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I thought it was a lock that he and GM Tom Telesco would end up together. Went to HS together at St. Francis......interned together with Polian. But when Dean Spanos got involved all bets off. He might not trust Telesco. Not many organizations wouldn't trust the GM after they drafted a QB that had the best statistical season by a rookie QB ever.........but an organization that has had Brees, Rivers and now Herbert in succession might take for granted the QB position just a bit. I'd rather they kept Daboll for another season at least but if he goes maybe they fix the running game and become even better.

Fichtner a very fireable name.

Honest Urb's health issues only flare up when he hears the word "investigation". Pete Carroll had an aversion to that word too........in the NFL as a HC you aren't liable for what your players or coaches do so Urb shouldn't be passing out on the sideline in Jacksonville. Unless, of course, he starts losing and needs an excuse to get out and still get all of his money.

You must be worried sick about Urban's health. 😨

I don't know about that but the inconsistency is concerning.

Trey Hendrickson is probably the better guy if you are shopping in the price category that Judon and Dupree are going to be in. I really dislike Judon. He's dirty.......he abused Allen in his first game in 2018 and I hold a grudge and hopefully Allen does too. He's also going to be 30 and never been a great finishing pass rusher. Hendrickson has the tools to be a Bryce Paup-type pass rusher. He's younger and less proven but he's got that kind of ceiling.

They haven't ever been a good tackling team under McDermott........which has been one of the great oddities because they have been an efficient defense. It's possible that having an arm tackler like Edmunds as your defensive leader might set the tone but it's almost like they are taught to slow down the ball carrier and wait for help. It's frustrating to watch........but being a great solo tackling team takes a physical toll. When Xavier Rhodes took Knox down with that great solo tackle on 3rd down the other day he hurt himself.

Yeah he has the physical talent but not sure he has the makeup to be great.

Yes there wasn't any concern about getting too drunk or injured to watch and remember the actual game. Table jumpers be making business decisions now.

Meh. If you thought he got sacked a lot this year you should have watched him the prior two seasons. He won 12 games and threw 40 TD passes with a weak supporting cast and had to play balls out every week like Josh Allen had to play against the Colts. It wasn't a sustainable formula. Other than having DK Metcalf gift wrapped for them they have drafted very, very poorly the past 5 drafts.

Seemed to @YoloinOhio that Haskins was a much better QB prospect than Allen in 2018. We will see about Fields. He's clearly exceeded the Tyrod Taylor comp that he was given at Elite 11 but consistency is what separates the greats in the NFL and Fields was prone to bouts of inconsistent play. What happens when he isn't playing as the clear front runner in a watered-down conference and has to be the leader of a team that's maybe 25th best in the NFL instead of in prime time games? Does he have 3-4 games like Northwestern one in an NFL season?

Harrison is part of metropolitan NYC. It's regional to Buffalo in the same very broad sense that the equidistant Manhattan is regional to Buffalo but that isn't how you were trying to spin it as a reason. I hope Pepsi is the sponsor though. And yeah I see signs all over in store windows with Pepsi using the "Billieve" slogan.

Losing Frazier would be a lot less surprising than losing Pettine to the Browns. That sh*t was a stunner. He was good in Buffalo..........he ran Rex D the way Rex should have run it..........but that hire was pretty inexplicable.

In 2017 probably the worst team to qualify for the playoffs from the AFC in 30 years played division champ 11-5 Jacksonville to a narrow 10-3 defeat. Jacksonville went on to dominate Pittsburgh the following week and had a 10 point lead in Foxboro in the fourth quarter of the AFC championship. That wildcard game was an "everything to lose" situation for the Jags........after that they played loose and nearly got to the SB. I felt like the Bills played and coached that Indy game tight........now they don't have to fear the "one and done" failure and actually have a score to settle against this Baltimore team after the narrow defeat last season so I anticipate a much better performance.

Maybe Pepsi is the bidder but Harrison isn't upstate NY........it's closer to the Bronx than Orchard Park is to Buffalo.......and 380 miles from Buffalo..........BALTIMORE is closer to Buffalo.

Suckeyes(predictably) caught a massive beat down. Thanks to Clemson for crapping themselves to spread out the fun of watching the likes of ND and Ohio State get destroyed. FACT: there are rarely 2 championship worthy teams let alone 4...........but the 4 team playoff shuts up the whiny nozzles at schools like the above and Oklahoma and provides the opportunity to watch them get embarrassed after building up false hope.

