Mr. WEO

lol “forward”. he’s never close to 4000 yards.

This is one QB you don’t blowout your budget on unless he has another monster year—-or at least can get to 3500-4000 passing. They won’t pay him going coward to rush for 1000 a year.

That's rewarded with $50 million a year in GB.

Hey I'm that guy too! No one cared until the Bills choked twice in the end of one game...forced out of the playoffs for the second time in a row by the same teams. The Bills "still" could have won in OT if the D put up even a small amount of fight.

This was true before the rule change.

See below. No one cares who started over who in college (OSU started JT Barrett and Dwayne Haskins Joey Balls) or where they were drafted (not sure what point you're making there). JJ averaging 1500+ for first 2 years. No player in history has done that. Chase put up monster numbers this past season by any measure. Not sure what you would consider "monster" for nest year. Obviously neither is a poor choice...

Who knows? But you can't make a serious argument by beginning with "OK so forget about the Defenses....", which that guy is trying to do (in a playoff game, no less). It's nuts.

we can all quibble about rules but the rule didn’t change right before that game and the rule didn’t force the game into OT nor did the rule ensure the OT outcome. The Bills were in control of their fate on every down. Simple as that

he hasn't done it twice yet..

Did "Buffalo Bills" ever make sense? It was picked in an essay contest

This was not a new OT rule. It was how everyone understood the game is played. The Chiefs D did have to prove itself--it failed and the Bills had the game in hand with seconds left. If the Bills had tied the game in the last 13 seconds, won the coin toss and scored a TD in OT, absolutely no one here would be saying that Chiefs "deserved another possession" or "the Bills D should have to prove itself in OT".. That's all just as silly as it sounds.

should be much easier, yes.

You keep saying that the Bills "deserved" another possession in OT. You tried to bolster (somehow) that by saying, hey, the Chiefs gave up the lead to the Bills with almost no time on the clock in regulation. The game is also played by Defense. The Bills had 2 defensive opportunities to stop the Chiefs---back to back. After the embarrassment of the 13 second collapse to send it to overtime, the "number 1 Defense in the League" regroups. All they need to get is one 3 and out in OT and the Bills get their "OT possession" to possibly win it. Those have been the rules for years. But instead, the Chefs got 3 more 1st downs and steamrolled the Bills. Game over. After some time to reflect on that.....they had ample opportunity in OT to "execute" the right call. It wasn't even close. Well, that's because they won the game. Suck?--the Bills D was the best in the NFL. They were given 2 chances to demonstrate this in a do or die playoff game on a team that is supposed to be a legit SB contender against a team they could not get past one year prior. Come on--this isn't college boy football.

Honestly, who would even know?

Certainly that argument has been well made. But in OT, the D absolutely just laid down---drove the field in under 5 minutes, getting 3 more 1st downs and Mahomes went 6/6 (to 5 different receivers) 63 yards. Yeah, Chiefs last D stand in regulation has nothing to do with OT. The Bills O walked off the field with a 3 point lead and 13 seconds. Only 1 D had to play hard and smart for 13 seconds to avoid OT and preserve the win. Your point that the Bills deserved another possession because they choked twice in a row on D is poorly made.

the Chiefs D wasn't on the field at the end of regulation.

the same D caved again.

This was one of OJ's prison nicknames...

"it turned out" the way we all knew it was going to because JA is the franchise and that contract absolutely was a priority. Beane's comments re: Digg's contract status don't have the same weight or inevitability because it's not the same or similar priority.

true but the other poster wasn't making that distinction, but drawing an equivalence in the importance (and risk?) of their new contracts and the expedience in which they get done. There really isn't a significant equivalence. 3 of the top 5 WR last season have only played 2, 1 and 3 seasons, respectively. They can wait on Diggs...

JA's impact on this team's fortunes is orders of magnitude larger than Diggs's. Your franchise QB's second contract gets done. Your WR1 comes and goes--ask the Vikings.

I think they saw how the Bills blew the lead in regulation and said "nah...that doesn't get a second chance".

The amount lost if the team left town is a tiny fraction of what is being fronted for the stadium. Far more millionaires have already left NY than are employed by the Bills...yet it still can afford to blow billions in Buffalo.

They were pretty sure they were there in 2021....

Well the big splash of V Miller was certainly big. Adding Philips and Lawson (2 guys they let go not long ago not a huge move (drafting their replacements has not quite worked out yet, so they had to get them back I guess), not seismic. Saffold for a year? But only 2 years ago Diggs (in his prime, for 1st round pick) was even more of a splash on all levels. Plus Addison to shore up the D. Last year they added Breida and Sanders and it seemed like a thing at the time. If they can get to the SB this year as a result of these moves, then it's all golden.....