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Go Chiefs! People who think Chiefs fans are bad have NO IDEA how annoying Philly fans will be if they win again. It might even make them more likely to return to the SB and a tougher out in the event that Buffalo gets there. Eagles fans used to cry about losing that SB to Brady........then they avenged that. Avenging their loss to Mahomes will make them insufferable and create another bandwagon franchise in the region to poach potential Bills fans. I don't really get people wanting the Chiefs to lose so badly.........why does it matter? Are people under the delusion that the Bills are going to catch the Steelers, Patriots, 49ers (or even Chiefs) as the most successful franchises of the SB era? Almost zero chance of that. Be concerned about things that tangibly matter. Like battling the Eagles and Jersey teams for fans 75 miles or more east of the stadium.

Yeah I thought he'd live a very long life like Marv. But I think he had to take care of his ill mother for some years after his coaching career ended and that kind of thing will take a toll on you.

Nah. History just repeats itself. Dudes were getting killed in bars by old timey guns with lead ball ammunition in the early 1900's arguing over who was the MVP in baseball. And that was when these people only READ about the players and didn't have informed opinions from seeing them. A few years later they were wearing masks and social distancing. The concept that anything has changed.....particularly for the worse....... is so wrong it's hard to even take those opinions seriously. Recency bias just abounds.

Yeah the best thing you can say about his tenure is that he cleaned up a sloppy mess of unwatchable football that Mike Mularkey created in 2005. Which was no small task. A lot of terrible personnel decisions were made in the year prior to his arrival AND by Levy when he did arrive so that roster needed to play the only way he knew how........not to lose. The ultra-conservative style got the best out of JP Losman and allowed the defense to be opportunistic. The pass defense ranked 7th in 2006. As I said then though, after that first year he should have been fired before the commitment to mediocrity set in. And with he and Levy as the braintrust the roster just got worse. So instead, his final couple seasons in Buffalo were probably the low point of the franchise for a lot of us. The peak of their irrelevance and it took 5 years to fix the damage he, Levy and Russ had done to the roster by prioritizing non-premium positions in the draft, letting good talent walk or acquiescing to trade demands and trading away the only HoF talent they had during the drought(Peters). Once in a blue moon a team can play not to lose and have a winning record but you need an easy schedule and a ton of bounces. It ultimately doesn't work against good teams which is why his Bears went one-and-done after entering the playoffs as the #1 seed in the NFC in his only winning season. To some extent this 2024 Bills offense was a play-not-to-lose offense but with a great QB........and we saw the diminishing returns from them in the playoffs. First and foremost we should remember Dick Jauron was a GREAT NFL player. I'm sure he was a fine coach and a great guy to organize a mess for a year but unfortunately his style as a HC maximized bad talent and minimized good talent so the ceiling for him was very low. No way he ever wins a SB then or now. RIP Dick and thanks for 2006

I have the Jim Kelly one from 30 years ago but the arm with the ball got broken off in a move and I can't find it. That one from decades ago looks more like JK than this Allen one looks like Allen. I was interested in getting it to put on my desk but saw what they looked like when they came out and it just looks like some random dude in a Bills uni. There are also 7" NFL figures(I think McFarlane) and they have several of Josh but the first one looks like Mitch Trubisky. Yeesh. The most recent one still looks like Mitch but has him scrambling to the right........which was basically the signature play of the Brady offense.......so spot on. Dave and Adams had a mountain of like 100 of them(blue jersey white pants) and the variant(white jersey blue pants) last time I stopped in there last month. https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/product/variationdetails/302668?mkwid=|pcrid||pdv|c|pmt||pkw||product|151855|pgrid||cpgnid|22116119442|ptaid||adext||&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_vdsX3X9ohvb9nJ62_lU14TyjWl&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqIW-kPuxiwMV_CizAB2BNjYQEAQYBCABEgLnQfD_BwE

If the right flag or fathead came out I'd be interested but not shirts or plaques. I'm not real big on wearing player jerseys even(though I own an Allen authentic). Josh is nearly everyone's favorite Bill ever but I still root for the fan base first, team laundry second and players 3rd. Something we could display at the tailgate would be nice though. I would suspect Teepublic or Etsy will have Josh MVP sticker designs out in a few days that would be sufficient. Then you let those bad boys weather on your pinto bumper for a few years and it's vintage. MVP T shirts are more like something Steeler fans would wear to the grocery store. Kordell MVP!

