BADOLBILZ

I can tell you even as a fan in the stadium I was gassed yesterday. I'm not a young man prone to letting disappointment get me down so I caffeined up and still screamed my head off every play on D. But I didn't want to. That Damar incident took the wind out of the sails on this season for me. This game is supposed to be a distraction and when every week at the stadium is another story about someone or some people who got f*cked up by a tragedy it's just not fun. And it if ain't fun.........it's hard to get energized. Having high expectations sometimes takes you out of the moment..........but having lived thru the 4 SB years and those hard climbs back up the mountain.........those were a piece of cake emotionally compared to this season.

The difference IMO is maybe that the Steelers had reached a SB with Bill Cowher and sustained their competitive ways for a very, very long time with just a blip year between Kordell and Roethlisberger. Cowher went over a decade between SB appearances. I agree that Cowher and Schottenheimer situations are VERY similar though..........the Steelers just stuck with him and kept pounding at the door and eventually caught some breaks and won a SB. The Chargers cut bait and switched to Norv Turner and his lack of attention to detail(like Wade) helped eventually drag the team down. I think we reflect poorly on Rivers but early in his careers River was really, really good. Josh is more like Big Ben in style of course but Big Ben stepped into a top 5 NFL organization. Josh has had to build this from the ground up with McD.

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I don't see the Packers comp.........they were dominant and their HC called his own plays. The Bills comp right now is more like the 2006-2009 San Diego Chargers. The Chargers dominated the AFC West........were often cited as having the best roster in the NFL and got lot's of love from Vegas just like these Bills........pundits usually said things like "Philip Rivers is going to win a SB in the next few years" which are very familiar to Bills fans with JA17............their defensive minded HC was all about process and loving each other..........and even if they were a favorite they usually made an early, unceremonious exit in the divisional round. Don't shoot the messenger...........but the reality is that this team isn't memorable like the 90's Packers.........at this point they are just Chargers of that era and the Chiefs and Bengals are the Patriots and Colts of that era.

I saw him come back in........much to my surprise.........I thought he was out. It was either him or Ken Irvin. 😉

1) I'd say Josh needs more talent on offense first. His offensive personnel just doesn't match up. If Ken Dorsey had won the SB he'd have been the first rookie OC to win a SB since Mike Holmgren in the late 80's.......for a 49ers team that was the defending champs.............so it's extremely difficult for any 1st time OC to be his best self. 2) Agree on DC. Unless Frazier can be counted on to be more multiple, he needs to move on. They've gotten to the point where everyone knows exactly how the Bills are going to respond to what the offense shows them..........and teams that execute well can carve it up. As you get later in the season, more teams start to execute well. So it's not proven to be a playoff caliber defense. Time to adjust and I also don't think they can do that when so much of what they do is avoiding coming out of nickel and keeping blockers off the uninstinctive Edmunds. They've boxed themselves in.

Tre White returned to the game after being tested for a concussion.

I wholeheartedly agree that drafting for need is often disastrous. But BPA in round 1 should be about premium positions only. RB is not one of those. Guard isn't either. Which is why it might be required of Beane to think out of the box about how to handle that asset. Trade up? Trade back? Trade it for a proven player?

Yeah and the notion that he's an offensive genius who has made Mahomes look much better than he is.......well that's quite hilarious.........Reid went an entire season in KC where his team didn't complete a single TD pass to a WR. And that was with the thoroughly adequate Alex Smith at QB.

They have such short shelf lives now because the best RB's of today aren't the elite football players that used to man the position. They are the Kenny Davis types not the Thurman Thomas types. The elite RB talents of yesteryear now play defense or are receivers or QB's..........because that's where the money is. The guys who play RB now usually don't have the size or the speed to play elsewhere.

Very unlikely. The only potential HOF RB's drafted in the past 15 years are Derrick Henry and Marshawn Lynch...........but despite having a number of very good seasons the truth is their counting numbers don't stack up with the greats at this point so they aren't locks by any stretch. Recent retirees Frank Gore and Adrian Peterson from the 2005 and 2007 drafts will be inducted in the coming years.........but the bar is high for RB's.........10K rushing yards and a SB ring isn't a lock........and the individuals at the position aren't very important anymore so wouldn't expect to see many(if any) drafted for the next 15 years either.

