Dr. K

Barkley > >> K. Allen

I'm an old guy, a fan of the Bills since the mid-1960s. I was here from the start, and even before on the Hyperbills site run by the Rochester Demagogue and Comical. When that folded, SDS saved our bacon by starting this venue for our madness. Thanks to all involved! Here's a photo from back in the 1990s.

It looks great.

I think if they stay healthy they win the Super Bowl. They may not win as many regular season games as last season, but I think the tough losses they've taken in the last two years will make them ready for whatever the post-season brings. Of course this is just a hunch. Nobody knows how things will really go, and a key injury or two, or a bad bounce of the ball or a terrible call, can derail a game or a season.

Good. More of this, please. I want everybody to be discounting the Bills. I'd like to see them get into the playoffs healthy and with a chip the size of Mt. Everest on their shoulders.

Does Hopkins really have that much left in the tank? I suppose we'll find out, but I'm against paying for a player's reputation when he's on the downward side of his career.

I can't help but like Mahomes even if I hate him on game days. As The Frankish Reich says, if he were on the Bills and Allen on the Chiefs, our opinions of them would reverse. The "Put the shoe on the other foot" test is always a good way of defusing your prejudice and judging the reality of a situation.

The point of picking these three QBs was to have one (Mahomes) who is a superstar, maybe the best ever, one (Cousins) who has been successful but is in no way historically exceptional, and one (Mariotta) who has been a journeyman trying to hang on as he goes from team to team.

Calm down.

You are making a straw man argument. How could I be demanding that others all agree with me if you don't even know what my specific opinions are? Of course people are welcome to have different opinions. My comment is about what seems to me to be a relentless and repetitive negativity that rears its head in just about every discussion on this board. That doesn't mean that I want everybody to pretend the team has no problems. But the tone of this place (IMHO) has deteriorated to the point where I find it draining to even visit the board. I'm just expressing my opinion that it's becoming a total drag. Maybe that's to be expected given the many times we've been disappointed. But from a certain point of view it's actually pretty funny, like that Monty Python skit where the old dudes are sitting around complaining how bad their childhoods were.

For pity's sake, this place has become unreadable. Remember when you were a kid and sports were fun? IN THE DESERT by Stephen Crane In the desert I saw a Buffalo Bills fan, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; “But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.”

Good. I'd much rather have the Bills counted as an also ran than be the favorite as they were last season. It will be that much more satisfying when they win.

I would have preferred that they simply promote Jim Schwartz. At least the defense would have stayed the same.

I thought Ryan was a mistake from the day they hired him, and said so at the time.

This is how the media got totally sucked into reporting that the U.S. had proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in the run up to the Iraq War. Dick Cheney's minions leaked this assertion to the NY Times reporter Judith Miller on condition of anonymity, the Times put it on the front page in repeated stories trumpeting these "proofs," every other paper in the country jumped on the bandwagon, and then Cheney and Rumsfeld cited all these new reports as evidence that Iraq had WMD. Recycle and repeat and suddenly we're fighting a war over nothing.

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What you're doing with this post is inviting the very people who annoy you to bash on McDermott for eight or nine pages. I'll take a pass.

We got it, Newcam. You have made your point of view perfectly clear, repeatedly. We've absolutely understood what you are saying. Thanks.

Claiming you are being "brutally honest" is a rhetorical device that has nothing to do with honesty. It's not an argument and it has no proof value. it's an assertion, a form of the rhetorical fallacy called "begging the question." It can also be seen as a form of ad hominum argument. It's a claim of "I am the tough minded realist and you are a wimp" without refuting anything.

What was your opinion of Andy Reid as a coach in 2016? Just read this: (In 2013) Reid went on to lead the Chiefs to a 9–0 record to start the season, tied for the best start in franchise history.[71] Despite losing five of their last seven games, the Chiefs finished with an 11–5 record to clinch a wild card spot in the AFC playoffs. In the wild card round, they were defeated by the Indianapolis Colts 45–44 after surrendering a 28-point lead in the third quarter.[72][73] Under Reid, the Chiefs recorded a winning record in the 2014 season, finishing 9–7. However, they failed to qualify for the playoffs.[74] In 2015, the Chiefs were in danger of missing the playoffs for a second consecutive year after they lost five straight games to begin the season 1–5. Reid accepted the blame for his team's poor start[75] and his future with the Chiefs was called into question.[76] However, the Chiefs won every remaining regular-season game, finishing with an 11–5 record and a wild card spot in the AFC playoffs.[77] Reid would go on to lead the Chiefs to their first playoff win since the 1993 season in a 30–0 shutout of the Houston Texans,[78] but the team was defeated 20–27 in their Divisional Round game against the New England Patriots.[79] Prior to the loss, the Chiefs posted an eleven-game winning streak, which is the best in franchise history.[80] Reid was criticized for his clock management near the end of the game, calling no timeouts in a late fourth-quarter drive that cut the Patriots' 27–13 lead down to a touchdown but took the Chiefs 5 minutes and 16 seconds to score and left them with only a minute and 13 seconds to try and tie the game.[81] Reid improved in the regular season with the 2016 Chiefs, who finished with a 12–4 record and clinched their division for the first time since 2010, as well as for the first time under Reid.[82] The Chiefs went undefeated against their AFC West rivals to secure the division title on a tiebreaker with the 12–4 Oakland Raiders and obtain a first-round bye in the playoffs as the AFC's second seed.[83] The bye was the Chiefs' first since 2003. Despite the team's regular-season success, the Chiefs were eliminated in the Divisional Round for a second consecutive year in an 16–18 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Although the Chiefs were able to prevent the Steelers from scoring any touchdowns, they were unable to match the six field goals Pittsburgh converted.[84] The Chiefs started strong during the 2017 season, winning their first five games to become the NFL's last remaining undefeated team, including a victory against defending Super Bowl champions New England Patriots in the kickoff game.[85][86] After their strong start, the Chiefs lost six of their next seven games, resulting in Reid conceding playcalling duties to offensive coordinator Matt Nagy. Nevertheless, the Chiefs won their last four games to finish 10–6 and clinch the AFC West for a second consecutive year, the first back-to-back division titles in franchise history.[87] However, the team ultimately suffered a sixth consecutive home playoff loss in a 21–22 defeat against the Tennessee Titans in the Wild Card Round. Despite holding a 21–3 lead at halftime, the Chiefs were shut out during the second half as the Titans scored 19 unanswered points to win the game.[88]

Don't sign him. There's a distortion field around this guy that will undermine the dilithium crystals that make this ship run.

Tucker's abilities as a journalist rival his abilities as an offensive lineman.

This place was a continual complaint-fest when Daboll was OC. I remember specific goofy playcalls that got blasted. Runs from the shotgun were one of the things Daboll did all the time. Dorsey doesn't do it any more than Dabes did.

That is pretty danged funny.