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I'm not gonna lie, I'm worried about this game. McVay coached rings around McD and Frazier in the second half last time. He made an adjustment with the pre-snap motion that the Bills LB's ALWAYS reacted to the same way and just ran a counter into the vacated space for chunks all day. Bills coaches are great on culture and execution for the most part but they aren't master strategerists like McVay. Bills can still win, I sure hope so, but not a stretch to see them lose.

MJD is really annoying.

Chicken soup and ginger ale (instead of sahlens and pumking). 🤢

i dunno. Bernard hasn’t impressed me, gives me that Kelvin Sheppard vibe of decent instincts but doesn’t have the physical juice to make the play, where Edmunds is the opposite. Send them both thru Seth Brundle’s teleporter and you have Luke Kuechly but I don’t know either is the answer long term.

Crose enough!

Michael Irvin of all people, compared the signing of Miller to the Cowboys acquisition of Charles Haley putting them over the top. Interesting take.

Based on the tape of Game 1, that's not a surprise at all. He was wrecking the left tackle. Twitchy and bendy, there's something to be worked with there. Was hoping his being nicked up games 2 & 3 would lead to him on the practice squad but game 1 was just too impressive I guess.

Can't penalize for a helmet-to-helmet hit if the guy has no helmet!

That competition was over when they spent the draft pick. Haack was terrible and overpaid.

Thinking that doing what the media wants will make the media your buddies… lol. LMAO.

Cui bono. You know the name of someone you didn't know existed a week ago.

I think Rivera shot himself in the foot on that front.

Owen looked awful against Carolina. Maybe.

You don’t remember DC in the 80’s, do you?

The Bills themselves have used the "family" descriptor to differentiate themselves, to make themselves a more attractive destination for players. You'd like to believe that, but at the end of the day management caved to the media mob to protect their product in lieu of action with prudence while the facts are yet to be known. In doing so they abdicate this superiority of "moral high ground" that seems to be part of the Bills branding. The business of the NFL is winning, which means circling the wagons for the Von Millers of the world and not so much for a replaceable cog. I get it. It just means everything I've listened to and bought into the last 5 years about the Bills' "culture" and "process" means something other than what I was led to believe. What I won't swallow is the claim by Beane that this move came for the sake of that "culture."

I would hope that if he's totally exonerated and the Bills approached him to resume his role as punter, that he'd tell them to ***** right off the foot of Ferry. Beane's own statement on the team feed affirmed that for the Bills, "culture is more important than winning." Ok. So I'm going to assume that means, to do the right thing even if it lessens your chance to win. Or even, the whole "Bills are a family" thing. How would a family react to a member accused of something awful, which he claimed he didn't do? Would you toss him on the street? No, you'd find out what really happened, and if he did what he was accused of then deal with it appropriately. If the guy is accused of something where "you can't put together all the facts" (according to Beane) and has been entirely consistent with he's told you (according to Beane) and you know of nothing disproving that (inferred by Beane) then you're doing it solely for the reason of winning. That's fine by me, only don't tell me about how "culture is more important than winning" while you're doing it. The goal of the team should be to win, that's what your job as GM depends on. Just say that. "The media won't leave us alone, and our goal of winning a Super Bowl is diminished by the extra attention." That, I can believe. Hopefully the sleazebag lawyer throwing Beane immediately under the bus after acceding his demands is educational on some level.

It's his nature.

Beane and McDermott did the expedient thing, which gets the media off Beane and McDermott's backs. It certainly is the best thing for them.

There two well-established, well-moderated threads for discussing this subject. Yours is what's known as a LAMP: "Look At My Post!"

The mob turned on the Punt God. Is Barabbas still unsigned?

Congratulations on a LAMP.

You may be surprised how long it lingers. Unintended consequences.

Either it was the right thing to support him against an allegation without compelling evidence, or it was the right thing to dismiss him for an allegation with compelling evidence. One of those is the case. Considering that actual Law Enforcement has not found enough evidence to believe any of the civil allegations are chargeable since freaking October, I'm dubious about the latter. Right now, who knows what the evidence of the matter is? There is apparently the one 11-page allegation. One source. This argument that "if he clears his name once we find out what happens, then we will welcome him back" is risible. The Bills should hope and hard as they can that this is not the case, because otherwise management has just served notice to 53 players that the organization does not have their back if someone spuriously accuses them of x-y-z. The "season is too important" "distraction" canard is for knaves who either won't do the right thing or just don't know what it is.

You mean like last year? That's the thing they were trying to fix, thought they fixed, and have unfixed.