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The abject obstinance sorta' harkened back to the era of the regrettably no-account Wade Phillips and his headset and the atrocious mullet sporting special teams coach he jumped on his sword for. When you are THAT wrong just own it, adapt and live to fight another day.

Totally agree. Any Bills fan who has a New England pro sports rooting interest is a traitorous d-bag. They have learned to hide it on the board. With the sh!t that went down with the Braves and Bruins and cheating Patriots........I mean, you can't shack up with those fans just because you want to front run in hoops or baseball. That's disgusting.

The NFL isn't going to the MLB model. They can't afford to. The NFL would have never survived if they hadn't gone to shared media rights, revenue and salary cap. It's the entire key to their existence and popularity. They simply don't make enough inventory with each team only playing 20x(17 real 3 preseason) per year before playoffs. They can't have a bunch of meaningless, regional interest only matchups like MLB can because they can't live off of the gate. The team Bezos should buy is the Yankees. MLB is desperate to level the field like the NFL has but they won't be able to get the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox and now Mets to ever agree to that. Those teams, except for the Mets to this point(but that will change), are a money press and applying that money yields results on the field over the long haul. Buying an NFL team is also a money press but only if you follow the rules.......which means revenue sharing and spending limitations due to a salary cap.

I was distraught when Ben Roethlisberger somehow went 11th and the Bills didn't get him. So I can relate. Like Josh Allen, in a draft without QB depth it doesn't get over-thought and a Roethlisberger goes #1 overall. When there are 3-4 potential franchise guys sometimes the top physical talent gets passed on.

Oh hell they had the draft capital to get even higher. Beane gave up relatively little to move up from #11 to #7. Beane didn't want to give up the two picks that became Tremaine Edmunds so he played a dangerous game there. If he'd have missed out on Allen that would have been right up there with Donahoe f#cking around in that 2004 draft because he thought he could wait til #9(Jax) to trade up. There is no personnel chip more over-rated than a 1st round pick not used on a franchise QB. The Bills have been among the better drafting teams since 2017 but there isn't any one first round pick they couldn't have done without and still been a SB contender except that QB.

Sat in bank boxes a few times. They are very boring to watch the game from and the food spread ain't anything special and gets picked over pretty fast if the box is full so you'd probably have ended up leaving the box to get in line for food and mixing with the unwashed like @teef tracking slush into the common area with their snow pants and moon boots anyway. You might as well pay $2K per ticket per season and sit outside under cover versus $2K per ticket per game in the box and having to buy all 18 per game at a time or whatever it was.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding you, but did you think you could buy some individual season tickets in a luxury box? You have buy the rights to all the seats in the box. If you want to sit in the box you would have to work out a deal with the owner of the box for that season, not the team.

How is it "crazy" that regimes fail for not getting a QB when the reality is that there are always considerably less than 32 franchise QB's but an abundance of potentially capable GM/HC candidates? You get it done or you miss your shot. Was it crazy that Dan Campbell didn't get to pick his guy? How is that working out? If you don't have the luck of the irish like McDermott and get to choose between Mahomes, Allen and Lamar in consecutive drafts then you gotta' be aggressive and MAKE it work.

When were all these "turf naps" @Simon? I don't recall any prior to this season since the concussion that knocked him out of that home game versus NE in 2019. He had a bad head bounce off the turf in a preseason game with the Bengals early in his career but those kind of impacts have been rare. The hit versus Green Bay didn't result in him getting planted on his back and his head bouncing straight back off the turf. Those are the one's that most often cause concussion because the neck is more flexible backward. Against Green Bay he went to the ground, spun a bit and the side of his helmet made contact with the ground. A hard hit for sure but he hopped right up with no hesitation and got in the DB's face. I never bought that as a concussion but it wasn't a great result.

This coming draft might be the deepest crop of NFL quality kickers ever. It's just in time as the league has multiple guys washing out, including Justin Tucker finally. With all the mid-late round picks Beane has I think it's likely they draft one.

Claypool had just one game over 40 yards(41) and just a handful in the 30's over the next 2+ years. I think people really lost track of how extreme his fall off was. I just think football coaches at that level just don't understand people like Maybin and Claypool because by all rights they shouldn't be able to reach that level with their mindsets.

Yeah MVS wasn't going to work. That should have been obvious. But there was really no hope for Claypool. He just didn't want football OR the money enough to hone his skills. Aaron Maybin managed to kayfabe his way to about $20M for 2 seasons with the Bills. He was literally only pretending to play football. Complete with flops and grossly embellishing contact etc.. But even he tried after the Jets picked him up and free agency and a second contract loomed. Claypool left tens of millions on the table this past offseason for the want of trying at all in 2023. Never seen anything quite like it but he seemed to need to be liked or he was taking his ball and going home. From the moment he cost the Steelers that game against Minnesota with his celebration on Dec 10, 2021 and caught universal condemnation for it the switch shut completely off. He had 93 yards that game and was on pace for well over 1,000 that season but he checked out the rest of the year and it only got worse from there. And no, you can't predict that teams that are expected to be around .500 preseason will even be sellers. The Bills had their share of QB's playing like you mentioned and would be "in the hunt" at 4-7 in November and rarely dealt talent at the deadline. You can hope for it, I was hoping Seattle would flop hard and Metcalf would be available. But if GM's of suspect teams didn't think they could still sneak into the playoffs and maybe salvage their jobs in the process they would have traded those players when they had a lot more value in the offseason. So some years there isn't much out there. The NFL deadline isn't like MLB or even the NHL where players bring good value in return. There was solid demand for WR's but still the previous season's 1,000 yard receiver at the trade deadline was worth just a 4th or 5th round pick if you weren't eating money.

