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Is this like when Marv Levy and Russ Brandon let players decide if they wanted to play for the Bills and TSW said that was showing the roster and the rest of the league that Buffalo was a good place to play and that would lead to players wanting to play for the Bills? Reality...........players care about: 1) THEIR money 2) THEIR treatment 3) THEIR self interest 4) Everything else In that order. They could be a last class organization.........if the pay is right and the QB is right..........that's ultimately what matters.

He might not have known though. Fans assume that all players at least follow the league somewhat.......that's not always true. I found it funny that Von Miller has talked on camera so much about the mutual admiration between he and Bruce Smith and thinking that he was going to be drafted by the Bills..........but seemed honestly surprised when recently told that the early 90's Bills lost 4 straight SB's. This is a just job for many of these guys. It's a hobby to us.........its work to them.......and some don't care one bit about what happens in the league when they are not at work.

1) Not ever = Never Literally the same thing. 2) Rather than arguing with my point that improving the personnel could greatly reduce his running..........and potentially extend his effectiveness later into his career..........maybe admit that it's obviously the best approach for the organization. And 2-5 isn't a "magic", pulled-out-of-thin-air number.........it's literally the number and a much broader range than it sounds like.........because all the long tenured greats have very, very rarely rushed more than 2-4 times per game in their seasons. What does it take to admit that 2 is A LOT less than 8-10...........saying it's 400% to 500% more? Just admit it for chrissakes. I know people are in a fervor about winning a SB NOW.........and want to patch up every perceived hole and that the assumption is that on the offensive side of the ball Josh Allen can cover up any weakness with his ability to play RB. But if you are going to trust ONE process..........that process should be that job #1 is to protect the QB.

Try looking at it this way. The Bills two current starting boundary CB's had excellent passer ratings against of 59 and 70 in 2021......and their defense finished #1 in pass defense. The Bills OL meanwhile allowed a horrific 125 combined pressures and sacks.........versus the 100 that the much maligned Bengals OL. The Bengals made sweeping changes to their OL. The Bills added a statistically worse pass blocking LG and are otherwise running it back. They are starting from polar opposite positions..........the secondary was excellent........the OL was poor. Neither the CB or OL units on the Bills have depth.....we all know this. But the OL depth are players who are proven awful like Cody Ford and Dolphin scrub Greg Mancz..........while at CB, players like Lewis, McCloud and Griffin are unproven......not proven to be liabiliities.

I don't care about national exposure...........but if this game had taken place between the Giants and the Cowboys............NFL Network would have it playing on loop from 10pm-8am every day. Such a great, great game. I think it will get more recognition as the best game ever as time passes. Doesn't matter that neither team won the SB..............a lot of the greatest NFL playoff games......Immaculate Reception or Kellen Winslow games for example....... didn't yield a title winner.

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"Whatever it takes" is the key. If the OL continues to be a weakness........and the receiving corps doesn't improve wrt to YAC.....then WIT will include running the ball 6-10 times per game.........and 10-15 in important games. He'd be an idiot to keep testing fate and I give him more credit than you guys in that regard..........it's no different than learning when to give up on a dead play and throw the ball away and he's made great strides at that since 2019.

So you were exaggerating for effect when you said "never"? Thank you

Literally, you can look at Diggs then existing contract and say there was no need to act..............not just "technically". You can't keep everyone at their happiest as a GM.........sometimes players are going to want for things. I think Beane did a pretty good job keeping Diggs at bay on an extension for a couple years.........but ultimately the objective should have been to get him to the offseason before his walk year and see where he stood going into his age 30 season. Beane blew all of his gains by having him at 3/4 of the market by re-inking him at the top of the market, IMO. People can disagree but I think this deal ends with 2-3 years left and a lot of dead money.

