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Wrong. They needed a WR1 and were clearly desperate for it. They paid Cleveland a premium for having eaten that cap hit. Had Cooper from Cleveland not been an option they would have pivoted to Hopkins or even Diontae Johnson who were subsequently acquired for day 3 compensation. The Bills would have had to pay more to get those teams to take on cap hit or they would have had to make their own re-structuring to make it work. But after Allen got his skull bounced off the turf hard in back to back games with the passing game in utter disarray they were going to get someone to make teams respect the boundary. https://www.instagram.com/realdanmitchell/reel/DA1HcM7RXIW/

Who is we? There was a large contingent that believed what the Bills had at WR going into the season was going to be enough. The easiest WR prediction of the summer was that Beane would be desperately searching for a WR1 in October.

I like how you spin it as if Beane only acquired Cooper because it was convenient. He was desperate for a boundary WR1 type after those showings in Baltimore and Houston.

It did significantly transform them for a couple games and their potential going forward. The hardest receiving weapons to find are the boundary receivers. Acquiring Cooper as Coleman was also breaking out has very much colored our view of the weapons around Allen. In lesser roles and against lesser defenders the other players are much more impactful. Statistically, the passing game the past two weeks with Coleman out and Cooper limited has not been good.

Warner is great and I wouldn't put Bernard on his level as an overall LB..........but the splash-play season Bernard had last year was the best by any NFL LB in decades. As @FireChans stats illustrated, Warner is the longer, more physical player but Bernard's combined skillset of making plays behind the LOS and his nose for the ball are second to none for off-ball types.

The bursa sac was definitely a problem for sure but he had numerous arm and leg ailments. His physical drop-off from the first SB to the last was notable. But Kelly was largely the same quality of QB from 1992-1995. What he lost physically he made up for by becoming a better decision maker/leader. The talk in 1995 was if he had been that good of a leader in 1990 they'd have won SB XXV. That 1995 team was really deficient of passing game talent, as you may recall. Kelly just fell off a cliff in 1996. And that really was NOT expected. They had just signed Quinn Early in UFA.......and he had been a top 15 NFL WR for the Saints in 1995........and drafted Eric Moulds who people had high hopes would have an immediate impact(everyone else from that great first round WR class did). Expectations were sky high for that team on opening day 1996.

Sure, because it's much simpler than that. He's just a very fundamentally flawed football coach.

Probably the best splash-play off-ball LB in the NFL. The splash stats he accumulates are extraordinary.

That was a nice TD RAC he had last night

Daboll simply doesn't have what it takes for any kind of sustained success as a HC. His proponents were just dead wrong about him and can't admit it.

Yeah it is not uncommon at all for less talented versions of teams to win SB's when the more talented could not. They are just often forgotten. The 76' Steelers team that lost to the Raiders was their most talented team of that dynasty. Since that all-time talented kinda' team lost there have been many instances of a teams lesser roster winning a subsequent SB or multiple. Most recently of course the past 2 Chiefs teams that were less talented than the team that lost the AFCCG to Cinci. In hindsight it's NOW easier to say that the 2 most recent Chiefs teams had much better defense's........but should this Bills team win a SB we might look back and say they were better than prior Bills teams because they had young defensive stars in their prime in 2024. It's why I never bought into the window closing. They were getting younger where they needed to and simultaneously more experienced where they need to. They had to resolve the boundary WR position and with Coleman emerging and Cooper's acquisition they've closed up that hole. They've also, so far, limited the emotional up's and down's that plagued the 21'-23' teams.

It was never a rebuilding year. The media said it, for a number of reasons, most of which were not logical, and a bunch of fans latched onto it because they wanted to lower the bar for the team. Fans can be funny like that. A majority of TSW posters thought 2017 was being set up to be a "tank" season by McBeane. It was rather obvious by the extremely veteran roster that they took to camp that they were just going to try to Jauron Ball their way thru the schedule but anticipating an intentionally crafted 4-12 season made it easy for fans to lower expectations and potential disappointment.

