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Taxi one of the greatest TV shows with some of the best TV characters ever. Rev Jim, Latka, and Louie. LOL

I don’t know about that. Edmund’s is too tall and thin base. He gets run over and run on too much for my liking. But as a roaming space occupying pass defender he was OK/good. He really didn’t show up against good teams - Mahommes and Kelce abused him

"The average height of a woman is 5'9" "But my wife is 5'10" Lol wild cards win championships too, does that mean that's *really* the ideal spot to finish

And Denver won a championship a few years ago and still fired their coach before playoffs. The more this is discussed the more you see the need for changed when it comes to coaching and roster building. The difference between Jokic & Allen is that Allen isn’t on the field or court on defense.

Must be a slow Week 2. Even as a die hard Bills fan I can’t remember the last time I found our annual trip to the Meadowlands to be all that interesting.

Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde had some extensive work before they got here. This guy is just a bottom of the barrel camp body who won't make it past the first cut.

You may have noticed that he’s been a big part of the news the last couple days. Then again…

No. All these teams have a star. I named them. It's a team full of dogs, with a lead dog. SGA is a lead dog. Brunson is a lead dog. Allen is a lead dog. The difference between Jokic and Allen is that to be the lead dog, you have to be a physical match for the team's style of play. Jokic isn't a physical match for the kind of team offense and team defense that the surviving NBA teams play. And it pains me to say that, because I absolutely love Jokic, his skills, his determination. He is a dog, for sure, but his body type and physical limitations require that he slows down the game. As I said, five relentless high-end athletes can play team basketball better than four relentless high-end athletes and a big, slower superstar.

Shaw, don’t get me wrong. I completely understand the point that you’re making. However, to date at least McDs grand scheme (as you’ve scripted it) simply hasn’t worked. Are the Bills a good team? Obviously. But the two-star team of Mahomes and Kelce have knocked them out of the playoffs EVERY time they’ve faced them. Let’s just hope we’ve finally outlasted them and that Mahomes/Kelce are too old by January 2026 Go Bills

Extremely limited options and a team with a good reputation?

Biden still? Yet people criticizing the current president have TDS. MAGA morons

MAGA conspiracy theory. Learned doctors saw no cognitive decline and esteemed barristers declared him mentally fit.

I think financial minds all have TDS. You have to give it a year then see how bad it is. At least transgenders can’t use the bathroom of their choice.

Tax information is private, except when it isn’t. The journalists job would not be to leak medical records (though they would if it suited the cause), but reporting on Biden’s cognitive abilities, efforts to mislead the public etc would be in their job description. As for Trump being beaten by a decent candidate, in retrospect I don’t think so. Dems pushed too far in weaponization and hypocrisy, and had a fundamental misunderstanding of voting trends.

Ouch! Doesn't sound like such a fun fact, more like learn from my mistake, don't do this!

Cook's quote now just went to 25 million per....damn!

When I'm commissioner teams will get to select their bye week in reverse order of their draft order.

Except you seem to be forgetting the Bills have Allen. So using your analogy the Bills not winning is the same as Denver getting knocked out with the best player in their league.

