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They are fascinated with defensive players. I can't see them drafting O in the first round two years in a row. Just not McDermott's bag.

The guy panders to big markets, I've considered dumping my ability to stream Sabres games because of this even-less-talented Bill Simmons. It's OK, he plays in Buffalo so he's a turd just ask Barnsmell.

Stadium design. Winter weather = wind = a real s**t show for everything relying upon the atmospheric conditions. Clearly a dome over a new park would be best, but I would imagine a modern design firm is going to figure out how to eliminate some of the quirks that are accentuated by the sunken stadium.

For me, it looks like both coordinators are getting stung by whatever malaise the offense develops once the big wins have faded away and the toil of facing sub-.500 teams becomes the menu item. To an outsider one would wonder if they are truly putting in the work. It's easy to blame coordinators, and the WR screens have been ugly and pretty clearly telegraphed by how well they're blown up by the defense. But no system is going to be effective if the practice reps are not taken seriously. The big question ought to be whether the thing between the ears of the guy wearing 17 can stay focused, intent, and motivated enough to learn/run/follow/execute the reads & progressions laid out for him. I think if that all happens, Brady's gonna look like a genius. If it doesn't, everyone will be asking for some other OC and/or HC.

JA17's demeanor early in the season could very easily be chalked up to him feeling guilt, anger, desperation, etc. over vouching for Dorsey, only to have him be anywhere from incompetent to ineffective. Think of the burden he would carry for being a primary reason your team has appointed a dud, and double it down by having the type of Head Coach who doesn't want to drop the escape hatch on the guy without giving him a shot. There's also this thing with Allen and his psychology that got a ton of play. Looking back on the @Miami game last year...could that have been some psychobabble that was preached to Dorsey to prevent any more on-camera meltdowns? There are so many factors in the degrading of our play from the 2022 Bye Week all the way to Dorsey's firing, including Allen's elbow, the Hamlin incident, plus all the other adversity...but there's also a marked change in attitude on this team now. The CIN game where Hamlin had his cardiac event saw the team get utterly manhandled from the opening kickoff. Maybe we'll see them hit a really dogged foe and wilt in the coming weeks, but I feel like they are more willing to go toe to toe now than before.

(psst we won't mention how they talked off the record...)

I don't think this at all for the future. This game is going to give some teams fits in prep down the road. Sure, other teams will be more effective in plugging the running lanes. But you exposed very little of the part of the playbook that is your most dangerous - and to boot, you would hope that the running plays called all have play action partners which should put defenses in even more of a bind keeping honest on the back end. Oh and Davis - to me it looks like that "miscommunication" in the Eagles game has sapped his confidence on long balls where he has to make adjustments. That ball landed nearly at his feet on Sunday. I know the weather wasn't great, and between that and the drops from Kincaid and Diggs (his was the one that hit him right in the chest on 3rd down where the DB - maybe Gilmore - hit him immediately and it popped out...but WR1's gotta catch those), it probably gave Brady a ton of ammunition to give Cook & Co every chance to shine. I'll also throw in there that Dallas received a ton of hype over Bland's INT-TD streak earlier in the season. So minimizing the impact of Parsons & their defensive backfield makes a lot of sense if you can get away with it. And playing out in front provided the perfect opp for that.

To cut through the sarcasm - there's no way that Ken Dorsey finds that rhythm in the run game and pounds the ball down Dallas' throat play after play after play. It was a master stroke by Brady, especially on a sketchy December day when the receivers seeming to have a tough time hauling them in (save for that Diggs one-hander...WOW). Keep that script in your back pocket, it may come in handy one of these days...

If the rules and their application could revert back to about 1983, I feel like the sport would be at its finest. You have sports where you can literally beat a man to within an inch of his life. I watched Boom-Boom Mancini kill a guy in the ring. The idea of safety in sports is an illusion, if anything the point seems to be that they feel their talent pool will diminish if parents feel their kids will get destroyed. Hasn't stopped them for nearly a century, why would it stop them now?

Except now 120 pages about him. Interesting way to just let him fade into oblivion. And frankly I don't give a rat's ass about whatever he does with his life. I think most of us would have been satisfied with a 1-part article about the ways McDermott is wasting Allen's career, and leave out the rest.

Kinda weird the perversion suggested here. Surprised the moderators allow some of the suggestions above, even if metaphorical. Seems unbecoming of the Bills-financed Mafia.

