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Thanks for doing the research. I always appreciate when posters put some actual work into a post. I do feel sorry for the Raiders. They're trying to rebuild and in a league where the majority of games are one score or less, the minus 19 is a significant handicap.

In effect we did get a bye because the Chiefs had a short week to prepare, then had to travel for the next game.

I say change the game to what works. The Carolina game was a perfect game to run. Longterm in a game running is better as you go along because it wears down the LBs and the Dline.

Interesting. The one thing he said that I agreed with most is maybe defenses shouldn't substitute as much. Play your best guys.

And best of all, Mack made every tough catch in the biggest moments. Beautiful TD catch in our biggest game of the last four seasons, the AFC championship. He was *clutch*. Josh trusted him, you could see that by late in the season. A great blocker, since the Bills insist so much on WR blocking. How in the world did we not retain this guy? Oh yeah: Samuel, Moore, Palmer, etc etc.

I would definitely piss on him if he wasn’t on fire

While I'm at it, why on Earth is anyone even contemplating giving Alex Tuch 10 million dollars a year for any kind of term? That's the stupid kind of fanboy crap that put them in this sort of hole to start with. Trading him at the deadline? Why wait? Do it right now. If those are the options, 10M x 8 or trade him? He's got to go in that scenario. No, what they'll do instead is wait for all the other moves to be made and they'll then move him for a 2nd round pick two years from now and whine about how there weren't that many buyers. Either that or Team USA will take him and he'll pick up an injury in Italy that makes him untradeable. I'm very much looking forward to 12/3 when I can go lose my voice booing this turd factory. Fat lot of good it will do me but catharsis is all that's left to hope for.

Pre-2000's can't really be compared because the rules were not as offense friendly. Defense won championships and run first, ball control offenses prevailed. Post-2000 the league became more pass oriented as rule changes began favoring passing and scoring. Cook has been phenomenal and should be a focal point of this offense. However, I don't believe that's why our offense is so run heavy focused. If the reason was Cook, he'd be getting the ball 20-25 times a games. I believe McDermott is trying to cover for his defense by having a run first, ball control offense. Even when we pass, it's quick hitting bubble screens, short passes that are an extension of the run game. McDermott does not want a quick strike offense that is constantly putting the defense back on the field because he knows they can't hold the best teams, ie: 13 seconds, etc...

Wild. It's almost like that regression was totally predictable to any average person who has watched hockey a couple times. Nope. It's not that Lyon is an established journeyman, it's that they are more clever than everyone else and made a solid value acquisition.

This will never change until Pegula sells the team. He took a once proud franchise and ran it into the ground. He could have hired any of us, ANY OF US, to be the GM of this team for the last 15 years and done no worse. In fact, he'd have saved some money. At this point, what the hell? Why not? Make a fan the GM, make it a reality show on Netflix. It cannot be any worse. The taint on this franchise right now is so bad that there is no way to remove it with current ownership. There is no person or group of people they can hire that could restore the credibility that has been lost and if there were Terry wouldn't hire them anyway. They have botched and destroyed so many relationships in hockey that it is not recoverable. If Lindy retires, so what? They'll just elevate the disaster that is Seth Appert. Great. Grand. Wonderful.

This isn't Lindy Ruff. This is the old, neutered, put out to pasture version of Lindy Ruff. The Lindy Ruff I remember sat Brian Campbell because he didn't play the game properly and kept sitting him until he changed. The Lindy Ruff I remember sent an entire line out to kick the crap out of Ottawa. The Lindy Ruff I remember went after Terry Murray himself. The Lindy Ruff I remember would have never tolerated this sad-sack, half-assed, garbage that they have been putting out on the ice night after night after night. This isn't Lindy Ruff. Lindy Ruff is dead.

Yeah, I think he's a definitive upgrade from a number of the guys we have in the core. Which says how bad of a shape we're in with the WR room. But again, my hope was that he'd be coming in to a healthy pass catching room and providing more to it. Kincaid is far and away our top guy at getting open and making plays these days. Davis coming in and Kincaid coming out doesn't make us better in my eyes. Would love to be wrong though.

