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I don't think BB is going to coach any team after the Patriots. I think he will retire. I think both he and Pete Carroll call it quits at the conclusion of this season. Between retirements and firings, almost half the league could be looking for new head coaches in 2024.

I think the McDermott era only continues if the Bills can get past the divisional game. This was the all-in year. The goose is cooked and ready to be served baring that miracle.

The curse began with the Shout song in 1987 and was strengthened when Wade Phillips was fired. The football gods dislike the train horn but dislike the Shout song even more. The football gods say "why can't Buffalo have a cool entry like Philadelphia does with Rocky?" The curse can only be broken via a combination of 2 of the following 3 methods: 1. The Shout song is never played again. Ever. 1. Wade Phillips leading the charge to a stadium of applause. 2. Doug Flutie & Rob Johnson together leading the charge to a stadium of applause. Until this occurs, the curse remains alive.

Neither, TBH. in 2024, I'm beginning the reload for 2026. For Floyd, I'd never sign a 30+ year old player to anything but 1-year, incentive rich deals if I'm the GM. (That goes for Daquan Jones too.) AJE is in the Tremaine Edmunds camp for me - The Bills shouldn't be signing "the good but not great" players to long deals with sticky cap consequences. AJE has attractive sack numbers but what you're paying for are Chris Jones-type game changing sacks.

Warm? I think he's been fired since the Cincy game. The losses to the Broncos and Eagles have just provided the decision to part ways more cover. If the Bills are going to make "the" change, the window is the conclusion of the 2023 season, and you give the new coach a 2024 "build" year and a peaking 2025-2027 to coincide with the new stadium.

This game was the difference between good and great.

THERE WE GO

MUST score this drive.

The KC/PHI game showed me three things about the Eagles: Take AJ Brown out of the game and the Eagles offense struggles. Hurts relies heavily on AJ Brown magic, and when it is not there, he holds the ball and the sacks present themselves. You can run on the Eagles defense. You can Joe Burrow the underneath to death. Eagles linebackers are s-l-o-w.

I'd expect there will be a rule that says you can't fake it once the offense has established its position or a limited number of times you can use it in a game, like timeouts. The defense should have the opportunity to leverage without having to simultaneously be prepared for a fake. Everytime Philly runs that play, Jason Kelce has the offensive and defensive lines resting on top of his body. That adds up.

Any college football program would be lucky to have Doug Marrone as head coach. Unfortunately, Doug Marrone also believes that. He'd be a great college coach. Doug Marrone Jr. (Matt Rhule) has performed a minor miracle making Nebraska competitive again. (5-6 overall)

This move signals to me that Woody Johnson is 1) a cheap owner but also 2) he doesn't care at all what happens the rest of this season on the field. If the Jets realistically wanted to make the playoffs this year, they could have traded for Dobbs or a Trubisky or a Barkley, or took a lottery ticket on Wentz or visit Joe Flacco's retirement village. However, that all costs actual cash spend. Tim Boyle isn't going to win the Jets any more games than Zach Wilson could. Zach Wilson's problem is what ailed JP Losman and EJ Manuel - he doesn't understand the NFL game on the cerebral level that is required.

The questions for the Pegulas is a tough one. It's the question of whether your good coach can be great, and if he's not great, is "great" readily available? Is Sean McDermott circa 2000 Wade Phillips? Or is he circa 2000 Buccaneers Tony Dungy? Or is he Marty Schottenheimer? It's a risky question to answer. You pick Gregg Williams (what the Bills did and began the great playoff drought) or Jon Gruden (what the Bucs did and the Bucs win a Super Bowl) or stick with him (Schottenheimer) and win a lot of regular season games but nothing past that. Sometimes it's purely situational being the right coach for the right time. Tony Dungy couldn't get the Bucs over the hump but he goes to Indianapolis and succeeds in doing so.

I expect the Brady plan to be running to set up the pass. TBH, I think the Bills offense will resemble the Bengals offense. The Bengals simply adopted a lot of what Ensminger did at Georgia and LSU.

He learned a lot from Steve Ensminger at LSU. I expect: Play action Plenty of RPO Intermediate routes Less shotgun runs up the middle! Joe Burrow learned to attack via the intermediate/short routes under Ensminger - I'd expect to see a lot of that in this back half of the season.

Absolutely. It is free market intelligence on the consumers of your product. In many ways, the board is the ideal focus group - the Bills add no selective bias by selecting it, you don't see the participants and the participants have no motive, financial or otherwise, not to speak their mind. For example, I think the decisions on the former players that are selected to lead the charge comes from intelligence gathered here. I will continue to advocate for a Doug Flutie/Rob Johnson co-charge to break the curse if you're listening OBD.

I don't think he's afraid to make a change. This was the all-in year and this coaching staff and team failed, and there should be consequences. This is a very expensive and embarrassing business failure we're all witnessing. The contract extensions are small potatoes compared to what's on the line if you open a new stadium with a bad NFL team no one is paying to watch. The time to make a change is at the conclusion of this season. It gives a new coaching staff a honeymoon year of 2024, but Pegula needs an ascending team for the new stadium. I personally would give McDermott and Dorsey their walking papers this week, as I've seen enough, and see if I can salvage this season with interim leadership.

Yeah, this game was "it" for him.

This game ended the McDermott era in Buffalo.

You have to think that losing this game has consequences for this coaching staff. This entire season has been in fireable offense territory but losing at home to the Broncos on MNF might just do it.

Here comes ol' Kenny with a run up the middle.

The Ravens will fade as they always do because that whole operation hinges on Lamar Jackson and his health. The second half of the Browns game was likely the start of the great second half fade. He'll get injured in Week 11 or 12, and the Ravens will once again limp into the playoffs. NYG need to accept that nobody on that team wants to play for that coach. The Bengals beat predictable teams like the Bills and ol' Process. McSnoozy is an easy win because you know what's coming. Texans are chaos and play as if they have nothing to lose.

Houston plays with the fire/intensity/moxie that I wish Buffalo did.

Absolutely. I think men value friendships built around shared experience much more than women do and are better at both building them and maintaining them. The subconscious reason we all post here every day is that at its core. It holds true for school and experiences like serving in the military, or you were a member of a core group of employees at a company. Shared experience binds. Also, you crave friendships more as you age despite any outwardly curmudgeon status. Especially for men, life can get lonely once you're out of college. That loneliness compounds significantly when the kids are out of the house and then when you retire. I think that's why a lot of people who blew off high school and college reunions in their 20s-30s, are avid, devoted reunion attendees in their 50s, 60s, 70s.

Under. There's nothing going on that wows you with an offense loaded with talented players.