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Not sure having overwhelming anxiety about something is proof that you care more about it than someone else. For me, being a Bills fan is a whole culture thing. Don't get me wrong I love visiting Vegas and nice weather too. But I live here and I go out of my way to financially support the team to promote it's existence. I go to every game(including preseason games) etc.. I have had fans who are on TSW and live in the area criticize me for not caring or being as loyal as them........like @Stank_Nasty for example......... and then hear them say they weren't going to a game in November because the Bills were out of contention and the weather wasn't nice or they had leaves to rake. People create their own narratives about how big of a fan they are. Your anxiety proves to you that you care..........it also causes you to be upset about discussion certain aspects of the team that do not bother me at all. Being invested in the area, team success, culture and fans does it for me. Having so many aspects of entertainment probably helps relieve anxiety. There isn't that finality like when you are just watching the game on TV somewhere.

The defense looked great for much of the 2017 season with Preston Brown leading the NFL in tackles at MLB and in the games that Edmunds has missed since he took over his understudy's haven't missed a beat. In a passing league, all that the Bills rankings under McD have proven wrt the MLB position is that pedestrian MLB play is good enough to rank well statistically against a bad schedule and to be middle of the pack against a good one.

1) No I assure you it's not intentional, I have no reason to antagonize you. What football decisions were being made in Houston based on things other than football? Firing Bill O'Brien for making a mess of the roster with bad trades and then losing football games? People of faith like Easterby get hired in football. I'm a skeptic but even I understand WHY believers are seen as congruent with the team building mission of the sport. Sometimes a Leslie Frazier gets hired and it works out OK anyway.......and sometimes it's Rick Dennison and it looks stupid in hindsight. 2) Zero belief is by nature an extreme. I wouldn't label you as an extremist but going out of your way to criticize a non-point like a pro football team hiring chritians to run it was at least a hot take if nothing else.

Tyrod Taylor was a Pro Bowl player, had the 7th scoring offense in the NFL that had turned over the ball fewer times than any NFL team thru 15 games since the NFL merger in 2016. He wasn't that good though, was he? Edmunds hasn't been that good either. He occupies a larger footprint than most and is pretty effective chasing the ball to the sideline...........otherwise he's become very vulnerable in pass coverage(114 pr and 4 TD's in 2020).........not good in run defense (goes without saying)........a terrible blitzer (67 blitzes and 0 pressures in 2020)..........and doesn't create or collect turnovers (he hasn't forced a fumble in 42 regular season games and has never recovered one). Players who are strong in those areas are generally considered to be instinctive and/or aware.

Yeah we know......on paper Edmunds sounds like a great fit. The problem is........despite a 7' wingspan and 4.5 speed........Edmunds lack of instincts negate much of his physical talent. In 2020 he was like a 7 foot stiff who can't jump in the middle of a basketball 2-3 zone........if that guy shows that he can't move his feet and block shots teams will still attack the paint and defeat the purpose of having him there. Edmunds gets easily manipulated.........and then he doesn't make plays on the football when the opportunities arise.........the book is out on him now.........which is why he got lumped up with that ghastly 114 passer rating against last season. Maybe the light comes on in year 4.

Not everyone gets depressed about things they know they have no control over.........like the weather..........or their favorite pro football team. I feel sorry for the "many"........it's an unfortunate affliction for sure........but don't lump me in with you nut jobs. 😉 Honestly discussing the nuances of your hobby is not always a cry for help.

