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Preseason practices are now all essential walk-throughs, too many regular season games, London games, Thursday games, turf fields...the NFL could fix a lot of things to lead to fewer injuries but that would lead to a loss of a fraction of the money they make

I hate to be too negative about him because he has been solid, but you can just tell by looking at that guy that he is going to miss a massive kick eventually. Big-time Norwood energy.

Exactly. Pretty borderline (I think you could even argue the NE defender initiated the contact), but those points were the difference in the game. Also the PI on Benford at the end. I saw nothing, and it stopped the clock and gave NE a 1st down, essentially assuring the win. Or the defensive holding on the Floyd sack on 3rd down that gave NE a 1st down at the 20 when we had them out of FG range. All of those calls are totally subjective, but can be seismic in the right spots.

I've always suspected that it's an infraction that only exists so that the league can manipulate games towards outcomes they see as favorable, whether that be keeping games interesting or even benefiting one team over another. It's only a five-yard penalty, so it never grabs too much attention, but it consistently pops up to bail teams out on what were failed 3rd/4th downs.

Today was the full McD experience: - team flat as hell for 2.5 quarters - one or two dumb timeout usages - vaunted defense that he crafted can't get a stop when sorely needed

LMAO, could you possibly be a little bit more dramatic for us?

If they don't reach a Super Bowl, McDermott will go down as the coach who choked away a championship in 2021, and Beane will be remembered for lucking into Allen before blowing multiple high-round picks on defensive players rather than offensive weapons for his QB. And that's how they should be remembered.

Guy's being pretty mouthy for chronically underachieving with a top-5ish all-time QB...in a dome, no less.

Shaud Williams was featured on an episode of Da Ali G Show starring Sacha Baron Cohen.

Pat Williams and Sam Adams were let go so that we could focus on smaller DTs who could supposedly get pressure more quickly. Enter McCargo and Larry Tripplett. Good Lord. It would difficult to have a bigger downgrade at a position if you were actively trying to sabotage a team.

A dome team didn't win the Super Bowl until 2000, and only three have ever won - all had homefield advantage. There's a LOT of evidence that they struggle in the playoffs.

One loss last year to another cold-weather team doesn't negate decades of games where the weather was an advantage for the Bills. The answer is to maybe figure out a way to stop being such a finesse team that gets pushed around by more physical squads.

He had arguably the greatest postseason performance ever in a game when it was 0 degrees outside. I'm never not amazed by the amount of Bills fans who think a domed stadium should be built, forever eliminating their weather advantage, so that a then-30-year old QB can benefit from it for a few years.

They packed it in the minute Hamlin got taken off the field. The only reason they beat NE the following week is because they got two special teams TDs, and they only reason they beat Miami the week after that was because the Dolphins were totally decimated. They just quit on the year. Yeah, they went through a lot in one season, but so do plenty of people whose annual salary is 1/4 of an NFL player's weekly game check.

Not really worry about defense since it doesn't particularly matter anymore, as you saw in the SB when two great defenses were both shredded. The most important thing in the draft, bar none, is getting Allen more protection on the offensive line. If he starts getting time, we start scoring 35+ points/game.

Our line still sucks, yes? That is still the most pressing need.

People with low IQs really aren't cognitively able to learn from the past or think about future consequences. They can only live in the present.

I'm sure they won't completely regret that deal before Thanksgiving.

The number of people who think it is fine to chronically underachieve today just because the Bills had a playoff drought that ended over five seasons ago is ridiculous. Let's be real here...McDermott backed into the playoffs at 9-7 in 2017 (same record we had in 2014 and 2004 - two markedly better teams that simply didn't luck into the postseason), was abysmal in 2018, and then the QB they likely settled for morphed into possibly the most naturally-gifted talent ever seen at the position. You think Rex Ryan or Doug Marrone or Chan Gailey aren't making yearly playoff trips with Allen? Marrone went to the AFCCG with Blake Bortles and Ryan went there twice with Mark Sanchez. This losers' attitude that we should be grateful just to be in constant playoff contention is the type of thought process that led Cincinnati to waste a decade with Marvin Lewis.

There were zero real sacks in that game, correct? I think Hurts ran out of bounds one time before the line of scrimmage, so that technically counted, but no real pocket sacks. Allen would feast in that environment. As it stands, either one of those teams' defensive line would've steamrolled us.

His seat is significantly warmer now than when Frazier was hired.

Those Colts teams wildly underachieved and ultimately only got a title because NE uncharacteristically melted down against them in the AFCCG before a Super Bowl where they got to go against Rex Grossman. Lotta Dungy-McDermott similarities.

The NFL season/playoffs have already been perverted enough.

McDermott probably isn't bringing in anyone that could potentially become his replacement down the road.

I don't want to criticize him too much, because he went through something traumatic and his emotions are probably all over the place, but his decisions to both constantly shield his face and play into the conspiracy theories on social media (taking picture in front of his mural with face completely obscured, captioned "Clone") are pretty bizarre. What is the point of that?