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So the price of a beer at Highmark is $8.80? Not $9 or $8? Anyone, ... that bought a beer there last season ... ? Bueller? And let's not forget the cost of folding tables.

Or if Diggs makes a guest appearance.

YES! Now let's get a coach that doesn't hold him back and see how much better the offense at large and he can be! Great post! Keep in mind however that Allen's a beast, even compared to Elway or Young, who were 6'-2"/3" & 215. Allen's 6'5"/237 and more athletic than either with an even better arm.

Money buys a lot of "justice."

He's probably being like an ostrich, sticking his head in the sand pretending that the Bills aren't there. Two losses a season since 2019 if we don't count that ridiculous heat game in which we outplayed them anyway. That's gotta leave a mark.

Who? This coming from a player that's averaged 31 catches for about 350 yards and 3 TDs/season. Oh, and he's on his fourth team in 8 seasons and played at FIU. Dude should leave the state every now and again. He should also be a little careful, his contract isn't of the variety that prevents him from being cut. Good luck trying to sell the nation on the notion that Buffalo doesnt have good Wings. That's like trying to convince people that South Beach is chock full of and dominated by heterosexuals. The "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste" fund. He's the poster boy.

Alas, our defensive side obviously involves coaching considering that it's in the playoffs. Last season, predictably, our rushing Defense plummeted. I have two issues with this. First, face value, we went pass-rush/D heavy, which worked, for the most part, but in the four games where we allowed the most rushing yards, we lost all of them. One being the KC playoff game in which Reid obviously knew this. Pacheco and Helaire logged 128 rushing yards and a TD on 7.5 YPC. That's horrific. Of the games with our 7 worst rushing yards allowed, we've lost 5, and the Giants posted a great game against us, controlling the clock to a 2:48 ToP advantage, in a game whereby we attempted to out rush them, not put Allen's passing on the priority list. We ran the ball 29 times and threw 30. Secondly, McD's take is that we need to establish the run to ultimately be successful. As idiotic as that is in today's NFL, if that's true, then why the lack of emphasis on his part on D for stopping the run? If that's the MO in today's NFL, they why only on our offensive side? (rhetorical) The problem is clear. Everyone knew, or should have known, that neither Bernard nor Williams were known for their run defense abilities. Last season our YPC rushing D plummeted from 14th the season prior, to 28th as a direct result. Milano is good, but he's not the difference in that run D. Von Miller sure isn't.

If we want to make some headway on this topic, it's important to look at the Scoring/Point Differential in the Playoffs. Since the same 2019 ... BUF: 250 (25.0)/238 (23.8) ... +12 ... per-game average +1.2 KC: 477 (29.8)/369 (23.1) ... +108 ... per-game average +6.8 SF: 284 (23.7)/251 (20.9) ... +33 ... per-game average +2.8 (Keep in mind, half of these games were with Garoppolo) BAL: 96 (16.0)/109 (18.2) ... -13 ... per-game average -2.2 PHI: 137 (22.8)/132 (22.0) ... +5 ... per-game average +.8 CIN: 163 (23.3)/132 (18.9) ... 31 ... per-game average +4.4 The thing to look at there is the PA. We're the worst. It gets worse. In the four seasons that we had the 1st, 2nd, 2nd, and 4th ranked Points Against/Scoring Defenses, we allowed an average of 24.7. That should be a clear indictment of the defensive side of things. The Chiefs' D ranked higher than 7th once, this past season. The Niners' D ranked higher than 8th only twice. The Eagles D ranked 8th once, after that, never higher than 15th. The Cincy D ranked 6th once, after that, never higher than 17th. The Ravens simply suck in the playoffs because Jackson sucks in the playoffs. Jackson in 6 playoff games has averaged 221 passing yards on 57.4% completions, 1 TD, 1 INT, and a horrific rating of 75.7. It's not at all difficult to pinpoint where our biggest problem in the playoffs lies. Correct that and we have a Championship(s) already with more underway.

PTR linked it above. I don't spend much time there, just know it existed. Hell, I don't spend much time on Facebook at all. LOL Einstein was quoted on there a few weeks ago tho. I forget what for. Someone dragged whatever he said here over to there.

