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It's a fine line between whining in the sense of indulging oneself in thoughtless complaints and pointing out legitimate problems and even predicting unpleasant outcomes. I hope you don't belong to that contingent of posters who simply do not tolerate anything but sunny posts. I'd rather read any number of complaints bordering on "whining" than the kind of Pollyanna, "Bills right or wrong" smarmy shlock you see here, especially in the offseason, that equates criticism with disloyalty and typically challenges the posters' credentials, as in "Are you a GM? Have you studies hours of film?" No, I never mind even harsh criticism. It usually reflects caring too much and having too much faith, not too little of either.

Sometimes this league is unpredictable, and sometimes it's utterly predictable.

Definitely keep the ball out of Taylor's hands and give it to the lame quarterback.

Cincy shouldn't have punted from midfield on fourth and short. The whole world knew that.

Am I the only one who despises Mahomes? I'm not even sure why, since the incessant glazing isn't his fault. I don't despise Lamar or Burrow.

What happened to Higgins?

I don't understand. The refs threw that flag on KC. KC! Are they drunk?

I wonder if McDermott is reluctant to fire Brady because he is (or has been) a top candidate for a head-coach position. He might think it would be be doubly disloyal to a) fire him; and b) deprive of him a chance to be head coach elsewhere. If so, he needs to get over it. Any team that would hire such an incompetent deserves him.

I'm so so sad. Bereft! In ashes. 😁

So he's not good without two future HOF receivers. Shouldn't that be enough to stop the "best of all time" garbage? He's not even the best of his time.

Watch Mahomes glazers praise him for making the tackle. What a clutch player!

Kromer was OC of the Bears and did very well before Cutler melted down.

Diggs, yes, Von, no. Sorry, signing a 35-year old to a six-year contract made no sense at the time, and it makes less sense in hindsight. A two-year with more as an option, great, even in retrospect, when you're more aware of the injury factor for his age than you might at the moment. So I give him credit for a bold signing and take away the credit for an albatross contract. The Floyd signing was much smarter: low risk, high reward--and it paid off.

It's not Daboll or bust, of course. For example, I'd look at Thomas Brown, passing-game coordinator of the Patriots, who (google tells me) is drawing a lot of interest. Would be great to stick it to the Pats, too. Your choice, Sean: change OC's now or after the season. One brings a chance to go all the way this year, the other gives us a higher draft pick.

A team that loses to the below-average teams and beats the above-average teams, what is up with that? The pattern when they win is the team getting fired up; when they lose, I see a defense that allows big runs but plays well enough for the offense to pull it out (maybe because McDermott shoves Babich aside), and an offense that gets points and yards but fails in the clutch because of the killer combination of injuries, mediocre receivers, and a poor offensive coordinator. If this take is correct, I have hope! If the defensive pattern continues, the injuries abate (both reasonable hopes), and--the big one--McDermott realizes this team simply will not make it without a course adjustment. He did it once before. Can he do it again?