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Where we differ is the idea of "having" to "move on"..........that implies that it takes some effort to let it go. And I believe him that he doesn't care about that anymore. It's not like his special teams gave up a TD. There was a miscommunication with McD but it was a coin toss of a decision either way.......at best. We have literally seen a KR TD beat this franchise on the last play of in a seemingly locked up playoff game. As fans it's easy to get caught up in this line of thinking but it was hardly the special teams fault that they lost that game.

As is NY, but insurance studies have shown that people are less likely to impulsively vandalize a car that is facing them as they approach. Front of a car looks like a face.

There is a chasm between the ability of 2020 John Brown and 2021 Emmanuel Sanders versus Jake Kumerow. Those were 45-50 yard per game receivers in those seasons. That projects to 750-850 yards of production in a 17 game season. Kumerow is a 30 year old receiver who has done nothing on offense in his career. Gabriel Davis, Brown and Sanders all had injury issues in 2020-2021.........which made it NECESSARY to have that 3rd boundary WR option. They needed 3 to get the production of 2. Davis has been a 35 yard per game receiver in his first 2 regular seasons. He will basically need to double that production........about 1200 yards........for the Bills to just be where they have been at the position. He may have the talent to be that good, but there is no safety net with Kumerow at #3.

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I gotta' agree with Gunner here @eball. You are looking at this from a fans perspective...........fans dwell..........it's what we do. It's because as a fan we have no control over outcomes and can rarely live in the moment wrt sports. That's the exact opposite of the feeling of being a coach or a player............which is one of the reasons it's so satisfying and often less gut-wrenching to play than it is to be a fan.

For that matter........there were no bison in WNY since long before Europeans arrived. Beau Fleuve........beautiful river in french........is the origin of the city of "Buffalo" name.

What happened with Dareus is a bit more nuanced than "got paid, stopped trying" that is often uttered. Dareus was a pass rushing force and Rex came in and insisted on making him into a two gapping nose tackle. His initial drop-off coincided with his payday..........but it was as much about the perception of his play than his actual play.........he was a good NT but there weren't plays to be made there. Then he was a really good 1 tech for McDermott.........he was playing really good football for the Bills in 2017.........everything Bills fans have lamented about not having at 1T were the things he was doing. That carried over to the Jaguars where he was tremendous. He was actually really good in 2018 too but the Jags fell off a cliff. I know some people hate PFF.........but 2018 Star Lotulelei had an abysmal 55 grade while Dareus had a 78 grade(which is very good). Dareus got injured in 2019 and hasn't played since..........but the perception that he was just a bum who sucked after he got paid isn't accurate. He went from an All Pro pass rushing DT to a very good run stopper. And another perception is that the Bills saved a bunch of money getting rid of him..........in reality the base salaries on the back end of his deal were quite manageable.......in the $6M-$8M range and he actually took a pay cut with Jax after a good 2018 season. The Bills instead spent $40M+ for 3 seasons of Star Lotulelei.

The complaining about that penalty hasn't aged well. It's a penalty 100 times out of 100 now.............and had been the rule all thru the 2019 season. He left his feet to throw his shoulder high into a defenseless player who is afforded protection from that blind hit. Whether he put his full force into it or not is as relevant as whether a pass rusher who hits a QB in the head with his entire forearm did it with full force. You can assume that it's ALWAYS going to be a penalty. Referees aren't there to judge intent........players know they can't do certain things without drawing a flag and it's their responsibility to avoid certain OBVIOUS actions. All Ford had to do on that play was extend an arm to seal off the defender for a millisecond........it was questionable whether the defender gets a hand on Josh even if he didn't. His nature as an aggressive(and dumb) player got the best of him and cost the Bills a chance to reach the divisional round.

The moral of 2017 is that it really is better to be lucky than good. I'm not saying their regime certainly fails if they start out 6-10.........but squeaking into the playoffs with the worst point differential in decades......... after controversially handicapping the roster by getting rid of the entire core of good young players from the past regime......who then mostly EXCELLED for actual SB contenders........and then the whole Tyrod/Peterman debacle.........that really would have been a bad look for the new regime to a very veteran team who McD was trying to preach his message to. And if the vets don't buy in.......the young players don't either. Whether your message resonates with your team or not is very much about the optics and wins and losses. There is little questioning that McBeane had an incredibly fortuitous start. Between the one-score fortune of 2017(which 2021 took back) and getting a crack at ALL of Mahomes/Watson/Allen/Jackson in the course of 2 consecutive drafts.

In what has to be one of the worst examples of offensive execution in MLB history.........two teams were like 0-35 with runners in scoring position...........the Yanks finally get a hit from the last guy on the bench (Trevino) to walk-off the Cubs 2-1. Bullpen puts up 7 scoreless and Clay Holmes hits 103 mph with one of his sinkers.

They brought in AJ McCarron. The thought being that he was an ascending young QB who had been blocked by Andy Dalton. Remember when Cinci had a high draft pick in hand for McCarron the prior season and they didn't trade him? It was thought he might score in UFA. Instead he landed with the Bills for $5M and people thought Beane was pretty shrewd and had stolen a better QB than Tyrod. Then after Peterman looked good in the preseason.........as he tended to do in preseason and practice..........they traded McCarron. We have seen some pretty crazy miscalculations but the Peterman love was absolutely insane. The plan was NOT to have Allen in the starting lineup in week 1..........but Peterman was so awful it happened.

