BADOLBILZ

It's ALL RELATIVE. How you get to the record means equally as much(if not more) than the number. How would you feel about going 16-1? Wouldn't you take that before the season started? I think a truly happy ending to a Bills season is going to have a sum of at least 19 outcomes. The whole "I'll be happy if they just win the division" kinda' thing is only an attempt to mitigate the pain of failure.

I didn't really understand why they swapped him out for the expensive specialist Matakevich. Did they think that they weren't going to be able to find a kicker who could reach the end zone? Bojo is pretty good at out kicking his coverage and launching shorter field punts into the end zone so good kick coverage goes to waste on our own punts.

1) Lawson just aint very good. He played his assoff for a new contract and became a very solid rotational DE. Beane was wise to dangle that carrot last year and get what they could out of him. But now that he is in Miami he is the same player the Bills had in 2017-2018. I mean to a TEE. So what you saw last year.......wasn't happening again with a new contract in hand this year. 2) Star Lotulelei was downright poor in his first season in Buffalo and mediocre in year 2. He was a traffic cone. He wasn't a double team magnet he was a single teamed 1T who couldn't get off a block to make a tackle. He was being outplayed by an enormous margin by Horrible Harry last year prior to HH's injury. I know people are fixated on the perceived D-line issues..........but the problem with the run defense is the linebackers. They are getting opportunities but they are just making the wrong choices in pursuit. Edmunds has been awful in this regard. Keep in mind that the Bills have been running the same stuff on defense for 4 seasons now. Teams are prepared. They KNOW the weaknesses. It's not a coincidence that now even the most casual of fans can see things like the deficiencies in Edmunds' game.

It was a mistake playing him so much early yesterday. They wanted to run the ball a lot early so he was the TE and when you then have he and Roberts both out in a pattern it greatly increases your odds for the kind of turnover that Roberts served up with that interception.

Their biggest problem is that the Bills have spent 2+ years blowing smoke up Tremaine Edmunds ass as a MLB hoping that the hot air will elevate his game and it's just not happening. He is their version of Gary Sanchez in the middle of the lineup. But he also happens to be their highest ceiling pass rusher..........something they actually NEED (unlike a Yankees team that doesn't have room for another slugger at 1B or DH). The Bills have been trying to break the mould at MLB and it ain't working. That particular round hole is very resistant to square pegs for a reason. You gotta' have instincts for the position. He just doesn't react like a RB in the run game and all the false steps there really detract from the rest of his performance. There really isn't an excuse for not having depth at that position. Signing Tyler Matakevich as his backup when he's basically unplayable on defense was a real double-down. It's not so hard to fill MLB decently that you need to use a lot of capital on the project.

And the Bills QB was averaging 9 yards per attempt and the Titans were down Adoree Jackson at CB and their best DL. Daboll played away from the Bills offensive strength when he certainly didn't need to. And he seemingly failed to take into account that the Bills defense was beleaguered coming into the game and really needed a night of just rushing the passer and keeping pass plays in front of them. You do that by putting points on the board, not trying to execute 12 play drives. Just a stupid and out of touch gameplan. Like I said.........reminiscent of the Thursday night game versus the Jets in 2017. These mid-week games are something that McD and company have to figure out.

I don't live there. But any port in a storm, right?

The first mistake they made was trying to come out running the ball in the first half. This is a passing team now and the circumstances around this highly unusual game situation called for bold/aggressive play calling.............you don't want to come out and try to out-Titans the Titans. But that's what they tried to do. Just throw from play action early and often..........it always opens up receivers even if you hardly ever actually run the ball. Once they went empty backfield it pretty much assured nothing but dink and dunk opportunities from the defense and that exposes you to potential turnovers. From the outset Daboll didn't have his finger on the pulse of this game...........it felt like that Thursday night Jets game in 2017 where the Bills came out trailing after halftime and Dennison tried to run the ball up the middle to no avail and was forced to punt. That defense was playing on fumes(the defense tonight was also under duress) and they were immediately disheartened by the lack of aggression from their offense. That lack of effort carried over for 2 other games.

The money badger shanks it.😄

I think the family is pretty well off..........I seem to remember some clips of him in one of those suburban McMansions with his family during the elite 11 show that year. It was focused pretty heavy on Lawrence(Peyton Manning comp) and Fields(Tyrod Taylor was his comp😊) and Matt Corral(Brett Favre was his comp). Anyway I think after seeing what has happened to Darnold and is happening to Jones.........the situation and people running the NJ organizations will be more important than the potential advertising income because a couple losing seasons and he will be persona non grata like Darnold is.

The largest contingent of people that I tailgate with is from Middleport and they watch the games in one of their garages. Pretty close to the fire hall. You should just go there and watch it and enjoy a Scapelliti sausage or two. Just tell them you know me and show them your most recent covid test. It's the garage with the red shovel leaning against the side cuz they aren't allowed to use the indoor bathroom on gameday.

It only works(some of the time) because Mahomes hasn't been willing to just take the short stuff and move the chains. To this point in his career he has never had to. The Bills will do something similar and it will be interesting to see if they take the easy opportunities against the Bills. That's generally what McD wants opposing teams to do.

