stevewin

Subscription only (and not written by Tyler Dunne 😛) https://theathletic.com/5238599/2024/01/31/jets-aaron-rodgers-robert-saleh-season-collapse/ No surprise Hackett confirmed to be a clown show Saleh doesn't come off great either Interesting too they confirm the story that Wilson did in fact say he didn't want to play again Also they mention while things started with Rodgers taking Wilson under his wing and being "the big brother he never had" - by the end "Wilson’s feelings about his idol soured over the season." It ends with Jets players being optimistic because Rodgers was "picking apart" the scout team when he came back.

This is a side discussion but one of my pet peeves. I think there are things teams should do to minimize even further the role of ST coverage. Kick kickoffs out the EZ, and punt directionally towards the sideline to minimize returns. Even a punt OOB that goes a few yards shorter is worth it to not give up a return. Lower the dependence on keeping scrubs who are 'ST demons' and give more focus on not kicking returnable balls.

Really wish there was some kind of next gen stat for ints that factored in context. Remove hail mary's, balls that aren't the QBs fault (bounce off chest/hands of receiver etc) - and this wouldn't even count more subjective like the receiver ran wrong route etc. I would bet Josh's 'adjusted' int total would further debunk the 'turnover machine' narrative.

Some mofos no doubt

Little dude showed some heart on those runs for sure - hopefully he brings it in a couple weeks

Lions fans are drawing penises on his lawn as we speak

Would be cool if they ever did change it to opt to convert a 4th and 15 or something instead

He was also running like a little boy posessed - showed a lot of heart on those plays

The coverage leading up to it is going to be worse

Didn't read the first part of this thread. Whats the concensus on which team is better built to beat KC. Thats all I really care about at this point

So sad when ST idiots ruin perfect kicks

Jfc - now more weeks of not going to be able to stand watching any sports shows going to be 24-7 Mahomes

So now the Ravens need to tear it down and rebuild right since they didn't make the SB?

Love it

Great play by flowers to take off for ez

This is the first football related media I've watched since last week. Had to mute the opening. Just want KC to get crushed. Go Ravens

Bills fans are great no doubt - and every fan base has good and bad fans. I'm inclined to say I liked the Bills fan base better before the drought ended and it got worse in some ways now that we are perrenial playoff contenders. I think there are more bandwagon fans with a large bit of entitlement and ridiculous expectations now (Only winning the Super Bowl is acceptable! Season is a failure and we suck if we don't! Fire Everyone and tear it down if we don't!) Also - I think it's great you can see Bills fans everywhere you go - but the irony of that is that there are so many Bills fans all over the country because so many of those people left Buffalo for various reasons. It is true though that so many brought their love of the team with them when they left (me included)

And you could also consider "not having the pieces to compete" due to injury bad luck. Notable because the roster at LB and secondary was sound before the injuries. There is not a team in the league that would have had the depth to overcome them and not lose a step

Sure - I mean some people are going to get unhinged with the Diggs is #1 comment but that is just Beane being smart. Say something positive about the guy in front of the caneras - that doesn't mean you don't still go looking for someone better

Similar is the "blow it up crowd" after we came within a couple minutes of making the afccg with scrubs and wounded playing LB and in the secondary. What you need first is to make the tournament. Then have the pieces in place to compete, and usually have some luck as well. The 'tear it down' crowd is insane to me. We have the QB (the most important piece) and foundation across other positions. Sure there are holes that will need to be filled, but that is true for every team - every year.

I've avoided all sports coverage since the game, and walked into a room this am that had a tv my wife had left on that had espn Get Up on The subject was - was the loss Josh Allens fault. Out of morbid curiosity I watched for a couple minutes and the horrible takes were enough for me to turn it right off. I won't be watching any sports coverage until hopefully Baltimore beats KC

The Sherfield drop has also gotten kind of lost in everything that happened. That pass was a ROCKET - a truly unbelievably elite throw few can make

My kids grew up (not in Buffalo) during the drought (they were 2 yrs old for music city miracle). I used to take them to watch games every sunday from the time they were literally babies - the days before sunday ticket where you were always looking for family friendly places that had satellite and would show all the games. During all those years and all the pathetic teams and losing they never once wavered on their fanhood. For 17 years, throughout the entire first part of their life, the Bills didn't make the playoffs. Year after year after year. And never once did their fanhood waver. I remember feeling sorry for them through all the years they didn't even really have a Bills player who was truly great to be their sports hero. My son still lives in our area and comes over for games, and I have found myself sometimes after particularly devastating losses actually apologizing for the circumstances that led him to be a Bills fan and he just laughs. Through the good and that bad he wouldn't want it any other way. That's what being a fan is after all. We'll always have our shared passion for the team as something that we'll always be texting or calling each other about - just like i do with my Dad (and my son with his Grandpa). That is the best part of all. Relative to the OP - to me the life lesson is if you change teams because they lose you were not a fan to begin with. Being a fan means taking the good with the bad, losing with winning. Simple as that.

I'll address the elephant in the room: When do we fill in the Pit?

I was wondering when the clown show posts about getting rid of Josh would start. We are gifted with literally one of the best QBs to maybe ever play the position and some people want to get rid of him. There aren't words to express how idiotic it is