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The lesson to learn from the Celtics is that you can compete for championships without the best player in the league if you have an overwhelming talent advantage everywhere else. Kinda awesome that the Celtics could win without a top 5 player.

The 7th floor crew sends their regards.

Ben Johnson. BB as AHC and DC if he’ll take it. Super Bowl.

Miami is the best. Almost always a win. Almost always great weather.

So if it’s not “everyone’s cup of tea,” then they are all wrong?

SVPG isn't really unseating a vet though. If the Bills had Morse as an incumbent starter, that would be different. McGovern has not only not played C for any significant time in the NFL, he also has a history of starting as our LG just last year. All it takes is SVPG to look decent (which hopefully shouldn't be an issue with his experience at GA), and the tentative switch of position for McGovern can be easily reversed. Your point of injury does give a path, but it doesn't have to be that dramatic. If McGovern needs to miss a day or two even in the offseason or TC and SVPG gets to slide in there, that may be enough for him to show. I feel very strongly about him being a starter by the end of the year, and imo I think there's a good chance he's starting week 1. He was, imo, the best pick of our draft.

I want SVPG to win the center battle asap and move McGovern back to LG.

“Objectively entertaining” is an oxymoron. Finding something entertaining is personal preference and completely subjective. Some people find cricket entertaining. It doesn’t make it objectively entertaining to me lol.

I’m talking production. He was top 5 in the NFL in receiving yards. Nobody saw that coming.

He was a top 5 WR though.

Me being entertained? I’m not sure you know what “objective” means lol

I don’t really care about being a Johnny Come Lately. I just want to be entertained lol

Idk man. I love college football. I love the NFL. I watch hundreds of games in the fall. I can’t get into this stuff. I’m not sure why. I guess in CFB you have rivalries which is always fun and in the NFL, if you follow the league, you kinda know most guys playing long enough. There’s just something missing.

Aiyuk today was not Aiyuk in 2020.

Kyle Orton had 3 min on the clock and scored with 1 second left in 2014.

LorAx for sure gets an honorable mention as a "football player" rotational guy that somehow put up insane pass rushing stats for a bit. Lee Smith had a couple hilarious catches where he leaked out and was uncovered, most notably I think in 2020 in his second stint here. Pat DiMarco for being the most ridiculous overpaid FB. Frank Summers and Corey McIntyre (I think in today's game, all full backs are backups.) Marquies Gray aka Big Sammy who had an elite 41 yard catch and run and then was basically never heard from again. And Chris Hogan for making this catch

It's true. The defense really saved the game for the offense.

To be the best you gotta beat the best?

Reddick played inside linebacker for his first couple seasons FWIW. The Cards didn't even play him as a pass rusher until his last season there.

meh, the Chiefs played the tough Jets defense (who I think we can all agree are better than the Bills defense in that playoff game) and ran out a 7:24 clock starting from the Jets 47. They even got the ball at the Jets 24 with 2:50 left and ended the game with the Jets having 3 TO’s. I don’t think it’s that big of an ask. I do agree that relying on the offense to be perfect is silly, we should just surround Josh with so much offensive weaponry that a very good performance is like a 38-40 point outing. The bottom line is scoring a TD early is a loss. Kicking a FG is a loss. That makes them the wrong play. Period.

I don’t know what your definition of “meaningful deal” is. it’s pretty clear there was discussion around an AB trade. Discussion that ended when AB refused to go, regardless of extension numbers. this was Ross Tucker’s take, who had no inside info admittedly. The original report from Rapoport was this, however. I would imagine terms are the first thing discussed in talks (otherwise why bother) and what those terms that may have even be tentatively agreed on are probably disputable. Either way, bullet completely dodged.

That’s fair. I think they ended up in no man’s land from a clock perspective, at least to start that drive. However, at the time of that fateful set of downs, we had the ball at the KC 27 with 2:46. I would argue that it is VERY possible to drain a larger amount of clock/TO’s there and still score. Hell, we didn’t take the field with Bass until a minute passed, WITH the 2 minute warning. I take my chances them draining clock and KC timeouts and hoping for the best up 4. The bottom line is we all agree a FG to tie or even an early TD is a loss there. Besides bringing in Aaron Donald to play for us for one drive, the ONLY way to win that game was to give the ball to KC with a minute and change and no TO’s and hope for a tipped ball pick or something.

Douglas ain’t getting an extension. He was a no brainer to extend with Dawkins/TJ to free up room earlier this off-season. He cost a third round pick to be a 1.5 year rental and helped saved the 2023 season. Nothing wrong with that.

I would love to hear the explanation of how the Bills DE’s are coached to “play conservatively.” “Hey Greg, we’re playing the Chiefs and it’s third down. Don’t try too hard out there”

was it Rosenhaus or Eugene Parker who had a history of killing us in the past? He didn’t have a NTC IIRC. Players get traded all the time to places they may not want to go to. AB was already a headcase and when he threatened to not come to Buffalo, the Bills withdrew.