BADOLBILZ

To paraphrase Polian "you will never see the likes of this team again in WNY". It was merely a reference to one of his bitter exit statements. He might be right..........this current team isn't close to as talented as those early 90's teams because talent is much more evenly spread around the league after 30 years of salary caps, free agency and drastically shortened rookie contracts. There is much more parity.......which is why we haven't seen a repeat champion since the early 2000's.

I'm not propping anything up..........you are just making the mistake of box score scouting by applying todays standards to yesterdays numbers. Again 57% wasn't "abysmal" in 2000.........it ranked him slightly higher(23rd) in the league than Josh Allen ranked(24th) in 2021. In 1999 only 7 NFL QB's had a completion % of 60 or more.........33 QB's had 60% or higher in 2020.......the season where Josh Allen had his only top 20 completion % season. The point is that passing statistics do not tell the story on either of these QB's.........especially not the non-volume one's you cherry picked.

You do realize that even in this era of inflated passing statistics Josh Allen has had a YPA under 7 in 3 of his 4 seasons? Including last season (6.8). And Josh Allen had just a 63% completion rate last year.........which ranked 24th in the league. By comparison Rob Johnson ranked 23rd in the NFL in completion % in 2000 and 7th in 2001. In the 1998 and 1999 seasons in his limited work Rob Johnson had numbers for completion % and ypa that would have both been top 3 in the entire NFL. Obviously, he didn't play nearly enough to qualify but the stats that were his biggest problem were games played and finished. I'm not equating the two but you are really clueless about the statistics and their meaning.

Yeah I've never had BoW with gravy. It's generally believed to have been brought over from German immigrants and I grew up in predominantly German WNY town where most of the grandparents didn't speak much english and BoW was had at a lot of gatherings and I've never seen this gravy thing being done. In my experience most places around Buffalo that serve BoW are pretty good. Even had a couple good sandwiches at the Charlie the Butcher that's inside the convenient store in East Aurora. I like going to Swiston's though. Just BoW and chili. That's all they make and both are excellent.

An anomaly? He had 42 rushing attempts in the 4 games from Tampa thru Atlanta. And that's counting the Carolina game where they tried to have him just throw from the pocket the week after injuring his foot being tackled on a running play in Tampa. He rushed only 3 times that day but behind his ineffective OL he struggled with 55% completion and was sacked 4 times. After that, they went right back to using him like a RB with 27 carries over next two weeks. He also had the 11 rush game early in the season in KC and 2 other games with 9. Running Allen heavily was far from an anomaly. He ran a young-Cam-Newton-esque 122 times on the year........with a per game rate like his rookie season when he was basically just running around trying to figure it out. By contrast..........Patrick Mahomes killed the Bills defense with his feet in the playoff game.........but he only ran the ball 62 times in the regular season.

The Bills guaranteed $90M to just 4 defensive free agents plus their first round pick this offseason. This to benefit what had been the league's #1 ranked defense in 2021. They guaranteed just $25M combined to 12 offensive-side free agents/draft picks.......9 of which you listed. A relative pittance. This after they cut 15 and 16 game starters Williams and Beasley and also their second most productive boundary receiver(Sanders). They lost as much or more production on offense as they had on defense. So yes.........as @ScottLaw said......."they sacriced investment on offense" to the benefit of the defense. Obviously. Taking offense to that with your snarky list of tired vets and injury fliers was laughably illogical..........but that's why your screen name is an antiaptronym.........the opposite of what you are and what you do.

These gems are from 3 of the last 4 posts about a washed-up water-bug scrap-heap pickup. The deeper you get into the offseason.........the crazier the ideas that people will talk themselves into.

I love the shooting..........it is literally UNREAL how much better the shooters are than in the 80's, 90's and 00's...........but the NBA has a scoring problem. It's too easy to go on 15 point unanswered scoring runs and it allows games to get out of hand. I always thought that the court would get too small because the players were getting taller and longer limbed.........if you ever attend an NBA game you realize there is almost no room for the players to move on the court IRL as opposed to the perception on TV. But what has made the court too small is the shooting ability. The court needs to get bigger so they can move the 3 point line back about 8 feet. Interested to see how the NBA adjusts..........it really was probably the worst playoffs ever in terms of competitive games.

