Generic_Bills_Fan

Ehh if that wildcard matchup is in doubt then they ain’t winning anything anyway. I’d trade potentially losing the team bye week 1 of the playoffs for three potential weeks off for mahomes and avoiding one of the ravens/bills if I was them assuming he’s actually got a legitimately serious injury. If it’s something that’s not gonna get worse then throw him in there Had to be a walkthrough right? I’m sure a bunch of people have said this already but I’m reading these in order so apologies in advance 😂

playoff success is irrelevant because it’s a regular season award based on which team outperformed expectations the most. If it was in any way based on prior playoff success Reid and sirianni would be leading with the regular seasons they’re having this year. Im not saying mcd should win it by any means, but the nfl analysts all writing the bills off in the offseason should get him in the conversation at least seeing as they’re the people voting on the winner. I think they have taken a more ‘our bad the bills are actually really talented and we just screwed up while buying into the jets hype’ approach though it seems which is a bit of a cop out imo especially when they say we don’t have a lot of stars in the same breath lol. He is in it still, I just figured they’d rank him a little higher. I think he’s 6th right now in most of the sportsbooks. You can think Campbell is great I have absolutely no issue with that and he very well could be the best coach in the nfl. but once you’re perceived to have a great roster the path to coach of the year gets very very difficult independent of how good of a job you’re actually doing. You’re probably gonna lose it to someone with a worse record that turned around a bad team Lamar had a 1-3 playoff record 3td/5 int when he won his second mvp. It just really doesn’t seem to matter. a lot of this mcd can’t do anything right the bills should move on is very localized to half of bills fans. Maybe the group thinking that is 100% correct but in the short term we will be heavily mocked by the nfl world outside Buffalo if we fire mcd this offseason. The coach of the year voters are not seeing what you suggested

He’s actually been really good since the 61 yarder…idk if being that close and on the right hash messed with his head in the lions game…it’s possible. If he much prefers the left hash being that close makes that an even bigger difference

I really always thought they were bros but that offensive offside whining was really eye opening.

That is irrelevant to coach of the year imo. Campbell straight up torpedoed his team in the nfc championship last year and just coached his team right out of a huge Super Bowl preview type game and he’s right up near the top. Andy Reid has had one of the most successful head coaching campaigns in history, his team has 1 loss, and he’s sitting at +1800 to win it. Sirianni has been to a Super Bowl and he’s sitting at +3500 seems like it’s more of a ‘most surprising regular season team’ award. O’Connell will likely get it. If the lions had the same results without the avalanche of injuries I don’t think Campbell would even be in the running despite the team being very successful.

I am continuously puzzled that the bills were talked about as being in a quasi rebuild all offseason, were commonly picked as a team that will miss the playoffs but then they beat the best teams in each conference and have a shot at the 1 seed and mcd isn’t even in the top 6 for coach of the year betting odds? Seems pretty strange to me I would have no problem with O’Connell getting it or a few of the other guys being mentioned but mcd not even being in the picture is wild like others have said it does seem like you’re at a big disadvantage if your team performs well but were expected to, but we weren’t expected to 😂

Yea it’s worth a shot vs Houston…if wentz looks really bad I’d probably panic a bit and rush him back. Close loss makes the decision really interesting if I’d rush him back for pit really a lot hinges on the Baltimore pit game this week. If pit finds a way to win that one idk if I’d even want to be the 1 seed 😂. Divisional against the ravens then likely afc champ against kc/buf (depending on who’s perspective you’re lookin from) seems like a tougher road to me. Sitting a dinged up mahomes seems worth it if it avoids Baltimore in round 2.

