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When were all these "turf naps" @Simon? I don't recall any prior to this season since the concussion that knocked him out of that home game versus NE in 2019. He had a bad head bounce off the turf in a preseason game with the Bengals early in his career but those kind of impacts have been rare. The hit versus Green Bay didn't result in him getting planted on his back and his head bouncing straight back off the turf. Those are the one's that most often cause concussion because the neck is more flexible backward. Against Green Bay he went to the ground, spun a bit and the side of his helmet made contact with the ground. A hard hit for sure but he hopped right up with no hesitation and got in the DB's face. I never bought that as a concussion but it wasn't a great result.

This coming draft might be the deepest crop of NFL quality kickers ever. It's just in time as the league has multiple guys washing out, including Justin Tucker finally. With all the mid-late round picks Beane has I think it's likely they draft one.

Claypool had just one game over 40 yards(41) and just a handful in the 30's over the next 2+ years. I think people really lost track of how extreme his fall off was. I just think football coaches at that level just don't understand people like Maybin and Claypool because by all rights they shouldn't be able to reach that level with their mindsets.

Yeah MVS wasn't going to work. That should have been obvious. But there was really no hope for Claypool. He just didn't want football OR the money enough to hone his skills. Aaron Maybin managed to kayfabe his way to about $20M for 2 seasons with the Bills. He was literally only pretending to play football. Complete with flops and grossly embellishing contact etc.. But even he tried after the Jets picked him up and free agency and a second contract loomed. Claypool left tens of millions on the table this past offseason for the want of trying at all in 2023. Never seen anything quite like it but he seemed to need to be liked or he was taking his ball and going home. From the moment he cost the Steelers that game against Minnesota with his celebration on Dec 10, 2021 and caught universal condemnation for it the switch shut completely off. He had 93 yards that game and was on pace for well over 1,000 that season but he checked out the rest of the year and it only got worse from there. And no, you can't predict that teams that are expected to be around .500 preseason will even be sellers. The Bills had their share of QB's playing like you mentioned and would be "in the hunt" at 4-7 in November and rarely dealt talent at the deadline. You can hope for it, I was hoping Seattle would flop hard and Metcalf would be available. But if GM's of suspect teams didn't think they could still sneak into the playoffs and maybe salvage their jobs in the process they would have traded those players when they had a lot more value in the offseason. So some years there isn't much out there. The NFL deadline isn't like MLB or even the NHL where players bring good value in return. There was solid demand for WR's but still the previous season's 1,000 yard receiver at the trade deadline was worth just a 4th or 5th round pick if you weren't eating money.

The people who NOW think that trading for a WR1 at midseason was the plan all along(despite paying MVS and believing in Chase Claypool) presume that Beane knew that teams with veteran, pending free agent type veteran WR1's were definitely going to be in sell mode in October. You can't predict that. Cincy has been buried in the playoff race all season and they were never going to trade Higgins or Chase before the deadline. Cleveland made the playoffs last year and Vegas had them at 8.5W for over under. I can go on. It very well could have turned out like the trade deadlines where there were so few options that Beane couldn't get his man. But as I said this summer........the thing I knew for certain about this WR corps was that Beane would be desperately looking to trade for a WR1 type in October. It was an absolute no doubter.

Yeah I got big hate from overzealous and unintuitive people like you when I said that Diggs would be fine with Buffalo until they extended him and then he'd get in his own head and f*ck it up. Because that's what happened in Minnesota. And that's exactly what happened. You can call it nonsense, that's fine. I don't value your ignorant opinion and rambling BS.

Any number that ends in million is a bunch but we see players who don't love playing walk away when it doesn't seem to make sense. Daryl Williams probably walked away from $5M or more after his age 29 season. He was a very good guard at that point. It's not like he was banged up, he played 97-98% of the offensive snaps in his time as a Bill. He just hit his number and called it quits.

