Nephilim17

Someone has to get the cookies off the top shelf for Tua.

Yikes. With the Bills luck, our WRs will come through, play better than anyone expected and Bass will undo it all with a bad kick. If his struggles continue for long, they need to look at other options.

That was awesome! Burr is my fave comic since prime Chris Rock (Bigger and Blacker is unbeatable). It's a shame that he's a Boston fan but understandable. Needed a good chuckle for a Friday morning... Cheers!

Good watch and here are more notes. These guys are not Bills homers (say Josh is top 5, something many here will hate) but they can still win it all and are still around the same overall talent level (thought the chances to go all the way have dropped a bit this year). - McD "coached his a$$ off" in light of the injuries and to get out of the hole in the first half (allude to McD or coaching being partly responsible for that hole. - Samuel and Claypool ain't the X, so it has to be Coleman almost by default (thought they thought Coleman was best suited as a big slot and the team has a "million' slot guys) - impressed with Cook and thought he was way more versatile than in college; he developed in the back half of the year (running between the tackles, etc) - championship window: the Bills still have good players and are a playoff team and are still in their "championship window" — their chances are not as high but they're still in it - the Bills still have the best QB in division and top-5 in league (sharpen your pitchforks!) - all the roster losses (biggest, obviously, are safeties and Diggs but also Morse) are a lot but it will be all right - letting Steph and Gabe go is a declaration of their new identify that is predicated on more running and efficiency and good D - The Bills are a year behind the cycle KC is in (e.g. letting Hill go, etc.) - a half dozen games at most you let your "alien" QB do it all — but not 12 times a game - MVS is just a depth signing in the regular season but he's there for January:S best hands and clutch plays in playoffs - draft top to bottom was strong - Coleman is not a traditional X but he might end up being that - Love the Bishop pick, might be fave pick in draft: great at pass D and blitzing off the edge; perfect fit for a hard Bills safety role - Dewayne Carter the year before was a "top 20 lock" but then had a down year; was a wrecker the year before - Soloman is a "fireball off the edge" - love the value of LB Ulofoshio; just fell because of injury - they had to hit this draft and really did - even with all the losses their additions "even out' the overall team talent; they didn't go backwards - still the fave to win AFCE - still have a chance (thought lesser) to go all the way - will find out quick what the team is with all this youth - ceiling: 12 wins with a tough schedule, potentially first seed (other guy said ceiling is 13 wins) - more realistic is 10-11 with a "ridiculous" schedule - if everything goes wrong but Josh plays the year, floor is 9 wins - odds not as good as KC and Baltimore but "it's JA, a good defense and a D coordinator who gets it" - team will be underrated - the trade to KC that let them get Worthy "doesn't matter" and Brett thinks the Bills got the better WR

On the middle of the field woes with Dorsey: "They reason they kept stalling out there, they got way overly aggressive in that area of the field. They kept chucking the ball, and chucking the ball and chucking the ball. And when they made the switch at OC, the switch wasn't that drastic in terms of scheme; it was drastic in terms of play selection. And I mean run/pass play selection." This resulted in the EPA going down but the efficiency and scoring going up in the back half of the year. There's a summary of a bit. Just started watching...

Mind blowing. While a Super Bowl should be the only thing he, the team and we want, he seems on a HOF trajectory and we will look back in 20 years and say, unbelievable. Even if he doesn't go to a SB (God forbid) I think a few more seasons of what he's been doing could get him into the Hall.

Oh, so "Thumbs Up" really means they're sticking it in my a$$. Good to know. And the beer emoji means they're drunk or disagree. I learn something new here about football and people every day. 👍 🍻

Dude had addiction problems, craziness, and a big ego. If that was matched with a relentless work ethic, it wouldn't matter so much. But it wasn't.

Good to see you think no one ever repeats themselves here or acts like an a***le here. The problem is, a lot of people agreed with my take, so it's not just me. And you know what, I can deal with the redundant arguments (I do them myself) but the assh**ism is too much sometimes. Thankfully, most people here are cool, even when they are in disagreement with others.

No, it's not. It was a rhetorical question and I was venting. I think sometimes some people here can be irritating and a rare few can even be as****les. Not a lot, but some.

Glad it's just me! I guess you all subscribe to Voltaire's aphorism of "I may disagree with what you repeat endlessly on a football message board but I'll defend to the death your right to repeat it endlessly." 🍻 As you were..

I love the Bills and think almost all of you guys seem like cool people. But my issue with many threads here is that after a while they get redundant and some people keep repeating the same argument to win the "I'm smarter than you" or "I don't like your point of view" game. It's all ego at this point, for both sides. No new information gets shared. it's just redundancy and, unfortunately at times, personal insults. For example, both sides have said all that can be said about Claypool and taking a flyer on a physical specimen that lost his way and is given "another chance" — let's see how the season plays out and then revisit that issue in a few months. As just one example. There are many. We can disagree, sure — it's an opinion board and no one is saying everyone should agree on the questions and concerns — but let it go after a while. For the love of Bruce Smith, stop saying the same thing in different words after you've said it three or four times. Or not. Knock yourselves out repeating the same old arguments. I guess I don't have to click on those threads either.

