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It's his job. He's an actor turned sports "personality".

IIRC the Giants picking Jones caused a lot of questions at the time he was drafted. I think he had some connection to Eli and possibly to the Mara family, and some analysts believed that connection resulted in his selection.

Jests fans and the NY media have been spinning Super Bowl dreams based on total fantasy since they won their SB back in 1969.

Why do you hate Shadeur so much that you'd consign him to certain failure with the Jests?

Seriously, dude. If Bishop were even close to playing the position as well as Hamlin, he would be playing at least occasionally. Instead, he's riding the pine except for ST. You may not value regular season wins or playoff seedings but I guarantee that that's not McDermott's -- nor any NFL HC -- mindset. Deal with it.

Hopefully, KC will use up its quota of good bounces soon. There is no difficult decision for Pegula to make. He's not firing McDermott, and few if any season ticket holders are going to demand that he do that. Many season ticket holders have decades of attending Bills games when winning seasons were few and far between and the Bills even getting to the playoffs seemed pipe dreams. For long time fans who remember Hank Bullough, Dick Jauron and Rex Ryan, McDermott is untouchable, especially this season when the consensus was that the Bills were going to "take a step back" because of so many roster losses. The Lions are owned by the Ford family (of the Ford automobile fortune). The Lions' problems were never related to how the Fords' wealth stacked up to many of the new billionaire owners. In 2020, Sheila Ford Hamp took control of the team from her mother, Martha Firestone Ford, and brought in the new administration and philosophy. She apparently got it right the first time out.

The last time I looked, the Bills were 7-2 not 2-7. They're seeded second in the AFC right now, and can be the #1 seed by beating KC and getting some help from some other team. If we fans can see that Hamlin isn't the best safety to wear a Bills uni in McDermott's tenure, certainly McDermott and his staff recognize that, too. They would love, love, love to have somebody better, but if they're still sitting Bishop, it means he still hasn't shown enough in practice to give the coaches confidence that he'd be even as good as Hamlin. I cannot understand why you have such a problem with this.

Fixed it for you. 😁

The Jets are 3-6 with 8 games left. While it's true that the Jets have an easy schedule, expecting them to win at least 6 of their next 8 games seems a big ask for such a dysfunctional team. They play at the Cardinals this week which doesn't seem as easy a win as it did at the beginning of the season. Moreover, they have to play the Tua-le Fins twice, the surging Rams, and the Bills at Highmark. Of those 5 games, they could easily go 1-4, and IMO they're more likely to go 0-5 rather than 3-2.

I'm rooting for the Ravens. I think Cinci with Burrow could be very dangerous in the playoffs if he gets hot because of the single elimination format. Get them out of playoff contention early IMO. I think that the Ravens may run out of steam by the end of the season and come into the playoffs not in prime form. Lamar is already banged up and nursing some nagging injuries. More importantly, Harbaugh is using Derrick Henry way too much rather than pacing him to have something left for later. One of the tv analysts brought this up recently. Henry is on a pace to have 300+ carries ... at almost 31 years old. In previous seasons with Tennessee, his production declined late in seasons where he was heavily used early on. The Ravens without Henry are much less of a problem.

The Jets have talent but they are a deeply dysfunctional franchise. They looked like a real team in their latest win, but the real test comes when things go south. Whether you call it culture or team spirit or whatever, that connection among team members (both players and coaches) that enables teams like the Bills or Chiefs or Lions to face adversity with an all-for-one mentality is missing in the Jets where it seems that are other agendas at play. Not only have numerous media analysts noticed this, but some players have also mentioned it, most surprisingly newcomer Davante Adams (or maybe not surprisingly since Rodgers hinted at the same thing earlier). I can't see a team that deeply divided winning 6 or 7 games in the last half of the season.

The Jets are going to remain the Jests as long as Woody Johnson owns them. The Jets haven't drafted a competent QB since they took Chad Pennington in the first round of the 2000 draft. What makes you think they'll find one in the 2025 draft? They have less draft capital for 2025 because of the pick(s) they gave up to get Adams. Expecting to get three starting caliber players, including a franchise QB and an OT, out of one draft with only a single first round pick is unrealistic for any team, but especially for a team with an owner who thinks he's a football expert with a track record that proves he isn't. Because of Rodgers' contract the next 2 years as well as the money they've committed to Rodgers' pals, they probably can't afford to pay even a retread QB unless he's willing to play near the league veteran minimum. Why is the world would Ben Johnson have any interest in coaching the Jests? Rodgers' legacy is an albatross weighing down the Jests' future, but Woody Johnson has been and will continue to be a millstone on the Jests' future.

