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I agree. It was exasperating when that was how it was in Buffalo. And each regime repeated the same type of mistakes. McBeane weren't immune. But they corrected a ton of mistakes with the second chance and didn't just keep making more..........learning and quickly pivoting from mistakes was not something we saw from fragile ego having, self-interested decision makers here for 2 decades. For all of the talk about how great the Dolphins made out with acquiring future #1 picks like they did from Houston.........replacing Tunsil and Fitzpatrick with similar level performers or better is not a given. Their roster deficiency got exposed some yesterday. It's not a given that they will spin all those picks into gold and Houston isn't necessarily far off.

One thread for subjects like this.........and 20 threads of random hair-brained thoughts on the first page? Sounds about right.

Antonio Williams is more like a very poor man's version of Karlos Williams. Straight ahead runner only.......no wiggle to his game........not very athletic.........opposite of an Austin Eckler who can beat you with the run or the pass. I mentioned in another thread that some fans were giddy about the future of Darick Holmes and Tim Tindale after the 1995 Dolphins playoff blowout.........you can't put much stock into what happens during broken football time. If so then Dean Marlowe would be getting a 5 year $50M+ contract this offseason.

Yeah they can't trust him in very meaningful situations but it was fun to get to see that return. This game was very reminiscent of the 1995 playoff blowout of the Dolphins where all the reserves got to have big days. After that game a lot of people thought Darick Holmes and Tim Tindale were the future of the Bills run game.

Oh definitely......he's the better athlete and receiver as well. And yeah, Denver couldn't get him to the curb fast enough after all those fumbled returns in such a short period of time.

I would prefer a night game. Just an average weather afternoon in Orchard Park can get windy enough to create difficult conditions in the stadium. Industries where chemicals are sprayed or aerosol painting is done in WNY try to get that spraying in early in the morning OR........wait until the evening.......because that is when the wind is most likely to be at it's lowest velocity.

The whole AFC bracket ended up the best it possibly could have at the start of this day.

They don't do the football anymore you get a banner

I think it was just the one-week-at-a-time approach and deliberate routine. They've had some dog-day stretches in every season but they have come earlier and earlier each successive playoff season. That's a credit to McD and also to Josh Allen for not losing focus.........it's something we've seen the Patriots do for 2 decades prior...........if your leaders don't get caught up in the moment then it's a lot easier to keep the team on point and improving.

12 wins predicted mouth where his money put he tossed his own salad

Tua Tuna Fish The shrimp from bama delish Don't eat hip its fake

Unemployable Was the Bills secretary Very defensive

Some guy hated Ralph Drank beers and got some divorce Would not buy the merch

Harsh.........but I think it needed to be said. But now that the weight of his utter prediction failure has been duly noted.........I think we need some perspective from Teddy Roosevelt: The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; but eballs, meaning he comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming Here's to striving and to you @eball🍷 RIP 2020 predictions

Yeah he's kinda' boned.........the old boy network of hiring retread HC's is going to be under an even greater level of scrutiny..........and he thinks he's more than a DC(which he ain't).

He says the opt-out experience made him a better coach. Imagine how much better he will be after his experience this season. Now is the time, Jets.

Yeah there was a lot changing. He looked more physical after the bye but he still wasn't really making any big plays at MLB. Then we actually got a glimpse of Edmunds being used at the LOS on the edge against SF........and it looked promising. As @Simon mentioned they seemed determined in this NE game to use Edmunds more like they had early in the season and it brought back flashes of the worst in his play.

I hope we don't see much, if any, 5 wide. That just congests the passing lanes and then you end up playing dink and dunk passing game. 11 personnel (1 RB, 1TE with 3 WR) really creates ideal time and space for big plays in the passing game. In most sports.......having veterans in the playoffs is a big advantage and if Stills gets WR snaps I expect it will be at the expense of Gabe Davis. Gabe has been a dynamic rookie........a bunch of TD's, great separation numbers, big ypc............but he's also made some dynamically negative plays.......a dropped TD, several poorly played deep balls, a couple very untimely, drive-killing missed blocks and mid-field drops. He's done a lot of positive stuff but they might not be able to overcome him making a couple inexperienced gaffe's in a shootout playoff game.

Eh.......there's almost never 3 championship worthy teams regardless...........and it's always fun watching pretenders ND and Ohio State and Oklahoma getting their ***** kicked in after they pander for position all season.

Cherry picking a few stats from a few games out of a season does not a compelling argument make. I literally gave you a season worth of extensive pass defense stats and it's not like the stats you gave me as a defense were even signs of exemplary play. His best stretch of pass defense this year is worse than his entire season performance last year. But, OK.......... in those games where he had better ratings what plays did he make? Pass breakups? Interceptions? Forced fumbles? TFL's? Take a look at those type of plays in his stat line.........you will find that he's actually regressed steadily in those statistics since his rookie year.

Yep, they certainly earned any indifference or hate they got. It would have been very hard to endure without the tailgating...........in fact I don't know if the team would still be here if the fans didn't stick together and find a reason to keep showing up and fund all that bad football as the NFL simultaneously tried to crack down on all that pre-game celebrating. Now that they are winning I hope people put their money where there mouth is...........and I don't mean like when @eball does that.

Where ANY of my arguments have "fallen flat" here for 20+ years is when saying anything that isn't 100% hype being blown up the status quo. But in lieu of any actual football discussion(as in your case) I will gladly take hate from a bunch of rando's from east BF.

I'll try to be extra loud for you ol' pal.

And I am saying that yours is a straw man argument made perhaps from a willfully unanalytical position. I have never said that Edmunds couldn't play MLB. Tyrod Taylor was one of the only 3 AFC QB's invited to the Pro Bowl in 2015........he could play QB.......that didn't make him tremendous though....... it made him the 3rd best of a relatively weak field of AFC QB's that year. That's the case at ILB in the AFC the past couple of seasons. The NFC is a much different story. They are stacked at MLB. Not that it matters THAT much because being a top MLB is akin to being a top RB. Their presence or the lack thereof doesn't move Vegas lines. Julian Stanford and Tyrel Dodson have literally both stepped in for Edmunds and the D has not missed a beat and Klein has handled mike duties just fine(arguably better) when they've switched up responsibilities. It's not if Edmunds can play MLB though............it's how well and if that's the most impactful position he could fill.

If this possibility is just occurring to you then you are extremely late to the party. Anything goes this year.