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Did you see list of Bills’ FA’s? There isn’t going to be any big splashy FA signings. I’m not a doom and gloom we’re in cap hell guy. The recent drafts have turned out to be pretty damn good and that’s going to help. Just have to have another strong draft and sign a couple of our own guys, especially Jones.

I hear you. If we had a strong owner, I might agree that a change is imperative. I do not trust Pegula to make a good decision. Again, look at the Sabres for proof.

Be careful what you wish for. It wouldn’t be Beane’s decision. It would be Pegula’s. Look at the Sabres. Three assclown GM’s and four assclown coaches. Oh yeah, first Bills’ hire was assclown Rex Ryan. Our best hope is that McDermott brings in a DC that will bring some wrinkles to the D but still mesh with McDermott’s philosophy.

Is Darnold really worse than Purdy?

Many good points brought up. Maybe the rule is like democracy. It’s imperfect but better than any other system.

Pretty sure everyone on earth (except if you lived in New England) thought the tuck rule was stupid beyond human comprehension. Never heard a reason why it was in the rule book to begin with. I think the new tuck rule is the football is out of bounds when someone in play touches it even though the ball is inbounds. Why is this a rule? What purpose does it serve? The stupidity of the rule was really driven home in the regular season when a kickoff was close to the sideline (but still inbounds by a foot or two) and the Steeler jumped out of bounds, touched the ball (still inbounds) and drew a flag. Everyone said it was a smart play. It was but it still seemed idiotic. Honestly, does anyone have a rationale why this is the rule?

Wasn’t that play pretty identical to roughing penalty on Bills in Dallas game when Prescott slid? Tough on the defense but it is what it is.

I was going to start a topic on a similar note but OP beat me to it. My point was going to be what a difference a couple of months make in looking at Beane’s drafts and other moves. So many draft picks were meh or questionable or unproven going into the season have come through in a big way (Oliver, Bernard, Bedford, Cook, Kincaid, Torrence, etc.). In fact, look through all his drafts and the only busts are #2 rounders Ford and Basham. Those picks look worse in hindsight to posters because we passed on Metcalf and AJ Brown for Ford and Creed Humphrey for Basham. (I’m in the camp that you can’t call Elam a bust yet. He looked decent rookie year and has supposedly been hurt this year.). Add the great looking trade for Douglas and it’s hard to argue Beane isn’t an upper echelon GM. You need a Super Bowl win or at least an appearance to rank with the very best put we’re lucky to have him.

286 yards of offense and 7 points. Yesh.

That’s such a false narrative. Pretty much every poster on this forum was big time nervous about last year’s team from halftime of the Green Bay game forward.

Is my memory correct that he wasn’t even tossed from the game after pummeling White? Outrageous.

So which was worse? Picking Spiller when Jackson and Marsh were on the roster or picking a RB with the first pick in the second round when you’re first round pick was OJ freakin’ Simpson!

What a hilariously bad list. Henri Richard higher than Marcel Dionne? Newsy Lalonde? Was this put together by an 80 year old?

No intentional grounding? In the pocket, didn’t make it to the LOS, no receiver near it.

Yes, please. Wait a week before the Turk pays a visit.

That wasn’t a designed rollout. He was flushed out of the pocket and threw against the grain. You wouldn’t do that on a designed rollout.

Like most of the posters here, I hate, hate, HATE the WR screen pass. Especially running it over and over against a D playing man press (KC). When was the last time we ran a “traditional” screen (OL leaks out after pretending to pass block, RB leaks out and has a couple of blockers in front of him when he gets the ball)? Cincinnati ran a couple of nice screens against the Colts. Is it because our OL isn’t athletic? I thought Morse and Brown were athletic enough to get out on in front on a screen. (Shout out to Brown, whose play seems to be much improved). One more rant. Just like Fran Stalinovskovichdavidovitshky is the deadliest woman in the world with a dodgeball, Josh Allen is the deadliest QB in the NFL rolling to his right. Why not have a couple of designed rollouts? Worst that happens is a throw OB if nobody’s open.

Great weekend. One thing from this game is that Hill should be MVP. Fins O is utterly average without him.

If I had to pick a Billsy play from yesterday, it would be Murray taking three steps and then dropping the ball for no apparent reason, somewhat tainting a truly miraculous play from Allen.

This is 100% wrong. No one - NO ONE - thought Jackson should go ahead of Allen. The bias stems from all of the experts who predicted Allen would bust because he wasn't accurate in college. Many - not all - won't get off that train.

I started this thread to make a point, probably not very articulately, that the refs have way to much say so in the outcome of games and given the amount of money now bet on NFL games that can be very dangerous indeed. Can their influence be diminished? I think it could. Eliminate ticky tack calls on PI, defensive holding and illegal contact, reduce the severity of certain penalties, be more consistent as to what offensive holding is, etc. Not sure there is the will to get this done as long as the money keeps rolling in.

I’m hoping for a Jim Lee Howell situation redux. First step is to see if Brady is the real deal as OC. Hopefully, we’ll know by the end of the season. Second, hire a young aggressive DC who won’t play a soft zone at the end of one score games. McDermott stays as HC. Who is Jim Lee Howell? He was NY Giants HC during the late 50’s. His DC was Tom Landry and his OC was Vince Lombardi!

**** you Amazon and your ever buffering mother****ing streaming service. Can’t wait for the game on Peacock.

Wow. That sucks.

If anyone other than OP agrees with this, you should let him know. Punting from the 31 yard line with a 10 point lead would be the worst “Preposterous Punt” (credit to Greg Easterbrook) in Bills’ history. Worse than Gregg Williams punting from Pats’ 30 yard line way back when.