It doesn't actually look anywhere near that realistic, btw.

I still have a ton of 80's and early 90's cards. I did a lot of research on prospects every year and didn't just buy packs off the shelf I would speculate on large lots of certain rookies via mail order and nailed a few of them. In some cases the profits were insane. I bought two lots of 500 Eric Davis Topps rookie cards for like 15 cents apiece and sold most of them for like $10 each to dealers at card shows when he was blowing up. It was easier money than Wall Street in the 80's. Like finding it on the street in 1987-1989 before the market tanked. I was paying for college and still stacking some $ and staying in Nikes etc.. The Sundowner might have got a little of that money too. It was great fun. Some of my fellow collectors thought I was crazy selling hot cards but being able to buy lots of hundreds of a new cards in the mid-80's might have been the first sign that this sh!t was going to become worthless. I obviously should have sold all of them but I can't complain. I mean, imagine getting real money for Willie McGee rookie cards. I'll leave what's left for my grand kids(to throw out, probably) except for those few selects like the 80' Henderson's. I never sold a Rickey he was my player.

Yeah I am all for ideas that force pitchers to throw the ball in the strike zone. Not being able to bounce sliders without consequence with nobody on base is a good thing for me. But I do think that's a much bigger rules change than the manfred man on second base in extra innings. The inherited runner on second doesn't bother me at all........if you can't resolve the game in regulation then you get what you get. And the author complains about the luck of the draw between getting a fast runner on second or a slow one because the ghost runner is the last batter of the prior inning? Well, how about having more athletic players? Add the ability to steal first rule to the Manfred man rule. Not one or the other. More action and less games decided by nameless relievers who are spent after 15 pitches is GOOOOD. I've said it before, but the strike zone needs to be a circle that fits inside the current zone. Take away all those corners. This stuff they are throwing combined with the fact that the zone is expanded by the width of a baseball on all 4 sides because all you gotta' do is hit a seam on the corner to get the call? That is why the league hit .242 last year. And if they don't take away those corners, they will never be able to automate the strike zone. Pitchers will learn how to nail the edge of that up and in corner that umps usually don't give them........and then batting averages will drop again. If suddenly pitchers have to locate in a smaller zone then MPH will drop and there will be less of those unhittable breaking pitches thrown..........and the ball will be in play more and hit squarer etc..

At this point, the Sabres need to be just making trades that they can win. After sitting on all these young players for years, the roster is about to start aging into that 26 year old average when teams actually start making the playoffs. So unless you can win the deal, let it play out. I heard WGR talking about a Quinn Hughes for Dahlin deal that would see the Sabres getting the perceived better player in return because the Canucks would want fellow Swede Dahlin to team up with their enigmatic young star Elias Pettersson.

Yeah the Bills are their team. And Canada's. But the Bills don't seem to have any interest in actively cultivating a fan base in certain countries like some teams do. Gotta' get Poland before da Bears.

Pitchers and catchers report injured on Feb 12! (And.......sure enough.......RH reliever Jake Cousins out for a month with shoulder soreness. Never fails some of these dudes always arrived injured.)

Exactly, except you already know how good Jefferson is when you make the trade..........and the trade was with the Cowboys or 49ers or some other glamour team........and in the NBA any top 5 level superstar is as important as a QB whereas Jefferson is nowhere near as valuable as an Allen, Mahomes, Lamar, Burrow etc.. So that's how much worse this trade is, if put in NFL terms.

I thought there would be a WR market correction a couple years ago but you need so many WR's to gain advantages in the passing game that there doesn't seem to be any decline in demand for difference makers. On the other hand, this is maybe the deepest draft class of RB's since the 1990's. So maybe the RB value uptick will be halted. Especially as defense's have to revert back to more conventional defensive looks.

Here is a more complex, descriptive explanation of the theory you are talking about: I love the part about Cuban coming back as the hero Mavs owner AFTER the Dallas Venetian, with Mavs arena inside is opened.

