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Gonna put this one in the damned memory bank. Glad you're willing to hold yourself to that standard. Labatt...Blue...that's an easy one to remember, no more complaints from you EVER thanks. Nope, sorry, according to Labatt Blue, you need to grab a ladle of the Flav-o-raid and drink up. Every flag is golden, every result untarnished. Ever.

Clearly this type of call (illegal contact or defensive holding) has enormous power, and you can absolutely be assured that the NFL and their officials know that. Does Mahomes even throw that pass unless he knows he's getting a call? On 3rd down, with 90 seconds remaining? Seems implausible.

Poor credibility-deficient Rigotz, the Bills don't own this site.

I didn't either. And they still managed to ruin it for me. I hate complaining about officiating, but they make it way too obvious.

I hate to say it, but I don't feel that they want guys like me as consumers anymore. I don't tune in for theatrics, politics, or the type of pop music that litters this "spectacle." And then, we finally get to the true reason that those who are their loyal, week-in and week-out customers tune in, and then they have systems in place which allow for 1 of 7 underpaid, part-time officials to ruin our primary focus. They take the game and turn it into a mockery. All of this thrown together, and it gives me the feeling I have better ways to waste my Sunday afternoons. Goodell & the NFL are ruining something I've loved since childhood. And I even wanted (ever so slightly) for the Chiefs to win.

Primarily developed a raw QB talent using film and deceit. They got caught, but Brady had taken it upon himself to actually understand why they were telling him X when they knew the defense was doing Y, and then eventually learned how to diagnose Y on his own. Also, Belichick embraced the "if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying" mentality. That's a foreign concept to our coaches, some would call it dignified, others might wish a ring or two had been earned through some guile. Belichick is a wily defensive coach, but many times his best defense was having that QB who could close out the game with the necessary points to win.

The day after the parade, that should be the first action, a "Look at all our frustration, good times, good times" thread.

It's tough to believe anyone was at a Wizards game.

I'm not completely against the Chicken Little aspect of the franchise's potential plight right now. The correct answer would be, however that "The only way this scenario happens is if each and every member of TBD all of the sudden started some kind of mood-improving drug, synthetically delivering an eternally-present high, and thus everyone's enthusiasm could never die in that situation." Appreciate your patience.

Straw Polls are fun.

I have a feeling that this reveals a lot about what happened with those final weeks of the season. To have the owner who likely has the more personal connection to the players have this happen...and then to see a teammate appear to have the same thing happen before their eyes? Prayers for Kim, her family, and the team. They've gone through so much.

Herbstreit's biases in CFB are even worse than his typical regurgitations of Dan Fouts-isms. So many bright bulbs to choose from to give thoughtful commentary, and they pay this near ChatGPT-level lunkhead to bloviate incessantly. Do better DisneyABCESPN*Insert next purchased entity*.

Has to be a related event to the quake that's hit the Middle East...

Do me a favor - if this team does make the playoffs next year, request a meeting with him and show him this chart. He obviously forgot he ranked up there in the two games he where got outcoached recently.

That's something McDermott should have plastered on the wall on cleanout day. But he looks about as maudlin and chumped out as everyone else. Hopefully McDermott invests in some counseling. As he went, so the team went. When they showed him on the sidelines vs Miami he looked like he knew he was overmatched on the sidelines. They didn't show him much vs Cincy from what I remember, it was all a blur.

They are on the backside of a mountain nobody wants to ride. McDermott's stature crested when Allen hit Davis to go ahead with 13 seconds to go. Since that game, up until the playoff demise this year, it has been a barely noticeable descent. But that game certainly took a chunk out of it. Maybe Pegula is willing to chalk that game up to all the excuses that many players and coaches vomited post-game. Not sure I would be quite so generous if it were me. Hamlin had made such great strides, to have the team be anything but hyper-motivated on demolishing Cincinnati is just insane. 2023 has started off utterly sh*tty for the Bills. I love the players and the coaching staff, but that is the kind of embarrassment that should never happen, whether snow, near-death, whatever. When you have fans enduring much of the same stressors as you, all the while ponying up big dollars to fund you sleepwalking through what could be the last time you get a sniff of the playoffs? Melodramatic? Yes. Unlikely? Yes. But you never know. I feel for Diggs. Maybe the character/moxie/culture of this team isn't quite as optimal as everyone gives McDermott credit for...

