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#56 DARRYL TALLEY #29 DERRICK BURROUGHS#22 FRED JACKSON #95 KYLE WILLIAMS
How the hell can we be favorites to win the SB when we can't even get a yard on the ground behind our OLine? People are hoping Beane notices this season???????
It’s early in the season.
It was friggin hot.
Any given Sunday…
I’m not at all worried.
Jeff1220 (09-27-2022)
They wouldn't all be inactive, just one to make room for another lineman. Could be Moss or Cook. Who played special teams when Kumerow was ruled out?
They've always gone light at RB. I don't think one single run in three games makes Moss a 'gotta have' on game day.
Moss is awful.
What I read somewhere (I can’t remember where) was that the Bills thinking was to keep moving players out of their usual position to a minimum.
Who knows if that (putting Bates at C and who knows at RG) would have been better, or worse.
Many of us here were talking about the need for interior O-line help in the draft. Beane did not agree, or there was just nothing worthwhile, and instead spent a late pick (30th pick in round 6) on T Luke Tenuta, which they released at final cuts. He was picked up on waivers by Indy and is listed as third string T.
Interesting that in the same 6th round, the Bills grabbed who may be the unfinished gem of the 2022 draft, Christian Benford at #6.
For some reason, Beane has screwed up drafting interior O-linemen. He has this shaky record.....
2017 - drafted Dion Dawkins, 2nd pick, round 2, who entered the draft at G, but was quickly moved to T. The Bills never envisioned him at G.
2018 - drafted Wyatt Teller, 29th pick, round 5....and traded him to become a star in Cleveland - probably Beane’s worst purging of talent.
2019 - drafted Cody Ford, 6th pick, round 2....probably Beane’s worse draft whiff....Ford is a bust.
2020 - Ignored the G position in draft.
2021 - drafted Jack Anderson, 8th pick, round 7, the Bills last selection and has kicked around the league and is now 3rd stringer G on NYG.
2022 - Ignored the G position in draft.
I suspect that interior O-line will be a bigger priority in 2023. And if it isn’t it should be.
It’s only three weeks into the season.
In those three games, the Bills have out gained their opposition in rushing yards. Even when you take out Josh Allen’s runs. The Miami game was the worst in that they only out-gained Miami because of one long run by Moss.
Just like the Titans out ran the Bills last year, mainly because of one long run by Henry. And Tennessee is a run first team. But, Miami’s total rushing yards were only 41. Bills gained 115.
The fact is that rushing the ball is not the priority nor a winning strategy for today’s offenses. The Buffalo Bills are a pass first offense.....and their strategy is to use the short pass just like a run.
And last last year, the “Bills got their running game going” because of two factors....Josh Allen running he ball, and inferior opponents.
Josh was the leading rusher for the Bills in three of the final six regular season games. The three that Singetary was the #1 rusher, where against Carolina, Atlanta and NYJ.
With that said, the Bills need to improve their rushing game. It’s a long season.
So Nottie are you saying you agree our OL sucks?
The sauce would have have had horse meat in it.
Very gamey.
However, if all you had to make sauce was horse rather than beef, veal and pork (oh that last one is where the flavour is) than the sauce isn't going to be that good.
Beane only gave the Bills horse for the OL sauce.
No beef, veal and the all important pork.
Don't think it works that way. McDermott is feeding Beane with what he needs to make his system plan work best. Beane is more McDermott's mechanism to connect with everything that is out there to be acquired. They both have a lot of input and are working together....but the makeup of the team is in McDermott's wheelhouse not Beane's. What can and can't be gotten and is and isn't acquired is what Beane owns.
I still hate our OL.
Beane needs to seriously consider hiring an O-line consultant/scout. He's been terrible at drafting and signing O-line. Admit you stink at it, and hire someone who's good at it.
TheConsigliere (09-29-2022)