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All these recommendations are solid. The name I would advocate most for is Taron Johnson. I think we need to start viewing him as an elder statesman leader. I believe his long tenure and high-level performance give him a very high status on this team.

I find these uniforms very disappointing. The Buffalo Bills have a proud, established look, featuring dark blue and white with red highlights. Making us look like the Lions, Colts, and Cowboys is an affront to the Bills' brand and heritage. I get the iced look. But that could be accomplished without leaving our colors behind. The NFL and its uniform designers failed, completely.

Point of order, the Bills have beaten the Ravens twice in the playoffs. In fact, 🤔 I don't recall us ever losing to the Ravens in the playoffs. So yes, we've done enough.

I recommend a tall glass of bourbon to help you step back from that ledge.

He was lucky to have a watch! I used to know it was time for school by reading the shade from a stick in our front yard.

And, how is that working out for them?

The simplicity of this myth always makes me laugh.

I think reality with Walker on this play rests between your positive review and the video assessment. Positive - As you said, Walker occupied two offensive linemen, freeing clean space for the tackler. In fact, by the end of the play, Walker has three offensive linemen on the ground with him. We will do a lot of run-stuffing when our DT1 occupies that type of attention. Negative - Walker was immediately wiped out from the hole, offering no gap-plugging resistance at all. You or I could have held our ground as long as he did. Of course, 😊 we would be carted off the field, never to walk again. He really should play a bit more stoutly than that. Both Walker and Sanders excite me. I think our d-line is headed in a good direction.

Absolutely repulsive.

C'mon Dr., he's a "pigskin guru." It says so right in the article! I (admitting, with shame) read it. He is a tired cliche guru.

This is now one of my favorite 2BD posts ever...every word of it. Thanks Bob!

Honestly Mister Defense, I hope so also - at a price that fits the team’s plans. Go Bills!

I appreciate your passion for Cook. I have to respectfully disagree with labeling him essential in any way. While he is very good and valuable, I believe we can win the Super Bowl without him. “Essential” means we cannot. It would be harder, but we would still be capable. BTW - I enjoyed your use of the term “prolly.” 😊 You truly are a Ga boy.

My completely uneducated read on the situation, and its status: Beane offered contracts to all the recently extended players AND Cook. They were all team-friendly contracts, to a degree, but also fair to the players. Everyone else signed. Don’t forget, he also signed Josh to a team friendly (at his stratospheric level) extension. - Cook decided to break ranks and strive for a top dollar contract. This is certainly understandable and is his right. However, the NFL is a big-time business and Buffalo is one of the most tightly run organizations in the league. - Beane has reminded the Cook camp (an amateurish group, by any measure) that he has a contract to honor and an extension offer to accept, or decline. The graceful ending is Cook learning these business realities, including the understanding that he cannot reset the RB pay scale on the Bills’ checkbook. From there, he can honor his current contract, join the team preparing for the season and play for a Super Bowl title. This is Big Baller Beane’s team and how it is run.

This, I agree with. It is different than calling him “essential.”

Probably because I’m old, but I didn’t understand any of that.

No. Other than Josh, no one player on the Bills is essential to winning the Lombardi. Paraphrasing a Ted Lasso quote, instead of thinking he is one in a million, he needs to realize he is one of eleven.

Trubiski, with a Josh-like play.

This is from 2020, when Fox Sports named Bills fans as the best in the NFL. Bills fans in the Boston area were getting their (our) picture taken in front of the billboard in Foxboro, about three miles from Gillette. I believe this specific picture was about two hours before we played them in Gillette on Monday Night Football. We thrashed them....then, they understood.

I lived in Boston from 2018 to 2023. They didn't take us seriously as we became a strong football team. Pats fans thought Buffalo's excitement was "cute" and expected to keep dominating. With their arrogance, they never knew what hit them.

How to say "kiss my @$$" without saying kiss my @$$.

I grew up in the '70s when the Dolphins beat us for an entire decade. Our dominance over the Fins during the Super Bowl years was sweet revenge. Our current ownership of Miami brings me special joy, and I get anxious before every game with them. Don't give them an inch; they already took a mile.

I agree with your point on this being Cook's one big bite of the apple. However, I don't just do what anyone tells me to do. I own my actions. I consider input, advice, and knowledge. However, when it comes time to take action, that decision and action is mine.

I think the strategy behind the narrator is to have the players and coaches be the stars. The narrator is there to fill in the blanks. You can like it or not (I'm kinda "meh"), but I think that is the reasoning behind the style.

Bravo! I admire thoughtful writing. 😁