BADOLBILZ

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.

His career has been a huge disappointment.............and he's proven to be too dumb to be a regular season superstar.............but yeah he was huge for the Chiefs in the playoffs. When coverage gets tighter in the playoffs having a 3rd option that can play like a #1 for a few game stretch is very valuable. Richard Sherman ain't been the same since Sammy broke his spirit in that SB. Sherman had a pro bowl season that year.

I'm concerned with the offensive line not playing well. Also don't like the lack of speed in the WR corps. But 3-4 game stretches of mostly inexplicably poor play in the middle of the schedule have characterized EVERY SINGLE season under McDermott. They've always rebounded and finished strong.........which is why people like you tend to forget the depths of how bad they looked in those stretches. I think it's the reason for most of the upsets in the last week. The players are starting to get beat up...........they look at the schedule and they weren't even half way thru it in some cases...........and it gets a little demoralizing........and that's all it takes to lay an egg in an NFL game. This happens to any business that is characterized by one seasonal rush of intense work..........be it harvesting crops in agriculture or tax season if you are an accountant etc.. You just reach a point where you feel like you wish you could fast forward a few weeks........then as the end comes in sight there is a second wind and and a realization that you have a chance to finish the job strong. I think the 17 game schedule has exacerbated the issue league-wide..........but once again, the NFL comes out smelling like a rose because they got a whole lotta' attention for the drama that emerged from all of the upsets.

Kelly was the 14th selection in round 1 but the second Bills first round pick in 1983........the first being TE Tony Hunter with the 12th selection........GM Norm Pollom claimed that the only reason he didn't take a QB with pick #12 was that he was fine with either Jim Kelly or Dan Marino so he wanted to make sure he got the TE and if one of the QB's went at #13 then he'd take the other. So while the pick they used was part of that OJ/Cousineau sequence...........they were going to take Kelly with the prior pick. That OJ/Cousineau/Kelly sequence is very interesting though.........but far less interesting than when the Bills traded the Mahomes pick for Tre White and Josh Allen (as it's often re-told by the tall-taled fisherman of TBD).

The first shot they showed you could see the ball on the turf. The camera was late coming to the play but it caught that much. Clear and obvious from that angle.

It's one word: outtabounz

Streaming on Disney+/ESPN+ the games will likely be in 4K.........which would not be shitz.

The Chiefs were not playing particularly well in the second half of last season. Being in command of that #1 seed for the last month of the season and then getting a bye week allowed them to focus on playing their best game against the only real competition they had in the AFC..........Buffalo. Homefield would give the Bills the same chance this year. Having the only bye is huge. Playing 2 high-intensity playoff games going into the AFC title game really seemed to take a toll on the Bills.

1) Yes it is OZ.........the lateral first step by OL is the indicator that it is outside zone blocking play. Inside zone will be characterized by some immediate drive blocks where the OL steps right into the DL at the snap. 2) I don't know if the team asked him to trim down but I'm sure they told him they were going to stick with the OZ attack in 2021. The little bit of outside talent they brought in for the running game was OZ compatible.

I agree with Eric Wood that they should use an inside zone blocking scheme. They do not have the athleticism to excel in outside zone, the inside zone approach like the Bills used under Roman/Lynn works better when you have bigger and less athletic OL. Outside zone is why they signed Forrest Lamp and had John Feliciano trim down........to make them more athletic at OG for the OZ. But it's not like the reserves were well suited in the event that they had to play. It's more than just mental errors, they just aren't good at it and their best back........Singletary.........is not well suited to it. It's kind of funny when you think about it.........they signed two players.......who had disappointed their previous teams.......to basically minimum deals (Lamp and Breida) who were likely going to be keys to making outside zone work.

When Butler plays smart he can handle the 1 tech position fine.........he did it against the Ravens last season when they shut their run game down in the playoffs. I'm more concerned about what they lose in terms of getting into the backfield by not having Zimmer. Zimmer also has an awareness for making plays on the football that they don't otherwise have at the DT position.