Did the OP actually watch more than the first minute or two of the video? The video does NOT advocate for passing all the time. In fact, here is a screen shot of what are almost the last words of the video, with captions, of course.

After this disastrously bad road trip with a Sabres team that has no heart just quit!!!

Wow. The sheer volume of stupidity in one short post is oddly impressive. So kudos to you, I guess. 1. The Jays were second in attendance in the AL this year. They were 3rd the three years before that. 2. Toronto is first and foremost a hockey town. The Leafs sell out pretty much every game no matter how bad they are. Outside of the NFL (with only 8 or 9 home games), there aren't many teams in North American sports that sell out every home game if the team isn't good. Tune in to a Sabres home game some time (as long as they're not playing the Leafs). Also, curious to know what you mean by "hockey set the bar for their behaviour". 3. I clearly wrote that neanderthal Americans were booing the Canadian anthem. Not that all Americans were Neanderthals. Maybe try reading a bit slower next time? I don't know. 4. Proudly painting Toronto fans as "a bunch of a-holes" when anyone with any kind of critical thinking skills knows that there are good and bad fans of any team in any sport all over the world just shows you're not someone to be taken seriously. It seems like you've had a bad experience or two in my hometown. I'm familiar with your posting style on this site and how little respect you show to your fellow Bills fans, so if you're anything like this in real life I'd be shocked if you didn't deserve it. Ya, the booing started in Canada after the 51st state nonsense earlier this year but died down pretty quickly afterwards. Unless I missed something, those idiot Yankee fans booing the Canadian anthem last month came out of nowhere.

Nobody should be getting their hopes up about Gabe Davis. I get that the WR room is dire and that leads to fans desperately clinging to any possible answer, and a familar face is an easy thing to cling to. Realistically though Gabe was ideally a WR3 at best the last time he was here and I think he's still making his way back to even that level... The PCL injury has taken a concerningly long time to rehab, he developed blood clots after his surgery which put him on blood thinners for several months, and he was recently held out of practice for knee soreness. I wouldn't assume he is ready to jump full bore into an NFL game at this point. Any team could sign him for free to their active roster right now. Pittsburgh who is desperate for another WR worked him out a few months ago and never circled back. That should tell you how bad the medicals were. This is not just a case of the Bills coaches playing favorites. I expect him to get called up at some point, maybe as early as next week, but I'm keeping my expectations very low.

They didn't fool me at all. They were shaky all year and don't deserve to go to a bowl!

We apparently had a cakewalk of a schedule coming into the season, now that people think the wheels are falling off it’s time to clutch at straws and find a reason they’ve been and possibly could be at the end of some losses. i am not advocating you are making an excuse in any way yourself as it is advantageous to have a bye then play but rather focus on the first point that it was a fortuitous season before week 1. Most teams play 2 and sometimes 3 opponents after their bye week or a long week due to Thursday Night Football nowadays. We got 2 of those games… so a bye week and two 11 day rests. Team just hasn’t played the football they are capable of.

So no official PS callups yet? But we’re thinking it won’t be Gabe

Sorry, but Mack was huge for us last year. And he has been reliable for Maye. He's roughly 70 yards and 1 Td under our leading wr Shakir. And that is on Hollins 38 targets compared to Shakirs 58. Mack is the one WR I really wanted to bills to keep from last year.

What a lot of Bills fans may or may not know is in the late 80s, early 90's the Bills ran more than they threw it. Even though it was called the K-gun offense. Then it developed into Kelly calling his own plays and the "hurry up" offense. even in that 1990 highest scoring offense in the NFL they still ran it more 425 to 479. Those receivers in 1990 were Reed, Lofton, Thurman Thomas, Keith McKeller, Don Smith, Don Beebe. Steve Tasker even had 2 targets for 2 receptions for 44 yards

Diggs averaged 81 yards per game to Reeds 59. They have the same amount of 1000 yard seasons though Reed played with the Bills for 11 more seasons than Diggs. Different eras is part of it, but Diggs is the most productive.