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👏👏👏 You understand what so very few do. Unfortunately, delivering hard truths about a player the day after he had a monster game won't be well-received. Bills' fans are going to see something next offseason they haven't seen in a while - a premium player holding out, it's the boilerplate plan agents use for RBs after their 3rd season.

Another great article by LeBrun for The Athletic - LeBrun: There are no easy answers for the questions facing Kevyn Adams’ Sabres snippet: "As the Buffalo Sabres have descended into this 0-10-3 tailspin, landing them last in the NHL in points and headed toward a hard-to-fathom 14th straight season missing the playoffs, I keep thinking about the decisions ownership has made in its general manager hires. Tim Murray was GM from January 2014 to April 2017, Jason Botterill from May 2017 to June 2020, and it’s been Kevyn Adams since then. All three were first-time NHL GMs. That doesn’t mean they weren’t qualified. Everyone has to get their first chance at some point, and especially in the cases of Murray and Botterill, they had worked their way up the NHL scouting and front-office ranks before landing the gig. Regardless, looking at where the franchise is now with the benefit of hindsight, handing the reins to first-time GMs three straight times can’t be glossed over. Listen, no one is complaining in South Florida about first-time NHL GM Bill Zito, nor in Vegas about first-time NHL GM Kelly McCrimmon. But in Zito’s case, he’s got former GMs Rick Dudley, Paul Fenton and Les Jackson surrounding him in his inner circle. McCrimmon has George McPhee. At the very least — especially with Adams, who is a very likable guy with tremendous passion for the sport — couldn’t the Sabres have brought in some sort of mentor to help him along the way? Like how Jim Rutherford is helping along first-time GM Patrik Allvin in Vancouver? Wouldn’t it have made sense to bring in a Ray Shero or someone of that ilk to help support Adams? (Did I mention that Ken Holland is currently a free agent?) Then there’s this point I made when the team fired Botterill: Giving a GM only three years on the job doesn’t make a lot of sense. I don’t know whether Murray or Botterill would have gotten the Sabres over the playoff hump eventually, but I do know three years wasn’t enough time for either to get a fair crack at it. Any longtime NHL team executive will tell you that it takes at least five years for someone to implement their vision on a franchise, especially for a full rebuild."

I was going to comment that after that game, at least we won't have to listen to people questioning why Elam doesn't start. But here we are.

Any other franchise would not have fired and hired 8 coaches in the last 10 years. It's not the coach. Bless those of you still watching, made it 15 minutes in before I switched to NCAAF.

Well it's the truth, and it certainly doesn't make anyone happy.

First of all, you shouldn't use raw snap counts because they vary game to game. He's played ~80% of snaps his entire career and even in Buffalo before his injury he was around 65-70%. Yes, even with our rotation, starting players get more snaps and when we signed him he actually was a starter. Since his injury he's been in the 30% range - that's called being a backup. That's right, AJ and Groot out-snap him 2-1. He comes on the field for obvious passing downs i.e. snaps where he should get pressures and sacks. Second, there's 3 weeks left in the season and he has 4 sacks. PFF stats and blog articles aren't enough to spin that into a positive. They're not "managing" anything, he's a backup. People said the same thing for last year's playoffs and nothing changed. In the 25 games since his injury he's hit that number once. What, besides wishful thinking, makes you expect that?

This thread is a great example of spiking the football too early. We didn't give him $100M to stuff the run, we paid him to get to the QB. We're approaching Christmas and he has 4 sacks. No, the doubters have been 100% correct (the entire premise that they were wrong after 1 game was ludicrous to begin with). He can still make a difference in the playoffs, and who knows maybe he will, but based on his performance this season that's wishful thinking.

holy crap what a throw

Chargers D is looking rough.

Ran right through them.

Rodgers and Johnson spoke on Oct. 7, just after the Jets lost to the Vikings in London to drop to 2-3, a game behind the Bills in the AFC East with Buffalo coming to MetLife Stadium the following Monday night. According to a team source, Rodgers implored Johnson to remain patient. The following morning, Saleh called Rodgers to let him know he was demoting Hackett and installing passing game coordinator Todd Downing as the new play caller. Rodgers made it clear to Saleh that he did not agree with the decision — so much so that Saleh told his staff to get backup Tyrod Taylor ready to play in case a banged-up, disgruntled Rodgers wouldn’t, according to a team source. Shortly afterward, around 10 a.m. ET, Woody and Christopher Johnson, Woody’s brother and the Jets’ vice chairman, walked into Saleh’s office. Woody told Saleh he was fired. Saleh asked why. Woody told him he didn’t think Saleh could turn the season around and that the team needed a spark. Then the Johnsons walked out of the room.

I also learned he named his son "Brick" and takes advice from him.

That article is bonkers. They have to be sourcing Joe ("one team executive")Douglas, right? Did he get drunk or maybe he just never wants to work in the NFL again?

Love how John Mara is front and center complaining. “To flex a game back to Thursday night, to me, is just abusive,” Mara told reporters then. He added: “At some point, can we please give some consideration to the people who are coming to our games? People make plans to go to these games weeks and months in advance. And 15 days ahead of time to say, ‘Sorry, folks, that game you were planning on taking your kids to Sunday at 1, now it’s on Thursday night.’ What are we thinking about?” Yeah guess what buddy, you voted for that Amazon deal. You voted for that Peacock deal. You're pockets are packed. Spare me your factitious outrage.

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