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True, although Kelce was there throughout Smith/Reid's combined tenure there.

I'm wondering whether the London game opponent will be the Cowboys as the "road team," in a symbolic transition from the old "America's Team," to the new "America's Team."

I hope he becomes as commercialized as Brady & Mahomes are.

... in a pair of Zubaz while lugging around a white folding table, just-in-case. This place is absolutely hilarious at times.

Yes, in Smith's best year in a 14-year career. He finished 8th in passing yards, 9th in passing TDs, and 1st in past rating that season. Great year for him.

Indeed. 🤔🧐 LOL His offense did average 20th though until Mahomes showed up.

Indeed, but when you say "produce," I'm hesitant to ask any more questions.

Given that the average ranking of his defense over the past 7 seasons is a perfect 22nd, one could argue that.

Your pic embodies so much of our identity. The Brady dildos, our drafts under Beane, the play of our defense in the playoffs, the new stadium ticket pricing, the long and winding road to our future success, the lump of clay on the potter's wheel that is "The Process" before it comes to fruition in 15 more years, etc. It's beautiful! Thank you

Our any of his thirds over the prior three drafts.

This place cracks me up, and this is absolutely no reflection on you, just speaking generally. You just seem to mimic the more-than-not consensus on this perfectly. But after we signed Harty & Sherfield I argued that those signings wouldn't move the needle and propel us upward in our receivers and took a rash for it. ... And now this thread. LOL That's the best thing about this place, it never gets boring, even if it is schizophrenic.

And while unpopular, how bad our drafts have been. I mean where do most people think that Cincy for example got their WRs.

Most notably in the playoffs.

It's out defense that's the reason for our playoff losses. In our last three playoff losses or D has allowed 27, 42, & 38 points. It's not reasonable to expect your offense to have to put up 40-some points to win the game. This past season, of 13 playoff games, only one team scored more than 38. Only two scored more than 35. In 2021, only one team allowed more than the 42 we allowed to the Chiefs, the Pats allowed 47 to us. We and the Steelers allowed 42 to the Chiefs. No other team allowed more than 34 besides the Chiefs to us. In 2020, only one team allowed more than the 38 we allowed to the Chiefs, the Steelers again allowed 48 in the WC round and in the same game the Browns allowed 37 to the Steelers. Other than that, in the other 12 games the max points allowed was 32. We have two different defenses, a regular season defense which is good, and a playoff defense which isn't good.

7 of the top 8 in the AFC, w face 7 of the other top 9 besides Allen in 8 of our games, 5 of those on the road.

Might actually work out for him. He's not confined to a late-round rookie contract now.

Right!!

Also, part of the problem overall was that SDPD was also covering up on behalf of SDSU so as not to impugn the school during that great season they had, and regardless of whodunit, which turned out to be a few third-rate non-scholie players. That didn't help Araiza's situation either. Otherwise, just another example of how the women are automatically believed out of the gate ala "me too." The fact that this girl was underage at a college frat party suggests that she wasn't as naive as she made out to be.

[Chuckle] Go Bills!!!

Read your statement again. On order for an argument, debate, thesis, or anything, to be objective, what is a minimal requirement? We'll, since you've chosen that approach, id equally suggest that anyone not understanding the value of continuity and chemistry between QBs and OLs would equally "have to be the biggest moron on the planet." That's without even touching on the coaching concept. 🙂

He was your typical 3-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust type. Reliable to get a short-yardage 1st-down, but never a threat to take it to the house type.

Makes sense! Lawrence coming on too though. As to this ... Largely unrelated, my very first thought upon reading that was that the same exact thing could be said about our "top-ranked" defenses.

Agree with your post. I would also add that Mahomes, Herbert, and Lawrence all have their differences as well. I also have no idea why Hurts has been mentioned in this conversation, he's done absolutely nothing from a passing perspective that puts him in the same class as the aforementioned. He's a running QB, without that he's an incredibly average passer. Lawrence, after escaping Meyer's hell and coming on strong last season looks positioned to join them. IMO it's great that they're all in the AFC. Our job, if we want to be better, then be better. Draft better, coach better, utilize our players better, make better on-field decisions, make better halftime adjustments, etc. If we can do that, great, if not, oh well.

Thank you!! To add to what you wrote, Burrow's third season playoff performances are not as good as Allen's third season playoff performances. So at a developmental level he wasn't where Allen was, insofar as playoff performance goes at least, at that time. You do realize that your analysis is all but entirely subjective, right? Just pointing that out.

JuJu, Kelce, ... meh. Easy there Festus. I didn't say he would suck, I said he wouldn't be as good and I meant it marginally. He'd still be great, I doubt he'd have won a SB here. He'd be carrying McD & Beane the same as Allen now is. Coaching, OL, and while you tout our "top-ranked defense," it played like a bottom-ranked defense in the playoffs generally speaking. I've laid that out statistically several times here, although understood if you haven't seen it. Then of course coaching, unless you're comparing Reid to McD that is. Look, I'm not one of these people in a dick-measuring competition with the other NFL teams over who has the best QB. As I see it they're all different and do things that the others don't do. IMO the differences between them is one of the more intriguing aspects of the game, much as Marino and Kelly were different, or Marino and Young for example. If all QBs were identical in terms of style of play, how boring would that be. And frankly, one can win a SB without a top-ranked QB if the other areas of the team are solid. Kelly was by no means the best QB in the league back in his day, although he was in the top bunch. But our [truly] great D with Bruce, whom we have nothing even remotely resembling right now, and others, our OL then blows our OL today away whereas so does KC's OL today blow ours away, and very good but hardly superlative WRs and TEs, and yet we went to the SB despite not winning one, which again, IMO was due to coaching. Put Parcells, Gibbs, or Johnson on the Bills back then, and Levy on their teams, and we'd be 2-2 or even 3-1 in SBs and we wouldn't all have Championship envy. Mahomes is good, but to suggest that all of the other elements that helped the Chiefs win SBs were irrelevant after him is ludicrous. And frankly, if he would have been just as good here, then why haven't we even made a SB with Allen? At the same time, put Allen on KC over the same period and IMO he's got his ring already. Allen's hardly significantly worse, in fact, consider all of the games we've won specifically due to his rushing, and often when our own RBs were worthless. Could Mahomes do that? I doubt it. But more importantly, why is it necessary on our team, for our QB to run that much that is ... part of my point.