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Yet the jags have a kid who went 6/6 over 50 yards with a long of 70 this preseason! He just hit another 59 yarder splitting the uprights at least halfway up into the net. Why we are hanging onto a guy who had confidence issues and missed time with an inflamed symphysis pubis or “ pelvic injury” is beyond me when there are kickers out there to find in this era where kids grew up playing soccer. So I don’t worry about the fins finding one. Heck they make get the guy the bills just released who looked less shaky than Bass. Man , would love to have the jags kicker , Little I believe is his name , as this guy hit 70 yards at sea level in very humid air; he is going to win them a game or two whereas we pray Bass won’t lose another for us. It’s these little things. , no pun intended, that keep Mcd/ Beane at 0 sb appearances despite having the best unicorn qb in modern football history.

I think his true desire to play football , true speed , may be done with. BUT many guys prove their desire for money really never slows down, and it’s a time where a vet can play a few snaps a game, or suddenly complain of calf pain or some other subjective injury and grab another couple mil. Don’t know the guy , but I think he could have been more available last year (. Wrist pain also is a subjective, unmeasurable thing. Fractures, ligament tears , kidney stones , even concussions are more easily proven and measured with historical proof of recovery timetables). Just saying I agree, would not expect much; might do a few plays to hang on , but I bet it’s Buffalo 2 as the big picture.

I don’t know of anyone in my 40 years of medicine that referred to the knee as “ lower leg”. It’s the joint between upper and lower leg. it is referred to as the knee. Not saying they couldn’t get an mri to check a knee but it’s not lower leg unless perhaps they are being deceptive. However, you can need an MRI to evaluate for occult fx, interosseous membrane injury of lower leg( high ankle injury) , formal ankle mortise for Talar injury , but more likely e v a l of formal ankle ligaments both medially and laterally. If he has an acl or pcl injury, that’s the knee ,not lower leg. It’s obvious it’s complicated his return. And they are not divulging his actual diagnosis to not appear desperate when trying to add by trade or FA markets,or cuts to their cb depth so Beane still has leverage imo. I think it’s a variant of high ankle given the lack of timetable , possible ir. Just guessing tho. Why else be so quiet about it, well high ankle really vary in recovery time. Best wishes. Will eventually find out why they refused to give any info.

Yet Davis was not available much in his time in Jax and he still dropped catches he should have made. This , imo , would be a failure on multiple levels Should he have be resigned in the first place if you’re willing to bring him back , tho prob a cheaper price? Given all the issues with receivers , and bad contracts Beane has done with WRs , should he perhaps apologize to the radio personalities and fans he got snippy with who were critical of him not drafting any wr other than a 7 th rounder who is already not making the team? This is another example of Beane failing to provide Allen w adequate support, and being arrogant about his wr corp while they frankly have underperformed. We were the only team shut out last week and it’s obvious our wr corp keeps faling to make plays. Just compare Allen’s support wr corp to what Burrows has in Cincinnati; it’s startling! We are so desperate now to consider bringing in Davis , known for critical drops and unavailability? That’s a joke Beane is totally responsible for. Compare our preseason to watching teams like the bengals and Washington, or even Chicago. It’s the quality of individual performances by Bills players that’s is just frankly poor quality to the eye test , below the quality of other teams backups. Again , our o was THE ONLY TEAM SHUT OUT THIS WEEK. Even tho the score or w/ l means nothing , there is a bigger picture of or wr corp dropping balls , unavailability with multiple guys , and lack of playmaking. Backups on every other team at least allowed their offenses to score. I know our starters should be adequate , but there is no promise year to year. Every year we have stretches of WRs unavailable to injury , so backups matter. I can’t believe they want to look at Davis but not utilize a guy with potential like shavers who has been consistent this year. If they sign davis rather than roster shavers , this would be the first time I would begin to lose faith in McD and Beane ,,repeating the same things that they failed to reach the sb in the past. Beans signings like Samuel’s , Moore just look lackluster ; hollins proved to be a good addition but they let him end up in New England. Scores in preseason may mean nothing , but you can judge the talent of backups compared to other teams backups. We have looked fundamentally bad and imo , we have played some of the worst football of all teams in the two games so far. It’s fair to have opinions on the quality of the backup players , given this teams injury history come playoff time, given this is supposedly a SB competing roster. Revising Davis is a failure of beanes process , including not addressing that position earlier in the draft. We were the ONLY TEAM shutout , so it’s fair to say there is honest room for concern and so far we have no proof the o will continue to be productive. They better be as this d has shown no solutions to last years 3 rd down or long yardage d failures. Thats not overreacting, it reacting to the talent level observed in actual competition. THE STARTERS are great. Yet they are never available 100% of the time , excluding Allen. The entire roster matters. The ravens will be a big challenge as will a 17 game schedule. We need to get the one seed. I’m not sure I feel confident this roster as it is now looking will have enough talent. Mcd 7 playoff wins , Allen 6 playoff wins , both with no SB appearances. The process may not be ultimately working.

