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Every other team in the league practically has a kicker that's good from 60. This guy barely made it to the endzone on a 55 yarder that was wide right even if it was long enough. Like Cam said, keep the main thing the main thing. Cool, you have a nifty little kickoff trick. That's nice. But putting the ball through the uprights is the main thing.

First thing's first, Tepper has to GTFO of football operations. Like all the way out. Go run the business. Leave football up to the football people. If the football people aren't working out then replace them and lean on football people to help you find those replacements. Until this happens then we are who we are.

I mean, that's literally what they said about him. One of the most impressive attributes Allen displayed in his maiden year in professional football was his tireless work ethic. He was a “first one into the building and last one out” player, always looking for extra coaching after practice or wearing out the battery studying film on his Bills-issued iPad. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/football/nfl/bills/2019/01/25/josh-allen-buffalo-bills-2019-training-jordan-palmer/2676780002/ You don't go from the guy I watched in college at Wyoming to the NFL MVP without absolutely working your ass off.

Having a weirdly phenomenal player at QB IS a culture changer.

I feel like Tepper needs to give the fans an opportunity to have weekly meetings with him so that he can catch his own ass chewings.

It's no wonder why our wish lists have to start where everyone else's end.

Tyreek Hill's left knee just exploded.

Good grief, the Jets immediately turn the ball over again fumbling the kickoff to start off the second half. LOL

Every team in the league has a kicker good from 60 these days they say obviously having missed Fitz barely make it to the endzone on a 55 yard attempt yesterday (that would've been wide right even if it had been long enough).

The Jets might be as bad as us. LOL

The Jets are doing something to give away their snap count because the Dolphins DL is beating the Jets OL off the snap almost every play. Their DL is anticipating the snap better than the OL that supposed to know it's coming.

What fuging company that is. Good lord. Being at the bottom of that list says everything. LOL

Definitely some arena league looking trash they're wearing tonight

Damn. The Jets absolutely cram the ball down the Dolphins' throats all the way down the field and then fumble it away literally on the goal line as they're going into the endzone. What a dick punch.

Honestly most modern NFL offenses revolve around the short passing game with the ball coming out fast but you need the threat of the deep ball to make that work. The threat of the deep ball is vital. You just don't have it with Bryce. You can essentially defend the entire field like it's the redzone.

That's probably one of the folks who ran off to discord or maybe Icege

It's an unpopular opinion but I actually think Phil Snow was a damn good football coach.

Seems like it would be cause for going balls to the wall. I mean, you're probably gonna lose anyway so go down swinging and try to give yourself a chance, right? If you play super conservatively with a bad team you're gonna get your ass kicked 9 times out of 10 unless the other team pulls a Falcons and just hands the game to you. The bigger the talent discrepancy the more aggressive you're forced to play. That's why I loved watching those '00s Boise State teams. They knew they didn't have the talent to compete with the big dogs just playing hat on a hat football so they'd go out there and just run video game poo and they did it with delusional confidence and it was just pure fun to watch. LOL

It's pretty impressive how ass they are when our GM was a great LB.

Here's a good example of a 0.0 pass block from yesterday's games..

I prefer results. I care a lot less how they come. Just win. If that means you're chewing ass, fine. If that means you're being a rah rah guy, fine. I don't really care.

I've heard enough from his former players that Ron behind closed doors was a far different and far more intense person than "stoic Ron" on the sidelines to believe it. Maybe Canales is too but I can't recall hearing much about it.

In house analytics are probably the only ones that should actually matter because that analyst can work hand in hand with the coaches breaking down the film. I like PFF as a statistical aggregator much more than I rely on their grades. Their grades tell me the opinion of PFF and how their accumulative play by play grading system viewed that game, season, whatever. The bigger the data set the more useful that grade is going to be but it's always going to be flawed. It'll give you a very high level overall idea, that's about it. If a guy grades really well in coverage for the season he probably is a really good coverage guy and vice versa. They can basically tell you if a guy is really good or really sucks and then there's a ton of gray in the middle and you have to figure out how that guy is going to translate in the role you have in mind. For instance, you don't want to sign Moehrig planning on primarily using him as a deep FS.

You just nailed a big issue I have with PFF. They act like their grades are completely objective when in reality they're based on the opinion of the person grading the play. Like in the situation I outlined above. I can see why one person might grade that incomplete pass to T-Mac one on one deep negatively when you had Tremble open underneath. A lot of that depends on the offensive mindset of the team. Are we a conservative offense leaning on defense or are we a team that wants to be aggressive on offense? If the former, that play should probably grade negatively because that offense is looking to control the clock and methodically advance the ball. If the latter, that OC and HC probably applauds taking that shot counting on still being able to convert and move the chains on 3rd and 4. They'll value the opportunity for the big chunk over the safe play in that situation. They're also assuming they know the play call and the read. Was that missed throw and actual miss or did the receiver make his cut two yards deeper than he was supposed to? Did that DB blow the coverage or was he playing his correct role and someone else screwed it up? Yeah, that receiver was open early but he was the 3rd read in the progression. A lot of these situations the only person who objectively know the answer is the play caller and the outside observer is forced to work off of assumption.

I'm not deeply familiar with their system but it seems to me that they likely treat every play equally. Oh, that was a positive play. Sir, it was more than a run of the mill positive play. It was a jaw dropping game winning TD. You can't treat that play as the equal of a random 2nd down play in the 1st half where you made the wrong read and it resulted in an incomplete pass. Less drastic, there's just a difference in importance to say 2nd and 4 in a game you're up two scores and 3rd and 8 when you're trailing. There has to be something in the formula to account for weighting of plays and it's something that's going to take some trial and error and you're probably never going to stop tweaking with it to fine tune it. I think that's where a lot of the PFF scores feel off. You'll watch a game and a guy will have a handful of very impactful plays but not otherwise particularly stand out and PFF will grade him negatively but did he really have a bad game? He wasn't "bad" otherwise and he made a handful of key plays. I think every football person would grade that overall positively. Same thing on the flipside. A guy was pretty decent overall but had a handful of absolutely terrible reps that led to negative consequences in the game. Despite being overall decent most football people would agree that the bad outweighed the good and that should result in an overall negative grade where it seems like PFF would tend to grade that performance positively. I also wonder if they take into account situational football. Let's say it's that 2nd and 4. Overall the offense has been struggling a bit and we haven't been able to get any chunk plays and the D is really crowding the line. Tremble is open on a drag underneath that would likely move the chains but T-Mac is running a go down the sideline and he's one on one. You take the shot. It falls incomplete. I suspect PFF would grade that negatively where I'd honestly be neutral on it. Yeah, hitting Tremble likely moves the chains but we still have 3rd and 4 coming up with a decent chance to convert (we're pretending we have a real QB here, bear with me LOL). That shot to T-Mac was a good opportunity and it makes the D respect that you can threaten them vertically. I'm okay with it in the context of the game as outlined. I'm just not a big fan of going through a game and grading play by play on a stand alone basis. You have to consider the context of the game.