Like I said.........it would be nice to have that $26M or even just $2M (or Star Lotulelei's $40M+ etc..) back NOW. NOW..........as in when the team is among the least financially flexible in the NFL and a SB contender with a QB reaching the end of his rookie deal. I guess what you don't get is that cap space rolls over............that's why it wasn't "no big deal" when Beane had a horrendous first 10 months of spending.......wasting that money on McCoy, inexplicably extending Eric Wood and eating $10M, acquiring Kelvin Benjamin and his guaranteed 5th year option payment.........and culminating in his horrendous 2018 UFA period where he committed upwards of $100M in space to the likes of Lotulelei and Trent Murphy and a bunch of other unmentionables. Beane got much better........though there have been plenty of backups signed nonsensically for $6M-$7M.........but the team is still paying for that financial carelessness. But I get if you don't understand how the cap works...........I think I saw you lost a bundle investing in crypto. So obviously real dollars don't make sense to you. 😉

Teams aren't going to load the box to stop the run when you have an elite QB. You want to run the ball for 4-5 yards per attempt instead of passing it for 8? Have at it. But once you get to the playoffs and "want to" on defense increases dramatically...........those 6 and 7 man boxes start playing like 8 man boxes..........and your reliance on giving a star RB touches starts working against you. See Drew Brees with Alvin Kamara...........they felt compelled to give Kamara touches in the postseason every year because that's what got them there.........and they ended up getting upset time and again in the playoffs. 7 career playoff games, most of them at home, 354 yards and a 3.9 yards per carry average.........record of 3-4. It's why you see teams with RB by committee, hot hands or bargain pickups win SB's every year. You are better off being capable and prepared to throw the ball 60 times per game in the playoffs and then have some low investment guys at RB who catch teams by surprise and give you some chunks so you don't have to. The pass opens up the run in the modern NFL........and far moreso in the playoffs.

No, keep in mid that every other WR in that first round of 1996 put up between 800-1100+ yards as a rookie...........at the time it was the greatest rookie WR class in NFL history. Wrap your head around that. Moulds was the lone dud with a pathetic 279 yards...........and it wasn't because of a lack of talent. He entered the NFL as the least dedicated to his craft of his class.........at a time when he had a HOF QB throwing him the ball......so why do some idiots try to whine about the quality of QB play he had? It's absurd. If he puts in the effort of a long forgotten Eddie Kennison(900+ yards as a rookie in 1996) then maybe(perhaps likely) Jim Kelly plays in 1997 and Moulds doesn't waste 2 full years to start his career. Eric Moulds was a very controversial, complicated player........lot's of bad early and late(quit on the team in a game at Miami) mixed with lot's of good in the middle. But back then, this was an organization that had signed a player in Reggie Rogers who killed someone in a DWI accident and would go on to pursue psychotic RB Lawrence Phillips..........so their standards were much different. Sorry if it breaks the heart of your inner child from the early 2000's but it was what it was.

His statement was factually incorrect. He stated that Moulds would have skated on any DV charges at the NFL level today because Joe Mixon and Tyreek Hill both did. They did not. They weren't in the NFL so they weren't subject to discipline by the league.

Where you are mistaken is that Joe Mixon and Tyreek Hill committed their crimes in college........the NFL wasn't allowed to punish them..........Moulds issues blew up as a pro and nobody in the NFL survives that kind of violence against women nowadays. Nobody. He was off of a lot of teams draft boards entirely entering that 1996 draft..........really rough character. He was also the only WR from that 1st round who didn't show up to play...........that class was full of guys who hit the ground running.........Marvin Harrison, Terry Glenn, Keyshawn Johnson, Eddie Kennison.........the Bills desperately needed a deep threat for their WR corps.......that's why they picked him........and any of those other guys would have fit the bill. Instead they got Moulds and a season where they were considered a SB favorite ended with a punchless offense going down in defeat at home to expansion Jacksonville. He had a longer career than most of those guys but they only fielded 3 playoff teams in Moulds career and he wasted one of those years.

As I said.........too many people here still living in the 20th century. What about this century? The few star RB's who have been key cogs on teams that won SB's were traded or signed in UFA after disappointing at previous destinations. They were value acquisitions. And there weren't even many of them, especially in the past decade. Teams that draft RB's in round 1 don't win SB's with those players. It's too much of an investment for the least individually important, most teammate-reliant performer on offense.

The journey is the reward. Spot on that the worst part of losing in the playoffs isn't not winning the SB it's the season ending. I will say this though.........because of the 6-8 day buildup between games we do get the opportunity to enjoy the lead up to the matchups. In MLB.......the playoffs hit and after 8 months of lead up and 162 regular season games your postseason can begin during the workweek and be over before the weekend. It's disproportionately abrupt compared to the NFL.

