Augie

I’m not an AM talk show, so I’m not huge on rankings. If you told me you had 3 guys at the top, I think most people would agree and not go crazy over the order. I hope Burrow gets his money before the Bengals melt down. He’ll get paid, but then I think guaranteed dollars into escrow will be a bit more scarce.

It actually IS that difficult of a question, because it can’t be answered properly. Are we trading OLine, weapons, coaches and everything? Defenses? I love Josh, but Andy Reid > Dorsey, so how do we tell anything from that? I’m not playing that game.

That is why I asked the when and where. The Josh hero ball, refusing to check down and some bad turnovers leave room for others in the conversation, for sure. For any given drive or half, several can be incredible, or make people scream at the TV while bordering on stroke levels.

Better at what? At what specific moment? What is the down and distance? They have different strengths and weaknesses. That’s why I won’t say Josh is NOT the best as well, it depends. (It wasn’t Josh’s fault we lost 13 seconds btw, he was a star at the end!) There are a handful with Mahomes, Burrow, Sunshine and the other usual suspects who can all do amazing things. Different guys fit different cities, and I love Josh in WNY. I am SUPER curious to see how long smug ARod gets along in NYC. I’m not sure the media there is as vicious as it used to be, but it’s not Green Bay, either!

How many posters here do you think honestly believe Allen is absolutely at the top of the QB mountain? I don’t, but I love that he’s our guy. He’s a great QB, and a great fit in WNY. There is middle ground here, it doesn’t have to be extreme one way or the other.

The TEAM’S goal is to win the Super Bowl. I am not on the team. We are fans. My goal is to be entertained, and I will be even MORE entertained if we win out and take the SB trophy. I want a SB victory as much as anyone here, but I will be disappointed, not devastated if they fall short. When I was young I think I gave the Bills outcomes too much power over me. I’m not playing that game any more. If you think my bar is too low, I think yours is too high. Only ONE team wins every year, and we are fairly new to being in contention. I can’t be outraged if it’s not the Bills. Again, I REALLY want them to have a chance to play for that trophy, but it won’t erase all the good times along the way if they fall short. We get together with family and friends for games, travel to different venues together, and that is all good stuff to me that doesn’t go away if we don’t win a SB. Who is “the realist” now?

I heard the Cards recently released a guy who might be available as a true #2. Has anyone mentioned him yet?

Where is the bold stated? The title says “one of the best coaches in the game”, and I think that is fairly accurate. I guess it sounds better if you go all extreme and put words in his mouth. Did I miss something?

Barring injury I think you’re pretty safe here.

….and I thought that was going to break out into a Paul Simon song at some point…..

One. One Super Bowl MVP. 😋 Check the calendar.

You forgot the question. 😋 And I think they ALL might have lost? 🤷‍♂️ I kid, I kid. Mostly. .

Yeah, but I’d take him first on my pick up hoops game at the Y. 😋 If you haven’t seen, he could have been fun to watch playing college hoops. Highly recruited.

We got it goin’ on, for sure! I can’t just tease, so I’ll add this positive: a neighbor is a renowned architect and author. He was at our house and noted my Bills gear. He said his wife was taking a beach vacation, but he wasn’t into beaches. He was going to Buffalo to explore our architecture. He sent me photos to show he also explored our wings, beer and pizza!

Sorry, the thought of the bold just made me chuckle. 😋

I’m with you here. It doesn’t surprise me, and I don’t intend for that to sound mean at all. On a related note, we came in #2 in slide rule sales as well. .

I referred to the complaints. Not the coaches. “He’s great in the regular season, but he just doesn’t get it done in the playoffs.” Look at all Reid accomplished, and it still wasn’t enough without rings. McD has not accomplished as much, but the complaints are quite similar, IMO. Fine in the regular season, but never gets to the top in the playoffs. Winning a Super Bowl will feel that much better because it’s so hard to do. .

This could be describing the complaints about Andy Reid a few years and a couple rings ago. Nobody wins it….until they win it. I still like our general trajectory.

How about one game better and a box of donuts? Rob could be the real wonder here! I like McD and appreciate where he has this team. Obviously far from perfect, but I expect him to continue to grow and improve, as we’d all hope and expect. I don’t see a coach coming off a 14-4 season as being on any kind of hot seat. We are fans, and often frustrated, but if you are a top 5 Super Bowl contender I think tweaking makes far more sense than wholesale changes.

If the schedule does NOT look brutal, that may be the more unpleasant surprise. We never “really know” who will be good until we start playing the games. It may look daunting now, but I like our team and our chances. It should be another fun season to entertain us.

I stopped looking at their college basketball/recruiting content years ago. That stuff looked like a middle school project by kids who regularly attended summer school to keep up. It should have been embarrassing to every ESPN employee.

Tua calls a forty yarder a par two.

Who’s on First? If NewEra is a female, s/he’s not very good at it. Kim, on the other hand……

…..according to you. Just one more opinion posed as something more than that.

Hypotheticals bore me. I try to consider everything. Dorsey is my biggest concern. By far.