BADOLBILZ

I know people would love to see the Patriots go 0-17 one of these years but that is not happening with Belichick...........the best possible scenario is that they remain a fringe playoff level team with an undersized and/or unathletic soft-tossing QB..........like Zappe or Mac. QB purgatory keeps them out of the running for an elite QB.

You see.........that's why you are always wrong. Expanding and exaggerating my takes. I've never said the Bills were going to become a run-heavy team. That's absurd. You imagine things when you read. I said they signed two poor pass blocking/good run blocking OL in Saffold and Quessenberry. That's a fact........Quessenberry in particular lead the NFL in sacks allowed by an OT last season. I envisioned more of an offense like they ran against the Chiefs Sunday........with Allen under center more often and using traditional play action. Because that makes more sense than having bad pass blockers in a two point stance with the QB in shotgun all day and every running play effectively being a delayed handoff or draw. There has been a mixture of A LOT of different offense........an unsung story of this season is that they are evolving to a point as an offense where they can really be broadly game plan specific for opponents. Some people worried about Dorsey being a drop-off.......I did not.........and instead they've gotten more advanced. But the traditional play action opens up more downfield passing for more yards per play and less wear and tear on a good but thin receiving corps............and the running game actually functions when the lineman are put in position to succeed. That is what their personnel is best suited to do well and we saw that against the best opponent they've faced this season. It's quite comical how you and a few others try to re-frame my takes. The trolling doesn't work on me.

They will have a choice. The key is keeping premium positions stocked.........that's where the cap dollars vanish quickly..........the most likely place to find premium position talent is the early rounds.

I mean......it USED to start in the trenches. Now it undeniably starts at QB...........and if you can put a very good OL around him that's great because there basically aren't any..........and as most NFL OL coaches will tell you that is because the vast majority of young offensive lineman are a big detriment to the team until their 3rd or 4th season under the current system. The transition for most is very difficult. Just throwing picks at it doesn't make it fixed.......see Ford, Cody. It's one thing to select a very athletic LT prospect early.........that's a premium/island position that draws the kind of athletes that otherwise play the DL. But to be an early round interior lineman you need to be a freak of nature to justify it.

A "true hypothetical" would presume both OBJ AND CMC's health(they are both coming off 2 straight seasons ended by injury), learning the "nuances of offense" and........whether either could catch Allen's fastballs. (LOL)

I was wrong about how long Shady was willing to tarnish his rep by playing as a sub-league average RB..........I thought for sure he'd stop playing when he stopped being paid big bucks..........though ultimately I was right that he would become a third rate talking head. And he's awful at it. The Gillislee story was funny..........I simply said the Bills should have given him the slightly more expensive, but still cheap, higher tender and you weaklings tried to troll me like I was over valuing the RB position .........that don't work.........everyone knows I don't value the RB position. But, ya' know there IS a baseline for adequate RB play........and turrible, washed-up Mike Tolbert wasn't up to the task. And, as I predicted Shady fell off a cliff while he would have STILL been on his Eagles contract......... with his ypc dropping a yard and a half. And the story behind the "Jauron 2.0" fabrication was people like yourself who insisted that McBeane were tanking to get the #1 overall pick in the summer of 2017............while I said they were NOT tanking but rather planning to Jauron-ball their way into the hunt. As usual........I was right. As for whether they should have hired Beane in January of 2017? Absolutely. It made no sense to do it the way they did. Maybe Josh Allen can eventually largely erase that mistake but the QB they traded because they didn't have the GM of the future in place has won a league MVP and a SB and been to 2 SB's and 4 straight AFCCG's and eliminated the Bills twice. Facts. So yeah..........they basically created their own biggest obstacle with that dicking around they did with the GM position..........likely knowing full well they were going to hire Beane all along. But yes.........thanks for pointing out some excellent takes by me......appreciate it.

I rarely agree with you because you are so often wrong............but yes, the reasons against adding McCaffrey as a rental at the likely cost far outweigh the LIKELY return in a partial season of work. And part of the issue is that people have unrealistic expectations about what he would add. He's almost certainly not going to suddenly turn into a 6 yard per carry and 12 yard per reception stud. The realistic expectation is that his best days are behind him and that he's just going to be an above average RB if used carefully but with a relatively high injury risk factor compared to Devin Singletary.

Cook depreciated 2 rounds the minute they drove him off the lot. He is a rookie and still may produce but to say that was a sketchy draft decision is putting it mildly. Can't even trade him straight up for a high mileage, oft-injured former star RB with a bad contract. As I mentioned before...........if anyone thinks it's not possible that McCaffrey will never look anything like a star again for any kind of long stretch....... they need to look at Thurman Thomas.........5 years a star and after that he dropped off significantly and became just a good volume use RB. McCaffrey put a lot of miles on at Stanford and then in his first few seasons in the NFL. The Bills may be all-in but there are a number of other positions that could be upgraded before the least important one.

