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But I have to say your view is a bit myopic. McDermott has coached a team from a laughing stock to an "it" franchise in the NFL in five years. Of course he cannot do it without players, but don't you think he is responsible in significant ways in developing the roster we now have, with a clear vision on the type of player and team he wants. To be sure, his gameday decisions can be questioned, but all coaches eff up gameday decisions. It's the nature of the beast (pun intended). At bottom, you choose to see the glass 10% empty instead of 90% full. Given the overall skill of NFL coaches, and the coaches the Bills have had over the last 20 years, McDermott is a godsend. You are someone who looks at a supermodel and says, "but what about that mole."

There was no panic-- just sheer exhaustion.

Also, the schedule is way more favorable after the bye. We get to 4-2 and we have a great chance at bye. Even a shot at 3-3.

58-60 yards

Behind a paywall, but it is an amazing read on the game and the adversity the Bills and Allen almost overcame. The gist of it is that the entire game plan went out the window due to injuries and heat exhaustion. Lots of plays they would have liked to call could not be used. Execution was all effed up because the guys on the field rarely play together. Despite all that, Allen still got them within a win, and six key mistakes-- anyone of which went differently likely would have ended the game with a W-- cost them. That does not do the article justice, but there it is.

Weather predicted to be 69 and 45% chance of rain. After yesterday, that sounds delightful!

If Miami can't beat Buffalo today with all the injuries, they will never beat Buffalo. Loss today is no biggie under the circumstances and we get them in Buffalo in December.

Yet despite all this anxiety, the Bills are still 4.5 point favorites on the road against the mighty 2-0 Dolphins. Go figure.

Better team is asserting itself. Stopped the mistakes.

Singletary I think

This guy can be moved to safety. Good pick.

The bottom line is that the deal is the cost of having an NFL team and the prestige and community benefits that come with it. All the editorial writers can rail against it as a waste of taxpayer money, but that argument is in the abstract. Public dollars fund stadiums all over the country. Right now Virginia is bending over backwards and throwing money at the Commandos to get them to move. The market indicates you need public money to have a team, see, e.g., San Diego, St. Louis, Oakland. So for folks who don't give a rat's ass for NFL football, it is a bad deal because the economics never indicate you will more than recoup the public investment. But the market says different, and for a city like Buffalo, the team is priceless.

It is.

Great value signing!

He is claiming is claiming economic damages in all counts, but you are correct he does not link it to any particular action or job, just the penumbra of discriminatory conduct (alleged). And I totally agree that this is going to be played as a PR case that makes the NFL look awful and thus will make the NFL settle. The law is not on Flores's side, but the PR truly is-- and the ***** that will come out in discovery will be a nightmare.

You are correct. And the Rooney Rule-- or faux compliance with the rule-- will not be the basis for liability. The basic claim is that black coaches are not being hired because they are black, i.e., they are qualified but not being hired simply because of the color of their skin. The Rooney rule actually cuts against this claim, as it shows the NFL is trying to promote black coaches. The alleged faux compliance with the rule is simply a piece of evidence suggesting that the bias is so great that teams will not even interview in good faith. But with no Rooney rule, the claim would be the NFL is not even trying to overcome alleged systemic bias. The discrimination claim is much more fundamental than simply not complying with the Rooney rule. At the end of the day, it is hard to see how this can be a class action. Each situation is individualized, not common to every coaching candidate. Unless there is some grand scheme to deny black coaches jobs at a league-wide level, there can be no class. And all of this will be hard to prove, because it will be difficult to show the reason for the failure to hire a particular person was due to race, and not because the Giants, for example, simply wanted an offensive minded coach. And was racism a factor in the hiring of David Culley and his rapid firing, or was it because he seemed in over his head. This could be a long slog that the NFL will want to settle IMO, because the defense evidence of "merit" will have ugly overtones that will be a PR nightmare. .

I agree. And while I did not mind Daboll, I think his biggest asset was letting Josh be Josh. Outside of that, I did not see a lot of creativity out of him. There was no dynamic running game, little screen game, and little for Diggs over the middle. Continuity is good IMO, but I'd like to see some creative planning that takes some of the burden off Allen. I mean he rode Allen to a head coaching gig so that's great, but I think there is lots of room for improvement in game planning with the right person.

This Board on these coaches reads like the 2018 Josh Allen thread during the draft. Thank God the front office did not listen then. I mean no one here has any idea about these guys personalities, back stories, coaching philosophies, ability to adapt to the talent at hand or much of anything else except I heard of him, or the team he coached for was no good so it must be his fault. I trust the front office has a much better idea of who will fit and who will not than anyone here. And they have already said Josh will have input. Trust the process.

The amount of time elapsed in overtime in the Chiefs-Bengals game from kickoff to Mahomes throwing the deciding pick. Football gods have an amazing sense of humor, unless you are a KC fan.

Rams gonna Ram

Today also shows if the Bills had won last week, today would not have been an automatic W. Bengals defense is not much, but it was good today for a 1/2 plus. Whether it was their D or KC hitting a wall after last week's game, who knows for sure.

Chiefs had their A game last week and for 1 1/2 quarters today. Then they hit a wall. What the other team does matters.

Not if you are a Chiefs fan.

Looks like KC is gassed from last week's game. No juice left.

Being from Buffalo, I like to come here and watch snowflakes.