TheBrownBear

God I love watching the Chiefs lose.

It's twofold. The Josh/Lamar thing is a big part of it - feeling like Lamar gets disrespected vis a vis Josh (despite winning two MVPs, huh?). And there's the issue of having lost the two playoff games vs the Bills when they felt they had the better team and have largely dominated us during the regular season of late outside of the 2nd half of the game in Balt in 2022. Kind of how we've handled KC during the regular season, but can't get by them in January.

I thought Cooper was a generational talent coming out of Alabama. He was so dominant as a junior.

I got the sense that he enjoyed the culture, teammates and fans in Buffalo, but he no longer enjoyed the football itself.

Absolutely the 89 game against the Dolphins. That was when I officially knew we were in for a special run.

I use the site somewhat regularly, because I do not value the content enough to pay for it. (I pay for the NFL+ app and just watch the games as soon as they conclude). Most of the time I'll use a site like StreamEast for a game or event that I'm only moderately interested in (say, the odd baseball or college football game). Now that's it's shut down, I just won't watch it. I'm guessing that's the case for the majority of streamers.

I like the signing. And since ESPN already announced that we are winning the Super Bowl this season, I'd like to see us sign some other former Bills to the PS. How about Kelly, Thurm, Andre and Bruce?

I like them. Sort of a UB Bulls vibe. Obviously, nowhere near as good as our regular design, but I know one thing: they are 10,000x better than the monstrosities we wore from 2002-2010.

I think we've upgraded the defense and receiver room and should be better (though record may be worse). I think we're the second best team in the conference, but I have this nagging feeling that it is going to be the Ravens' year. I just think they are clearly the best team in the conference.

Josh had the ball in his hands the last two years with under 3 minutes to play and came away with 0 points both times. That has nothing to do with an "unreliable" defense. Don't get me wrong, I love Josh, but the offense didn't deliver when we needed it to the past two years in that situation.

Obviously, the Chiefs and Mahomes are great, but they seem to overperform against the Bills defense compared to their playoff outputs against other teams. Not sure if it's personally motivated or just a scheme/matchup thing. But the Bills D does suck against the Chiefs in the postseason and the Chiefs offense does inordinately excel against the Bills D in those games. Just the facts.

It's annoying because we've seen games where Josh has done this masterfully, but it almost seems like he has to place himself in that mindset from the get go or his primitive hero brain takes over. Edit: And I don't mean "Sugar High Josh" or turnover prone play - he's clearly cleaned up that aspect. Just more - taking the easiest play during crunch time instead of waiting for something bigger to develop.

Have you seen the movie Companion?

Who amongst us isn't excited by the idea of pouring ourselves into other guys?

At least this is encouraging news.

Here's what I said on the day he was signed :

Congrats to Shavers! Always thought he had nice potential after seeing him in person at SDSU.

Same here. My HS bud and I reconnected one summer when we were home from college. Bought an old '69 VW bus for $350, rebuilt the engine and drove it around the country for 10 weeks. Knew nothing of GNP, but fell in love with the place the first night next to Lake McDonald. We ended up spending two full weeks in Glacier with plenty of backpacking. One of my most favorite places on Earth.

Most of this is just nothingburgers (Cook's hold-in was like a week and ended positively, Gabe Davis isn't even signed, preseason is just preseason and injuries happen), but I do agree that New England looks poised to push us. And I do slightly worry about the mindset of the team (McDermott imploring the vets to get it in gear during that one clip) and whether they aren't distracted by the Hard Knocks stuff. I can definitely see a slow start to the season where we are forced to play catch-up to push past the Pats (see 2023).

Right. Probably worried that the NFL will become the NBA where the players hold all the power.

I'm sure it's disappointing, but the dream isn't over for the kid. If the Bills liked him enough to draft him, there's a decent chance he might get a chance on the PS next season.

Hard to believe, but Davis is only 26 years old with potentially a lot of football left ahead of him. I wasn't sad to see him go, but given our current WR situation, I'd be happy to see him return as a 4th/5th receiver and fill-in for Coleman. I like Shavers too, but he's completely unproven at this point.

Burrow almost got himself killed too.

Nice start! Lol.

To be fair, we had a pop gun offense and desperately needed game breakers. And that was still the tail end of the era of the running back, where an elite back like Adrian Peterson could drag a team to the playoffs.