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Yep, I agree. I think the report cards are interesting to fans, and useful to players. The Bills ranked 23rd in the 2025 edition. Many Bs, one A (for weight room) but a C in Training Staff (surprise!) and an F in Team Travel (Shocker #2). The Bills were ranked 32 out of 32 in team travel.

The NFL filed a grievance against the NFL Players Association, asking the union to stop its annual team report cards and saying the exercise violates the collective bargaining agreement by airing public criticism of teams, according to documents obtained by ESPN.

The Bills' in-house strength and conditioning program is a clear liability. I wouldn’t be surprised if their travel logistics and approach to managing fatigue, disruption and acclimation are equally flawed. When the McDermott-led Bills come out flat, it is almost always the road games. An example of this occurred in 2023, when the team arrived in London just two days before their game against the Jaguars. They sleptwalk through that game and lost it. Jet lag for a trip from the US to Europe is a couple days for most people. I don't think arriving in Miami on a Friday afternoon provides players with nearly enough time to adjust to exertion in the humidity and heat. We also have no idea whether these players get the sleep they should, or they are up all night.

I'll play the game. Head coach: Not so much a specific person in mind, but a quality I'd like to see is a coach (and staff) comfortable with adapting to changing circumstances from season to season and insid the games. More tacticians, less process. Tired of somewhat mindlessly following the "installed" game plan. Front office: Believe the draft profiles. If a consensus of draft profiles say the same thing about a player, believe the detail to be accurate, good or bad.

Yes they would. Playoffs is a new season, and KC's team is full of killers. Bad weather part of the season starts now, and it remains to be seen whether this NE team can play in the cold and lousy weather. That's also why I don't buy the Colts just yet. Bills have the best cold weather/bad weather QB in the AFC, and perhaps the league.

The extra lineman is effective when the Bills have a lead and you need to gain yards on the ground and eat up clock. I like what the Rams do with the 13 personnel. I'd use Knox, Hawes and Coleman (or Davis) as the TEs. I think defenses would have a hard time defending that.

It's partly him (he looks like he absolutely hates to do any blocking) but I also don't think the Bills use his skills properly. He's not a WR1. He's more of a slot or TE. He's not beating CB1 coverage, but he can beat other coverages. It's not Coleman's problem that the Bills WR room is all slot and gadget receivers. He'd be good at the "Travis Kelce, just run around out there" route.

It easily gets my vote for McDermott's worst game because of the lack of preparation (42 pass attempts in bad weather) and the team's lack of interest and effort. 13 Seconds was bad but the team showed up for that game.

No. The January 22, 2023 playoff loss to the Bengals at HOME remains the worst loss IMO. Win and get to the Championship Game. Nobody in the Bills organization came to play football that day. Yesterday's game was a copy of that game.

Stale is a great word to describe it. The defense knows what's coming. Miami's defense was playing with zero hesitation yesterday. Happened with Dorsey too. Dorsey's offense was good until the defenses caught up to it. Bills went on heater last year in part because defenses had no film on Brady's offense, especially the use of the extra lineman. Now they do.

Flying an aging fleet with a *very* constrained parts supply chain and a dwindling pool of mechanics familiar with its complicated systems caught up to UPS. I've never understood why UPS and FedEx keep flying these planes. There have to be plenty of used twin-jet planes to buy.

I prefer the Bills experimenting with new players to the organization like Logue and Mathis versus bringing back the ol' boys from seasons past. Casey Toohill and Kingsley Jonathan aren't going to do anything.

Bad weather and the *painful* cold change team's fortunes. It's all fun and games in a dome. The weather is nice right now in most markets. In the AFC, I only think Allen and Mahomes are QBs that play consistently well in the cold until Nix or Maye prove otherwise.

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.