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invest heavily in offense, surround your top QB with tons of weapons, and have an OK defense that can pass rush a bit. That puts a ton of pressure on the other team to keep up, and then they make mistakes and become one-dimensional

I don't trust ANY defense. Why? Times have changed. Today's great QBs lead offenses that will beat ANY defense. It's a combination of rules and also how dynamic these young guys are. Go back and watch games even from the early 2000's. Almost every QB hit from back then would be roughing the passer now. You used to be able to hold WR a bit and get away with it. Now any little fingertip on a WR is holding or illegal contact or DPI. Also, most top QBs from the 2000's could barely move. Big Ben could move a little, but Peyton, Eli, Brady never were super athletic in that way. Today's top guys are FAR more athletic. Couple that with the refs swallowing whistles in the playoffs, except for DPI and RTP. OL hold every play, knowing they might get docked once or twice but not over and over again. Great QB with a few great weapons will move the ball and score points on any defense these days. If you're up 4 against any of these top QBs with under 2:00 to go it's a loss.

As mad as we are, this is their careers. So much work, from May until January, all down the drain because they couldn't muster up the energy to compete in the Divisional Round with a realistic shot at the Super Bowl? OK. Hey, it is what it is. Like I said, it's their careers. Spare me the "Super Bowl favorites!" talk all next season. I don't GAF if they are 10-0 at one point. The whole POINT is to get to January football.

Beane hit on the QB, which buys you 5-7 years. Sadly, all the draft assets of any significance seem to go to defense, and this year I expect the same. Gotta replace Poyer, and you ALWAYS need a 1st or 2nd rounder on the DL who can stand there and get manhandled by the OL. I expect CB/S and DL in the first 2 picks. Those of you who aren't Edmunds fans better PRAY he gets re-signed or there is ZERO chance of a WR until at least round 3, because they'll add LB to the mix for rounds 1 and 2.

It's the grand irony of living in the information era... The average American is far, far, dumber today than 50 years ago.

I want KC to straight up embarrass the Bengals. I don't get the hate for KC. They win a lot, but they aren't a bunch of classless idiots. Since we're all so in love, maybe we and the Bengals (and the fans) can all watch the SB together.

would he look great standing on the sidelines in street clothes? Cause you know we don't play rookies around here

Build a team that can score 25-30 points per game and then the defense just needs to make a few plays here and there. THAT is how we became a top team. Offense, not defense. You can have a GREAT defense (49ers) and still get shredded against a top offense like they did vs KC this season. Rules are too skewed towards the offense and these QBs are too good. Sure, you want a great defense if you can get one, but it's secondary.

At the end of the day it's their careers. A fan's "career" lasts as long as there is a team. Some of these guys won't ever get this chance again. So it is what it is.

It is what it is. QBs are judged on getting to and winning Super Bowls and we're always told "yeah buts" are for losers. Burrow has an excellent chance at appearing in his 2nd consecutive SB and going 4-0 vs Mahomes and the Chiefs, with 2 of those wins being in KC in the AFC Title Game. That is FAR more than Allen has accomplished, as much as we love Allen. It is what it is. IF that happens AND the Bengals win the SB he is tied with Mahomes in rings and is 4-0 head to head. Brady is the "GOAT" because teams he was the QB of won 7 Super Bowls. All-time HC (who we're now going to pretend was carried by the player), all-time great defense early on, but ALL BRADY. When they lose it's a team game though. Meanwhile, Manning, who "only" won 2 out of the 4 Super Bowls he went to is a guy who "can't win the big games" yet has 2 rings and held every single passing record until Brady played an extra 5 years after Manning retired. BTW Manning STILL owns the single season TD record (55) and passing yards record (5477 yards) in a 16 game season. Even with 17 games that TD record hasn't really been challenged. Yardage has, but still stands. Brady went 16/27 for 145 yards and 1 TD his first SB win. He was voted MVP for that (because his team won)! Having that early success (which was ALL BRADY, totally carried Belichick and the D) was a huge part of the horror show that became Brady's career. He was a winner. The pressure was off before it was ever on.

mental/emotional exhaustion > physical exhaustion and it isn't even close. You can take a few days off, sleep 10 hours a night and put a huge dent in physical exhaustion. Mental/emotional is much, much more debilitating.

I get it 100%. As a player there is a tremendous pressure to SHOW OTHERS in these interviews how much you are elated/how much you care/etc. Say just the right things, be "on" and excited. I mean, AREN'T YOU PUMPED! Let's take you back to that day though... FFS let these guys just play football! It is 100% OK if that event isn't in the forefront of their minds every second of every freaking day! It doesn't mean they care any less if they don't re-live that event every day. It was even referenced in the tweet a handful of posts above. HAMLIN WAS THERE how could the Bills not walk on water, run through steel doors, and be unbeatable?! As if his mere presence should make the Bills superhuman, and the Bengals quake in their shoes. Anything less is letting their guy down (is the inference anyway). That's more pressure than anything football can bring. "We're being told that Hamlin is in the locker room at halftime" they say on the broadcast yesterday. IMO the fans were out of gas too. "This is going to be the craziest, loudest, most insane and epic reaction by a fanbase ever!" can only work for so long. It is EXHAUSTING for there to be an expectation that you react/act a certain way for the consumption of others. Fans might understand this on a much, much less important and smaller scale. Maybe you have a friend group that knows what a fan you are of the Bills and are like "when the Bills win the Super Bowl someday your reaction will be EPIC! we can't wait to see what you do! It's going to be CRAZY! It'll go viral online!" Maybe, maybe not. Maybe you'll just cry tears of joy on the couch. Definitely not epic, and not fit for social media. That's totally, 100% OK. But for a player it's not. You've got a camera in front of you, or a radio spot, or whatever, and you need to play the role and talk about something you'd honestly probably rather forget. Over. and over. and over. Because every interviewer is going to start fresh next interview.

It's a lot more fun to the the heel and the underdog who can play the "everyone is against us" card and wreck plans and spoil parties. That was basically Brady and NE for his first 10-15 years there. First with Manning, then Mahomes.

I worry about a Rivers trajectory. Rivers was very very good, borderline HOF. Never got to the dance.

Worst part is they draft linemen and the first words out of Beanes mouth are that they need to slim down. Stop starving our lineman!

For what? A high draft pick to spend on another mediocre DL or DB who won't suit up until week 10 and be basically invisible?

Beane needs to draft a big, sloppy, angry DT. Forgot slim DL. We need maulers who can play physical

Not sure if it was mentioned but this is the 2nd week in a row Allen's left elbow was bleeding through his sleeves

Little chance anything major changes unless someone hires Frazier as HC.

Reid was always seen as a QB whisperer. As an offensive coach he found ways to get the most out of his QBs and offenses. After decades of finding ways he finally got a top QB to work with. McDermott is supposed to be a defensive coach but his defenses always come up short when it matters and he has his own 1st and 2nd round picks all over the place. Reid will also retire top 3 (at worst) in NFL history in head coaching wins. No comparison at all. If we lost 13-10 or something like that with our defense playing amazing but the offense not quite being able to do enough then it would be harder to criticize McDermott.

I saw Bernard and was like he did pretty well for late round CB .. Lol... Totally forgot Bernard was in the team. Get him mixed up with Benford

Oh yeah that's right

Agreed. I have no idea who our 3rd string QB even is.

Lmfao Elliot just got obliterated. Not sure what that play was supposed to accomplish

WTF is this formation?