I think that's a little hindsight. It turned out they weren't a top contender but they were a popular pick to reach the SB going into 96'. Bruce Smith, Bryce Paup and Ted Washington were incredible as the defense became dynamic in 1995 and Kelly had been probably the offensive MVP of the AFC that year and seemed to be maturing into a more cerebral version of himself while still retaining enough physical skill. But then Kelly hit the wall like Aaron Rodgers has. It wasn't really physically quantifiable he just started making inexplicable mistakes. Didn't help that Bennett left in UFA unexpectedly after he was just finally reaching his potential......at MLB........where he should have been all along. Chris Spielman was a nice fall back but Bennett could do so much more.

Yeah I think he may have lost some respect for Mahomes when Patty was such a horrendous sport in the two games last year. He gave the Bills no respect for the win they got in KC.....was a straight up b!tch meeting Allen at midfield after the game........even though the penalty on Toney was egregious and even if it weren't called there was plenty of time for the Bills to come back down and score a game winner. He acted like it was a judgement call in the closing seconds that cost them the game. Not hardly. And then Mahomes made fun of the Bills after winning a tough game in Buffalo in the playoffs. If Allen wins that game and goes on to win a SB it's only 2-1 in their SB's. It was a potentially huge career swing game. So I think he could feel the heat on his neck from a peer age QB for the first time and his reaction wasn't pretty. Allen no longer owes him any professional courtesy.

Top grading 101.......first chapter......get the person to quit. It's the cheapest solution if the "troublesome" employee is unaware that the circumstances that keep arising are intentional. It's quite surprising how often it works. It's like 99% effective on people with short tempers. I'm sure they thought it was going to be much easier and had you with the notebook thing.

I think we have a bunch of people who don't understand that "untouchable" is a player they can't trade for any realistic price. We've got people mentioning zone CB's and interior OL. I mean, gtfoh. Josh Allen and Rousseau are their least dispensable players.........but Allen is the only one who they can't afford to trade for any realistic price. I believe you can only trade picks from the next 3 drafts and Allen is worth more than anyone's as-yet-determined next 3 drafts. And they aren't going to trade you all their picks AND also good players. We've discussed a potential day when Allen wants to move back home to CA but on the surface the Bills would have to agree to trade him for less than his worth to them.

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Yeah the KK mart itself is closed. Looks like sh!t. Good place for Penn State alums to park.

Even though Rousseau put up huge sack numbers in the one season of college football that he played.........I always knew fans were going to have a hard time seeing his value. Very few Bills have put up giant sack number seasons, but even if Rousseau ever gets 15 sacks in a season it will never look as dynamic as how guys like Bruce Smith or Bryce Paup did it. He's just methodical and getting separation from blockers isn't nearly as important to his game with regard to being able to make plays. His reach and Wilt Chamberlain sized hands allow for him to ride blockers into the play and then make plays without ever getting a full body on the player. So many of the plays he makes require a rewind to see that he was actually the guy.

I will definitely watch. It will likely be a disappointment, like watching Roy Jone's Jr. allow Tyson to obliterate his ribs to avoid being knocked out in their exhibition a few years ago. But it's entertainment and 80's nostalgia. The thing with Tyson though.......he never had the size to have a long boxing career. George Foreman could compete with the best in his 40's because he was massive with the long reach so even when he just turned into a big fat guy he was tough to take down.

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Reggie had guys he couldn't beat too. And they were RT's not the stud LT's of the day. The great Erik Williams used to beat Reggie like a rented mule. He pitched a full shutout.....zero tackles even........against Reggie in a playoff game once.

I think Boselli, in his brief prime, was the best I've seen. He was dominant and mean as hell. I could never understand why they didn't move Bruce around more rather than line him up across from him. Walter Jones was great. Orlando Pace was maybe the best "specimen" LT and was also great. Those 2 had a rough time pass blocking Bruce Smith though. I think he had 3-4 career sacks against Jones in very few games played and he had a 3 sack game against Pace.