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Okay. Well then he got a QBR of 99 on those 3rd and 4th downs without that then. Even more crazy as QBR includes QB rushing stats.

Given Taron’s struggles this season, I suspect we will get a steady dose of Stefon in the slot as he plays there half the time as it is. I hope McD can devise a bracketing scheme of some sort to neutralize him. Easier said than done though. But even though Stefon torched us with 146 on 10 catches earlier, it was only a three point loss on a FG with less than 20 seconds remaining. Gonna be interesting.

they have also seemed unprepared for the team they are playing each weeks 1st half, which is really the burden of the head coach and what he is looking to do each week.

How the hell can McDermott not be perturbed by Beane's actions in the last couple years? Anybody who can't see his frustration at certain times is choosing to be blind! There 100% is tension and rightfully so.

This Rivers business is bonkers, gents! Setting aside all of the off field issues with Deshaun Watson, after not having played a game for 2 years, he looked completely out of place on an NFL field. It’s truly unbelievable to think Rivers at age 44 not having played a game in 5 years is going to play again. Rivers arm strength was looking significantly deteriorated 5 years ago when he was 39. It’s hard to imagine what this could look like.

Agreed but I do love how he plays the game. He’s a kid at heart. Hope he wills the colts to the playoffs over the Texans or Jags

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I agree with what you are saying, but if Hoecht and Bosa are the starters and only effective pass rushers, why are we paying Groot starting money? If Groot was still on his rookie contract or paid like AJ, I wouldn't be so critical of him. But as it is, Groot is meant to be a starter and a pass rusher. I don't think he's even remotely living up to that.

Love the positivity. Hope you’re right

McDermott does not have approval over roster moves. Beane has control of the 53. Now previously I was always told they were very aligned so going back at least to two years ago I am certain they at least talk before this decision. But if there is a wider tension from this year as is speculated can I imagine a situation where they disagreed who the guy to expose to waivers was? Certainly. And here is my completely unfounded conspiratorial theory..... McDermott may well have wanted it to be Keon. The way that pick has worked out it is BOUND to have created tension. I can imagine McDermott being like "Brandon you can miss on talent that happens, but how the eff do you miss on a person so badly?" I think McDermott is done with Coleman. He won't be on the roster in 2026 IMO.

Rivers had a weird season 5 years ago with the Colts. Won a lot of games BUT boy was he slow in the pocket and his arm strength was really weakening. This ought to be interesting.

McD is finally seeing things a bit more clearly with those glasses:

We're a consistent contender with Allen, but we're still a perennial playoff team with a top 10 QB and a #1 WR, and frankly it's ridiculous how much some of you insist on pretending otherwise

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I don't know, and I don't necessarily see any of what we do know as a smoking gun. My two sources over recent years are both no longer in the organisation. But it would not surprise me. The Bills have underachieved in 2025 to this point. That creates tension and it is against a background where both know there is an external pressure on them to get over the hump.

3rd quarter duds was definitely a narrative/reality a few years back. But if memory serves we were still winning games on the regular. JMO, but some folks expect 4 quarters of domination 17 games a year and ignore the fact that even during the drought years we often had better teams on the ropes....until the 4th quarter.

McD seems the same to me. Not prepared for most games and has to wait for Josh to take over and bail him out. Thankfully this year we also have Cook and now Benford chipping in with the bail outs. But I will give him credit for being more aggressive even if sometimes it’s at the wrong moment (ie Texans low scoring affair, you go for the FG early).

Cincy is just a poor comparison all around because they have terrible ownership that refuses to spend money. Pegula gives McDermott and Beane blank checks every year. I don't buy this narrative that Cincy's problems stem from paying Chase and Higgins. If anything the criticism is that they should have paid them one year sooner, and that again goes back to cheap ownership. I mean Cincy right now has $11M in cap space... We're spending right to our limit every year. They have $79M in projected cap space in 2026. I also don't buy that the Bengals have failed Burrow. He is just flat out injury prone. He takes normal NFL hits and misses almost half of his career from them. It's not like they've had trouble scoring points whether with Burrow or one of his backups over the years. That WR tandem is a cheat code that more than makes up for whatever deficiencies exist on offense. As far as their defensive struggles that is partly because of cheap ownership and partly because of poor drafting the last few years. You're not going to sell me on the narrative that the Bengals invested too much in their superstar WR tandem. The other issues that exist there are completely independent of that.

I could just be misinterpreting, but McD certainly did not seem like he approved of that deal.

That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen posted here

Yeah, this is a worry. A soft zone and no pressure is a bad combination when you have reliable receivers, as Burrow showed us last week. I'd like to see a more aggressive defense, even it it means a few long plays. Better than a demoralizing series of third and long conversions up and down the field all day. Alternatively, they could study film and look for patterns to exploit, as Bernard did to intercept I think Mahomes earlier in the season. But with their bye, it's more likely the Pats will have studied the Bills' patterns. (Of course, to master Brady's full playbook, you only need to watch a single series, so maybe they went skiing instead.)

No one here would really know

But would he still have been upset if Slay showed up with his lunch pail?