TheBrownBear

That was my kneejerk reaction to the thread title.

That's football. I'm done with the crying. Chiefs have won 3 in 5 years and we haven't even sniffed the Superbowl. It is what it is. To the victor goes the spoils. Props to the Chiefs.

It's so stupid to take the ball. Makes zero sense with the new rules. Shanny is an idiot.

Mahomes and Kelce. These guys are tormentors

Screwed up the clock management there

He was mediocre against NE and LA. He was fine in the Dallas game. He wasn't asked to do much and I recall their being some drops that effected his passing percentage. Despite a couple of turnovers, he was GREAT against Miami and at KC. Watch the KC game again. Their D line abused us and Josh was running for his life on about 75% of his dropbacks. BUT...Lamar did have two great marquee games down the stretch against SF and Miami that solidified his candidacy. So I don't really have too much of a problem with Lamar winning, but I do think Allen is consistently undervalued by the national press.

Josh is sort of the NFL version of Russell Westbrook. Puts up ridiculous stats, but never quite gets their due (granted, Westbrook eventually got an MVP) because they commit lots of turnovers, have a style of play that isn't completely orthodox, and never (or not yet) win the big one.

You seem to be getting a lot of pushback on this, but I agree with you. His tackle breaking and YAC in 2023 were probably his biggest areas of improvement over his rookie year. I just watched all of his plays from three different games (yes, one was the fantastic Dallas game) and he broke plenty of tackles and racked up a bunch of yards after contact. He's never going to be a battering ram given his slim build, but he did a much better job this season of going downhill and at least falling forward in piles which can often lead to extra 1.5 yards on those plays.

What about resigning Damien Harris on the cheap or was his injury potentially career ending? I still think he'd provide a nice complement to Cook, assuming he's healthy.

I often like to imagine Leslie and Dick Jauron on the same staff, combining for the world's first million yard stare.

That's why people should always use a test kit before partaking in recreational substances. Also, doesn't hurt to have some narcan around.

My condolences to you and your family, Scott.

You're right. It's not a slam dunk. It never is. Just that more often than not, success (playoffs) is determined by the QB and not the head coach. Also, what's the deal with Bienemy? Is he still under contract with Washington? I'd think it might be wise for Quinn to retain him.

I'm not concerned at all with the DC or OC signings. We've already seen the improvement to the offense made by Brady despite being saddled with Dorsey's playbook and concepts, so I expect good things from him. And Babich has been considered a hot, up-and-coming positional coach for awhile. Best case scenario? He has some fresh original ideas and playcalling that takes our defense to new heights, while allowing McD added space to focus on overall in game management. Worst case scenario? He struggles and McDermott takes over playcalling and we roll out a top-10 defense as we always do during the McD era.

I'll still never understand why McD and Frazier gave KC the entire middle of the field to work with when they had timeouts remaining. The entire sequence from the kickoff to the field goal was monumentally head-scratching.

Eh, he's a fine coach. Like everything in the NFL, if the Commanders hit on their QB selection (Maye or Daniels?), Quinn will succeed and survive the length of his contract.

They're about equal for me. Makes sense since those ('90 and '21) were the two greatest Bills teams in franchise history and they were both absolutely on fire and peaking when their seasons were ended.

I'm over it. KC was the better team that Sunday, and much of it was due to our defensive injuries which were out of our hands and no ones fault. I found this one much easier to digest than other losses. And I have some optimism for the future given what we saw from the likes of Bernard, Benford, Kincaid, Cook, Shakir, Spencer Brown, Torrance and even Spector and Rapp. Going into this season, I thought things would look bleak for the Bills roster wise in 2024-2025, but I don't feel that way at all now. If we hit on a few of our draft picks and can make a smart defensive signing or two, we should be ready to roll into this fall as a Super Bowl favorite.

I'd say Special Teams generally - either our unforced errors or the opposing team doing something extraordinary or at least statistically unlikely (like Elliott hitting a 60 yarder in the rain to send the Eagles game to OT). Besides those playoff games, some others that come to mind are the MNF loss to Dallas in the mid-00s, OT losses to the Jets due to returns in 2001 and 2023, and the season opening loss to the Pats in '09 when McKelvin fumbled away the game late in the 4th.

What's interesting to me is that some posters literally decided to die on that hill. Looking through that thread there was a guy named "T-Bomb", apparently a Tyrod fan, who was apoplectic after the Allen selection, made a ton of histrionic posts in the 24 hours following the selection, and then never made another post on the board again. This was a guy with over 1000 posts over the years. I wonder what happened to these fans.

LOL. I was one of those people. I didn't really love Rosen, but I preferred him over Allen due to his pedigree. I'm a UCLA guy and knew that Rosen, despite his unlikability factor and occasionally suspect decisionmaking, could really spin the football. I saw a little of Allen in the Mountain West and wasn't particularly impressed with him as a QB. How wrong I was.

Tier 1A: Mahomes Burrow Allen Tier 1B: Herbert Jackson Tier 2A: Purdy Hurts Stroud (maybe too high, but he looks ascendant) Tier 2B: Goff Stafford Cousins Prescott Tua Lawrence Tier 3: Mayfield Love Kyler Murray Tier 4: Wilson Carr Fields I've left off Rodgers since I have no clue what he really is at this point. I see him as more of a Tier 2B guy going forward.

Travis is an especially cool, cocky dude. I hate him as a rival, but I'd love him to death if he was in a Bills' uniform.

It's no paragon of musical virtuosity, but it is undeniably a classic of the rock and roll canon. It's the late Gen-x/early Millennial "Back in Black." And I'd take it any day over the jock rock staples of Gary Glitter or Start Me Up that I had to endure on game days for years as a kid.

I am so sorry to hear this news, Scott. Our prayers are with you and your family.