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Overtraining. I think some of these players go too hard in the offseason. And not nearly enough stretching and flexibility as some have said.

1990s Nebraska Triple Option is my contribution. 😀 The Bills have all the pieces to run through opponents with it. They have the offensive line, a real good FB, and downhill running QB and RBs. If the Tush Push is banned, Triple Option can replace it at the goal line.

I agree with Howard Simon's opinion that the organization's only goal should be to win a Super Bowl this year. You have a new stadium opening up next year, a star quarterback who's 29, and you don't want to ride into it on a demoralizing 2025 season. What is this organization waiting for? I fear Brandon Beane's FO and Terry Pegula feel quite differently. I think the Bills formula makes for good teams, but a Super Bowl appearance takes extraordinary steps the Rams and Eagles, for example, executed in their SB runs. The FO prioritzes *reaching* the playoffs every year, and on a very tactical level, "winning" every single trade they execute. You can't get impact players for free. Terry Pegula very likely does not want to saddle the next owners (likely his daughter) with a situation similarly to what the Eagles are doing, with the massive credit card debt of circa-2025 salaries to be paid by future Bills teams (and owner.)

Pete Carroll. I think he retires at season's end. The Raiders needed to have a decent year for him to stick around. The issue with Carroll is the same as Belichick. At this stage in his career, he no longer had a list of of quality lieutenants to call upon that "get" his approach, so he had to bolt on Chip Kelly as OC, his son Brennan as Line coach, and kept the old DC from Pierce (Patrick Graham). You have this hodge podge of ideas, teaching methods and leadership styles. Chip Kelly was an especially bad hire. He hasn't been in the NFL since 2016.

There's something wrong there. My impression is that he took some massive hits last year from Lawrence's passes, and mentally, he's doing things now to avoid getting hit. He was a fantastic WR with Mac Jones there because Jones placed the ball better. I legitimately think he bails out on plays so he doesn't take a hit.

Torre's work on the Kawhi Leonard "situation" - newsworthy. Torre's work on Mike Lombardi and all the UNC drama: - not newsworthy. I don't think anyone outside UNC cares about Lombardi, Bill Belichick or his girlfriend.

I don't know what the deal really is but there's some truth to it, IMO. I called him "Cocaine Josh" in some of the games earlier in his career where he'd be erratic on the field and look wide-eyed on the sidelines like the fight or flight sense is at 150% power. The Bills always lost those games. The 2023 season opener against the Jets is a case in point. There are games where you get a sense he's calmer and more focused, and the offense tends to perform more consistently. On the other hand, there are games where the defense looks like they all just got up from a nap. Slow and staring out into space. The best Bills games are where Allen is calm and focused, and the defense looks like it wants to be there.

I think it's a big deal, but I think gambling has been a somewhat contained problem in the NBA because this kind of gambling used to be *just* an organized crime thing. I've always been part of the club that believes Jordan's foray into baseball was because the NBA either caught him betting on games or giving insider information to his father, and for very obvious reasons, couldn't banish the league's most popular player at the apex of the Bulls dominance. Would have brought down the NBA, especially on the heels of Magic's HIV announcement. Pre-internet, I think it was somewhat easier to cover things up.

You're not getting rid of the Mannings that easily.

You need at least two cornerbacks that can be at least average in playing some man defense. They don't need to be all-pros. Need a quicker strong safety that reliably tackles.

It's been a mystery to me why NFL coaches and teams can't change "the" plan quickly, or from series to series. It appears very difficult to do. Once that game plan is installed for gameday, there's little deviation from it. It's a game. Not redirecting a cruise ship from north to south. You'd think if you're the head coach and you don't like how James Cook is being utilized, you *TELL* your OC to start using him the way you want to see him used. If you see your soft squishy zone defense being mauled by a QB, do something different. The Bills should know which quarterbacks can dissect a zone defense (like Matt Stafford). As someone alluded to above, I also don't know why OCs don't incorporate plays that worked before for Josh Allen. So what if they were from a different OC. It's not copyrighted.

Can't we get just one? 😀 I'd put Benford on the slower of the two. I don't need a star. Need a decent, perhaps good one that can stay on the field. I'll take guys with potential. I'll try Ingram, Kimber, etc.

I think a lot of this mess is fixable without mass firings and unloading a draft class of picks for talent. The Bills need some legitimate man defense corners and run a man defense. I don't think zone coverage fools your football-smart NFL quarterback anymore because they all see a ton of it in their college games, and the OCs at these colleges are not DIII level strategists. They know where the open pockets will be. It's easy to get the ball out and find the running lanes. Bills have to play man defense and get some personnel that can do it for long stretches of the game. White and Benford are getting penalized because they are literally hanging on for dear life out there keeping up with their assignments. Need quicker legs out there. I'd be trying out corners and trading for man corners.

What a mess.

Titans have owners who aren't all that interested in owning an NFL team. They just enjoy being rich. They listen to consultants like the bad Lions used to.