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Gabe is still on the practice squad IR. We have no idea what his status is.

There is a GIANT assumption that Josh Allen wanted another #1 WR after Diggs was traded, but the evil Beane and McClappy just wouldn’t give it to him. By all indications, he was, and still is, fully on board with the WR by committee approach in that is what he has to do to not deal with a diva in the locker room. Their fear of a giant personality and head case is keeping this team from success, and it’s a huge weakness that is present in the organization from ownership down to star QB.

I saw a video on Youtube yesterday that Josh Allen had already been traded to the Cowboys. It’s so easy to make clickbait BS with AI.

I think Josh Allen himself was fully on board with the lack of a #1. The Diggs drama left a scar. We just watch them play for three hours a week. They have to practically live with the dude for 6 months. Not only that, but #1 WR demand the ball even if they are not open. The it all worked out last, with the offense humming and the Bills being inches away from the Super Bowl. I wonder if he has changed his opinion.

Of course, that's true. But this is year 8. Josh should be better at pre-snap reads by now. It's his weakest aspect as a QB. It's also how Tom Brady won 7 Super Bowls. In this case, it wasn't that he got sacked. That happens. It's that the protection call was laughably bad. They only rushed 5 and had two completely free rushers. I don't feel like posting a video, but I think this still sums it up nicely. Look at Brown standing there blocking nobody with two free rushers closing hard.

Wow. That's an interesting turn of events.

I've watched two plays on the all-22. I just can't force myself to look at more yet, but I'll get there. One was to see that Groot was, indeed, offside on the first play. He was, and so was Walker. The other was the sack of Josh on the play after McGovern got hurt. It was 3-8. What I saw was this: Pre-snap, the Falcons were showing blitz with 5 on the line and two just behind it. Josh came up to the line, pointing at guys. He didn't expect them to bring everyone so he was calling out the blitzers. They brought all 7 at the snap, but Ebiketie peels off the line to cover Johnson coming out of the backfield. He was probably the hot route. Ellis also drops into coverage. The Bills were running that same mesh route over the middle that they always run. What this meant is that Spencer Brown, who was blocking Ebiketie, is standing there like an idiot blocking nobody and the Falcons had 5 rushers on 4 blockers. Cybo and Anderson double-teamed Orhorhoro while Edwards took Jalon Walker. Divine Deablo ran right around the line while Dawkins was engaged with James Pearce out wide. CB Dee Alford also came on a blitz. That is two free rushers in Josh's face coming pretty much straight up the middle. It was a busted protection call. Shakir was wide open to Josh's left, but it didn't matter. With two free rushers, he couldn't see him. Josh lost that rep pre-snap with a poor protection call and Joe Brady had nothing to with it. The Bills punt, and two plays later, Robinson is running 81 yards for the TD.

Makes since, since the past two weeks have felt like drought-era losses.

I'm interested in 100 million dollars and a villa on Cypress. With a yacht. Just a small yacht, but a yacht nonetheless. And a Ferrari Daytona, of course.

I think they hired Mayo to tank a year, get cap space and picks, while a rookie QB took his licks. Now Vrabel, who was always the plan, steps in to use all that capital to immediately contend. They played everyone.

I just like MCA, I got more suits than them.

I know you're joking, but McDermott would have another NFL job about 5 minutes after he cleaned out his OBD office. The Raiders, Jets, Dolphins, Browns, and Panthers would be ringing non-stop, begging him to take the job.

And it's not exactly a stretch to say that the three teams known to be looking for a WR are interested in the best WR that's on the trade block.

He does resemble what a homeless drug addict would look like if his drug of choice was HGH. I doubt that is the case, but I do think that agents benefit from leaking info to Schefter. Ricky is kind of the Twitter/X influencer version of Schefter, so they probably leak to both. Schefter does actually have to make calls to confirm stories because he might lose his job if he is wrong too often, so Ricky scoops him because he has no such restriction.

The first half of the last game broke the hell outta me. It's not the score. It's that they looked helpless, old, and disinterested. I've never seen that from this Bills team before. They looked like a drought-era team in December who were just resigned to losing.

Giants fans are ABSOLUTLY convinced that all this activity is all about them and their new golden idol Jaxson Dart.

The Pats have a ton of assets and gallons of cap space. We probably can't outbid them for anyone. Also, McDaniels worked with Meyers in both New England and Las Vegas, so he might be his guy. But I get the sentiment. I too see a 5-alarm fire, while I think Beane sees nothing that can't be fixed with a band-aid. As a fan, that is a helpless feeling.

FWIW, he posted this: and this back to back

The problem is, if you have one, you need two. Remember the endless begging for a #2 WR when Diggs was in his prime on the Bills?

How about this non-oil related pun "Olave TD, don't mind if I do!" Say it out loud.

Just FYI, here are the current street FA WRs. All either injured, washed up, head cases, suspended, or some combination of the three: Diontae Johnson Odell Beckham Robert Woods Nelson Agholor Tyler Boyd Michael Gallup D.J. Chark Donovan Peoples-Jones Marquez Callaway Zach Pascal K.J. Osborn Justyn Ross Kadarius Toney Brandon Powell Jaelon Darden D.J. Turner Kyle Philips Mike Strachan Equanimeous St. Brown Collin Johnson K.J. Hamler Grant Dubose Rakim Jarrett Mecole Hardman Tyler Scott Treylon Burks I also took a cruise through NFL rosters, and there is really nothing on teams' PS either. The most interesting thing I found was that the Lions are stashing Malik Cunningham (remember when he was the Pats' camp hotness at QB) on their PS while they attempt to convert him to a WR. Gabe Davis is, BY FAR, the best WR on any team's PS.

He's on the 49ers. They signed him to the 53 a couple of weeks ago so he's not easy pickings anymore.

Sure. But your second point has levels to it. I'm sure that everyone wants to hire an "offensive genius." Sometimes you get Sean McVey and sometimes you get Doug Pederson. Both of those are acceptable outcomes, but one is better than the other. But that's not the floor, because sometimes you get Chip Kelly in Philly. That was sen as an inspired move after moving on from the "stale" and "washed-up" Andy Reid. And Philly wasted 3 years on the Chip Kelly experiment. Not only did they waste three years with him as a coach, they also gave him control of the organization and let him make draft choices. Sure, fire McDermott. But do we want them taking a home run swing on the next coach, or do we want them to play it safe?

We need a sticky post with this link. Here is the list of the consensus HC candidates: https://www.si.com/nfl/titans-19-top-head-coach-candidates

I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often with the way athletes fill themselves up with NSAIDs and alcohol to play through the pain. I remember Alonzo Mourning talking about punch bowls of Advil in the locker room after he needed a very young kidney transplant.