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Yeah that sounds about right for December prior to that draft. It wasn't a draft full of dynamic CB talent. As we got thru the draft process he stood out as the best of the bunch, IMO. He played a premium position where you want that 5th year option and fit the new system extremely well. Did I think he would be Jalen Ramsey? No. And he hasn't been. Speed was always the question with him. Can I see him being a 30 year old safety in this system?........yep. Hope he is a Bill for life. So thanks for the refresher. Hope you weren't disappointed to see me doing as I said.........talking up a player who was mostly invisible to Bills fans during the draft process.

If you want to stress yourself out worrying about homefield with 2 months of season yet to play...........knock yourself out. Not my first time following a Bills team that was in hot pursuit of homefield advantage in November. Happened a lot from 1988-1993.

The reason why I don't provide a link every time I re-iterate a take for the 100th time and some random poster who wasn't on TSW at the time(or just can't remember) asks for proof?.........is because there are no awards or cash payouts for being right on TSW. I don't work for free. If it rankles you to hear it..........that's a you problem. If you say you had an opinion in the past...........good for you........doesn't bother me or upset me if you want to take credit for being right. If I caught you saying OTHERWISE........I might call you out but if not, who cares? As I've told @GunnerBill many times on this board...........if you want to be right almost all of the time(like me).......only share takes you have a lot of conviction in.

I'm not digging it up, I expressed the opinion in the draft lead up here on TSW and immediately after the selection when I was applauding the actual selection. If you read my posts, it's common knowledge. I've been here 22 years and a draftnik since the late 80's and was often and rightfully critical of the players chosen in round 1 by prior regimes.........I've been pleased with all of the actual player choices in round 1 by McDermott and Beane. Not sure where the idea that I have been critical of Tre White's ability came from. That's never been the case. His overall game and what he brings to the team is All Pro level. He's just not going to ever be an All Pro in a primarily man based defense.

Yeah I thought he was already circling the drain in 2017 when the Steelers basically used him up and his overall yards per touch became an anemic 4.8............so I didn't really follow his money business as I would have someone I'd have thought the Bills should possibly pursue. One of my favorites was "but he's also like a great wide receiver in the passing game" when he was putting up sub 8 yards per catch. GTFOH Runnin' back obsessed folks are a crazy lot.

Did he lose money on the deal though? The numbers indicated he was in decline in Pittsburgh........high amount of touches but low yards per carry..........if he plays out that one year deal and falls another notch down into the 3-3.8 yards per carry type range he gets that $8.6M but probably never gets paid the big up-front money by the Jets and starts his journeyman tour immediately. Lotta' people on here wanted the Bills to pay him. @YoloinOhio was one of em'! NEVER pay top dollar for a RB in UFA.

Well see you gotta be careful how you itemize your "deductions". You want to call me out on my take about McD being fired mid-season......calling it a gouge........when in fact being PERMANENTLY replaced by Juan Castillo is actually more damning of the opinion of McD's acumen than just an interim gig. That's why I misremembered it. It's mind boggling.......but at one time a future HOF HC thought Juan Castillo was a better permanent option than McD. Meanwhile you intentionally and unnecessarily framed it like McDermott was a big key in Andy Reid's success. Like "they made the playoffs when McD was the DC but then not after". In fact, the Eagles were probably the NFC team of the "oughts". Reid reached 5 NFC title games before McD became DC. He was knocked out of the WC round both years McD was DC. As we know........when you are contending for SB's as often as they were.........regular season records and playoff "appearances" aren't the standard anymore.

Well you are assuming that Beasley will be the same quality player to replace and that the slot WR will still be as important in what they want to do in 2022. I think he's not looked as quick or fast this year. Still good......but maybe not so good that you want to keep running 3-4 WR sets as your primary offense. Also.........maybe Daboll finally gets the HC call.........I kinda' doubt it but maybe.........and then the new OC and McDermott want to run more 12 personnel or look a lot more like the offense that they were Sunday versus the Jets. A bit more emphasis on the run and play action. Maybe that money goes instead into that endeavor and they expect and pay for a little less at slot WR with it being less featured. Also a very nice receiver draft in first few rounds again. Maybe they look for speed there.

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.