TheCockSportif

Bosa is exceptional.

As always will take the W, but my god. Just, my god.

Hoping for a miracle in his LinkedIn ahead of next season.

Oh, trust me... it required a LOT of restraint on my part...

Game day is when I get to let it all out.

So long as he can play is my barometer here. It'll be kind of like that episode of "the Simpsons" where Homer runs the kicker over with his car, the kicker loses a leg, the doctor learns that the kicker majored in communications, puts the leg back on, and the kicker, with his leg flying off, boots through the winning field goal. And by kind of, I mean kind of. I want to see two-legged Josh, or three if he's nasty. :-)

In as much as I have some issues with coaching on the Bills (to be covered much, much later in the season), LAC are most certainly much, much worse off in that regard.

And to think that probably half of the Bills fans I know were upset that we didn't hire Lynn as HC a few years ago!

Big Sack Hughes has a nice right to it. You're right!

Well, that was to be expected. That team has that "I'm going 0-16" vibe to it.

Premature adulation was my take.

Oh, you devil, you. 🙂

Not shocked. I'm only wondering why it took so long. Heck, I'm not even mocking the Lions for these slow moves; look at how many years of Bills' football were completely fruitless, and for exactly the same reasons.

Correct, and that's where the hubris point comes in. They didn't get a first rounder for Jimmy G. They traded Brissett for another player (a good one, but not a QB). They literally hitched their wagons to... Cam Newton.

My only real surprise in all of this is that NE brought in Newton as its QB. I can't think of a less Belichick'ian player than Newton. For years, NE had this myth surrounding them that they knew how to develop QBs. It appears that they developed them to trade them, and notable examples are Jimmy G and Brissett. They literally picked Newton over Stidham. I had been wondering when hubris would swallow NE, and it looks like it has.

I'm not particularly moved that Thomas didn't return. For a TE to be effective, you need (1) a QB who knows what they are doing and (2) a capable player at the TE position. When Thomas was here, neither of those things worked out. I wish the guy the best, but at the same time it's not like he's top flight at the position, and I'm certainly not crying myself to sleep when I think of the fact that he is no longer here.

My in-laws are from Chicago, and we used to have this "friendly" family pool each season -- so everybody watched basically every game they could get their eyes on. 🙂 To your point, I hope that the reds never return.

My father in law, a huge NFL (Bears!) fan, watched the Bills-Jets "color rush" game a few years ago, as someone who's colorblind, uh, had some complaints.

Whatever will they do in Canton -- now that they have a bust (of Tua) that's been prematurely cast?

I remember when I felt this way about the Bills.

Yes indeed. Sometimes a "high IQ" causes people to write impulsive things to message boards. 😉

Unrelated, but I had thought that Lynn would be toast at the end of this season. Maybe Herbert gets him another year or so? Gonna be a tough game in the future for sure.

It's less his actual skill than the way his name passed in front of my eyes.

As someone who's in need of eyeglasses, I'm not even going to get into how I parsed your mention of Noah Fant at first glance.

Nobody should care. Good football is good football, and everything else is narrative. Tua, as an example, has not been great, and does not deserve praise to be delivered to him by the crock.