For how long has the prevailing logic been to draft RB late or never? And yet Beane has been all over tossing away picks on that position. McDermott & Beane were extremely fortunate they had a QB that has bailed them out these last 3 years, but that's over now. You can bet if they don't shape up soon, they'll be looking at their 2nd go around somewhere else. It's gonna get a lot tougher now that they're paying JA17.

They have a lot of mouths to feed contractwise. Let's see if they can keep that OL together, and now that you've had a couple of weeks of real defensive footage on him, it may not be so pretty (or Purdy, if you prefer).

By the bye, we were better than them. But a bye week of Allen MVP talk seemed to get to him. That led to the 2nd half of Green Bay, and then a big letdown in the Meadowlands punctuated by Allen's elbow injury that seemed to derail his season completely. Throw in Miller's injury, plus a number of other secondary injuries, and it's just the way it goes when you build your team to rely on so many aging veterans.

The real question is whether those 20 picks were truly that good, or if their coaches got it out of them. I suspect it's more the latter, probably a bit out of necessity. In the end, if McDermott is still coaching come Sept '24, his staff is going to need to learn to trust more of those draft picks. They can't just go out and keep signing/trading for big money guys. And they'd better hope those youngsters are up to the task. You really don't want to end up on the New Orleans elevator back down because you just can't kick the salary cap can down the road any farther.

Shame on the personnel room for leaving the OL in a place where this injury happened. They were awful this year. This can't be the same issue come December 2023. They just can't afford to keep putting Allen in the crosshairs 10-15 times a game.

It's tough to disagree with the title assertion. In the Miami playoff game, he looked like he was ready to somewhere between cry and blow chunks on the sideline. I think he did an outstanding job making some hard decisions early on to harvest draft capital for key players, invest in quality mid-level veteran leaders, and together with Beane set up the team to be able to acquire a ton of quality in those early seasons. There have been points where the in-game decision making has improved. I find that correlating strongly to offensive proficiency, especially on 4th down. Recency bias, in effect. But since Daboll left, it seems like McDermott (and maybe the offense in general) has lost confidence in either the playcalling, the scheme, or both. But McDermott is loyal, and I think a lot of his decisions are based on that. His philosophy, humble & hungry, is also "we win as family" from what I can tell. So if a player acts like it was a catch, he's gonna challenge unless he's absolutely sure it's not. I don't think he wants to fire his close confidants. And most of all, I think he wants to send messages to his defense that he believes in them.

One word: McDermott. Honestly, every draft you're gonna have a defensive lineman or two drop down the board. And I think McDermott starts licking his chops when he thinks he can get his hands on a 1st round DL talent in the 2nd round. They really needed a Director of Football Ops to rein in McDermott's spending sprees. Pegula really put a lot of faith in McDermott's guiding voice. And early in the rebuild, solidifying defense while lacking an elite QB made tons of sense. But there needs to be a balancing voice at this point.

Says something about a fanbase that wants to name the s**t performances and forget the good ones.

It's been interesting to watch the team continue to try to use the cop-out excuse of "we were out of gas" to try and play on the continued narrative fostered in the media about the snowstorms, Hamlin, Tops, etc. But fans really aren't having it. If they want to use these excuses now, then I would venture to say that they were "out of gas" before the first Bengal game. They were getting destroyed just as handily up until the Hamlin event. The bye on, this team was completely different. It's as if they sunk their entire emotional existence into avenging 13 Seconds. Almost like once they got that out of the way, the level of focus & desire dropped. They got to 2nd half of GB, Josh was in the midst of MVP discussions, then pressing to pad the numbers he dropped a couple of "garbage time" interceptions. Everything unraveled from there - the Jet game started with a bang but ended with a whimper, and then the Viking game was a shitshow of epic proportions. So the coaching staff has some culpability, but I also think that Allen is gonna need to do some serious thinking about the way that midseason stretch went...if he went a little too hard at trying to live up to MVP hype, rather than doing the things every MVP QB does well - go through reads, take what the defense gives, and only press when the situation is right. Lastly, if Dorsey is gonna stay - he has to devise gameplans to close out games that aren't just "let's try to exploit single coverage with the kill shot." Allen seems like a guy whose feast or famine instances are mostly fed by momentum and confidence. The more you ask him to try to hit the deep ball, as long as he hits it, everything's great. But when it doesn't happen...