Mister Defense

Lol Just go away, crawl into a hole where you belong, Gruden. What a complete jack**s he is. You'd think the moron would have just laid low and lived his life, tried to find a little dignity for himself. Nope! No dignity, no integrity, and both ignorant and stupid.

Stop. End this nonsense. At first I was thinking 89 represented Tasker, but now am thinking you may be 89, as you ignore Brady and Brees completely. If so, Congratulations! (And you are a Homer, of course!) Brady is maybe the best NFL player of all time, and almost assuredly the best quarterback. I too wish this were not the case, but it is very hard to deny. Those 'gates' you mention are just sour grapes. If there was any doubt how good Brady is it should have been erased this year by going to Tampa Bay and winning the Super Bowl in his first year, and he may go back this year (and lose to the Bills). Jim Kelly was an excellent quarterback and a great leader of a great Bills team for a long time. But Brady won SEVEN Super Bowls., his TEAMS did. So it is completely illogical for anyone to ever say Kelly is the better quarterback. Now, Josh Allen, that may be another story...

Umm, it was 29 years ago. Why wait almost three decades to accuse someone? It seems like the details needed to prove such a thing would be extremely difficult to both recall and to accept as reliable. I predict this will go nowhere.

With 9 1,000 yard rushing seasons and THIRD all time in the NFL, I think Gore will roller skate into the Hall of Fame.

yes, those stats are well beyond very good, 8 times over 1,200 yards! I was going to look them up then saw your post; surprised, and definitely very deserving of the Hall of Fame. And from what I recall, a good character guy too. Nice take!

That would be very funny, and would be the final straw for the very sensitive Wentz!

Okay, some good points, but if Wentz is not a high caliber starting NFL quarterback again, I do think he will go down as one of the all time busts. What if I was off, much too low in my earnings number, as I say, and by almost 70 million dollars, would that make you rethink things? It is actually $177 million dollars. That is almost a 5th of a billion dollars. For Carson Wentz! Biggest financial bust, most overpaid in NFL history, maybe? I know it depends on what he does from this point on, but it I think the guy may be done, will be a backup maybe, and the most expensive ever...

I always was surprised and irritated when people were comparing Allen to Wentz, that Allen had that kind of potential during his first year. Yuck, as I saw a very tough, driven, and immensely talented quarterback and leader of men in Allen, and none of those things in Wentz. Wentz never seemed to be a great quarterback to me, never acted the part, and never seemed like a leader of men. Throw in his injuries, and the guy may go down as one of the biggest busts in NFL history, and one of the most overpaid, if not the most. 108 million dollars have been guaranteed to the guy! (And may be off by a few tens of millions here, too low?) Welcome to the Jacob Easton era for the Colts? If not this week, then soon, as we can be assured a man like Wentz will be injured again, soon. Reich managed extremely well with Wentz' backup in Philly, so I assume he will do the same now.

Well, no, unless you are a professional athlete, an NFL quarterback, right? Then, that is definitely a problem for the Steelers, I would say. But maybe one less team for the Bills to be concerned about.

Umm...I am pretty sure the caption on that picture is sarcasm!! He looks like an average almost middle aged Joe Schmo Beer Belly, and not a professional athlete. He looks about as lean as I do. Is sarcasm common for Schefter, as this clearly seems to be that?

Yup, so glad that they have the integrity to keep their prized team off this show with train wrecks of teams. Just look at the list of teams on HK the last ten years, and the dysfunctional teams clearly dominate--Jets, Browns, Cowboys, Bengals... Teams that were either not serious about winning or that didn't/don't have a clue. At the very least, an awful distraction for an NFL team, which must be focused like a laser on improving, winning, and not on this nonsense. And McDermott would not even consider this crap for his team, not a chance.

Wrong. It is a very valid point; illogical to say otherwise, whether you agree with it or not. To say the Bills, clearly a player or two away from reaching the Super Bowl last year, would not have had a better chance with Teller, the number one ranked guard in the NFL by PFF, and Thomas, with almost 700 yards as a tight end, is ridiculous. To not think that the Bills two biggest weak areas, glaring holes, would not have been dramatically different, better, with, instead, the number one player at his position, and the number 14 player is shockingly illogical. Such poor analysis, when the facts of the matter seem very clear. The Bills have come a long way, but we should not be homers, should not ignore when they make mistakes. That won't make the team stronger, only honest, objective fact based analysis will. These were two big misses, letting two players go who seem to be on their way to top level careers at their positions-- positions that are still such obviously weak areas on the team, still obstacles to success--and, maybe, to beating the Chiefs. Kind of duh analysis, I think, a no brainer. Mistakes by Dabol, and, he makes them. A running game would not have just been nice last year, but as I said since September, would be essential in January. It was ,and the Bills didn't have a good one.

I think these were two very big misses. It is a weakness of Dabol's, I think, to not evaluate talent effectively. The playing of Gore so much, rather than Singletary or Yeldon two years ago, is another good example of this, in my opinion. I was enthusiastic about Teller and was very surprised when they traded him. Last year, two of the Bills biggest weaknesses were at the tight end and guard positions, and aspects of the game affected by those two positions. Teller is one of the best run blockers in the NFL and he is just getting started. Thomas had 670 yards and 6 touchdowns, (wow; how helpful would it have been to have that kind of production from a tight end last year?) How much better would the Bills running game have been last year with Teller as guard? I think the Bills were much more likely to win it all last year with Teller and Thomas. They would have provided a better running game, a high quality tight end for Allen to unload it to (and for the defense to worry about), and both of these things would have helped to diminish that dominating pass rush by the Chiefs. Now, the Bills still need to eliminate these weak areas, a year later, as they clearly have not yet, when they likely had the two guys they needed all along. Big and very important misses, in my view.

