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4 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:
Do you believe that Sean McDermott is a better head coach than Sean Payton? If so, we STRONGLY disagree. Payton has a Super Bowl and would have 2 without the worst call in NFL History. He changed the momentum of the Super Bowl with a surprise onside kick. He went to Denver with a bottom 10 roster and went to the playoffs. Sean Payton is a way better coach than Sean McDermott.
I think you're talking about his legacy which is fine - he has a better resume than McDermott.
In the upcoming season...? I don't really see him as the #2 coach going into the season. Other than beating the chiefs backups in week 18, they lost their last 3 games and beat almost no one with a winning record all year.
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34 minutes ago, blitzboy54 said:
This is exactly right. He didn't have a feel for it. Like he never ran a play to setup another play. It was mechanical for him. He got another shot and blew that too. I am guessing he will never be an OC again.
He's passing game coordinator for the Cowboys under Shottenheimer but i don't think he's going to call anything.
His miami meltdown also probably didn't help my opinion of his playcalling. Like what are you doing running 92 offensive plays in that heat and passing way too often. The Bengals/Broncos games before his firing were also, very poorly called games - 8 RB rushing attempts against cincy, and just a total inability to manage clock was becoming a major issue.
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Payton's ahead of him because of getting a rookie QB to the playoffs or whatever. But he was absolutely outcoached in the playoffs against buffalo to an almost embarassing degree. That was the popular "Upset alert" and they promptly got stomped.
To me - PFF is supposed to be the "analytics" group, and this article didn't offer much of anything to back it up.
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Just now, pennstate10 said:
The Super Bowl criteria is tough.
Bills are up against an alltime great coach/qb combo.
Reminds me of the 1970s Oilers who were always blocked by the Steelers.
Tomlin's one super bowl win involved Tom Brady's torn ACL, and a playoff upset of the colts by the chargers.
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12 hours ago, Fleezoid said:
Well 6 of those have won Super Bowls and Shanahan has been to 1. I weight that pretty heavily. Two of the rest are debatable, but I get the above comment about Stefanski. I don't get that one.
He won coach of the year 2x... but he's also never won the division and missed the playoffs 3/5 times.
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On 6/24/2025 at 7:24 AM, FireChans said:
Kelly deserves the Hall because he was part of an all time team that went to 4 straight Super Bowls.
The case for Eli Manning to make the hall is not dissimilar to Jim Kelly.
Kelly was never a top 3 QB of his era though. Not really even close.
Manning is a 2x SB MVP which i think is gonna help him considerably. 5 road wins during those 2 SB winning seasons.
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I think Colemans going to take a step this year and put up a really good season in the region of 60+/1000+/8+.
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42 minutes ago, Buffalo Boy said:
Hard disagree.
Pain sucks!!!!
Living with pain sucks!!!!
No amount of money, fame or accolades is worth that.
It's also pretty inevitable.
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47 minutes ago, Dillenger4 said:
7-9 win teams. OK, maybe. But we are a 9-10 win team, so really anything can happen. I don't see us winning more than 10 this year. Too many new guys, no Cook potentially, other teams caught up, our Defense is still in question. We will see.
But I'll tell you right now... NE and Jets are better than you think.
While Baltimore, Philly, KC, and Houston are tougher matchups, and I'd probably put Tampa Bay and Cincy together in that next tier. 10 wins is saying they basically lose 5 out of those 6 games, and another 2 of the ones below. The only thing that'd give me pause is the fact that they play Balt, Philly, KC, TB, and Cincy all in buffalo.
NYJx2
MIAx2
NEx2
NO
@Atl
@Car
@Pitt
@Cleveland
Considering Buffalo was a perfect 10-0 at home in 2024, I have some doubts about them going 5-4 in the last season at Highmark. The last regular season loss in Buffalo was Denver in 2023, before that was Minnesota.
2023 home record 7-1 (1 lost home game to London), 2022 Home record 7-1, 2021 Home Record 6-3, 2020 Home Record 7-1. They're 35-6 at home since 2020.
