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When he's not played well.......yes.......it's looked like tennis. He had a lot of trouble dealing with teams running pass plays right at him last season rather than allowing him to hover-cover........there was still some of that going on early this year........he's improved his recognition and hastened his decision making in recent weeks and done a better job in coverage.

C'mon man.......what Bills fan doesn't know that the Bills chubby drummer boys are "The Stampede"? But "The Jills" isn't taken.

These threads where someone wants to give the GM credit for not signing a player when he wanted that player.......smh.

You can tell which one of those dudes ain't got the long term contract yet. Seriously though @DrDawkinstein..........don't sh*t where we eat! Sabres talk is hilarious but way too gross and disturbing for this noble forum.

The USAA ad is part of a broader campaign to show young people just how great life is if you join the armed forces. Same with the mid game tributes for vets of all kinds. The NFL is a great place to advertise to young men........it's very lucrative but there are limits to how many commercials of people jumping out of planes and such that watchdogs will tolerate so they gotta' get creative. The actual direct armed forces ads are often condescending to a good deal of the audience......like the ones where they show the kid who is confused by social media. The USAA ads are an ingenious way to get another holler in at the audience using funny, down to earth people and scenarios. Gronk is very funny in those ads. Now the trend of having people who definitely DON'T use the product, represent the product........that's a little disorienting. I mean, we all know that Tom Brady doesn't have a sh*tty T Mobile account..........but he could, in theory, own one. A guy that doesn't eat bread advertising a product that's basically all about the bread..........that's just thumbing your nose at the audience.

Marcus Thames and Phil Nevin have been terminated. Small step getting rid of Thames.........but it's necessary. Two years of very disappointing hitting performance from that lineup means there deserves to be change. Same as when they canned Rothschild. They need an upgrade.

No I do not, but that's irrelevant.......doubt is a matter of opinion...........winning is a matter of fact.

Philip Rivers has more career wins than Joe Montana.......one guy is remembered for failure to win big games the other is known for being 4-0 on the biggest stage. We all know what defines a QB who is characterized as a winner...........it's not going 16-11 at Wyoming.........it's winning championships.

With QB's........it really comes down to team wins in the court of public opinion..........and Tom Brady is doing his part to make sure that narrative can't be changed anytime soon. Allen and McD are one SB win and 2 AFC championships(one at their expense) behind Mahomes. As a Bills fan who endured the rich Shula's getting richer after the Bills passed on Dan Marino and lost their own selection to the USFL.........I know the tables can turn and gotta' like my teams chances. Reid's getting old. The Chiefs have done some stupid things like drafting a RB in round 1. There is an opportunity for the Bills to take the crown this year and maybe have a superior roster in 2022, 2023..... But the deficit exists and until it doesn't, that Mahomes trade looks like a Lombardi+ at McD's expense.

And yet on it's own, trading the opportunity to select Patrick Mahomes to an AFC rival and having them dominate the conference.....to some extent at the Bills expense.........still looks like probably one of the very worst trades in the history of the NFL. The amount of QB luck the QB needy McDermott(and later Beane) had in those 2017-2018 drafts is crazy. Had cracks at 4 guys in round 1 who may eventually all rank as top 20 all-time QB's(maybe even higher).

You have to win championships to be characterized as a "winner" in the NFL. The NFL is not a Charlie Sheen kinda' winning situation. No participation trophies. Doesn't mean a player is a loser if they don't win titles but it means they aren't known for winning.

I thought they had a good defensive gameplan against the Titans last year but Andre Roberts tipped interception opened a floodgate of mistakes offensively. You are right though, they don't give up on Henry easily. They have defied the odds by having success making comebacks running the football. I think they will always try to keep pounding it until they get down 3 scores or more.

Rice was a ridiculously good pass rusher. Rice's run defense was "meh" to be kind........and his football character was sometimes questioned. Rousseau is taller, has a longer stride and bigger hands and is more instinctive, IMO. It's really hard to find a perfect comp for Rousseau. Rice was a freak athlete though so that's a great one to be compared to.

I saw the plays in question but I think you rarely see a pick play called within 5 yards of the LOS because of the allowable contact in that area.

