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My dad died in June. This loss was a lot harder because of that. I would have been able to talk about the game with him. He was always a glass-half-full guy when it came to the Bills, so he would have helped put it in perspective. I had to process this on my own, which is the final step in growing up in a way.

Exactly. If Chris Jones doesn't drive Dion into Josh then that is a TD. BTW, he still would have probably missed Diggs underneath for the same reason. The only criticism that I can muster here is that maybe Josh should have slid to his right a bit to get clear of the pressure, but that is really picking nits.

Let's bump this puppy back up. I think that now that Harbaugh is off of the board, the hires will come fast. Here's my prediction: Atlanta: Belichick Seattle: Dan Quinn Washington: Ben Johnson (some team is waiting on him and I think it's Washington) Carolina: No idea, but Raheem Morris makes some sense. But then again, I had no idea that Tennessee would hire Callahan, an OC who has called exactly 0 plays in the league, so what do I know?

I've just spent the past few minutes thinking about this, and I think the list is Pete Carroll, Jimmy Johnson, and Barry Switzer.

I was just going to post this. In every other sport with a cap, the cap hit gets traded with the contract. The dead cap hits are complicated and unique to the NFL, so a lot of fans don't know about it.

Here's the TBD thread from this time last year when they hired him. Everyone was in a full-blown panic.

Other teams will hire coaches, draft players and sign FAs. No need to freak out every time it happens.

He knows what fans want, so he wrote an article demanding the opposite. He's getting engagement and clicks. That's his job.

I thought that the rumor was a rib injury. That would make it so you would really, really would not want to put your arms above your head.

I love how on a few of those he made a point of getting both feet down just to show NFL scouts that he can do it.

If the contest is shotgunning a Busch Light while smoking a Parlament, sure.

I'm sure that Mahomes had open guys underneath when he threw that ball to MVS down the sidelines on the first play of the second half. But no one calls him on it because MVS made a one-handed catch.

If you add up the margins of all 7 losses, it totals 29 points. The Ravens beat the Dolphins by 37. We also beat the Fins by 28 in week 4. I know that I am supposed to be all "the Bills are super losers and I hate them" but if clowning on the Fins is wrong, I don't wanna be right. OK, fine. But Jeff Fisher still had a porn stache and a mullet in 2016.

Maybe. I share your frustration and I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. I've not only stopped watching the Sabres, but hockey in general and it used to be my favorite sport.

I don't even know what Callahan did in Cincinnati. He didn't call the plays.

This may derail the thread (but this thread could use a derailment), but I think that he has also taken giant steps back from the Sabres. The people he chose to run that 💩show are patient to a fault, unlike the previous GMs who were impatient. There has to be some middle ground. Also, there is no equivalent to getting a franchise QB. You are really only as good as your third line and second D pairing. Hockey also stupidly drafts at 18, so building through the draft takes YEARS. /rant

Daboll is not on his coaching tree. He come to us via Belichick by way of Saban.

Larry's rule bit the Pacers in the butt when he fired Rick Carlisle only to hire Jim O'Brian proving that sometimes change is not for the best.

Most successful NFL teams have owners who stay in the background and let the football guys run the show. This is true for all four of the teams in the championship games and really for all 8 teams that played in the Divisional Round save for perhaps the Bucs. But people like owners like Jerry Jones, Steven Ross, and Jim Irsay because they "do something." As I have said before, I would fire McDermott if I was the owner. Not for all of the BS reasons that people on here gripe about, but because I believe that coaches have a lifecycle if a team is not winning championships. Larry Bird, when he coached the Pacers, said that after 5 years that a team stops listening to a coach. So you either have to get a new coach or new players and it's a lot easier to fire one guy than get a new roster. Edit: Larry Bird had a 3-year rule, not 5: https://www.basketballnetwork.net/old-school/larry-bird-didnt-want-coaches-to-stay-in-the-organization-for-more-than-three-years-if-they-werent-winning

He was really close to Doug Whaley and co-hosted Isiah McKenzie's podcast. It is personal for him.

But the source article has a copy of the petition. It was filed. So he can say what he wants, but he filed for divorce.

Don't bring the logic into this discussion. We're in full-on offseason panic mode. Wait until the Pats draft a QB. This place will declare the Bills as the worst team in the division.

The only reason that BB wants to continue coaching is to break Shula's record. He can't do that as DC.

I don't think that he ***** his pants this time. I think that Chris Jones made a play. Also, if the BIlls had won the game you could say that the Andy Reid ***** his pants with that trick play call on the goal line. Run Pacheco straight ahead and it's a sure 7 points and probably the game. Listen, I would not shed a single tear if Pegula fired McDermott today. I think that he's pretty good as a leader of men but I don't like his game management skills and I want someone who could bring some of that Shanahan magic. I think that Josh needs a new voice and a completely new offensive system. Not because what the Bills are doing is not working, but I think there needs to be a shakeup. But I also don't think that McDermott was the absolute cause of this loss. The Bills were not "embarrassed" and Reid didn't "completely outcoach" McDermott. Both offenses moved the ball pretty much at will, but the Chiefs made a few extra plays. I will give you that the Chiefs made better HT adjustments, but that's because they had to. We were winning at the half and running the ball with ease. In the end, it was a close game between two good teams. Again, Jones made a heck of a play driving Dion into Josh, or else the Bills may have won the game. That was, BTW, the first great play that Jones made all game. But people on this board are talking like the BIlls got boat raced like the Cowboys did. I get the frustration. I tore my Bills hat apart in the heat of the loss and declared that I was no longer a fan of the Buffalo Bills (I do this every year). My 18-yo daughter broke down in tears. My son didn't call me for 2 days and I still haven't spoken to my mother about the game. But after a few days now I am ready to move on. I also know that Pegula is not firing McDermott so getting worked up about that is futile. I will say that if the Bills draft that white CB from Iowa I will lose my 💩.

Yeah, it’s called confirmation bias. Its just so much worse now that we have instant access to any and all information.