The Frankish Reich

Josh IS the new Aaron Rodgers

Bills getting the calls now too!

Now there's the Singletary we know and love.

Not stupid at all if we score a TD and get the ball back!

Keepers on offense: - Josh - Knox Diggs, I'm not so sure about the age/salary thing.

Coaching staff or GM? Where's the FB, the competent 2nd TE, the reasonably adequate offensive linemen?

The offense is now Josh, Josh, Josh. Aaron Rodgers was in this situation a few years ago in GB. They fixed it.

This game really needs to end 27-26 to drive home the stupidity of punting.

You mean we can't throw Isaiah McKenzie under the bus again? I mean, he must have missed a block or something.

And just like that Tony Romo's characterization of this as, in reality, a 3 score game comes true.

Bend but don't break! Over the long haul, that'll get you a ticket to a low seed in the playoffs.

Ouch. True, but still ... ouch.

I love that trick play where they hand the ball off in this new formation to someone they call the "running back."

Well, not conclusively. There have certainly been enough eyebrow-raising incidents regarding foul call discrepancies in the NBA, but it's always hard to separate NBA hero worship (Jordan/Kobe/LeBron - they are the best, and they get the calls because they are the best, which makes them even better) from assisting the teams of those heroes to advance.

Not always, but every season with the Pats they were able to paste together something decent even when it started very poorly. That's my big disappointment with the Bills this year. I thought it would come together with some group/offensive approach by now, but it really hasn't.

Regardless of expectations/results ... I still have trouble wrapping my head around the idea that we're facing off against the SAME DAMN QB two decades later. I mean, basically nothing in my life is the same as it was 20 years ago. Except that.

Pretty sure we would have drafted Dan Gronkowski.

Yep. This year is showing us how far you can go (or maybe how far you can't go) with an elite QB, an elite WR, and average to well below average talent at every other offensive position.

I am shocked - shocked - to discover that an entertainment product is striving to make its product more entertaining to more people! There is nothing sacred about the NFL, anymore than there is anything sacred about Disneyland. They exist to entertain people (including sponsors), not to heal their souls.

Agreed. Particularly with Klein out, we just didn't have the personnel to counter the heavy set. Guys like Wallace and Johnson got snaps not because they matched up well, but because McD and Frazier didn't trust any other option (Neal/Matakevich - special teams-first guys)

Star just seems like a nice guy. Family man (and a Mormon), interested in life beyond football, quiet, unassuming despite his size. https://www.deseret.com/2019/8/05/20451458/star-lotulelei-getting-married-was-something-that-helped-me-become-grounded#carolina-panthers-first-round-nfl-football-draft-choice-star-lotulelei-speaks-during-a-news-conference-in-charlotte-n-c-friday-april-26-2013 Unfortunately, we like our team's players to be tough guys who play through pain and sacrifice their bodies for those 5 or (if they're very lucky) 10 years of NFL glory. Sometimes a player like Star's behavior looks an awful lot like not caring about his team. But I can't blame him - if someone gave me the contract the Bills gave him, I might well do the same things. (other than the anti-vaxx thing!)

No! The wrong type of backup for this team. As everyone seems to agree, the right type of backup for Lamar ...

In fairness to Morse - I still believe that was a good signing. More than anyone else he brought stability, experience, leadership to what was previously a disastrous offensive line unit. This year is a different kind of poor line performance - rather than a chaotic unit I think we're seeing declines in individual performance based on a variety of factors. Morse: age, past his prime. Dawkins: COVID, perhaps post-contract letdown. Ford: failure to develop, etc., etc. Whatever, it's time to move on. They're stuck with Dawkins; you just have to hope he rebounds. Everyone else is completely dispensable. Spencer Brown has talent, but who knows; it's not like he's dominated. I wouldn't be surprised to see only Dawkins back as a starter next year. EDIT: I just checked the contracts again. They're pretty much stuck with Daryl Williams too for one more year.

I'm willing to argue a point with anyone, but that's just impossible when people even try to comprehend what a statistic means. That goes for COVID stats, football stats, whatever. I was obviously correct - TWICE - in walking you through why the stats you cited don't mean what you say they mean. I believe I've made zero progress. Serious question: how much math did you do in high school/higher education?

That's hilarious. Dead cap hit for Morse would be $3.75 million, salary would be $11.25. Given his performance, it's fair to say the uncle (even without inside knowledge) nailed it.