Chaos

Bold part needs to be fixed.

That is a sad tier. I am glad Reid moved past it. Marty was a great coach. Shame he is the name of a level now.

Andy Reid is a good coach. He had 10 playoff wins before winning a super bowl (this included 3 playoff wins in his first 3 seasons). To date McDermott has zero playoff wins in his first three seasons. The Bills have achieved the "Marvin Lewis" success tier. There are a couple of more levels before Super Bowl winner. 40-1 sounds about right.

During the game, in the shoutbox, I mentioned I thought the niners were the NFC version of the Bills. It was fricking eerie.

He was named to the team, OP's question is why did he not attend?

Its is not clear to me how dependent the Mahomes brand is on winning. If he is able to make more money on endorsements than on football,. like a Tiger Woods type player, his contract might very well be less than people think, in order to make sure the talent surrounding him remains good enough to win. Brady's willingness to play for less has been a distinct patriots advantage (I am aware Brady has a uniquely high earning wife among NFL QBs). Would Aaron Rodgers or Drew Brees have four or five Rings, if they had played for Brady's money. Mahomes' amazing national popularity and high level of charisma makes him in a different position to earn money away from his direct QB compensation than most.

Not sure what the officially legacy source of "all-pro" is. But from 1993 to 1990 there were 6 seasons some group picked him as a first or second team all-pro. Also, Pro Football Weekly (PFW) named Long as one of the ends on its All-time 3-4 defensive front, along with Lee Roy Selmon, Curley Culp, Lawrence Taylor, Andre Tippett, Randy Gradishar, and Harry Carson. PFW based its "Ultimate 3-4" team on the vote of over 40 former NFL players, coaches, and scouts.[7] Of this list, all but Gradishar are in the Hall. Howie Long has legitimate credentials to be in the HOF, based on being one of the best players at his position throughout a long NFL career.

This is really creative and impressive. I am quite jealous.

Daboll is, at best, a mediocre play designer. People blame his play-calling typically when criticizing him, but his basic plays are straightforward to diagnose and defend. When the Bills defense gets beat on a pass play, it is not because of some superior throws into a tight window, its because the receivers are wide open. Poor play design is the reason the Bills abandoned the ineffective screen plays, and the reason we have fewer wide-open receivers than other teams.

It makes zero sense that you get fewer weapons and less offensive support to go with the guy with the lesser college experience.

The way rookie contracts work, there is a limited amount of time. Compare the Chiefs in year 2 of Mahomes and the Bills in year 2 of Allen. Or compare year 2 for Lamar Jackson to year 2 of Allen.

My daughter got to participate in the Punt Pass and Kick competition as an eight year old when the Flutie and Johnson debate was ongoing. The kids were all given Johnson jerseys to wear. Until half time, all of the kids who participated sat together as a group. At the half she came back to our seats and very nonchalantly sat down and said "not sure why the gave us these Jersey's, Johnson sucks". This was not a word we had heard her use before, so we always assume she picked it up from the older kids. But we chuckled often about that.

Not a player, but hands down Russ Brandon for anyone connected to the Bills. As a player Ryan Fitzpatrick. (Personally he seems like a great guy, and I expect him to be a better commentator than Tony Romo someday). But as a player the moment he signed the big contract, I knew the team was being set back badly. Similarly, EJ Manuel is a close second. there was nothing to root for there, and the team just kept chasing bad decisions after bad decision to try to make Manuel something he was not. As a person EJ also seems like a good guy. But it was brutal having him as a QB.

Bridgewater is better. than Hill. The Saints know it. Brees is better than Bridgewater. The Saints, a very well run organization, can't afford Bridgewater and Hill and Brees. Saints are not prepared to commit to Bridgewater as Brees replacement (and the painful 2020 season roster changes that entails related to having 2 highly expensive QBs). This is the exact sort of player stockpiling the salary cap is designed to prevent. Notwithstanding Bridgewater's fine backup performance, Hill is far more important for a 2020 last hurrah with Brees, than Bridgewater is. If Brees gets hurt again, then the hurrah is over. Based on Brees retirement comments, the next injury is likely career ending. Since Bridgewater is just too expensive to retain for 2020, he is by default not part of the Saints future. Hill will be on the roster, so he becomes the QB until the Saints find someone better, which is not now, but could very well be likely in the 2021 off-season.

if regular season is all that matters then the inventor of Lamar Jackson whose team was the number one seed in the AFC hands down did the best coaching job. If post season matters then we will know Sunday night if Reid or Shanahan is coach of the year.

Thank you for posting this. There are countless people who have spent their lives researching drugs and others learning how to successfully treat people. More often than commended, they are vilified for making a living. Meanwhile buffoons wander around as if nothing has changed in the battle against cancer in the last 100 years.

O'Brien has been functioning as GM in all but name for sometime. He gets credit or blame for the personnel moves this past year.

Neither do the chiefs. But that seems to be working out o for them.

You don't like to admit it but Josh Allen improved dramatically from year 1 to year 2 (his first full year as a starter) and shows no signs of leveling off yet. Almost every week he made you look like a fool. But that makes it more fun for the rest of us.

Its a quality issue, not a quantity issue.

Are you new to reading newspapers?

Does PFF or anyone else evaluate drops on critical situation basis. For example the pain of a drop 12 yards up the field on third and 12 is far more painful, than dropping a checkdown behind the line of scrimmage on first and 10?

What is the point of comparison? Other teams, other Bills years? The wind?

Bart Starr 1966 Passing Bart Starr 1967 Passing Bart Starr HOF induction: Eli will make the HOF. QB involves much more than passing stats. 16 years in the league without missing a start and 2 super bowl wins are plenty enough for induction> Saying the Super Bow wins are a "team achievement" means no head coach should ever be put into the hall for coaching, because its a team achievement. The QBs role is to "quarterback the team", a virtual coach on the field. Eli was exceptional with field generalship, particularly when it mattered. If his position was "passer" maybe he should not be in. But his position was quarterback and he was great at it.

Team building is 100% situational analysis. The Chiefs have made a lot of correct decisions for key situations. There is no one formula. The key is the accurate decision making. The Bills seemed to think that EJ Manuel was a Franchise QB and went all out with draft capital to surround him with Sammy Watkins and Shady McCoy while EJ was on the rookie contract. (Irony). The horrible judgment was that Manuel was a player to build around. If he had been Mahomes, the Watkins and McCoy picks may have turned out brilliant. Since the first horrible judgement on Manuel was made though those two decisions ultimately created holes for the Bills. Now the Bills seem to not making any particular efforts to surround Josh Allen with high end free agent talent while he is on his rookie contract. That avoids the prior mistakes, but maybe misses out on the kind of upside the Chiefs are witnessing.