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I hear ya...I dreaded seeing the blue on blue until they actually wore them and I was surprised how much I liked them. The white/white/white combo is just...too...white.

Good man. As for me this weekend I'm golfing in my regular Sunday morning group (tee times between 8-8:30), then home to watch the game. This is perfect for me because I'm usually a nervous wreck on Sunday mornings, so I get to waste a few hours on the course -- a few adult beverages included -- and then come home and the game's about to start.

Tell your son he can make new friends.

Yay, we're talking about uniforms again! #1 -- blue jersey/white pants #2 -- white jersey/blue pants #3 -- blue on blue #4 -- red color rush #5 -- white on white

Understood -- I don't think Beane should be praised for backing out of the AB sweepstakes for any reason other than the price was too high. It would appear that few know/knew how much of a nut case this guy would be.

What "this board" does is compare Beane to what came before him -- 20 years of s-h-i-t. You're blaming him for Davis and Boldin? Jesus. Beane's job is to find players who might fit Buffalo's culture and help them win. If they get here and don't fit (for whatever reason) that's not on Beane, it's on the player. Maybe Davis and Boldin, seeing for themselves it was going to be a long season in Buffalo, decided as aging veterans they didn't want to lay their bodies on the line for results that would come a year or more later. As for the AB situation? Beane looked at a roster void of superstar WR talent and made inquiries about AB. That was stupid? You have chosen to believe the narrative that Beane was begging AB to come to Buffalo and was rejected. Not only is that explanation improbable, it goes against everything we've seen and heard from McD and Beane since they arrived. What should we believe -- that on this one occasion Beane suddenly decided to act completely out of character? You're the one going out of your way to place blame. The most reasonable and plausible explanation is that Beane and the Steelers spoke in generalities about the possible terms of a trade. The discussions got far enough along where it became necessary to gauge what AB's contract demands were going to be. Did the discussions end because AB told Rosenhaus there's no way he would come to Buffalo? Of course not; they ended because AB's price was not something Beane wanted to pay. The very reason Beane didn't agree to AB's price is because he was looking at the locker room culture and decided (accurately) that it wasn't worth it. No "football people" are laughing at Buffalo and Brandon Beane, I assure you. I couldn't care less what the "click here" media types and ignorant fans think and say. As we have seen, it's foolhardy to take anything that comes out of AB's mouth seriously -- but YOU are going to believe it when AB says he laughed at coming to Buffalo. Riiiiiiiight. Are you willing to go on the record right here and now that you find AB to have more credibility and integrity than Beane? Surely you aren't believing AB's agent, Drew Rosenhaus? Because why would Rosenhaus ever say anything to paint his client in the best light? Rosenhaus' comments about the helmet situation were a joke as well. If you simply stopped for one second to look at the whole picture of what McD and Beane have done since they arrived, you might find you've missed out on enjoying a process that appears to be primed for sustained success while instead you've been busy "protecting" yourself from disappointment.

I think he explains why in the very tweet you quoted.

Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick, it just dawned on me again that this offense has EIGHT out of eleven new starters. How anyone can predict EITHER success or failure at this early stage, before we've seen them in live action, is beyond me. It's a friggin' new team. Sunday is going to be exciting; it's like Christmas morning and we get to unwrap a present (the Bills' O). What remains to be seen is whether the present is Playstation 5 or just another pair of socks.

I've heard it emphatically stated on this board that the Bills have no WRs on their roster who could really be considered #1s. So take your Smokeshow elsewhere.

That's old school thinking. Nothing innovative ever came from someone saying, "we'll do it this way because that's how everybody else does it." Edit: and you do realize that whether it was because of injury or not, all of these guys played with each other in different combinations all spring and summer long?

Teams have rotated D-linemen to keep them fresh for decades. Obviously you're not going to telegraph your play-calling by sending in the same OL replacement for the same play. If you've got 7 high quality O-linemen on your roster and can rotate them to keep them fresher/healthier, why not do it?

