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I mean, he made some bad decisions and throws in the second half too. It's hard for almost any other QB to play much better than he did. But.......not for him. The last time he played the Rams in LA he was absolutely surgical. But not as memorable.

Well, yeah........but it wasn't like he pitched a perfect game against a great defense and lost. He had 2 games worth of TD's but a game and half worth of bad decisions and throws too.

Well sure he wants to get his kid a path to success........but it absolutely makes sense to have a successor in place for 73 year old HC. Obviously. As for the NIL bidding wars........they've served to level the field some. As has the portal. If not for them it would still be Georgia or Bama in perpetuity. It's not the NFL system of parity but it's better than what it was. If only for the fact that the criminal organization known as the NCAA now actually has to allow players to be paid.

That's one of the things he wants if he agrees to take the UNC job. He wants Stephen to be named HC in waiting. Which makes sense for recruiting because every other HC is going to be recruiting against BB's age. Ideally you want to know who is going to be the man in 4 years. Makes zero sense to demand that at the NFL level. I think you are conflating the two.

Oh it will be looking like the worst contract in baseball history at some point. I doubt his body will hold up to his very unnatural style of hitting. He was already trending toward DH status. But the Yankees have a billion in revenue annually. I don't care if $500M of that ends up being wasted money over 15 years. Their revenue might be $2B annually in 10 years. Doesn't matter for Yankees or Dodgers because their revenue dwarves all others. This is a big setback for the Yankees in the Judge/Cole window and Soto rakes at Citi field so should be a fun few years for Mets fans at the least and then Steve Cohen or his heirs can eat the loss personally, no problem. Scary day for small market baseball teams because a player proved how lucrative it can be NOT to take the early money. Soto can't run or play a lick of defense and he got $53M per. What would Bobby Witt have been worth if he waited instead of taking that horrible deal with KC? Gunnar Henderson gonna' have to think twice about taking less than $1B to sign early. 😂

Puka is a HOF talent. But he plays with such abandon that he will end up washing out due to injury. But when he is on he is maybe the most unstoppable WR in the NFL. Bills ran into a Rams offense that was mostly healthy, which almost never happens. McVay and Shanahan beat the hell out of their players and we saw both ends of that spectrum the past 2 weeks.

I said it in another thread but he had put in 6 months of prep for his walk year right before he signed that contract. Hay was in the barn so the results followed. Not sure if he got around to making any hay this past offseason. Looks like naw. Well he didn't look good yesterday and I could have sworn I saw him go off the field favoring his arm like he had re-injured that wrist.

What makes it worse is that perhaps the Rams most vulnerable spot on the entire team is their interior OL pass blocking. Avlia and Limmer are among the very worst interior pass blockers in the entire NFL. Shameful performance from the DT's.

Agree on both. The blitzes were utterly ineffective. As for Oliver.......I suspect he had a bump last year because he had approached the 2023 season like it was going to be a walk year. We tend to forget because he signed during summer but he'd spent 6 months prepping to earn a big pay day on the field. Nothing like a walk year to get players in the best condition and mindset of their lives and most of that hay was in the barn by August. It's hard to use the excuse of not having good 1 tech production this season because Jones missed most of last season and Oliver played well despite that.

And there were probably a dozen decisions and/or throws he'd want back. It wasn't a master class in efficiency at QB because the Rams DL won the LOS.......but they couldn't bring Allen down and once the ball got past the Rams DL it was one big play after the next against their horsesh!t back 7.

They are talented enough on D everywhere except DT. The current DT's undermine the entire scheme on days like this. They can't be trusted to hold their ground and force the run outside or collapse or penetrate the pocket consistently. So the ends and back 7 can't just go out and play their games. It's the #1 need going into the offseason, whenever that begins.

Nothing will quell anyone who thinks a 3 loss team deserves a chance to play for the national championship. All that really matters are teams that actually have a legit great chance to win the tournament. That will always be forgotten by some no matter how large they make the field. Nothing will make me believe that Alabama or Miami had a legit chance to win 4 games in that tournament. The fact that half the field that did make only has a snowball's chance doesn't really change that, IMO. They made it so broad that nobody really should have a legit gripe.

I honestly believe that the Bills turnaround really started with the Bills mafia stuff. I initially hated the goofy "mafia" moniker but having watched(in person many times) how the north side of Chicago kept the pathetic Cubs franchise alive by turning games into nothing more than a social event.....and thriving...... I always felt it was imperative for Bills fans to also somehow identify as a separate entity from the team. It changed the dynamic of how the team and players viewed the fans. Then the team wanted to profit from that fan solidarity and the players wanted to perform for it. There is a dynamic in place where the Sabres suck continues to mount and the fans feel increasingly victimized and then their voiced frustration only adds to the toxicity. We saw it last year when the players were refusing to acknowledge the fans after games because they were bitter about booing. With so many games I know that it's harder for hockey fans to separate themselves from the results while still supporting the franchise. But that's the approach that's needed, IMO. The organization is a joke........so don't take it seriously. Unite around something different than the performance and results. Easier said than done but it's been proven to work.

