Chaos

The play the games for a reason. Who wins the Division, Bills or Pats? Who do each beat along the way. I project a 13-4 tie between the Bills and Pats. With the winner being the #1 seed in the AFC.

#1 seeds win 50% of the Super Bowls since the league expanded to 14 playoff teams. The regular season matters more than ever.

Tell me you have mental problems without telling me you have mental problems.

So many people forget this. Thank you for reminding the masses.

You clearly miss the point. The thesis I responded to is that starting assignments are being made politically. Not what is best for the team.

At this point in the year, there is no human on earth on could learn the playbook quickly enough to get on the field.

The Colts (Manning years) , Steelers (Big Ben years), Patriots (Voltomort years) all reached the pinnacle and reloaded regularly, all built around a Super Star QB. The chiefs are down some this year, but they have won a couple of super bowls and the Mahome era will never be considered a failure. You see the Rams rapidly rebuildind, and the Eagles reloading each year. Bills really haven't reached the pinnacle, and dont seem to know how to reload. (hint - in 2025, its not drafting guys that take 3 to 4 years to developand then sign to long term contracts). Bills management is better than a lot of teams (Jets, Titans, Dolphins, Jaguars) but they really are not in the top tier. Josh Allen is my favorite athlete to root for in my life (I am a senior citizen). But someone needs to figure out if we 1) are rebuilding rapidly around Allen. And if this is the choice, are Beane and McDermott the right guys to do this or 2) and its painful to say, Consider if Allen could be used to for a drove of picks. And if that is the case, are Beane and McDermott the right guys to manage it. It does not seem fathomable that we are going to continue to follow the strategy combining running it back with putting the band back together (Phillips, Davis, White, Pryor, Trubisky)

I have been wondering this for a few weeks. If this is true, it is very demoralizing to the other players. Most of us remember having to be on a little team, where the coaches bosses kid had to pitch, and every kid knew they were going to lose.

this made me chuckle:

He and his wife have lots of ties to California. Josh won't badmouth anyone or blame anyone else. But this season has stopped being fun for him, and if next season is not fun, he will start considering options.

he definitely can over come the coaching and talent deficit. He can just go to another team.

What the foundation? other than josh and a couple of olinemen, and hairston (based on two games) its not clear anyone coming in would want to keep any of the aging slow players, or the younger always broken players. And no other head coach would be pining to keep this coaching staff. The McDermott mirage has been exposed as a function of Josh Allen on rookie contract, with strong team, then Josh Allen by himself, and the most horrid division in football as the source of success. Now that the patriots have a modestly good team, the wheels are flying off the mirage.

I am always that up beat glass half full guy

Do you honestly think McDermott does not provide the main insight into the team needs

I dont think you understand why those two points contradict each other

I think the Bills will benefit from moving on from Beane. Having said that, no WR remotely equal to Waddle moved at the trade deadline. Not sure any plan B's were available.

McDermott seems hellbent on the idea of not allowing rookies to be meaningful contributers.

Maye is simply light years ahead of Tannehill. Watching Rams and Seahawks offense, makes Brady's scheme look jr high level.

the NCAA creates situations with huge mismatches in talent. That greatest passing offense had a giant talent gap over almost every opponent. It does not work like that in the NFL. This is why college coaching success is such a poor indicator of NFL success.

Josh's style will be to not say anything, until he requests a trade during an off-season. He is not going to tell Mr. Pegula how to run his business. But he may make the decision to go work somewhere else. He has pretty strong ties to California. They have some football teams in that general area.

Vrable's best QB in Tenn. was Ryan Tannehill. Its not like he had Josh Allen there.

He made the super bowl with Goff too.

We are definitely keeping the elite part a secret.

Its official. We punted well.

The Dolphins are so bad, they fired their GM last week. And they just kicked our ass. Its a pretty bad situation.