Wow , that is some terrible , and yet familiar, reading on there. It just makes you wonder why Mcd brings in a guy his own team shredded. Thus coaching staff and Beane will be responsible if they fail to get a Lombardi w Josh. All the wasted picks , FA moves on this d which has been atrocious and this teams Achilles heel , just makes me feel ill. Look at all the HOF talent polian and the 90’s teams had that propelled them to 4 superbowls ( where frankly the players just failed to play up to their talent level) , and now with possibly the most gifted qb in nfl history they barely get any pro bowl nominations, yet alone any HOF talent outside of Josh. It’s Dan marinos story happening again , just like Shula failing to put talent around him. Mcd is a great coach for this team. I can’t envision anyone else leading them. But I can’t forgive the blown games , 13 seconds , hail murray, etc and a defense we all expect to fail on third downs and also rarely get pressure with just our front four. It’s maddening , and then he goes and brings in a guy,like this from a terrible Jax franchise , and he’s had to replace two o coordinators and one d coordinator ( 2 if you count replacing himself with Babich) previously. Listen to players who’ve won titles and they all give credit to the coaches for getting them over the final hump to bring home the Lombardi. Beanes biggest failures have been all the failed assets devoted to the d line ,and his persistence in failing to draft or bring in adequate receiving talent around Josh. The other thing winning sb players say is your best players also have to play their best to win. We see our roster filled with guys who drop balls or come up short at playoff moments. It just seems talent selection outside Josh , now possibly cook as well , never compares to the roster depth and talent we see on teams like the chiefs and eagles. Watching our talent in the giants game , it’s hard to feel confident this d still won’t have holes at safety and picks like Jackson ( rooting for the guy with being dealt a terrible form of alopecia yet managed to be a great guy and land a beautiful wife!) just seem to be like more of the same things like AJ OR BOOGIE BASHAM , at a time we are primed to make another run. So why do we repeat these types of mediocre moves and bring in a guy from Jax who performed terribly even against us ,while our own d coordinator had a mediocre year already? Didn’t we see this on our oc before with Dorsey? It just makes me SMH; as Mcd preaches a playoff standard yet he so far seems incapable of championship caliber decision making. Watched the ravens preseason game , and honestly , I’m expecting them to out physical this d and run all over this front early , esp with ped guys out , and once again Mcd will fail to grab that important one seed. Just more questionable decisions that won’t fix the sack issues or 3 rd down woes. Doesn’t seem like we brought in championship , or even playoff caliber coaching additions. Maybe Mcd doesn’t believe in the philosophy of surrounding yourself with people even better than you are if you want to continue advancing. Thanks for the link, some pretty amazing statements there !

Thank God!

