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They did but I was responding to GB saying the Chiefs were not at their best offensively in the playoffs. They were probably the hottest post-merger offense the NFL has ever seen thru the first 10 quarters(and a possession) of a playoff season. They were on pace to score 42-44 points per game until the wheels came off at the Bengals goal line in the closing seconds of the half in that AFCCG. They had eschewed the field goal opportunity and Mahomes inexplicably ran out the clock when they were trying to punch in their 4th TD of the half. I think the NFL record average was 42 points per game in a playoff run.......also 3 games........by the 85' Bears and 89' Niners..........both of those padded by huge SB blowouts(and defensive touchdowns) against overmatched AFC opponents.........but I haven't combed each playoff season. After that bonehead play Mahomes went into a coma on the field. I give the Bengals a lot of credit, and especially LB Logan Wilson for not getting worked over like a camp body the way Tremaine Edmunds was by Mahomes...........but Mahomes just flat-out got the yips and was missing throws he never missed in his entire career.

I think you are mis-remembering. KC scored 42 points versus Pitt.......42 points versus Buffalo(570 yards offense).......and 21 points in the first two quarters versus Cinci. One of the most dynamic stretches of offensive football in the playoffs in NFL history. Then it all fell apart when Mahomes had brain lock at the goal line in the closing seconds of the half in the AFCCG as they appeared all but certain to put up their 4th TD of that half.

And there is just a lot more talent in MLB than there are roster spots. That can happen when you are pulling talent from the Caribbean, South America and Japan/Korea. Opposite issue than the NFL has where there isn't enough talent to go around. USFL and CFL definitely aren't the equivalent of AAA baseball quality. Still entertaining to watch if you like football though.

Yeah, they could afford to play White tighter because the front 7 was making plays. They actually started the AFCCG with White pressing Hill but without the front 7 getting to Mahomes, he was soon playing upwards of 10 yards off the ball at times. The other thing about that first game last season in KC...........KC spent much of the rest of the season playing against similar defensive gameplans and after a month or so of obstinence about taking what they were being given.......they got better against it. As great as we all felt after that first win against KC........seeing Tennessee obliterate them and clearly lesser teams forcing them to turn the ball over repeatedly put in perspective just how out of sorts the KC offense was at the time. That said........if the front 7 was as effective in the second meeting as they had been in the regular season contest.......and granted, it's not every game you will get a one-handed interception at the LOS by a DE like Rousseau..........then it would have been a W. Tre White or not.

Grazer really only works without anything else going on. No script looks right with it. Even the most basic text has more action than that lifeless, misshapen frozen burger patty. I think designers are starting to realize that a little at least. The blue cap with the white grazer on it that Joe Marino has been wearing is the first grazer item I have ever seen that I think looks good. Still.........it goes best with otherwise plain clothing. But I get it, satin jackets aren't supposed to look like the height of fashion, they are inherently ironic anyway. Saw some great one's at home games last year.

They ruined it with the grazer on the back.

Exactly. And if you give Mahomes and Hill time..........it doesn't matter who was at CB........they were getting beaten that day. This idea that Tre White would have been the difference in that game is thoroughly unsupported............they simply didn't make the plays in the front 7 that day that would have made the secondary effective enough to change the results. Funny how Bills fans know this is the case with Allen and Diggs versus, say, JC Jackson. But oh no.........Tre White can cover Tyreek Hill for 4 seconds snap after snap for 4+ quarters. Right. Jalen Ramsey is about as good as it gets actually matched up against receivers in the NFL and he got famously burned REPEATEDLY in the playoffs and Super Bowl too. Elite offense done right is a handful..........which makes over-investing in defense a suspect approach.

Man.........if they use another 1st rounder on a defensive player.........making it 6 out of 8 (Allen and Diggs being the exceptions).........this board will be heated.

The simple answer is re-watch the AFC championship game from 2020 where Hill ate up Tre White. Below is Tyreek Hills performance from that game. 4 minutes of Hill abusing Bills CB's........and quite notably, Tre White. The first play and 1:48 mark where Hill runs by White like he's standing still and the play after that where White just concedes a 3rd and 5 with a ridiculously scared cushion. The problem in both of those games was a lack of finishing pass rush.......not the CB play.

How predictable is it that after Star gets cut.......people who defended his play are now talking sh*t about him. That's the TBD two-step.

Well played by the PR team.......cut off criticism by claiming to have done it to BENEFIT the aspect that critics will be most likely to criticize them for.........in this case, the impact on the players.

They had formed a loose alliance to help each other out last year after Texas and Oklahoma jumped to the SEC.

"On December 30, 1995, Buffalo broke the league record for rushing yards in a game with 341, winning 37–22. This was Shula's last game in the NFL."

Good for Tim Tindale. His part in throwing dirt on Shula's professional grave will always be appreciated. A buddy of his told me Tindale was living the fine life on a small lake north of Toronto and still rooting for the Bills. One of @Bob Lamb all time favorite Bills.

I disagreed with your take even though much of it was true. Because the problem is that the things he does are NOT all that he was expected to be doing. You don't draft a MLB in round 1 and eventually pay a $12.7M in cap hit to just cover some areas and "cover a gap" in run defense. He's supposed to make plays. In effect, they just replaced Preston Brown with a younger guy who looked better in pads. If they wanted this level of play they could have kept Preston for another couple years and gone from there. At least Preston proved he could actually lead the entire NFL in tackles at the position in this defense(as Brown did under McDermott in 2017). To whom much is given..........much is expected. He was given the pivotal, playmaking position in the McDefense. The run is funneled to him and offenses are challenged to throw in front of him. He hasn't turned that into plays.