It's not a hate post at all. A lot of players don't live to play football. I mean we are talking about a guy who took no joy from playing on the league's most famous team and playoff teams at each stop? Reading that as Buffalo has been a revelation to him is foolish and naive. Like when Bills fans talked themselves into the idea that Stef Diggs tendency to irrational disenchantment wouldn't follow him to Buffalo. I mean, Cooper didn't spend his whole career with the Jets for fuxake. Get your head out of yourass. I said it when Cooper was put on the trade market, he is not going to elevate your teams level of compete. He's not a leader. He's good with whatever so long as he's getting paid right. But he's also not toxic in the way that alpha's like Davante Adams can be when things go wrong. He was a perfect fit for the Bills because he is a great talent on the boundary and was dirt cheap. He'll reach the crossroads of his career this offseason when he can no longer command a top 5 WR money as a free agent. So elite teams can now afford him. He has a chance to put a cap on his career playing for elite teams and change the perception that he was just a number accumulator who didn't care that much about winning. But, it also wouldn't shock me if he just retired if he can't get upwards of $20M aav(which I doubt).

If you need leadership and a guy who raises the compete level of your team Cooper ain't it. In the wrong situation(like Cleveland was) that can make him a loser's loser. He'll just go out and do his job well but he ain't going to be any help changing a losing culture and if he is the 2nd or 3rd highest paid guy on the team you gotta' have some leadership from that dude because players are going to look up to that big money. And you aren't winning with a locker room full of players who don't find joy in winning from week to week. But in a situation like Buffalo he can be ideal. They are already very good, the culture is established and they don't need an alpha. They just need a guy who can do what he does on the field. He is making very little money from the Bills now and if he were to re-sign for a Hopkins type deal in the offseason that wouldn't necessitate more than just doing his job.

Yeah McBeane have created a ton of synergy by building a culture and systems that allow them to get more from the players they draft. When a guy like Gabe Davis walks it's not surprising when he crashes and burns elsewhere. Gone are the days when it seemed every player left Buffalo and became the best version of themselves as a player. The 1990's Bills had something similar and it allowed them to maintain a very deep roster despite being a playoff team and drafting late in rounds 10 times in 12 seasons from 88'-99'. But what we learned from the 90's drafting is that eventually you can go broke just trying to make a profit. You gotta' keep getting stars.

My source is I've played violent sports and been concussed. The one in the Houston game was an absolute no-doubt brain stem bender that only a complete idiot would refute. But the one in the Ravens game was the also a typical hit back of head on ground with neck snap and you open your eyes and it's like the sun is a foot from your face. See his facial reactions after he gets buried. That's what all the squinting and trauma around the eyes is.

So if I say @Thurman#1 thinks Allen should run the ball 20 times per game are you going to blindly chase that strawman too? I never said Allen shouldn't run the ball. I also never said he had run the ball more this season. I said he had to run more(20 times) over the last two games because the passing game wasn't as efficient as it had been when they first acquired Cooper and the corps was whole. Do you disagree with that? If so do you expect 8-12 Allen rushes per game to be the norm with Cooper, Coleman and Kincaid all back? I also said he's taken his worse beating in a season so far and the majority of that punishment has been when he's had to leave the pocket. If you don't think so tell me the other seasons he's had concussions in 2 straight games.

I have no problem reconciling the fact that it's not good when Allen needs to run the ball 12 times in a game with the reality that on 4th and 2 on the 26 late in the game when the defense has confused him he has to run the ball to preserve victory. In what way are those opinions conflicted or a move of some goal post? It's an unintelligible conclusion on your part. And no, McDermott wasn't saying he'd see this movie before in reference to Bass missing a kick at the end of the game. That's ridiculous to suggest. A missed kick late has only factored into the decision in 1 of the 9 games that McD has coached against Reid. The reference was to the Chiefs leading late scoring drives against everyone they play if given the opportunity. The objective was to put the game out of reach with a TD or by running the clock out.

And to that point I don't think the Kermit had any pants, or socks or shoes. Mahomes always wears those in public. So it clearly wasn't supposed to be Mahomes because it wasn't authentic.