Every GM makes mistakes...........exactly! Lot's of them. Beane is no different. A mocking thread about Kelvin Benjamin.......which I did not start, mind you....... was just a good opportunity to remind people of that. If you mock KB........you mock Beane's decision to trade for him whether you intend to or not. Crying and whining are physical acts. I do neither. It's all entertainment to me. It might be different for you emotionally....... in self imposed exile from Bills country......living in Vegas because you don't like Buffalo weather..........and then spending all of your free time inside on the internet anyway. Maybe that makes you cry and whine while you are posting on a Bills message board. As for Beane turning the franchise around..........I agree with that........he got the team a franchise QB. "Completely turned around"? That phrasing is an exaggeration. They weren't a perennial 3-13 team, they were a mediocre franchise whose re-builds kept failing mainly because they didn't get a franchise QB. I like Beane, I think he's drafted well in round 1 particularly but he has also made a lot of mistakes. The roster isn't so good that any QB would do. Josh Rosen instead of Josh Allen and we are LIKELY talking about our new GM this offseason instead of how great Beane is. I thought he did a pretty decent job this offseason..........despite your whining to the contrary about not getting this and that.........but the reality is that he had limited resources because he had a REALLY poor start mis-managing the salary cap with a lot of bad pro personnel choices like Kelvin Benjamin. And it is a bit hearing him talk about how he doesn't want the team to get back in the salary cap mess they "inherited" when McDermott took over a team with $40M in cap space and basically all he and Whaley did was decide to hold onto the $15M bridge QB and pick up two great bargain UFA's in Hyde and Poyer. A lot of that "cap hell" talk from Beane is VERY self-serving...........they are in a bigger hole now with a QB on a rookie contract.

Ehh........this seems like an old-fashioned take................young fans live a much different life than you might have and don't need to experience things in person to develop an interest. They get to know a lot about players and how they relate to them thru social media...........there is constant new content online and on tv about the team and players...........the video is 4K so it's better access and visibility than you can get in person. This isn't 1978 watching the Bills on a black and white TV while constantly moving the rabbit ears so you could make out the shapes on the screen during the season and then the team disappearing from site entirely for 7 months after the season.

No, I don't know that. You were defending Watson for wanting out of Houston using the excuse that Houston management was too religious.........when Watson was a practicing christian. It's not like christians are like......"whoah there boss.......you believe in God too much for me". When you are a practicing christian you might roll your eyes at a few things someone says but you aren't really offended by overtly religious people. As for the "I don't push my lack of belief on people so I am not as annoying as them" take............of course you don't push not believing in something. Not believing in something kinda' makes that thing irrelevant and unimportant to you. For believers it's VERY important and they are taught to spread the word. It's really not the same thing.......and you know that. I'm not defending religion here, I'm ambivalent about it but you seem to think you are not at an extreme..........and the fact that you go out of your way to show offense to it........like the professionally irrelevant situation with Texans management.........indicates otherwise.

Tebow goes out of his way to promote his faith..........you go out of your way to criticize religion. The whole Houston Texans thing.........where you were defending the heavily religious-invested Deshaun Watson from perceived "Jesus freaks" in management........because you wouldn't like working for religious bosses..........was a weirdness. I understand why you may have your strong opinion and have no problem with it........ but the NFL is built heavily on players from the deeply religious US south.........to put yourself in their shoes you gotta' have faaaaaith.

Another Brandon Beane gem. 55% of KB's career earnings came from the roughly one season he spent in Buffalo between being traded-for and quietly cut at midseason in 2018. That first $120M in cap space Beane used to acquire new veteran personnel for his re-build went entirely down the drain.........the worst stretch of spending in Bills history. 12 months of all misses.

Rousseau handled it like a pro.........but Wawrow couldn't have stumbled and bumbled to the question more awkwardly. I don't know if he's trying to re-brand himself as more than "just the facts" AP guy but that performance was neither here nor there.

No, you just aren't making a point. If you don't at least provide some comparative data to show how Singletary compares to other RB's in whatever fields you consider to be "situations that matter" then it's just you thinking that the musings of your imagination are reality. The league average per carry is 4.2 yards......and it's a little lower for RB's. Singletary has averaged 4.8 on over 300+ carries. His biggest problem may be a LACK of big run plays. So his numbers certainly aren't significantly padded by the result of some big runs. And when are they running all these draw plays on 3rd and 12? They had the fewest punts in the league last year.