That Johnson is a great coordinator doesn't mean that he will make a great HC. Mike McDaniel was the "hot" OC, but his tenure as Fish HC has not been all that successful. Steve Spagnulo is a great DC but he failed spectacularly as a HC in St Louis (10 wins in 3 seasons) despite his successful stint as DC for the Giants. None of Belichick's coordinators have turned out to be even good HCs.

ROTFLMAO. Obviously you weren't a Bills fan between 2000 and 2016. I guarantee you that there are a whole lot worse situations for a fan than having your team be a serious championship contender every year. And for the record, Matthew Stafford never won a playoff game in his 11 seasons with Detroit, and only had 4 winning seasons. In his last season in GB, Aaron Wilson failed to lead the Packers to the playoffs despite playing a full season. Thinking that the Bills are guaranteed winning seasons because they have Allen is just plain ignorance.

Sad but true.

How exactly does a team fire a HC and NOT "blow things up"???? A new HC is going to bring his own philosophy and his own people, and that means that a significant number of the current players are not going "fit" what the new coaching regime wants ... and a bad scheme fit can make an All Pro look pretty ordinary. Allen could suffer if he was in an offense like those in San Francisco and Miami which wouldn't fit his playing style all that well. Your "theory" isn't a theory at all. It's simply your belief -- or more precisely, your prejudice. You have no real proof and no way to actually acquire proof because coaching success is dependent on so many other factors, including team ownership and team management. Bill Belichick was fired from his first head coaching stint in Cleveland in the 1990s because he didn't win enough. Andy Reid was run out of Philly because he didn't get to the Super Bowl enough.

Guaranteed that there will complainers even after a Bills Super Bowl win.

You want to fire McDermott to hire Vrabel????? Seriously??? 🤣 Belichick disciples have been notably unimpressive as Head Coaches at best, so that's NOT a point in his favor. In his 6 seasons as HC in Tennessee, Vrabel has a record of 54-45. Three of his teams made the playoffs. His playoff record is 2 wins, 3 losses with the 2 wins in the same season -- wild card and divisional wins, which isn't any better than McDermott's playoff record. The history of the NFL is littered with "hot" OCs (and DCs, too) who failed miserably as HCs. As for "wasting Josh Allen" by not making conference championships that's bull manure. Playing in the playoffs every season isn't "wasting" a QB's talent because making the playoffs in the NFL is incredibly hard --especially when a QB is at the mercy of mercurial ownership as well as front offices and coaching staffs of questionable quality so their opportunities are extremely limited. Ask Matthew Stafford. He played for the Lions for 11 seasons and made the playoffs 3 times and never won a single playoff game. As for your question, "btw, now that I answered your questions. Who do you have as a HC who took 7+ years with his QB to win a Super Bowl?", as the disclaimers on personal injury lawyers' ads always says, "prior results don't guarantee future outcomes".

Both the NFL's pension and health care provisions are paid for by the NFL and were negotiated with the NFLPA. Under the 2020 CBA, the NFL currently contributes $2 billion to player benefits. Player fines go into a fund to help out players who may have extraordinary medical bills, and that, too, was negotiated.

My guess is that it's a percentage of his salary.

Even if Von doesn't help the Bills get to the SB, his was the better signing because the Bills were actually trying to build a SB team. A player can't help getting hurt. The Bills signed Mario Williams simply to put butts in the seats. They needed a big name to once again con fans into supporting a team that always put profit ahead of winning during Russ Brandon's reign. Williams played for the Bills from 2012 through 2015, making All Pro in 2013 and 2014, but his success was personal because the cast around him lacked talent. His HCs were Chan Gailey, Doug Marrone, and Rex Ryan. The QBs for the Bills were Ryan Fitzpatrick, EJ Manuel, Kyle Orton, and Tyrod Taylor. The Bills went 6-10, 6-10, 9-7, and 8-8 and never made the playoffs with Williams on the team.

The problem isn't the graph. If you wish to evaluate the Bills' WR separation after the Amari Cooper trade, then use the graph of the Bills' WR separation data from weeks 1-6 and the same graph with data for weeks 7-8. Any type of graph or table based on data from weeks 1-8 won't tell you what you're trying to find out. Sure-handedness >>> separation.

Some people do not seem to grasp the concept of depth, especially for a playoff contender.

I'm counting the hours to the NFL trade deadline ...

Despite Mack's 17 sacks last season, he didn't seem to have a significant impact on the Chargers defense. The Chargers won only 5 games last season. Their defense ranked 31st in passing yards allowed and 29th in YPA allowed. IOW, he put up big meaningless stats. Pass.