Yeah the Bengals are the most interesting bad team. They *almost* beat KC and Baltimore twice. Their schedule gets easy but they can lose to just about anyone when they don't bring it, which they often don't. So I tend to think they don't make it. And I wouldn't mind a rematch in the divisional round if the Bills managed to get the 1 seed and had a bye. But if the Bills ended up with the 2 seed and Cinci had the 7 that's a terrible first round draw against a top 5 QB that could put some hard miles on you even if they don't pull an upset. Give me Denver or LAC with their Oregon QB's who've never won anything yet in the NFL.

Yeah I am not sure McD would want to go with yet another unproven OC by elevating Ronald Curry. Just let him go to NOLA to be Brady's OC and learn on the job there. I'm sure Curry is a good prospect but I think the OC position is one McD will want a proven vet at going forward. Just like Reid wanted a proven DC opposite his expertise. And hey, if McDaniel succeeds and gets hired as a HC again.......you get comp picks just like you would with Curry and Babich.

I don't think Joe Brady gets a HC job despite him being one of the Vegas favorites for the Saints. But if he were fired.........and McDaniel were fired........do you think McDermott tries to hire McDaniel as OC? Brings in a guy familiar with the Bills personnel and the division but also I still think McD wants to run a Shanahan style offense.

It's good that it's being talked about because the lynching stuff needs to go. Just in very poor taste and it's not been an uncommon thing for people to put jerseys on a dummy or stuffed animal and hang an opposing player in effigy at Bills tailgates/games. I know that Bills fans could have taken a sign that said "Mahomes is a (gay slur)" into the stadium if it were 20-30 years ago and it would have gotten a lot of laughs but that kind of thing got rightfully quashed and so should the lynching stuff. Be more creative.

Actually, Rick Dennison got handed much of the offense that had just lead the NFL in BOTH rushing and big plays in both 2015 and 2016. They had been 7th in scoring the season before despite a ton of injuries to the receiving corps. And Dennison then wrecked it ENTIRELY by trying to turn them into Shanahan style outside zone team when the OL was only suited for the inside zone and gap pin and pull styles that Roman had implemented. Turned ol' Shady from a 5.4 ypc RB to a sub league average 4.0 ypc RB. Yeah Dennison was the worst of the lot.

Well Sean McDermott and Josh Allen concur that they were compelled to go for it on 4th and 2 because they had "seen this movie before". So they knew it was a terrible idea to give Mahomes back the ball with 2 minutes and timeouts in hand even if they were up 5 with Bass kicking a FG there. Stopping Mahomes from scoring one TD playing 4 down offense with their entire playbook at their disposal is not what you want to have to do. As for it being nonsense to say Allen has taken a beating........he injured left his hand running in the opener, he had his head bounced off the turf and likely been concussed twice in the Baltimore/Houston games. And injured his throwing hand and made another medical tent trip late in the KC game. And the play before the INT to Knox he got absolutely hammered running the ball. All of this while out of the pocket or trying to extend plays. He's never had this many violent impacts in any season and he still has 6 games to go.

The Jets and Sabres are bound by their mutual 13 season and counting, longest non-playoff streak in north american pro sports. It's not going off topic when the topic turns to ownership decisions by Pegula versus those made by Johnson. What Food Stamp U is doing going 1-9 this season is a testament to their sorry alumni but that has no relevance whatsoever to decisions made by the Jets/Sabres.

Oh did I touch one of Mrs. Fergy's nerves and injure you by proxy? The unqualified architect of the current Sabres team was hired years before the life altering event to the wife of the hands-on owner of the Sabres. He's working on his 5th straight playoff miss out of what will likely be 14 straight. Try to keep up with the other team in Buffalo before you go off the rails with irrelevant and inappropriate jagoffery.

I mean, that's what he thought he was getting with Saleh and Douglas. Football people from winning programs who had earned the opportunity. It's not like he just continually hired the clowns and washouts that Terry Pegula hired in hockey in their mutual quest with the NY Jets to never again make their respective playoffs.