Fred Smerlas turned Patriot shill after his career. Only fair. The people clinging onto that Tre incident are total asscl*wns. Dude is the greatest WNY raised football player ever. Family still a big part of the community. One of the most popular, good natured and well liked NFL players ever. He had one brief heat of the moment situation where he was a sh!theel playing against his hometown team who passed on him in the draft. He apologized and paid the price. Only such incident in his career. Just never worked out that he ended up a Bill but Buffalo didn't have $8M to pay him last year and can't blame the guy for not coming back on some league minimum deal with all the beatings he's taken over his career.

There were more sightings of Big Foot around Buffalo than The Troupacabra after that draft.

So what do you do with the RB that you used a 2nd round pick on and is averaging 5.7 yards per carry? Give them the same split Cook has with Singletary? Take the ball out of the hands of your QB to average about 2-3 yards less per play than throwing it at a 7.6 yards per attempt clip? For guys like Jeremiah it's just a thoughtless pick. The Bills have a franchise QB who has taken a beating the past two seasons but the answer isn't to run the ball more. It's block better and give him more receivers who win matchups so he can go back to being that guy he was in 2020 who was making huge plays in the passing game while also completing nearly 70% of his passes and looked like he had 15 elite years in front of him.

Just the facts. From 2000-2004 Moulds averaged a massive 150 targets per season.......he was given a ton of opportunity.........he is what he did.......no excuses necessary. The post merger Bills receiver who doesn't get enough love is easily Andre Reed. He averaged 13.9 yards per catch for his career........8.3 yards per target and caught about 60% of his passes. All much higher than Moulds in addition to dwarfing his overall numbers. Andre Reed had 4 productive seasons in the NFL before the age that Moulds decided to show up and play for the first time in his career(age 25).........and he was still putting up big yards per target and per catch numbers several years later into his career than Moulds........even with the likes of Billy Joe Hobert and Todd Collins at QB.

When people try to re-write the past I set it straight. Moulds picked a GF up by the neck and slammed her into the wall trying to choke her out on a Buffalo campus.........dodged his paltry child support in MS.........he kept the Bills attorney very busy early in his career and there was a lot of speculation that he would be cut outright heading into training camp of 1998. Also reviled for spitting in opponents faces. Kind of a scumbag. Certainly not the kind of guy that people should go out of their way to make excuses as a player for. He's best kept compartmentalized in the era he played in. His domestic violence issue alone would have kept him out of the NFL today. Well yards per target and yards per catch are different things now, aren't they? Feel dumb? You should. As I said.........that 1998 season was the best by a Bills receiver ever. Some prisoners of the moment think Stef Diggs' seasons were better but Moulds was just amazing that year. Unfortunately, being the blockhead that he was he went and put on 10 pounds of muscle, mostly in his legs, that offseason and came into 1999 noticeably slower and lost that YAC aspect that he had in 1998.

Andre Reed wasn't in a RB's frame. He was 6'2" with long arms and huge hands. Same height as Moulds but a larger catch radius and much more elusive after the catch. Moulds 1998 season was unreal. He averaged 11.8 yards per target that year. Best season by a Bills WR ever. But he quickly dropped off and steadily declined by about a yard per catch each year. By the time he turned 30 that was down to yards per target figure was 6.4.........despite having a big armed QB throwing him the ball 10x per game. Easily the most overrated player in Bills history. Very good but the fact that there are people out there that think he'd be the best WR in the NFL today is just asinine. Stef Diggs could run circles around Frankenmoulds.

I literally compared 33 year old Andre Reed with Todd Collins to Moulds. Reed was just a far better NFL receiver. Moulds was a stiff, over-muscled bully-ball receiver. He had no nuance and not much skill and was fed the ball more than any Bills WR........a still record 180 targets one season.......and yet some ignorant fans act like he was under utilized or not given the opportunity to put up numbers. That's absurd. WR1's are often given more opportunity than they deserve when they don't have a QB who can get to his 3rd or 4th reads. See Josh Gordon's 1 great season. See 2015 DeAndre Hopkins before Watson. Reed was a no doubt HOF player. He wasn't a product of Kelly and Thomas........he probably got LESS action because the Bills were leading the league in rushing during those SB runs. You need the skill and you need the longevity. Moulds only had the skill for a few years and then he wasn't that type of player any longer. It's not like he played 10 years at a high level. Didn't happen.