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3 hours ago, FireChans said:
They saw a former All-Pro who was a Free Agent after multiple injuries and gambled that he could return to form.
Isn’t that what we are doing, just later in the process?
Yes we are, but "later in the process" is important. The Rams seemed to discount how long it took him with the ACL and took that gamble way too soon. No way would I want Beane to take a chance on a guy with Tre's history and timing when the Rams did. It may not work out for us, but now is a good time post-injury to make this gamble.
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On 4/6/2025 at 10:19 AM, yall said:
Way overpriced. $340 square foot?
I don't think it's actually for sale.
Well, at least he's consistent with his valuations.
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4 hours ago, Virgil said:
The Chiefs lost to us in every single regular season game over the past 4 years. I’d argue it’s really not that important. Obviously, you need to make the playoffs, but we are past that.Beating the Chiefs in the regular season has value. You don't just go into the regular game running scaled down or vanilla game plans, because you have establish what's going to work, what isn't, and how we match up.
Having the coaching acumen to tweak, adjust, deceive, adapt and bring in the right new plays/formations for the playoffs is where we are sorely lacking.
I'd point to Rousseau mentioning the fullback quick runs during the regular season, multiple unstopped Mahomes sweeps in the playoffs. No adjustment. Stick to your gaps. Inexcusable.
It's not like KC had an entirely new offense/defense. They just had strategic modifications at strategic times.
Something McDermott seems to abhor as he relies on the same system of defending to account for everything. This is where he needs to grow significantly.
6 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:For sure familiarity plays a part in the Bills - Chiefs matchups. The Bills caught them on the hop in the regular season with all the man coverage but when they tried it again in the playoffs Mahomes and Reid were prepared and shredded it. But man.... watching the Superbowl the Chiefs had no answers coaching wise. It was like they defeated us and then spent two weeks with their feet up.
I believe part of that is the Chiefs relied more on their coaching with less talent on their roster this year and then it finally caught up to them with a talented Philly team.
Which really makes it all the more frustrating we couldn't beat them!
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1 hour ago, Virgil said:
All this tells me is the Chiefs are playing chess while we are playing checkers.
We should be showing the Chiefs nothing of value in the regular season, or at the very least, plan B. Use the regular season to setup the offseason.
Even the 4th down play was the Chiefs sending a different pressure than we’d seen all game. Meanwhile, we ran the same stuff repeatedly.
This is the difference in the games. They are one step ahead of us.
Totally agree except that you can't just show nothing of value in the regular season. You still need to win there, too. You just have to manipulate your looks and break trends at the right moments. KC didn't pull that end-around out for that game, they did it during the regular season. Just not much when they played us the first time, Rousseau mentions they did the fullback runs in similar situations during the regular season.
But it totally feeds into your point about checkers and chess, after 8 seasons as our HC let's pray McDermott finally learns how to play chess this offseason and year.
He's shown signs, like keeping Mahomes off the field late in the regular season game, but he really needs to accelerate his learning curve. 7 seasons is far too long to finally realize that.
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2 hours ago, Cash said:
Interesting, thanks for posting. I watched the first clip and found it interesting. I'd love to hear a similar accounting from the D-line coach, Babich, and McD, but obviously that's never going to happen publicly. My question is, what's to be done about it? It's a bit of a bummer that Groot ends the clip basically saying that he's not happy with how he played but he'd probably do it the same way next time. (Anyone feel free to correct me if I misinterpreted.) Like, I'm seeing a really good diagnosis of the problem, which is a great start, but not much in the way of solving the problem.
Yeah, Rousseau alludes to it in the clip, said he's not getting paid to think, he's still going to cover his primary gap because that's what's most important. So it once again comes down to coaching being willing to adapt in-game or come in with a more diverse game plan.
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32 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Sure he could conceivably be re-born. I just doubt it because it's obviously not likely after 3 straight years of injuries and poor production. I also can't get behind the idea that $12.6M is "no risk". The odds that he becomes the all-around impactful 50 tackle/10 sack 2021 Joey Bosa are probably sub 10%. The odds that he just gives you 2023 Leonard Floyd level sack production are probably less than 25%. This is why the other teams were reportedly offering much less. I'd say he got money that would normally be associated with at least a 50% chance of being worth it. That money usually gets you that. Not in this case.