... and the old ass and the young ass. Someone posted an updated seating chart in the Facebook group for this. I think he puts it up after updates. I don't pay to much attention, just recall seeing it.

What, one wider and padded or something like that?

How many different types of seats are there?

BTW, I know you're not that crude, no one is, therein lies the humor.

Come on now, ... don't get to serious here. 😏

The perfect scene for you there ...

Have Davis appears to be the hatee of choice. Not sure whether or counts that he's no longer with the team tho. 😏 OK, you can be Smails then.

Rodney LOL

mrags there ...

Sadly he's the only one among both players or coaches that does so here. What could have been these past four years had that not been the case.

I added some additional detail. We can make all the excuses we want for our losses, but there's no one impressive win in the list of wins. There are several unimpressive wins though. Miami vs. Thompson and Indy vs. Old Man Rivers. You're all over the map in your argumentation. It's dizzying.

Take a closer look. To start, we had a -57 point-differential, which I believe is the worst of any team in the league ever to have made the playoffs. As it was, it wasn't even above-average for the drought era where it ranked behind 11th out of 17 other seasons. Our strength of schedule was easier than all but four of the drought era seasons. The only two teams with winning records that we beat that season were the 10-6 Chiefs in Mahomes' rookie season, with Alex Smith at QB, and the Falcons with Ryan at QB, and Taylor outplaying both of them in each game. Remember, McD got significantly less from Taylor than Ryan did. Otherwise, we beat the 4-12 Colts, the 5-11 Jets, Broncos, and Bucs, and the 6-10 Raiders and Fins (twice). Then we were beaten by Bortles and Fournette and the Jags in the Wild-Card round in one of McD's worst offensive performances in his 8 seasons here. We got the tiebreaker over two other 9-7 teams, the Ravens and Chargers, which posted point-differentials of 92 and 83, for swings of 149 and 140, averages of 9.3 and 8.8 points-per-game, and because of the unlikeliest of 4th-and-12 Dalton to Boyd TD plays in a meaningless game for Cincy. In fairness, neither the Chargers nor Ravens beat much better teams, but the Chargers, led by Rivers and coached by Anthony Lynn, also in his rookie coaching debut, obliterated us 54-24. That's how. We weren't a good team, we were 21st in the league in PD, had a 22nd ranked Scoring Offense, 29th ranked Yardage Offense, an 18th ranked Scoring D, and a 26th ranked Yardage D. It was largely luck, unprecedented luck.

A whole lot will depend upon the offensive scheming and therefore Brady and what McD expects from Brady. Shakir has the ability with Allen to be among the top-10 WRs. Whether it happens or not is another story.

He holds our offense back. Allen and this offense should be improving since Allen's watch, but we've gone from 31.3 PPG in '20, to 28.4 PPG in '21 & '22, to 26.5 PPG this past season. That's the wrong direction as if that needs to be said. Unfortunately, while his defenses excel during the regular season, they're on the opposite end, among the worst, in the playoffs. Not sure where that places him, particularly in a division of siht apart from Miami whose offense has been good but whose defenses not so good. He's also managed to insulate himself from responsibility for each and every critical [poor] decision that's cost us playoff games along with a few regular season games. In pondering who this season's scapegoat is, it can't be Brady (the OC) again. Thinking Babich possibly here.

"“I’m doing everything that I can as a head coach to make sure that things are the way that I want them and expect them to be across all three phases." - McDermott

The talent has something to do with it as well, of course. As you and I have discussed, and compared to other teams that draft QBs highly, they build around the QB where we haven't done that to similar extents. Our addressing the OL via our drafts has been weak, our addressing WRs until this season has been all but nonexistent, starting in round 4 and mid-late day-3 otherwise. But at least some of that has been due to McD's infatuation with the defense, as something that he actually knows about, thereby with an emphasis there, not the O. We can disagree on that as well, but McD's choice of OCs has also held Allen back as has his current complimentary football MO. Again, we'll learn more this season, but if you listen to his pressers, you'll note that he considers that we play our best offensively when the running game is working.