We really need a "strawman" emoji for posts like this. He could run for 1200 yards next year..........it doesn't change the fact that individual RB's ultimately don't move the needle much in terms of team success. It's basically a math problem. The difference in yards per carry between a highly productive RB and a below average one is 5 ypa versus 4 ypa. Josh Allen is passing for 9 ypa. Patrick Mahomes has averaged 8.4 ypa for his career. Those RB numbers are just so low compared to the option of passing the ball that really the running game is basically just a "keep you honest" aspect of a good offense and whether that's 4 or 5 yards per carry on average really just doesn't matter much. Last nights game was a prime example of the modern NFL reality...........the Vikings totally dominated the clock and the game on the ground...........and the Seahawks just flung the ball at DK Metcalf a half dozen times on the last drive and relatively easily went 94 yards to beat them.

Yeah one of the reasons I never saw him as a 1st rounder is because he seemed to be slow to adapt to the college game. He showed up as a very rare 5 star recruit at Iowa and really couldn't distinguish himself. Then in his last two years he was really quite dominant. I figured whoever got him was probably only going to get 2 good years out of his first deal.

I could see that happening.

I really wouldn't have minded them doubling down on WR in round 2 at all...........WR is one of those key positions now and especially with the way defenses are playing so poorly in 2020. In general, when you have a draft that is loaded with talent at a key position.........go with the strength of that draft. I think they did well with Davis where they got him, though. I think in hindsight the Moss pick was probably the wrong call. Even if he were healthy. Going back-to-back third round picks on RB's is too much capital in a position that's still easy to fill. People hate to hear that because some backs make great plays, breaking and avoiding tackles........and you tend to think that someone else couldn't have.........but you can get the same yardage so much easier in the pass game. Vegas knows what I'm talking about. The line basically doesn't move at all based on RB availability. EVER. As for Epanesa..........I think he is just one of those guys who really struggles initially and then once he gets comfortable in his setting he will become a good player.......probably better than Shaq because of his hand use and angular frame. He struggled early at Iowa too. It's almost like he has too much deference for the older kids out there and once he realizes he is one of them he can take the next step.

That 94 yard game winning drive was basically Wilson just chucking it towards Metcalf. He's just a matchup nightmare in a matchup league.

True about Ralph. But I don't think that's the case with Blank........he has just been let down by a lot of people in that organization.

And it was so long ago that it was a much different NFL then. Dude is going to be 62 years old next year. That's not what teams are going to be looking for.

Arthur Blank is probably too nice of a man to be a great owner. An a-hole like Bob Kraft would have fired Quinn and not let Kyle Shanahan out of the building. He waited about 2 years too long on both Mike Smith and Dan Quinn. As systems get so much easier to implement I think head coaching changes will happen even more frequently in the NFL............it's not quite like the NHL where they take the coach's temp every day and can fire them at any time........but the automatic 3 years and multiple down years after a good year before firing thing is probably going to be a thing of the past.

Are their any Erhardt/Perkins OC's around with terrible track records? I root for Daboll but worrying about losing him after his struggles to distinguish himself at his numerous previous NFL OC jobs(and here until now) is really going out of your way to find something to worry about. There is a very good chance that his departure(which I don't necessarily believe is imminent) could lead to the hiring of a naturally better OC..........the way Charlie Weis leaving for Notre Dame lead to the Pats promoting Josh McDaniels and really elevating their game offensively. If nothing else there won't be a shortage of candidates and having a stable HC and front office and a winning franchise with a young QB should give the team a very good choice of candidates.

Oh firing scouting staffs and changing your GM from within after the draft isn't uncommon at all. That kind of succession happens a lot. Hiring a new coach in January and then waiting to bring in HIS general manager from another organization right after the draft is not. That was being sold as 3D chess and really it's just something you'd expect the Jets to do..........but of course not until the incumbent GM spent a bunch of money on players the coach didn't want.

That was my thought..........Georgia kid.........I am sure he and his family would love for him to be a Falcon. If the Falcons are close I wouldn't be surprised to see him threaten to pull a Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck and return to Clemson if he doesn't like the prospect of where he might have to go.

What was hilarious was the selling and subsequent buying of the excuse that "the Bills just didn't have enough time to evaluate QB's" that offseason. Whaley wasn't a good GM but it wasn't for a lack of effort from he and his staff wrt college scouting. I've literally never heard another organization even attempt to make that ridiculous excuse for passing on a QB before..........it was just that McD didn't trust the evaluation work the Bills staff had done from June to January. If anything Jan-May is far too much time to finish the evaluation of every prospect. The other great sell was the theory that the Pegula Bills were ahead of the curve waiting to hire their new GM in May......and that a lot of teams were going to start doing that.🙄

Long before McDermott ever came here and told us to "trust the process" I was telling people on here that the draft is a process, not an event. You gotta' have systems in place to prevent fundamental and "heat of the moment" errors. If they had them.........then they were flawed. That trade was bad. With respect to the Lamonica trade error........which happened at a time when the Bills roster was trending down sharply.......the Mahomes pick trade was probably the single worst transaction in terms of potential impact in team history. But one of the great things about the way the NFL is set up is that teams are given plenty of opportunities to right themselves after making bad decisions. I liked the Allen pick for the same reason I wanted them to draft Mahomes.............the potential upside was tremendous.