Rookies don't hold out anymore. And that is not a recent development..........it's been multiple CBA's since the rookie wage scale was put in place. Not knowing this makes it look like you haven't really been paying much attention for the last decade or so. The perception that Rosenhaus is a hardballer adds another decade onto that. Times were much different then.......rookie wages weren't capped........and teams were not nearly as efficient at managing the salary cap. Rosenhaus has long been a pretty standard dealer and there are always Bills players whom he reps you just rarely hear him mentioned because that's not been his game for a long time.

Probably because having the perception that Rosenhaus is a some kind of controversial agent is so 20 years ago............which makes you look like a fair-weather fan.

No, his production is accurate in those regards. All backs get boosts from big gains or the occasional 3rd down give up.........which the Bills rarely do, btw. The only notable stat that helped inflate Singletary's production was a high tendency to run at 6 man boxes in 2019. There was a weird stat that indicated that Gore ran almost entirely against stacked boxes and Singletary got light ones. But nonetheless.......4.4 ypc in 2020 was still solid. Leonard Fournette has a career 3.9 ypc and he has ripped off 80 and 90 yard runs in his career.

In fairness.........a 3rd round pick is a "starting player/majority of carries" round for a RB nowadays..........and Beane used a 3rd rounder on a RB two years in a row.........that's not a guy that doesn't believe in investing draft capital in RB's. Can't be certain that they wouldn't have drafted one in the 1st round had they not already invested so much. Singletary and Moss are decent players but, predictably, they are picks that are very easy to be at least somewhat justifiably critical of. I had Singletary as the best back in the RB-weak 2019 draft...... and even I thought a 3rd was a full round reach at least. Individual RB's don't have much say in the outcome of games any longer so they gotta' be absolute beasts to be worthy of a pick in rounds 1-3.

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Again.......4.8 yards per carry on over 300 carries. It's not a 1990's RB room........the talent isn't at that position anymore.......but of the group he is the most traditionally "talented" of their RB's. Instincts, balance, elusiveness. He was not an ideal fit for their preferred run scheme last season but still was an above average producer on the ground. His offseason work seems to have been geared to becoming better within this scheme, one-cut and go, more like Breida/Moss/Williams. The run blocking is the much bigger issue. By the end of the season both Singletary and Moss were so accustomed to being met by an unblocked defender at the LOS that they were starting to anticipate the hit and how to avoid it and that hesitation started costing them yardage. Their trust in the OL was justifiably very low.

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No, it's Allen. I'd like to see them go to a more vertical passing offense eventually, but Daboll can't justify dialing up the shots if Allen doesn't put air under the throws and deliver with touch and timing necessary to stretch the defense. At this point he can throw thru the defense, but not over it. It's an important distinction. I understand it's lost on some but I've been thru that on TSW here before. When Chan Gailey's horizontal passing offense got figured out (by the Jets) and teams stopped worrying about Bills WR's running past them and jammed the underneath passing lanes..........fans on TSW insisted that it wasn't because teams didn't think Fitz could throw the deep ball........after all he had hoisted a 75 yard bomb to TO a couple years earlier. Yeah, he could throw the ball that far, but he couldn't command 15+ yard throws outside the numbers and defense's recognized it. Chan was cleverly covering up Fitz arm weakness by keeping the longer yardage throws in the middle of the field(where they were actually much shorter). Think David Nelson over the middle. The more difficult NFL throws.....outside the numbers for instance......he had to throw his whole body into them and that lead to inconsistent mechanics and accuracy. Eventually, after a lot of fighting with me the concept was grasped here on TSW when the media started talking about it.........but before that time even the distinction of how far you could throw the ball and command/control of that throw were not considered entirely different things by the TSW fanbase. The issue with Allen is even more unusual. He didn't grow up with a lot of high end instruction and because of his incredible arm he developed a habit of throwing everything hard. He never learned to put air under the ball because he didn't have to. But the NFL is different. Windows are tighter and learning how to put air under the ball and deliver it with timing and accuracy that way is a huge weapon to have. I know he worked on it last season with Jordan Palmer and I am sure he is working on it now. I think he can master it..........but it doesn't come natural to him. Becoming proficient at it will take a lot of wear and tear off of him and his WR's going forward. I compare it to LeBron James having to learn to shoot the 3 after years of just running thru and over weaker competition. He needed to become a proficient long range shooter to take the beating off of his body and extend his career.

