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John Fox, as Head Coach of the Broncos with Peyton Manning went 13-3, 13-3, and 12-4 in the regular season and 2-3 in the playoffs (1 SB appearance). He was fired after the 12-4 season. I don't think McD will be fired for not making the SB, but he'll be on the hot seat. Expectations are a hell of a drug and the expectation for this Bills roster is Superbowl.

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I keep getting flashbacks to Mike Tolbert up the middle for no gain

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I'll agree Singletary is a JAG, but Moss isn't even a JAG. He's well below replacement level and very well may be the worst RB in the league relative to how many touches he gets.

The only way I could justify it is if we had 12 men on the field and wanted to avoid a penalty, or they had an uncovered gunner that they could throw too. The broadcast was worthless though so I have no idea. Brutally bad timeout

Has anyone mentioned taking a timeout on the Dolphins 1st punt? Wasting that timeout blew our chance at a FG at the end of the 1st half.

Truthfully, I had the opposite take on his 4th down decisions last night. You have a human cheat code at QB operating one of the best offenses in the league. If you have a 4th and 1 on the opponents side of the field you should almost always be trying to convert it. It shouldn't require the QB to wave at the sidelines to convince the head coach of that. Why are we bothering with these shenanigans trying to draw the opponent offside? It's backfired on us a number of times. Including our failed 4th and 1 attempt where Shakir didn't react after the ball was snapped. It looked like the offense wasn't ready to run a play (presumably b/c McDermott didn't want them to run a play - just try to get Titans to jump). This also happened in the Steelers game last year.

I thought Edmunds was fine in week 1 (did his job but didn't make impact plays). Last night is on a pretty short list for best game of his career.

Pretty much this. Bit of a segue on #5 that our run game was atrocious. We padded the stats in garbage time, but I believe midway through the 3rd we had 16 yards rushing on 8 rushing plays by our RBs (JA had a legendary 10 yard scramble in the 1st). Singletary started the game with a 16 yard run, then our next 7 rushing attempts amounted to 0 yards.

Don't most teams have a dedicated person to watch all broadcasts/replays to determine when to challenge? It's an embarrassment if our process is to rely on our head coach to watch an in-stadium replay on a jumbotron. What if we're on the road and they deliberately don't show a replay on a big play that would be overturned? I'm hoping McDermott was using it as an extended timeout....which is still pretty lame (defensive timeout that the offense converts anyway).

The Titans have beaten us 2 years in a row. I think the team channels that into a proper beatdown (and JA controls his emotions in home opener unlike PITT season opener last year) Bills 40 Titans 21

If memory serves didn't this happen right before the playoff game last year? Some (hopeful) speculation from Bills fans he would've been suspended for that game. Kinda random they are suspending him for weeks 3-6

I'd suggest reading what's allowed/not allowed on the Bills website https://www.buffalobills.com/stadium/gate-entry-and-permitted-items TLDR - you can put pretty much any type of food inside a gallon zip loc bag and bring it in

Chargers-Giants Eli for Rivers+

Strictly speaking we used the Chiefs 2018 pick from the Mahomes trade to move up to select Edmunds (we used our own 1st rd pick to move up for Allen)

The Rams were flipping between running the clock out and actively going hurry-up to try and score. I have no problems with McD using timeouts there. The issue I had with timeouts was not using them at the end of the first half. McD should've used them and forced the Rams to decide if they wanted to risk missing a very long FG with enough time on the clock for the Bills to run a play or two and kick a FG of their own. Letting the clock tick down to 4 seconds was a tactical mistake.

Do they? I think it's inexcusable to have Moss out-touch Singletary last night. Riding the hot hand is not a complicated philosophy, but it seems to elude McDermott.

You don't remember the phantom holding call on Mitch Morse that wiped out a 1st down conversion by Josh? One of the worst calls I've ever seen. I'm trying to find a clip of it online, but the NFL does a great job of scrubbing stuff like that out. The very next play the refs called a weak RTP on the Chiefs when Allen threw an INT. Edit- found a link https://wbuf.com/bills-fans-not-happy-this-penalty-is-taking-spotlight-away-from-huge-win-tweets/?fbclid=IwAR3--oHjPLkD5P2sCgST98_UJtYWC-No640nyJ8JvNi_zfgmxV7ql3yG3bI

I think we're all going to have rose colored glasses when it comes to Josh, but I don't think he's known for sliding/fake outs. Although he has gotten better at drawing roughing calls. I've noticed he'll sometimes not brace for hits from defenders and allow himself to be jostled by hits that really aren't that bad. He's drawn a few borderline flags by doing that. Thinking of plays like this one (even though the refs picked the flag up)

When did we fire Frazier/McDermott ? They deserve so much more blame than ST coach

Colts beat the Texans 31-3 and 31-0 last season. I'd be shocked if the Texans even cover the spread. My pick for upset is Atlanta over New Orleans. NFCS games are always a dog fight and the game is in ATL

USA thing for non-US citizens visiting the country https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/34457783/unvaccinated-novak-djokovic-withdraws-us-open-travel-united-states On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidance on international travel was updated to say: "Non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. immigrants: You must show proof of being fully vaccinated with the primary series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine before you board your flight to the United States. Only limited exceptions apply."

When was Moss ever RB1 ? He's never topped 15 carries and/or 100 yards in a game. Moss's "promising" rookie season was worse than Singletary's sophomore slump. Singletary has performed significantly better than Moss behind the same garbage o-line. All that being said, no I don't think Singletary makes 1k rushing yards this season. He won't get enough carries. McD loves gifting touches to Moss even though Singletary is better.

I like Singletary a lot more than Moss, but I don't see the point in trading Moss. What's his perceived value around the league ? I think we'd be lucky to get a 5th rd pick for him. Maybe McBeane can target a depth CB and do a 1:1 player swap.