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Let me guess, you think Jon Gruden was railroaded. Statistics pretty much prove that the NFL coaching ranks are a good ol' boy network, and since almost all of the good ol' boys are white, white good ol' boys get most of the opportunities, even those with mediocre resumes. The NFL itself has acknowledged this with their continuing attempts to see more African Americans hired as head coaches. At the time Brian Flores filed his lawsuit against the NFL and Broncos, Giants, and Texans in 2022, there was only 1 Black HC in the NFL. In 2023, there are 3 Black HCs in the NFL, the same number that were in the league when the NFL instituted the Rooney Rule twenty years ago. Those are pretty skewed stats given that 70% of NFL players are black.

Recency bias ... and Jests homerism run amok.

Apparently the Jests' guard McGovern displaced or broke his knee cap against the Pats, which sounds like he's done for the season, so the Jests were obviously desperate to bolster their OL. 😁

The scariest bad teams are always the ones on losing streaks ... and the longer the losing streak, the more dangerous the team.

Especially as Gano is good kicker, not a scrub off the waiver wire or an easily iced rookie.

The small flock of pigeons that infest my yard has been reduced by one. Some time this morning a hawk or falcon snagged an unlucky one, leaving a large bunch of gray and white feathers scattered around the far end of my backyard. Cooper's hawks and peregrine falcons are the most likely culprits since I live in a somewhat suburban area of my city, but as this is migration season, it could have been several other raptors less common to this area.

Well, of course!!! Garoppolo took the 49ers to the Super Bowl in 2019. They lost but at least he got them there, which is more than Allen has done! //sarcasm off

Well said. Aaron Rodgers has won 1 SB. I don't think that he's been to another. That's as many as Joe Flacco and Nick Foles have won. Peyton Manning, the best QB of his generation, only won two. His younger brother, Eli, who was an excellent QB but not nearly as good as his sibling, also won two, including one against the Patriots on the infamous "helmet catch". Football is a team game, and it's well balanced teams -- teams good at all three phases of game -- that have a lot of luck on their side, particularly in terms of injuries to key players -- that win Super Bowls. In the salary cap era, putting together a well balanced team when a team has to pay an elite QB is a very complex proposition.

I rolled a pickup truck many years ago and ended up with a concussion and neck sprain. It takes at least several weeks to heal the neck. Of course, Harris is a very fit 20-something. I was a nearly forty year old softee.

The last time I looked, there are defenses in every game trying to stop the offense from scoring. I've never seen any post of yours ever making an excuse for Allen. 🙄 It sounds like you're advocating some kind of revolution. Are you and your army of indignant fans going to storm One Bills Drive, take Terry Pegula hostage, and force Beane, McDermott et al to resign? Before Mahomes, Andy Reid was considered a coach who couldn't win "the big one".

Since this is a thread about Davante Adams trade speculation, I assumed that you were pushing for the Bills to trade for Adams. The sad reality is that teams find affordable high-end WRs in the draft not often via trades or FA signings. Their draft success is dependent upon the WRs available in the draft and where the teams draft. It's further complicated by how the teams rank their priorities in each draft.

I think that they'll manage to keep at least one, hopefully AJE, most likely at the sacrifice of veteran DBs like White, Poyer, and/or Hyde.

Can I borrow your crystal ball for the next big Power Ball drawing? How many Super Bowls have you won? So, Beane "doesn't even try to land great wide receivers"???? Really? The fact that the Beane traded a first round pick for Stefon Diggs in 2020 flushes your premise down the toilet, dude. The reality is that a team can't afford two #1 WRs on 2nd or 3rd contract as well as an elite QB beyond his rookie contract unless the team is going to ignore the OL and the defense. That's exactly why Tyreek Hill is in Miami.

Even blind squirrels occasionally find nuts.

This is infinitely more detrimental to the Bills' chances of the Bills making the Super Bowl than any other current issue. Luck plays such a significant role in a team making the Super Bowl, especially in terms of injuries to key players, that it's definitely a case of being "better to be lucky than good".

I have no problem with valid criticism, and I've frequently agreed with posters with such criticisms and/or reasonable suggestions for fixing apparent problems. The posters I do have problems with are the fools that live in an alternative universe where the salary cap is irrelevant, firing coaches and trading out current players for has-beens, never-weres, and/or a couple of big names in season result in SB wins.

Nonsense. All this hysterical angst about the Bills performance in the last two games is a collective temper tantrum by fools who think know that the Bills need to do SOMETHING -- ANYTHING -- ASAP, from trading for has-beens and never-weres to firing the coaching staff. None of these whiners offer realistic solutions. They only demand change for change's sake. Actually, the Pats did stick with Bledsoe until they found that they had a young QB who was better. What young player on the Bills is better than the current starter? One could argue that Kincaid is better than Knox but the Bills have changed their offense to incorporate both TEs in the offense at the same time. Is Quintin Morris better than Knox? Who knows? His TD catch against the Giants was only his second reception of the season out of 10 or 11 targets. It seems to me that the Bills are not standing pat with veterans when they believe they have a young player who's better. The Bills didn't offer Trey Edmunds a new contract because they figured Terrell Bernard would be better. All the message board GM-wannabes were up in arms about the Bills not chasing after veteran MLBs until they actually saw Bernard play.

I have to wonder how many of the whiny, angry, hysterical posters on TSW are either too young to remember the Bills pre-2017 or have chosen to block out memories of the misery that Bills fans suffered between 2000 and 2016. Any ugly win is infinitely better than any loss, particularly early in the season.

I'm sure that among the 31 billionaires who own all but one NFL team (Green Bay), there's at least one who would do it just because he can. I'm not familiar with NFL owners. I know the names of only 5: Terry Pegula, Bob Kraft, Jerry Jones, Mark Davis, and Bob Irsay. Ooops.

You must be almost as old as me! I think that most of the posters here aren't old enough to have any idea of the folk music movement that swept popular music in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Who cares if McDermott and Daboll aren't besties? It has absolutely no bearing on the Bills play going forward. My guess is that neither coach was particularly happy at the end that game for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with the coaches' personal feelings toward each other.

I think it's ironic that the ditzy blonde of "Three's Company" was a really sharp businesswoman. RIP.

Maybe it was the ring of fire eclipse on Saturday.

In previous years, they might very well have hung a 40 burger on the hapless Broncos.

According to the NFLN Insiders, since teams could choose to have a bye or play a game after returning from Europe, the teams that played the week after coming back from Europe have won 9 out of 13 games.