TheBrownBear

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.

Mahomes is money. Also, love how their receivers come through in clutch after being trash all year

Lamar sucks

Just seeing this now. So sorry for you and your family. Sending big prayers up from here in San Diego.

It took John Wooden 16 years to win his first national championship at UCLA. He ended with 10. So there's still hope for McDermott, but it might not happen until Josh Allen's son is quarterbacking our team.

Crazy you can produce 3 or 4 kids in a 76 day marriage these days. We live in a fast paced world.

Kelly threw a ton of picks in the playoffs.

He's clearly too conservative and careful with the ball for us to take the next step.

The Von Miller Pass Rush Summit.

At the end of the day, we had 1st and 10 at the KC 27 yard line, 2:40 left on the clock, trailing by only 3 points against a tired defense that had already been on the field for 36 minutes of game clock. Given everything that came before that moment, both during the game and the season on the whole, that's a position we would all sign up for. Injuries or not, it was all right there for us and we crapped the bed.

I'm kind of surprised as well. I attended a home December Monday night game against Denver back in 2005 or whereabouts (Losman was quarterbacking during another lost season). It was frigid. Probably in the teens. Me, my wife, sister and bro-in-law had finished tailgating and as we were walking into the stadium we notice a guy lying asleep on the ice, underneath a car without any pants or underwear on (thankfully, he had on a winter coat to keep him warm.). We go over and wake him up and ask him if he needs our help and he just smiles and says "Nope. I'm great! Just resting! Thanks!". LOL. We ran back to our car and donated a blanket to the poor guy and he continued to claim he was fine and that he was going into the game shortly. Eventually ran down a staff member and let him know about the guy and he said he'd take care of him.

Most of us are still in a drunken stupor. Just you wait until we all wake up.

Very odd story. I'm guessing this was a fentanyl OD or something and the homeowner didn't know what to do and/or was in denial about it. Or he actually killed them. THREE grown men don't just go out into their friend's yard and freeze to death.