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Why do Bills fans feel the need to drag Joe Burrow through the mud to defend Josh Allen? I get that we have to come up with all sorts of excuses to justify trading the Mahomes pick, but we never had a shot at Joe Burrow. In order to get a can't-miss prospect like that, you have to have the #1 overall pick and the Bills haven't been bad enough to have that since 1985. Of course, the Bengals took him and of course, he's been really good. He's won everywhere he's played. I will say that watching Burrow play is a lot less stressful than the Josh Allen Experience. He almost always does the right thing with the football. But he takes a lot of sacks and doesn't truck LBs. I know that Mahomes is the new Brady in terms of winning, but Joe Burrow has a game pretty much like Tom's. The other thing that I like about Burrow as a player is that he won big in HS and college. He took previously weak Athens to the Ohio state championship game in 2014, losing to Toledo Central Catholic 56-52. He also won Ohio Mr. Football that year. We all know what he did in college. He's kind of the anti-Josh Allen. He's a coach's son who went to every QB camp as a kid. He was a 4-star recruit who was on colleges' radar in middle school. We live in the golden age of QB play. Bills fans just ought to be happy that we have one of the top guys.

There is ZERO film of Hackett calling a play and Aaron Rodgers running that play.

You can do that when you run the least QB-dependent offensive system in the NFL.

Buffalo would have its championship if not for some sweaty shin pads.

We all need to get our heads in regular season mode. Guys are going to get dinged up and have to sit out practices but still play on Sunday/Monday/Thursday.

Homer! Get your head out of the sand. Do you remember Wyatt Teller? Or the Jacksonville game? /s But seriously. Everyone loves the Bengals drafting now, but remember they took John Ross and Billy Price, who are both out of football, in the first round in back-to-back years (2017 and 2018). And Ross was picked right before Mahomes!

So we're all ignoring the video of Hyde practicing TODAY that @Process posted above to continue on in full panic mode. Got it...

You have to click on the arrow a few times to scroll through to the week 2 games. It's there.

Petrine is a small loss compared to the loss of their entire secondary in free agency.

The Bengals are a “cash to the cap” team. They have to pay Burrow very soon. They’ll do that. Joe Burrow will retire a Bengal. He’s a local kid who grew up a Bengals fan. This town would riot if they didn’t pay him. But there is no way that they can afford to keep all those weapons. I imagine that they’ll keep Chase to keep Burrow happy and move in from Boyd and Higgins. All that being said, if the Bengals win a Superbowl this year all bets are off.

No, its a joke. It drives me nuts that the same fans who yelled about Tyrod not pushing the ball down the field now want Josh to start checking the ball down. They want what they don't have. Also, every play that doesn't work was the wrong call by the OC. It's never a good defensive play.

I just want him to use all the plays that work and to stay away from the plays that don’t work. Is that too much to ask? Also, whatever he is doing I want him to do the other thing. If Josh is throwing deep passes, then he needs to be calling running plays. But if he calls running plays then he needs to be calling deep passes. If Josh is taking checkdowns then I’ll scream at my TV that Dorsey needs to be more aggressive but if Josh throws a deep incompletion I’ll yell at him for not taking what the defense is giving him.

We trying to run 03 personnel?

I wish that the Bills had some of that swagger.

I don't know how many people here can benefit from this, but Google/YouTube have introduced a student rate plan. It's $109 for the season. I am currently working on an online degree and I was able to buy it. My son is a college student and I'm buying it for him as an early birthday present.

It’s not just the NY local media. There are so many open Jets fans in the national NFL media. Anytime that they are at all good, it’s the only thing that Rich Eisen, Mike Greenberg, and Rex Ryan want to talk about. In a related note, when did it become OK for national sports media figures to wear their fandom on their sleeves? 15 years ago, there were no Nick Wrights but now they’re everywhere.

I think that you are correct, at least in terms of QBs that are on a roster. Flacco is not on a roster but he has not retired. Foles is in the same spot.

Not to get involved in this, but the 10-year gap is right there in your post.

Aaron Rodgers spent all day yesterday at the US Open watching tennis. Lazy bastard.

I’ve just been informed that having positive opinions about the Bills is ignorance, so in my new effort to be a well-informed citizen of TBD this is my prediction. Lazy, golf-obsessed, Josh Allen heaves a long pass to Diggs along the left sideline. Diggs, who spent the night before in his hotel room with multiple strippers, is too hung over and loses sight of the ball. Sauce picks it off and returns it for the TD. This starts a miserable 6-11 season and half of TBD is ecstatic to be proven right on the Internet which we all know is the ultimate life goal.

If he does, it will be because of a change in scheme. Unlike Teller, Basham had plenty of chances here to prove himself in actual regular season games.

You act like your superior critical posts on a message board have the power to affect change. Even if I “pull my head out of the sand” and go full “Josh Allen is lazy truther,” it accomplishes nothing except make my experience as a Bills fan miserable. And unlike so many, I don’t feel the need to temper expectations to make the eventual losses sting less. I’m a grown man who has had to deal with much bigger disappointment than losses in football games.

That was the drive where they punted from midfield.

I’m going to analyse this from a purely football perspective. We’ve already seen Russ play a full season in Denver. The jury is still out on Watson in Cleveland. For that reason I’d vote that Watson still could work out for the Browns.

I agree, but that will be six miserable weeks here on TBD.