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I picked the Jets as the only sweep option since they play buffalo week 2 and week 18. 2 is coming off a primetime big week 1 game and is on the road. And 18 there's a pretty solid chance that the game doesn't matter much.
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1 minute ago, blitzboy54 said:
I wasn't being literal. I meant younger Chan. Having said that I'll bet he would have been better than Ken Dorsey in real time.
Dorsey seemed to lack an identity as a playcaller. I think largely the offensive design was fine, just never knew when to call what and there wasnt enough formation variety to keep teams guessing. And when you don't know you tend to take too long to call anything.
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Also this doesn't meet the threshold for me to consider it "heartbreaking". It's sad but cmon, guy made 270M, won a super bowl and SB MVP, and is going to be in the HOF. I'd trade the use of my right arm for the bills to do that, and i don't even play for them.
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Just now, ScottishBills said:
This seems weird. Poster above talking about shoulder replacement and Brees with a presumably unlimited budget - why has this not happened yet? Must be able to get it basically functional surely?
My guess is nerve damage so any surgery likely involves neck/spine in addition to the arthritis of bones, damaged tendons and ligaments, etc.
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Just now, blitzboy54 said:
I would take Chan back all day with this group. He has a creative offensive mind, would love to see what he would come up with for Josh.
He's 73 and hasn't coached since 2020 with Miami. I feel like the game might have passed him by at this point.
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16 hours ago, PonyBoy said:
Lamar's playoff statistics
3-5 record, 1,753 passing yards, 10 touchdowns, and 7 interceptions in 8 games
He's always feasted on bad defenses statistically speaking (he's not alone here, almost every player does). Last season alone in 4 games against - CINx2, Tampa, and NYG: 89/122 for 1209 yards 18 TDs and no interceptions. Another stat - they were 3-5 in the regular season when he throws the ball more than 30x - 3 wins against cleveland, cincy, and cincy - 5 losses to KC, Cleveland, Philly, Vegas, and Pittsburgh.
You won't see many of those types of teams in the playoffs. I thought he mostly played pretty well last year to kinda kill the narrative that he can't perform in the playoffs.
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1 hour ago, DabillsDaBillsDaBills said:
Ravens outgained us 416-273. Went 7/10 on 3rd down and 1/1 on 4th down.
Without Lamar gifting us a couple of turnovers there's no way we win the game. Even winning the turnover margin 3-0 it came down to Mark Andrews dropping an easy 2 pt conversion.
It wasn't an easy 2 pt conversion. Lamar double clutched instead of putting the ball where it needed to be as soon as andrews broke open. Yes he should have caught it, but you're throwing behind someone in a dead sprint to the sideline who now has to slow down to stay on the field and catch it. LJ is not without blame on that conversion.
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2 hours ago, corta765 said:
Tis what I heard. Moore I am holding my enthusiasm in check until I see him on roster week 1. I get the upside, but he has bounced around a bit which generally is not a good sign.
It's not just the lousy QBs he's played under (and they are... BAD), but also some fairly lousy coaching staffs. He has a reputation as a malcontent due to some issues with the Jets coaching and management, and was benched for a half last year in Cleveland. His contract pays less than the core STer's like sherfield and Hodge so from a risk perspective this is about as low as it gets.
As a rookie and 2nd year player-
Robert Saleh - Defensive coordinator who failed as a Head Coach.
Mike Lafleur - Not the good one, fired for hackett and back working under an experienced playcaller
Miles Austin - Inexperienced WR coach
QBs - Wilson, Flacco, White
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Stefanski - Seems to be pretty meh so far, the only time the team has been competitive is when the defense was good. 2025 will be 3rd OC in 3 years. He calls the plays but seems to scapegoat others. Pretty sure he's only still employed because of cash-flow, as dorsey being fired resulted in the TE coach being promoted.
AVP - 1 out of 6 seasons as OC has the passing offense been top 20.
Dorsey - Looks to be a product of allen vs. elevating the offense.
Chad O'shea - Long time patriot who's bounced around post-belichick.