Star is having the best season of his NFL career. What's motivated him to get in shape and play this hard? The pay cut? The team shifting to more of an attacking style of 1 tech? The realization that he can't be around his wife 24/7 so he needs to make this football thing last a lot longer? Who is to say? Maybe if he keeps playing well and they get to SB week someone will ask him that question. What we do know is that he underwhelmed in his first two years in Buffalo and was subsequently issued a pay cut. For people who do not believe the former.......see the latter. This organization does not ask players to take pay cuts unless they aren't playing well enough to justify the base salary........which at that point wasn't that high because they had already paid him around $15M in signing and other bonuses. He's been impactful and very fun to watch this season and it's also been hilarious reading all the "he's the same as always" crazy talk takes here on TSW. When Star Lotulelei is featured even remotely favorably on "pass rush win rate" graphs or charts you can rest assured there has been a seismic shift in his play.

He was really good........I think they got what they could have reasonably expected from Mario.........but cost is a big factor, IMO.

Fitz was a free agent but he ruined "suck for Luck" 1.0 after the Bills were CLEARLY the worst team and roster in the NFL thru 8 weeks. Luck ended up opting to return to Stanford and Cam Newton would end up going #1 and soon win NFL MVP and take Carolina to a Super Bowl. Bills wouldn't have had a shot at either.........as they ended up drafting 3rd thanks to Fitzy getting on a heater. Fitz won just enough to totally ***** the franchise for another 7 years or so and not enough to even challenge for a playoff spot. So even though he was fun and a general good guy his signing actually set the franchise back.

Could be, but Whaley's record with lower profile FA signings was strong and McD was pulling info from a lot of people to find his players.(Personally, Hyde was my top free agent target for Buffalo and shouldn't have been lower profile, but he was). IMO, the 2017 draft was mostly intel he stole from Carolina with the help of Beane.........Tre White as a no brainer, he was IMO at the time the best CB prospect in the draft(over the more gifted Lattimore even) so if I could see that, any pro personnel guy should.........but I certainly don't believe that Dawkins and Milano go in Whaley's ledger (and Zay Jones was basically selected by McD's ***** WR coach hire Phil McGeoghan). But regarding Hyde.......the fact is that Beane's free agent and trade acquisitions were VERY sh*tty for the first 14 months or so................so I gotta' give Whaley and staff some pro personnel credit on the Hyde signing.

It made no sense so I FIFY. Hate to waste a good cat GIF.

1. Ted Washington.......he was the best defensive player in the NFL in 1997 IMO and he was the foundation of their great overall defense which became the identity of the team.....whether fans realized it at the time or not. Cutting him erased 15 years of organizational identity building and set the drought in motion. From 1994-2004 he was the most dominant run defender in the NFL. 2. Bryce Paup..........gotta' give it to Paup because of his NFLDPOY year...........one of the greatest seasons in Bills history. 3. Jordan Poyer.........he's been the better of two tremendous safeties........and the cheaper signing. 4. Micah Hyde..........the last Whaley gem(Babich gets Poyer credit)........sustained, consistent excellence gives him the nod over the next gem. 5 Lorenzo Alexander...........another Whaley gem........cheap signing and contended for NFLDPOY and great culture guy.(Zach Brown was the other cheap signing that offseason and he lead the NFL in tackles). 6. James Lofton..........cheap acquisition and outstanding........unfortunately he was only that guy for about 2 and a half seasons before trailing off rapidly. 7.(tie) Doug Flutie and Tyrod Taylor...........a lot of mileage and good offensive production from two super cheap signings. Two different levels of fan appreciation but both played their part in QB'ing teams to the playoffs.

That TFL got us out of our chairs. He's been inconsistent and often hesitant on his choices/routes to the ball in his first 3 seasons. The actual TFL numbers aren't that important........the lack of them last season in particular was just an indication of the inefficiencies in his game. His performance in the last couple weeks has been exceptional.

I was reminded of this very thing watching Carson Wentz being oblivious to the pass rush from his blindside against Baltimore. And they have a pretty good OL. After years of having so many QB's like that..........it's nice having a QB who doesn't regularly take surprise hits.

And he actually has a lot of room to improve as a pass rusher......but his run defense has been really exceptional........and he finishes plays, which adds up.