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Hey now, Tom Brady would have 7 rings and the Pats would own a 19-0 season if Dean Pees didn't call an all out blitz and decide to cover Plaxico Burress man to man on a fade.

I've got the feeling that the D we're seeing now is what McD and Frazier would have installed in a normal off-season. Shortened training time and Covid crap meant they had to water things down and rehash last year's schemes.

Credit to the excellence of the training/medical staff and Pegs investment in the facilities. The teams discipline too; look at Baltimore's Covid gutted roster, and we're damn close to a full bill of health entering the post season.

Ha! Sure, but I'd be alright with the bills being the worst 11-0 team ever.

Yeah, but it gets real dull. It's time to worry about how we win the Cadillac El Dorado instead of ending up with a set of steak knives. Instead, too many people are waiting to get fired.

Why a portion of this fanbase is so terrified of success, I'll never know.

There are only two rules that really matter in the NFL: 1. Good teams find ways to win. Bad teams find ways to lose. 2. You are what your record says you are. That's it. We saw why the Chargers are 3-8, and why the Bills are 8-3. The Chargers couldn't find a way to seize the game when the Bills were trying to give it away. That's because the Defense had a plan, and the will and the talent to see it through. SD had talent, but no plan due to slappy leadership.

Given the Ford family's track record, I'm looking forward to new Lions HC Josh McDaniels. That should keep Detroit the clown car franchise of the NFL.

My bad. I should have noted that if you think a lombardi and a no questions asked trip to the hall of fame is worth $750,000 and a 1st, then the Patriot Way is the way for you.

That's probably because Flores is the first Patriot Way imitator to realize the difference between management and leadership. When his fellow Patriot OC designed a complex offense that nobody on the team understood and wouldn't change it, Flores canned him and brought in Chan. My guess is that was after the OC did the whole thing where he tore down his players in public and by name for not working hard enough or whatever. Flores realized he had to earn respect to get production, and to earn respect he had to understand his players as people. Patricia is learning this lesson too little too late per the article, but Flores didn't repeat the mistake of walking into a new organization convinced it was his way or the highway. And anybody that didn't like it wasn't smart or dedicated enough to understand the brilliance of what he was doing.

I like this stat. Though I hope the D has improved over the bye, every game is a shootout until they turn up.

The Patriot Way consists of: 1. Tom Brady 2. Ten feet of BS 3. Bill Belichick 4. 30 feet of BS 5. A bunch of kool aid drinking assistants chanting "Do Your Job!"

That's the chargers though. They find ways to be good and lose. The stripped interception return against NE in the AFC title game for one. And the 2010 Chargers who were statistically the most dominant offense and defense in the league, but lost 7 games due to historically awful Special Teams play and missed the post season.

Chargers fans seem like the most confident 3-7 fanbase ever. That said their take on their season is that Herbert plays out of his mind, then Anthony Lynn decides to run the ball for the sake of running the ball. Then Anthony Lynn makes a shoddy situational football decision and/or shows poor clock management and they lose by a possession. Rinse, repeat to a 3-7 record. Herbert actually scares me the least in this. McD and Frazier found ways to limit Mahomes and force Russell Wilson into mistakes. Philip Rivers used to sit in the pocket, get the ball out in two seconds, and throw about 20 7-yard completions in a row. Those were long afternoons.

I'd you don't already, watch the guys at Let's Talk Jets radio. The Jets organization knows all about hem.and hates them. So every Friday, they do an interview of Adam Gase where one of the hosts puts on a donkey mask with shades and gets roasted by all the viewers.

Barring an emergency, I don't think he plays a down in the NFL. It seems.more.like the program is designed to teach him.aboutthe NFL, then get him back over to the UK so he can start coaching/mentoring and growing the popularity of the sport. Looking at Rugby rules, it seems like it has nothing in common with football, except that there's tackling and it's played on a field with end zones.

SoI wouldn't be surprised if they move on from Harrison Philips next year. And even though he was enormous man, Jordan Phillips wasn't that stout of a run defender. We miss his sacks and pressures from the DT spot though. What's surprising to me from this thread is how much a supposed finesse defense like Frazier/McD's misses a very stout, traditional DT and a hybrid DE/LB.

I'm done being a snake-bit bills fan. We've got our franchise QB, the first since 1996, and I'm alright saying it.

I'd like a true NT to spell and eventually replace Star. Getting the most out of Tremaine means getting the most out of his athleticism, so we don't want him trying to shed linemen. Is there a 26 year old Haloti Ngata in next year's draft? If anybody knows of a linebacker that fits Zo's role in the upcoming draft, I'm all ears.

BuT tHiS tEaM iS hOrIbLe

Right? All of sudden the Bills are relevant and the opinions of the talking heads matter. And, believe it or not, the team isn't perfect on both sides of the ball, in a shortened off-season, during a pandemic, where they're still 4-0 in the division and 7-3 overall, thanks to two great players making an insane play. You'd think this was Music City 2.0 instead of a non conference game before a bye.

Growing into a franchise QB is a great achievement. Playing like one for a decade is the next step.

Anybody living and dying with every game needs to get a grip. 7-3 at the bye, 4-0 in the division, and you'd think this team was playing like the Jets if you read this board. The team made a play and beat NE, they didn't and lost to AZ, that's just football. Jesus, after toughing it out since the Clinton administration, you'd think fans would be just a bit more even keeled.

I wouldn't be surprised if they get another rangy DE/LB hybrid in the draft this year. Epenesa seems to be a pure DE if/when he pans out into a starter. That said, I'm now worried about Trent Murphy holding contain.

Somebody should tell Josh and McD that they're supposed to be the Washington Generals to Kyler Murray's Globetrotters. It's like we're supposed to fly down to Arizona just to wash his jock.