4th title in 8 years for the GSW dynasty. Great defensive basketball series by the Warriors. Steph Curry was brilliant in the series..........it's being said that he has knocked Larry Bird from the top 10 all-time players list.

Exactly.........once the playoffs arrive, everything is on the table. But you can't have him running 15 times in a game like he had to against a lowly Atlanta team that they struggled to put away offensively last season and then expect him to be healthy come playoff time or to have a long career. This half-stepping wrt offensive personnel could cut years off a career that we want to last another 15+ years if possible.

Nah. Nobody has been more adamant about wanting the Bills to acquire more WR talent than I...........and it's not new........I've seen the value in stacking the position for a decade. Here's how this works............you make a ridiculous claim to derail a conversation you are looking increasingly idiotic in........then insist that it's true to try to sell it..........and then *maybe* pretend to do the work to prove you are right...........then all that you come up with is me saying I didn't think the Bills should extend Diggs just yet because he has 2 years left on his deal. And you then try to claim victory for your overall take that I think WR's are of decreasing value in the NFL. Douchebaggery is your crutch. You will NEVER find me having said that receivers aren't increasingly critical to team performance in the NFL. Maybe you arrived late, but I did not. Are we advancing the OTA discussion yet?

Rojo took a mostly self inflicted beating because he liked to hold the ball forever like it was the NFL of the 2020's when it was still 1998..............but Rob Gronkowski and Tony Romo have gotten broken ribs(and punctured lungs) falling on a football.........in itself it's not a sign of exceptional weakness. If the highlights didn't exist there would be people who claim there WERE NO Rob Johnson highlights...........there were though..........as there were 4th quarter comebacks for Rojo. Most notably in Tennessee.......but there were others. He could look like a zombie for 3 quarters and look like a star QB for the last few series. He was erratic but when he was into the fight he did the kind of things you saw in those highlights.

Haven't you been saying Josh Allen can't win in the playoffs? We can all play this game. Don't you have some sheep to tend? https://www.thecheyennepost.com/news/bestiality-legal-in-wyoming/article_099ffc5a-5b3f-11eb-91ff-b322b5e4df54.html

I can live with the moves on the O-line........ it's the combination of modest investments across the board on offense..........and more the receivers than anything. The entire league is saying receiving talent is maybe second only to QB talent..........and yet the Bills have been cutting corners their the last two offseasons. Their overall WR talent appears significantly diminished from the group that they had on the field early in 2020. For a team that says "WR is our fastball"........it doesn't seem like they have put enough emphasis on it. I still think they are probably looking for 3rd boundary receiver.

Johnson was the most physically gifted QB the Bills had had until Josh Allen. Great thrower of the ball and WR level athlete. He was not capable of being a leader and didn't have the desire to be great.........two things that really make a gigantic difference with Josh Allen. Rojo could sleepwalk thru regular season games and do stupid sh*t for quarters on end.........but could really dial it up as a competitor when just the right buttons were pushed........which is why he had so many fantastic finishes.........and that Flutie vs Johnson matchup in San Diego was one of the best battles of the entire drought.........you will never see two guys who don't want to lose to the other anymore than that game. Would have been interesting to see how Rojo would have fared in a post 2010 NFL.........an era when it's basically illegal to hit QB's. I wouldn't be astonished to see him be a version of Pad Statford in his Lions days. It is just far easier to play the position now and athleticism like Rojo had pays higher dividends. There are guys getting paid handsomely like Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray who would have struggled to have a single good game in their career if they played in the late 90's, IMO.

Because he allowed 11 sacks........most in the league by a tackle?

Fortunately he wasn't their biggest investment in a new pass catcher this offseason. Oh, wait............he was.

Context. Early in the season teams like the Bills were playing off coverage with extra coverage players against the Chiefs, daring them to take short throws and run the football. KC wasn't taking the small stuff and was instead turning the ball over and getting beaten. What the Bills did seemed significant until you watched KC continue to refuse to take the small gains early in the season. The Titans annihilated them. They were bad on offense and terrible on defense when the Bills first played them. Same defensive game plan didn't work in January though. The Chiefs adjusted at midseason and were being much more patient and methodical and playing great football in the process. Mahomes killed the Bills in that divisional game with his feet and by taking shorter throws.........which later in the game turned into big plays because the rope-a-dope Bills defensive approach left the Bills totally exhausted on that side of the ball.

