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Nix was at least was making a genuine attempt to win. The real lean years were when Russ Brandon was calling all the shots. That entire era felt like a showcase to ultimately move the team to Canada.

I like his potential for the reasons you stated. It's nice to have a big-body receiver, especially one with a basketball pedigree that can leap. We need to be throwing him a couple of long jump balls every game. Worst-case scenario we have a few picks that are effectively arm-punts.

LOL, Losman's only piece of his repertoire that was above-average was a bomb. He definitely let it rip more than Peterman. Edwards was a victim of the "play not to lose" mentality of Jauron. I know the popular opinion was that his concussion in Arizona ruined him, but he won a big game the next week against a good San Diego team.

Lynch had incidents at both Cal and after he played for Seattle.

We became enamored of "can't miss" skill position guys while neglecting the lines. Typical trap for poorly-run NFL teams.

Kicking ass like that in the SEC or Big Ten pretty much guarantees you can move back near your college and just make bank for the rest of your life. It's analogous to winning a gold medal at the Olympics in a high-profile sport.

This all got memory-holed because he was able to somehow remake his image and become "fun-loving Skittles guy," but Lynch was having multiple incidents that weren't great while he was here.

His UGA days are going to allow him to get absolutely loaded doing that job in Atlanta. Nice fallback to have.

Nice work getting that done almost a month before the season starts. Plenty of time to get him up to speed. Glad he's on the team; he's a weapon.

Agreed, and I was glad to see a practice get a little chippy. This team needs more of that, IMO.

It was amusing, but I think I'm all set on that storyline moving forward.

It's tough for a show like this to be super illuminating in a world of constant up-to-date news and coverage from social media. You just already kind of know everything about the team. I do wish there was less fluff and more positional camp-battle stuff, but McDermott would never allow that kind of access, so what can you do?

I always wondered why he never wears short sleeves, even when it's hotter than hell outside (e.g. early season games at Miami). There's the answer, I guess.

Roger Goodell did too, and this was after both Buffalo and Cincinnati pretty much guaranteed him the starting job. How people feel about Vick is irrelevant, it was absolutely absurd that the commissioner of the NFL was able to essentially force a player into signing with a large-market franchise as a backup rather than go to a smaller market to start. This should've been a HUGE scandal, but it was the Bills and Bengals who got screwed so nobody cared.

When Stafford is "on," he's as good a passer as anyone in the league. Look at the game against us last year for example.

Is this the guy who has like 10 siblings? I thought they mentioned that in the broadcast Saturday?

Allen got them a few years ago by telling them how great the wings were at Room 40.

Beating the Chiefs would be special, though, because it would stop them one step short from being the second team to make four consecutive SBs.

I actually like McDermott as a person and think he is a great coach Monday - Saturday. He has too much control over both the offensive and defensive play-calling, though. The team is built in his image - good, even great at times, but not willing to step outside the box enough to get over the hump. Very reminiscent of Schottenheimer and Dungy.

It is still jarring to see the Bills and their players in national campaign ads.

Everybody on earth knew it was coming too. There is never anything in the playcalling on either side of the ball that's remotely aggressive.

They're playing hardball with Cook because they don't value the offense at all. He's the only elitish weapon that Allen has, but they're willing to lose him because they don't mind making things more arduous for Allen. The defense always takes precedence. That why Cook hasn't been extended but guys who dissappear for weeks at a time like Oliver and Rousseau both immediately got extensions.

It's still hilarious that McDermott oversaw a QB competition between the worst player in franchise history and the best player in franchise history, and he came away from it declaring the former to have won. What an eye for offensive talent!

Mainly Bills teams, but I would be interested to see if any other teams poured as many draft picks and free agency signings into the D-line as we have over eight seasons only to have one guy record 10 sacks or more during that period.

Yeah, and it needs to happen kinda organically. The Mr. Brightside deal now feels pretty forced and a little lame, if I'm being honest.