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Hard to make a bunch of plays when QBs avoid throwing to your side.

All of these guy are expecting insane money, all are on the downside of their prime, and all will cost significant assets to get. Beane would essentially be betting his job that we win the SB within two years by pulling off a move like that. I don't think he's willing to do it.

He tried!

Kirk actually specifically did say this to Allen. https://sports.yahoo.com/christian-kirk-says-bills-qb-010805615.html

Didn't he supposedy tell Allen that he has only lived in hot weather and didn't want to move anywhere cold, or am I thinking of someone else?

It was proven to be the right decision, unless you want to blame Rob Johnson for the ensuing kickoff after he led the game-winning drive.

The defense won those games. Rob Johnson also effectively won the Titans game, which most people forget. Flutie had the same opportunity at Miami the year before in the playoffs and predictably turned it over in the red zone, something that lost multiple games for the Bills in 1999.

I mean, he orchestrated a game-winning drive. Not his fault they screwed it up, like always.

We probably would've been down by double digits at that point if the Little General had started that game. He was brutal in '99, especially towards the end of the year.

I would argue the opposite is true. Most Bills fans talk about him like he's Jonathan Ogden. This thread is a perfect example.

Like the government or the mafia, they don't want anyone somehow turning a profit on anything without getting their cut.

Tom Brady being on PEDs for the last half of his career (with no consequences) fooled a lot of people into believing that all good QBs should be playing at a high level into their mid-40s.

Really hope the Bills win the Super Bowl soon so that I can stop watching the NFL altogether. It's now a perversion of a once great game.

That was my favorite play all year. You can make an argument that drilling that kick changed the trajectory of Bass' entire life.

The Rams make sense in so many ways, and the end of his current deal will likely align with the retirement of Stafford. You just gotta hope that he desperately wants to be the one guy who brings Buffalo a title. And/or that he would prefer being a huge fish in a small pond over being just another famous guy in LA. I'm also of the opinion - and I can't really articulate why I feel this way - that Allen might retire significantly earlier than expected.

I remember when we tried this back around 2006 when we replaced productive fat guys like Sam Adams and Pat Williams with faster DTs like Larry Tripplett and John McCargo Same results as now. Guys who cannot beat blocks and penetrate.

His first-half game plan against Denver is exactly what you'd do if your goal was to let an overmatched underdog stay within striking distance. He completely conceded the entire second half against Baltimore because he wanted to sit on the lead and hope it would work out. Got bailed out by a miraculous forced fumble and a very uncharacteristic drop by one of the game's best players. Was, again, way too conservative against KC because he was afraid of trying literally anything new on either side of the ball because there is always a chance it may not work (there's a parallel, huh?). He coaches terrified in most big moments, and I'm tired of pretending that his annual playoff failures are solely due to bad luck.

Wasting the career of the most talented QB to ever play the position with this generation's version of Marty Schottenheimer is not a "good thing," in my opinion. Guy coached not to lose to a ridiculous level for large portions of all three playoff games.

I don't know if you can justify paying him more than Barkley when Cook's two backups are as good as they are.

LMAO Josh Allen got drafted by a team where his top two WRs were Zay Jones and Kelvin Benjamin. A team coached by a staff that determined that Nathan Peterman beat him in a preseason QB competition. You don't get a worse situation to start in than that, and he still became the best player in football. To say that he wouldn't have been kicking major ass with players like Eric Moulds, Peerless Price, Terrell Owens, Lee Evans, Marshawn Lynch, Fred Jackson, etc. is absolutely insane.

9-7 with EJ Manuel and Kyle Orton at QB. That translates to 43-0 with Allen under center.

Off the top of my head...2002, 2004, 2014, 2015. The 07 and 08 squads would've both made playoff runs with Allen. I'm probably missing a few.

I'm going to assume you're under 30 if this seems like a wild statement. There were 3-4 teams that would've been legitimate SB contenders with Allen on the roster, with more talent than we have now.

There were multiple drought rosters that were better than the current Bills one, but simply lacked the QB.

Looking back on it, the period between 2006-2012 almost seems like an era where some type of Major League-esque sabotage was going on in the front office to facilitate a move to Toronto. Even the worst executives would luck into a good decision here or there, and the Bills' brass during that time never did.