Mr. WEO

how is Barstool Sports still a viable business at this point?

HOF Qb and HC aren't common. There have been a handful of dynastic NFL teams over 60 years...so, still rare. We just happen to see 2 back to back. New normal? Yes, it's a QB driven league, but half the starting QBs are mediocre to awful. Too many coming out of college without enough experience---or, worse, are basically option QBs who have no significant passing game, can't read Defenses, can't go through progressions. It's one look, take off, get injured. Or guys like Herbert--big arm, great passer, decent rosters, can't win a post season game. Similar for Ravens. MVP QB+great HC=playoff futility. Recency bias clouds your post. Dynasties are as rare as we have seen.

well, his HC just said he didn't know exactly what was preventing the guy from playing or "what the next step" is needed to get him in a game. So it's unlikely that McD would be unaware of a "pretty damn significant injury". Also, the cast he is wearing is not consistent with an plaster cast for fracture. It appears quite small and hardly immobilizes his wrist. Looks like a boxer's tape up. My guess is the owner asked McD what he is paying Cooper for this week and encouraged him to convince Cooper to play.

gotcha I think the Bills_Chiefs history, on its own, is far more relevant to the question you ask in your title. It answers the question.

I guess then OP would have to change the title--it currently posits about the Bills_chiefs game sunday ("this matchup") and the likelihood they meet again in the playoffs. Specific to these two teams, plenty of "history says" Bills can beat them in the season, not the post season---regardless of how decades old three peats attempts resulted.

NFL is favoring one of their more embarrassingly poorly run teams over one of the best teams in the NFL (that won by 10)? I don't get that conclusion. Who cares about a fine---Josh pantsed this bum with a perfect stiff arm soon after. Being humiliated on consecutive plays for all to see should suffice.

that encapsulates it all...

yeah, this thread could have simply been that sentence...

Or maybe they will just send their mediocre punter out there..

stick to the radio. he looks awesome in that platform

I was just referring to the OPs premise re: clinching the division (the worst in the league). No other team has 4 wins.

Those D linemen were running wild on the other O-linemen and lighting up the all the Browns crappy QBs. From 2008-2017, that team won 38 games. Other than one season at 24th, their Offense ranked 27th to 32nd in scoring. In facgt, in his rookie year, they were ranked 8th in points scored. For the rest of Thomas's career, they went straight to the basement on Offense. He did not have a positive impact on their outcomes. Drafting AP probably would have been far more important as far as impact, as he was a dominant RB for years and the Browns had a bunch of bums/flashes in the pan. AP certainly would have helped that Offense a far more than any single O-line HOFer. This is intuitively true....

we’ve been waiting for that “next week” for 5 years…

the division race is over

how many statues of Gronk would there be in/around Buffalo had Buddy Ebsen drafted him instead of NFL superbust Troup?

well, it's not looking like much right now... it would be best for him to get in the game no? we agree on that.

in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king... By 2015, D's were just T-ing off on Browns QBs. should have drafted Peterson

I posted that already. Sitting around in a contract year isn't a strong move. As for "contract year", he really hasn't faced one--he was traded from every team and only 1 (Cowboys) extended an existing contract.

he was the anchor of what was one of the worst O-lines every year he was playing. A career of futility, zero impact.

There's plenty of film on a 10 year vet. That's now what will sell him on his next team. What he does this season will determine his worth. He is being given the benefit of the doubt--his HC is heavily hinting he's ready to play, Cooper says he's not. So he's not playing at this point. His output on the Browns wasn't enough to keep him. Bills have him on a 1 year rental and the #1 seed is at risk every week. They need him to get up to speed well before the playoffs.

he's a 10 year vet on his 3rd team in 4 years. how is not playing going to increase his FA value? Wouldn't that best be done by balling out this year? Every other team sees an aging journeyman who doesn't want to go back in the game and a HC who doesn't know what to do with him.

don't be down on the Yellowjackets!!

They let Barkley go and paid Jones. There's no chance both the GM and the HC were against those moves. Simply put, Daboll got them to the playoffs with Jones---and since he fancies himself a developer of QBs, he felt he could create a functional Josh Allen out of him. Turns out, Daboll is not that. He's just a guy who has benefited from being around some of the best ever (BB, Saban, Josh Allen). On his own, he's a bust. He's Nate Hackett.

well...Beane and McD made him WR2, having neglected the WR room for years. And his drop rate is zero this year, 3.7% last year.

point is the thread is hyping Hollins when he's a guy who has barely caught half his targets and has dropped 10%---that's performance that was frowned upon last year. If the thread was "Mack Hollins is Gabe Davis for a fraction of the cost", that would be pretty accurate.