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Yeah it's very misplaced in the NFL. But Boston is a baseball town and in baseball there is no salary cap and the Red Sox are one of the 3 wealthiest franchises so there is never any good reason for them to have a down season...........so it's easy for them to apply that logic to Belichick as well. In reality though this is just giving the fans what sells the day after a loss. Unlikely that the writers actually believe that Belichick hasn't done a good job with that team but that's not what sells papers to irate fans the Monday after a loss.

Yeah he has had a lot of plays where he has hit the dirt quick after catches and relied on the officials to protect him........sometimes it's kept them behind the sticks. His 1st down conversions are down significantly compared to last year when he was running thru contact to get RAC.

Beasley has made some important plays this year but he's not had a good year. The Bills throw the ball like crazy so the catch numbers are going to be there but the yards per catch is ghastly which is why his yards per game is down 20 yards. He takes a beating for a little guy so he might have hit a wall like high mileage RB. But hopefully his brief downtime allows him to get healthier and more explosive because 8.4 yards per catch at 75% completion rate is utterly anemic production per pass attempt for a WR of any kind.

Generally accepted as the best HC in NFL history and has lead NE to 6 Super Bowl victories..........including one just 3 seasons ago..........but he deserves to be put under the microscope after dominating the NFL for 2 decades and winning 9 games this season and likely going to the playoffs with a rookie QB. That's how it goes in big markets.

Niagra. Sully Boners. Checks out.

I can understand a Bills player trying to use any media slight to try to motivate them...........they aren't being covered by the NY Post or Boston Globe........the Buffalo media is very easy on the team.....so the players really gotta' look for it. But the fans that STILL care and get exercised about what the long-exiled Jerry Sullivan has to say look like feeble minded idiots. Jerry still owns you guys.

If those are your first and second round picks.........please no, Beane. That's the epitome of draftin' ferneed. Shaq and Ragland level draftin' ferneed.

Gabe Davis has had ankle injuries that seem to have slowed him for parts of his first two seasons. He wasn't only on the sideline because of Sanders this year. I suspect Covid won't keep him out again next year........but his decision making in that regard cost him 1-2 games. He appears to have the skills to be an 80-100 catch 1200+ yard WR with a great QB like Josh Allen throwing him the ball.......but some players just never full launch because of availability issues and other life choices etc.

Yeah but is it really too much to ask of him to make a play on a football when the tackle opportunity is so easy? How much is there to gain by hard-hugging a nearly full-stopped interchangeable Patriots WR when you can also use one of those 35" arms to reach around and knock the football loose in the process. It's all basics with Tremaine. It's like having an Escalade with no power seats, no cruise, no navi......

At least get Duke on the TiCats next season so you Ontario Bills fans can watch him and US Bills fans have a plausible excuse to visit the ballet.

You draft primarily for the long run.........the immediate needs should be addressed with pro personnel. I suspect they will pursue a stud interior OL and probably make another run at Gronk and then settle for a decent journeyman to back up Knox and then probably going back to the TE in round 3 or 4 (it's a good TE draft). WR should be a high priority in the draft, IMO. It's not an explosive group. Extremely low YAC. And with Beasley and Sanders likely gone(IMO).........and Gabe not yet putting together a full season of production........it's an immediate need as well.

It was a good win and an especially great day for the QB. But they still aren't blocking well in the run game and the defense can't get to the QB and remains too vulnerable in run defense.........which allowed a pretty feeble Patriots offense to convert 5 4th downs and produce a couple epic long drives and 3 TD's against them. They are playing with more intensity sure..........but they aren't yet totally rounded into top form. But after watching them steamroll teams for the last two months of the regular season in 2020.......and then struggle to be close to the same offensive team in the playoffs last year..........I'm not going to get too concerned about what they aren't just yet. Just keep improving......get there.....and get hot.

Daboll has made reference to this in the past. I think that changes this year. With the amount of great young QB talents as there are in the AFC the Bills can't really afford to do the Green Bay thing where they have drafted defense in round 1 almost every year for a decade.

As disappointing as it was for the Bills to pass up on a QB in 2017..........and in doing so trade a great one to a team in-conference that had been narrowly beating us and knocking the Bills down a peg almost annually ever since Andy Reid arrived............Allen has really exceeded even my very high expectations for him as a regular season QB.

On one hand you claim that I am expecting the impossible from Edmunds. On the other you say that a great player could make a difference there. The fact is that physically Edmunds IS that great player. Mentally, he is a journeyman special teamer/off-ball LB. I smh at all the people on this site who watch extraordinarily instinctive players like Hyde, Poyer and White perform at levels well above what their physical numbers indicate they should be able to. None of them would be out of place on an All Pro team in any year since they've been here. But at the same time Edmunds is CLEARLY less than the sum of his extraordinary physical attributes and people want to shout down that notion............while often at the same time saying he's not an extraordinary player. I can only say so many times that he's a top 10-12 ILB/MLB in the NFL.......I've never said he's bad he's just been very underwhelming for a guy with that much physical talent. If him not turning into a game changing, playmaking performer is OK with you then that's fine if you want to own that. Not me.

The Jets had a big game at the Raiders late in 2002 and down 6 points with 4 seconds on the clock and his foot planted on the 50 yard line as he stepped up into a clean pocket..........he couldn't even attempt a hail mary pass for his lack of arm strength..........instead he floated a duck 40 yards down the middle of the field for an incompletion to sink the Jets. That play was an eye opener for a lot of NFL fans who had thought the intelligent and accurate Chad Pennington was Joe Montana 2.0.

No but being in the right place to prevent the big play is the foundation the Bills defense is built on. They sacrifice small gains to achieve this all day. A very instinctive LB knows what that defensive alignment is vulnerable to........recognizes that the Patriots have a dangerous play called by the movement of the OL and the realization that it's a run play...........thinks like a RB at the hand-off and is available to help prevent a 30 yard run not washed off into a pile on the other side of the formation. Edmunds just doesn't think quick enough on his feet to put himself in position to make plays. People point to the Bills coaching staff praising his play as proof that he's doing everything that they want...........well you can't just tell someone to think faster and see the field clearer..........all they can do is keep feeding him information and hope that thru experience he develops a greater awareness. Around 70 games into his career it's getting past the point where you can just expect it though.

Yeah I'm fully anticipating a re-match with NE in the wild card round............and for there to be several people on this board who start panic threads to complain that it's not fair!

It will be interesting to see if Mac can improve his arm strength and athleticism. If not........he's Chad Pennington 2.0. That was a very comfy QB purgatory for Jets fans in the early 2000's.......but significantly less in the QB-robust NFL of today.

Oh I'm always open to it...........but anyone who doesn't even understand that many of the great individual plays you see on the field are the result of in-play adjustments is likely too narrow minded to provide much perspective. The fact that you call it "ad libbing".........which implies unpreparedness..........says it all. The key to looking instinctive is quickly identifying all of the possibilities.....which starts with preparedness..........and then choosing the best play to make.

The Bills haven't really put together a great game on both sides of the ball in some time. The offense was great yesterday but the defense gave up five 4th down conversions and yielded some very long drives and 3 TD's to a pretty punchless Patriots offense. Lot's of room for improvement there.

Oh we got a weak one here.......

This concept is very hard for a lot of the Edmunds apologists to reconcile. They are so caught up trying to be the polar opposite of the "Edmunds sucks" contingent that they don't realize that the answer is in the middle. He's the most physically talented MLB in the NFL. The size and athleticism combo is pretty unique. So being a top 10-12 MLB/ILB.........a devalued position.........is still a considerable underachievement.

No, that's not it. Nickel has been the official base defense of the NFL for years now.