And at sea level in high humidity! It’s been close to 100 degrees every day here for the past week with AccuWeather stating it feels like 112 ! Been living here since 1985 and can’t recall a string of hot weather persisting this long. It doesn’t even cool much at night ; just been miserably hot outside and it feels suffocating with the high humidity. That was an amazing kick; imagine if he hit that in Denver ! Was cool to watch it happen , even if on tv! Hunter made his two way debut. He had 2 receptions for 2 yards , and missed a tackle on a Rb as he came up and slipped , and the Rb ran for a first down. Lawrence was the qb as well, who I think will need to move to a different franchise to be successful. Time will tell, but giving up all that draft capital for anything other than a franchise qb seems foolish. Typical jags stuff under owner Kahn.

Just a FYI while topic is kicking. Did you guys see that the jags fg kicker hit a fg from 70 yards last night right as the first half was ending !? Yep, 70 yards with a little to spare. The team and broadcasters were all pretty excited and the young kicker was mobbed. It was pretty cool to see , but obviously won’t count as the record since it was preseason. But it was hot , heavy humidity ( past week it has been close to 100 degrees daily with it feeling like it’s 112 according to AccuWeather. I’ve lived here since 1985 and have never experienced this type of prolonged heatwave ). So the kick was at sea level , not much wind, heavy humidity, and was just a perfect kick. Very cool to at least see it happen. Wil be interesting to see how his season goes In another quick topic, Hunter made his debut as a two way player. He had 2 receptions for two yards on a couple of quick slants; on d he came up quickly on a run play , slipped going for the tackle and missed as the rb ran for a first down. That was his total contribution for the night. This franchise has just been abysmal under Kahn and giving up all the picks they did for Hunter just seems like another crazy move to me that this owner has become known for. Time will tell, Hunter may have some success , but this isn’t Colorado , it’s the NFL , and IMO , only a franchise qb is worth that much draft capital. Lawerence still looks like a miss here as he’s mostly focused on flipping his hair rather than being consistently accurate. The new gm looks like a teenager and I bet Lawrence will eventually succeed in a new location. Sure would be nice to have a kicker hitting from 70 rather than seeing if your RB can hit an xp! 😂

I like Jerry o quite a bit and think his experience as a lineman is very valuable as a role as an analyst. I’m indifferent on the other two as they just seem to meld into the plethora of podcasters available online today. Every team has loyal fans who now think their love of football and their teams qualifies them as experts who need to share their “ expertise “ on podcasts or radio now. . Add in the AI casts, all the want to be sportscasters who want to be the next Bermans, and it’s an insane amount of content on even the smallest minutiae every day. I Would add that as these Podcasts proliferate they have to try to separate themselves from all the noise out there. They have to remain in good standing with the players and the team if they want to have any form of access. When your “paycheck” depends on access and staying in good standing with the main or only organization you are covering , it is obvious that relationship will bias the coverage , and most things have a positive slant while negatives are de-emphasized or ignored. Ostroski and another former Bills lineman, John FINA ( bills LT for 10 years whose rookie year was the year of SB27) have slowly been drifting to being less critical , and are very guarded about saying any negative things in their analysis. They are critical but it’s very edited now compared to when they started podcasts and they have now been more “ around” the team and organization (fina stayed away from Buffalo until recently and just recently went back for tailgating events etc, and his relationship w the front office has been repaired) They are still enjoyable listening. It doesn’t surprise me the three you mentioned above had more positive outlooks in opinions, yet just because the 3 of them agreed , I’m not sure that means they are more correct than the poster who expressed his concerns. All three guys have financial gains related to their reporting about the Bills. All im saying is it’s fair to look at any monetary relationships podcasters snd reporters have to the subjects they are covering. Most won’t jeopardize that possible income and in this case bias is a real possibility. It just goes to show these are all subjective opinion pieces and not hard facts so it’s possible to have very different views that have some partial truths. Plus, it’s preseason and interpretations are meaningless without the proper context of knowing what players were told to do. ✌️

