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OK At the same time, it was anything but complimentary phrasing, to ignore that also makes little sense. i.e. It was hardly a ceremonious positive send-off. Either way, to have Terry now significantly closer to the football decisions, when he himself has more or less stated a lack of qualifications (or interest) for doing so, is hardly inspiring. Spin it contrarily off you wish.

Looks can be deceiving. That haven't made the playoffs on Terry's ownership watch except in his first season on residual from that season. It's easily been the darkest era of Sabres franchise history. But maybe. I'm not willing to let the people involved there get closer to the Bills.

Yeah, like I said, seems as if they hired several people, none of which I look at the reasons started as to why they were hired inspiring anything positive. Thanks for the insights. What's the trial about?

Why would Terry specifically say that his departure was to improve the management team then? Seems odd phrasing given what you said.

I'm not sure that anyone's apologetic towards Raccuia, rather concerned that Terry & (new) company seem to be moving closer to the football stuff. Probably unfounded concerns, but given the Sabres definitely something to monitor.

Agreed Terry's specific words were about improving the management team. This is going to be a very interesting season. These management changes with Terry now more involved (I don't see how that's a good thing), people hired that it's questionable what they're backgrounds bring positively to the table, and a coaching staff the top of which that's essentially the Carolina coaching staff from McD's days. IMO it's either all going to shine or it's all going to flop. If the latter, Allen of course will cover a multitude of sins. Yes, that, A. B, some of the seeming reasons why they brought in a few of the new people aren't inspiring either. C, the top of our coaching staff, all the key game day decision-makers, are essentially the coaching staff from Carolina while McD was there. Again, concerning.

Touche LOL, no, but not necessarily quite that dense either.

If that's the occurrence, then the dude's not too bright, ... in being kind.

From one of the articles ... Is that a good thing? ... I don't follow the Sabres that closely.

For a second there I thought it said DOMED.

Kinda early for that tho.

Yeah, it does, and the timing ... What's not mentioned is Terry taking over management of the Bills org, but no mention of Kim. Obviously she's out for the long haul, just sayin'. I wonder if he's positioning himself to keep greater tabs on McD & Beane, but odd there is that he just extended both of them. I can't imagine that Raccuia extended them w/o Terry's permission. But yeah, it does seem weird.

Interesting and astute take.

Sheeeet, I'll take 9 or 10 with a Wild Card and all road playoff games if it means being fresh for the playoffs and winning the SB. It's ALL going to come down to McD's management of the D, Dorsey, Allen's elbow, and the avoidance of Allen or Milano getting injured. I'm sure I'm not the only one that's concerned about the top five or six guys on our coaching staff all being retread coaches from when McD was in Carolina. I mean honestly, it's as if he's quietly brought that coaching staff here. It's not as if those teams overachieved or did anything special. Sheeeet, I'll take 9 or 10 with a Wild Card and all road playoff games if it means being fresh for the playoffs and winning the SB. It's ALL going to come down to McD's management of the D, Dorsey, Allen's elbow, and the avoidance of Allen or Milano getting injured. I'm sure I'm not the only one that's concerned about the top five or six guys on our coaching staff all being retread coaches from when McD was in Carolina. I mean honestly, it's as if he's quietly brought that coaching staff here. It's not as if those teams overachieved or did anything special. I can see us being the best offense, or close to it, of all-time and for sure in Bills' franchise history, or I can see us being 5th or 6th too. There are a whole lot of mystery balls up in the air entering this season. Gotta hope for the best. GO BILLS!!!

There should always be a preponderance of chicken wings over ice cream in these parts!

I think that's when McD would have thrown down the gauntlet and declared, let the Feats of Strength begin!

Even when it is, it's typically ignored. People have a tendency to generalize criticisms. This is going to be a very interesting season one way or another.

Without getting into the data in detail, a good reason for some of that was out lack of a reliable slot WR, which have the RBs more targets.

So by the eyeball test, IYO we were better in the '22 Playoffs than in the '21 Playoffs? Well, OK. My eyes tell me differently however. I'm also not sure that there's even any support for that outside of a subset of Bills fans.

LOL BTW!

🙂 As long as we are competence this season ...

This is really important to you I see. I went by scoring passing defense since that's what our conversation was involved with implicitly. Anyway, who cares. New season coming up. Let's hope that Davis and McD pull their heads outta their arses and don't botch it for us in the playoffs again.

Better is relative. You said this, which is false. The the defensive competition sucked as I just pointed out. We'd be very lucky to have that level of defensive competition again in the next five seasons. I'm merely qualifying things. I hate narratives because they form and then all rational thought seems to be discarded.

What I'm saying is who cares about regular season rankings. If we're going to look at it like that, then we need to look at a bunch of other data as well. Like the fact that we had 11 of 16 games last season with 23 or fewer 1st-Downs, whereas in '21 we had only 8 of 17 games with 23 or fewer 1st-Downs. ... as merely one item. I'd also be willing to bet that we played notably weaker pass defenses last season as well than we did the year prior. But you're trying to take fractions of a PPG or a ranking or two, maybe three overall seem like a big deal. We're going to have more YPP for instance without an effective "slot"/Beasley type, that's common sense. But then we shouldn't complain about dropped passes on deep balls because no viable short-threat ever developed, and when Dorsey was too obtuse to get Hines involved, who's an exceptional short-yardage receiving option. BTW, after a quick glance, of the 16 regular season games we played, 8 of them had passing defenses ranked 23rd or worst, that's half our regular season schedule against teams with passing Ds in the bottom quartile. And that doesn't mean that the rest were great, only three (Jets (twice), the Ravens, and Browns) were in the top-10. I'm not sure I'd be beating my breasts yodeling over that. Having said all that, I firmly believe that we have the offense in place to dominate the league in offense this season if it's coached properly, and if it isn't the best, then 90% (or so) of the reason will have been poor coaching. In fact, I am in the camp that says that everything is there for us to have one of the most prolific offenses of all time, in the league, not just franchise history.

I'm going to discount Davis' rookie season, and even then it's hardly fair to compare him to Diggs who's been in his 7th and 8th seasons in the league the past two seasons. Allow me to ask, how many drops in playoff games has Davis had over the past two seasons? How many drops in playoff games has Diggs had in the same past two seasons? Apart from those games, how many Yards and TDs have both had in their other playoff games in '21 and '22? Which of the two has performed better for us in our last four playoff games in 2021 and 2022? After reviewing that and posting it, let me know which of the two has been more valuable come playoff time. Clearly Allen figures into it as well as he decides where his balls get thrown. I wouldn't say overwhelming at all. The differences in rankings are marginal if not negligibile. ... except in the playoffs, where we were notably worse. It's obvious that our playoff offense was far better in '21 than it was last season in '22. You won't find anyone to reasonably argue to the contrary. Just scour the articles after our loss to Cincy. We can make excuses and provide reasons, but that's the way it was. Either way, I don't think that it's a different conversation given that the way the team plays in the playoffs is the complete opposite of the way it plays during the season. I can't speak for everyone although I know I speak for many when I say that between the playoffs and regular season, I couldn't care less about the regular season considering that we're locks for at least a wild-card with Allen at QB. I much prefer that the team shows up in January, when it matters. And the team includes coaching, which potentially cost us a Super Bowl win, likely so even.