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Can't be beholden to script against BB. Going to lose that way. You'd think that the Bills coaches would know by now that their schemes and scripts are all figured out.

I think BB and TB despise each other, and have for a long time. They stayed together for the reasons any miserable couple does, for mutually selfish reasons. I don't think the Patriots are really trying this year, especially after a couple of their better players decided to pass on playing in 2020. You add in no fan revenue, and the team probably cares more about managing the expenses, not getting an outbreak of virus, getting the games done and just getting out of there. For that franchise, winning a wild card game just to get the doors blown off by the Chiefs or Ravens in the divisional isn't worth it.

That is a problem in Pennsylvania. The state has gotten out of the non-correctional facility inpatient psychiatric care business for the most part. There's nowhere near enough beds and treatment professionals, nor the insurance coverage to pay for the treatment and the lifetime use of medications. The big component too, is that even if you receive treatment, get the medication and have all the insurance in the world to pay for it, you still have to want to take the medication and attend the therapy. Usually when people have a significant event, it's because they stopped doing those two things. That being said, until the toxicology comes back on this guy, I'm not 100% certain this was a manic depressive episode as being claimed. MD is not generally associated with running around with a knife, completely out of control.

On a practical level, if a social worker responds to that scene, he or she is likely stabbed to death. I don't know of any social worker who's going to make a career of entering situations like that unarmed.

I recall a small arthouse film that started off with finding something at Clavius...

They gave Edmunds play calling duties and he's obviously having difficulty. The over pursuit to me, is too much thinking in executing the play, too much try hard and not enough instinct in predicting and reacting to what he's seeing. I'd give the play calling responsibility to someone else and see if that helps. Injury aside, 98% of it is in his head.

This feels like when Jerry Rice signed with the Broncos. You want it to be successful and be a great story, but getting old sucks for everyone.

Run up the score or die trying. When BB hears a coach speak of "character" wins, he spots an easy mark.

Glad to see some creative blitz today. A healthy John Brown appears to be a key to keeping the offense humming along like it was.

Neither. The core Democrats and all Republicans fear a Harris presidency. Nobody really wants it - she polled at 2% even among Democrats. It will be four years of aggressive behind the scenes keep away. There will be a cold war in that White House from Day #1 between the Biden and Harris camps.

Interesting. I'd enjoy watching that. Hopefully the advice also included "after halftime, even with a big lead, keep them running, keep them shooting."

The Eagles won that game but that team has a lot of flashing red lights signaling it's rebuild and reload time. That team is stuck in a vortex of Super Bowl nostalgia, filled with old, slow and often injured fan favorites.

Kyle Rudolph, TE, Vikings Not a blockbuster, but it'd shore up that position. Without a running game, the Bills need that TE position to be a realistic threat for the opposing defense. Relying on the receivers to do it all is one dimensional.

He was a big phony. Ego and an uncomfortable amount of hubris, even as losses piled up. I bet if you asked him what went wrong in Buffalo today, there'd still be no self reflection from him on what he could have done better. He never gets head coaching opportunities because he never evolved as a person. Same ol Gregg. Rex Ryan is in this boat too, mind you.

Hot take today but perhaps not tomorrow (next year): He's a player that needs to be actively chasing a contract to reach the greatness level.

I think John Brown being on the field (and 100%) means a lot to Allen's confidence. I don't think there are any defenses that can contain the Bills speed adequately with Brown/Diggs and Beasley on the field. Lack of any danger from the running game allows the opposing defense to key in on the Bills passing game. If I were the Bills, I'd be spending time figuring out how to gin up real running yards, even if it means pulling dusty Chan Gailey plays off the bookshelf. (Not a bad idea.)

If you compare the 2020 defense to McDermott's first season in Buffalo, you will find that this latest version is the most vanilla, conservative defense he's had on the field from a strategy perspective. For a guy who studied under Jim Johnson, there is precious little Jim Johnson strategy in the play calls. How many Double A gap blitzes have you seen in the first couple games by the Bills? The defensive line is getting run over because the opposing offense knows the pressure will only be generated by those four players every down. They know pressure will not come from anywhere else. All the OL has to do is steam roll straight ahead.

That's the crux of the problem IMO. There's plenty of tape on it, plenty of analytics on tendencies, and "process" people are stubborn to change what got them there. I don't think Jerry Hughes and Ed Oliver are bad players. It's just that the offensive line knows exactly how to neutralize them because they know what they will do. Sean McDermott is a more successful version of Dick Jauron. I believe this analogy is fitting. He won't blow out teams in the name of sportsmanship and he will not change his strategy in a league that rewards obsessive adaption.

Processes are inheritinly predictable. Way too beholden to the play scripts just like last year. The lack of, or fear of, deviating from the script costs the team games. It works great when you play against subpar coaching talent like Gase and fellow script loving coaches like McVay. Andy Reid? BB? Not a chance. Those guys know you are coming and from what direction. This team will need to change up the strategy often to beat the good teams this year.

Agree that the "Saved by the Bell" Walking Dead show is completely unnecessary. AMC should have kept the only interesting plot in that show (the CRM) in FTWD.

It's always a consultant's fault. Always. Every bad idea in corporate America started with a consultant trying to be clever. My hot take on all this - the Bills are very focused on revenue recapture by any and all means necessary, so no idea is too wild. I just think the couple bucks they will make in sweatshirt sales is nowhere near the offset of the negative publicity and fan base reaction.

There's no angle I see where the corporate Bills look good here. At best, it looks like a desperate way to gin revenue. At worst, it's using their corporate muscle to outmaneuver a fan. It's always ticky-tack stuff like this that gets the tone-deaf wealthy in trouble.

Concur. Loved seasons 1 and 2. Season 3 got a little weird but the bowling alley scene was magnificent story telling. This season is mediocre. It has nothing to do with the casting as some have maligned. I think the creator has run out of gas creativity wise, and the story is preachy.

With all the incentive to show up to the Jets in the best shape of his career, primed to dominate and show the Steelers wrong, he instead showed up to the Jets fat and out of football shape. The only ones who should be worried are the Chiefs.

Injuries aside: For me, the devil is in the playcallling. Either the defense runs a script too long or Edmunds isn't making the best play call he could. There's something going on there. The script last night was built to stop Henry, and while they did that, it let the Titans passing game run wild. I don't think Edmunds should be in charge of managing the calls for the defense on the field. I think he's too young, and since he got that responsibility, he plays with hesitation. He plays so much better without that hesitation. The pass rush is predictable. You see precious few shifts, stunts, spy blitz or sending anyone but the line. I don't know why the Bills treated Tannehill like Aaron Rodgers (who can sniff a blitz before you think it) last night.