BADOLBILZ

Yeah I'd like to see a return of that Bear front look in one or both of those 49ers/Rams games. As @GunnerBill noted that really suited Edmunds.....maybe my favorite game of his as a Bill.........and Dorian Williams might take to the role.

Yeah, he should easily be able to host a 3 hour show every day and be WGR's lead man. But he can't even hold up a proper 1-2 hour segment because you can't get into depth unless you are willing to keep it real. It's ruined him as a host. And for what? It's not like the sideline gig has yielded him great access to the team or it's players. Sideline girls usually end up with sit down interviews that help propel them to better gigs. Maybe he thinks he ends up in the booth but I don't know if people want to hear his munchkin land voice doing play-by-play and they will always want the color guy being a former player. It's just perplexing to me what he's trying to accomplish. But for short bursts as the homer view opposite of White and Schopp it still works.

Yep. Joe Marino also threw his hat in the ring recently with his gaslighting about the defense intentionally inviting teams to run the ball all they want. Then come to find out McD had the entire defense practicing block-shedding last week. Yeah, OK Joe. These content providers need to stay in their lanes. No NFL team is ok with allowing 150 yards rushing. When that happens, something isn't working as planned.

Yesterday am in the 11 am hour. It was amusing. Shill was brought up on Chuck Dickerson and Art Wander saying anything they felt in the moment about the organization because there were no consequences for criticism. So the WGR listeners really embraced him and his potential early on. But over time his "what the fans don't understand" shtick gets old with a listener base which is full of people who are organizational skeptical or hate-listening to hear the organization skeptics. The people who don't want to risk hearing anything negative know to listen only to podcasts and the Bills sanctioned 1-3pm show with actual full-time Bills employees Brown and Tasker. Shill has himself between a rock and a hard place.

I don't think Reid is quite that smart........he's proven to be a dunce over and over in his career in matchups against Belichick and nobody has blown 2 20 point playoff leads except Reid. But having employed McDermott for a long time(and firing him) he has that 10K' view of how McDermott thinks defense. McD doesn't quite have that same edge because he was focused on the defensive side of the ball with the Eagles. So once McD has shown his hand in that regular season game and the Chiefs get accustomed to the Bills personnel.........it's been easy for Reid to guess how McD will approach the next matchup.

I think that's because we presume that this game will just end up being practice for the Chiefs offense against this defensive personnel/system. These 2 organizations will have played each other 9 times in 8 seasons since McD got here. They might as well be division opponents. And McD is 4-1 against Reid in the regular season but the McDefense gets speedboat in every playoff matchup. At this point........I'd hope that McD and Babich know they have to be able to make broad adjustments against the Chiefs in the playoffs.

There was an NFL twitter MD who said it looked like Kincaid suffered a PCL sprain which is generally a 1-3 week injury. So I am anticipating more action to Knox and more 11 personnel Sunday.

The Cover 1 guys know if they want more subscribers they gotta' wash balls. Also helps them possibly get more access from the team in the future. So they are going to focus on the positive. The key is doing that without alienating the more critical crowd by making nonsense excuses for failure. But I heard Shill Carpaccio on WGR this am and the callers are really getting sick of his over-the-top ball washing. Some dude with a heavy Indian accent called in demanding over and over that Shill be honest before he answers his question. Then the next caller was disgusted by Shill's constant organizational apologizing. It was hilarious listening to him realizing that HIS particular audience is sick of being bullish!tted and talked down to while he endeavors to stay in the best grace's of the team above all else.

I don't agree with your talent assessments. They got younger where they needed to and got more experienced at positions where they were too inexperienced last year. If Cooper comes back and gets up to speed and Coleman comes back and continues his trajectory then the offense will be way ahead of where they were last year heading into the playoffs. DE and CB units are notably better. ST's are better. The only two units that are lesser talented are DT and S. And they could yet get back to the same levels at those spots by playoff time........because neither unit were strengths last year.

So they don't need a WR1 but a guy who put up 1200 yards receiving last year and a guy who went with the first pick of the second round will do? If healthy, Coleman and Cooper are going to get the ball a disproportionate amount of the time. The Bills themselves aren't paying $30M per year for any receiver but Cooper is on a $20M/yr deal that was signed in 2020 when that was about the equivalent of what a new $30M deal would be today. They basically paid the Browns in draft compensation to eat that last $10M or so of that deal.

@Mike in Horseheads thinks you were being snarky (and he likes that).

They only scored 23 points on offense and Allen had his 3rd worst game of the season(after those atrocious Ravens/Texans games that "showed" that they needed a WR1 to compete in stretches against good teams). Not going to be playing losing teams like Indy every week.