Nobody is arguing that CMC isn't better than Singletary when healthy.........CMC hasn't been healthy for a whole season since the 2010's. But an extra yard per reception out of the backfield isn't worth much in trade or cap space. For example.........a healthy Jamison Crowder is a career 11 yards per catch option at slot.........MORE of a gain over McKenzie(9.5) than the difference between Singletary and McCaffrey in the pass game. And those are minimum wage level receivers who a team wouldn't trade anything more than a 5th rounder for in their most desperate moment. The math simply doesn't add up to make it worth much to acquire McCaffrey...........and you can't separate the ridiculous acquisition cost for a rental at the least important position on the field from the potential modest gain.

Film study. Defense's have been giving him looks to encourage shorter throws and funnel the ball in a predictable direction..........the DL anticipates this........and in some cases Allen has really been staring down receivers. I mentioned this after the Miami game. It's a defensive adjustment. Not random. The past couple weeks they have really started pushing the ball downfield and that is really the way to use Josh Allen. He can play the dink and dunk but that allows defenses to negate some of his greatness. They need to always have an ABUNDANCE of receiving personnel to do this. They are too thin there at the moment.

There is no RB whose impact in the passing game is "enormous"...........the idea that throwing to a stud RB consistently leaves modern defenses vulnerable is not supported by fact...........there is still a defender assigned to a RB and now those defenders are often......if not usually..........faster than the RB's. Hence the relatively pathetic returns on passes to even the best RB's compared to the days of young Thurman Thomas. Not sure why this is hard to grasp on TSW but the extra WR has replaced the "3rd down back" concept in the modern NFL and it really doesn't matter what down you deploy them because defense's are base nickel now. ACTUAL WR's are doing this too........not moonlighters like Alvin Kamara who is excellent "for a RB"........but really NOT some polished NFL WR. Those actual receivers can beat back-heavy coverages as well........but for 10-13 yards as opposed to 8. As I said last week...........the problem with the Bills rush offense is that they are trying to run the ball from a position of ultimate weakness........out of shotgun and using simple zone concepts that allow them to play fast but don't allow the OL to either get into their run blocks or get in better blocking positions to wall off blocker like they are when they are allowed to be on the move. Then what do ya' know? They line up behind center with traditional play action in KC and Singletary puts up 5 yards per carry. How much more than that do people think Christian McCaffrey is going to give you? Recent history suggests a fraction of a yard less on the ground mixed with a yard or two more in receiving. The Bills offense isn't and shouldn't be about moving down the field in those kind of small increments. If people want to see a notable uptick on offense..........figure out a way to get a second boundary option at WR that would allow Diggs to play in the slot..........where he is unstoppable in the same way that Cooper Kupp is. Or at least let Shakir replace McKenzie. These are ways to make NOTABLE yardage gains per play.......potentially 3-5 yards per touch gains.

Don't forget the Bucs........didn't big name washout and bargain acquisition Leonard Fournette have a good game in the SB versus KC? With the exception of Seattle..........who had the best defense of this current century..........none of those teams you mentioned were lead by a star RB........and it's probably NOT a coincidence that the league drastically altering the rules to make it safer/easier to pass the ball in 2010 has really accelerated the declining impact of star RB's to basically ZERO now. Now if you want to make the argument that a great OL can move the needle on championship hopes.............sure............but those are basically extinct(along with the RB who produces year-after-year until age 30). The game has evolved and the record shows that.

I don't think it's just McDermott's loyalty. He's shown a healthy disdain for McKenzie's carelessness. But I think part of the deal with bringing him back was knowing that his teammates love him and badly want him to succeed and it might rock the apple cart a bit if they bench him without giving him enough rope to do the job himself. Yeah, they likely have concerns about Shakir's readiness..........but this is common with young, non-1st round WR's........they tend to ride the pine early in seasons and then teams start expanding their role. Hopefully it's that way with Shakir. If not, they need to acquire help to push Lil Dummy down the depth chart enough so that his playing time is sporadic enough that opposing defense's can't gameplan to funnel the action toward danger-prone Dirty.

His reaction after that Miami game means nothing. I'm not really sure where you are gapping here but nobody is going to wonder how he holds up under pressure or worry about him showing anger up in a box where he is a mile away from being able to do anything about it........he was a championship level QB who played well under pressure and has A LOT of NFL coaching experience. He'd be over-ripe if he were from the Shanahan or McVay trees. This guy, on the other hand, he was a division 3 long snapper. I don't watch much european kickball.........do the guys in the $20K suits on the sideline never act a fool when they are very mad?

