Long Suffering Fan

This. Their philosophy is the right one, but you need to counter punch against those that are running so well that it is almost like passing. Instead they seem to stubbornly stick to what is not working in those situations. It was like the NE wind game that we lost where it was obvious that NE did not want to throw.

Since I'm about a decade younger than you, there is something from the first video that took me by surprise: "The sheer speed of (Merlin) Olson" is not a sentence that I ever imagined being spoken. I guess we all had glory days.

Shaw has a good point in that stats can be deceiving and manufactured by situation, but I am with Royale and eball for two reasons: 1. His stats are stupid high. The comparison to Edelman and Welker's stats reveal that. Some of his stats might be manufactured by usage, but it is hard to explain all of it considering how high they are. 2. He passes the eye test. Who doesn't like watching him with the ball? He is exciting in a way that few Bills receivers ever have been.

I'm not watching tape on him, but he was once awesome. At this point, I want him only if Beane wants him. If we get him, it will signal to me that Beane and McD see that there is something still there that could help us. I absolutely will not question them if they let him pass.

I always thought the "everybody eats" phrase was a response to all the questions players and coaches got about what are we going to do without a true #1 WR.

I am oddly impressed by this post. So many things...the watch info is one thing, but I did not even know there were douchey watches, much less that there was an epicenter for them, much less that it was Miami, although it kind of makes sense.

Speaking as someone who got CMC in a league without Mason, it is not always as simple as that. How long do you wait before getting the handcuff? I waited one round too long.

Okay, I'll grant you that.

So, the article wasn't bad. Thanks for sharing. The comments, however, were slit your wrists depressing, unfunny, and unhinged. Ugh. What a depressing way to live. Seriously, medical professionals need to be available to provide help for them.

Excellent gif selection.

Brutal buzzkill, Billschinatown. That would suck the life right out of my body. Seriously, if the Bills don't win a Superbowl, lose Allen at some point, and he wins elsewhere?.....that would be an existential crisis for my fandom.

Here is the thing. Ask any Chiefs fan and they will tell you that Andy Reid is one of the best offensive coaches of all time and way better than McD. Shoot, most people on this board agree with them. On top of that, Kelce might be the best pass catching TE of all time. Importantly, both Reid and Kelce had that reputation prior to Mahomes. We all agree that offensive coaching really matters. That is why you can't use Superbowl wins as definitive proof that Mahomes is better.

My list is shaped by the fact that I have a hard time hating 3rd liners. For example, while I get the Kelsey hate because of what he symbolized, I can't hate him for not being a top 6 forward. I guess what I hate the most is lack of effort or downright stupidity and that wasn't him. For the same reason, I can't hate Tyrod. Besides, he broke the drought and we got a great pick for trading him which I think (?) was used to help us trade up for Allen. 1. Rex and Greggo - Rex is listed first because I disliked him before he came and hated the hire. They are listed together because they both came in and took a top defense, completely revamped it, and destroyed it. If I remember right, Greggo's defense was number 1 and the Bills number 3 in yards given up the year before he became our coach. He used that as a reason for the change. Such a stupid argument to switch your defense from 3-4 to 4-3 and turn over your players. 2. Orton - an obvious inclusion given that I hate lack of effort and he is a bit of a poster child for that. 3. Jauron - I want to view him as a try hard guy, but stupidity outweighed his effort. I remember once that he decided to play the Brady Patriots with such a soft defense and they ended up scoring on almost every possession. When asked about it, he said that he had to do that so they wouldn't get beat for a quick score. Meanwhile I am screaming at the screen because they are playing behind the sticks on third downs. Dude, it is about stops. I would rather have them beat us over the top 3 times out of 5 than to have them score 5 straight times. 4. Dareus - I can't tell you how high I was on him. He should have been dominant. I can't hate Maybin because the Bills were stupid to draft him. With Dareus, I think the Bills made the right choice to draft him. He just didn't put in the effort. What was his draft position? 3rd overall?

7 minutes of awesomeness...

Agree. Some of those things did not really fit into either good or bad but were just....weird. I appreciate the work you did on this. I'll add a few: GOOD: Sammy Watkins being traded during training camp. Me reading Astro's notes all the time about how he was dogging it in practices, then the trade happened, and I wondered then if there was a real culture change coming. We'll never know how important of a message this sent to the team. Hyde and Poyer - as someone who loves good safety play, it was a joy having them as a tandem. The Bills switch to being more aggressive on fourth down somewhere around the 2nd or 3rd year of McBeane. Taron Johnson's interception return to win a playoff game against Baltimore. I have watched the Turning Point (?) clip about that play so many times. BAD: Preposterous Punts that had me yelling at the screen before the Bills changed on that front. WEIRD: Recent history is dangerous to label because time changes perspective, but the entire Diggs Drama (TM). How did they go from Bromance to Breakup off the field (Josh only texted Diggs after the trade?)? That's weird enough, but then add to it the on field drop off in Diggs production? Weird. Side note - I love how you put the Rex Ryan era in both Bad and Weird, because it was. 🙂