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You hit the nail on the head IMO. That's the reason these fires turn into the apocalyptic infernos.

The Bills organization is much larger than the people you see on the field on Sundays. It's hundreds of employees. It's easier to pay the bills when the Bills are competitive and winning football games. Paying bills gets harder when fans don't show up or buy merchandise because the team isn't competitive. You aren't going to make a lot of money when your tickets sell for $5. That's all I ask as a fan - be a competitive football team. Do what it takes to win. That's what you're in the business to do. Winning=making $$$ for everyone involved.

You really only had to do one thing to stay competitive. Sure, you could have fired Juan Castillo and/or Terry Robiskie (still tempting) but lets' say you didn't want to be that dramatic. All you had to do was under no circumstances play Nate Peterman again. You start Allen and get to trying out a better backup quarterback post haste. The season may have been different if you didn't have the countless Peterman implosions.

Prescott is Tyrod Taylor if he played for the Cowboys. Both quarterbacks have trouble seeing the whole field and progressing through the reads. I certainly could see a Cowboys future with Prescott on another team.

My guess is he will take a year off, do some broadcasting, and wait for an opening. He will see what happens in Green Bay, Seattle or even a place like Arizona.

I voted no because for a professional football operation, they showed an astounding lack of planning for a worst case scenario and an absurd amount of what I'd call "blind faith" in Nate Peterman. What if Peterman sucks? What if we don't want to play Allen or he's hurt? Out of moves on the chess board, they had to go out and grab a guy off a golf course (Anderson) and a guy who hadn't played in over two years (Barkley). IMO, highly paid NFL executives shouldn't be reduced to doing those things IN season.

This team is inconsistent with the "showing up" part and that's what makes prognosticating these games difficul for me. They tend to show up after getting embarassed. They get mad and play accordingly. I never saw McCoy run like he did yesterday all year. The catch is McDermott has yet to figure out how to keep the team collectively Clubber Lang-level focused for every game. With this team, you can tell from the first series whether they are flat or playing with a purpose. They "can" beat all of those teams with Barkley and/or Allen. There are no Saints or Rams in that schedule.

I know, right? I should ask more McClaughlin Hour-esque questions - and get this board a Nobel Peace Prize. :-)

I'm no front office football executive but I would have been wary enough of an interception prone QB to have a solid backup plan in case things went awry. They should have planned for it going awry. It's good to have faith but that's blind faith IMO.

Interesting take. I hadn't heard this story. I think in our Walking Dead era, this movie idea would do better today than it did in 1986. As an aside, whatever happened to Emilo Estevez? https://www.dailylocal.com/arts_and_entertainment/rock-music-menu-film-that-revived-ac-dc-s-career/article_768085f9-d273-574d-8285-03bb790ccf3f.html

I appreciate his explanation of the business side of football operations with the contracts. Makes sense to me. I can buy that 2018 was a season to get out of contract hell. The question that wasn't asked was why go all in on Nate Peterman in preseason and then double down on the decision with keeping him in the lineup after Baltimore. That's the crux of the fail this year IMO.

My hot take: There will be a big to-do about her being elected, lots of press and fanfare, but in two years she'll be ousted by her own party. She's not going to do much in the House. The old guard wants its last shot at the limelight. No room for Ms. Thang. Two years from now, she'll get smoked in the primary by the other faction in the Democratic Party. Their hubris had them flatfooted this time around. They won't make that mistake twice. The primary role of these reps is to spread the money around back home and with her poltiical leanings, it won't be going to all the groups that are used to receiving said money.

Free agency was always going to kill the league. It's a slow death.

He probably lives to see another day unless things spectacuarly collapse where it's blowout losses every game, locker room is lost, the boos at the Ralph reach fever pitch and McDermott has a Doug Whaley-esque press conference. The entire coaching staff on offense from coordinator down though, however, is on borrowed time at this point. I think Daboll's seat is hotter than the team would ever let on. You don't want to get a reputation for firing people because the good people see it as a toxic workplace to avoid. However, marching into a new season expecting greatness from doing all the same things that failed the year before is a different level of insanity. ?

It was a WTH purchase but Black Rifle coffee isn't too bad at all. I bought a bag at a fair here in Pennsylvania and haven't been disappointed. As for store bought coffee, I prefer to use a reuseable K-Cup just because you can crank out nearly triple the cups of coffee out of a bag of coffee but that's just my personal preference. I really like the Cafe Bustelo for that. If I buy K-Cups, the Revv is surprisingly smooth.

I don't think it'd be the complete cataclysm some suggest. The board preferred Flutie over Johnson. They liked George Seifert for head coach. The board probably wouldn't have fired Wade and would have risked the cap hell to see Bruce TT and Andre retire as Bills. There would have been an offer too good for Bill Cowher to refuse. Board preferred Miller over Dareus IIRC and hated the Whitner, Williams picks. There weren't too many Bills fans that didn't want Khalil Mack in a Bills jersey.

I liked the episode. I thought the time jump was slick even if the "Judith...Judith Grimes" was a little over the top...and needed the James Bond horn music. That was also Lauren Cohan's last episode. I think she will be back because that show she's in on ABC looks like the usual high concept ABC mess (I see you Last Resort) that'll get a single season.

IMO, I think his, and his brother's laziness is what got him fired. The news filtering out after he got fired painted a portrait of two men who were for all intents and purposes, just mailing it in. You can be a hard worker and lose. You can't be lazy and lose. Nobody writing the checks is going to stand for that.

With the caveat that nobody gets fired at this juncture: Swallow your pride and go back to the drawing board and research the plays and formations that allowed McCoy and Benjamin success - even if it is the antithesis to "your" scheme. Simplify the schemes. No more Nate Peterman.

I don't know how the Pegulas couldn't be personally embarrassed. I'd be irate if I were them.

I think the more precise question is: "What is YOUR deal with trusting Nate Peterman to win you football games?" Everything this year at the QB position started with their almost arrogant confidence in Nate's ability.

If that doesn't get the entire coaching staff on the offensive side of the ball fired, what will? No touchdowns? If that statistic comes to be, I'd burn the whole offense down and start over. I wouldn't care about loyalty, contracts, etc. You can't let that slide. It's suppossed to be professional football. Professionals are held accountable.

Your movie write ups are excellent. You are this board's Mr. Moviefone. The way you set it up really gives us a lay of the land. I wonder by the time I'm ready to move on from this world how many Robin Hood and Grinch remakes will there be?

I feel the Bills have seen everything they are going to see from him. I get the impression he wows in film study, knows the plays and gets it from a football intellectual point of view. He might be an excellent coach someday, who knows. However, you see what happens on the field and that's what matters. I am flummoxed by McDermott's thought process at QB. I'm ok with Allen. I get why Anderson is here. I don't understand why they had to trade McCarron, why Matt Barkley is here and why Nate Peterman wasn't released after the Chargers game.

Absolutely. Seperation is knowing the play and the discipline, aptitude and consistency to run that crisp route every time. All those things can be coached. The NFL's greatest receivers have one thing in common, regardless of when they played: All top-shelf route runners.