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Beane has been masterful in how he does contracts and manages the cap. So I think “this” window stays open for as long as our key players are here and -at the top of their game. Guys like Poyer, Hyde, Milano, Diggs, etc. I don’t name Allen because he’s young and locked up a long time, so he’s a given. After these guys start to decline or maybe leave at their next contracts, it will be about Beanes ability to refill the tool box like he’s done on the DL with young talent. But I would view that as the next window. I see windows as being about bulk of the current roster makeup. So I think this team has another 2-3 years at least and that window can go on much longer or even the bulk of Allen’s career if Beane keeps doing a great job.

No this is a crazy idea.

Keys to the game: 1. Can we control the LOS on both sides of the ball? 2. Can we avoid shooting ourselves in the foot with dumb penalties that kill drives or take points off the board…or give KC extra chances to extend drives? 3. Can we actually play defense on Kelce and Hill? 4. Do we win the turnover battle? Both Allen and Mahomes are elite, I think it comes down to those 4 factors more than what Allen and Mahomes do as individuals. We did none of that in AFCCG and lost bad. We did all of that in week 5 and won big. I think this game has more balance to it from both teams and is going to be more of a close battle with Bills winning 31-27.

OBJ clearly wasn't "washed" like he was labeled. Speaks volumes that he can walk into a new team, new playbook, new QB, etc and immediately produce while in Cleveland where he had been for a while they couldn't get him involved. Who the problem is in Cleveland is a legit question...Baker, HC, GM? All of them? If I was the Browns, I would clean house right now...fire everyone in the FO and Coaching Staff and bring in a new regime to work with Baker this next season one last time before they are forced to make a decision on Baker. Its easier to reset the office than give up on the first pick in the draft who has at times looked like he could be a franchise guy. I would also look to trade Hunt or Chubb. D'Ernest Johsnon filled in quite nicely when needed, they can afford to move one of the other RB's. Use them to bring back some cap space and draft capital to help boost the rest of the roster.

My point is more than if we can continue not getting in our own way, we can beat anyone in the league.

Totally agree, the OL improvement has been huge for us. And they keep playing like they are not drawing stupid flags, we will win the SB IMHO.

They average 16 since we last played them. They showed the stats in the game. Doesn’t mean we can’t score on them, but they got healthy and the D improved a lot from the 32 PPG they were giving up the first part of the season. Chris Jones being healthy is a big part of that. Again, doesn’t mean we won’t score, but if we think this is the same team we beat already we would be foolish. They are playing better on both sides of the ball then they were when we played them first time. So are we though…just saying we shouldn’t get over confident. We need to not shoot ourselves in the foot and win the turnover battle. If we do that, we will beat them again.

This game will come down to one thing and one thing only…whether we shoot ourselves in the foot or not. Almost all of of our losses, even arguably all of them, can be pin pointed to times where we self inflicted our own demise. Commonly dumb penalties were the root like false starts and holding calls taking points off the board and killing drives or stupid penalties after stopping the opponent on third down and giving them free first downs and allowing them to get points instead of getting them off the field. We had other things like bad drops and missed assignments too. But when we don’t beat ourselves, we are capable of what we did this past Sunday and have been doing the past 5 weeks. So we play smart and disciplined football, we will again beat these Chiefs. I think Mahomes turns the ball over at least once this weekend, so if we can win that turnover battle and not hurt ourselves we will win handedly.

Chiefs defense is number 1 in NFL in PPG allowed since then. That is the biggest difference. They were giving up over 32 points per game prior to that and around 16 ppg since. Doesn’t mean we can’t go in there and win, but the biggest difference though is the turn around of their defense. Mahomes is also playing better than he was then too. Buffalo also has gotten better too since we last played them. Should be a great game…Bills 31, Chiefs 27

Some geniuses wanted to fire both McD and Beane last year too after a loss even though we went 13-3. This board has some utterly ridiculous posters on it at times and the only thing that brings them out are losses.

Haha yup and if memory serves me, I think that may be the only thing we were not really on the same page on

I feel like Josh Allen is the best overall player in the NFL. He will not, and should not, take that mantle officially until he wins the Super Bowl. But I feel like he is already that guy, honestly do. No one can do what he does, and no one in history has done it either. And when Allen gets decent pass protection, he can’t be stopped. Allen won’t officially have his name in that discussion until he wins the SB, but IMHO I wouldn’t trade Allen straight up for any player in the NFL, not even Mahomes. I firmly believe we will be in the SB this year too.

