Charles Romes

Unloaded all the talent on the roster for future assets and somehow made the playoffs.

Daboll passed on the poor man’s Josh three straight rounds. Amazing.

Did you SEE Barkley in his last game?

I think it’s Romes I’d add Terrence McGee

Last year he really started to get “the Brady calls”, for example, at home against the Dolphins and many others. The extra off-the-field work has a tangible benefit.

Hopefully this will be a bad distant memory in a few years when Brown is entrenched as the starter. Similar to the Mitch Morse concussion scare when he first arrived in Buffalo.

If I were an opposing GM I would be raiding our stash of cornerback practice squad players year after year.

The conference has not been this loaded since the merger. The AFC champion this year could easily be a battle tested 10-7.

This is like 2009. Offense could do not nothing in preseason, traded Hall of Fame left tackle, fired the OC. Then, somehow, when the season started we played great and almost beat the Pats week 1. The point is, it’s going to be okay.

For their last, Belichick basically hung Brady out to dry, loading up on D, leaving Brady to make the offense work all by himself, as he had done for many years. Finally Brady got sick of not being given substantial weapons.

With the irrefutable evidence we now have that it was always all-Brady, Belichick is desperate to salvage some portion of his legacy.

kinda cool to have an OC that can throw a football

The schedule is absolutely brutal but somehow I think the team is just too good to not go at least 11-6 with the 3 seed. Yet 13-4 seems too much with how tough the schedule is. So it all boils down to only two possible numbers being in play: 12-5 and the 1 seed, or 11-6 and the 3.

You also never saw him unnecessarily lose an inch of yardage by taking ill-advised chances. That’s what made him special.

Post-2015 JJ Watt

Beasley was a shell of his former self and it was a testament to 17’s greatness that he managed to put up decent stats.

Brady could have easily still been there is not for this mistake.

It was amazing how depleted the weeks seemed when they tried that two bye week season. No one expected it but there was a clear difference, and the Sundays were much less exciting with the reduced amount of games. The effect of adding one game last year was also surprising. It seemed more like 5 games were added.

add his USFL years to his NFL years and he’s in the Hall

The Saturday December game at the playoff-contending Bengals during the Drought, 2005. We were terrible but beat a playoff team the road. Made me realize how much I like winning even if winning does nothing but hurts your draft stock.

Abstract touchdowns are worth 6 points

Gabe had one horrendous game late in the season where he dropped everything against one of the weaker opponents, maybe falcons or panthers

a very common misconception that this was Montana’s last career game. Montana played in 94, they went 9-7 and lost in the wild card round.

I would say yes. The franchise hung on by a thread in Buffalo in the 2010s through the sale. On thing that saved it was the strong following by nationally dispersed fans who valued continuity and keeping the team in Buffalo. The subtle but strong national following was largely due to the success of the 90s teams. Bad play in the 90s could have easily swing the pendulum in the opposite direction.