going to draft Cody Ford over far superior players or keep guys like Epenesa and Boogie Basham inactive each week. Especially, after we could’ve drafted oline with that Basham pick. Sometimes I just want to see Beane push some chips into the middle of the table and make a bold move. You already hit on the most important position in Josh. I’m not suggesting he get reckless, but you can take a shot/risk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnNord Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 2 hours ago, GunnerBill said: We would be lucky. The position is very thin league wide and injuries are biting in lots of places. Probably a big reason why you saw hardly any OL trades at the deadline. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solomon Grundy Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 11 minutes ago, par73 said: Building an OL and running game should have been the offseason goal. Ship has likely sailed this year. Or trade deadline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnNord Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 8 minutes ago, TheProcess said: Serious question - When does Beane go for it? All in on a particular season? I thought seeing our weaknesses, he would’ve made a move at the deadline. Like the Rams with Von Miller. Window wide open in a watered down AFC and we stand pat with glaringly obvious flaws. “Be patient”. “Build through the draft”. Great, let’s build through the draft. Hows about hitting on a few of these second round picks? I’d rather trade a 2 or a 3 for a proven commodity if we are just going to draft Cody Ford over far superior players or keep guys like Epenesa and Boogie Basham inactive each week. Especially, after we could’ve drafted oline with that Basham pick. Sometimes I just want to see Beane push some chips into the middle of the table and make a bold move. You already hit on the most important position in Josh. I’m not suggesting he get reckless, but you can take a shot/risk. it’s a good question. To be fair - very few teams have been as willing to part with draft picks as LAR. So far the picks they surrendered to bring in players like Dante Fowler, Jalen Ramsey etc have not really panned out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blank Stare Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, JohnNord said: it’s a good question. To be fair - very few teams have been as willing to part with draft picks as LAR. So far the picks they surrendered to bring in players like Dante Fowler, Jalen Ramsey etc have not really panned out. Yeah, fair point. Rams probably aren’t the best example considering they are so unorthodox. Few teams are as aggressive as they are trading picks. However, I think a lot of teams overvalue mid round picks (including the Bills) and a shrewd team can take advantage of that by lifting proven talent for lottery tickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Holmes Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 6 hours ago, Buffalo Barbarian said: So can we find any lineman on the practice squads, like philly took our jack Andersen? Calling @GunnerBill Should have traded for McCaffrey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Riverside Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 I would like to see Ryan bates get an actual opportunity at guard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maryland-bills-fan Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, No Place To Hyde said: This is it right here. We have who we have. Maybe time to change things up a bit. Right now you cannot convince me Doyle or Bates are worse options than Ford. If they are then why have we hung onto Bates this long? Why even take Doyle if he's worse than Ford? My biggest knock on Daboll is that it doesn't always seems like he puts his players in the best position to do well. He gets locked into what he wants to do and it hurts the team. If he doesn't have the answers and Bobby Johnson doesn't have the answers to find the best 5 we have and get them on the field in a blocking assignment that they can AT LEAST look somewhat competitive with then we need to find people that do. Bates is the backup or backup backup (C) for every position on the o-line. Yes, he might be better or as good as some other backup at a specific position. BUT BUT you HAVE TO back up all 5 positions (left and right) and Bates is that "finial bullet" for all of them if somebody goes down during a game. You would need 2 roster spots to replace him. That is why he sits. Edited November 8, 2021 by maryland-bills-fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillyG Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 5 hours ago, maryland-bills-fan said: Bates is the backup or backup backup (C) for every position on the o-line. Yes, he might be better or as good as some other backup at a specific position. BUT BUT you HAVE TO back up all 5 positions (left and right) and Bates is that "finial bullet" for all of them if somebody goes down during a game. You would need 2 roster spots to replace him. That is why he sits. Ok. Well that's great. With this perhaps we will see Josh Allen's backup or Josh Allen's backup backup during a game (Hyde is the in game backup backup) when Josh Allen gets smeared across the yard due to piss poor blocking. But yes, keep Bates wrapped in bubble wrap just incase we lose 2-3 other guys. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maryland-bills-fan Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, No Place To Hyde said: Ok. Well that's great. With this perhaps we will see Josh Allen's backup or Josh Allen's backup backup during a game (Hyde is the in game backup backup) when Josh Allen gets smeared across the yard due to piss poor blocking. But yes, keep Bates wrapped in bubble wrap just incase we lose 2-3 other guys. You have no place in managing things. Imagine this. Feliciano is on IR. Concusion-Morse is the starting center. Bates is playing guard and sprains his ankle. You are one head-slap from having McKensie or Ferguson or Obada snapping the ball. Get a clue. Edited November 8, 2021 by maryland-bills-fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillyG Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 (edited) 38 minutes ago, maryland-bills-fan said: You have no place in managing things. Actually there are many different styles of managing something. Some people are actually proactive and try to improve issues. Some are worrysome and reactive. Doesn't make either wrong per say. However I can tell you this (from decades of actually owning a successful buisness)...if you manage to the worst case scenario you quite often find yourself in and even worse predicament. Edited November 8, 2021 by No Place To Hyde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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