BADOLBILZ

The Jets and Sabres are bound by their mutual 13 season and counting, longest non-playoff streak in north american pro sports. It's not going off topic when the topic turns to ownership decisions by Pegula versus those made by Johnson. What Food Stamp U is doing going 1-9 this season is a testament to their sorry alumni but that has no relevance whatsoever to decisions made by the Jets/Sabres.

Oh did I touch one of Mrs. Fergy's nerves and injure you by proxy? The unqualified architect of the current Sabres team was hired years before the life altering event to the wife of the hands-on owner of the Sabres. He's working on his 5th straight playoff miss out of what will likely be 14 straight. Try to keep up with the other team in Buffalo before you go off the rails with irrelevant and inappropriate jagoffery.

I mean, that's what he thought he was getting with Saleh and Douglas. Football people from winning programs who had earned the opportunity. It's not like he just continually hired the clowns and washouts that Terry Pegula hired in hockey in their mutual quest with the NY Jets to never again make their respective playoffs.

Yeah it wasn't a coaching clinic, IMO. Brady's offensive game plan didn't really work like it was drawn up. Allen just put them on his back on 3rd and 4th downs. That put enough points on the board and kept KC's offense off the field(only 9 possessions). The defensive plan was pretty good but not exceptional. There were a couple drives where the Chiefs moved the ball with relative ease just like they did in the divisional game. The biggest difference, IMO, was the Bills defense was healthy. The rosters are pretty evenly matched and are so familiar with each other now that they have taken on the nature of a divisional matchup. Even when one team plays notably better........like KC going thru the Bills injury riddled defense like a hot knife in the divisional matchup last year........the game ends up close.

Agreed. But Douglas has his defenders here on TSW. Afterall........he picked the incredible Breece Hall. There were about a half dozen people on TSW who were irate about how the Jets got him instead of the Bills and how regret would follow. I mean, it's literally the easiest or second easiest position to find talent at (safety being the other) and they were desperate for OL help and goes to Arby's with a near 1st round pick. That pick eased my mind about his potential as a GM.

In 2022 Spencer Brown was playing at about the level Torrence has played this year. Which seemed bad because more was expected after he played well for a rookie and even played a little LT in relief of Dawkins in 2021. But Saffold had the worst season by an OL that I have ever seen as a Bills fan. Colin Brown 2013 was about as bad but was mercy benched after 5 starts. It wasn't a toss up who was worse, not by any means.

I would say Torrence really stunk early on this season. But I didn't at the time because Rodger Saffold really lowered the bar for bad guard play back in 2022. I see @uticaclub saying Spencer Brown cost the team a SB trip in 2022........I mean, hell no, Saffold was that guy. With Saffold in the middle there wasn't nearly enough time for anything Brown could not do to matter.

No and not particularly close yet, IMO. Buffalo Kromer line 1.0: Glenn/Incognito/Wood lines in 2015-2016 were dominant. They subsequently lead the NFL in rushing and big plays both years, which is a difficult combo for an offense let alone one without a top QB. They were in the primes of their careers and all like mid-high 70's grade pff etc.. as well. Dion's prime was 2020-2021. He's still good but not the same player. Brown and OCT are ascending but Brown has 12 penalties and OCT has had a rough year. McGovern and Edwards are solid. I liked McGovern over Morse for the stoutness in pass pro and that's been the case.

It's an interesting and relevant topic but I am in no rush to extend any of them. Benford and Bernard are very good players but the combination of having not been particularly durable and being back 7 "system fit" defenders in a McDermott defense tells me that you should probably play those deals out and draft and develop as if they won't be there in 2026. Shakir is tremendous from the slot but I don't think I could justify extending him for his market value. Would have to be way under market and considering the punishment he takes I'd be inclined to wait until he puts in a 120+ target kinda' workload (this season + playoffs) and then see if he can bounce back none the worse for it well into next season. He's sort of the Taron Johnson of the offense guy to me. I think they originally extended Taron in October or November during his walk season. Worst case scenario you are stuck replacing the easiest WR position to replace. After extending Allen, Greg Rousseau is by far the Bills biggest priority because he's a potential very long term difference maker at the LOS and has a big cap 2025 hit that can be worked down by extending him. I could see the Bills trying to pair Groot up with an elite pass rusher on the other side. Then maybe just drafting and developing back 7 replacements, which has worked out pretty well so far. That might be the most prudent way to go about it.

The guy averages 46 yac yards per game in a 2 high safety league. He'd have to be proven incredible downfield to justify dying on the hill they did in that divisional round. Flip he and Diggs routes on that play and take the easy button and McD probably ends up looking like Bill Parcells 2.0 at the end of the day for that gameplan.

There was no reason for you to frame the Cooper trade as Beane just seizing an opportunity instead of being in desperate search for a boundary WR either. But you did it. Better draft compensation gets teams to eat cap space. If the Jets didn't pony up for Adams the Raiders would have had to be open to eating money. That's why Beane was in on Adams in the first place. Because if the Raiders didn't trade him they had to pay him anyway. He had been pulled from the lineup and HAD to be moved. Even simply releasing him wasn't a money saving option. The Jets were just MORE desperate than the Bills or anyone else. And that's probably a factor in why they fired their GM today.

Sacrificing the amount of first downs they did to set up a deep shot to Quintin Morris? I mean, c'mon bro. I heard some Bills analyst say that the amount of wasted runs into the line wasn't egregious because only like 55% of the first downs were run plays. But they threw 40 passes and Allen had 12 rushes. The volume of wasted plays was too much.

yeah they converted something like eight third and 8 or more plays. It was absurd. It was NOT how you draw it up. And all of the analysis about how dominant the Bills were or how good the coaching was misses the point entirely. Allen willed them to victory. If he doesn't get that first down/TD at the end they lose and we know it. That chaotic football is entertaining but the guy has taken a beating this season they need to get the passing game in order down the stretch.

They were getting a boundary WR one way or another. Apparently everyone knew it except you. Beane admitted he was in on Adams but the Jets paid the price AND ate the money. No doubt if Cooper wasn't going to be traded then Hopkins is a Bill before KC loses Rice and has to pay as much as they did. That 5 that becomes a 4 from KC would have been a 3 that becomes a 2 from Buffalo.......or a 2 for Hopkins and a day 3 pick. You don't put your MVP level young QB's health and career in conflict over a day 2 pick. Also how did you like that go ball they threw to Shakir against KC? Total waste of a down. He kinda' looks like a 5'7" RB running a go route once he gets that far downfield, doesn't he? He's excellent at what he does but that ain't it. This is why not getting help on the boundary was not an option despite the likelihood all along that Shakir would put up 900 or so yards.

Indy/KC An ugly 1 TD 3 INT line with just 7 ypa.....so they subsequently needed an excessive 77 pass attempts the last two weeks(inflating bulk stats to 271 per game) and also an unsustainable 10 rushing attempts per game for Josh Allen. And that was with absolutely perfect passing conditions. In a dome one week and a rare zero-wind impact home game. TN/Sea 4 TD 1 INT 9 ypa and 30 more pass yards per game and subsequently just 5 rushes per game for Allen in the two weeks with both Cooper and Coleman together. And the TN game was very wind impacted. The passing game was much more efficient. As it also was to a lesser extent in the Miami game with at least Coleman fully healthy. Not having those guys healthy has turned them back into the kind of offense they were down the stretch last year, which was predicated on JA being used as a battering ram in the run game.