The better question is if McKenzie is better suited to be a RB. Because McKenzie is a hack as a slot receiver and really shouldn't be any higher on any teams depth chart than WR6. Every time you give him the ball.......or allow him to field it on special teams.........you are putting it in harms way. That negates the ability to gain separation on the least of a teams pass defenders........which is often the guy assigned to him. If I were game planning against the Bills he'd be who I want the ball to be funneled to. I don't think it's coincidental that it went down that way in KC. Teams know. He kills drives.

He's not a WR.......let alone a very good one........that's just a false narrative. Too many Bills fans are envisioning a return to the days of Thurman Thomas.........who averaged almost 11 yards per reception picking on big, slow LB's over the first 5 years of his career (which is basically when he hit the wall). Thurman actually had a higher yards per reception in his second season than Stefon Diggs did in HIS. Christian McCaffrey is good by todays RB standards but he only gets you about 8 yard per reception. That's it. That is NOT to be confused with WR production in the NFL. A halfway decent receiver does more than that. RB's are not WR's...........not James Cook.........not McCaffrey or Kamara..........and not Breece Hall once he gets enough games under his belt to matter.

The Bills should have blown the Chiefs out on Sunday.............if they had a receiver that was proven good enough to keep Flubs McKenzie on the bench THAT would have likely added 14 points and created a lot of extra momentum. And had they had that guy in the Rams game it probably wouldn't have been as close as long and maybe they get a chance to kick a field goal at the end of the Miami game. Hopefully Shakir steps into that role or they add an outside receiver and play Diggs A LOT more in the slot.......where he is lethal.........instead of Lil' Dummy. That being the case and not factoring in the unknown like injuries..........it's hard to envision KC making a move that would close the talent gap AND be enough to beat the Bills in Buffalo if they aren't turning the ball over(be it literally or on downs).

The disconnect here is that you think winning a few random regular season games on the strength of running the ball and playing good defense is "moving the needle" toward winning a Super Bowl. It's not. That's been proven time and again over the last 25 years. Playoffs come........defensive business decisions stop happening........run games get shut down regardless of what All Pro you have in your backfield and teams that have built themselves around giving a stud RB touches find themselves a fish out of water. See New Orleans time and again with Alvin Kamara.......the "other" McCaffrey. Now if a stud RB gets released at midseason and is willing to come aboard knowing he may only get 6-8 touches per game.........I'm OK with that. But if you trade a 1st or 2nd round pick......or heaven forbid MORE........for a twice busted-up f*cking RB? You are not only stupid but you are OBLIGATED to make that look like a productive transaction. And in the case of McCaffrey.........he has no guaranteed money left on his contract. This is essentially his walk year. It would be a potentially huge personal sacrifice for him to risk coming to a team and putting up modest numbers in limited opportunities and then hit the free agent market. As for what the poster was comparing.........its called comparing apples to oranges. It's an utterly ridiculous comparison. Everyone knew they needed and didn't have a finishing pass rusher. The GM even said so. REPEATEDLY. Has the GM said "we don't have a big time RB and we need one of those"??? I thought not.

Are you seriously comparing the impact of a RB to that of an elite pass rusher? That would not be very intelligent. Your running back is the least important player on the offense or the defense.........the difference between a good one and a great one is a fraction of a yard per touch.........that most certainly doesn't move the needle when your QB can throw for 300-400 yards. Pass rusher is second only to QB in impact. Follow the money. All the RB's who have been signed to 8 figure AAV second deals in recent years have made their teams look very dumb for doing so........including the Panthers.

There was a lot of sucking of Shady's d!ck on this site for many years.

Yeah Woolen is running away with it right now. He was a star of the combine. Seattle has now twice taken advantage of teams, IMO, inexplicably passing on freaks of nature in the draft and been rewarded with the two biggest, fastest perimeter players in the NFL. They haven't done a lot right in the draft but those are two big time players at premium positions.

I'm sure they would love to.........they have one of the worst 2023 cap situations in the league......almost as bad as the Bills situation but with a losing team and no QB. Thing is that trading or cutting McCaffrey doesn't give them immediate cap relief.........it accelerates a $20M+ cap charge for them. The easier thing for them is to keep him and try to re-work his deal.

Yeah it was after the botched lateral. Later in the drive they showed him again and he had a concerned look. He's a screwball. Part of his charm with teammates is his inappropriateness. I believe he made a joke about Micah Hyde's neck last week that Micah didn't care for. Young men like to have a clown like that around but the problem is that his lack of situational awareness carries over to the field.

He was the usual Devin Singletary.........which is very good.........dude is a career 4.7 yards per carry back.