PlayoffsPlease

Oh, so you are discussing closing the gap, as not actually finishing the process of closing the gap? or are you just discussing closing the gap to becoming a perennial slighly better loser? you make no sense whatsoever.

Many people on this board can't grasp the obvious point you are making . They seem to think somehow that teams go 6-10, then 7-9, the 8-8, then 9-7, then 10-6 like it is some sort of corporate "continual improvement" process.

Closing the Gap means joining the small crowd of superior teams. Bouncing around between 6-10 and 10-6 without ever winning playoff games makes you the Bengals.

Its difficult to tell how far behind the top teams the Bills are. No one on the team as an owner, GM, coach or Bills player has ever won a playoff game or won 10 games in a season. Do you consider the Marvin Lewis Bengals a success story? Would those results satisfy the OP's question? Today we saw a future hall of fame QB, Philip Rivers, who has had a great coach (Marty Shottenheimer) ,played with Hall of famers like LaDainian Tomlinson and Antonio Gates who none the less never help established his team as consistently in the top tier of teams. Yesterday we MAY have seen the next great coach QB combo in the AFC with Reid/Mahomes. This season we saw other young QBs in the AFC like Baker Mayfield, Andrew Luck, Deshaun Watson in the AFC. Its entirely possible for Josh Allen to get to their level, and like Rivers, never had a team to push them past them. Bill Bellichek might stay with the Patriots the next 10 years. I think he will always be a better coach than McDermott. I think the easier question is how long until the Bills are respectable NFL team rather than a laughingstock? And we now know the answer, since Josh Allen returned from his injury.

What roles with other teams did Mr. Gaine and Mr. Allen pass on to join the Bills? You presented your other post as a fact, not an opinion. My question was whether or not it was demonstrably true, or just an opinion. You have clarifed that it is just an opinion.

Can you provide a list of examples of people who passed on other opportunities to take a parallel opportunity with Beane's Bills. Or is this just something you imagine to be true.

The RBs were slow and did not take advantage when they could. They were flat out awful.

He is good. You are way over thinking this. I think you completely miss the point. Foles is playing pretty damn good against a very good team. Does Brees cease to be a starting caliber QB if the Saints lose?

Our RBs were horrible. The Oline was horrible. Both were problems.

Dude has 27-2 TD-INT ratio season, and a super bowl winning playoff run on his resume. I think he is just a good QB.

Is subtweeting under your real name more or less cowardly than posting anonymously in a fan forum to complain about cowards?

Watching the playoffs makes me feel like I was watching the NFL equivalent of AAA ball all season. The coaching, skill levels and intensity are all up a couple of notches. Until your team wins playoff games, you can't really tell if they can make the jump to that level.

If the Eagles deal Wentz, he might end up in NE

What really drives me insane are people who say "no one could have known". Yet it appears the Chiefs "knew" Mahomes was worth the draft picks traded.

The Bills did not trade the actual pick used to select any of those guys. That is the reason it is remembered differently.

I think there are at least one significant flaws in the design of the 538 analysis. It does not seem to take into account situations. Pass-Pass-Pass is likely very successful for teams that are trailing big in the second half facing a prevent defense. I am not sure you can compare the results of rush-rush-pass on the opening series against that.

I consider myself one of Josh Allen's biggest fans, and earliest supporters. Having said that, of course they would take Mahomes, knowing what everyone in the world knows now.

To everyone who thinks the pressure on Reich in Buffalo would enormous, there is an important news flash. The pressure on every NFL coach is enormous. Only a small handful make it to the five year mark. Reich did a nice job in Indy this season. There is no reason to think he would not be a good coach elsewhere. If Reich goes on to win a string of super bowls, and McDermot washes out in Buffalo, it will be fair to say we might have blown it.

If you think Josh Allen is a true franchise QB in the making, then Beane has solved a riddle that has perplexed Bills GMs for more than 2 decades. This buys him lots of good will. At the same time McDermott somehow concluded the Bills would be better wasting training camp splitting reps three ways instead of committing to Allen. This is why many fans like Beane and are skeptical of McDermott.

Have you seen pictures of Captain Andrew Luck, he will be an old man by the time he turns 30.

There is no fun allowed during a Bills off-season. If TBD posters don't keep their eyes focused on the prize, there is good chance the Bills run of winning the last nine straight off seasons could come to a screeching halt. Stay focused. Trust the Process. Build a Bully. But please no fun. Oh no. Mr. Bill can't get the next goat

The national TV audience for Super Bowl averaged 111.3 million viewers for Fox Last year's Academy Awards, which earned a 22.4 overnight rating, ultimately fetched 32.9 million viewers for ABC Not really comparable. I would guess far more people watch the Super Bowl than do anything to memorialize half of the federal holidays.

I am very lucky to know for certain you are wrong.

If you read my original you will see that I explicitly projected him to be the premier AFC QB. And Trevor Lawrence won't be. But Trevor will be tall, tough and a good runner. Hence trevor will only be the poor man's Josh Allen. Its not too complicated. Try to keep up.

The similarities are height, toughness and running ability. I don't care about the back stories. Its not 2021 yet. You need to be able to project.