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NFL teams aren't ready for opening day? Nonsense. Teams like the Bucs, Bears, Browns, Ravens, Panthers, Patriots etc. came to play yesterday. They looked pretty prepared to me. The Patriots are always ready to play a game. That's partly what makes them so dominant. That team (coaches and players) shows up every Sunday.

I think it's too simplistic to lay 100% of yesterday's debacle at the feet of the players. I think the coaching is the far bigger problem - especially the unit coaches.

He won't panic but he better be angry about what happened yesterday because that was neither a well-coached nor well-prepared Bills team yesterday.

As a fan who has interest in, and pays particular interest to, the financial operations of the Bills as a business, I'd enjoy knowing where you saw that stated. I'm not aware any such mandate was given.

Unfortunately for McDermott, I think he's got quite a few coaches and players content to do just enough to collect a paycheck.

I too wonder how Coach McDermott responds. Your coaches and players were woefully unprepared to play today.

No President should have to put up with that type of in-house treachery.

OP's argument is a bit simplistic IMO. Darby is specifically excellent in a Jim Schwartz man coverage scheme. Darby struggles in a zone scheme. EJ Gaines struggles in a man scheme but excells in a zone scheme. The Bills were matching talent to plan. Square pegs to square holes. (FWIW, there were plenty of BIlls players who were All-Pro in the Jim Schwartz defense. You could argue that the Bills biggest loss was Jim Schwartz, not Ronald Darby.)

B+ PROS: Team remains in Buffalo and they have invested real money into the business. Team is well run financially. Put the right people in place to end the playoff drought. Isn't caving to NFL demands for a new stadium. Team appears to have a direction. Supports the players. (No rush to judgement on McCoy's issues, Zay Jones, Incognito) CONS: On the job training as an NFL owner was probably responsible for both Marrone and Ryan debacles, setting Whaley up for failure (not trusting him to do the job) and keeping Brandon around for too long (trusting him too much).

The media loves their Harbaughs. Same goes for brothers Gruden.

There isn't a single person employed by the Bills from highest paid player to custodian that was hired with the business goal of securing the #1 pick in the draft. Besides, the Bills as a business, can't afford the 1-15 season.

This being the Bills and since they just invested a Top Ten draft pick in a quarterback, Nate Peterman will play like the second coming of Joe Montana this year. He will probably even beat the Patriots. Twice. We can then spend the entire season and 2019 offseason handwringing over what to do.

They need to do something besides rehash the same SOA plot devices - otherwise it'll die on the vine. My hot take is that the main character is a CIA agent. (as a continuation of the CIA plot line from SOA.)

Die Hard with a Vengence would have been the best with little qualification *if* they kept the original, darker ending. (I won't spoil it - the original ending is on YouTube.) I thought the 3rd movie beats the 1st because it captures the grit and speed of the story on a Manhattan canvas, Jeremy Irons was a worthy adversary to McClane in perhaps his only action movie role ever and until that morning, McClane was a divorced drunk on suspension. No superhero. The 4th (ok) and 5th (abomination) installments were missing interesting villians and the surprise plot points the previous films had. The 5th should have never been made. IMO, the RED and Last Boy Scout movies provide a general template for a Die Hard 6. Get a new lead that has an investigation that they dig McClane out to help on, but he or she dies abruptly early on in the movie, paving the way for a retired McClane to assemble a team of characters from all the past movies (Sgt. Powell, Zeus, Matt Farrell, etc.)

If I were the Bills FO, I'd work out anyone and everyone. I think that's part of the due dilligence aspect of being in the front office. Working out Lynch only has positives. One, you have a QB of similar stature to Allen working your practice squad. Secondly, just like in every other major sport, some players do better in certain systems than others and that opens up possibilities.

Your thoughts? https://deadline.com/2018/09/die-hard-6-title-mcclane-bruce-willis-origin-story-prequel-lorenzo-di-bonaventura-1202456391/ As a fan of the Die Hard series (I think the 1995 DHWAV was the best of the five) - I have no idea how this concept works. The entire premise of Die Hard was that John McClane was an ordinary NYPD detective caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. He had no superhero-esque backstory.

They really need to put together a "Sports Reporters" type of table for that show. Jackson and Berman would be a good start. Educated discusson about the sport without yelling? Count me in. I think somebody like Amy Trask would provide a lot of interesting insight. People I wouldn't put on that show: Recently retired players Any individual angling for a team or league job that's going to couch every word they say to the point they say nothing.

Men would be wise to improve themselves and not play that game at all. I think young men think they *need* to have a woman to live a fulfilling life. Not true. I have no idea why men chase single mothers or what compels men to do so. Is that a phenomena of internet dating? Supply?

I think Groy and/or Bodine are dangerously close to getting cut. The offensive line partly sucks because the calls are more wrong than right and that's on the guy who plays center. (The other part is that Castillo has no business coaching it.) 80% of the OL problems is that they are often in the wrong place at the wrong time. Get a more experienced (or smarter) center and your offensive line play improves.

FWIW, when the Bills signed him, I thought they were going to transition him to safety to be part of a three-safety "big nickel" defense the Bills use. I'm not convinced he's got CB speed anymore.

...or an acute inflamatory condition. "I overdid it with the burgers at lunch. My sperodedes is going to act up."

As an aside, is your doctor prescribing anything but gabapentin for that neuropathy? In my experience, the doctors who immediately reach for that are the laziest around. It does nothing to treat the condition, only masks it.

Tom Brady is better than Aaron Rodgers. This is what they will say 20 years from now. Why? Brady was smart enough to take less money or structure his money in a way to have better teams that compete for championships year in and year out. Rodgers will be the Dan Marino of the late 10s. Great quarterback on an otherwise mediocre team that will struggle to get in the playoffs.

It is obvious to me the Bills are planning on running a new 5-TE set. I'd actually like to see that in a game.

*Never* going to happen. The team (and more importantly its lawyers) want nothing to do with the dangerous potential of a workplace incident.