The primary issues with the offense last season were terrible pass blocking and a lack of a receiver who could take a short pass and make a big play. Not having the John Brown type, who could hit a HR on a short pass because his deep speed opened up space for him, was the literal difference in the Jax and NE games. The little screen pass for a long TD run to Brown was a play they had used to change the tenor of games where they had faltered......like late in the Seattle game in 2020 or against Baltimore in 2019. Teams did not respect the YAC ability of the Bills receivers in 2021..........and with good reason.........they were the worst in the league at YAC. They have passively attempted to address that problem with flyers on Crowder and Tavon Austin. Crowder used to be an excellent YAC guy.......he once hung an 80 yard TD on Tremaine Edmunds. But he's been injured A LOT.......and his YAC was terrible last season. Same story with Austin........he was never a good receiver but he AT LEAST used to be able to get some YAC. Last year he was garbage in that regard......an abysmal, washed-the-f*ck-up 2.5 yards per. That's why the Jags said no thanks. He's tiny and injury prone.......so if he's juiceless he's useless. And before anyone mentions McKenzie........forget about it. He is not a downfield threat. Teams know they can squat on his game and he's not instinctive enough to excel against zone coverage. His ypr numbers look like a RB's. James Cook is also an attempt to have that guy.........but make no mistake.........Cook is not a substitute for an ACTUAL receiver in the passing game. The best receiving RB's still produce less in the pass game than a good slot receiver. And in the process of passively attempting to improve their YAC/explosiveness in the short passing game they've also neglected to replace the depth they lost outside when Sanders contract expired. Could it work out? Sure. I'm watching the Yankees having an epic season despite the bottom of their lineup predictably being disgustingly bad at the plate. The team stepped up in other areas. If the Bills play historically great on defense or IF Crowder bounces back and Diggs and Davis stay healthy it might not matter at all. But what started this branch of the discussion was the declaration of people like @Logic that the Bills made similar investments in improving their offensive personnel as they did their defensive personnel this offseason. And that is not the truth at all.

It wasn't just ONE game........they lost 3 games in a 5 game stretch where they simply couldn't score. That is why they lost the opener to Pittsburgh as well. The reality is.........the 2020 team with the middling ranking defensively was more successful. Yeah, the 2021 Bills eventually became dominant on offense again after they started running Allen upwards of 10x per game. 170 QB carries is not a sustainable plan offensively. They need to be a better offense without resorting to that. They haven't made that easier by adding dynamic personnel the way they have made playing defense easier. All due respect to the lauded Tavon Austin signing, of course.

Yeah I don't think @HappyDays watched that AFC championship game. The Bengals zone coverage in the second half was really superior. Where Patrick Mahomes had Tremaine Edmunds on a string..........Logan Wilson repeatedly frustrated him with instinctive adjustments. The Bengals do have a better 4 man rush but it still took A LOT of unforced errors and poor play for the Chiefs for KC to blow that game. If the Chiefs had played THAT game against the Bills then the Bills would have won. It was a different day. That element is lost on some people. The Bills/Chiefs game was the first time that two teams met coming off scoring 40 points in their prior playoff game. Improving pass rush personnel was a big want........but it was the Bills inability to consistently execute offensively without using Josh Allen like a RB that ultimately sent them tumbling to 7-6 and wasted a golden opportunity at home field advantage.

3-0 at home in playoffs. 0-4 on the road in playoffs.......including 2 OT losses. That's what you need to know about the Bills playing against top teams. The 2021 Bills were on the road in the divisional round because they didn't take care of business on offense in a 5 game stretch where they lost 3 times scoring just 6 points, 10 points and 15 points. You think losing on the road in Arrowhead tells you something? What about failing to score a TD in Jacksonville against the worst team in football? If the Bills play that Chiefs game at home........they probably win by multiple scores. But having the #1 defense in the NFL didn't get them home field advantage, did it?

The strange thing about their compulsion to spend/invest relentlessly on defense...........that side of the ball is where so much of what they do is about AVOIDING matchup football. Matching up is expensive. Being effective in zone defense is a way to stay cheaper on defense. They just can't be sated on that side of the ball though. And since defense is the more difficult side of the ball to both predict and remain consistent at.......try as a team might(see 2020 Bills).........it can become a money pit(see the Legion of Boom Seahawks).