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I don't see anyone on their coaching staff that is an upgrade as a playcaller. Todd Downing?

The Chiefs will trade for somebody with Rice out for the year. I think that they will pursue Cooper. We might have to overpay because if the compensation is roughly equal, the Browns might let Cooper choose his destination. I think that we all know how that will go.

The level that Rodgers will go to to defend Nate Hackett is really strange.

Wow indeed.

It's almost impossible to integrate new OL pieces mid-season. They have to work as a unit, and it takes an offseason and a few games for them to gel.

The owner firing a coach without the GM in the room is next-level dysfunction.

I don't know. The Bengals are 1-4 with a defense that can stop nobody and the Giants just won in Seattle on Sunday. If the Bengals lose this game, their season is effectively over.

But neither playcaller was fired. I would expect the tendencies not to change in significant ways.

We (barely) beat the Chargers in the game after they fired Staley last year.

Josh Allen would have to go and demand it and he never would.

Please make Hackett the head coach Please make Hackett the head coach Please make Hackett the head coach Please make Hackett the head coach Please make Hackett the head coach Please make Hackett the head coach Please make Hackett the head coach Please make Hackett the head coach Please make Hackett the head coach

Noone disagrees with you that the goal is to win, but what people disagree with is that there is a roster move that guarantees a win. That Brady-Moss Pats team was probably the best roster in NFL history and they lost to Eli Manning and a helmet catch.

Nothing guarantees an appearance. A lot of luck goes into it and there is no trade or FA signing that can guarantee that. (BTW, am I the only one who struggles to spell guarantee?)

Kelley, like Edelman before him, can read spots in zones due to his years as a college QB.

Is TJ Watt the best player in the NFL?

I don't know that there are any truly bad teams anymore.

And he had a great defense. Then Mike Brown didn't pay any of those guys when free agency hit and they have missed on consecutive defensive draft picks. Now they have the worst defense in the league. They went to the Superbowl on the back of that defense. Burrow and the offense did just enough to ride that wave. Now that Burrow has to do everything, he comes up small in the big moments. Like today, he had a great game and then when the game was on the line couldn't score to ice away a season-saving game. As Bills fans, a lot of this sounds familiar.

Their fans got super cocky, following the lead of their QB. Now, it has all crashed back down to earth and they are out with pitchforks. People are angry. Talking about "wasting Burrow's career." I talk to Bengals fans every day (I live here) and they don't see this as a blip or a slow start. They want "accountability" and want the DC fired yesterday.

There is a 5-page Jungle Noise thread entitled FIRE ZAC TAYLOR NOW!!!! 5 pages is equivalent to 25 pages here (there have a much less active community).

No, it's because people can't be rational about their own teams. Read this thread entitled FIRE ZAC TAYLOR NOW!!!!: https://thebengalsboard.com/thread-39207.html

It's funny how people here can be rational about teams like the Bengals and 49ers still having time to turn it around, but not about the Bills. I mean, the Bengals are 1-4 and the 49ers are 2-3.

He's not bringing anything to the calls that fans don't already know. He could, of course, do what Romo did early on in his career but he doesn't for whatever reason. My favorite announcer in any sport is Hubie Brown. I learn something about basketball every time I watch a game he's calling. BTW, AFAIK he's still calling and teaching the game at 91. One of a kind.

KC had all three TOs. If they didn't, 13 seconds wouldn't have happened.

Knowing that the team will be worse this year and actually watching it are two different things.

Remember that Thanksgiving game in Detroit? Similar situation. In that case, Josh threw a laser to Diggs to set up a game-winning FG. Now, he has no one to throw that to. That's on Beane. Everytime I think that I am over this one, I just keep coming back to the fact that the GM punted on a season for cap reasons. Why does the cap not apply to the Cowboys and Eagles but it does to the Bills. Is Terry not willing to write those checks anymore.