Terribly sad. God bless and be with the family. Heartbreaking. 💔

Just drafting d , made necessary by all the prior wasted resources on the line ( miller , boogie, guy who left to return to sf, or Seattle guy who couldn’t touch the field here but went on to start elsewhere for examples) have prohibited getting better wr support for Josh. You let go a wr in hollins who was a huge locker room guy and your most productive wr in afc loss, and you let go coop who was seen as necessary when wr corp,was failing, and when Beane stated coop on field equaled 7 more points a game are proof the wr corp has room for improvement. also Beane is just being defensive as Josh got the mvp w lower stats because every voting expert agreed he did more with less around him and without him, the Bills never become relevant. So we lost two relevant WRs , bring in a third wr chargers let go , and you fail to address the position until the likely irreverent 7 th round and wonder how your roster management could be just questioned ? Oh , let’s not forget , yes you drafted the best qb athlete perhaps ever , but what were you brought here to do? Yep, to win a Super Bowl. How many have you won in 8 years,,,,oh , how inconvenient for your sensitivity,,,exactly 0 with exactly 0 appearances. Had you achieved your mission statement of winning a SB just once , you would never face criticism again in Buffalo! Someone once said , Just do your job! He is saying the 0 was not an issue putting up 30 a game , yet what unit was on the field failing to convert as a te dropped a flailed pass with no wr separating in the afc championship? Mcds biggest mantra, last year means nothing now , you start over every year , is more prof you keep trying to add to your talent, nothing is given that you score 30 a game this year. Yes the d was horrible , but you don’t score thirty with out 16 tds from cook in his best year and using many short , screen passes. The wr corp is feared by no one and they all draw single coverage. Teams like the rams, eagles, KC, all stil drafted wr talent, and the eagles added to their d strength. Thats how most franchises work. This is the beginning of Beane melting down. When you go on live radio attacking an irrelevant talking head , you are reaching new levels of insecurity based on the fact you have not yet come close to fulfilling your mission statement, winning a superbowl. It’s a fact one has to play in one first before you can win one. This wr corp is barely adequate , and you are wasting the prime of the best qb Buffalo has ever or probably ever will have. It’s looking like Marino 2.0 and at best on the path of manning , elway who never won till later with better support personnel. It’s arrogant of Beane to think his team building is above criticism with 0 SB appearances is the first crack in his armor we have seen. Pressure is on. it’s also ridiculous coming on Beane signing two ped suspensions , and then using 6/9 of your assets all to recover from mistakes you have made with the d, and using the o picks for backups and reaching in the 7 th for a wr. Your top competitors , KC and Cincy, keep adding to offensive talent. Look, maybe the o will be ok. I don’t think you lose a character guy like hollins and it doesn’t hurt. If that’s not a valid premise, then how did a diva attitude like Diggs require being jettisoned and eating 30 mil$ , if attitude isn’t an important ingredient? This years schedule looks very tough. I find it hard to believe , given mcds past rookie use, that adding 6 new rookies to the d along with two PED guys missing a third of the season , adding a talented yet oft injured bosa , suddenly makes this d along vastly improved unit. IMO, adding a true 1 wr is a simpler , easier route to continued improving ; why not try averaging 33-a game while working for d improvement? Beane confronting a talk show host is not a good look , cussing at him and acting like the o can’t improve. It’s tunnel vision type stuff and I bet we hear from Beane his typical , wish I could take that back type statement. I think it’s the first real sign he is feeling pressure from somewhere , why does such a confident guy give validity to a radio host? What happens if they have a weak year ( still stand on the fact the schedule looks rough just looking at opponents ), and the points scored goes down ? Luckily they are almost given the division , but it’s getting a 1 seed most think is needed to advance to the SB. I DONT THINK THIS OFFSEASON is on track to get there. Every game matters , you just can’t skip the first third as if they don’t matter in the 1 seed win total. Beane was unprofessional on air which is the only time I think he has cracked. Why chose the wr corp , which everyone sees as minimal support for the best qb in football, to die on ? If he loses public support , pegs may feel a need to finally turn the page if they don’t get to the SB, and maybe there finally is a feeling of the hot seat appearing. This is a Beane outlier, may mean nothing , but one thing is certain, Allen’s career /time is ticking and it feels like he is being under appreciated.