Well that was an unrealistic wish. Dejean wasn't going to make it to pick 60.

I'm just glad that they aren't losing these games like they have during so many prior years where they suffered mid-season swoons against lesser opponents.

They barely escaped a home defeat to Miami last week where they were outproduced offensively 6.2-5.5 yards per play. This week.......against a punchless Indy team QB'd by a washed up 40 year old QB they ended up with the same 5.9 ypp as the Colts. What we have been watching during this 4 game stretch against teams who have a combined .343 win % isn't the formula for beating good teams.

The post I responded to(and you then responded to for some reason) was the twitter/X post that the Bills had scored 30 points in 4 straight games. TN, Sea, Miami, Indy. That's the 4 games. 12-23 is their record. That win % projects to an average of 5.8 wins each over a 17 game season. That's bad. The end.

The 4 teams are a combined 12-23 on the season. That is objectively bad. No NFL game is a "slam dunk" but the Bills have taken out the trash offensively the last month.

I think the takeaway is that the schedule just got very easy and they took care of business. Unlike in 2023 when they labored in a stretch against bad teams like the Giants, Patriots, Bucs and Broncos. Instead of going 2-2.......this time they went 4-0. And as a result, now their playoffs won't begin in November and hopefully they can enter the postseason healthy. When Keon and Cooper(and Kincaid now) come back it will be in some point of a stretch that includes 3 of the 4 teams that were in the conference championships last season. That isn't likely to be a time of more scoring but it will be a time when we hopefully find out that the Bills match up better against good teams than they did in the Baltimore/Houston stretch.

Yep I was worried when the D got away from the successful gameplan of intentionally allowing 100+ yards rushing in the first half.........but they hung on somehow.

"As absurd as it sounds"?? All fan bases whine about officiating. Not the least of all Bills fans. 😂 Officiating is a win-win for the NFL. If there aren't a ton of flags, the on-field product is probably good. But perceived unfair officiating really bonds fans to their team. It's literally how pro wrestling gets fans to bond to their faces and hate their heels. The drama of perceived injustice adds to the entertainment value and generates conversation. Often the MOST conversation about that game. There actually needs to be a good amount of controversy to maximize the entertainment value of the product. And by keeping the game extremely difficult to officiate.......the NFL can create that organically.

It's never too early to discuss a topic on a message board. Playoff seeding and posturing is stuff that is discussed in the offseason even. People just get confused sometimes and think they HAVE to read and involve themselves in a topic they don't have a fully formed opinion on yet. Or they forget that anything that's said on here has anything more than entertainment value. OR, in the extremely delusional scenario they think that things said here somehow jinx or encourage a negative outcome. Message board posting is an extreme form of nerdery. More than X even because there is a lot more consequence for expressing your opinions. I mean, it's not too early to start talking 2025 schedule yet now that we know how the 2024 divisions are shaping up and likely opponents. Where is @corta765?

Regarding the highlighted: If you are going to claim that a specific route is a QB's specialty.......then prove it. @Mat68 was just pulling that out of his a$$. My point that Josh Allen had been 1-11 on throws of that depth and field location more than adequately squashes that fabrication. You act like there is some hidden number of similar "high redzone skinny posts" there that Allen was great at. There ain't. Allen wasn't even good on intermediate throws over the middle either. Oh, wait, I'm not specifically addressing the redzone aspect. What route gets easier as you get closer to the redzone? I'll wait. He was just hurling nonsense at the wall to defend an emotion he was having. To clarify regarding the depth of that throw.......to hit Shakir that ball probably has to travel about 30 yards in the air........the drop back yardage + LOS at the 20 + 3-9 yards into the end zone to completion. It was absolutely not a short or intermediate throw. In the context of the rest of your post..........it was a STUPID football decision for Allen and/or Brady to make THAT throw the first option coming out of a 2 minute warning timeout. Allen never looked away from Shakir. He was determined to force that throw.

Is that really your response to being informed that Allen was 1 for 12 on those throws? Man you really lean into your wrong. 😂

So we are resurrecting another "it's not that I am getting old it's that everything is just less fun" thread? Why? There will be a new one in a few months when the next guy hits manopause.

Wow to the bolded. Josh Allen was 1 for 12 on throws of over 20 yards in the middle of the field in the 2023 season and playoffs.........the 12th being that idiotic one hopper to Shakir on 2nd and 9. Your entire premise is dead f#cking wrong. You called it a throw he makes 10 out of 10 times...........in reality he had made it 1 out of 11 times prior. 😂 Below is his passing chart. It slides with the arrow for this year or 2023. You are just in denial about how stupid of a choice that was.