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What do you think are his standard for grading and how do you disagree with them?

For example, when I look at our LBers, where Lorenzo Alexander is now retiring, do we really need a "veteran" replacement to provide guidance to the young'ns? Matt Milano is going on year #4 and Terrell Edmunds on year #3. They've spent their entire professional careers learning how to lead, conduct meetings, break down film, take care of their bodies.... at the feet of Lorax and by extension to the whole D, Kyle Williams. At what point do they become the veterans that Vosean Joseph and whoever we pick this year will learn from? I think the time is here...

The Texan summary would have highlighted a dropped pick-6 in early going that would have evened out the game in the first quarter, likely changing most of the subsequent events...

Duke of Williams?

Will that be today? I don't think I've seen anything on this yet...

Given the more difficult schedule next year, there will be lots of candidates for primetime games.... Chiefs, Rams, Seahawks, Steelers, 49ers, Titans, plus divisional games

or kept Wyatt Teller.... this is getting worse by the post

Maybe Beane's next QB choice after Allen was Lamar Jackson?

Zay wasn't picked by Beane.... that was McDermott/Whaley

Man, if there was one guy I didn't want the Bills to draft last year it was DK Metcalf.... would he ever be an asset to Josh Allen in hindsight. Would have made a hell of a 2nd round pick

There's a long history of "bonehead plays" in the annals of sports that could be wiped out if referees routinely removed these plays due to interpretation of a player's intent.

What I find more perplexing from Daboll (and other Bills OCs before) is how hit or miss the play calling can be. One week, its dynamic, attacking, involves several weapons, mixes passes/runs well...and we win. Another week, it will be very basic, predictable and uninspiring...and we typically struggle. 2nd Patriots game is a good example, where Singletary was run between the tackles over and over on first down to little effect, keeping the offense bottled up.

So a couple of observations in reading through the various response: 1. No special teams play comes to mind at all that was a game changer. In the previous decade some Terrence McGee KO returns would have made the discussion 2. For as dynamic a player Tyrod was, you'd figure that he would have had a play that everyone remembers, but none really come to mind that rise up as a candidate 3. No monster defensive plays have been identified that made a difference

NFL released a pretty awesome video montage showing every team's play-of-the-decade. This question should probably be a poll, but there's no way I can do that justice, so I'll just ask it here...for this video they picked Shady's TD run to win the Snow Bowl game in OT. While there's probably a FitzMagic moment I'm missing, I'll put forth 2 candidates: -- Josh Allen's 75 yard bomb to Foster against the Jags last year. This came after he returned from the injury, he was under heavy pressure and stood in the pocket. In my mind this is one of the key plays where the team really started to believe in him -- Allen QB sneak fumble/recovery on 4th down against Dallas on Thanksgiving. Big national spotlight, big moment in the game. I think this is where the rest of the league started to notice him Submit your entries and even better if you include a video clip of the play....

Nice video. I'm usually not willing to watch something that long, but he laid out the story very well. Compelling!

That's his point. If ST is 1/3 of the game, why isn't there more comprehensive stats measuring the key roles like there are on Offense and Defense. Surprised that there's not a more sophisticated way to track whether/why Robert Foster is a good gunner.

You're making the OP's point for him. How is "stays in their lane" and "maintains containment" measured? Where are those stats? How do our gunner(s) compare to other teams'? And gunners don't block punts or kicks

I voted 'no', however I agree with your view through the end of the Bills Playoffs. I don't watch much college football, so I form much of my draft opinion from mocks, various articles/youtube clips and definitely through the discussion on this board. Once the Bills are out I'd like to see that continue on this board rather than another one that I don't go to.

I had to re-watch that epic interview! You better get your questions in....

Was anyone else bothered by Daboll's atrocious first down play calling? Even into the 4th quarter he kept running Singletary between the tackles nearly every drive start and most first down plays. I'm not sure any of them yielded more than 2 yards and they mostly ended up in 2-9 or 2-10. He just wouldn't change it up. Every time they lose, my first culprit is unimaginative play calling...

I've liked the strategy of going for the two in these situations for a long time. I have a Twitter list of Bills reporters that I follow during games (from WGR, TBN, Athletic, D&C,....) and the consensus in that group was also mostly to go for two

The Harp is for Bills games typically. They have an agreement to show the Bills and all fans show up. I'm not sure there's any place that Bills fans hang out en masse outside of watching the games together. I would NOT expect that Bills people are going to head into the Harp from Foxboro after the game. Outside of Sunday Bills games its a Boston bar through and through....

This is the first year we've had the same OC and DC for two consecutive years since 2010-11 under Chan Gailey. If they can keep that going the Bills haven't had the same OC and DC for three consecutive years since 1998-2000 under Wade Phillips. I think it's brought great consistency to the team and we're seeing the benefits now. That can only further improve next year! Here's to hoping that neither Daboll nor Frazier get offered a head coaching position.

I'll continue to refer to JoeB's All-22 analysis that comes out each week. Hughes is the #4 ranked player over the course of the year behind Singletary, T. White and Milano. In the grading system the top 8 players are clustered very tightly. It isn't until #9 that there's a bit of a drop-off Singletary (3.29), T. White, Milano, Hughes, Dawkins, J. Brown, Hyde, Oliver (3.21)...thats the top group then Taron Johnson (3.09) a bit lower. It on a 0 (F) to 4.0 (A) scale just like in school

Wasn't it just 3-4 weeks ago that he was a bust??