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I put a couple bucks on NE to cover -2.5. I also have that as part of a multi-game parlay. Ugh

Except Shaq Lawson is on the roster and better at all the things. Shaq has been a good but not great player for us at times. Basham could be good a some point but he’s yet to be good enough.

I try not to include Tre. Not as a knock on McBeane, but you get into a weird grey area of who is responsible for which mistake/win. I feel like it muddies the water.

I can half get behind this. There have been some mistakes. But you can't throw out Allen, Milano, Edmunds (who is coming to life), Rousseau. We are just at a moment where some roster and draft choices are compounding issues. Part of it is we dedicate a lot of vet special team players rather than using special teams as a proving ground to get better. Milano is a good example of that, but we don't have many other examples since 2017. With all of our continued offensive line and run game woes we have actually had one of the highest paid OL, DL, and LB corp on a number of seasons. Cap allocation is part of the total picture. We continue to devote resources without return.

I agree with this. Unsure if alarming is the word I would choose but I think I agree with the sentiment. Signing Beasley and Brown is needed but is also seems dumb. They might not be on the 53, but they take spots on game day. Neither are as good Hodgins. The Bills have made a few bad roster choices that they have and will have to make up for in cap dollars, re-signings, and drafting. I am not a draft guru, but my immediate thoughts were "if we are lucky he will be as good as Chris Kelsay. He still isn't as good....

Let me start by saying I am a big fan of McBeane at scale. But... The redrafting and comitting of resources to the same position groups feels like it is catching up to us. Basham, AJE, Rousseau, and Miller as the 4th highest paid pass rusher. We have done similar with with RB. Now we are going into an offseason with minimal cap space (or kick the can down the road), 20+ UFA's, and big needs at OL and WR. Ultimately I think Moss, Hines, AJE, and Basham took away the opportunity to help get people in the building for ignored position groups. Getting cute with Hodgins doesn't help either. We also don't seem to get a ton out of a lot of rookie contracts lately until they push the end of the deal and need to be renewed.

Bumping my own shame. I am an idiot. Many of you pointed that out.

“I am so glad this staff is more cautious about injuries than those turds in Miami. That would never happen here” -TBD posters commenting on the Dolphins after Tua was cleared to play twice by Doctors. “So glad Morse is playing. We need him in there if we are going to have a shot” -TBD posters after Mitch Morse is cleared after only 5 days from suffering his 6th NFL concussion Stay classy guys… EDIT: This is a dumb post. I think I paused time with the Blizzard. It was definitely not 5 days. He got injured the week before. I will not delete and I will leave this post in shame.... ,

I hope he retires at the end of the season no matter the result.

The answer is yes!

I don’t think it’s a “surprised”. He isn’t back to form. That’s expected. But also, he’s going to be targeted because of it. It is what it is.

Thank you for this. I needed this sort of grounding of good people. I have family who moved to CA 20 years ago and basically haven’t been back since that have been casually mentioning over and over again how silly it is the Sabres have postponed a second game because the Bills made it in…or something stooopid. I have a doctor friend who was stuck in the hospital for 5 days. I had friends who lost power for days, so they eventually put up their camping tent in their kitchen and heated it with boiling pots of water for 3 days. My grandfather has been waiting to get released from the hospital for 3 days now but can’t because of the driving ban and lack of ambulances. This one hit me hard from afar. It’s good to see there are still some good people who understand the gravity of the city from afar. Some people are the worst.

I am generally not in favor of trying to adjust a seasons worth of QB stats because of weather. I think that is silly. Just about every QB has a couple bad weather games that they have to deal with. Mostly my issues with Allen as of late have not been weather related. It is stuff like leaving us in 3rd and long because he took low percentage shots when the all-22 shows much better options. The amount of times I have seen Allen look at an open check down only to try for a much lower percentage throw deep on 2nd and 10 has really been bothering me as the season progresses. Now that I got that off my back.... To your point about Mahomes and the weather, the amount of good weather games he has played this year is remarkable. Like Holy Schitts Creek. I assumed he would have gotten at least a couple. KC is a town that gets some weather. http://www.nflweather.com/team/Chiefs

