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I wouldn't count out the Dolphins next year. We just saw firsthand how good that offense is when everyone is healthy and McDaniel is willing to be patient as a play caller. They did anything they wanted to against us, and if they can drag us into a shootout it becomes basically a coin flip game. I still see them as our most viable competition for the next couple years. I don't think people are giving enough credit to how bad the Pats roster is right now... They're kind of where the Bills were in 2018 but arguably with even less talent, and Jerod Mayo has not been good at all IMO. He's a defensive coach and his defense has been abysmal (30th in DVOA). And it's very unlikely Drake Maye becomes as good as Josh Allen. I know they have a ton of resources to spend next year but they are almost like an expansion team starting from scratch. They will have to make a lot of good decisions to climb their way back into contention. I'm really not worried about them at all. The Jets are in for a few years of pain. They made a massive mistake trying to go all in with a 40 year old QB. Short term all in teams very rarely work out. The Rams did it and it worked but it took them a couple years just to get back into wildcard contention and that was with an elite coach and very good QB guiding the ship. The Jets by comparison are lost at sea and don't even have a captain. Get back to me in four seasons, we'll see where they're at.

My post on the last page:

Yeah in a way I was glad to see us win a game like we did against Miami. It's good for the team in the long run. Inevitably you are going to have to win some shootouts in this league. If for example we face Baltimore in the playoffs it isn't going to be a 21-17 kind of win... It was good to see our offense keep pace and that was without our best WR on the field.

Sounds like he had a bad attitude from the start and didn't put forth enough of an effort for the coaches to give him a shot after he recovered from his injury. Opportunities are earned, not gifted.

I highly doubt that. Beane doesn't promise starting roles to low-tier contract players. He tells them they'll come in to compete. Somehow Edwards got it in his head that he has earned a starting job out the gate despite being a backup as recently as last year.

I'm holding you personally responsible.

Noooo why Jordan Phillips?? I really didn't want to believe it was actually going to happen. @GunnerBill you were right, he has put a hypnotic spell on Brandon Beane.

Joe Marino put out some interesting info on today's Locked On Bills. He said two weeks ago a source told him that Mike Edwards was very unhappy that he had to compete for a starting job, he had a bad attitude about it, and he was apparently giving low effort in practice. That's why he was a mainstay on the inactive list. So this whole thing has been brewing for a while. It sucks that a veteran who's spent his career competing for playing time suddenly decided he was the greatest thing since sliced bread. What a loser, honestly. This is why you can't always judge coaching decisions without knowing what's going on behind the scenes.

I'm having so much fun imagining Jordan Phillips sitting on the inactive list for the next 8 weeks

It doesn't even make any sense. The Cowboys just released him like 15 minutes ago. No way we already contacted him and signed him just like that. He's posting himself in a Bills jersey with the caption "run it back" because that's what he wants to happen. This is a bizarre mass delusion from the local and national media.

Phillips is trying to post it into existence. I'll be shocked if we bring him back. He's completely washed up. If we want to give him a PS spot to replace Ankou, sure, whatever, but no way he should be on an NFL roster.

How much would we have to give up to offload that contract? And I'm only half joking.

We now have two open roster spots with Edwards being released and Smoot going to IR. I would think Ankou will get one of the openings, he has earned it IMO. That leaves one left to hopefully fill through a trade.

I don't disagree, and I'm intentionally not diving into my "fire McDermott" stance until the season is over. He's our coach right now so he has my support through the rest of the season. Just saying there is no comparison between Daboll and Johnson.

Daboll has never been a great OC at any point in his career. Ben Johnson transformed Goff into a top 10 QB and has built the most dominant offense in the league. And the offense has gotten better and better each year so it's not a flash in the plan. The respective resumes of those coaches are not close IMO.

Good news... KC was reportedly in on him. Finally a big trade went to the NFC.

AKA both of those players will be traded to whatever team makes the best offer. Hopefully we're in on SJD.

My thought is that the trade deadline should be about setting us up for the playoffs, not setting us up for November. Usually I am all about stacking the WR room, but unless Coleman's injury is a season ender we can enter the playoffs with a trio of Cooper/Coleman/Shakir. That is not a dominant group by any means but I'm good with it. We probably have the cap room to make exactly one trade (thanks to Beane's awful FA spending this year, but that's a topic for another thread). WR is the wrong position to use it on IMO. For me the position group most likely to kill us in the playoffs as currently constructed is DT and it's not close. We're going to see some great rushing teams in the playoffs - some combination of the Chargers, Texans, Ravens, Chiefs, and finally the Lions if we make it that far. And other than the Chargers, you also have to respect the pass for each of those teams. We aren't going to see any Seattle minus DK Metcalf offenses where we can just sell out to stop the run. Somebody up front needs to be able to make individual plays to shut down the run, and right now we don't have anyone on the roster capable of that. Eli Ankou might be our best run stopper which is insane. So give me a big DT and hope to enter the playoffs healthy. That gives us our best shot at making a run IMO.

So in your opinion the Chiefs who will likely be missing their top 2 WRs and their #2 CB are not favorites to win the AFC this year?

If only their offense had had the ball at the 2 yard line with a chance to take the game out of the defense's hands

Multiple times. His offense bailed him out on a gritty drive and he decided to toss their effort in the garbage. What a loser.

Can't imagine teams playing MNF into OT look great the following week. Denver travels to KC next week.

The ideal scenario is running the clock down to score a TD with less than 20 seconds and then score a 2 point conversion. Not play for OT when your defense has looked hopeless this half.

I've never once been angry at the Chiefs. I've always been angry at their opponent.