BADOLBILZ

Yeah this is an era where every play gets graded/scored. When you are signing 1 year deals you can't presume that any interested team is going to watch every play you made the prior season and weight those results based on whether they mattered with regard to who won or lost the game. Teams want players who play hard all the time. If you don't play full speed in a garbage time win maybe you don't play full speed down 2 scores in the 4th quarter. You gotta' let the employers know you go full speed all the time.

The talent difference is significant...........but that was to be expected in every way. Higher pedigree, tested better, drafted earlier in a much better RB draft and then as a rookie put up about a yard per carry more than the "good" Devin Singletary. He's gotta' keep it up throughout his rookie deal and show durability but he's definitely more talented.

Yeah not understanding is a natural byproduct of selective, careless or poor reading comprehension.

There were people who insisted Devin Singletary was just awful too.........despite him putting up very good ypa year after year. RB lovers will not be satisfied until they get something akin to Bijan Robinson..........a player who is called the best player in the draft by some hot take draft talking heads. And whether the player actually consistently produces or stays healthy in the NFL or not is a DISTANT secondary concern to his draft pedigree.

He doesn't have to suck. He was promoted as a potential Brian Urlacher 2.0 when drafted by the Bills and when that didn't ever come close to happening the narrative switched to "well, he's really good and you guys just don't understand his impact". The reality is that he doesn't make plays. Couple TFL's in the run game is nice........but it's about the lowest rung on the playmaker ladder for a LB and I wouldn't expect that to continue(though he should lead the NFL in tackles on a defense that may play the most snaps of any defense in football). Here are some staggering stats for Tremaine: He went a season where he blitzed 76 times without creating a single pressure. He hasn't forced a fumble since early in his rookie season........about 70 games ago. He strung together back-to-back seasons with over 100 passer rating against while his defenders insisted that teams were afraid to throw in his area. He had something of a breakout season last year.........but still no plays.........the switch has just never fully gone on for him and at $18M aav that's a problem for the Bears and a bullet dodged by the Bills. In limited time in the preseason the past two years and a couple games this season the largely uninspiring prospect Bernard has already shown a far greater nose for the football. And mind you.........I loved the Edmunds pick. Thought Tremaine would make a great, rangy edge rusher........basically replace the highly impactful Lorenzo Alexander in the Bills defense but allow them to play more 3 LB sets with his superior athleticism........a game changing talent. Being a solid player, but with clear weaknesses, at a devalued position was NOT a good result. I am also of the belief that he will be back in Buffalo at a fraction of the cost in a couple years and the narrative will turn from "he's a rising star just coming into his own" to "he's going back to where he had his most success".

His predecessor at MLB in Buffalo lead the NFL in tackles in 2017..........maybe this is the year he finally reaches that Preston Brown level as a tackle accumulator?

Probably more about your insecurities. Lotta' people leave WNY just because they want personal success to come easy. Then they often later realize the communitas that they've lost in the process and do things like becoming obsessive about the Bills or Sabres to try to re-capture some of that. Maybe that turns into "do they think less of me because I tried to take the easy way out?" when you visit or something. But I'd hardly buy that you become excluded because of your transience. The thing you and @Mango are describing happens whenever one moves to an area where there aren't a lot of people who have migrated there for jobs/money/weather. It's just a talking point. If anything I've seen most Buffalo area folks go out of their way to be extra nice to ex-pats or folks from out of town.

I also just assume his body won't hold up either. Guys that big who even have a few really good years.......like Trent Brown......are rare. But some fans just ignore that reality and want to use early picks on them because they are big. They are the fans who wanted the Bills to draft Aaron Gibson early. Every time one of those behemoths washes out those fans forget all about it. Gotta' learn from the league's mistakes. Hard enough keeping Spencer Brown on the field and he's relatively fit at his overgrown height.

Lotta' virtue signaling for a very bottom of the roster Bills employed media person. She had a video excerpt at the stadium during the game talking about the next gen stats around Allen's TD pass to Diggs in the Jets game. Wasn't any booing from the crowd or anything but who really cares if she has to move on to another gig? Does anyone think she adds anything that is difficult to replace? If so, what?

My all-time favorite Bills game. Highest point in franchise history, really. A 49ers-esque dynasty seemed imminent.

He called her Marry. Maddy***** was his attempt to acknowledge the mistake, I believe.