QBs - Watson, Flacco, PJ Walker, Thompson-Robinson, Driskel, Winston, Zappe
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On 6/15/2025 at 2:09 PM, GunnerBill said:
I still think his best ever game was @ San Francisco in the covid year 2020.
MNF. On the road. NFC super bowl team from 2019. Top 5 defense. 32/40 375 4 TDs. That crazy highlight reel post that was just an absolutely perfect throw.
While he did fumble... those don't count from a QB stats perspective according to MVP stat comparisons anyway 🙂
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1 minute ago, Gregg said:
6-0 in the division is tough to do. Those rivalry games are usually close games. Even though the Bills are the best team in the division you can bet our rivals will get fired up for games against the Bills. Even when the Pats were a dynasty, they still had trouble sweeping the division. Games at Miami were their own personal house of horrors many of those years.
Of course - just saying there's a number of winnable games on the schedule. And that doesn't factor in potential injuries to other teams on the schedule either such as Rodgers with Pit, or Burrow with Cincy.
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5 minutes ago, FireChans said:
You lost me entirely on the defense.
The 2024 Bills defense were 11th in points allowed and 17th in yards allowed, true.
But on a per drive basis, they were horrific.
5th best starting position, but 25th in time allowed, 23rd in plays, 26th in yards allowed, 18th in points allowed. Along with a truly ghastly 3rd down % that was 29th in the league, and a RZ% that was bang on league average at 16th.
The 2024 defense was a function of the offense shortening the game, playing more ball control, and thankfully, being so hyper-efficient in some blowouts that it made the defense just one of the worst in the league rather than THE worst in the league. And we all know who that was thanks to, the guy who won MVP for dragging that offense to those heights. Mack Hollins led the team in TDs.
4 win roster without Josh.
1st in drives ending in a turnover %. 11th in drive scoring %.
I don't think they were "horrific". Just mediocre with a pretty high variance due to turnovers. Lot of penalties too.
Lot of new faces though so I'd assume McBeane recognized that need to get some impact players on defense.
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On 6/16/2025 at 8:05 AM, ClemsonBills said:
8 or 9 is comical. There is one person responsible for keeping everyone employed at OBD
Easy to say this today - but....
New Orleans
Cleveland
NYJx2
NEx2
MIAx2 (if allen gets hurt theres a high likelihood that tua is also hurt :-))
Atlanta
Carolina
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2 hours ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
People laugh, but this is extremely sad. AB’s mental health is deteriorating in front of our very eyes in real time. It was only a matter of time before he completely destroyed his life. Thankfully he didn’t kill someone or even multiple people. Never a good look for the NFL anytime CTE hits the news, but is a very real topic of discussion. I seriously pray for this guy. It’s only going to get worse. I was expecting a Jovan Belcher situation.
I hesitate to blame this all on concussions. He seems to have had issues at every level of his career.
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56 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
He also seems to have accepted that the criticism was warranted. I give him real credit for that. Genuinely I do. As someone who isn't the biggest fan of his game I think his presser was really impressive. He did indeed put some trash on tape in 2024. It wasn't all trash. It was interspersed with some good. But impressive for a young kid to hold himself to account the way he did.
Yep - i also think people tend to look at players numbers without context, and any evaluation of the other nuances and responsibilities of the position.
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8 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
while the team in St Louis seems to draw the biggest crowds (4ok sometimes) there are games pulling in just over 2000 fans in the stands. Where are they supposed to put a game like that? High school fields?
Unfortunately in this case "the networks" aren't simply the broadcasters of this sport, they are part owners of the league. so they have to fund the league with their own "TV money". it's a poor model
Yeah, its a mess. Can't put them in prime time because then you're competing with NHL/NBA/MLB and even other things like Wrestling and reality tv. So now you're airing on weekend days like the NFL/NCAA but, there's still going to be some competition with other sports (plus playoffs for NHL and NBA) and you add in golf.
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Will gambling ruin the NFL and sports in general?
in The Stadium Wall
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I wonder if playing the opposite of Terry Bradshaw would be a winning strategy though.