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DeSantis wiped the floor with Newsom, it wasn't even close. Every time Newsom was confronted with facts, he went off on a tangent with left wing talking points.. The debate was over before it even began, the proof is in the pudding. Florida is near the top in education Running budget surpluses and paying off Debt Much better crime rate than California Much less homelessness Much lower unemployment rate Net migration numbers GOP registrations are soaring while Democratic registration is plummeting. Helped change the entire immigration conversation along with Greg Abbott by sending illegals to Martha's vineyard and New York Got rid of Soros DA's for dereliction of their duties Didn't allow Woke corporations to steam roll them, instead now you have Bob Iger from Disney groveling and regretting their stance against Florida stopped Blackrock from imposing DEI in the state and now they've backed down The list goes on and on and on. But hey, Newsom has slick hair and talks well. We get what we deserve.

This is where I am. We need a proven winner, Belichek is who I’d like. But Pegula won’t move on from McD

Belicheck, he and the Patriots will part ways and if you give him the right QB, he gets the job done.

Love for that to be the case but I don't think he is there yet. Right now they should be giving more snaps to Epenesa, Rousseau, Floyd and Shaq and sprinkle in some plays with Vonn. Epenesa deserves the snaps.

Douglas and Benford are the right kind of larger, disciplined and more physical type DB's to match up well against Brown. I like that matchup.

And Hyde, specially with Rapp out

Gabe has played more so as a boundary receiver and Shakir more so in the slot. I like Shakir a lot, the Bills don't need to look to upgrade at the Slot any longer, Shakir is the guy and is great after the catch. Gabe is now the weak link, is having troubles separating and truthfully I think Josh is losing confidence in him and isn't looking his way on many matchups pre snap. Next year the Bills should draft a WR with their #1 pick.

We could be fine with either him or Benford, two big physical boundary DB's. Benford has played very well this year.

Von is not completely back, he is having troubles planting his foot on the turn which is why he is going very wide on his pass rushes. Epenesa is playing well and should definitely continue to see even more time at the expense of Von. As Von gets stability back in his knee, his snap count should increase but until then Epenesa, Groot, Shaq and Floyd should see more snaps than Von. Also, Groot seems to be off as well, haven't seen him do nearly as much over the past few weeks than he did earlier in the season.

What I like about Douglas other than his length, physicality and proven track record of production is his awareness. He is always looking at the QB's eyes which is why he was able to jump on that second int. He was covering another player and saw the QB looking at another WR and he decided to close in and jump the other guys route. A really good heady play by Douglas. I think with Benford, Douglas and Jackson, we have good enough boundary corners to take this team as far as the offense will take them. The pickup of Joseph also really stabilized this defensive line, another good pickup. The offense just needs to be like it was yesterday on a consistent basis and the Bills could end up making the playoffs and being a very dangerous team.

They more than made up with it on the Russell Wilson trade

I love Von, but I can't tell you how many times he said something and it didn't end up being the case. Also, how did he come up with 94.5%? lol

I don't know if Vonn will play but I don't believe the injury to Groot will impact their decision making in regards to Vonn playing. I think this game is going to be a dog fight, the Jags match up well against the Bills and they have the advantage of already being there a week. I hope I'm wrong but I do think it will be a hard fought close game.

Jacksonville has been there for over a week now so their bodies should be more acclimated than the Bills. That could give them an advantage when it comes to who has more bounce to their steps. Also, Jacksonville has a really good CB in Tyson Campbell, he's been playing very well and that could pose an issue for Diggs. Their defense played very well against us the last time we played. Their defensive line is stout against the run. They also have Josh Allen who played a great game last time we played and he's been balling out this year. There are definitely things that they can point to.

It's also been helpful that we have used the 2 TE formation more often, they've helped with chipping at the DE's before they run their route, it's really helped to mask some of Spencer's deficiencies.

To be fair, those two picks had nothing to do with Gabe and everything to do with Josh.

After the first two drives, the defense only gave up 6 more points the rest of the game! Thats a dominant performance.

Kincaid is performing very well, this is a team that has a decent amount of weapons and the fact that he is getting this many targets as a rookie TE is impressive. Plus, I've seen him open quite a few times where he didn't receive the ball. With time, he will end up being Josh's favorite target, Josh's eyes probably aren't as accustomed to looking that way as often as he could but they will end up syncing up with one another to end up being one of the best QB/TE hookups in the league. I'm sure of it.

Frazier seemed to defend decent to poor offenses extremely well, it's when we begin to play the better offenses, specially in the post season where the defense would disappear. I just keep thinking back to last season against the Bengals and they had a critical third and short and our DB's were playing nearly 10 yards off the receivers. There does seem to have more of an edge to this defense, but it is extremely early and we haven't really faced any good offenses yet, so we'll see.

That's fine, I'm not saying what is more important than the other just that if I were to make a hire as a GM, I would want the coach that I hired to not just oversee the side of the ball where he was a coordinator but to have a very active role in implementing the system.

I agree with this. Same here, I head the company that I work for sales operations and we have call centers that we have setup throughout the country and the guys that I've promoted to head the call centers all were star performers in sales, of course they needed to have other qualities and intangibles to get the position, but to this day I still have them heavily involved in the sales side of their call centers, specially on the sales training. Even to this day, where I have nearly 500 employees who report to me, I still myself have a book of business of clients that I service. I don't do that to make the extra money, I do that primarily so that I know of the challenges and trends in our industry that our sales agents have to face. Yes, being an overall leader of a team, you have to be more than what you were as a coordinator, I see a couple people commenting saying that they need other qualities as if this was an EITHER OR scenario. Of course you need leadership, but it requires more than just leadership or you could hire someone from outside of Football to lead your team. There has to be a strong understanding of the game and if you were someone who has proven to be a really good coordinator then it's absolutely mind numbingly stupid to not have the coach have an active hands on role on that side of the ball specially considering that they excelled at a high level.

I didn't say it was a new concept, what I said was that it's not practiced that often.

When a Defensive or Offensive Coordinator gets hired to become a head coach of an organization, presumably its because that coordinator excelled in that role. It never made sense to me that as soon as they are hired that they pretty much give up what they were good at, outsource it to a new coordinator who often times they don't have previous working relationships with. I think if you see guys like McVay and Reid to name a couple, these guys still have very active roles in where they made their living and they've had good results doing so. I think we are beginning to see that with McDermott, yes its early to make any final proclamations but McD was a hell of a Defensive coordinator and I think you are seeing his style of defense playout with how the Bills have played the past few weeks. I think if I were the GM or owner of the organization and I were to make a new hire for head coach I'd want him to play a more involved role on what got him hired than what we traditionally see from head coaches. Thoughts?

The game vs the Raiders was the first time that I saw what it would truly look like to have a well balanced rushing and passing attack. It was methodical and with a purpose. The rush attack was beautiful, hitting them with good runs up inside with a RB that can bounce it to the outside and cause some damage. The effective ground game with the 2 TE setup chipping at their DE's along with the play action is the way. This is the sort of offense that wins championships, I just hope that Allen can remain patient and make good decisions.