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Not blaming it all on Frazier at all, but rather offering that as a possible explanation for why the defense did not attack the same way McD's units had done in Car and Phil previously. Frazier was an assistant HC and a trusted and respected member of those teams. McD was very reluctant to intervene in overt ways. No doubt he provided feedback in real time, but I do wonder if he deferred final decision making whenever possible. We only have 1 season of tape to determine how McD calls this Buffalo defense. And it was a mixed bag, at best. He was even recklessly aggressive during a couple super high leverage end of game sequences, both resulting in losses. Had hoped Babich would infuse more d-line games and simulated 2nd and 3rd level looks...still hoping for it in '26.

Blaming it all on Frazier is an interesting choice. We've gotten the same defensive results in the playoffs whether it was Frazier, McD himself, or Babich as DC. The defense was painfully vanilla in the playoffs the last 2 years under McD/Babich. That would lead me to believe that McD has always been the decision maker for defensive philosophy.

Waller coming out of retirement for an easy $5M. He'll be injured before week 1 and miss double digit games this season.

Alex Smith really is one of the good guys from the NFL.

They ditched Robert Kraft?

You rarely get inspired by today’s pros but the world could use a little more Alex Smith. The pure grit he showed in coming back from this, and really, for nothing more than to prove to himself that he could. It’s remarkable and inspirational. He has to be a pretty special person to do what he has.

Starving for some baked chicken

New CA gas tax dropped today $8 by July was what the voters were warned. Newsome lied.

Do we think his stubborn and persistent deference to the predictability of Leslie Frazier's high-leverage reliance upon passive, reactive off-coverage cushions and vanilla assignment/check/adjustment rules against pre-snap motions was a major failing that colors our perceptions of how he (McDermott) really wants the Bills defense to play? On those rare occasions when McD took over play calling from Frazier, the defense was demonstrably more aggressive and downhill. (I'll never forget McD taking Milano aside during that MNF NE wind/blizzard game and overtly gesturing/imploring him to see the hole and attack the hole, downhill. And then Milano going out there and stringing together consecutive TFLs that killed a drive (or something close to that).) McDermott sullied this interpretation of his own in-game desire for more aggression by calling consecutive zero-blitzes late against both Denver (Russ Wilson) and Philly (Jalen Hurts) who both exploited the gifts the 1st blitz in each sequence had prepared them for. Gotta simulate the pressure on one of those b2b play calls in each situation. Sprinkle in a tendency-killing wrinkle in the coverage behind it. Can't just go full Buddy Ryan twice against a modern NFL offense with a strong, elusive QB and competent offensive coaching, no wrinkles. That's a failure to setup and sequence the play calls. If the first all-out blitz works, but doesn't result in negative play, then you have to switch it up. Dammit, Sean. Sure seems to tighten up with the game on the line. Goes a little blank at the worst times.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jul/01/tweets/Wess-Roley-Idaho-firefighters-shooting-suspect/ Grok made up "facts" about the Idaho shooter. "Facts" that were reposted in the Right Wing Terrorism thread. The mainstream media did not make up "facts."

I bought a couple for my kids this post season, china , i think. They're great quality. $40 each. Not official nfl , but darn close.

Donald Trump's Approval Rating Reverses Course (improving) With Most Accurate Pollster Latest polling by TIPP found that Trump's net approval rating in terms of job performance specifically has increased from -5 in May to -2 in June, suggesting his standing among voters is improving. The June poll means Trump's approval rating has almost returned to the point it was at in April, when TIPP found he had a -1 approval rating. That poll found that 44 percent approved and 45 percent disapproved of the job Trump was doing. TIPP is considered the most accurate pollster as it is the only national poll to correctly identify the winners of the last six presidential elections. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-latest-poll-2092932

The Browns have 7 playoff wins in the superbowl era. Only 7. The Bills have 19. There is no comparison. They are a crap team and have pretty much always been a crap team, minus a random year here and there, since their glory years in the 50's. It's not even the same team today since they moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens.

Of course The Democrats are now just recruiting Tik tok influencers to run. Communist ones of course.

Man.....I wonder what kind of pain he is going to be in when he is in his 50's, 60's, 70's??

Homey's coming down heavy tonight, he is extra frustrated with Trump's success.

I wear a counterfeit Bruce Smith Silver Anniversary SB25 jersey (but a home blue kit even though they wore white) to many home games...and after stretching it over winter layers and rambunctious tailgates for over a decade now, the seam up one side is split nearly to my armpit making the whole thing open like a smock or something. And even so, I'd rate the build quality above average. No piece of apparel should be subjected to this relentless level of BASF stress/durability-testing. It lives in a pile somewhere all offseason. Then I find and resurrect Lazarus in the dryer just in time to represent each September, with a little more bonus lateral venting each season. Gifted a handful of those Super Bowl 25 Bills jerseys (with the Silver Anniversary shoulder patch) to friends and family. Well, at least once they were released from their long customs delay at the Peace Bridge lol.

We got that going for us.

It failed because it was an insane plan, ill researched and led from Washington. I am extremely familiar with the scheme and what was going to happen if things went poorly on day two, which they probably would have. I don't know anybody "romanticizing" anything about it.