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There is nothing to back down from........he's a 4.5 guy. And I was probably the only person on TSW who had the relatively unheralded White as the top CB in the 2017 draft class (which notably had the MUCH heralded Marshon Lattimore). So you are barking up the wrong tree.........he's another example of me being very right, all due respect to Lattimore. Gilmore is a step faster than White.......a legit 4.4 flat. That's all it takes.

Making the playoffs with a young franchise QB broke the cycle of short term regimes........which made re-signing McD's first draft choice a priority. If they go 4-12 in 2019 and Allen looks like Darnold then McBeane get fired then and there. It's not like Gilmore and Woods weren't good players..........new regimes tend to be highly inefficient with personnel in their transition.........and as good as White is he's not as scheme versatile as Gilmore because he doesn't have the deep speed. So a new HC with a man coverage scheme probably doesn't want to pay White $15M. Or maybe White asks to be traded to a better defensive fit or winning team. That was the formula that kept undermining their rosters.

I was not the biggest fan of Lynch.......another case of the Bills drafting a very immature 20 year old onto a rudderless ship..........but drafting Spiller and then trading him when they did because Beast Mode wanted to play elsewhere was just all around ridiculous decision making. Funny how being all-in on getting a QB finally put an end to those type of moves. Don't have to watch the like of Winfield, Clements, Pat Williams, Jason Peters, Lynch, Gilmore, Woods etc.. dominating for other organizations anymore.

Yep and nobody was catching up to the 11-0 Steelers in 2020. Certainly not the 8-3 Bills! You got it all figured out.

The Titans style of play makes them vulnerable to defeat every week. It's why "run and stop the run" based teams without elite QB's haven't been winning SB's.

Yeah it was very common for people to intentionally leave tables or charcoal grills etc.. behind in lot 1 after games and then for post-game tailgaters to destroy said items. They were cheap back then. By the time this video was shot multiple generations had grown up on wrestlers smashing thru tables. The obvious gimmick is that the table largely breaks what would otherwise be a very bad fall. 2015........sheesh.........talk about a recency bias. Hoary archivist @Bob Lamb once did that to one of those 50 gallon drum garbage cans after a game in the 1990's.

So McDermott was why they went to the playoffs 3 years running and firing him lead to Reid's ouster? That's a scalding hot take for sure. I think the Eagles had been good for some time prior to McDermott's promotion to DC and I think there were other, more important factors that lead to Reid leaving Philly. He's since proven to be a fairly good HC without McD as well, IMHO. My bad about the timing of the McDermott firing though.....it was right after the season............he was replaced by the promotion of Juan Castillo though..........which is hilarious and certainly looks like utter disrespect for the coaching acumen of McDermott. In hindsight. Which is what we are talking about here. Hindsight and ancient history. Belichick had a bad record in Cleveland the better part of 30 years ago. I can't believe we still hear that nonsense though. Irrelevant. He was rebuilding an organization at a time when turnarounds were harder.......before widespread free agency created a league without a repeat champion in 15 years........and he didn't have a good situation at QB and his final season was undermined by the team announcing their move to Baltimore. But even in Cleveland he created the blueprint and processes used by a Ravens organization that has since won 2 SB's and really never lost that identity. So the whole "his record without Brady" stuff is just jibber-jabber from bitter folk.

McDermott was actually fired.......*****-canned mid-season and replaced by Juan Castillo(yes, that Juan Castillo)....at the coordinator job he had prior to Carolina......so does that mean he's only a good coach because he was lucky to be in the right situation in Carolina? At about that same time.......Belichick took a QB who hadn't started a game since high school in Matt Cassell and lead them to an 11-5 record. Belichick is the greatest coach in NFL history. Beating him should be ultra-satisfying every time.

I know the thread title is "the Pats are coming"..............but as someone who never doubted Belichick despite all of the revisionist nonsense about it being all about Brady (and this includes a lot of ignorant Pats fans too)...........IMO the Pats never left. McDermott is still 2-6 versus Belichick......and last season........despite major roster issues...........they played the Bills very competitively for about 6 quarters before the Bills really flipped the switch and obliterated them in that game in NE. So IMO.........the Pats are still the hunted to me. I don't want to survive against them...........I want to beat them a 3rd straight time........then a 4th straight..........nobody has done that to Belichick. I want to send Belichick back to the drawing board so he can spend more money in free agency(after an NFL record $ outlay this past offseason). I agree.........this is what divisional football is supposed to look like and frankly over the years one of the things I always looked forward to was having a Bills team eventually overtake NE and sharpen themselves against a Belichick team and carry that into the playoffs where you know you will be facing lesser coaching. Last year, it really wasn't a fair fight and they were still in the Bills heads so I think the resulting games weren't that good. This year they should be competing on the same level and we could really see some great football.

It wouldn't be a surprise. But neither would losing 3-4 more because they've been inconsistent and it's still a COVID year so anything goes. Teams that win SB's often end up with very long winning streaks...........I think KC and NE have both pushed or exceeded 20 straight wins over the course of 2 seasons including a playoff stretch............so it wouldn't be epic for the Bills to win 12 in a row or something. They had a long win streak last year going into the AFCCG.

It proved that they can put Josh Allen under center and run play action and get huge chunk plays.............instead of the shotgun, spread offense, 5 wide dink and dunk stuff that people mistakenly think is being more aggressive in the passing game. That's important...........that is the style of team they should be IMO.........takes advantage of Allen's arm strength........keeps his feet moving allowing him to be in rhythm........makes them more physical at the point of attack, making the OL look much better............stretches the D horizontally as well with the way they used McKenzie, Sanders and Breida...............and gets production out of their receivers without them taking tons of hard tackles like they have endured in the short pass game(which wore them out by the end of last season).

