BADOLBILZ

Part of the reason your Cardinals are having such a down year is the introduction of the balanced schedule. Central divisions in both league's are trash and have been so for years........but since the central teams were playing so many games in division against other middling franchises with the unbalanced schedule, it made winning teams out of teams that really couldn't dream of hanging in contention in the AL East. Even then.........the Cardinals haven't had a better record than the Yankees in any of the last 6 years. Right now, the Cardinals are a sh!t show. Their string of winning seasons(half that of the Yankees) is likely to come to an end THE FIRST TIME that the league goes with a balanced schedule. That says it all about the fallacy that the Cardinals are still a top organization. They are a mess and when they aren't going out and spending big on guys like Arenado and Contreras and Goldschmidt they are trading away their better prospects and keeping their Laars Nootbaar types instead.

I'm perplexed how you draw the conclusion that the Chiefs don't think they need star receivers when they have an All Pro in Kelce.......3 first or second round picks at WR from the past 3 drafts that they've acquired in the past 15 months........and a $10M aav WR3? I mean.........do the Bills need a "diva" receiver who assaults women and children or women pregnant with his children....like Tyreek Hill? No, that's a hard pass in the WNY market and I think that when the Chiefs finally felt they could no longer keep him satisfied playing at a deviants discount.......they made that decision too. You are over-thinking this, IMO.

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The Cardinals are just getting a bad break with some guys not having good years? Nobody has more hitters having seasons below reasonable expectation than the Yankees. They are playing quad A players like Jake Bauers and Billy McKinney and among the vets, with Judge on the shelf, the only proven major leaguers who are hitting up to their career norms are #8 and #9 lever hitters like Masterson Bader and IBS. What the Yankees can do that the Cardinals cannot is pitch. Especially their MLB best bullpen. Which is in good part because their pitching development program lead by Matt Blake is now among the very best in MLB. That's why they are 8 games over .500 and the Cardinals.......who have plenty of hitters having very good seasons.......are 13 games under.

No I think you you are ignoring that the Bengals OL has been worse than the Bills the past 2 years and they lost a close game in the SB and nearly beat the Chiefs again in the AFCCG in that span. Beating the league's premier team in the Chiefs in 4 of their last 5 meetings. Hell they beat the Bills in Buffalo with an OL full of backups to their already not-good OL. Much to the chagrin of many the Bengals are very current proof that you don't necessarily even need a "good" OL to get to a SB. The quality of your WR corps has actually proven to be more of an indicator of top end success in the past 6 years..........hence the concern about the position. That being said........offensive lines are part of the equation for sure and everyone would prefer to have a good one and Philly and KC do have very good ones. In the case of Philly it really elevates their QB from good to excellent. But the rest of the perceived "contenders" like Buffalo, Cinci, San Francisco, Miami and NY Jets are all projected to rank between 17-24 by PFF this year.

Killed their plates when they went to frozen home fries. That was the only fresh ingredient and therefore the only ingredient they could f*ck up. And they did.

This will be the 4th year in a row where the Bills will take a roster that's AT the top or very near the top of the league.........so your "we have only had Josh and Diggs" take is just something you've drummed up as an excuse. The Bills are no more than 1 player lesser than teams like KC/Philly/Cinci going into this season. That player is WR2. The gap isn't much.....if ANY different.....than the Bills and the Cowboys/Niners/Redskins rosters in that era of their last 3 SB appearances.

You've pretty much summed it up. The biggest problem Tyrod had was that he worried too much about getting benched and losing an NFL job. He was the anti-Fitz. People hated when he opened up about his opinions that black QB's got less opportunities to make mistakes, quicker hooks and less chances to stay in the league for a long time..........but he wasn't wrong about that. He just made a conscious decision to be ultra-conservative to assure that he wasn't losing games for his team and so he could keep getting to play in the NFL. After a while it became such a habit I don't know if he could even change. It would have been a lot more fun to see what he could do if he played a wide open style like Fitz. We saw in 2015 he was a big play waiting to happen. And, in fact, the Bills offense lead the NFL in big plays (20+ yards) under Tyrod in both 2015 and 2016.

