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I guess this is the Josh Allen venting thread, but for excuses (in no particular order): 1) Special teams gave up a punt return TD in OT 2) O-line sucked 3) Offensive playcalling was awful 4) Our defense (again) allowed Zach Wilson to look like a serviceable NFL QB 5) The first INT was better than a punt on 3rd and long, and the 3rd INT was equally to blame on Davis 6) Garret Wilson with (another) catch of the year allowed by Bills 7) The Jets are his kryptonite. Kinda like Burrow vs Browns or Mahomes vs Colts

21-20 is an ass kicking ? KC's defense actually played very well all things considered.

Rookie TE2 on a team that doesn't utilize the position well ? I'm at 40 or less for tonight and 400-500 on the season.

It's ironic. The Lions had the chance to light Mahomes up with legal hits a number of times but did not. Then Hutchinson got away with a couple of borderline late hits with Mahomes in the pocket. Refs weren't calling anything tonight (Chiefs RT sends his regards)

Dolphins at 15 wins is a choice. Bills won't fall below .500 unless Josh misses games due to injury. The rest of it isn't too outlandish.

I think these stats are heavily skewed by Josh Allen. With some credit going to positional value and roster weaknesses. In 2019 we used a 3rd round pick on a guy that was a day 1 starter and started for 4 years. Would anyone here say that Devin Singletary was a great pick for those reasons? I think, at best, he met expectations. When you draft an RB that high they are supposed to be a multi year starter. Another example is Spencer Brown. A 3rd round selection that's been a starter since almost day 1. Was he a good pick because of that ? Or did Beane fail to bring in competition and was forced to start one of the worst RTs in the league ? Another example is Tyler Bass. We drafted a day 1 multi year starter in the 6th round! Too bad he's a kicker and we could've had almost the same production from a UFA off the street. Was Wyatt Teller a great draft pick ? Obviously getting an all pro in the 5th round is incredible but we traded him for next to nothing. All that being said I do think Beane is a good GM. Maybe top 5 but certainly not 2nd best. Getting the Josh Allen pick right counts for a lot

They can trade for Brian Hoyer !

Your link is total yardage though not %. Mahomes was 77.1% of the Chiefs total yards. Allen was 76.8% of the Bills total yards. IMO if you replace Mahomes/Allen with a league average QB the Bills offense would suffer a lot more. I could see the Chiefs offense being around 10th best while Bills would be bottom 10.

Obviously Quessenberry isn't a great player. He's a backup for a reason right? If I'm reading Spotrac correctly he had a 1.6mm active cap hit and 1.0mm dead cap hit so we saved 600k by releasing him. Can we really find an upgrade for only 600k ?

49ers turned a 2021 1st, 2022 1st, 2023 1st, and a 2022 3rd into: 2023 4th rd pick, 4 QB starts (2-2 record), and 14mm dead cap spread over the next 2 seasons. It's probably the worst trade in NFL history. At a bare minimum it's a top 5 worst trade of all time. The 49ers have locked in their trade value and could look even worse if Lance somehow redeems his career and/or if Purdy sucks.

1) Live sports (real sports, not competitive cam jam or whatever) 2) The occasional Pardon the Interruption or Around the Horn I think I had Sportscenter on 24/7 my entire time in college and now it's unwatchable. Very few replays and just non stop commercials.

Meh Looking at plays inside the 3 yard line is such a small sample size I'm not going to assign much meaning to it. We had a few bad sequences that really skewed the results. Couple plays blown up by poor O-line play, couple mistakes by Josh, and voilà: our offense that was 2nd in points per game is suddenly the worst in the league at something. How do these stats look if we extend this to plays inside the 5? What about the 10 ? I know we had the 9th best red zone offense in terms of TD %

I hate the Patriots as much as any Bills fan, but the officiating in that SB was not an issue. The holding was pretty blatant. If they were going to call a face mask on that play it should've been on the ATL wideout. He ripped the Patriots defenders helmet off as he was being tackled. edit: the play in question is at 5:50 with a replay of the hold at 6:18

McIntyre is a good one! That link is awesome. How could I forgot about Incognito going bat ***** insane ? And I have no memory of Donte Twitner being arrested...TWICE

Do former players count? For that matter, does arrested but not charged count ? Ed Oliver was arrested for DWI and weapon charges but charges were dropped. Marcell Dareus - couple arrests. Weed (synthetic) and drag racing right? Zay Jones - jumping through windows naked while fighting his brother Cyrus Koundijo (spelling) - didn't he have a breakdown and was wandering around near the 400? I f orget if that was an arrest or not Was Shady ever arrested for anything ? His posse had that run in with an off duty cop in Philly. Can't remember if there was an arrest. There was also all that ugliness with his ex-GF

The media would salivate over the "Bills/NFL are heartless" puns

Didn't Dwight Howard eat pounds of candy every day in his 20s ? His diet caught up to him eventually, but it's incredible what good genetics can do for a person

I was arguing with some co-workers about this. Josh has 3 playoff games (Colts, Patriots, Chiefs) that are far and away better than Burrow's best playoff game. I think it's silly to say that Burrow is a better playoff performer just because he has a defense that actually shows up.

I'll go with 15% to win the AFCCG vs 10% chance of missing the playoffs. We should really only miss the playoffs if Allen gets injured.

Of those 4 I'll vote for Danny Dimes. The guy is the white Tyrod Taylor Watson, Murray, and Wilson all have spicy contracts too even if none were this offseason

People see "racist, homophobic, sexist" in the article title and go straight to "he has to be cancelled" without allowing for any leeway. As far as the racist part goes I thought his emails were pretty mild: "Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin (sic) tires." Gruden's explanation: Gruden, speaking separately to The Athletic, said he didn't remember the specifics of the email to Allen, and that he uses the term "rubber lips" to describe someone as a liar (a possible explanation for his comment on the size of Smith's lips). For the rest of it, looks like he was a fan of using the words q---r, f----t, or p---y as insults. All in all I don't think this was bad enough to force him to resign. Given these were what he thought were private emails sent 10 years ago when he wasn't even employed by the NFL I thought a public apology and maybe sensitivity training would've been enough of a punishment. My apologies if anything in the post runs afoul of this sites censorship rules.

An improved O-line that's still below league average is a fair assessment. I don't get the trust for Spencer Brown. He's been wildly inconsistent and if there's one position you want a guy to be consistent it's OT. Injuries cutting into his last offseason is a lame excuse.

I didn't find the article to be particularly useful. I think they needed to look at what players on each team would be looking for big contracts in the 2024 season. The only guy on the Bills is Gabe Davis. With how he played last year I don't think anyone on here would care if we let him walk. We're hardly in cap "jail" next season even though we have a lot of guys on big contracts. The Bengals are gonna have to give Burrows and Chase MASSIVE contracts. Even if they sign at a discount they will probably be the highest paid QB and WR when they sign their deals. I have to admit that the Chiefs have one of the best cap situations in the league going forward. MAYBE the lack of a big name WR and an aging Kelce will slow them down? I can dream anyway

Yea, theoretically we could have had Edmunds tackle Kelce at the LOS. Taking a pretty big risk though if another player commits a penalty organically you're giving up 15 yards and no time off the clock.