Didn't we draft and trade for two pass catch RB's? YAC is 1 part WR, 1 part QB, 1 part coaching. There is some blame for all 3. Allen sucks at selling the screen, he stares it down. (The long wind up on the hand off is weird too. Bad enough for me at home to know whether if it is play action or legit run). He also seems to almost refuse to look at the underneath throw in space in favor of the low percentage down field throw that splits defenders. He does it because he can with more regularity than most, but it comes at a certain cost if you miss. That means more passes to "bigger" and more covered outside WR's rather than shiftier players in space. I don't think Diggs is a real threat with the ball in his hands. Diggs threat is breaking your ankles and beating you on a route. Not making you miss with the ball in his hands. It seems like a real struggle to get the screen and underneath game going. We have devoted resources to guys with speed and quickness but rarely commit to getting them involved. I don't buy the "trust" issue. Figure it out and make the plays when needed. Not throwing to the open guy or giving a guy a chance because, trust or whatever is dumb. Get Cook and Hines involved to do what you brought them into do. Letting Hodgins hit waivers was stupid on a WR deficient team. Both are on the staff.

Neither has Josh Allen.... Unless you call any weather terrible weather. I would consider terrible weather to be the first Miami game or the Chicago game. But definitely not the second Miami game or anything with light rain.

Best case scenario, Denver is set up to be a place where you provide some stability and then you get fired for somebody to make them competitive. Like you said, success as a head coach is the goal. There is no success for a 63 DC in that role. He will not compete for a Super Bowl there. Job interviews are two way interviews. You don't have to take or even want every job you are offered. If coaching was still my profession I would run far far away from the Broncos right now. To sweeten the pot, the HC and GM will role up to different people.

Couple things. 1. Josh does have a diet in season. With a dietician, and a target weight. He’s mentioned it himself. He has also said he doesn’t follow them strictly and is heavier than they ask him to be. He doesn’t have one in the off-season and eats what he wants. 2. This last offseason he said he didn’t do much of anything but rest his body saying it felt good to rest and feel fresh for camp. Some posters have noted that his footwork and mechanics have gotten sloppier through out the year. Do with that what you will. 3. If he wants to keep playing for a long time, he’ll have to stop doing 1 and 2.

I am not sure if this is sarcastic or not. We’ve been hearing whispers of what a douche Russ is in Seattle for a bit now. Now he’s calling Seattle plays at the Denver line of scrimmage. The Denver job seems like a giant mess. I would stay far far away if I was serious about being a HC. I agree with you. Also, how much does he actually need to be a HC at this point in his career? Why? To be in charge? Win a Super Bowl? Money? He’s 63 and the DC of a consistently top flight defense and in the mix for the SB the last few years. I don’t get what Denver offers somebody like Frazier. It seems like a miserable position for anybody well established in the league.

I think Carr has gotten a bad rap most of his career. He’s been pretty good, but not great, in a terribly unstable organization and has been extremely loyal to it. I don’t know what he has in the tank anymore, but I do know that McDaniels sucks as a HC. At some point the org has to move on from both. Careers always end. But if I’m a QB needy team like the Jets I would have zero issues taking a flyer on the guy. I hope McDaniels gets stuck with Carson Wentz.

I don’t think this will be like some of the KC/Bills battles we’ve seen. I think one team will either figure out the others offense/defense. Winner is decided by 10+ points.

Frazier gets one more shot at a HC gig. Outside of the 3 gigs open, there are another 20 or so teams that would fire their current coach and hire Payton if he told them he wanted to be there. Why on earth either of those two guys would take the Denver job is beyond me. That has to be just as bad as the last few Houston openings.

A good portion of the answer will depend on how we make cap space and who we re-sign. We need starters at IOL and depth basically everywhere with 20+ UFA this offseason. Some notables are Poyer, Edmunds, Singletary, Philips, Lawson, Dane Jackson, J.Johnson, Keenum, and Ike. They aren’t all starters but their roles have to be replaced.

Your point about Basham has been my chief complaint for this FO. Missing on top picks then having to re-draft them again has been a problem.

I don’t get the hate here? Why be so upset at being ranked 3rd in the power rankings? Mahomes has been more consistent thjs season and has a better resume/track record than Allen when it comes to AFCCG’s and SB’s. Philly has more wins and less losses. I won’t die on a hill to make Buffalo no. 1 and I wouldn’t die on a hill to remove them from no. 1

He likely gets a ton of vitrol from Bills fans that he doesn't get elsewhere. It helps with clicks and I assume he also finds it entertaining to get a reaction out of the fanbase.