Yeah before the zone blitz stuff NFL defenses of the 80's and early 90's were generally quite simple. The name of the game was physicality/violence and execution..... you really HAD to run the ball a lot or defenses would physically batter your passing game talent. That's why most of the QB's of the 80's were big, strong dudes that could take a weekly beating that would look like a Rocky movie fight compared to what current NFL QB's have to deal with. The west coast offense sorta' cracked the code. Before that, most great offenses had like 2-3 year runs the way defenses do now. The WCO allowed SF to throw the ball consistently year-in-and-out even without run balance. By the mid-90's everyone was trying to convert to WCO. The zone blitz was an adjustment to that(though I think more specifically to the Bills WCO-like offense which had been killing Pittsburgh). Adding the zone blitz stuff was a cruel turn to the status quo and for the next 15 years it made being an NFL QB much more complicated and cerebral. When Rex had the Jets going off and the Steelers were killing receivers.........and the young stud QB's of the game Big Ben and Aaron Rodgers were getting beaten to hell..........Goodell finally said enough was enough and legislated the violence out of the pocket and middle of the field for receivers. Without that threat of violence we found out that the exotic defenses weren't very effective. Now it's a relative track meet. Great defenses still pop up but it's pretty much impossible to sustain. Goodell caught a ton of grief for cracking down on the violence but he made the owners a ton of money doing so and helped more gradually ease the league into what became the CTE crisis.

Mahomes has the ball on a string. He has a handle like Kyrie Irving does in the NBA. He and Allen are comparable over-all in arm strength but Mahomes throws some passes that look like the slow down and turn so that they are easier to catch. It's amazing when he's in rhythm. I disagree about the effort needed by Rodgers. Sometimes he looks like a butler shuffling around out there making high velocity and deep throws and never sacrificing his posture. Until Mahomes came into the league he could make more throws than anyone in the league for a decade plus. I think Allen has had and still has the strongest arm and he's quickly improving in the off platform throw category. Improving his accuracy thru mechanics was incredibly impressive on it's own but to then be able to find his center and make accurate throws without those mechanical adjustments is much more impressive to me. I've felt for a long time that you can have great mechanics but the command of throws comes from the shoulder down and that he was going to have to improve his feel from there to be great off-platform. I think Jordan Palmer actually touched on that recently on OBL.

Great throw and play but saying there is not one QB in the league that could throw that pass is unnecessary over-hype and leads me to believe you don't watch the rest of the NFL. Mahomes and Rodgers can DEFINITELY make that throw as well as guys like Stafford and Herbert who have incredible pure arm talent as well. We saw a bunch of soft-tossers on the Bills schedule but there are also a bunch of guys in the league right now who at one time might have had the strongest arms in the NFL over the past 25-30 years. The game has swung back in favor of big armed passers over the past decade after the zone blitz kinda' turned the game into more of a cerebral exercise in the mid-90's......which really limited the pool of passers and lead to an era of domination by guys like the Mannings and Brees and Brady.

No there were no Colts fans there. We were reminded often by security that violating protocol would lead to no fans for the next game. Some people around us wandered up and down their row but there wasn't a lot of traffic in the aisles even so people weren't moving sections. The announcer told us that we were expected to use the bathrooms and concessions in our areas only. I do think the bad defense took a toll on the fans by the end of the game.

It's funny.........those few annoying people who spring to their feet and sprint for the exit when the clock strikes zero hoping to beat traffic? They still did it even tho it was announced that they were supposed to wait for the usher to let their row leave. Instinct. That was just a few people tho. The intention was to have people exit like an airplane........highest rows first etcetera.........but people mostly hung around and cheered and just slowly, gradually dispersed so there wasn't any congestion or lines or anything. The exit was pretty random but there were so few people at the game that there weren't people bumping into each other like a regular game. No waiting in traffic..........walked out to vehicle.......got in......was on Abbott in 2 minutes.

Might be cold but in WNY the wind tends to be lesser at night.

Fox is BY FAR the worst.........their picture quality is terrible. When you add in the compression done by the regional networks the Fox broadcast is woeful. I used to think it was just in WNY but they cheat on the picture everywhere. NBC and ESPN broadcast consistently beautiful pictures. CBS is better than Fox but still inconsistent.

Just a joke that this call can be clearly and obviously blown after a replay. But the Bills put themselves in a position where 1 play could sink them..........and that didn't happen over one or a few plays........when you do that you leave yourself susceptible to a bad break or officiating mistake. The Colts hung nearly 500 yards of offense on the Bills defense. The Bills D wasn't playoff worthy. Fortunately and ultimately, neither was Philip Rivers. He missed a wide open TD throw and other key inaccurate throws and couldn't even get the Hail Mary to the end zone from mid-field.

Yeah people were GREAT about keeping their masks on. Not sure what they showed on TV but nobody around us had their mask off unless they were eating/drinking at that moment. Definitely wasn't mask optional. Guy behind me slid his down quickly for a selfie and security told him he was only going to get ONE warning.😮