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Do you have any arguments against any of the Dallas players besides they lost to Buffalo?

Once Burrow went down, I was pretty confident the league would fix things a little bit to make sure Josh got into the postseason. Star QB’s in the NFL have always gotten preferential treatment, and the NFL wants their stars in the postseason. The NFL would be very sad if they had Mason Rudolph vs Gardner Minshew in the first round. Not saying any game individually was fixed, but you’re crazy if you don’t think we got the benefit of some 50-50 calls along the way.

Do Bill Walsh without his QB’s next. who are you comparing him to

~600 yards and 2 TD’s is an improvement over McKenzie totals. I have high hopes for Kincaid’s future after what I would consider a good rookie season, but imo, he needs to be an unquestioned top 6-8 TE to be considered a difference maker.

Is there a Jared Goff? I wouldn’t mind it terribly if they didn’t love anyone or whatever and went with QB at 9. Doubling down on Fields and not taking a QB is franchise malpractice when you have two firsts in the top 10.

The Bears would trade Fields for Goff in a heartbeat. Fields and Baker are probably closer to a push, but not because of Fields’ ability today, but because he’s still relatively young and may get better. If you fail swinging for a QB, at least it demonstrates your priorities are in order. Trying to build a super team around a guy who can barely pass at the NFL level shows you’re a disaster from the top

Hurts isn’t that good and this is year 4 for Fields. that organization is in drought era Bills doomed land. Hanging onto a lame duck defensive HC so they can just fire him next season. Every QB in the playoffs currently has proven they can play great in spots. Fields, who was just given another good WR weapon this past offseason, saw his passing yardage go from 150 to 197 per game. Yuck. If they try to build around Fields now, they will end up winning 7 games next year, firing Eberflus, and then have an ugly QB room to attract HC candidates, who won’t want anything to do with them. They have the #1 pick. They should have canned everyone and waved it around to actually get some good coaches in there. If the new coach believes in Fields, cool. If they want Caleb or to trade down, cool. Half measures in the NFL don’t work. The Bears have been one of the worst teams in football because of it. Keeping Nagy to waste a pivotal year of Fields’ development set them up to do it all again this year and continue their cycle of pitiful, miserable football.

I mean, I guess, but the Chiefs in 2021 had less offensive cap hit than the Bills (they had Tyreek and Kelce at this time) and the highest defensive cap hit in football (with a pretty mediocre group of players). I think it's just a bad way to judge. Between extensions, restructures, rookie deals, there's far too many ways to manipulate the cap numbers to make this an accurate way to track priorities. Top 5-10 contracts and AAV would probably be better in terms of dollars spent evaluation. But that would still neglect players on rookie deals. We could draft offensive positions with every pick next year and our cap numbers would probably be even more lopsided with defense > offense because of it. The real problem I think illustrated by this point is the Bills have not acquired enough good offensive players to even dedicate major cap dollars to, yet. We either acquired or drafted lots of defensive stars over the last 6-7 years. That results in lots of ballooning contracts over that time period. We didn't do the same with offense. If Tre White was not a good enough player to warrant a big time extension, the numbers would probably be far closer to even since 2020.

This is largely based on funny money right? Dolphins are third in the NFL in defensive cap hit and below the Bills in offensive cap hit for 2023, and no one would argue they have prioritized defensive spending over offensive, right? Also the 49ers have the third lowest offensive cap hit in the NFL in 2023. They must really be neglecting the offensive weapons.

Bills don't ever take the lead without the defense forcing a major TO and giving Josh a short field in that Pats game, BTW. Almost every "winnable" game the Bills lost this year, the offense either threw the game away (NYJ, DEN) or just didn't show up. In the Jax game, the offense didn't score in the first half until 1:14 left to go. They didn't break 13 points until 2 min left in the fourth. 0 minutes played with a lead. In the Pats game, the offense had 10 points scored until 5 min left in the fourth. 0 minutes played with a lead. In the Bengals game, the offense had 10 points scored until 3 minutes left in the fourth. 0 minutes played with a lead. In the Broncos game, the offense had 15 points until 1:55 left in the fourth. They gave the Broncos a free 6 points with back to back turnovers in a minute before the first half. 0 minutes played with a lead. There's a reason Dorsey got canned and McD was preaching "complementary football." Scoring points and playing with a lead is good. TO's and not scoring points and making your ragtag defense try to keep us in it so you can pull a rabbit out of your hat in the last two minutes is less good. None of this is to say the defense is blameless in any of those losses. But if the team goes as far as Josh Allen and the offense takes them, the offense did their damnedest to take us to a lost season in the first 12 games. There's exactly one game this season where you can say the offense played pretty great and the defense blew it for us, imo. And it's the Eagles game. That's it.

6-1. Points scored in that stretch: 32 34 20 31 24 27 21 2 seed. AFCE champs. Bills rolling. Thanks Brady. See ya Kenny.

Because Josh is worse than all of them? Josh's INT% comparisons on the season is Mac Jones, Sam Howell, and Desmond Ridder. Woof. He can get better at this and make it moot. Dak was near the top of the league in picks last year, and cut it down significantly this season. As it stands, Josh still turns the ball over at a frightening rate when he passes the ball. And he's gotta clean that up a bit.

Any throw past the sticks is a TO risk. Josh slamming into defense > Josh throwing an inexplicable pick.

The Shanny disciples can be figured out by good defensive coaches if they are hiding the QB. Which is why BB took McVay’s lunch money in the first Super Bowl. And why McDermott dogwalks McDaniel.

I know. That’s my point.

That was not meant to be admonishing, I could just feel the hyped up energy after a big win lol.

No. Dolphins are going nowhere until they beat some good teams, and they know it. They needed the win tonight, psychologically. They are cooked now.

Is this like your fourth topic in a hour @Einstein? How hyped up are you?

I think he has been not so good, including tonight, but the way the unit has been all season, you can’t bench him.

I did. 30-1

Would you be surprised if Mike Tomlin won a playoff game? Because he hasn’t won one since Josh was in community college.

He shouldn’t be satisfied. Because he did hurt the team, badly.

He’s a good coach, but I don’t get why anyone would want him over McD. McD keeps dog walking him.

What’s very funny is that Josh’s presser he keeps saying I kept hurting the team. TBD just doesn’t believe him I guess?

Co-sign. Build this man a statue. Coach for life