Oh no doubt that his likability has GREATLY been driven by McShay being a humorless turd. He tried for years to make fun of Mel and Kiper knew how to roll with it........but McShay still gets rankled at the slightest criticism. He's that thin skinned guy who is impossible not to prod because you know he's going to have an over-sized reaction to it. We have a few of those on here. "Low hanging fruit" as the mods would call them. Most of them I have to keep on ignore because they are constantly setting up irresistible punchline's. I layoff them, so to speak.

Not really even debatable that Kiper is very likeable to his audience. They don't watch him for.....or even care about........his success rate. McShay though is a total heel and some of his takes have been notably deplorable. That year he was championing Andre Woodson as a first overall pick all fall (2007 season).........and then he goes in round 6 and is quickly out of the league. Yeesh. Unforgettably bad. He needed a change of scenery a decade ago. Since then it's gotten increasingly painful to watch. He's become the object of jokes for everyone who squeezes onto the screen. ABC sports = ESPN

Playoffs should be the very floor this year......not the goal. It's the NHL........expansion teams can be instant cup contenders and talented, dominant young teams one year can be unrecognizably mediocre the next season.

You do realize that no team is stacked like teams were in the early 80's and 90's? Right? Do I need to explain why? The league was very top heavy then. The Bills literally rank about the same roster-wise.......relative to the rest of the NFL.......as they did then. Top 3 NFL roster every year since 2020. You need to let the 1990's go. Seriously. The high expectations for today's Bills are realistic. If you think Bills fans or WNY media are hard on the team you are very ignorant about how the Bills are treated relative to teams in other markets. Buffalo is a sheltered market to play in. The Bills and other NFL teams are a multi-billion dollar assets because their fans are passionate about the team........in the world some of you want pro sports to exist that money and generational wealth for the players you want to adore would not be there. The type of people who have been fans since 1998 but have just 28 posts on the teams premier message board since 1998 aren't the kind of passionate that drives revenue. You are casuals. So learn to take criticism with a grain.

So merikin's aren't just turning their back on Disney? We have some people on TSW who are so nestled into their little corners that they are clueless about what has broad appeal and what does not. Like the people that think nobody follows the NBA.......you know......because they don't. Because he's terrible. He was their college version of Steve Young. So you've skipped all the Bills games on ESPN?

Doesn't surprise me at all. He's been reduced to being the butt of jokes on ESPN. Kiper is popular and likable and Todd always ends up looking dumb AND petulant about it. Gotten to the point that even when he's on set with college football jagoffs that barely follow the NFL like David Pollock......when he is supposed to be the expert in the discussion.......they make him look like he's a joke. I don't know if he can scout at all but he needed a change of scenery for sure.

Great ideas have humble beginnings

"Technically competent but unable to excel" That's the sports definition of a journeyman. Like Andre Holmes. Remember him? One 600 yard season but ended up playing 7 and averaging only 250 per year. A player can play for a lot of teams and not be a journeyman........Emmanuel Sanders.

1. Yes if your squad goal is just to be "in the hunt" for a wildcard spot still at Thanksgiving then Parker is an adequate WR2. If you expect to be playing in February he'd better CLEARLY be your WR3. The position has become that much of an indicator of success. 2. McGovern had a dreadful 52 overall rating with PFF. And then he and Edwards(58) images were used in a re-tweet about PFF offensive line unit rankings like they were big upgrades. Whatever people want to say about PFF.........if you are south of 60 on their scale you are clearly putting a lot of bad on tape.

Loved the Kincaid pick and think at some point in his career he could be a star for the Bills. Just a lot of huevos in one basket in a year where they are otherwise surely a SB contender. The safety net is a 5th rounder last year with obvious tweener traits that limited him as a prospect and two guys who have averaged 190 yards receiving per season each in the better part of a combined decade as NFL players.

Maybe but VERY reasonable to speculate that he might be past a full bounce back stage either way entering his age 40 season.