When did Levi Wallace and Dane Jackson keep the Bills from fielding the top pass defense in the NFL when they were starters? Dane Jackson had a 70 passer rating against.........which believe it or be wrong........was better than Tre White had in both the 2017 and 2020 seasons. Why do we ASSUME Tre White can't come back in 9 months and be good in zone defense when Rod Woodson came back 5 months post op and played in the SB 27 years ago? Why do we assume that the Bills CB depth that has proven to be much more reliable than the Bills OL depth...........isn't going to step up and work fine behind a pass rush that is enhanced by 3 veteran upgrades and reasonable-to-expect improvements from 3 young top draft picks?

That's not what Happless said and what you agreed with..........that the Bills will NEVER get him to stop running the ball 100+ times per regular season regardless of how good the OL or weapons around him are. You guys are being unrealistic and assuming his intellect will never catch up to his impulsiveness, IMO.

Classic use of the under-sell to act like 2-3 is a ridiculously low bar. In reality, 3-4 rushes per game is John Elway and Steve Young "classic scrambler/runner but still a great passer" type rushing frequency. Like I said........Allen had more rushes from the late season Tampa game on(59) than John Elway had in any season but 1..........and that one season where Elway had more he ended up injured. Allen may be a different beast...........but it's not worth the risk. The only comp is Cam Newton and we know how that went after 6-7 years as a top QB. I'm probably different than a lot of folks here in that I'm not a finish line fan...........my intention is not for the Bills to just win one SB and then whatever happens next is fine...........I invest a lot of time going to the games and I want AS MUCH great football from Josh Allen as I can get. So the finish liners can worry about filling holes on paper.............my concern is them doing what's best for the franchise QB..........which in turn will give them the best chance to win a SB.........whether it feels that way to some or not.

The evidence I have is that no QB has even come close to being able to running the ball that much and maintained their ability as a QB for a decade let alone the 15+ years that we expect/need from Allen. The punished passers of the past were topping out between 3-4 runs per game for most of their careers. Allen ran 15 times against a sh*tty Atlanta team last year. He's a great athlete........but save the running for the playoffs. His greatest attribute by far is his right arm.........the ability to make defenses defend the first 30 yards from the LOS the way they would normally only have to defend the first 15 yards. That skill is so much greater than his running ability...........it is criminal to let him get beat up and potentially undermine his potential to be so great BEHIND the LOS. Have we learned nothing from watching Tom Brady..........less hits = healthier body = the ability to execute in the pass game for a LONG time. As for my comment about all defensive fixes are temporary..........it's based on the statistical fact that defensive success is much more difficult to maintain than offensive success. Defense's turn over fast. There is no elite QB on that side of the ball that can guarantee you a minimum level of success.

So you think Allen will be running 6-10 times per regular season game when he's 32? Or are you just saying you think he will be toast by then? The Bills did have a late season game last year(Carolina) where they CLEARLY told him not to run.........and he only ran 3 times. It was ugly because the OL was a swinging gate and he got sacked 4 times...........but he didn't go off script. It's on the Bills to make sure that he's protected better and given a broader range of options in the passing game so he doesn't have to run to keep the ball moving. The playoffs are a different story. Image the 38 year old John Elway diving for the end zone and getting nailed and spun in the SB against the Packers. Patrick Mahomes runs when the stakes get higher..........he's had some killer runs in the playoffs and also taken some bad hits then too.........but he keeps it in the 2-5 runs per game average in the regular season. That's PLENTY..........and that is where it needs to be. I don't think Allen is as dumb/stubborn as you guys do.........I think he's proven to be more aware than that in how he has addressed his weaknesses. He is smart enough to get there if the Bills don't make it impossible to do otherwise with their lack of emphasis on offensive talent quality.

Aged out.

Boosters are literally the driving force behind NIL deals. It's not like random corporations are lining up to give 3 star recruits endorsement money so that they can sell more products in the vicinity around the stadium. The percentage of boosters that don't own or fund companies that they can hire players to shill for.......no matter how absurd the notion........is approximately 0. Point being........don't look for players to be losing their eligibility over stupid sh*t anymore...........the NCAA is the one who is getting their eligibility to steal money from players gradually taken away.