Josh needs to think as little as he possibly can about MVP. Just do the job. If he plays to his ability, the rest will fall into place with whatever accolades are available.

Took about 2 min on pfref

I'm quite sure this play breaks down within a second of the snap. I don't know if it's a lack of OL conditioning, or poor technique, but they got gashed quick, and Josh bailed to a shorter throw because he was off his wrong foot on the throw. With that said, I would hope that Allen gets a little flak in the video review, if the early reads indicate Gabe's gonna be wide open on that route, take the chance you get hit and deliver the dagger blow.

Hopefully the league takes note of this and stops enabling this team. Their QB was (and probably still is to an extent) extremely marketable, you understand why they have propped them up as much as they have. But this past weekend should be a line of demarcation. Not saying the officials should put targets on the Chiefs' backs, but the days of cheap first downs ought to be gone.

Bottom Line: If the Bills plan to slough off like they have way too often in the last 2 years, they need to get it out of their system this week. Otherwise, they need to be keyed up and ready to annihilate every game on out. You can't be heroic and beat Dallas and then peeter out against the Chargers on the road. Buckle up and do this.

They checked with Charissa Thompson to see if she had the angle first.

Yeah listening to Schopp & Bulldog postgame, I was surprised they didn't latch onto that. To me it was a rather interesting phrasing, lending credence to my general belief that most of this season's strife is related to an organizational power struggle between JA17 and McDermott.

At high school games, it's pretty clear that if you're an end and ask the line judge if you're position is acceptable under the rules, they'll tell you. That doesn't mean that Toney even thought to ask. But I do think the officials will oblige if asked. The NFL needs to start clamping down on the OL movement as far as I'm concerned. Period. These hand motions, swiveling the head around, up and down crap. Just stop it. The rule is that you're supposed to come set, and you know the snap count. Deal with it. If the DL gets an advantage, be better. This is right up there with these "bang bang" (which always means 1/2 to 1 second early, never a fraction of a second late) plays that always used to be DPI. They'll call BS hand fouls that have no bearing on the play all day, but let a DB wrap up a receiver without any real chance to catch the ball and nothing.

Agreed. You also have to wonder if the excessive spotlight moving to Kelce has caused friction with the prima donna darling. And I think most of us figured Bieniemy's role was diminished under Reid, but there's something not quite right with that offense. Maybe some of the finer points lost in Daboll's departure here in Buffalo are being felt out there too.

This stuff was clear as day for anyone who isn't enamored with meager playoff football. McDermott's narrative sculpting? Maybe he's hiring one of his various puff piece supporters in the media to help him with that. Or maybe he's just made a career of taking credit for everything good and shucking the blame onto others once they tire of his feel good clapping and locker room cliches. I'd have to believe one of those sources might be QB1 himself. It's pretty clear this season is a throwdown dragout between McDermott & Allen. Allen's the only guy that's gonna wedge between McDermott and Pegula. So it's pretty transparent when McDermott, as soon as the Jets 2nd half meltdown hits, he's going after the source of the lack of "complementary football." Bottom line - this team is 6-6, and it may be more dysfunctional than all those Drought Era teams that needed the big "culture change" McDermott sold.

I think an argument could be made for when they took the Bills out to the suburbs.

There are so many competing interests right now - players must be getting fed up with having to lock-step long with McDermott, Beane must be getting fed up handing him players only to have them go unused/benched, the fans are getting fed up with paying top dollar to watch their Head Coach get his a** handed to him in every moment where strategic thinking becomes important...hell even the Media are probably now sick of this constant litany of having to explain away things that a 4th grader learns by his 3rd season of Madden. Then toss the owners on top of that, yes McDermott did clean up a rather ugly situation and brought them out of the dark. But you're at a precipice where his lack of competence is leading you dangerously close to it all tumbling back down into the pit. How does it feel for guys like Von Miller to go out there knowing they might suffer another terrible injury, and your coach isn't putting you in the best position to win? Finally, you're starting to see this manifest in players' self-discipline. Dawkins flaunting his attempt to flop to a penalty (and Allen nearly every week flailing around for cheap PF's), the defensive linemen confronting Eagles fans, etc. I can't tell whether McDermott is a hard ass, a softie, or someone who doesn't really garner the respect we've been led to believe.

How about McDermott could **** up a wet dream?

Can think of a "fan" or two I would be willing to trade...