No, to me, almost assuredly the reason Bieniemy did not get a head coaching job and not many serious interviews(?), and may never become a head coach, is because of his many run ins with the law when he was younger. It does not, in my view, have to do with the play calling thing or the fact that he is black, but is because of the facts related to his sorted personal history and crimes. Do you think any NFL owner will ever put their over $2 billion team in the hands of someone with such a sorted legal past? I don't, at least not in the foreseeable future, as there is no way they would want this person as the face of their valuable franchise. Just a few of his many criminal acts/convictions would be enough to make almost all NFL owner not consider him. His best chance may be to replace Reid when he retires.

Just pointing to the pattern here in Reid's family. And yes, the fact that his current team has also had a clear history of players behaving very, very badly, showing extremely poor character, goes into my analysis of Reid as a leader of men. In no way am I saying that parents who have a child with substance abuse problems are all negligent or responsible, or even that most are. In my own experiences, the privileged I have known in my family and community have been more susceptible, with more handed to them early and fewer rules and consequences for their actions during their upbringing.

Well, fair to feel bad for all here, I guess, but why so much for Britt Reid? What he did was negligent, criminal, with a long history with driving while impaired. Not deserving of any kind of compassion. A shame that such a good coach like Reid was such a poor father when it came to raising his sons. One son, Barrett, dead because of substance abuse, and now Britt recklessly living his life without regard for the lives of others or himself. Seems like they were rich privileged kids raised without proper guidance or guardrails. You'd think a man seemingly capable of being a great leader of men would be able to lead his own kids to a stable, happy adulthood.

Yeah, that makes a heap of sense for the Bills--get rid of what may be their best receiver at running back, and a good runner too, simply because Dabol, again, made a significant personnel mistake by almost never using what could be a high quality weapon. He had almost 500 yards receiving yards in his last year at Jacksonville, and very big for a running back, looks almost like tight end out there. He is 27 years old. I cannot imagine why the Bills would get rid of someone like this. And then watch what he could do on another team next year?

is this at all relevant to the Bills? I am trying to find the connection...

Makes no sense--we should not ask questions in a post? He says he does not have this information and is asking for some.

I never thought that, but instead think that Dabol sometimes struggles to put the right guy in there--and Kroft has been injured as well. The reasons I, and others, think Kroft should start are the reasons I state in the OP and that others have stated in this thread--Kroft was very reliable in all phases of the game. Yes, one game, but the fact that Knox has not shown that (in his many games as the starter) and Kroft showed it immediately is significant. Knox can very well become a great tight end--and now, if we are right, with a very solid tight end starting in front of him, I think that is more likely now as well. I also think Knox will make his sure of big plays this year. With Singletary and Kroft starting consistently (and getting the vast majority of snaps), as they did last week, the Bills are a better team. The Bills found that out last week in a game they may have lost if that was not the case.

Not happy to be without Knox and Moss this past Sunday, but I did think it may be a blessing in disguise-. I still think a weakness of Dabol's sometimes is his choice of who to play, and I realized Singletary would now be the main running back, without Moss. And Kroft was an unexpected surprise, but should not have been to Dabol. We saw that last year with way too many touches by Gore, not enough by Singletary, and almost none by Yeldon, although he was clearly the better option down the stretch. And this year, I had been frustrated by the running back by committee the first two games, as a back like Singletary gets better and better as a game progresses. He runs smart and so learns in each game as he sees what the defense is doing. He is the number one back, but wasn't given a real chance to shine until this week, when Moss was out. Of course on Sunday, he was the back we were expecting, with over 5 yards a carry and lots of important catches as well. Losing Knox and Moss this past week will make the Bills stronger down the stretch, in my view, and hopefully help Dabol to look at his players more objectively in the future. It may be his biggest weakness as a coordinator.

I agree, but from yesterday's game, Kroft is clearly the more polished, consistent tight end now. Knox will learn from him as Kroft now starts--I believe.

Okay, but Kroft sure did look good yesterday, consistently. He is 27 year old. If he plays like he did yesterday throughout this year, I believe the Bills will not be looking too hard for a new tight end next year,

Definitely, as the Bills have been gashed too often already, seem to really miss their huge lineman, Star and Jordan Phillips. He is 30 years old and can likely still be, if motivated, a big part of a great defense. No risk, but a big reward possible here.

For the first time in a very long time a Bills tight end looked disciplined, showed superb hands, got open consistently, and blocked effectively. We are told how much more athletic Knox is and how much more upside he has than Kroft. But our eyes did not deceive us yesterday--in all phases of his position Kroft is superior to Knox. Knox has never looked like that, although he has played well at times and made some big plays. He is not a consistently reliable starting tight end yet. Dawson Knox may well become the starting tight end a few years down the road, but if yesterday was an indication, he does not play the position well enough (yet) to be the starter. Knox will continue to make some big plays, but not in a starting role. Kroft played an integral role in the victory yesterday and should be the starter going forward.