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Babich: Excellent (and quick) adjustments today.

My theory: Younger generations of men (after Gen X) do not shower as often as generations before them, or potentially - know how to shower properly. You have to clean everywhere. I also wouldn't assume they know how to properly wash clothes and linens - especially washcloths (if they use them) and towels. The little pod doesn't take the germs away. So everything, after a while, can have an odor. There are a lot of families without dads to teach in modern society, and hardly any school has Home Econ. anymore where the Home Econ. teacher goes over detergent vs. bleach, how to wash your whites, etc. I personally find women who do not wash their hair for days gross.

I suspect his issue is he's 95% athlete, 5% football player, and he struggles understanding a football playbook and knowing where he's got to be outside the fundamental concepts. From a competitive intelligence about the Bills standpoint, I'm not too concerned. I'd be more concerned about that if they poached an OL.

If they did not get the #1 overall, he probably keeps his job. Likely it was "recommended" by some consultant they pay that the Titans get a GM who's "better equipped" to handle the gravity of picking #1 overall. Spoiler - It'll be some retread GM.

Nobody in the NFC is scarier than a Rams team at full strength on offense in a dome. Matt Stafford is perhaps the best QB in the league at reading the zone defense, and the Bills have no answers for Nakua.

Coaching is a young man's game. The game passed Ron Rivera by, and I don't take Rex Ryan's interest seriously. He hasn't done a damn thing besides broadcasting since he was let go by the Bills. If these older former head coaches have legitimate interest in returning to coaching, they need to take HC jobs in college or the UFL to stay in the pipeline. Even then, your chances of getting back to the NFL are remote. If I were the Jets, I wouldn't look at OCs and DCs off the bat. They've tried that. The college to NFL pipeline has been awful. I'd be looking at coaches like Skip Holtz and Anthony Becht who have performed well in the UFL and have built a team of assistants. Skip Holtz has a great resume. I'd look at Mike Vrabel too.

Bills need to lock up that 2nd seed before resting anyone. I'd never give the starters two weeks off. At most, one. I'd give Elam, Bishop and Ingram as many reps as possible.

Elam needs more playing time, and I'd keep giving him large chunks of game reps. Bills will need him in the playoffs.

Don't wait until the half to adjust, defense.

My commentary was on their head coach, not Stroud the player. Stroud wasn't available to rally the team, and that's when Ryans should have stepped in. I didn't see Ryans even talk to Stroud.

The Texans effectively left the stadium after the injury. I put that 100% on Ryans. Can't be Mr. Stoic in that moment, staring across the field, with your headset on.

All about as much rest as possible for the 30+ year old players. (I'd rather face the Ravens with a rested, relatively uninjured Daquan Jones.)

This is a game where in addition to Dewayne Carter, I'd give Zion Logue and/or Branson Deen playing time to see what they've got at DT. Need fresh legs at DT. I don't think Jones/Phillips/Jefferson provides much.

This Bills team is special.

Have always had a soft spot for the Cardinals and Vikings. Cardinals are one of the NFL's worst teams all-time. Vikings are better. Bills are almost to .500 as a franchise.

Most NFL teams can't dissect zone. The Ravens can via the run and the Texans and Rams can with their quick receivers. As others have said...if zone isn't working, they need to change immediately, not wait.

I was expecting Babich to adjust at the half. No answers on defense today.

Polar Express is a weird, unintentionally creepy movie. Bob Zemeckis got weird with age. It was the first movie where I had the opinion that all is not what it seems with Tom Hanks.

I think he will stay in broadcasting. I don't think any NFL team or Division 1 school is likely to hire a soon-to-be 73-year-old coach. NFL teams and colleges invest heavily in infrastructure around a head coach, with the expectation that it will remain in place for several years. At 73, concerns about health and the inevitable effects of aging arise. Why do I bring this up? I believe that if Wade Phillips were younger, he would have been an NFL head coach in recent years—especially considering the success he had with the Rams' SB defense. After that, you know what he did? He became the head coach of a UFL team, where he performed quite well, and that was it.

Some, to the positive. He's already the best Bills coach in the free agency era. I think he needs to get the Bills to a SB to be in a conversation about being the best Bills coach of all time. One thing that has changed positively IMO is this 2024 team is showing up to nearly every game. I thought the team took the Ravens game off, but otherwise, it has shown up. That *home* Cincy divisional game where the entire team appeared to rather be somewhere else has never sat well with me as a fan.

NBA Basketball. Just chucking 3s. Boring to watch.

No. The Jets (Johnson) would hire a firm to provide the entirety of the general manager and front office services. The Jets would not have separate front office personnel on their payroll like their own pro personnel executive, analytics, scouts, etc.

I won't be surprised to see this firm become the GM at the end of the process. I think that's the emerging trend - a firm running the FO, not just one executive. Why have one GM when you can have a group of GMs apply their experience and connections?

I don’t see the Bills committing to a long-term contract for *any* player over 29. While I’m a big fan of Rasul Douglas—he’s an exceptional zone corner—the Von Miller deal and the inevitable decline many players experience after that age suggest those resources would be better allocated elsewhere.

I'd put Ken Dorsey last. He had many advantages Rick Dennison did not. Dorsey had the advantage of being in the Bills organization for years before he became OC. He also had Josh Allen as a developed quarterback, an offense that had some playoff and big game seasoning, and Bills peak spend (so far) on offense. Dorsey's game plan was boom or bust, and it didn't change based on weather conditions or what the defense was giving him. Adjustments are what make OCs and DCs successful. Rick Dennison was tasked with working with the menagerie of the Rex Ryan holdovers, the first draft class of Beane/McDermott, and Tyrod Taylor as QB. I think the game evolved and passed Leslie Frazier by. He was the right guy for that 2017-2018 period but that Texans WC loss should have shown McDermott that his defense is a loser in today's NFL.