PlayoffsPlease

We have established earlier that you are much more sensitive to events than Gruden. He will not be suing.

You are now nominated for stadium wall hero status. Leave the dark side, join us.

is this racist?

Your nation thanks you for your service.

so you went there to expand the gene pool?

not sure that was the best use of post 44,444

Post of the year.

I am old enough to remember when Steelers fans were glad AB was not on the Steelers.

this is purely a result of karma from posters on this board crapping on the raiders.

Winning the medal of war is among the highest praise an American can receive. I did not know this. I am very proud to support a team named after a medal of honor winner.

I agreed they lost the draft picks. Continuing fighting your straw men. You are winning against them.

Its clear this is impacting your emotions far more than Grudens.

I am sure Gruden has a clause in his contract requiring him to minimize headlines.

I think you were more affected than any of them. They are pros in a business where injuries and other factors change the personnel on a more or less constant basis.

drama is cost free. it only affects fans.

yes

Antonio Brown saga cost the Raiders zero cash and zero cap hit. It the literal equivalent of signing a guy off the street then cutting him. Feel free to hate Gruden and Maydock. But this turned out be a high reward zero risk situation, as they managed it.

That s an example of word parsing. I am 100% sure the Bills will have results this year. That statement offers no accountability. If the Bills go 7-9 this year that will be a result. If that happens Beane will take credit for much of the hidden subtle progress that us average fans can't see inside the 7-9 result. And some part of the coaching staff will be blamed and changed. Edited to add : The goal of lawyerly/politician word parsing is to say something that sound good, but can't be used against you later.

How do you feel about the Browns name?

You are entitled to your opinion. If the bills are not one of the 12 teams in the playoffs this year ( i think they will be) I will think either Beane or McDermott is failing. Winning is the bottom line for their jobs. Neither of them has committed to a playoff berth or win as a measure of success. They both sound like word parsing lawyers or politicians when it comes to discussing success for the team.

Playoff wins. Every year. That is the goal setting I want to see. I want a coach and gm to say "If we don't win a playoff game this year, I will feel as though we failed to meet our goal" Point me to a single statement in any interview where he mentions PERSONAL accountability for the teams success and I will gladly recant. What part of my opinion do you not respect now . This one one "I think Beane has made many good decisions. I think Josh Allen is going to be special. I think Beane is a good GM"?

Sustained excellence sounds nice. How many wins is that? Does that mean making the playoffs each year? As best I can tell, Beane has never said "success in the NFL means making the playoffs, winning a playoff game etc. I would speculate that none of the Bill's players have incentive bonuses based on "sustained excellence" or "going in the right direction" or any other meaningless platitude. Beane quote from the article: ""With that, we do want to play better and be more competitive. The result of that is hopefully win more games, ..." To me that is incredibly wishy washy. I am more in the quote attributed to Lombardi (probably incorrectly) "Winning isn't everything, its the only thing". Far far better than "hopefully win more games" or "trust the process". I think Beane has made many good decisions. I think Josh Allen is going to be special. I think Beane is a good GM. However If the Bill's fail, everything I have heard from Beane leads me to believe he will throw everyone under the bus he can to blame for the failure before himself.

Ok, I don't take it that way. Beane has not once made a statement publicly about wins being part of his responsibility as gm. He is very cautious to make sure that there are no known objective goals (playoffs, .500, super bowl). I think this is just Beane's standard lack of willingness to define success.

Where does it say he is lukewarm?