Richard Noggin

I'll respond ignorantly without googling Ben Johnson. I can only assume he's a more paternalistic presence, like Dabs was. I did NOT love Daboll's baldly deliberate gameplans that were slow to adjust in-game and rarely leveraged a synced up run and pass action to keep defensive players on their heels, but I'd be a fool to ignore what his presumably hard coaching did for Allen. We watched Dabs chew out a young Josh Allen on more than one occasion. And one of Allen's defining traits has been his coachability, or ability to absorb and improve upon legitimate criticism. Seemed like that kind of humility and accountability was missing at times this season. Replays reveal a QB who overlooked or didn't find quickly enough the short and intermediate solutions to various coverage and pressure outcomes. There is the Ravens game, which was not a pretty passing day, but really it started in the 2nd half against Green Bay. We started to see mistakes that didn't make sense. We saw demonstrable regression. We saw our elite playmaker unwilling to play small-ball. Suddenly the red zone (which had been an historically-efficacious area for Allen) was a mine field. Defenses were attacking Josh Allen and he wasn't solving those riddles with humility.

This is so true. By necessity, because they were losing, the Bills let it ALL hang out. And it worked, sort of. It certainly exploited some of what Spags does, and challenged Reid to counter (either with ball control/clock maintenance OR with the spread-out, on-field options that let Kelce identify and exploit an inexplicable coverage blind spot). And one could argue that not a lot of split-out TEs would have been able to dictate that rapid solution. So it could have been more talent than coaching, on the offensive side, when all is said and done. But whatever. The Bills wilted. They called timeouts and STILL didn't field PROGRESSIVE-minded, forward-leaning solutions. They fell back onto the WORST cliches of last-ditch prevent defense.

I'll go ahead and disagree here. Daboll is absolutely a great coach. He has become a great leader of coaches and players alike with his interpersonal authenticity and professional diligence. Dudes love Dabs. That's important, especially early on. However, Daboll has ONLY had ANY offensive success calling plays with Josh Allen as his QB. He didn't call plays this season with the New Jersey Football Giants. So I see Daboll as someone who is meant for the Head Coaching job. He's a hell of a teacher, a uniter, an organizer, but he had some serious trouble marrying the run and the pass games while in Buffalo, despite the offensive success we enjoyed. So defensive players had some advantages, leaning into the pass rush, feasting on some meh players in predictable pass and run situations. What Daboll DID do VERY effectively was get stompin' mad at Allen when he refused to take what the defense was giving him. THAT was the missing ingredient this year, even as the offense starting stringing together a run game. Allen was being an impatient, sophomoric, myopic stallion too often in 2022. His greatest successes had come from ELITE patience, precision, and zen, and then of course that KC playoff explosion that effed up all our expectations...

You can't micromanage superstars. You shouldn't even micromanage GOOD talent. Those who need constant management and reinforcement benefit more when it comes from their colleagues, anyways. Horizontal buy-in. Marv Levy knew what he had in his (kinda dooshy) team back in the day (they were probably just too ungovernable). Andy Reid understands who he's dealing with. Et cetera. Success is the best team-builder. Tomlin is pretty good at it, given some of the WRs he's had to "govern" since the real winning subsided.

Jordan Phillips is obviously not on the level of Allen, Diggs, Miller, Milano, and Hyde. He is talented, but he's streaky AF. We need more guys who don't ever wilt. More guys who are kinda unwilling to take losing in stride. More guys who won't accept stagnation.

Taking pride in ignorance is folly. There were several legitimate reasons for a Bills fan and for a football fan in general to know who Chad Hall is. 1 is the performance of Bills WRs since his arrival. 2 is the infectious energy that guy brings to the sideline. Watch him as guys come off the field. He's good with his group. 3 is the league's perception of him, which I'll gamble on and guess that after a year or two in Pederson's offense, we'll see Hall shooting up the offensive coaching ranks. There was positive chatter prior to 2022. Reason 4 is (and remember, these are simply reasons a Bills fan for sure or a football fan in general should know who Chad Hall is) that he looks a little too much like Mathew Stafford's wife, who we've seen much more of in recent years...

You wouldn't include Hyde?

Different? Definitely. Totally different? Well I guess I hope not (on the field). Andre was a bigger, more physical, more Alpha type (I don't like that term, but it really was/is such a defining characteristic of Reed's game on and off the field) than Shakir can ever be. I'd argue that Khalil Shakir is a better athletic prospect than many realize, but that Andre Reed is probably just a different dude.

Get just one or two more guys with Diggs's determination (and/or keep em healthy...Hyde and Miller) and I don't think the team deflates quite like that. Although, to be fair, it really did feel like the Cinci game was an unavoidable reckoning. They looked ready to romp the Bills the first time around (I know, I know, it was early in the game), and then absolutely dismantled the Bills in the divisional round. Nonetheless, more Diggs and less mediocrity. That's the winning formula.

