BullBuchanan

I don't seem to remember them playing very hard against the Bengals when other teams were fighting for a Super Bowl. Back then we were talking about how they were "emotionally exhausted". Were Ed Oliver or Leonard Floyd playing hard in the playoffs last year? Sorry, man. This team has had plenty of talent over this regime's tenure, but they're soft and worse, they're incredibly undisciplined. When you combine that with our coaching staff turnover and how bad our situational football has been, there needs to be a cap on how much praise you dole out to McDermott.

Never said anything remotely close to that either. You understand Any Reid was a coach before Patrick Mahomes was int he NFL, right?

If only that's relevant to what I said. @ me when McDermott puts together a record like that with some of the schlubbs that have started games for Andy Reid. Josh Allen makes every person at OBD look like they know what they're doing. Edit: also, let me know if McD holds that average over another 300 games like Reid has.

And yet all he does is win wherever he is, with whatever QB he has. I'll take that coach 7 days a week over lunchpail McClappy.

fixed. the 2nd one was Davis.

I think the part of my post that you missed is that shuffling doesn't result in a meaningfully "better" guy. They're all in the same bucket career-wise and they take turns year to year being better than one another.

The problem is that, generally speaking, the grass is always greener when it comes to kickers. Our perspective is a bit distorted because we live in an era of great kickers. Tucker and Butker are the two most accurate kickers of all time, and 7 of the top 10 most accurate kickers of all time are currently active. 4 of those players (Tucker, Butker, Boswell, Fairbairn) have only ever played for one team Of the other 3, two of them played a rookie season with another team and then spent the rest of their careers with their current squad (Koo, Carlson) If you want one of those guys, you kinda need to get lucky, because most other teams are just shuffling the same guys around. As of right now, Bass has the 25th highest career kicking percentage. Other contemporaries like Gay (15th), Hopkins (17th), Santos (19th), Meyers(21st) have played for 3,3,5, and 3 teams respectively. These guys are very, very good in a historical perspective and yet they keep getting cut and shuffled elsewhere.

How much better are they than Bass? Tucker, McPherson and Bass al missed 5 kicks last year. Sanders missed 4. Bass had the lowest percentage but he was effectively even with McPherson. Most kickers get so few reps these days that a couple more in any direction skews the stats a lot to make you think a guyw as great or terrible. Bass had his worse year since his rookie year with 5 misses for 82.8 percent, coming off back to back 87% seasons where he had 4 misses across 3 and 4 more attempts respectively.

You think Nacua would have been a target to replace Diggs had he been dealt last year?

1. Bishop - potential long term starter at safety 2. Van Pran Granger - potential long term starter at C 3. Hardy - many say he's the best slot corner in the draft. Could take over Johnson's role and be here long term. 4. Ulofoshio - Given McD's love affair with ST guys, I think he could stick around to a second deal and be the next Matakevich 5. Coleman - Given the current WR market, I don't see him lasting to a second contract here unless he's a mild disappointment 6. Davis - given his age and position, unlikely he plays a second contract here 7. Carter - will be part of the rotation for his rookie deal. Perhaps he sees a second contract as a rotational guy. 8. Solomon - last year he may have had an uphill climb to make the team, but given how thin we are there he'll get a real shot 9. Grable - PS 10. Clayton - PS

Shakir and Samuel will be your first and second options to start the year with Kincaid lining up in the slot a good deal and then Shakir and Samuele moving in there when Coleman is on the field. I loved Michael Thomas before his injuries, but it's really hard to argue he's still an NFL level talent at this point. It's crazy how fast a guy can go from best int he league to irrelevant, but we've been seeing it a lot of it over the last few years. MVS might be the best player in that list right now, and that's not saying much because I'm not sure he's a top 90 receiver.

Between Hyde and Poyer, Hyde fell off far worse, IMO. He should really just retire given his injury and age. I'm not sure what value he brings to an NFL team at this point.

Or maybe I'm avoiding the "right" people. I always associated that phrase with backwater folks. It's adorable when they try to explain to people (who didn't ask) that iT iSnT rEaLlY a cOmPLiMeNt, when anyone with a triple digit IQ or who has been alive for over 5 years already knows this. It stopped being cleaver in the 70s, if it even was then.

Me too. People haven't said that here in 50 years, but keep on keeping on brother.

Because they'll get paid for it and because they'll all be able to lie to themselves if they have a 10-12 win season that they have a shot at a Lombardi. You're probably right though. It's clear people holding water for this regime the last 5 years have been right. I mean, look at all that hardware they've collected. So, then you would think the key to victory would be stopping that right? Clearly, you can't outperform them, as a lot of teams have tried and none have succeeded except Tom Brady.

And what does that tell you? It tell me they didn't have enough and they didn't play up to their talent level. The Niners and eagles also happened to have two of the best WR groups in the league and the Ravens were very strong as well. That didn't matter at all.

Wrong argument. WR isn't what will hold back the Bills from a championship. Defensive star power and depth will do that.

I don't like playing him, but he's the best football player I've ever seen.

His catch percentage was 66.9% last year with a Buffalo career average of 69.1%: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DiggSt00.htm Tyreek hill was 69.6% CeeDee Lamb was 69.6% Amon Ra was 73.4% Puka Nacua was 65.6% AJ Brown was 67.1% Those were the top 5 receiving leaders. On either side of Diggs in yards you had Jamarr Chase at 69% Michael Pittman at 69.9% As you can see, he did have a lower rate than the top guys last year, but his career rate is in line or above them. If you pull up any one player, they are likley to have years that dip into the low to mid 60s in any given year. Tyreek had 3 straight years below 65%.

We should have all seen plenty of evidence of this over the years.

Not that I really care who owns the team, but the guy is 73 years old. At that age you could be in good health an hour ago and drop dead and breakfast. It wouldn't be a shock unless you saw it happen. If you don't have a succession plan/will as a 73 y/o Billionaire, you're a moron.

I don't see anything about "monetarily successful people". Nobody is hating on a dentist with an outdoor kitchen. There's never been, and never will be a billionaire who's also a good person.

assuming it's a minimum deal, I like it.

1. No he won't be as a rookie. Guaranteed to be a drop-off, and that's when he starts, which could be a while. 2. And looked really bad doing it. 3. Douglas was already our #2 last year. White missed nearly the entire year 4. Jackson is not easily replaceable, considering we didn't replace him.

The DB room couldn't be more different. We've massively downgraded. Mike Edwards is atrocious in all aspects of the game. Taylor Rapp is a massive liability in the passing game and his undisciplined and reckless tackling have already cost us. Losing Dane Jackson as a first guy off the bench is being completely disregarded as not a big deal. He was a fringe starting talent. For better or worse, you're going to see a lot more of Kaiir Elam now. Hopefully Cole Bishop takes the starting job away from Edwards or Rapp soon. Hopefully we can bring in a better vet to help back there. Hopefully Douglas and Benford stay healthy all year. Hopefully Elam isn't a dumpster fire That's a lot of hope needed. I'd prefer talent and confidence, but maybe I'm weird.