Daboll wasn't getting thru to him so well when they were 6-5 at one point in 2021, including losing to the winless, worst team in football, was he? Enough with the ridiculous "Daboll was the key" narrative. It's total bullish!t.

They weren't going to smash-mouth the Jets, dave. Not sure what game you watched. Wasn't going to happen at the level of execution they are at as an offensive line at this point. Break out those inside gap runs versus the Raiders at home........not in the Jets game. They needed to keep the chains moving and the options were there to do it all game. 3 runs and a punt *might* have gotten the job done but it leaves you vulnerable to one mistake on defense. If Benford doesn't make that great hustle play the Jets would have had the lead a lot longer.

I am critical of what Dorsey did on Monday. I had an All-22 aspect of the entire game from my upper end zone seat and I saw a different game than you, apparently. IMO Dorsey's biggest problem is that he doesn't take the aspects out of the offense that encourage poor performance. Like calling inside runs that require a high level of execution.........against a great defensive front.........on opening night in a raucous stadium when the starting offense has hardly played together. Color me stunned that those blocks just weren't getting fully executed. Those were utterly wasted downs and thankfully there WEREN'T more of them. Wanting more of those makes no sense. The game plan had flaws like that, but it's true that it was good enough to win..........Allen just didn't take the open man in the quick game. Maybe Dorsey isn't right for him because he is just drawing up game plans that *should* work if Allen plays intelligent football when he should instead gameplan around his relative lack of in-play intelligence/poise. If Dorsey wants to take the next step he needs to do a better job of taking more of the bad options out of the offense.

This is the answer, IMO. The reason is two-fold............it makes the offense less predictable when he's not out there...........and it takes away the temptation for Allen to make those throws to Davis which resulted in an inordinate amount of his worst decisions last year. The offense Dorsey is running is fine...........it should work even if there are weaknesses in terms of offensive weapons. The step he needs to take as an OC is to eliminate the aspects of the game plan that invite poor execution. Like having Gabe out there too often. Or like the run game choices on Monday.

He was practically the same QB in 2022 as 2021. The problems began with Daboll and the 5 losses in the first 11 games of 2021. Allen had a hot couple games in the playoffs after the 2021 season but we were still talking about him not taking what the defense gave him enough and taking too many hits late in the 2021 season in home games against inferior opponents like Carolina and Atlanta. And he had the finale against the Jets where he targeted Gabe Davis 14 times with just 3 completions. The issues today were the same in 2021 under Daboll.

Correct, I meant HS and earlier levels.

In fairness........and correct me if I am wrong..........at the amateur levels the % of African American players is much closer to the general population splits. I think 12% was the number in 2021. And the thing about football is that very often the best coaches could never play anywhere near a pro level. Guys like Belichick or Reid never sniffed the NFL. The answer to the diversity issue is probably much closer to the 12% than the 56% of NFL players in 2022(not sure where you got 75% but even 56% is admittedly a remarkable spread from the overall involvement numbers at the amateur levels).

https://www.espn.com/blog/new-york-giants/post/_/id/64541/new-turf-at-metlife-stadium-gets-positive-reviews-from-giants-jets

Yeah I was just trying to clarify for those attending. You highlighted and asterisked the need to pre-purchase a parking pass..........which seemed to imply that you couldn't just pay for parking at the gate. I don't think that's the case but I can see why the wording on the Jets website could make one think that.

Did it say the same on the site last year? The way what you quoted is worded it seems to be intentionally misleading so that people pre-purchase and print their passes out. We passed on the pre-paid parking pass last year and it was $77 cash at the entrance. We will do it again most likely. Also we have a 15 passenger bus and for those coming with a big vehicle, if you have that size vehicle the Jets will suggest you park in the bus lot, which costs significantly more, but there are lots of vehicles this size in Lot 26.

Why did you purchase the parking passes ahead? We just roll into lot 26 and pay for parking on site.

No they do not.

But the top producing RB rooms nowadays tend to be those that also have a QB who is a threat to run. Not saying the Jets running game won't be much better than it was..........but for comparison purposes.........the Bills unheralded RB's lead the NFL in yards per rush last season.

The NY media really cut him some slack last year...........his "we're keeping receipts" to the media and later, after losing in Buffalo, his declaration that they would meet the Bills in the playoffs..........he wrote a lot of checks with his mouth and got away with it because of EXCUSES. No more excuses, Sa-la.