ProcessTruster

gonna be a long offseason

I thought these knee jerk posts are restricted to the first 12 hours after the final game. Heck its been over a month.

whatever. Bills led the freakin league in scoring and set the team record for offense. mostly without Coleman. so any lift in Coleman's performance is gravy on top and I'll take it.

this was the original agreement; the rules committee cratered at the last minute last year and moved it back to the 30 to see what would happen So the 35 was what was agreed, the 30 was just a trial. and it failed as only 30% of kickoffs were returned last season

agreed. seems Wizard needs to put down the wand

if those are the only options, try to sign Cooper to something reasonable and trade up into the 3rd round of the draft for a burner. Thats about it. Go upgrade the defense. Get a man corner in FA and draft a very large DT please.

Has to be Josh, even though last season was probably not his best In general, without him, the drought could now easily be 25 seasons long, Lovie Smith would be the 4th HC and Jameis Winston the 4th Qb in the last 6 seasons.

could be. I live here and lots of Garrett chatter in the DC area.

McBeanes have proven they will keep getting into the tournament with a top 5 team and one of these years the moon and stars will align and they'll get you that $11.99 SB tee shirt you covet so much. Just try to enjoy the journey just a little please. They have built one heckuva successful program and formula for repeatable success on the field. Yeah, sure we all want to win the tournament as well, but McBeane haters be careful what you wish for. They have done the impossible and made a high tax rate backwater a place where self-indulgent zillionaire 20somethings actually want to be. Don't throw that away so quickly. Other than Josh, all the locker room leaders are gone. lets keep it together and take a few more swings at this. They are very good and very close. Patience, people.

obviously given the nature of the sport you can't have a 64 team tournament with the 1 playing the 16 and so on from there. NFL seems to be getting there, though. within 10 years you'll prob have maybe 40 teams (adding in Goodell's non-US franchises), plus maybe a 20+ team tournament that lasts for 2+ months. that will further cheapen the regular season and put all the marbles into the tournament (exactly the way the NCAA has done it, and in the process pretty much ruined the conference structure/team rivalries/bowl importance, etc. ). It's coming. The networks and therefore the league want everything centered on the tournament, esp the last couple games; outside of a few key 4pm game matchups during season the rest is just noise to them from a ratings/revenue standpoint. I just take a much broader view of the sport. To each their own I guess.

Are you kidding me? The NFL playoffs are absolutely a clone of college tournaments. eg. the NFL playoffs are no different structurally than a college basketball conference tournament. They have regular season champion and then a tournament winner; they are (or at least they were for decades) two seperate things. Winning your conference W-L standings (was for decades) a big big deal. The tournament was just an add -on. Colleges had division, conference structures with real rivalries followed by single elimination conference tournaments long before the NFL started to. Where do you think the NFL got it from?? See, after 20 years of suck, I love it all, every f ing game this team wins. You guys just sit on your hands for 4 months waiting for the tournament. Nothing else matters to you. Sad, really.

Once Josh is married to his west coast wife with the L.A. career base and with a couple kids, I could absolutely see him rolling back to California and his family. He's a family guy, after all. 5 years may be just about right, but for a different reason. He may very well do a "Lebron James"; win one for WNY fans and then head home. It's at least within the range of possibilities.

I'm with Steve Tasker on this. You consistently raise and maintain the roster level every year (this is "the process"), get to the playoffs every year, and, given the inherent randomness of single elimination tournaments, your play will bring a SB at some/multiple points depending on how things break in one year or the next ; ie; keeping swinging the bat with a great, attractive team talent/ culture mix and you will hit the ball. Along the way, win (and celebrate) 3 out of 4 games consistently (the value of this element is becoming lost, esp on this board); for me that is a successful program which will also last, and produce tournament wins along the way. Esp in WNY where your franchise had better have positive attributes (SB shot every year, great team culture/chemistry) to offset the downsides (unwarranted IMO, but that seem to still exist) that FAs see in the area. I don't allow the media to corrupt me into believing that the only measure of success is winning the year end tournament.. what about all the success and wins along the way? When your team is finally this freakin good, why be a fan if you can't relish the journey just as much as the destination?

gonna be a long offseason.... sigh

Bills grab him as an UDFA.