Utah John

I love Daboll as the OC but I'm not sure he has the personality to be a HC. Lots of guys make great coordinators but fail with the top job. The Peter Principle kicks in and they just can't replicate their success. Part of the reason is that when they finally get their chance to move to a HC job, they're leaving a successful winning organization and are being tossed onto a garbage fire team that needs a lot to get fixed. What they're used to doing is being responsible for a big part of the team but not the whole team. On the team they left, the HC had good coordinators (including the guy who left), and on the new team the new HC has to build from scratch. Anyway, I'm glad Daboll is back this year, and I wish him well wherever he goes although I wouldn't be sad to see him get a new title (like Frazier did) and a big raise in order to stay and keep the wheels turning in Buffalo.

Browns fans are right to be worried about what Allen's contract means for their team. I don't think Mayfield is anywhere near as good as Allen, but he's going to get paid as if he is. The Browns have a lot more players who think they're deserving of rich-for-life contracts than the Bills do, and there just won't be enough cap space available for the Browns to hold on to all their talent.

During his last few years, Ralph wasn't a very energetic presence for the team, but his budget guy, whose name I have mercifully forgotten, was still very active, and he was behind many terrible personnel and coaching moves. So it wasn't so much Ralph being out the picture, it was THAT guy.

McBeane hit home runs in drafting early on, but it's been a while since they drafted anyone who deserves a massive extension like Allen, Diggs, White, Dawkins, and (soon) Edmunds. It might make it easier budget-wise not to have to pay Oliver that much, but I'd much prefer to have Oliver becoming so dominant that Beane has to do more juggling magic to find the dollars to extend him too.

Depends on the personalities involved. If the QB is a real jerk then that could be a problem, but Allen seems to have a good relationship with all his teammates. And everyone in football knows that QBs get insane money.

The three-way trade that got us Cornelius Bennett was probably the best trade the Bills ever made. The worst was trading Daryle Lamonica and Glenn Bass to Oakland for Tom Flores and Art Powell.

All we have to go on is what the reporters tell us, so who knows. As for Kumerow, I don't get it. The guy sounds so good, but he keeps getting released. He bounced around before the Packers got him and liked him a lot and cut him. The Bills had him and liked him and cut him last season, just before Christmas. Holy Toledo. Then New Orleans grabbed him. And then they let him go too. And after getting cut by the Bills right before Christmas, he CAME BACK. This is the life, I suppose, for a talented athlete who isn't quite elite. But in his case, he seems to stay right on that knife's edge for years and years. My prediction is that the Bills will showcase him in preseason, and then trade him to a team in need of a good solid receiver. Note, though, that if the Bills do that, he probably won't be coming back again.

Perry Fewell? The guy who was the Bills HC for a while? Maybe this is a good thing, having a senior official with a coaching background involved in overseeing the officials on the field.

My neighbor has one in his back yard. Hasn't run in years.

1. I miss Van Miller. 2. Love those old commercials. Cars were really bad then. 3. All the players seemed hungry for another shot at the SB. It was fairly unusual for a team that lost a SB the previous year to make it back the next year. It didn't look like any of the players bought into that. 4. Training camp in Fredonia seemed to bring the team together more than holding camp SJF. I think there was more of an atmosphere where they worked hard during the day, then hit the bars in Fredonia as teammates. Once the Bills shifted north, they lost that team building, and whether it's coincidence or not, the drought began. Kudos to McBeane for getting today's team tight and focused. Frequent doses of Bills football. The stress of watching them miss the playoffs year after year took its toll. The past couple of years, we've all been getting younger!

We do seem to have more quality receivers than we will start the season with. This is a good thing for us, not so much for the guys who don't make it, although getting film catching Josh passes can't hurt getting onto another team. We probably have five receivers who are better than any of the receivers we had some years during the drought. This will get sorted. Someone will get hurt during preseason. Some other team will discover their receivers aren't good enough, and will come looking for a trade. The high numbers of receivers and O linemen who can actually play is making competition tough and the team tougher, and they're like cash Beane can convert into draft picks.

I can't see the wisdom in releasing or trading Fromm, unless McBeane think he's not good enough to play for us. Trubisky will be here for only one year, and then the Bills will be scrambling to find a competent backup, or needing to draft someone to replace Fromm. Fromm's on his cheap rookie contract and can provide low-cost, quality backup play for a few years. He just seems like the best option, from a long-term success perspective.

