billsfan89

If they did then it was money well spent.

Ebay and other companies that allow people to sell stuff do this but ***** Ticketmaster none the less.

It feels nice as a fan to say "just live in the now" and not have to hope the team might be better in the future. I definitely don't miss the days when I would make a 10 point plan to get the team "fixed" in one single off-season.

It has to be something else. I don't think you can logically make a case that one down year on defense is reason to can a coordinator. It's not even his worst season with this defense (in 2015 the Raven's were 24th in defense compared to 19th this season). It has to be some sort of professional disagreement with the organization.

I wouldn't be shocked if the Bills spend a fairly high draft pick at WR and let Sanders and Beasley walk. I think that the front office might view Sanders as a one and done while Beasley as a cap casualty. I think they resign Mac and add a WR drafted in the first two rounds to the mix as short term depth and longer term insurance.

I am not a huge college fan either but from what I have been reading about the draft is that the QB's in this year's draft aren't very good. For the most part they are comparing the QB class more to the Daniel Jones/Haskins class instead of recent more star studded QB classes. Of course teams will over draft and QB's shoot up the board but I think given that Jones hasn't really had a decent chance for success they will stick with him for one last season and just see what they have fully and then go after a QB in 2023.

I think this is a great hire for the Giants, good and great teams get coaches and players poached. I strongly suspect Daboll will be going to the Giants. The Giants are a great opportunity for a long term rebuild. They have the 5th and 7th picks in the draft and are likely to have low enough expectations given their lack of recent success that they will likely give a new coach 3 seasons to properly rebuild. They have some good defensive talent but on offense lack a lot of punch outside of their tackle Thomas and Barkley. I don't think too many players will be poached by the Giants as they don't have a ton of cap space to deal with. Maybe Beasley or Mac get poached and some depth/special teams players. But I don't see the Giants going after bigger ticket players from the Bills. This isn't a very strong QB class. I think they stick with Jones for one more year and see what they have before deciding to move on. Schoen and possibly Daboll or Frazier will likely want to poach some Bills talent but I doubt that given the Giants bad cap situation I don't think they have much to work with to go out and steal too many players from the Bills.

Bills 38 Chiefs 31, I think the Bills pull away late and KC gets a garbage time field goal to pull it within a score but fails to recover an onside kick.

Although I would say that Chris Jones being a top 10 player in the league is not accurate he is one of the top 3 DT's in the NFL. Jones not being there in the first game was a big factor in the favor of the Bills. Jones being there and being on the interior will be a big time test for the O-line.

The Browns, Colts and Chargers definitely disappointed in the AFC. The Ravens also disappointed but that is more so due to injuries that plagued them throughout. In the NFC I would say the Seahawks were far below expectations.

I can play corner that doesn't mean I will play well.

The Pats always went hunting in the middle of free agency for the most part. But this off-season they went crazy on larger contracts like I haven't seen them do before. The Pats signed 4 players on contracts that average over 10 million aav and signed Trent Brown to a one year deal at 11 million. On top of that they signed another 4 players to contracts above 6 million aav for multiple seasons. I think Billy B realized that he likely was going to have a rookie QB for the next several seasons and thus will have a lot of flexibility to bring on a bunch of mercenaries. While I don't think they can or will do another big time spending spree I wouldn't be shocked to see them trying to add a dynamic WR piece to help Mac and then draft up the defense to get younger and try and take another run with Jones this season hoping a year and a better WR1 will help. I don't foresee this plan working in terms of making deep playoff runs. But I do think the Pats should be a competitive 10ish win team with Mac Jones and a solid offensive supporting cast and a good defense and ST attack.

Rex Ryan, Doug Marone, Chan Gailey, Dick Jauron, Mike Mularkey, and Greggo were the coaches before McD. I think fans forgot just how bad the Bills coaches used to be.

Although Bates has played a nice part I do also think that the O-line getting some continuity has been more impactful than anything else. The O-line to start the season was Dawkins at LT, Ford and Mongo at the guard positions, Mitch at center and D.Williams at RT. That is completely different than the line now. D.Williams is in guard and two new players in Spencer Brown and Bates are along the line. Also throughout the season various injuries such as Spencer Brown pulling his back and getting Covid, Mongo getting hurt, Dawkins got Covid, and Ike Bot getting hurt and Ford being pushed in and out of the lineup just never got the team any sense of continuity along the O-line. D.Williams started the season at RT kicked inside to guard then back out to RT and then now is back at guard. This is just one player moving around the line constantly throughout the season. LG has been a revolving door all season. Bates solidifying the LG spot with competent play has been tremendously helpful. But the line simply having a few games together with continuity has been in my opinion as big of a factor to the units improved play.

Boogie looked good, I think he has a future on the D-line as a player that can play all over the line. He can shift down to DT in obvious pass rushing situations and play DE in both running and passing situations. He has never looked bad to me but he also rarely made plays.