The Big Ten were the middle child of the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 alliance. That's what this move is about. Big Ten is trying to change their position, that's why they betrayed their alliance with the ACC. Big Ten was conspiring to get into that second position of power behind SEC. The Big Ten has been turning into Ohio State and the pips so even though it's terrible for the students.......financially it's a chance worth taking. Situation was reversed, ACC would have done the same. What this really does is make it all but inevitable that there will eventually be one top league among the power teams.........with networks and streaming services bidding like they do on the NFL. The sooner the better, IMO. This whole "conference" thing is very unseemly. It's been pro ball for decades now..........players just haven't been getting paid. Let all these greedy corporations disguising themselves as institutions of higher learning get exposed for what they are: wholly profit driven businesses. The upside.........maybe FOR ONCE the NFL will regret NOT doing something. In this case.......NOT starting a "G League" style minor league. You would be hard pressed to find a major business that has ever benefitted as much from hyper-conservative, wait-and-see decision making than the NFL. But don't count the NFL out from eventually stealing it from these schools. That's the thing these greedy f*cking schools don't realize........their strength is their numbers. If it gets down to 30 teams or so........all bets are off..........because ultimately these players all have ONE THING in mind. NFL careers.

Most of the league is playing 4-2-5 and only one team has the unicorn.

If this is turning into an @Royale with Cheese shaming thread I want no part of it. If not, I will point out that Long Duck could hold his own in the WNBA.

I agree with all of that.......except he is not mediocre.........he's a top 12-15 type starting MLB/ILB in the league. He's just very underachieving. He's a country mile from being the best player on the Bills defense...........just in the back 7 he's obviously lesser than Tre White and also guys like Milano and Hyde who were drafted on day 3.........and Poyer who was an UDFA. Whitner was also underachieving...........though at his position he was hamstrung by the Bills lack of talent in front of him. Which of course was the big complaint with his selection(instead of Haloti Ngata in particular) in the first place. You don't build a defense from the outside inward. Some times the organization CREATES a whipping boy. If Edmunds went in round 3......like Brandon Smith, the Penn State LB from this past draft with a lot of impressive physical traits.........we'd all be like "well, they knew there was something that made him lesser than the sum of his parts".

Now the world series favorites for first time this season https://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/34178422/new-york-yankees-move-ahead-los-angeles-dodgers-world-series-favorites

Leonard has intercepted 11 passes (Edmunds 4), forced 17 fumbles(just 2 for Edmunds) and recovered 7 fumbles(ZERO for Edmunds) with 15 sacks(5.5 for Edmunds) and 538 tackles(463). All done in 3 less games than Edmunds. That's why Leonard is an All Pro every year........and Tremaine has never been.

You could be right..........I certainly haven't agreed with all of their contract decisions. But I think it's more all or nothing. He either meets his pre-draft expectations of becoming a game changing, All Pro, playmaker type...........or they HAVE to get much cheaper at the position. They can't continue to rob the offense to pay the defense unless that defense is capable of imposing their will on the best offenses. If he becomes that DPOY candidate it could really transform their defense. Then they can give him a 7 year deal that's really a 3 or 4 year deal and make some sense of it. If a deal like Milano was going to work for both parties I think that would have been done after year 3 when the stars of the first round usually start getting extended. He was healthier last year and tackled better as a result, but otherwise...........nothing changed other than prices for the VERY best at the position increasing.

If he takes that next step..........and to this point, starting to play "instinctively" has proven to be a huge step too far for him..........he would be an All Pro........then the question is do they pay him $20M per year? For reference, the "Legion of Boom" Seahawks paid their back 7 big bucks at the expense of the rest of the team and look where that lead them to. If he stays where he was at in 2021..........I don't see him being retained even for Milano money. So there is, or at least "should be", a pretty narrow runway to him landing long term deal in Buffalo, IMO.

1. You are the one who intentionally asked a dumb question. Any vague "context" you sought was already in the thread. That will be the last question of yours I ever answer though, your "ask a stupid question" technique is worn out. Try a new angle. 2. They didn't draft or develop Eric Wood.........so it's patently absurd to say that extending just one of the organizations high draft picks(the oldest one with the least room to develop) while clearing out a half dozen of the teams other younger, highly drafted players somehow backs up their claims. 3. Eric Wood was 31, coming off a broken leg and entering a new system. He'd been replaced by a journeyman for the last 2 months of the 2016 season and the offense didn't miss a beat. But perhaps most importantly, Wood was not going anywhere if he simply played out the 2017 season. It was simply carelessness with cap dollars. Beane has done a lot of positive things.........the most important of which is probably keeping ownership from getting involved in football decisions........but in the process his autonomy over the purse strings has lead to some idiotic money decisions. Giving Shady $2M bonus in 2017 when he was already one of the highest paid RB's in the league? Paying Corey Coleman $3.5M for a 10 day tryout? I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he is learning on the job, but we don't have to pretend that he wasn't careless with cap space and that it doesn't have a negative impact on the organization today.