Fair enough but if you invest 20 minutes into this video you can see the Shakir is humble and hardworking, two qualities not every WR has. He proved it on the field in the second half of last year and i have higher expectations for him this year. Will he be Pro Bowl? I don't know. But he will be good and get better. It's refreshing to see a player like him after a lot of Diggs type of attention-seeking wide receivers.

The Khalil and Mounds video (about 20 minutes) is an excellent watch. Highly recommended. Gives me even more respect and hope for Shakir — fine young man and driven player and teammate. And a higher level of respect for Moulds, who got just shy of 10,000 yards in his career without a franchise QB. Glad to see him doing well and staying busy trying to help young players.

NFL: Celebrate a Bills Super Bowl. Pick-up football: Bat a pass on the line counting boats and catch it. Running it in for a TD is icing... But I'll take intercepting a pass on counting boats.

Williams at 5 shows Wright is purposely trying to rile people up. If some didn't get that before.

I can't remember if Joe mentioned injuries as a factor, but is so, if was just in passing. His main point was that other teams in the playoffs average more than 2 sacks per game against Mahomes but we have 3 sacks in 3 games, and have forced zero interceptions or interception-worthy balls or something. So we don't get to him and we don't make him make bad throws. But that needs to be at least slightly corrected. Joe is not an idiot and said no one can shut down or stop Mahomes but you have to slow him down a bit and the Bills, for whatever reason, don't do that in the playoffs. With Josh playing lights out, the D has to be better. And Mahomes has a significantly higher QB rating against the Bills in the playoffs than other teams — so there's something wrong that the Bills and our vaunted D (my words here) are doing. Joe does NOT say don't build a good offense and I don't think he loved the Coleman pick but he pointed out that good play on D starts wtih the D line and the Bills D line has been worse against Pat in the playoffs. He seemed to hope the Babich would scheme up something that would work better. And he seemed to imply the scheme is a big part of it (not just players). Take it as you will. As expected, some folks get upset and misinterpret this as saying the Bills don't need a good offense. They do — but they need to put more pressure on Mahomes in the playoffs and force more bad throws and longer distances to get the first down.

Tyrod will only give the house to you if you're not moving and there's no one anywhere near you.

I like Joe a lot. Wish his podcast had film and more graphics but I think he knows a lot and like to listen often. Didn't see this here and I thought it merited some attention. What he says here is interesting, and his conclusion may not please a lot of folks here. Some broad highlights: 1. Recapping the obvious: the Bills play the Chiefs very well in the regular season, in the post-season, not so much 2. As good as Mahomes is, his QB rating against the Bills in the playoffs is far, far higher than against other teams. I roughly recall a 20-point difference or so. 3. The Chiefs have been very good at letting good players go at the right time 4. Mahomes will obviously be good for a long time, and Jones for a while still, but hopefully a 35-year-old Kelce starts to decline 5. This is the big one — the Bills can't just "out score" the Chiefs in the playoffs, we have to get D line pressure on Mahomes, who might have been sacked just 3 times (if I recall) in 3 playoff games against the Bills. Joe says this last point is key: pressure that actually gets to Mahomes in the playoffs. Other teams sack him; we don't. He's not invincible but the Bills falter — in the playoffs — getting to Pat. Joe doesn't get to breaking down what we've been doing wrong and what we can do better but he doesn't think the key is simply getting better on offense. And he points out that Josh always comes to play against KC in the playoffs. Keep arguing all you want about Bills WRs but the Bills D-line is a big question mark, if not concern, when it comes to stopping our nemesis when it counts.

I hope Beane is smart enough to let him walk. He has good qualities but is far from ideal (blocking, short-yardage, etc.) and we get a comp pick. Spend the money on WRs, O-line.

Rogers limping? Nothign a little Ivermectin can't fix. Or maybe Robitussin. "Let that 'Tussin get in there, boy, let the 'Tussin straighten out the bone!"

I don't know why these pro athletes who like to spend time with a lot of women don't get fixed. It can be undone when their career is over... That could literally save them millions. It's what I would do (hell, I got fixed without millions on the line).

Lots of volume but mostly from the slot. It's been talked to death but if he succeeds outside with his very short arms he will be a historical outlier. I'm not betting on that. But it's fine if he's "just' a very good slot guy.

Tyrod Taylor was tough to watch for me. Couldn't throw a guy open, just threw safe balls to guys who were standing still. I don't remember exact moments but I probably was pretty upset with Maybin on D — Eric Woods yelling at him in practice was priceless: "Give back the money you stole!" Coaches: Jauron was as lifeless as his zombified face. But there was so much bad for so long it's hard to single out guys.

I think "explosion" is not quite the right word but perhaps what @Mat68 was referring to is that Coleman is fluid and efficient when catching the ball and transitioning into moving forward. I've seen Cover 1 breakdowns of this, I believe, and it's similar to Kincaid: as they are preparing to catch, they are pointing their body and almost in the transition of moving forward before or at the time of the catch. Many players don't do this well but Coleman does so he gets more YAC than you would think based on his timed speed.