I think it's interesting to compare the two. The QBs are interesting, for example. It's not just a new set of young star QBs, they are different QBs. Manning and Brady couldn't run and didn't need to run. Because of rule changes and strategy evolution, it's almost impossible for a QB to succeed if he isn't a running threat. In my mind, it's the big knock against Burrow. The Bengals suffer because he isn't really a threat to take the easy running yards. I see something similar in the NBA. Rule changes, including the three point shot and how they officiate, has changed how the NBA plays. For a while it's been difficult for a big man to really dominate. Shaq may have been the last. You have Jokic and Giannis, exceptional talents, but everything has to fall together just right for them to win. Instead, and this was my point, you have teams running, really running, with five guys who can run, jump, shoot, and defend. The difference, as someone pointed out, is best seen in the defense. Five quick guys, 6'2" to 6'9" can defend better than four of those guys and Jokic, or four and Giannis. The big guys, mobile as they may be, aren't mobile enough. I haven't watched the NBA this year until the playoffs, and I don't know what happened to Durant this year. I assume he's at the end, maybe he was injured, whatever. Durant had awesome speed and quickness for a man his size, and he was devastating in his day. But I think coaches have figured out that they can win more with a smaller, quicker guy in the lineup (assuming you can figure out how to replace his points). So, for example, you have four teams left, all of whom play this way - stifling defense, with one star who gets you the points you need and who still plays defense the way you need. Five guys running together, attacking relentlessly on offense and on defense, with a star leading them So, what we're seeing this year is smaller teams with one star. You need the star to get 25-35 a night. The rest of the guys have nice offensive skills, can shoot threes, etc., but they win by having five guys on the floor who can cover the whole court, who can defend tough, anywhere, close out on threes, defend in the paint, anywhere. (Caruso on Jokic the other day was amazing to watch - pure determination, and it worked). And because teams are putting five guys on the floor who can defend anywhere, you need five guys who can play offense anywhere. The Celtics showed it last season - everyone can shoot threes, every can drive. Celtics hadn't gone all the way yet, because they Horford and the other big guy who aren't mobile enough, but they made it work. And this is where I see the similarities with what McDermott has been doing. Early on in Buffalo, McDermott said that the problem in football is to attack the entire field, vertically and horizontally, and to defend the entire field. And McDermott has been pushing the roster more and more toward what I just described as the NBA model. We all fret about the fact that the Bills don't have a true one-tech tackle. Why not? Same reason the 7'2" center is tough to win with - the big one-tech guy just isn't as mobile, isn't as versatile, can't cover his gaps as well as smaller, quicker guys (three-tech guys). The smaller guys are challenged in some matchups (just like Caruso was challenged sometimes by Jokic), but McDermott's view is that if he has smaller guys who fight like hell, he can get good enough performance in those physical mismatches, and he can get better coverage of territory with the mobile guy. Same thing with Bernard, undersized MLB. It's why Beane and McDermott talk all the time about being competitive - they're putting undersized guys on the field, guys who make up for the lack of size with speed and quickness. Same thing with Spencer Brown - sometimes he looks outclassed, physically, but his quickness and versatility, combined with his tenacity, makes him valuable. He's a lineman who allows the offense to attack all of the field, because he can block all over the field. And that's just like I've said about the NBA. The style these teams are playing features, relentless defense, with guys working really hard to make everything difficult for the offense. And as I said yesterday, that's why the Bills receiving room looks the way it does. We can argue about whether they're good enough, but the style of the receivers is obvious. Every receiver, including Kincaid, has enough speed to get deep when they face the right defense or matchup. Every receiver blocks. Every receiver goes over the middle. It's the same as the Thunder's offense - yes, they have a star in SGA, but every guy on the floor is a threat, every guy plays well in a motion offense. The result in both cases is that the offense is best able to attack the entire field (football) or attack anywhere from the three-point circle in to the hoop. And the Bills don't care how talented a guy may be, if he won't play that way, happily, the Bills don't want him. Exit Diggs. And as I said, these NBA teams are good, better, actually, without having to chase after multiple super-stars. And what's really good about this philosophy is that there are more players who can play the new NBA style than there are super-stars. I live in New England and I watched the Celtics a fair amount last year. The guy who made that team was Jru Holiday. And guess what? He's the same model - fast, quick, relentless defender, good offense from all over the floor, not a super-star. Guys like Holiday aren't exactly a dime a dozen, but there are more of them than there are mega-stars, so you can find them and add them to your roster. I see the same thing when I look at the Bills' roster. All those guys the Bills have extended in the past couple of years, none of them is the close to the highest paid guy at his position in the league. They're not super-stars. But they all have the characteristics I'm talking about - fast, quick, relentless, team players. McDermott's philosophy is that 11 guys who play like that will regularly outplay 10 guys and a star who doesn't fit that mold, no matter how good he is otherwise. That's why Elam is gone - he was, presumably, more physically talented than some or all of the corners on the team, but he just wasn't useful because he didn't play the relentless team defense McDermott requires, play after play. Dane Jackson does. Benford does. White does. That's why, I think, the Bills don't go after the free agent agent edge who takes plays off, or a guy like Metcalf, who I also think takes plays off. You don't see anyone on the Thunder taking plays off. I think it's the same philosophy, and I don't think it's a philosophy followed by every team in either league. I love watching Doncic play, but I think he makes it impossible to play like the Thunder play. Still, the Lakers bet on him.