Like everyone else I am hoping Beane hits the jackpot but this Bosa/Hoecht/Ogunjobi/Palmer class is 4 guys paid with the obvious expectation that they all would be more productive in 2025 than they had been in 2024. It feels eerily reminiscent of that 2018 class he signed expecting the same thing.
1 year 12.6M is basically no risk compared to Von Miller's contract, lol.
Bosa is not humble but has been humbled, I think. Let's hope he finds that chip to put on his shoulder.
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This is Diggs with a checkered past and storm-clouded future putting his best face on.
Any fan who would welcome him back needs to pull their heads out of the stats and remember the reality of the toxic ending on our field. Sheesh.
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5 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Yeah........how many times have we linked the clip with him arguing with fans and telling them he can do as he pleases because he's rich and they're not etc..? He and his bro are well known to be douches........and that kind of arrogance is not a negative in his line of business. But at this point, he sounds like a guy whose confidence is about crushed. While his friends/associates in media were talking about how he has a lotta' football left and just needs to have a big year and get back in the big money game next offseason.........he sounds like a guy who took the biggest deal he could get because he thinks it's probably the last one.
Hard to blame him. Kicked to the curb by his team a couple weeks earlier, low-balled on the market, hasn't been healthy for 3 straight years now. Instead of asking your wife to analyze his personality ask her to get her rosary out and start saying prayers for his hopeful but unlikely return to form. 😂
Yeah, I'll definitely be praying for him.
For me, the PC and other videos are worrying. Here's a guy repeatedly discussing how he's getting old and career winding down at 29. Brings to mind that quote if you're thinking about retiring from the NFL then you already are.
Then the reporter asks him about his film role and first thing he mentions is it was really challenging because it was cold over there in Ireland.
"Trying something different is good."
"It'll be good to focus only on football now."
"Glad to be part of a winning culture "
"It was shocking how quickly things changed."
Heart-felt or crisis management mantras?😂
Couple that with all the personality of a weathered old board on a teetering barn.
Hope Joey uses this time to get his head on straight. Prayers up!
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11 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:
There's still plenty of people fleeing California
I could live anywhere.. and I choose to stay in Buffalo because you can't replace what feels like home.. and where your loved
And it certainly is home for Josh now
I appreciate your passion for Buffalo, but Josh isn't marrying a local gal. They're two California kids whose families are deeply tied there.
When they have a family, whether they live here during the season depends on what Hailee wants to do about her career.
Chances are miniscule they live here once Josh calls it a career.
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24 minutes ago, Fan in Chicago said:
I don't understand this entire saga with Elam. The coaches do not have a track record of being unduly harsh on any player. To think that they essentially tortured Elam, the fan base and themselves by holding on to him seems out of character.
Something doesn't add up for me. Perhaps you see more than I do?
One big component on this defense is risk aversion and a thought process for how to execute that. I suspect this is where Elam struggled. When you see a DB with his physical talents relegated to playing like a covering safety in the AFCCG, you know he's lost in the scheme and maybe not from being unusually harsh but from a minimum of constantly having to correct him. He may never be able to stick in the league but seemed incredibly ill suited for what the coaches wanted him to do. I'm happy he has another chance, we'll see how much our coaching/scheme weighed him down. He's certainly not the brightest bulb either, so good luck to him.
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3 minutes ago, BillsFan130 said:
I definitely believe Garrett wanted out and to play for a contender. But..
When Cleveland offered him an insane contract, he probably thought there's no way he could turn it down.
Money talks more often than notHe's also very tied to the Cleveland community so that may also have weighed on him since his announcement.
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1 hour ago, Buddy Hix said:
Allen has time to develop into more of a pocket passer as he ages, I hope he does. Elway did play three seasons past age 35, but Elway didn’t take nearly as much abuse as Allen does.
And Elway had elite talent everywhere to take the load off of him. Allen has zero elite players currently, so hoping Beane actually finds a way to get Allen help.
I could see this being true 3 years ago, but since Brady took over the offense I feel Josh has improved his decision making and distribution from the pocket.
You make it sound like he's still scramble-happy hurdle happy Josh. What gives? Do you really think he hasn't improved as a pocket passer?
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Apnea creates hypoxic conditions (oxygen deprivation) in the body and is linked to a host of cardiac and health issues, most likely progressing slowly over years. It's a good one to solve even if you're not having too many effects from it now.
