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It's easy to put up good numbers in the Big 12, not exactly a conference built of defensive powerhouses. Feel like Mims came into the league thinking he'd dominate DBs the way he did at Baylor in the Big 12 and was thoroughly humbled by how hard it is to even get NFL open in the NFL. I'd pass, even though he's played with meh QBs. Good wideouts get NFL open and shine even when the quarterback is so-so.

The Eagles won a SB with Nick Foles. Nick Foles is not a great quarterback. He was good when he needed to be and the team around him was absolutely stacked.

That game was so damn boring, think it ended 13-7 with our offense looking completely anemic which was such a letdown.

I think it's harder to establish a rhythm with 1-2 RB's because you're not really setting up a ton of run first plays. A lot of this type of running is predicated off PA/option plays. As for linemen, maybe its the mentality that you have to sell a ton of your blocking as pass and you have to wait for what happens in the backfield to then switch into upfield blocking and trying to set running lanes off script. It's a lot more mentally taxing to do that than to just know that on this play we're doing X. Also teams tend to play a team with a strong running QB differently. There's ALWAYS a couple of players peeking into the backfield and keeping an eye on the QB and runners to close those gaps/limit breakaways.

He was a Rex Grossman/Trent Dilfer type, he was alright but he wasn't going to win you a game when the chips were down. I'd argue that Shady got us to the playoffs just as much as Tyrod did.

We're a passionate bunch who may also give the Bills far more real estate in our heads than they deserve 😂

McKenzie is the current iteration of Leodis McKelvin, every time he touches the ball something amazing or something awful is going to happen. There is no middle.

I’m excited for the fins away game being late season so they can’t cook us alive in their stadium.

You're suggesting that the best coach this team has had in something like 2 decades is on the hot seat this year? It took Andy Reid a damn long time to win a Super Bowl and no one ever suggested that he get fired while constantly having the Chiefs in contention. This place is *something* in the offseason, damn 😂

That holding call was…weak.

There is soooo much more to playing LB than rushing the QB. Good linebackers like Edmunds and Milano take away huge chunks of the field and force QBs to have to make much more difficult throws into much tighter windows. In the modern game an incompletion is almost as good as a sack, it's a play for no yards and a loss of down.

That guy knows he doesn't have what it takes to play in the NFL and is just milking his college gig for everything it's got. Also Stetson Bennett just sounds like what ChatGPT would return if you asked it "What is the most football name for a player you can think of?"

Who? Did Houston have good safety play this season?

The thing is, those teams are those teams and these teams are these teams. Any parallels are just coincidences. There are no tea leaves to read. This current Bills team will succeed and fail on their own merits, irrespective of any similarities to the Bills teams of old.

I guess I'm an Eagles fan for the superb owl, but I don't feel good about it.

I would be curious to know of PFF grades or similar OL grades in situations where Kromer came in as the OL coach. Do his OLs always regress or not?

my eyes say otherwise

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35531136/jets-hire-former-broncos-coach-nathaniel-hackett-new-oc This is most excellent 🤣

It took Andy Reid 6 years to reach the SB with the Eagles. It took him another 6 years to reach the SB (and win) with the Chiefs.

I remember LeSean McCoy looking quite uncomfortable during that playoff loss against the Jags but still gutting it out. I thought there was no way he was gonna play the way he sprained his ankle a week before that game.

the Ravens defense has been extremely good since they traded for him.

The Brady/Pats teams are a good comparison. You never seemed to think they were unbeatable and it looked a bit clunky at times but when it needed to get done it got done. People seem to forget that even with all the injuries, issues, setbacks this team is still 13-3 and its 3 losses have come from a combined 8(!) points.

It's the Charlie Whitehurst plan. Mostly suck, but play well enough to stick around in the NFL holding a clipboard for 10-12 years. Walk away with little wear and tear on the body and a decent $15-20m in your bank account for your troubles.

Watched that game on TV and I share your feelings.