If McD suggested it then we know it's doomed for failure. Everybody knows McD is clueless about offense and just wants to Jauron-ball his way through the season. He's never had an innovative offensive thought in his life. I'm so done with this team.

It's unfortunate that some are twisting my comments to suggest I think Goff is a bad or average QB. I don't. But I believe McVay is somewhat unprecedented in terms of how he has impacted Goff's development and that deserves mention. Without McVay I don't think we're talking about Goff in the same light.

Hoyer, Kaep, Brissett from top to bottom (stats). Yeah, it's weird.

Gunner, of course the QB still has to execute, but there's no question he's getting a lot better info to help him than most QBs walking up to the line. It is what it is -- Goff has the benefit of McVay. I think Goff's success is certainly tied to that relationship, and there's nothing wrong with that, but we also shouldn't ignore it.

I didn't complain about Goff's contract so I don't understand the point of the question. I also didn't say Goff "sucks" or "doesn't deserve to get paid" -- I asked a question about the value of having a coach in your ear reading the defense for you pre-snap, which is exactly what McVay is doing for Goff.

I'm curious what style of football you think should be played when your team is notably less talented than your opponent?

Do you agree or disagree that Goff has been helped immensely by having McVay in his ear calling the defense just before the microphone goes off? And this habit of saying QBs alone "win" or "lose" games is well past its prime. Goff has played very well in McVay's system and when teams took away that little "in your ear" advantage his results were, shall we say, less impressive. It's a great contract for Goff and if he and McVay stay tied together I'm sure he'll continue to put up "impressive" numbers, but at some point he's going to need to be able to do it on his own.

I think it's clear his teammates believe in him and don't find him to be fake/phony or entitled in the slightest sense. That's awesome.

I don't hate on Whaley, I just question (in retrospect) his method of "team building." The trade to acquire Sammy was a poor decision, as was paying Dareus. And as much as I loved Shady while he was here, I can certainly understand those who argue spending that kind of money on a RB in this day and age was foolhardy. I wouldn't quite call his teams "loaded" but the roster in 2015 was playoff-worthy.

I thought everybody knew that the correct pronunciation of Rob Johnson is "sack magnet."

This is the sort of comment I'd expect to hear from Doug Whaley. That's all he wanted to do -- add splash. The defense is full of "explosive, game-changing" players. Hughes, Oliver, Edmunds, Milano, White, Hyde, Poyer. Sure, the offense doesn't have big names but that doesn't mean they aren't potentially explosive. Brown makes explosive plays. Singletary's explosiveness jumps off his tape. Beasley is "explosive" in the slot. And let's not forget the most important piece -- Josh Allen. He has already shown explosiveness and the ability to take a game over. If he takes the next step comments like this will disappear. If the biggest thing Bills fans need to worry about is that nobody knows the names of their players (yet), we're not in bad shape.

With all due respect, @Shaw66, this retort is even better than your original post.

I'm sure there is a statistic out there that compares the probability of making the playoffs when a team starts 1-0 vs. 0-1, and I'm willing to bet one is significantly better than the other. So there's that. The Bills' road schedule this season is pretty tough. Outside the division they are at the Giants, Cowboys, Titans, Browns, and Steelers. For them to be thinking playoffs they probably need to win at least three road games, so if you look at it from that perspective where are those wins going to come? The Dolphins are one. Then, they probably have to win two out of the four games vs. the Jets, Giants, Browns, and Titans -- I'm chalking up the Pats***, Cowboys, and Steelers as losses for the sake of this discussion. If the Bills lose W1 to the Jets they have suddenly dug themselves a hole that seems much deeper than if the loss came to a non-conference opponent or traditional powerhouse. So, for the reasons noted above, I think this is a particularly important game for Buffalo.

This cracked me up as I was watching (and before I saw your comment). I was like...what? "Great scheme by Williams here as the Jets hold the Saints to a 20-yard gain and a first down. It could have been much worse."