Yeah , he could really benefit from getting some English courses and broadcasting courses in! Never too young to be a student and keep learning! ( he is so cliche and boring and overexposed since being added to madden).

How many lombardies did we win with our current strategies? How many SB appearances have we made with our current offensive and defensive schemes we currently run? I thought this regime preached how it’s all about winning a superbowl. 8 years later and teams have surpassed us despite having what I believe is a true superstar qb, who is coach able , fits the community well, has been only a positive influence since day one. It’s always preached , if you have the qb position solved , have a great qb, you have most of what’s necessary to win a SB! Teams with poor QBs don’t win sbs. I think that’s almost an incontrovertible fact. Score in the top three again , but we did it and didn’t even make a Super Bowl. You have to have a dominant d to win that game. It just makes it harder to not surround Josh with the best wr corp possible. KC dies it , but they have true playmakers on d , and a future HOF guy in Kelce , so even they know it’s not about Maholmes only. So how do we start this year? Get two guys at a critical weal area that will miss at least a third of the season. Let a well liked good guy go to the pats and replace him with a different guy who supposedly is always ready to break out but always is buried behind other talent , and despite all potential, has never really been all that productive. Good route runner , can supposedly separate , yet his numbers never seem very impressive. Throw another dart at a prior dominating edge guy in bosa, yet who would bet he starts and finishes more than 13 full game? Can you honestly say our d is better and will be a force come playoff time ? Hope so , but chemistry takes time, Mcd has strange ideas concerning rookie usage and “ earning the refs” where fa’s have come in , never played , and then excelled immediately elsewhere. Just lots of red flags I still see. Gonna have to prove to me bringing in guys missing a third or more of the season to start, relying on an aging injury prone edge, hoping a wr will finally break out , and then hoping you can repeat a top three offense and that will overcome everything else , is a big leap,of faith in belief of a coach who every year loses at least one reg season game due to poor coaching during the game , and has an abysmal playoff away record and overtime record. These are just facts. Refusing to just ignore things. Call me allnthe names you want , judge my being a true fan , I don’t care. Facts are facts. Truth is an inconvenient thing. Been a loyal fan since ‘63. No doubt in my mind , Allen is the best qb , probably best player in bills history ( and I cam big fan of smith, Kelly, Thomas , reed, Talley, Bennett, odomes and Leonard smith , moulds) and we haven’t sniffed a sb yet. Something is still wrong with, and maybe it’s time to decide if the HC can actually coach well in win or go home situations , and maybe it’s time to se if Beane needs a better talent evaluator to really build a COMPLETE , successful team. Just honest thoughts comparing this team to prior great teams who did get to the superbowl! I would take a top 3 d over top 3 o any time.