I wasn't really aware that @NewEra was calling Kincaid an asceding superstar TE. Yeah he has pretty much blown so far this year. I haven't seen a mea culpa on that until now either so maybe he has owned it or maybe @FireChans just called him out and you are presuming he owned it prior. I don't know. My issue is questioning his @BullBuchanan fandom and the vitriol used. I bust people's balls all the time but it's not personal and hateful like that. I mean a long distance, online participant only fan like New Era calling on another Bills fan's cred? GTFOH that's hilarious. 😂

Tom Landry doesn't count the first two years of his streak NFL teams only had to play 14 games. Soft! ........Please with the counting stats that include era's with less games, people. Like the BS about Saquon deserving to be MVP because he is probably going to break the single season rushing yardage record. He isn't even on pace for more yards per game than Jamal Lewis(this season vs Lewis 2,000 yard season.......or even ypg career) let alone the distant ypg stats of Dickerson or OJ in their record seasons. But in response to the question.........I appreciate what McDermott brings to the table and I think he CAN win a SB.......but maybe a lot more coaches than you think can go 11-6 with Josh Allen five straight times and get on that list. The stat, IMO, is more a testament to an elite QB staying healthy than anything. But yes, if you cherry pick the right stat you can put McDermott in a category with 4 HC's who combined to win 12(?) Super Bowls.

Wow you must really hate that dude to go so far out of your way to insult him so hard. When you take into account the degree of pettiness needed to dig up this thread that's a high quality hit job. Are you going to stop at Starbucks before you hop that e-bike to Central Park?

It's a matter of opinion I guess but IMO there are championship seasons and then there are dream seasons. Bill Cowher winning his only SB "ugly" over the Seahawks was a championship season but not a dream season. Great and meaningful to Pittsburgh and for Cowher's legacy but to the rest of the league, league history and the fans? Meh. The dream season scenario requires a ton of things to align to be extraordinary, IMO. 1990 was the closest to a Bills dream season scenario to this point. 51-3 AFC championship win at home with the country united by patriotism.....poised to face the 49ers who were 2 time defending champs going for the first 3-peat with the 1989 team being arguably the greatest NFL team ever. It was going to be maybe the greatest SB match ever and the Bills were SO talented and guys like Kelly, Bruce, Thurman and Andre were all playing like like blossoming HOF'ers. It looked like a potential dynastic changing of the guard. That Bills team could have not only won a SB but have been historically significant and memorable. A little matchup snafu a few hours later, courtesy of the Giants, greatly changed the vibe of that SB and the overconfident all-time SB favorite(to that point) Bills ultimately blew that compromised version of the true dream season scenario. I think the 2020 season was the next closest dream season scenario as so many amazing and truly unpredictable things happened and it aligned where they could have beaten all-time franchise nemesis Tom Brady in a SB. I guess to some a Bills/Lions SB would be a significant matchup, but mainly because they are two frustrated franchises. To me this is just a season where they can potentially grind out an overdue SB win. Let's hope that's the outcome, that's all that matters and all that is within their control.

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Well it was a LITERAL apology and White forgave him. If you really need that haterade you do you but it makes your sort look weak playing the victim over what was ultimately some no harm BS. “I just want to apologize to Tre’Davious White.”

That's the spirit! Don't be one of those douchebags who can't forgive the guy 7 years after he apologized and Tre White forgave him.

I think line one of my response answers why the league didn't take your lack of perspective into account.

And in my opinion it was a one-time dirty hit from a guy who had no history of that, was suspended and apologized and was forgiven by Tre White. His family have multiple businesses employing Bills fans here in WNY. They are much more a part of the WNY community than the average TSW ex-Pat or never-was who won't let it go because their inner child was hurt by all the losing to the Patriots. Comparing that hit to the serial dirty hitting of Al-Shaair really underscores how idiotic it is. That guy is out to injure someone every week. I mean, follow the league if you are going to be so opinionated folks.

I am glad the Bills fanbase is no longer in that whiny bichass sore loser mode like back then. The exaggerated outrage over that hit was akin to that mom who claimed her daughter was thrown down the stairs at the game the other night. There were jackasses that wanted Gronk to do prison time for a hit that wouldn't be in the top 10 of collisions in any given game. Just because it was "premeditated". As if what happens in the game is never premeditated.