LMFAO

I don't think the comp is that easy. Mack had just 4 years of mileage and had barely missed a snap while Crosby has 6 years of mileage and is a bit older (and had a down year due to injury). Mack was also a 2 time first team All Pro and had been the NFLDPOY a season prior to the season he was traded after. Crosby has accomplished none of those things in 6 years. That's not to discount Crosby, he is a great player......... but I don't think you give as much credit to Mack's true value at the time. The NFLDPOY candidate pass rushers today(Garrett, Crosby, Watt, Hendrickson) are all grizzled vets compared to Mack winning it in just year 3. Youth and low mileage adds big trade value in the NFL. Not sure there could be a DL trade comp today that's apples to apples with that blockbuster. In hindsight Mack dropped down a tier after his second place NFLDPOY finish in year 6 so we tend to view him in a different light but he was the cream of the crop on the edge back then.

Yeah I wouldn't comp Pederson and Phillips as coordinators..........but let's face it, DC's are clearly the 3rd class citizens of the coaching hierarchy. The innovators come from the offensive side of the ball. And offense is mostly a young man's game. Hence, Davis Webb. The last real innovation on defense was the zone blitz 30 years ago. Experience is more valuable on that side of the ball, because even what we perceive as innovative on offense always has some kind of comp to the past that a wise old vet can reference with solutions to combat. Which is why Baltimore pulled 75 year old Dean Pees out of retirement to help Zach Orr get out of his own way. Wade Phillips wasn't innovative really, he was excellent at utilizing his personnel and coaching/teaching in a manner that allowed his team to adapt opponent specific game plans. Others have done it, but he was really good. I'd be all for having Wade around as a consultant because that's a weakness with this D staff. But as a HC Wade had no legs. If the table was set he could run with it for a few years. But that's about it. It's a different skillset. Pederson has the same problem in a leadership role. I could be wrong about what he could bring to the table offensively but I wouldn't want Pederson floating around in the mix in Buffalo, I just don't see what the team could gain from it.

Jermiah Smith to the U this spring, next. With teams running the ball more, it's probably a better fit for Kelly now than when he took over the Eagles.

No, he said there was "no buzz". Metcalf isn't a superstar, he's not controversial and he's been out of sight and out of mind playing on middling Seattle teams for most of his 6 seasons. There wasn't a lot of buzz last year and most of what you hear now is just coming from Seattle fans/media so unless you are following it, you aren't hearing it. Yeah it was noted that KC called about him last spring.....but with 2 years left on his deal and NSJ having not yet emerged as a star, there wasn't a great deal of impetus for Seattle to consider it. Entering his walk year I expect more discussion of an extension.....or a trade. Godwin is a slot receiver coming off a major injury. Deebo is worn and torn and grossly overpaid. The Bills need a boundary WR.

Milroe's hands coming in so small will probably be a disaster for his draft stock. 8.75"? Geez. That's smaller than Joe Burrow and he was considered the outlier of all outliers to make it with small hands at QB. He should have taken one of those $3M NIL deals this offseason and proved he could play the position better with those small mitts because it would be a shot in the dark to take him before day 3 knowing that he is such a work in progress as a processor but also might be a natural turnover factory as a passer. Will be interesting to see what happens if he blows up at the combine and runs like a 4.39 at 6'2" 225.

That's @Bob Lamb prior to moving to So Cal. Then he dropped like 50 lb's just walking on jogging paths and watching silicone bounce. Lamb is a few inches taller than Luka but if he could get under 270 then no reason Luka can't. Luka will get in shape. He just took the Mavs to the finals last year. He's literally one of the 3-4 best players in the world.

I wouldn't say there is necessarily "no buzz" around Metcalf being dealt. It's being discussed in the Seahawks fan base/sites. Because JSN has become a 100 catch receiver and is their WR1 now. And that transition basically happened when Metcalf missed some time to injury at midseason and when he came back they just didn't try to push the ball to him because JSN was flourishing. They might decide to become an increasingly defense-first team that tries to move the ball the way the Bills did this season. They have top-end talent in their RB room but couldn't run the ball......you have to think that they will want to find a way to get those guys the ball a lot more. I could see a big shift for them. Metcalf is a real trade possibility there, IMO.

The best part is that Boston sports fans are pissed. Bill Simmons is beside himself that the Lakers have managed to re-set their future despite seemingly having nothing to do so with. Boston pro sports fans have received a few nut kicks since the finale of the NFL regular season and hopefully it's the beginning of decades of failure. 🤞