Nah, Ford has been awful. He was bad as a rookie and then cost the team the playoff game with that totally unnecessary dumb personal foul penalty. Cyrus actually had a really nice 2016 season.......and he started at LT for 5 games in place of Glenn and excelled. He didn't allow a QB hit that (though he was credited with allowing a sack). He could only play LT because the nerve damage in his one knee was so bad that he couldn't fire out of his stance on the right side. He was a bad draft pick but Ford has been a total bum and trading up for him was brutal........and immortalized by the inaugural "Imbedded" series.

Trolling? Dareus was tremendous at 1T for the 2017 Bills, who started out playing and winning with a stout defense. When he went from Buffalo to Jacksonville the Jaguars went from the bottom of the league in run D to the top of it. The Bills proceeded to have the worst 3 game defensive stretch in team history. The Jags then reached the AFC Championship game. Dareus had a tremendous playoffs.......especially dominant in their win at Pittsburgh. And yes, in a matchup league.......3 players can be the difference between winning and losing games.

No this is him losing a bet.........on himself!

They ended up winning 9 games.........but with 6-10 metrics. Basically the OPPOSITE of what they were in 2021 where they had 14-15 win/NFL best metrics..........but just an 11-6 record. 2018 ended up being a reset year..........but it wasn't by design. They mostly just misplayed it that way. They spent a ton in UFA and got nothing for it. Prior decisions like Kelvin Benjamin in 2017 and others backfired. People act like they knew they were going to stink in 2018........it was the outcome, but not by design.

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The Bills took a 10 win roster to training camp in 2017. The .500 Rex teams should have won 12 or more games in both years. They had been pretty stacked and were a top 5 roster. Losing Gilmore and Woods certainly hurt but Hyde and Poyer were big additions to a team whose biggest weakness might have been the safety position. The Bills were still positioned to be good going into TC, regardless of what the mostly horrific talent evaluators on TBD/TSW believed. McBeane then subtracted Watkins and Dareus in the coming months....annihilating first their passing game and then their solid run defense..........and by midseason their roster had been transformed into a below average one and their OC made it much worse by being awful at his job. The new regime didn't work miracles with a bad roster.........they made it into a bad roster with their choices. They simply got lucky reaching the playoffs with the worst point differential of any team to do so in 30 years. Then their relatively strong offensive line group.......who had lead an NFL best rushing attack in 2015-2016.........was decimated in the 2018 offseason.........and they had a truly franchise-worst-ever kinda' free agency period........officially cementing them as a bad roster. But it's important to note that the difference between good and bad rosters now can be just 2-3 players. Free agency has leveled the overall playing field considerably. Good draft picks in 2017 and good first rounders in 2018-2019 turned into very productive players and the roster got back in the black in 2019.

I think we get caught up in the idea that it's "work" and that by not doing that much of it they will be happier. My friend's little brother works for a power 5 college football program with a national championship winning HC and recently he went to visit his bro with a couple of guys from here and they ended up shooting the sh*t talking football with that HC and that coach ended up going home after midnight. Another grueling night of "watching film" for that ball coach. Watching film is often just a euphemism for living for the sport of football.

Cole pitches probably the worst game of his career.........gives up HR's to first 3 batters and 5 HR's overall to Twins. Yanks score last 7 runs and win 10-7. 9th game of scoring 10 runs or more.......most in MLB..........they love hitting at Target field.........even Hicks and Gallo put up some numbers in this series win.

Everyone knows you and your fellow Pennsyltuckians prefer ranch on their pizza hut boneless wings. And ranch is not a condiment........it's a dressing.

Not sure a guy who is assumed to be the other half of a starting rotation can be under the radar..............but if he turns into a star that would be value far in excess of his low end starter money.........which has still been almost entirely elusive for Beane in free agency. Every multi-year deal that has panned out at all for Beane........basically only Morse, Beasley, John Brown and Addison.......has been handsomely paid for. It's pretty weird how the free agency value faucet slowed to a drip completely after the Hyde and Poyer signings. Even that limbo period between lame duck Whaley and hired Beane was more efficient than Beane. Whaley is much maligned........but people forget that he was the Bills pro personnel director before he got elevated to GM. Nobody is perfect but evaluating pro personnel was a strength of his. This much heralded front office has done a lot of things right but free agency has been a struggle for them. I believe Beane will get better at it with experience.........I do believe in their growth mindset........maybe this is the class that begins to change their fortunes in UFA.

Yeah, @Stank_Nasty thinks Pizza Hut is the best pizza and assumes everyone is just lying when they say greasy pan pizza isn't the way. Blue cheese is awesome. Better on wings, better on burgers, better on pizza.

You are forgetting the largest area.........squarely within the radar. That's where Jones falls. $7M per for a DT1T who will play just 45% of the snaps is legit good bucks. Under the radar would be like when they signed nobodies like Tyrod, Lorenzo Alexander and Zach Brown for peanuts and got big production. Daryl Williams is about the only success who may qualify as one from Beane.......but that was really a "prove it" deal success. He'd been an All Pro a few years earlier and was still young. All the under the radar free agents Beane signs have figuratively crashed and burned so far.

I knew immediately what Rex was up to when he over-staffed. He had one foot in retirement after he got out of the wringer in NY. The Bills just offered too much money for him to walk away from so he just hired a bunch of people to do all the work and planned to show up on game days. Beware of coaches who over-delegate and hire too many assistants. Not a profession where more is better.