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So there is no hope of ever improving the offensive line?
Patti
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He built a house in Jacksonville 2 years ago and prefers scouting to finish his career.Turned down the GM job, prior to Marv. Doesn't wish to live in in Buffalo. In his mid 60's.
Doesn't add up.
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He built a house in Jacksonville 2 years ago and prefers scouting to finish his career.Turned down the GM job, prior to Marv. Doesn't wish to live in in Buffalo. In his mid 60's.
You have an opportunity in three HUGE WAYS to improve this franchise.
1- Tons of cap room.
2- An upgrade at offensive coordinator.
3- A Gm who in all due respect to Marv, is much more proven at the position, or at least someone with a lot more "upside".
Why does Ralph Wilson logic tell me that we're going to promote MOdrak for GM and Turk for OC. Why dont we just skip next year and mark us down for 7 wins already so we can move on to 2009.
He built a house in Jacksonville 2 years ago and prefers scouting to finish his career.Turned down the GM job, prior to Marv. Doesn't wish to live in in Buffalo. In his mid 60's.
Doesn't add up.
I tend to agree with you but feel be foolish going out of the organization as could cause some unrest for Jauron. So perhaps it could lead to Jim Overdorf taking over as GM but we then name someone else to be a talent evaluator type position. Perhaps John Guy gets named something like vice president of player personnel and we then bring in someone from outside the organization to fill Guy's old role as chief pro scout.
Pat, don't you know that this team is going in the right direction? They're just rebuilding...give them time. [sarcasm]
The reason he turned down the job last time was because of his friendship with TD. I think he will be the GM, and has been the actual GM for the last 2 years.
The reason he turned down the job last time was because of his friendship with TD. I think he will be the GM, and has been the actual GM for the last 2 years.
So there is no hope of ever improving the offensive line?
Patti
The offensive line will get better IF:
1.) they stay together and continue to work together (unless you can get an All-Pro who can step in and make everyone around him better--which the Bills are not going to be able to do this offseason--a minor upgrade in talent is not worth what is lost in continuity, which is very important to offensive line play);
2.) the Bills add a big, fast WR who can show opposing defenses that he will make them pay (or allow Lee Evans to make them pay) for putting 8-9 defenders in the box to stop the Bills' running game--5 linemen and 2 TEs can't block 8 or 9 defenders;
3.) Trent Edwards learns to stop tipping off the running plays 2-6 seconds before the snap (if he's going to call "check with me" running plays at the line of scrimmage, he has to learn how to make phony calls at the line, like P. Manning and T.Brady do all the time, to disguise the real "check with me" calls and confuse the defense)--if the defense knows what the play is going to be before the ball is snapped every time you run the ball, they are going to be able to get into position to overpower the offensive line at least 50% of the time, if not more;
4.) the Bills get an offensive coordinator who doesn't run the ball 90% of the time on first down, but mixes things up (adding the speed-draw that T.Thomas used to run so successfully would also make it easier for the offensive line to open up holes for the RBs) better so that the Bills' play-calling is not as predictable as it has been;
5.) M.Lynch becomes more consistent and does a better job of hitting the hole when it is there--Lynch's inexperience showed at times when he didn't read his blocks properly and missed the hole; Lynch is a tough runner who can make something out of nothing, but he also has a tendency to "run to contact" rather than "run to daylight"; hopefully, with a full offseason and training camp, along with the experience he gained this season, he will do a better job of finding the openings that the offensive line does create and the creases in the defense when they do appear (he got better at doing these things as the season progressed, but there is still plenty of room for him to improve in this area);
6.) Trent Edwards continues to develop and the Bills start to get more consistent and productive play from the QB position--when a QB is able to make the defense pay for stacking the box against the run by hitting his receivers in stride consistently and can audible out of bad play calls and give the team a play that has a chance of succeeding against the defensive play call, it throws the defense off-balance and gives the offensive line a better chance to do their job properly.
If the Bills improve in all of these areas, their offensive line will look a lot better. Yes, the offensive linemen have to do a better job, but the rest of the team also has to do these things better to help them out. A big problem that I saw in the games that I watched this season was that, very often, the offensive line was not put into a position to succeed at the task that they were assigned and there were times when they did do their job as well as could be expected, but they were let down by their teammates failings. The Bills offensive line was not as good as it could have been this season, but it also wasn't as bad as it appeared at times as well (better play-calling would have helped a LOT!).
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