1) I agree about Brown. I said in-season the threat of his speed was missed. My hope is also that Sanders is the guy catching the 8 yard passes in front of the sticks and taking all those hits instead of Diggs...........and that Stefon is utilized more vertically like he was in Minnesota. Completely on the same page there.........I just would like to see a bigger, faster Z long term. 2) And sure, Allen is technically average on long throws.......which isn't good enough for a player with his skillset either.........but as @dave mcbride has also pointed out many times he can throw on a rope what qualifies as a deep ball for most. The Allen TD throw to Diggs at the end of the Arizona game is a prime example. That is a near impossible throw for some but a sweet spot for him. That ability statistically masks the issue. On deeper air throws....or just going over the top.....he throws a flat and inaccurate ball. +40 yards in the air should be a thing for the strongest armed QB in the NFL. But they are not. He's among the worst in that small subset........but it's meaningful for him because his range is effectively capped by the lack of RAC potential in his deeper throws. If you are defending Aaron Rodgers a 30 yard air throw to Adams is liable to hit a receiver in stride and lead to a 50 yard house call if you are squatting.......so you are going to give extra space. Not just on 3rd down.......all day. This is why it's, IMO, the biggest obstacle left for Allen as a thrower. His check down throws to the left.......that would be nice to fix and shouldn't be a challenge.......but the lesser impact of those on a per play basis makes them the lesser of two weaknesses. 3) The take regarding teams not respecting the Bills deep ball in the playoffs is of course a simplification of the overall issues......more than 1 adjustment was made.....but it's anything but revisionist. It was a next-gen stat theme heading into the Colts game.......worst deep ball defense in the entire NFL against a dynamic offense........that wasn't good at the deep ball. And true to form......despite ideal passing conditions........ the Bills couldn't exploit the Colts greatest weakness and the game turned into a real contest. The fear of the deep ball is getting beaten with a long throw that ends up in the endzone. The occasional long throw that turns into a contested type or no-YAC play in the middle of the field is not the same. Teams didn't respect the Bills over the top in the playoffs, which tightened up the coverage underneath. The Ravens played the Bills a lot like they had the year before.........their technique created opportunities for the Bills to hit a bunch big plays deep in both games and when they tried to exploit it they were just wasted downs. Weather played a factor but I don't think they changed their gameplan because of the wind. They also had great success letting Allen misfire on deep throws in the 2019 game.

Yep, the Chiefs absolutely crapped themselves. It was pretty standard Belichick formula when they are overmatched. They come out with a great game plan......play physical.......and watch the opponent stumble and panic themselves into a big hole. Then by the time the opponent re-gains their composure it ends up being too little, too late. The Bills offense doesn't equate at all to Marty Ball. You are simply drawing a conclusion based on a result. Or should I say "results". Both Bills/Chiefs games were abysmal performances by the Bills offense. Josh Allen isn't a slow processor and the offense isn't simplified for him.............his biggest weakness to this point has been a lack of touch on deep throws. The Colts, Ravens and Chiefs all identified that and squatted on the Bills passing offense in the playoffs. That allowed them to defend the Bills short passing game more effectively and physically. The Colts were literally the worst deep ball defense in football and on a beautiful, warm and windless day the Bills couldn't get over the top on them. It's something Allen needs to improve significantly on going forward.