My grandfather was partnered with Ron McDole in some kind of construction business or something at the end of McDole's career. I remember my grandfather telling me about it and giving me one of those late 70's trucker hats with the foam top and mesh back with a really dumb looking patch on it with the company name that had a football design of some sort. It was not autographed. But that sh*t went right under the bed never to be seen again.......with the Red Foxx autograph my mom got for me at Caesar's.

Wasn't Pittsburgh 11-0 last year when the Bills were 8-3 and the Bills finished ahead of them for seeding? Pitt was winning then with a lot of the same smoke-and-mirrors act that TN is now..........and it unwound unceremoniously. Add in that it's still a COVID year and any team could lose it's QB with no notice for 1-2 weeks at a time like what happened today with Pitt or GB last week with Rodgers..........both cost those teams games most likely.........and it's far too early to shedule predict, IMO. And to illustrate............I think I heard Bill Cowher say this is the first season since the merger that there hasn't been a 0 or 1 loss team at this point of any season..........I think it's never been less predictable than this year.

That's news to me I assumed when they said a player tore his ACL it was always completely torn. Partially torn should be a separate distinction entirely. I completely tore a support ligament on the outside of my ankle in my early 20's and it's always been unstable and easy to turn but I could wrap it and still function fine athletically.........I assumed Thurman Thomas had a severed ACL from what they've always said. Not surprised people would lie/exaggerate though.........it's like the "Beasley has a broken leg" bullsh*t last season when he had a "fracture".........obviously not a full "break".

Defenders gotta' start accepting that they have 2 choices when attacking the QB: 1. Tackle the player........which is best done at midsection level 2. Go high with your hands for the football without bodying up the QB You can rarely have both without drawing a flag.

What's the distinction? Anything less than severed....and therefore not functional.........is considered a grade of sprain, is it not?

Their FG unit.......snapper, holder, kicker.........have been great. Bills have kicked too many FG's though...........those FG's in the redzone to begin games have been a harbinger of defeat............go for it and trust your great defense to make something happen with the opponent pinned back rather than trotting Bass out there for a feeble 3 pointer.

Yeah that was a one-off though............they caught a bunch of teams by surprise.............this Bills team has had that differential while coming into the season with teams expecting them to be a SB contender...........they haven't caught anyone by surprise. And IMO.........that differential is really a reflection of mainly the defense being on top of it's game............the ceiling of this offense with Josh Allen is still considerably higher than they've shown. They should probably have one of those games in them where they score TD's on 8 straight drives.

You misread..........I didn't say he would. They are a very well run organization from top to bottom..........the Krafts have had 3 head coaches and all are HOF'ers........Parcells, Carroll and Belichick..........so the assumption that they will just turn around and hire a Greggo Williams to eventually replace Belichick seems like wishful thinking. No reason to think they won't continue to hire well and maintain their identity, much like the Steelers have for most of the last 50 years. Bills just gotta' take care of their own business.

A lot of that "Buffalo style" or it's crap thing comes from people who grew up with it.......not people who grew up in the 1960's like Pullman. Wings really didn't "take off" all over the entirety of WNY until the 80's and that was mainly because they were dirt cheap byproduct for bars to peddle to increase beer sales.

@dave mcbride is just being realistic. Lotta' ignorant fans of ALL teams have been assuring themselves since Tampa Bay won that Super Bowl last February that Belichick was never that good of a HC and that he just won because he had Tom Brady. Brady is great but Belichick is the GOAT in his own right........and still the best HC in the NFL......and the biggest difference maker on any NFL sideline. Doesn't mean the Bills can't or shouldn't beat them head to head........but the idea that the Pats were going to go away for the next 15 years "just because" they changed QB's and the Bills had Josh Allen was never based in any kind of reality. If the Bills beat NE in a few weeks I think that might be the first time Belichick has lost 3 straight to an opponent since he became HC in New England. I like to look at it like that rather than worrying about being disappointed if they lose to New England. They aren't in my rear-view........as long as Belichick is there those two games will likely be the biggest games on the schedule to me. We can't beat them enough to ever satisfy me for the foreseeable future.

Yeah his family is from Hornell which is near the outter reaches of true "Bills Country" before you start seeing a few Giants fans mixed in(there are Cowboys and Steelers fan all over the US so they don't count). His old man was a doctor in town. Still has a home in the area.

Cody Ford = DK Metcalf + Wyatt Teller Still astonished they passed on WR with that pick.

His stupidity has hurt him in every phase of the game. People tend to view him as lazy but his injury problems in Buffalo started from over-work. He'd get an injury and instead of being smart about it........staying off of it or working in the pool or other low impact ways to stay healthy..........he would train hard instead of smart. The Bills not putting a veteran in the room with him as a rookie was one of the worst organizational moves of the drought. By the time they actually signed Anquan Boldin to be that guy so many bad decisions had been made by both Sammy and the Bills that it's not surprising that they fell out and the Bills ended up getting next to nothing for him. Just hard to un-watch those 2017-2018 WR corps. Brutal.

The NFL was out in front of HD early..........the first NFL game ever broadcast in HD was Bills at Jets(I think 1998?)........but of course it was only in actual HD over antenna in the NYC area. The Giants/Ravens SB was shot in HD but it was years after people had really transitioned to HDTV's before the NFL really put the games in HD. Fox was the last to adapt as I recall. And their broadcasts are traditionally THE WORST........compressed and full of artifacts...........so Fox being in 4K would be hard for my mind to wrap around...........I expect terrible pictures from every Bills game on Fox. In general the NFL has always lagged behind other sports in adapting to change. It's part of their strategy..........they like to watch how the other, less popular sports handle change first. I don't know if the Yankees and YES network are using 4K equipment or upscaling...........but the 4k Amazon Prime broadcasted Yankee games are outstanding on the big screen.