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I bet Xavier Worthy to win MVP at +3100 because if I get yet another kick in the balls as a Bills fan, I'm at least gonna get paid.

Rex Grossman was an MVP candidate for the first half of 2006, and Jake Delhomme was legitimately good during the Panthers' runs. The NFL was already well into the era where you had to have decent QB play to have a chance, and Jauron was saddled with JP Losman and Trent Edwards while he was here. A "disaster of a HC" is ridiculous. He went 13-3 in Chicago with Jim Miller as his starting QB.

He kept the Bills from being a total laughingstock during an era when the ownership situation was precarious (at best) and our front office was an absolute clown show. RIP, Coach.

Ding Ding Ding! Garrett trade would be catastrophic. Multiple high picks and a huge extention only to watch McDermott make him "set the edge" rather than rush the passer during every playoff game.

Sneakers with suits look absolutely horrific. Beane in particular should be ashamed of himself.

It was a perfect pass that would lead to a TD 95% of the time, and he just came out of nowhere to grab it at the last second. Probably was the dagger that ended that game, even though it happened early on.

Easier said then done, obviously. We're in Year 9 of the Process, and it's gonna be different this time around, I swear!

Their head coach is much better than ours, though. Needs to be taken into account.

All those picks and resources allocated to the defense, and the line and secondary are still in constant states of flux. Starting to get tiresome.

Roger Goodell, I suppose. Are you familiar with how playoff series were officiated in the NBA during the David Stern era? It's a very doable task, if that is indeed the goal.

His offense was pretty cool to watch his first year in Philly.

One silver lining to the Bills annual crushing playoff loss is that I actually don't want to watch them again for at least seven months.

Betting the ML on the Chiefs for the majority of the season would've allowed you to net like 25% of your initial wager. You're not exactly getting even odds there. The argument, I guess, lies in what the definition of "rigged" is. Officials can be told to favor one team, and another team's performance can still overcome that. The outcome isn't predetermined like in pro wrestling.

I don't think it's rigged, but outcomes can be "encouraged" to some degree. People didn't make a lot of money on KC because they didn't cover the spread much this year.

Sure, but they've always had that. They're trying to grow the audience. That's why they take a home game from teams every year to play important matchups overseas. It's a complete negative from a fair competition standpoint, but they do it anyway.

The American male football fan market is completely saturated. The only way to grow the sport is to concentrate on global efforts (i.e. playing games overseas) and making the game more popular with women (i.e. Tay Tay on the TV). It's not the most unfounded conspiracy theory.

Really all there is to it. They refuse to even hire full-time refs. By eliminating the gray areas of officiating, they also eliminate their ability to "massage" games in the manner they wish. This was a huge problem in the NBA, even before Tim Donaghy, and Goodell seems to have adopted it. Always thought it was odd how close nearly every Super Bowl became after he took over, for example.

This is what actually happened. McDermott went into playoff choke-job mode and put Allen on the shelf for the entire second half because he was so terrified of turning the ball over. Then he instituted his full-time prevent defense which didn't even make an attempt an attempt to go after Jackson or do anything aggressive. You can't get outplayed if your coach doesn't allow you to play in the first place.

I don't think they're capable of doing it, to be honest. They've put tons of effort into building the D-line and secondary, and their only true standout is Benford, a guy they stumbled upon in the 6th round.

McDermott is the worst type of head coach for a QB like him. Cares more about allocating assets for the defense, ultimately wants a ball control offense where the QB is a game manager, and - most importantly - is extremely tense and paranoid about any turnovers at all.

McDermott runs the whole system, and the system is predicated on coordinators deferring to him and running the team his way. Zero chance he brings in anyone that could possibly be considered an equal, especially not if that person wanted to try a different approach.

Dude, the Commanders look like a Division I-AA program every time they take the field. Those uniforms are not to be imitated.

"We honestly believe we're right there" has been the message not only since last year, but since the decade started. It's effectively replaced "Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?" as the official team mantra.

Been hearing that same thing for years. At some point it stops being being bad luck and becomes an actual feature of your football program.

I'd argue that the Rapp and Benford injuries this year were borderline catastrophic for their SB chances. We weren't that healthy.