In fairness…he is not wrong in pointing out we did lose 4 games to teams in the playoffs (Pitt, Tenn, Bucs, Pats) than we beat (Chiefs and KC). And also had 2 embarrassing losses to Jags and Colts. So to me, this isn’t like Nick Wright kind of click bait, just seems to be a guy not sold on us against better teams. However, he is NOT consistent in how he assesses teams. He claims he doesn’t want to be pinned down about saying Pats were good earlier in the year. Now claims it’s about what he sees now, that they aren’t good and that they collapsed after bye and there is a story there we don’t know yet. But at the same time does NOT do the same for the Bills seeing what they have now done in their last 5 games. Bills have demolished Pats twice and also found consistency and balance with an emerging run game while playing outstanding defense. If he is going to adjust his assessments based on how teams are playing recently, there is NO WAY he can look at the Bills and say they aren’t that good. But he is holding on to his bias until he is utterly forced to change it. And that won’t happen until we beat a proven threat like KC next week.

We also had no runs that loss yards

Also… Josh Allen had more TDs (5) than incompletions (4). Allen first player to ever have 300+ yards 5TDs and 60+ yards rushing in a playoff game. Bills had more TDs (7) than 3rd downs (6) Bills had 100% 3rd down conversion rate. Bills had zero punts (for second consecutive game against the Pats) Boys that’s utter dominance!!!!!!

IMO, its the impact the obscene amount of penalties had on the NFL this season. The officiating this year might be the worst I have seen in any sport. From terrible PI calls giving teams big chunks of yards that dont count as offensive stats, or phantom holding calls erasing plays and stuff like that. I have no proof this is the reason, but it sure feels like it played a part. Because if you look at the rushing stats, there were not many 1000 yard rushers despite the extra game, and almost all of them barely went over 1000 yards. So offense was down overall while defense was nothing special either. It would be one thing if there were a slew of punishing defenses, but there weren't. Just a few good ones, and the rest were either decent all the way down to bad. PS: One other possible impact could be the rise of how many QB's use their legs to some degree. Feels like this is the most we have ever had where QB's can pick some yards up with their legs. So could also be a factor why the passing yards dip a little bit too.

Ok, you need some props...not only was this one of the funniest posts I have seen recently, you managed to get this as the first reply to the OP. I applaud you, well done 👏

Lol...says the guy still "wasting time" in the same thread telling people he is not wasting time posting nicknames in said thread. PS: They are first 1st in almost every category that matters. Im not into nicknames either, but its getting old watching people complain about a defense that has mostly been great all year, even after losing its best players for the season a while ago. its like you people are upset they aren't the greatest defense in history, like thats the bar you set.

You must be fun at parties 🙄

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Yeah it doesn’t happen a lot, but without thinking about it much, I can think of a couple like Ryan Tannehill (Mia to Tenn) for example, Alex Smith (SF to KC). Going back further, guys like Rich Gannon and Steve Young are other great examples. That being said, you are correct that teams don’t cover reclamation projects and it’s real common it works out when they do. And this is why I said in my OP that I don’t think any of the rebuilding teams are going to show much interest in Mitch. And that is more reason why I think the Colts make the most sense. They used a first rounder to get Wentz already. Mitch is a guy who can come in cheap and at least push or challenge Wentz. Worst case, they upgrade their backup QB position which is something they badly need. Best case, he comes in and wins the job and becomes an upgrade over what Wentz did this year.

Dont forget, we still faced some tough opponents too like KC, and beat them. So yeah, I don't get some of these people who want to discredit what the Bills defense did this year. I swear, if you read the shout box during a game, its like the expectation is that the Bills should never give up a point or first down. Every time a team gets a first down or scores, the shout box loses it and calls the game a loss already. The "I hate this defense" shouts start flowing or the "our defense sucks, dont care what the stats say". Its crazy at times.

I agree, you don't really ever hear this spoken about much. I will add one more to it that involves this as well...Beane trading up to get Allen while possesing 2 first round picks and not having to give up the 2nd first rounder. I never imagined we would get up to 7 in that draft and still have a 2nd first round pick still that year. Honorable mention: Same draft year...getting the first pick in the 3rd round for Tyrod Taylor from Cleveland. Blew my mind someone gave us such a premium pick for a guy everyone knew we were likely going to cut.

I get that, and honestly you are making fair points. My counter though would be that its not as cut and dry as it seems on the surface. Niners have had some absolutely horrific injury luck the last couple years, especially with a lot of their best players being hurt during those times too when Jimmy G was out. So not only were the backup QBs mostly atrocious, they were coincidentally without a lot of their best players at the same time Jimmy was out which played a big role in that win loss record when he was out. The bigger take away...he has only been with the 49ers 4 full seasons plus 6 weeks. Yet he has missed 33 full games and parts of 4 other games out of a possible 71 games. That means he has missed all or part of 52% of the games he has been a starter for since going to SF.

I agree, Jimmy G is prob better than Wentz. But I think you suggested Colts sending a 2nd round pick In trade to get Jimmy G, which is where I would just never do that. I mean you can bring in Mitch to challenge and/or push Wentz without giving up a valuable draft pick nor handing out a big contract. I reccognize Trubisky is no lock to go somewhere and shine, but he at least comes with some unknown and potential upside given he wasn't given a lot of help in Chicago in terms of personnel around him or coaching.