Rigotz

Do we really want to play this game? Until about 5 years ago, I think the majority of fans would list the Bills. We never made the playoffs, had no exciting players, and are a small market team. How quickly you all forget.

Man.... I was so ready to be angry, based on that title.

Somewhat unrelated, but I don't want to start a new thread just for this ... I think the reason we lost vs AZ was the Guard play from both spots. Costly penalties, no push in the ground game, Josh couldn't step up on throws. If you look closely on the INTs, Josh couldn't get solid footing. The AZ interior ate us up all day. Here's hoping we can get Morse back after the Bye and slide Mongo back to Guard. He's been a good G, but I'm excited to see him, Morse, and Dawkins eat.

He's a rookie. You don't want a free first round pick rookie because he had a bad start to his first season? Yikes. If you said something about his personality issues (and there are several) then I would have said sure... makes sense... but saying he is "terrible" is just ridiculous.

He was a first round pick ... drafted in the 2019 draft. Thank god you guys aren't GM.

I'd like to add in another tidbit of positivity I was thinking about this morning: The playoff seeding this year outside of #1 doesn't matter nearly as much as previous years. Only the #1 seed gets a bye in each division. If Buffalo wins the division and gets a "home" game, fans will likely not be in the stands. So ... division winner vs Wild Card means a whole lot less. We just need to make the playoffs... and with 7 teams making it this year, we're still in a great spot.

WHAT?? WHY CANT WE GET (insert corpse of relevant 1980s band) TO PLAY!

Am I the only person that doesn't want to talk about his contract yet? We have several threads on this. According to the CBA he can't get a new contract until next year... then he gets paid $7M ... then he has his 5th year option ... then we can talk contract. Just enjoy it for now. Enough about the contract.

This. Plus, next year he's due $7 Million. Then we can exercise his 5th year option the following year. A lot can change within the next two and a half seasons. If he's a bonafide elite quarterback, we will know it by then and we will pay him. Right now, if we pay him, we'll probably still have to pay him elite QB money. So for absolutely no reason, you want us to lock in Josh Allen right now? No.

Man, I can't get enough of this. Players having fun, scoring points, fighting hard. 20 years ... worth the wait.

It was not one thing. - Separated shoulder - We barely had the ball against two good offenses during that stretch - Defenses dared us to run and we couldn't run, so they played with defensive backs all over the field - Defenses were disguising coverage and throwing new looks at Josh out of respect for his game - The whole team just flat out played poorly for a few games, which affects offensive momentum - John Brown was injured - Bad weather

The "$20 Million" thing is really ridiculous and misleading. $20 Million is 10% of the current cap. 10 years ago the salary cap was $120 Million. 10% of that is $12M. 20 years ago the salary cap was $60 Million. 10% of that is $6M. Peyton Manning made $15M in 2015. He won the super bowl. The cap was $143M that year. Do the math. The only reason your skewed statistic is even close to correct is that Tom Brady won so many times and he had a team friendly contract. Can we close this thread?

Agreed on this big time. The Head Coach gets all the credit/blame for challenges, but he has a team in his ear telling him whether to challenge or not. Whomever our person is, he/she is not good enough. This is less a reflection on McDermott and more on the challenge specialist. Time for a change.

Nathaniel Hackett: No prior legit experience before 2013 ... "quality control" for a few NFL teams and Syracuse QBs and Tight Ends Coach. 2013 Buffalo Bills O-Coordinator: Bills rank 22nd in total offense, followed by 18th. 29th in passing. Then he quits on his team and opts out of his contract. Nice. 2015 after failing to land another O-Coordinator job, he latches on as Jaguars O-Line coach. 2015 Jaguars rank 14th in offense, but he's barely involved. 2016 Doug Marrone, the snake, finds a way to weasel his way into Head Coach and promotes his buddy Nate Hackett. Jaguars rank 25th in total offense. 2017 Nate Hackett is the O-Coordinator again. Jaguars rank 5th in total offense! (His only good year, despite buddy'ing up with offensive minded HC's) 2018 Nate Hackett tries to build on his success as O-Coordinator and Jaguars end up ranking 31st in total offense. His buddy Doug Marrone fires him. 2019 Nate Hackett is somehow hired by Green Bay Packers as their O-Coordinator. They go from 14th ranking in NFL the previous year to a whopping 15th with Aaron Rodgers as QB. I love this story because it shows Nate Hackett following offensive minded coaches everywhere he goes and then failing. I sincerely hope that he becomes an NFL Head Coach somewhere because that's just one more team we can count on failing.

Low risk, high reward if we can get him for cheap ($1M-$3M). I don't see any reason not to use him as a situational pass rusher on long passing downs. Seems like we could really use that.

Nope. He has been a safeties coach for a few years and outside linebackers coach for one year. Unless his daddy pulls some strings, he isn't even close to being ready.

Agreed on this. If we could find a team to take him while he still has “upside” it would be a dream. He’s embarrassing out there.

This is quite possibly the worst take ever. The #1 priority for every single NFL franchise is to draft a great QB and keep him until he retires. I just looked at the last 20 years of Super Bowl winners and 17 of them had a good veteran Franchise QB at the helm. Bad take.

Perhaps you missed the part where I wrote in bold that I do not think all of those players should be cut.

We obviously don't feel great about some of the recent D-Line signings, but I was encouraged by some of the opt-out clauses that can help save us IF we decide to start over. Trent Murphy - $9,775,000 - this comes off the books at the end of the year, no penalty Mario Addison - $9,968,75 - two years left after this year, but we can terminate his contract with only $4M penalty Jerry Hughes - $9,500,000 - one year left after this year, but we can terminate his contract with only $2.1M penalty Vernon Butler - $7,368,750, one year left after this year, but we can terminate his contract with only $1M penalty Quinton Jefferson - $6,906,250, one year left after this year, but we can terminate his contract with only $1.5M penalty So, as bad as some of these guys have looked, we aren't completely stuck with any of them. It's incredible to see that we have $43.5 Million tied up in these guys per year... but we can completely hit the reset button if we want by eating only $8.6M in dead cap. Not saying we should cut every one of these players. I just thought this was a nice silver lining to what seems to be a few bad signings.

Let's pretend for a moment that you are an NFL GM. Would you pay a reporter to report a fake story and risk that they tell everyone you're lying? Or, would you simply leak fake information to the reporter and pretend it's true? The answer, clearly, is always the latter. Case closed.

Call me crazy, but I think losing a playoff game after taking a 16-0 lead is more disappointing than losing to a 2-5 team in the division.

1) we don’t have the cap space for him 2) he’s overpaid 3) it makes zero sense to have two $20+MM corners 4) he’s not worth a 1st round pick

Bro I’ve been meaning to say, your delts have been looking more swole than Macaulay Culkin in My Girl. Keep up those gains dude. - Uses Ranch on his wings - Doesn’t know all the words to Shout - Can’t name a single member of the Sabres organization - Thinks Anchor Bar has the best wings in Buffalo - Left the game before the Bills came back against the Oilers THIS GUY STINKS

When’s the last time he has actually hit one inside the 5....