You might like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. I seek the most evidence-based truths I can find. Untruths about the overall frequency of non-profit malfeasance do NOT line up with reality. There is inefficiency and bloat in some non-profits, just like some/many for-profit corps, but the majority are small, threadbare, noble organizations. I'm no fan of Russel Wilson the player. I don't know Russel Wilson the person, but I presume we wouldn't exactly hit it off.

That's an insane claim. Of course it's criminal when fraudsters use charitable causes to enrich themselves. But not even remotely true that "most any non profit is shady like this."

Only THREE replies in 3 pages claim to be younger than me. Eff that. No way. @NoHuddleKelly12even claims to be the SAME age. Imagine that: OTHER people?! I don't believe any of it. This thread is a violation of basic internet forum decorum. Some of our fellow posters have been living double lives for SO long...it's impolite to call anyone out IRL.

Do you live in Piemonte? Valle d'Aosta? What is the viticultural focus of your region. THAT's a way to get to know someone

You take serious liberties with the actual facts in 4/5 paragraphs quoted above.

I'll bet he ends up being a good one, mostly because of his access to Dante Scarnecchia's teachings in New England. He is the exact kind of player who outperformed his own scouting due to an ideal coaching/talent fit situation.

How was Carolina's defense following the Rhule firing? Take a moment to be an adult and breathe, think, and NOT vomit all over others. And of course, this could be Frazier's 2024 replacement.

Regrettable, that Josh Allen pick.

It SHOULD be the point in the draft where either you trade back or you stay put and take the TRUE BPA. The draft is the draft. You have to just consistently try to win the draft, on its own dynamic terms, each offseason. Add the best players possible. I think of Pittsburgh and Green Bay and Baltimore as teams who have done well letting the draft come to them. (Not sure if the data still support this impression, but what are you gonna do?)

Maybe this has been addressed since page 1, but I was unaware that Allen did NOT work with his personal QB coach last off-season. Where did you learn that? I listened to Jordan Palmer interviewed on WGR just a few weeks ago, in the lead-up to the Bengals playoff game, wherein he talked about his experiences working with BOTH Allen and Burrow (in a way that seemed to suggest ongoing relationships). I KEEP being reminded that Allen's performances in the playoffs last season. which were historically unprecedented, REALLY unmoored the expectations for him (and Gabriel Davis) moving forward. Some early season 2022 elite-ness just reinforced the heightened expectations. There WAS, in fact, an 8-ish game stretch, spanning from the end of 2021 through the first 5-6 weeks of 2022, wherein Josh Allen was playing HISTORICALLY ELITE QB. Minus the 2 poopy INTs in the 1st half against the Rams, and the overall day against the Ravens in week 4 this past season, QB17 was performing in ways almost no one ever had. Then something happened against Green Bay. That something was probably a combination of under-represented injuries and a shift in how defenses played him, and his surprisingly stubborn, regressive responses to these new challenges. If ever Josh Allen needed some "come to Jesus" coaching moments, this offseason is it. Clear his head for a while, but then get back to the serious offseason work that was so essential in his previous, steady, multi-year ascension.

Doesn't land as satire because only 3/4 analyses are comically incorrect. Singletary IS fairly durable for an RB, yet he fumbles often, blocks meh, and has the worst hands I've ever seen for an offensive skill position player.

McDermott HAS shown some willingness to fire friends and experienced coaches who fell short of his standards (and were probably fallbacks in the first place). Dennison and Castillo. Crossman then Farwell. A couple others.

Most of the Bills o-line and TEs (8 of them) came into Tempo the night or night after Roman was fired by the Bills. I want to say they were in on a Monday. The mood was overtly celebratory. While effortlessly putting away over a dozen mixed drinks (we're talking 3+ ounces of booze per, easy), Incognito was openly ripping Roman's play calling rigidity. Apparently he didn't listen to player feedback during games, preferring to lean on his master game plan. Thought he knew better than everyone else. Stuck with ineffective concepts and calls because in his mind he knew why it was supposed to work. Et cetera.

Lots of posters arguing about Hall's development of drafted guys Davis (4th round) and Shakir (5th),and I'd argue we need to include Hodgins (6th round pick) in this discussion. That dude would be a really effective, sure-handed slot receiver for Josh Allen and offer some boundary flex. He's like the opposite of Gabriel Davis in many ways. His injuries the first two seasons were a shame, and for some reason the Bills kept trying to make him an outside guy when his calling has always been operating more from the slot (college and then for the Giants down the stretch). Interesting that Daboll and his offensive staff knew what to do with him. Does he remind anyone else of David Nelson?

Breaking tackles involves more than running through them. Cook breaks tackles, but he does it differently.