I remember the Bills scoring one less TD than KC........despite having the ball 2 less times than the Chiefs. And that game was the first time ever that 2 teams that had scored 40 points the week before had met in the playoffs.............it was an extremely unusual situation with 2 healthy, fresh and red-hot offenses matched up. You shouldn't overreact to that. Instead..........focus on the Bills losing 3 AFC games, to much inferior opponents, in the span of 5 weeks where the offense scored an average of 11 points! That is hard to reconcile after seeing how dynamic the Bills offense was when they decided to run Josh Allen 10-15 times per game..........but that was their offense before they started that unsustainable practice. Just one more AFC win and that Bills team would have had home field advantage.

I've mentioned MANY times that the Bills addressed the lack of good blocking by using Josh Allen like a running back. Some of you are far too casual about them rushing Allen sometimes 10-15 times per game in many games down the stretch...........a fair amount of those by design. They didn't fix the blocking...........they just made it so defense's couldn't hit Allen until he'd GAINED some yardage. That's not sustainable. To put it in perspective...........Josh Allen had more rushes just from the Tampa game thru the KC game(59) than the famously reckless John Elway had in any entire season of his career but one. They need to make the pocket a place where Allen can be comfortable throwing from..........this wear and tear shouldn't be encouraged by half stepping wrt offensive personnel............keeping him at his best is job #1 of the Bills organization. The secondary is a moving target.........changes will need to be made almost every year......defensive success is very hard to sustain..........all fixes are very temporary. The QB position needs to be stable and the GREATNESS of Allen needs to be kept intact as long as possible.

If there were another Owen Power where would you put it? Poower? Powero?

NIL. NCAA athletes can be paid now.........so I wouldn't expect to ever see such issues again.

Never? Well that will be a very short career as a franchise QB then, unfortunately. Generally speaking 2-5 carries is all that's been proven sustainable for mobile, body reckless type franchise QB's like John Elway, Steve Young, Brett Favre, Mahomes etc.............so it's time to make like that Panthers game last year and tell Josh to stay in the pocket and figure it out during the regular season........before it's too late. Some of you are much too casual in brushing off the mention of double digit carries by a QB in a game..........that is an out-of-hand situation and it was THE NORM late last year because of shortcomings on the OL and a lack of YAC in the corps.

Only because you know it's too ridiculous to post. Instead you keep VERY VAGUE how this plan is going to alter the outcomes of the Bills defense against fast AFC offenses. Basically it's a world of make believe where throwing the highest possible draft picks at a position automatically makes it better.. Whether it represents value or makes sense to invest that much into this specific scheme or not..........and ignoring issues that much more directly affect the health and productivity of the most important player on the team.........that QB.

You simply don't care about protecting and preserving the franchise QB............clearly not the top priority to you. The Bills offense lost 3 conference games in a 5 game stretch and scored less than 20 in all of them in October and November...........prior to turning Josh Allen into a battering ram to combat their league worst kinda' pass blocking OL. He can't be expected to run 11, 12, 15 times per game again.........that number needs to be more like 2-5 times........MAX. Otherwise the franchise QB is going to end up like Cam Newton.........a shelf life like the Seattle Legion of Boom defense instead of 20 years like modern franchise QB's. The Josh Allen is "set up to succeed"nonsense is

Yes he and others literally expect rookie corners who are posting high 4.3's-low 4.5's out of pads to come in and shut down the probably fastest receiver......if not player.........in NFL history. It's not going to happen.........and the Bills aren't about to move out of zone coverage and into man to find that out. That being the case..........you don't NEED a first round cover corner talent. The Bills are still going to try to get QB's to make lot's of small plays to move the ball and hope to cause mistakes with their pass rush.......or wait for teams to simply make execution errors..........that is the style of defense.

Offensive Line. Wide Receiver. Offense. Remember that.....the Bills had the #1 ranked pass defense in 2021 despite being only 10th in sacks. Levi Wallace came undrafted. Dane Jackson came 6th round. Taron Johnson was in the 4th round. Jordan Poyer 7th round. Micah Hyde 5th round. Maybe you shouldn't worry about the secondary.......there are plenty of them..........if where they were drafted is your rationale.