If he plays through a high ankle sprain without sitting, everyone will say he’s battling through an injury if he loses in the playoffs and he would’ve won if healthy. So I don’t think you’re gonna get what you’re looking for regardless now 😂

The Texans legitimately probably will 😂 I don’t put taking a cheap shot at mahomes past them at all

I feel like their oline was a lot better back then. Chiefs current situation if mahomes is playing through even a mild injury the risk he hurts something else/aggravates it worse is pretty high. He’s not going 60 minutes without defenders getting near him anymore and the three defenses he’s seeing in a row could all do some damage texans seem pretty dirty too. Pit will hit him hard but I haven’t really noticed too much dirtiness from them

I’d sit him this week…they probably have a good shot against Houston with wentz. And if that goes well you can probably sit him for the next 3 weeks if you want. if you drop one to Houston and panic a bit you can rush mahomes back against pit

I don’t think they’re beating Texans or steelers with a noticeably injured mahomes playing either. If he’s completely healthy they’ll probably drop 1 i don’t think resting him and starting wentz for the first game to see what happens is a particularly bad move

I’ve gotta look through old futures bets but I bet hardly anyone is ever over 30% Maybe the 07 pats? I think people really underestimate how much dumb luck the nfl playoffs is being single elimination and they’ve gotta bake that variance into the odds looks like the lions and bills are both at 19 ish percent now. That implies a pretty good deal of confidence we beat the chiefs on the road cuz that seems quite high for a likely 2 seed Yea I was gonna say that’s what you sounded like to me haha so I was surprised to read less than 50 I still think he’s passing up big rush opportunities early in games to not risk injury

Less than 50% is crazy high still actually haha. I sure as heck hope it’s that high. A 1 seed with an 80/20 probability of winning every playoff game (which is a stupid high probability that’s like best team playing worst team in the regular season type stuff) has a 51.2% chance of winning the superbowl

That's like canceling a gym membership haha I hate that sh*t . They make it so difficult that they figure you’ll give up GB jumped us in DVOA which I found pretty interesting.

I’m just puzzled as to how people that supposedly know football could’ve concluded that poyer,Hyde,Davis, and Morse’s 2023 output was completely irreplaceable. Hearing those guys all getting talked up as massive losses in the offseason at this stage in their careers was a little odd lol Diggs has a crazy high ceiling but he was obviously mailing it in in the second half of the season and we were still winning so that seems like something they should’ve picked up on too but it was a little less obvious than the other guys. were likely gonna finish a few wins better than I even thought (I figured 11 or 12 and the jets would hang with us right til the end lol) but last years team going 11-6 in the regular season was a pretty glaring underperformance. If Brady got the full season as OC we probably win a couple more games. Really these guys should’ve been thinking of it as those players leaving costing us 5-6 wins for us to finish in the 8-9 win range

I don’t think it’s based on much of anything other than a gut personal feeling on what would happen if those teams meet again.some places just rank based on record alone unless there’s some massive extenuating circumstances which kind of feels what espn has done here more or less espn consistently has the worst power rankings imo. NFL.com has us at 2 behind the eagles which seems legit having the lions ranked above us after we beat them and they sustained quite a few season ending injuries is a little ridiculous. At least chiefs you can use the past playoff history argument

Haha the coping accusations…I think I’d rather do it in a meaningful game against a good defense than a meaningless game against a terrible team missing most of their good players 😂 and on top of that Lamar is pretty bad in the playoffs generally

Yet they call a super soft hold on that shovel pass td to keep the game going 😂 maddening

My two buddies have an interesting playoff fantasy football matchup which is gonna make this game super entertaining lol ones got Keenan Allen and Sam Darnold and is trailing by 15, the other has DJ Moore

Starting linebacker and second string linebacker too…it was an absolute mess. Both teams picked heavily on guys that absolutely would not be playing in better injury circumstances

Mcd haters got a little bit lucky with the rash of defensive injuries as the game went on imo. Granted the lions had defensive injury issues of their own too so it turned out pretty fair. If we didn’t lose both Milano and Williams I think we absolutely would’ve blown them out Ben Johnson seemed to be a step behind most of the first half when our injuries were pretty manageable then when Spector hit the field the floodgates opened. He was absolutely horrible really reminded me of what kc did to aj klein in the playoff game in a similar situation

Gotta give the GMs credit on this front too…good coaches manage if they’ve got sufficient depth

I think the pats have probably moved on to the roster evaluation phase with mayos job reportedly being safe and the jets will probably throw the kitchen sink at us cuz nobody has anything to lose

There’s enough undebatable guys there to push him out of the top 5 for sure but I think I’d def argue cook could be better than enough guys on that list to get him in the top 10. Averaging out you and the guy you were responding to and putting him at 8 or 9 is what I’d go with 😂