The people who NOW think that trading for a WR1 at midseason was the plan all along(despite paying MVS and believing in Chase Claypool) presume that Beane knew that teams with veteran, pending free agent type veteran WR1's were definitely going to be in sell mode in October. You can't predict that. Cincy has been buried in the playoff race all season and they were never going to trade Higgins or Chase before the deadline. Cleveland made the playoffs last year and Vegas had them at 8.5W for over under. I can go on. It very well could have turned out like the trade deadlines where there were so few options that Beane couldn't get his man. But as I said this summer........the thing I knew for certain about this WR corps was that Beane would be desperately looking to trade for a WR1 type in October. It was an absolute no doubter.

Yeah I got big hate from overzealous and unintuitive people like you when I said that Diggs would be fine with Buffalo until they extended him and then he'd get in his own head and f*ck it up. Because that's what happened in Minnesota. And that's exactly what happened. You can call it nonsense, that's fine. I don't value your ignorant opinion and rambling BS.

Any number that ends in million is a bunch but we see players who don't love playing walk away when it doesn't seem to make sense. Daryl Williams probably walked away from $5M or more after his age 29 season. He was a very good guard at that point. It's not like he was banged up, he played 97-98% of the offensive snaps in his time as a Bill. He just hit his number and called it quits.

It's not a hate post at all. A lot of players don't live to play football. I mean we are talking about a guy who took no joy from playing on the league's most famous team and playoff teams at each stop? Reading that as Buffalo has been a revelation to him is foolish and naive. Like when Bills fans talked themselves into the idea that Stef Diggs tendency to irrational disenchantment wouldn't follow him to Buffalo. I mean, Cooper didn't spend his whole career with the Jets for fuxake. Get your head out of yourass. I said it when Cooper was put on the trade market, he is not going to elevate your teams level of compete. He's not a leader. He's good with whatever so long as he's getting paid right. But he's also not toxic in the way that alpha's like Davante Adams can be when things go wrong. He was a perfect fit for the Bills because he is a great talent on the boundary and was dirt cheap. He'll reach the crossroads of his career this offseason when he can no longer command a top 5 WR money as a free agent. So elite teams can now afford him. He has a chance to put a cap on his career playing for elite teams and change the perception that he was just a number accumulator who didn't care that much about winning. But, it also wouldn't shock me if he just retired if he can't get upwards of $20M aav(which I doubt).

If you need leadership and a guy who raises the compete level of your team Cooper ain't it. In the wrong situation(like Cleveland was) that can make him a loser's loser. He'll just go out and do his job well but he ain't going to be any help changing a losing culture and if he is the 2nd or 3rd highest paid guy on the team you gotta' have some leadership from that dude because players are going to look up to that big money. And you aren't winning with a locker room full of players who don't find joy in winning from week to week. But in a situation like Buffalo he can be ideal. They are already very good, the culture is established and they don't need an alpha. They just need a guy who can do what he does on the field. He is making very little money from the Bills now and if he were to re-sign for a Hopkins type deal in the offseason that wouldn't necessitate more than just doing his job.

Yeah McBeane have created a ton of synergy by building a culture and systems that allow them to get more from the players they draft. When a guy like Gabe Davis walks it's not surprising when he crashes and burns elsewhere. Gone are the days when it seemed every player left Buffalo and became the best version of themselves as a player. The 1990's Bills had something similar and it allowed them to maintain a very deep roster despite being a playoff team and drafting late in rounds 10 times in 12 seasons from 88'-99'. But what we learned from the 90's drafting is that eventually you can go broke just trying to make a profit. You gotta' keep getting stars.

My source is I've played violent sports and been concussed. The one in the Houston game was an absolute no-doubt brain stem bender that only a complete idiot would refute. But the one in the Ravens game was the also a typical hit back of head on ground with neck snap and you open your eyes and it's like the sun is a foot from your face. See his facial reactions after he gets buried. That's what all the squinting and trauma around the eyes is.

So if I say @Thurman#1 thinks Allen should run the ball 20 times per game are you going to blindly chase that strawman too? I never said Allen shouldn't run the ball. I also never said he had run the ball more this season. I said he had to run more(20 times) over the last two games because the passing game wasn't as efficient as it had been when they first acquired Cooper and the corps was whole. Do you disagree with that? If so do you expect 8-12 Allen rushes per game to be the norm with Cooper, Coleman and Kincaid all back? I also said he's taken his worse beating in a season so far and the majority of that punishment has been when he's had to leave the pocket. If you don't think so tell me the other seasons he's had concussions in 2 straight games.

I have no problem reconciling the fact that it's not good when Allen needs to run the ball 12 times in a game with the reality that on 4th and 2 on the 26 late in the game when the defense has confused him he has to run the ball to preserve victory. In what way are those opinions conflicted or a move of some goal post? It's an unintelligible conclusion on your part. And no, McDermott wasn't saying he'd see this movie before in reference to Bass missing a kick at the end of the game. That's ridiculous to suggest. A missed kick late has only factored into the decision in 1 of the 9 games that McD has coached against Reid. The reference was to the Chiefs leading late scoring drives against everyone they play if given the opportunity. The objective was to put the game out of reach with a TD or by running the clock out.

And to that point I don't think the Kermit had any pants, or socks or shoes. Mahomes always wears those in public. So it clearly wasn't supposed to be Mahomes because it wasn't authentic.