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Had to google it, but this is what it says: The nose wipe is a gang sign associated with the Bloods, indicating someone is untrustworthy. I don't understand the symbology. Like you I thought it had to do with fingering and then sniffing it. Either way I don't think it makes sense as an NFL celebration. As far as the rule change goes I don't care. Have any of our guys ever used it as a celebration?

My fault for only reading the ESPN title and not the actual article. I still think it's an incredibly misleading title though. Should be "which teams are having the best off-season so far" not "which teams have had the best free agent class". Those are 2 different things

Shakir/Rosseau/Bernard were not free agents though. They were all under contract with the Bills for the 2025-2026 season. If he's going to count those guys as 'returning' players you might as well count Allen for signing that extension.

It's not irrelevant though. There was 1:54 left and we had all 3 timeouts. If we had forced a 3 and out (assuming 3 run plays) the offense would have 1:40 left to try and score. Instead the DEF folded like a cheap suit (again) and allowed 2 first downs. Only THEN was the game over and KC could kill the clock. We've set expectations so low on the DEF side of the ball in playoff games that nobody cares when they fail. It's fully expected. If I'm assigning blame for the last 2 losses to the Chiefs I'd say 2023: 90% DEF 5% Bass 5% OFF 2024: 90% DEF 10% OFF The Offense hasn't been perfect in the last 2 losses and they did fail to score on their last possession. However, they put together very strong games against a top defense. The DEF has gotten absolutely trounced by a very mediocre Chiefs offense.

Hmmm I could've sworn it was the DEF on the field at the end of the game after giving up multiple first downs on KC's clock killing drive.

Really gets over-looked just how bad the O-line was. Brown and Dawkins were both trash in this game

I'll also point out that we absolutely caught some breaks in this game. Allen should've been intercepted on either of his first 2 throws, but KC dropped them. He also had 3 fumbles, but we recovered all of them. Mahomes inexplicably fumbled a good snap on their 2nd drive that we recovered. This was the weakest Chiefs team in the Mahomes era. They had a horse-shoe shoved up their behinds the entire regular season to win 15 games. They were more like an 11 win team. They got out-played by an injury decimated Texans team in the divisional round and got bailed out with some garbage calls. If we couldn't beat them this year will we ever be able to? I just don't see it with McD as head coach. His defense is atrocious in the playoffs

It's technically true that he has the most playoff INTs of any Bills defender in the McDermott era. Of course that's only 2 INTs and they came against Skylar Thompson and Mason Rudolph...

I would've been 'acceptable', but the PED suspensions push it down to 'poor'.

If Hoecht or Ogunjobi had principles they wouldn't have been taking PED's in the first place.

It's weird. I would say that McD consistently has the defense playing above it's talent level in the regular season. HOWEVER, he consistently has the defense playing well below it's talent level in the playoffs. 5 straight playoff losses where the DEF looks like one of the worst in history.

#Process type guys

I'm pretty sure the PED suspension length is set in stone in the CBA. They could potentially challenge the failed drug test and if they win the entire suspension would be vacated. I don't think players ever win those challenges though.

I can't imagine any CB would willingly choose to give up 10-15 yard cushions and get repeatedly picked on like that.

I'd have this offseason in the C+ or B- range so far pending the draft. People on here act like Beane is a wizard for restructuring some contracts to open up cap space when literally every single team does it. The extensions were pretty decent $$ amounts, especially Josh's. The only multi year contracts to FA's feel like overpays (Palmer and Hoecht). The 1 year deals to Bosa and Ogunjobie are low risk if they can stay healthy maybe they have a big impact type deals. Guessing he padded those out with void years as well, but we'll see. Overall he's added some decent role players at decent prices. Nothing to write home about