Happy for you in all honesty. You had to work hard , and everyone deserves a hobby they are passionate about. Congrats. I did that when jax came into the league, I wanted to support the community , team, and the main original financial group , before Wayne weaver came in with the very deep pockets. They were a. Group of cardiologists who I rented space just below them in their office building as I got my first practice going there. Had to show political good will, which really wasn’t optional in the good ol boy med network in the south. In Ohio , I had never ran into that type of thing where certain groups of docs controlled your privileges to do things in hospitals even with proven credentials to do certain procedures. . But glad I did it for a long time. Finally tho the cons outweighed the pros. The jags were good under weaver, Coughlin, Brunel, Fred Taylor , boselli , great wr groups , hardy was a great lb. They were just good and unfortunately , good enough to end Kelly’s run and the bills home playoff win streak in the 90’s . I had club seats , 32 yard line , 8 th row behind the visitors bench. It was club seats so great food and drinks were always there. But it was on side of field where there was no shade for most 1 pm starts and that also interfered with me watching the bills play live via satellite tv ( no direct tv or Sunday ticket then). Eventually the talent grew old and my last year of owning the two club seats was 1999 , when bills lost in music city miracle and had they won , they would have been here playing the jags instead of me enduring watching the titans run all over the jags. It was my last year owning the club seats and wades last year as well ! lol! The seats were expensive for the time and because of my work schedule , I gave Half the game tickets away. Also , those club seats and psl’s don’t usually include gas , parking , food , beverages. Even having access as east club member , you still had to pay full price for food ( buffets were nicer than other parts of stadium food but priced more as well. Drinks were also overpriced and merch was just higher end, more expensive stuff. Let’s face it, you only need so much team merch, I mean you have to wear other clothes to work , right? And places like fanatics were cheaper than buying stuff at the stadium where they hope impulse buying occurs). In addition , I was surprised at how Many red necks Jax really has and even in the club seats , there were lots of overly obnoxious ( a guy next to me would always be intoxicated to the point of being arrested several times for fighting , probably a hard working , but hard drinking guy , who was ok sober , but also was missing his two front teeth from fighting or poor hygiene) . I’m ok either way cheering but yelling f you and you suck to the visiting team for the entire game got old. So the talent was aging, fan base could be out of control, you literally could get heat exhaustion in the sun early in the season , and you still had to pay for all amenities. It was becoming a bad financial deal. I did love it in the beginning , but at heart I was a bills fan , causual jag fan , and the cost and cons began too change things. Also direct tv was invented along w Sunday ticket and watching all games from my living room just made more sense. If I was young tho and the team was in its prime , and there was great tailgating like in Buffalo , I would go for it. It’s once in a lifetime opportunity. Earning money is great but what good is it if you can’t enjoy what comes along with all that hard work that allows you to enjoy life. Never let anyone make you feel guilty over getting seats. You are creating memories that will sustain you when you get as old as I am at 67. I remember every moment and it was fantastic. Plus I wasn’t married and and the seats were a nice draw for some great dates! Do it now while we have ALLEN. Eventually things will flip back when we are the old drought bills once again. I hope not but it just seems likely. This is a historic time in BILLS HISTORY, EMBRACE IT as much as possible. CONGRATS on working successfully to be able to enjoy this time in bills football. The 90’s were my hey day and I loved every game. That’s the stuff money is for, right, that’s “ why you lift all those weights” , or do all that lonely studying to assure your success! I would just watch the product on the field , make sure they keep putting a good product out there , and then watch those other costs they don’t talk about like travel , food, alcohol , merch , etc. PSL costs are the big thing but there are lots of incidentals I didn’t take into account until after 10 years of owning club seats , two of them , while being a single guy. I really hope you enjoy the experience and the BILLS DO FINALLY WIN ONE CUZ THATS PRICELESS! Go BILLS! ( ps: sorry about all prior typo , punctuation errors. I use an iPad and unfortunately it’s prone to errors no matter how careful I try to type. If I post prior to going back and editing , sometimes it’s just been typed as jibberish . The iPad puts in things it supposedly predicts and is corrected. It just doesn’t work well. Guess I Need to start using grok or chat gpt! Sorry for prior errors).

Hope your offseason is going well! Good seeing you on here. You can substitute BILLS for bengals. Same type of unbelievable things these franchises seem to always find themselves in. Even listening to beane wiggle. out of this he still knew fully one guy was suspended, further narrowing margins of error. This is just one more example of biillsey things with this regime. If I was pegula , I would finally have reached a limit of throwing good money down the drain because of my gm and scouting staff not improving the quality of signings. Two guys out for a third of the season right on heels of a failed first rounder like Elam , Also Edmund’s inbthe past and Tate worthy/ Coleman optics from last year. It may be the NFL, but guess what, it’s time for accountability. I would st Beane down and discuss a three week period of docking salary and allow Beane to pass 25% down line. No firings, just a few weeks where Beane feels not earring either and let’s see if some urgency , not just being a nice guy is required. It’s 8-9 years. Lots of wasted money , maybe others Ned some skin in the game. Patience as an owner has been perfect. Maybe a little pressure is needed Jk, but would be furious and looking to spread some accountability! Man, they just always find a way to look foolish for no reason. Have good march madness! 😊✌️