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I rarely watch either if the Bills aren't playing. I'm a "1 PM EST" man.

Wrong. It IS strange. If you're going to have that policy, make it uniform. Domestic violence - suspended X amount of games Drug possession - suspended X amount of games. The case-by-case basis he has adopted is absurd.

Goodell's personal conduct policy has always been ridiculous and totally arbitrary. Does he still do the weird thing where when the player meets with him about an indiscretion, the length of the suspension is based on how contrite he seems during their "talk"?

Would be very interesting the see the alternate universes where Allen is a Chief and Raven. I think you're looking at multiple SB appearances for him under each scenario.

That is the hardest you can hit a QB and still stay within the current-day rules. Milano absolutely baptized him.

He's a good coach, and a better innovator on offense than anything we've had since Daboll. They've constructed a team, though, that is going to need to get home-field to get to the Super Bowl. All the other powerhouses in the AFC play outdoors in the cold, and I don't know if I've seen a team pack it up in bad weather quite like they did in KC last year.

I remember reading that story too. Hilarious. I'll bet he's fun to party with haha.

I haven't read one of these in years, and wow, time has not been kind to this column.

Smart move by him. If he had been traded to, like, Pittsburgh or New England, he would've been destined to be one of those WRs who crushes it on a powerful offense, then severely disappoints with his new team.

It's not terribly rare. Lots of great QBs started as backups. If getting through free agency is an issue for the Bills, maybe they should try to draft one, right? Zero picks allotted to that position since Allen was taken.

Agree 100%, but we don't have that right now. Didn't have it last year either. The year before that, they chose to let Allen take zero games off with an injury on his throwing arm rather than play Keenum for one single game. It's kind of an issue, particularly when you have a QB that plays the way Allen does.

Foles was a backup for Vick when he had that great year in 2013. Vick was previously brought in to backup Kevin Kolb. Tony Romo, Dak Prescott, Ryan Tannehill with Tennessee, Doug Flutie with the Bills, Brett Favre with Green Bay...all backups before they started. We don't try to draft or develop anyone for that position.

Deshaun Watson went out in November last year, and Cleveland finished with a better record than the Bills did because they had a solid backup.

As the roster stands, this statement is true, and has been for years. But why is that acceptable, particularly when you have a team that is supposedly in contention for the Super Bowl? I'll bet the 1990 Giants, 2001 Patriots, and 2017 Eagles were all glad to have capable backups when their starter went down, but we punt on this position every year it seems. Kansas City sure didn't.

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Honest question - what about the NFL now is objectively better than it was in the pre-Goodell era?

If you polled NFL GMs only, the discrepancy would be even larger, significantly so in fact. Allen would be favored by at least 90% of them, at a minimum.

13 Seconds was such an unforgivable loss that McDermott can't redeem himself in any way other than winning a Super Bowl. Last year, the team was decimated with injuries, this year they'll probably be worse due to cap casualties. My gut tells me that 2025 will be the "all-in" year and also his last chance. Allen turns 30 that offseason, so a change is absolutely necessary if he hasn't gotten over the hump by then.

The Chiefs have been down by double digits in all four of their Super Bowls and came back to win three of them. How do the Bills react when they're down in games? Do we keep our cool and stick to the plan, or do we panic a little bit? We're essentially front-runners; this stat proves it. When things are going well, they go REALLY well. When we face a little adversity, ehhhh...

In all seriousness, he'd probably be the best backup we've had since Barkley

This is 100% going to be a case of two idiots arguing over who "disrespected" the other one, then firing indiscriminately in each other's direction. They'll both have a ton of prior arrests, including felonies that make any ownership of any firearm illegal, and it will be swept under the rug like every other handgun homicide in this country that isn't politically expedient or helpful for certain narratives.

He held KC to fewer than 20 points in regulation, and that was after one of his best players suffered possibly the most inopportune freak injury in NFL history. Seems harsh. He conceded the FG attempt at the end of regulation in order to avoid giving up a huge TD. It was exactly what McD did at the end of the 13 seconds game.

I'm worried that the Bills are going to change their uniforms for the stadium opening and do something "modern" that looks stupid. Look no further than the Jets, Falcons, Rams, Lions, etc. -- don't fix things that aren't broken. Less is more.

It's so lame. In addition to the types that set themselves on fire jumping through flaming tables, it also brought with it a contingent of the fanbase that likes the pageantry of being a Bills fan more than actually following the team. Very reminiscent of the pink-hat era for the Red Sox, where a tortured team with loyal and knowledgeable fans suddenly had to deal with a new breed of annoying bandwagoners.

That chick has one of the stronger Buffalo accents I've heard.