I'm a little surprised there are AS MANY as 31 WR's at $11M and above. As you well know......you can't stack contracts and say "well that's 31st and there are only 32 teams so that is a WR1 contract". There are lot's of players on rookie contracts who are top 2 WR and then there are players that were signed to deals when the cap was much lower. If you add those up and he falls in the mid WR2 range.........that makes sense for a veteran with good timing on his contract. As the past 6 years or so of SB history have told us you really want a WR1 as your WR2 if you expect to reach a SB. And you want a mid level WR2 as your WR3. Critically important position in the game today. As for Jakobi Meyers.........yeah I think he is a better WR than Parker. That doesn't necessarily change Parker's individual value to a team that thinks they can win a SB, which maybe the Pats feel like now. Maybe they thought for sure they were going to come down with a top WR on draft day but had to pull the trigger when such a talented CB was on the board. So their plans got re-arranged. And I didn't say I'd like the deal. Quite the opposite, if Beane made that deal I'd feel the same way I feel about paying a terribly rated guard like Connor McGovern $7M per year or a relative scrub WR like Deonte Harty above $2M flier level. On what they've done to this point in their careers? Big overpays. But in Parker's case you can at least point to the market for a 600+ yard per season veteran WR. I don't know where the market for Connor McGovern and Harty came from. That arose from thin air it seems.

You are correct but at the same time I'd hate it as a fan. Definitely one of those signings that can only be popular among the myopic in the fan base because AT BEST you might come close to getting your money's worth out of it on an individual player basis. But again.......that's the market that the Chiefs set with a guy like MVS. People spent years talking about how the Packers were Davante Adams and a bunch of garbage at WR and then a championship team turns around and gives Green Bay's WR2 an 8 figure aav contract. And then he played that role just like he always did......but as the 3rd option instead of the 2nd option........and they won a SB.

I think you have to look at Aaron Rodgers' drop-off last season. He was far from an MVP last season. Saying "two of the last 3" under those circumstances is like saying Tom Brady, Matt Ryan and Cam Newton have won 3 of the last 8 MVP's. It's proof of their ability if you believe they are still that level of player but just trivia if you think they've fallen off significantly.

In fairness the Chiefs drafted Kelce and Tyreek Hill during the Reid regime.........2 All Pro's........and they had them together until just last season. Sammy Watkins was an overpay. Mecole Hardman was overdrafted but produced like Gabriel Davis has for his first 3 years before getting injured. Since then they dealt Hill and then signed Juju and MVS and they both played up to expectations.......Juju finished 24th in receiving yards and MVS was who he always has been. And they have drafted 2 guys in round 2 and traded picks for a 2021 1st rounder.........so at least the cupboard is loaded with high pedigree young receivers to fill the Juju role. This Bills regime situation at WR is much different. They haven't drafted any stars. They haven't even drafted a WR early since 2017. They had to trade a 1st rounder and pay Stef Diggs big dollars because they didn't have a WR1 and couldn't wait any longer. They are short on cap space in part because they had to fill all their starting roles at WR with short-term-fix free agents between 2019-2021. They have since become increasingly reliant on journeymen and late round fliers and are asking too much of a limited player like Gabe Davis. Hopefully the Kincaid pick ends all that futility in the draft but drafting a TE to play slot WR is more of a projection than drafting receivers to play receiver.

Your definition is incorrect. The first definition of a sports journeyman is "technically competent but unable to excel". "Played for a lot of teams" is a secondary definition and more of a description of the tendency of such player to bounce around than the primary definition. Case in point.......you can play for a lot of teams and not be a "journeyman"........see LeBron James for example. Beasley, Brown and Crowder all excelled at points prior to joining the Bills.......each had had 800+ yard seasons and Brown had even had a 1,000+. Harty and Sherfield have never had a big season between them and have both averaged less than 200 yards per season over their careers.

Yeah some of the takes about the WR corps have been pretty comical. The objections to calling Harty and Sherfield "journeymen" was amusing. They are the very definition of such. Getting a proven WR2 who can run a full route tree started the offseason as the one position that could improve the team the most. Instead all our Bills WR takes gotta' end with "hopefully this TE can play WR at a very high level as a rookie".