Let's get to the Super Bowl before worrying about that. Secondly while the blowout yesterday was sweet and the Bills have ended the season on a 4 game win streak (now 5 with a playoff win) you can make a case that all the Bills did was beat up on 3 losing teams (Carolina, Atlanta and the Jets) and beating up on the Pats twice. But if you want to be pessimistic the Pats were really bad to end the season outside of blowing out the Jaguars. They lost to the Colts and Fins in ugly efforts when not playing the Bills. Now I think the Bills are peaking at the right time but lets not talk Super Bowl just yet.

Playing at home is always preferable. But I don't fear anyone in the AFC at this moment.

Given that the Fins fired Flores for not liking Tua as a player and Philly made the playoffs with Hurts (and this isn't a strong QB draft class) I think both teams stick with their young QB's in 2022 at the very least.

Lee Smith was an OK role player but he was massively overpaid for such a niche position (blocking TE's are only becoming less relevant in the NFL). Having Doyle as a jumbo TE is better in my opinion. Doyle is a swing tackle backup who can perform Lee Smith's role about as well as he did with added value and a chance to develop into a high end depth piece or even starting caliber O-line player.

I hope he is fine, luckily the Bills have some depth at DE and rotate a lot. Between Groot, Hughes, Boogie, AJ and Efe they have the ability to find decent players to take the snaps. However, Addision is probably one of the better DE's on the roster esp in more clutch situations so it would be a loss but not a devastating one in my opinion.

I am rooting for the Steelers to pull the upset but I doubt that happens. I don't fear KC but going on the road is always less preferable.

It feels (and I am not trying to be a prisoner of the moment) that the Bills are peaking at the right time. I was worried that the Bills have mostly been beating up on bad teams in their recent streak. But since that second half come back against an elite Tampa Bay team the Bills have been finding themselves. They got right against the Panthers and then Josh had a fantastic game away against the Pats for control of the teams destiny and then the Bills beat up on two bad teams in Atlanta and the Jets despite Josh not having his best games. Then they go out and not just beat a Pats team (as they should have the Bills simply are the better team) but they wire to wire dominate the game. And two critical components are driving the offense. The O-line finally found a solid guard and got consistency. The O-line never had consistency. Mongo got hurt and Covid, Ike got hurt, Ford got yanked, Dawkins got Covid, and Spencer Brown got hurt and Covid. Now they have consistency and they found Bates at LG which has been at the worst solid. You now have an O-line unit that is the best 5 out there along with having played together for at least a few games now and a back in Singletary playing his best football for the team. Josh with all of that going is going to be really hard to stop!

The Patriots were the NFL's second best defense in the league in 2021. Josh Allen in back to back high leverage games led an offense that didn't punt. Hopefully the Bills are peaking at the right time.

I was so worried that it was a banana (racism has no place in football, if you are racist stop watching a league that is roughly 70% black men) when I first saw it live (kind of not an easy look live on TV). But then I remembered the ***** incident and quickly confirmed that it was a ***** and was relieved and laughed. It's pretty stupid funny in a juvenile way but it does make a fanbase that has a bit of a trashy reputation (the whole tables thing isn't exactly screaming class) look more trashy. I am all for fans enjoying themselves (I think the tables thing is fun if not taken to dangerous levels) as it is football and people deserve to let off some steam. But this tradition is one that is a bit too far in the wrong direction.

Billy B never spent big on free agency until last off-season. He also didn't go to the discount bin for Bourne and Algholor. Algholor was signed to a deal giving him 13 million a season and Bourne was given just over 7 million a season. Granted Algholor was a bust and Bourne turned out good (so mixed results) but the point is that the Pats have been acting out of character this past off-season and I think that Billy B is going to try and take advantage of having a QB on a rookie deal. The Pats will have about 40-50 million in cap space going into the off-season with 45ish players on the roster. They can likely resign JC Jackson and one or two of their other veteran players while still having enough money left over for rookies/emergencies and for a significant acquisition. That's enough to go "big game hunting" either via trade or via free agency. Looking at the 2022 free agency class and I am seeing a some quality WR's on the market. Devante Adams leads the class but I think he follows Rodgers but after Adams there are still some very good WR's on the market. Godwin, Mike Williams, Allen Robinson and Odell (although I don't think Odell wants to play with such a young QB nor does he fit with the culture/team) not sure where else they can go via trade but I could see the Pats trying to go after Godwin/Williams/Robinson to give Mac Jones some more fire power on the outside. Looking at the Pats I think they go the route of using the draft to sure up the foundation of the defense and adding an injection of talent at WR via free agency to try and make another run with Jones on his rookie deal. Will it work? I don't think so but if they have any hope of competing that's what they need to do.