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6 hours ago, Simon said:
Sometimes it takes two days to clear that kind of cheese 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀
Hopefully it's lost it's stringiness or that could get awkward.
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On 2/25/2025 at 8:59 AM, Simon said:
Sauce, heavy enough that it almost becomes a fork and knife endeavor.
Cheese, applied liberally. With a trench shovel.
Pepperoni, in amounts that most folks would consider obsessive and frightening.
Maybe the very occasional bit of ham, thin-sliced tomater or light scattering of banana peppers.
Anything else is a foul manifestation of evils borne of the bowels of hell.
I bet that's exactly how your toilet would describe your next day deposit of the remnants!
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2 hours ago, Doc said:
I started to hear about it midway through January. I went to a medical conference at the end of the month and they were talking about it. Never thought it would blow up the way it did though.
Yeah, no one did. As soon as I heard about them setting up field hospitals I knew we were f*cked. It seemed surreal but the Chinese take outbreaks seriously and it was too late for them already.
2 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:Wuhan worked with a humanized mouse model having ACE2 spike protein receptors in lung tissue that exhibited >1000 fold infectivity enhancement with engineered SARS like viruses.
Translation: All masking protocols, lockdowns and public health measures were useless. The virus was going to spread around the globe like wildfire just as it did no matter what
😂Yes, an overexpressing artificially created mouse model always portends truth. Look how many times it's pegged cancer cures.
Translation: You are incredibly overreacting and ignorant, and just plain wrong. Stay away from science and medicine. You truly suck at it.
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20 hours ago, Doc said:
Probably and that's been my point since 2020: it was going to ravage the US no matter who was President. But many on the left (like "Homelander," to whom I was responding) think Trump totally mismanaged the COVID response and Biden did well.
I agree with the last paragraph. And think they also wouldn't have shut down travel from China early-on for fear of looking racist.
It wouldn't have mattered if they had shut China travel earlier. It spread too quickly with 2 or 3 days of victims being asymptomatic and infectious, and longer for those that remained asymptomatic. China was also slow to acknowledge it, I know I first learned about it from Li Wenliang's warnings shortly before he died and the construction of field hospitals in Wuhan early Feb 2020. Think about how long it had been spreading to get to that point. Probably 2-6 months, plenty to get it seeded around the world. The Wuhan market was shut down January 1 2020 to test for viruses.
Other than Trump's standard stupid spews about alternative remedies he did just fine. So many hind-sighters on both sides forget how in the dark we were those first six months of 2020.
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On 2/19/2025 at 7:32 AM, Doc said:
No, that Biden failed in his campaign promise to "shut down the virus" and that it was going to ravage the US no matter who was in Office. I said that in 2020 and Biden proved me correct.
Ok, so what? Anyone with a reasonable scientific/medical mind knew that. How is your point that Trump didn't have the vaccine while Biden did relevant to this? Trump would have also "failed" similarly if he had been president in 2021.
I would say Biden's political promise was based on two things: pushing vaccination as quickly as he could with the general population and the fact that the mRNA vaccines had been proven to be hugely effective against the beta version of Covid at the time in clinical trials. That's why health officials were quoting 100%, fully stop transmission, etc.
So for a non-scientific, questionable mental-acuity president who listened to his over-speaking health officials, I feel like he made a legit good effort to achieve this promise but essentially the vaccine wasn't as great as his health officials were proclaiming.
Plus Omicron was first identified in the fall of 2021, has dominated since, and the vaccines have never been as effective against it as they were beta.
WRT mass vaccination, the vaccines became available mid-December and by the end of May 50% (167+ million) of the US population had received at least one dose with 41% fully vaccinated. That is pretty impressive to me in such a short time.
I am definitely glad Trump presided over the outbreak as Biden probably would have dictated precautions similar to NY or CA and they were the most delusional about being able to stamp it out entirely.
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4 hours ago, Doc said:
Fair enough, 2M people were fully vaccinated when Trump left Office. The point still stands.
Which point is that? The point that Trump handled it better than Biden with no vaccine?
You really think Biden wouldn't have done the shutdown pretty much the same as Trump?
Or is it the point of September '21 to February '22 round of deaths where Homelander pointed out to you the states with fewer vaccinations weighed more heavily on the death count? In this case your point is irrelevant.