Agree that this team had the talent to break the drought, but somehow the coach and players couldn't get on the same page. Wrecks took a top defensive team and absolutely broke it, demanding that players do it his way instead of what worked the year before. Nevertheless, put someone like Josh Allen onto that team, and the Bills make the playoffs. Tyrod Taylor is a good player but not good enough to put a team on his back. That loss in London was one of the most heartbreaking I can remember. I think the players were contemplating the Curse of Doug Flutie on the plane ride home, and had it in their heads that they just weren't going to escape the quicksand of fate.

The Bills set up shop every summer as "O Linemen R US" -- they stock up on guys who can sort of play, so when another team gets desperate because of injuries (or covid), Beane trades them someone he just picked up, for a low round draft pick. It seems to be the only way he can get sort-of comp picks, since the Bills usually don't get any official comps.

What's especially frustrating is that the Bills regularly went 4-0 against the NFC teams they played in the regular season, then couldn't handle them in the SBs. I don't blame the Bills for losing the second and third SBs. They were up against the Redskins and the rising Cowboys, when both those teams were really loaded. The Skins and Cowboys had better teams. But in the first and fourth, it was lack of coaching flexibility that did in the Bills. In the first, Kelly wanted to throw so much, but Thurman was really set up to dominate. TT did great, but he could have done so much more. The Giants' defense was keyed to stopping Kelly, and Levy didn't get Kelly to go to what was really working, which was Thomas. Aside from the defense being hung over and unable to tackle anyone, that was the key. In the fourth SB, at halftime, while the Cowboys were figuring out how to win, the Bills were, what, napping? Instead of Levy and the team leaders rallying the troops and getting them fired up, and perhaps even pointing out how something they saw the Cowboys doing that the Bills could take advantage of, I think Levy was handing out orange slices.

While Hooker might have been a good option, the best FA safety signing the Bills didn't make was on Dean Marlowe, who actually was on the team last year and played well. I never heard the reason why Marlowe left. Could have been he got more money of course, or maybe he just wanted to find a situation where he could start. Not much chance of that with Dr. Poyer and Mr. Hyde.

It was 3-3 at the time, and it was Phil Hansen who deflected and picked off Marino. The game was really decided earlier that that, when Bruce Smith broke through a block by the guard and sacked Marino immediately after a three-step drop. Unbelievable quickness and acceleration by Bruce. Marino was sketchy the rest of the game.

Marino had the bad timing to be at his career best when the Bills were so dominant. He had the talent to win at least one SB but he couldn't get past Buffalo, year after year. This game shows how one team BEATS another team. Not just outscores them, but beats them down and crushes their spirit.

It's the equivalent of saying you won't get the same medical attention if you're in a car wreck and you weren't wearing a seat belt. If you insist on not taking all reasonable precautions, which is your right as an American adult, you should not be surprised if there are consequences. No, and the team has kept a lid on that. All we know is that he was undecided, and that was months ago.

I am not sure. I know the players will NOT be paid if their team is involved in a forfeit. I think it would be only fair to reimburse ticket holders if the game is not played.

Vaxed people can still contract covid, and that's no surprise since no vaccine is 100% effective. Actually the covid vaccines are more effective than most vaccines, but still not 100%. My understanding is that the league will punish outbreaks if players are not vaccinated.

I am so glad to hear about this. Allen worked with Palmer the previous two offseasons and the results were as amazing as we could have hoped for. I wondered a little whether Allen would continue to bear down, working to maintain what he got right previously and to improve where possible. I'm delighted to hear that Allen is back at it. Allen's good friend is Sam Darnold, and Darnold also worked with Palmer in previous offseasons. But Darnold didn't put in the same effort. When Palmer corrected Allen about something, he'd work on that point over and over to make sure he got it right. Darnold would do it once and call it good. Darnold never really had a chance in New Jersey with their clown car coach, but he didn't do himself any favors either.

I so much admire Carucci. I have another compliment to toss his way: What an articulate, well-delivered, message. Almost no hms or uhs or other pauses -- just a stream of well-chosen words.

Well, look, the thinking at the time of the draft was that Josh Rosen was the guy who was more ready to step into the NFL and play well. And if Rosen had had a decent team and coach, he could have played well as a rookie, better than Josh Allen, whose fundamentals and mechanics were still not that good. The most important difference of course is that Allen's ceiling is so high because his athletic talents are so massive, and then he worked his butt off in the offseasons to get better. Rosen as I recall was independently wealthy and was always likely not to dedicate himself to his craft, and so he didn't get better, and he became an irrelevant afterthought, while Allen is on his way to a HOF career. Beane drafted Allen and not Rosen because he saw the potential of both men, and he chose wisely.

I did that for a few years when my daughter was in college. The service is not as good as the full-scale ST, but if you only want to watch one team's games it does work.