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Yeah I would too but given the choice I'd rather have NFL games in February.

They should go to 18 games with two byes and give us football all thru the sporting wasteland of February. Otherwise it's fine, IMO. The whining about it is usually from fans whose teams are injury prone. The schedule wasn't an issue when this roster was young and not missing games and Thursday night wasn't a problem when McD was undefeated on Thursday nights etc..

To @BillMafia716ix point.......I think when you sign a player like Palmer to a deal where they have to play better than they had the year before to justify the value of the contract.........the runway on whether the deal was good or not is pretty short.

I don't even presume he took it in HS. I think he was a golf major. It's the anniversary of his impactful performance in the Egg Bowl I wonder if he will show up to support Kiffin and the boys. https://www.businessinsider.com/video-egg-bowl-ole-miss-piss-elijah-moore-mississippi-state-2019-11

The next time Elijah Moore is a positive for a team's offense it will be the first time in his NFL career. He has a CAREER 65.7 passer rating when targeted and was probably the worst receiver in the NFL to get regular snaps in 2024. There is a real chance he would have at least started the season on a practice squad this season if the Bills hadn't thrown him a lifeline. Allen ever trusting Moore was a stretch. Additionally, it doesn't take much research to see that in Brady's first season as an NFL OC in Carolina he had two 1,000+ yard receivers plus an 800+ yard Curtis Samuel. None of which were superstars. This coming off having the greatest passing offense in the history of college football. But not running the ball enough was cited in his firing in Carolina. I think people need to consider the fact that he is running what Josh Allen and McDermott want. A simple system. Which would probably work in spite of perceived predictability if the talent was right. Moore wasn't ever going to move the needle for this team but some of you just can't get over his draft pedigree.

Unless you and @gobills404 don't follow the NFL or are just bad at math it shouldn't seem disingenuous. That record is EXACTLY what the Rams were. No spin. They were around .500 over that period and teams that can do that are going to be in WC contention. In fact, the Rams then started out 1-4 in 2024.........so they were actually 16-23 over the first 39 games post SB win. It was getting ugly. But that 25-26 also INCLUDES their extraordinary 10-2 finish last year(when Bills fans saw them, not during their inept start). In 2023 they were the definition of middling. The 9-8 Saints actually had a huge point differential advantage over those Rams but missed the playoffs. There are just a lot of people on here who don't want to accept that the Rams DID actually take a multi-season re-set in engineering their team and salary cap turnaround.

Agree.........but I don't think it's him. He's just a posession guy right now, IMO. But as I've said in other threads, this guy was a very successful WR1 running choice routes in an EP type system for years. Like Allen said, he picked up the playbook immediately. Should they decide to lean back into that Dorsey/Daboll stuff down the stretch they now have Cooks, Shakir and Davis who have all been there and done it. Though Gabe wasn't particularly good at it so that will be a concern.

He still might have said no to the Bills. He was a free agent. I find it unlikely because they literally still have all the CB's that they dealt him for peanuts in favor of on the roster.......but they may have offered him a PS spot.

Yeah the narrative that he is an assh0le came from the fact that he got traded a lot. He had a long career as a mid-league level WR1 so I think teams were always just making business decisions about his contract. That's certainly why the Saints traded him the first time. By all accounts he's always been a very professional player and good teammate. I am not sure what impact he will have on the room arriving at the end of the season like this but the Bills have not had someone like him and with his credibility in the WR room since they drafted Coleman. Certainly can't hurt, IMO. Cooper was a great player but not a particularly positive influence.

Succinctly put. Whether you call it football intelligence or instinct.......there are always some players who just can't translate their gifts because of a lack of it. And it's hard for fans to identify. Lil' Dummy McKenzie was a good example. The negative impact he had was significant. CJ Spiller is an all-timer kinda' example of unrealizable talent. Big red flags for "dumb" players always pop up though. For Moore it was as simple as following his brutal career passer rating when targeted and INT numbers. He's literally NEVER been a positive for any offense he'd played in. In an era with less statistical info available you might get a nugget like when Tasker let it slip on air that CJ Spiller wasn't getting more reps late in his rookie year because he still didn't understand the play calls(after playing in a flash card signal system at Clemson). Then the emergence of the all-22 footage where he clearly had no clue where his blocking was going and was just running to daylight. Even then, Sean Payton couldn't see it and thought he'd struck gold in FA. Moore just seems to have the spatial awareness of a pinball compared to an average NFL WR. If the Bills do decide to incorporate more choice routes back into their system that would just further diminish his potential value in their offense.

Blaming Rousseau for the defensive struggles is just such a particularly bad take that it's easy for media to point out.

I got a string of like 5 of the lower bowl seats for $15 when they replaced those like 20 years ago or so. Those seats saw teams win AFCCG at home 3 times. There were just piles and piles of them. But they WERE being sold even then. Hammer had a bunch of them in the junk area behind his garage too.

"Wayyy better than stanazolol and won't show up in a pi$$ test"

In fairness........McDermott's "complementary football" phase won 24 of the next 27 meaningful regular season games. As you said, the problem was assuming that efficiency was sustainable with modest to bad passing game personnel despite seeing it fail with ball-in-hand at the end of the two Brady playoff losses. And a sh!tty offensive performance against Baltimore in a narrow home win. They drew the wrong conclusions. As did most of the fans who have pounded their fist relentlessly about the defense costing the Bills SB trips for years. Both sides of the ball have underperformed their regular season numbers by a exactly a touchdown in the elite 8 level of the playoffs since 2020 yet some fans think the offense has been on point and the defense is down -14 per game. Not the case. When your strength is the #1 difference making player in football......lean into THAT.

The 8 interceptions and the 40 something passer rating when targeted in 2024 basically made him toxic to the rest of the league. I said it when they signed him.........he's just not trustworthy. I'm sure the Bills thought a simple passing system would elevate him and maybe he'd be an asset in scramble drills but they were wrong.