Or is it the point that no matter who was president the virus was going to ravage the US? This is the closest to the truth, except that dumb Democrats foolishly thought we could stamp it out while dumb Republicans felt we shouldn't do anything and let it run it's course.
The truth is we simply needed to slow the spread of the novel virus long enough to not overwhelm our health systems and allow science and medicine time to understand in order to minimize it until it was fully endemic. Masks to protect those around you, distancing and isolation to minimize exposure, vaccines to minimize illness and severity.
It was ugly going, but it worked. Also don't forget in that Sept 21 to Feb 22 timeline most states were coming off masking and isolation, undoubtedly contributing to the uptick.
People were also burned out on all the precautions and the vaccine gave a sense of security.
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On 2/16/2025 at 11:47 AM, Doc said:
Ivermectin was obviously around at the time, but I don't recall hearing about anyone taking it for Wuhan virus until Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers said they were taking it late in 2021. I heard that India was using it.
Anyway there were no vaccines for anyone to refuse the most of 2020 and no one was fully vaccinated before Trump left Office. So that dog won't hunt.
Wrong about no one being fully vaccinated. https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/news/alumna-sandra-lindsay-first-to-receive-covid-vaccination-is-bmccs-2021-presidents-medal-honoree/
I myself received Moderna December 21 and the second jab 3 weeks later, before Trump left office. All the hospitals were in overdrive vaccinating December-February as the priority was to get health care professionals vaccinated first. As a researcher, I was just fortunate that our hospital had extra doses with limited shelf life.
As a physician, I should think you would be well aware of this.
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2 hours ago, Orlando Buffalo said:
I have in the past dealt with suicidal and abused teens, not in their adult state that often, and often they jump around in their beliefs but usually over a couple years in my experience the past becomes the truth. I will state that what in all likelihood happened is bullying, and Martin is the victim, but he is not coming out well right now because he is pretending what happened, and he stated happened, is not the truth.
After reading the article, this is essentially how I feel about Martin. I think he's trying to whitewash this past a bit to try and propel himself into the future with the self perception of being a stronger man and having grown.
I hope it works for him.
I have trouble buying it. The entire article is an overwritten fluff piece on all these bold things he's attempted (and failed) and how Richie and Pouncey have already peaked while Martin's just getting started. A "look at me" article.
On one hand he blames his own mother, Wells, and finally himself for not handling the situation differently. On the other hand in present day, he refuses to reach out to Richie to discuss this situation he feels he allowed to get out of hand. I know if I felt guilty like that the honorable thing to do would be reach out and at least try to be accountable.
Martin's an emotionally fragile personality. He showed it back then and I see it in this article. I hope this article works therapeutically, he finds some peace and confidence from it, and can finally move on.
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4 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:
I can live with that. Eventually the draft gods will not shine down on KC forever. We need either Garrett or Crosby. And we desperately need to draft DT Dawgs. And they don't have to be choir boys either. Take a page out of Roseman's
To hell with KC, let's focus on why the sun doesn't seem to shine down enough in our 8 years of drafting.
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7 minutes ago, SirAndrew said:
That Eagles defense would have eaten Joe Brady’s offense for lunch. Mahomes was under pressure all night, and the defensive backs played great as well. It wasn’t just great line play, the entire defense was phenomenal.
For whatever reason Mahomes wasn't stepping up in the pocket or reacting to the pass rush until it was too late. For sure Josh would have done a better job of that and completing more of those passes on the scramble. That would have strained Philly's defense far more.
Not saying we would have won but our offense would have fared much better.
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2 minutes ago, Buddy Hix said:
This recipe to beat KC isn’t new, everyone knows getting pressure with 4 is the way to beat them. But Beane sucks…it’s that simple. Beane has spent a ton of draft capital and free agent money on the D line and they still suck. I can’t wait until Beane is fired.
Problem is, that won’t happen. So we are never going to win it all.
Making strategic changes to the scouting department might also help.
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Return of the Tre! (Tre White signs with the Bills)
in The Stadium Wall
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Sure, his bad tape is all part of the picture and the gamble. It wasn't a surprise he struggled last year.
The only potential intriguing aspect is why Baltimore didn't re-sign him, but it could be as simple as Tre feels better in our defense. We'll see!