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The run game was good because other teams let them. No one cares if the Bills run for 150 and a TD when the opposing QB can put up 300 and 3 TDs. I betcha the Polish cavalry had some magnificent horses. Too bad they had to fight tanks and airplanes.

That comes from teams believing they need that one missing piece. With Jax, it's a make or break year for Bortles. Legion of boom lasted 3 years before Maxwell was traded. Rodgers good group of 5 WRs lasted 2 years, and then were gone. I'm having a hard time thinking of any other group of WRs or CBs that a NFL team builds around and wins. At that position, it's 1 break out year, 2-3 re-living the glory days, then FAs where there are more busts than success stories. Cowboys Oline got immediate impact when they started building it, and won games for 3 years, and now entering their prime. Raiders did the same. Oline is needed before the QB. It wins games and has longevity and only needs time and coaching to build. It's a move that makes sense for the Bills. Taylor has flaws with his game that are not going to be fixed in a year. With OLB, WR or CB the Bills are just a farm club for the rest of the league, and in a few years we have nothing.

Hmmm I'm seeing a trend over the past 17 years. WR, OLB, CBs last about 3 years. Always rotating them out. Good linemen last decades. If QB isn't there, build the best line in the league. WR, OLBs and CBs in the NFL are a dime a dozen. And the best at those positions are vets who just end up getting the calls. The penalties, and the first down droughts make our line one of the worse.

In recent years, there have been so many prospects that turn out bad, you have to stop blaming the players and start looking at the organization and if they really know how to win in the league. Let's start by looking at the past 16 years of trying to win without a QB.

Overrated. Wagner, Avril and those two safeties made that defense.

The Browns have done this multiple times in the past 20 years. Draft picks really are meaningless compared with leadership. Owner is the biggest. Next up is the head coach, then the front office, then a very distant is the QB who sees the field. Really not that hard to win from that scenario. Dump garbage on the rest of the league and change the rules.

McCoy will be run to death. The passing will either be double hooks or play action go routes. The Bills will have less than a dozen plays because first year offenses are horrible.

Leveon Bell and Jay Ajayi come to mind. That Steelers game was really rough to watch. The NFL is quickly becoming a league where a QB catches and throws a 8 yard hand-off on target in two seconds. A much distant second is a defense consisting of two very tall d-linemen, an edge rusher, and then 8 coverage men. The Bills have an edge rusher.

All we need are more FA signings in the likes of Kawika Mitchell and Derrek Dockery, then we're SB bound for sure. Also don't forget about a QB wearing lifts in his shoes like was mentioned in the other thread. Although he was standing on his tip toes in his last game of the year, not the team's last game though, an OT loss against a team that got destroyed in the wildcard.

Didn't they make the playoffs in 2002 with Charlie Frye as QB?

It forces people who don't want to die of liver cancer out of the game, or into drugs. It encourages children to do drugs. NBA went away after Jordan because parents didn't want their kids acting like Sprewell. It wipes out all the past history. Everyone forgets about Joe Namath because he wasn't a 300 lb roided dolt. NFL is just starting to b uild a history like MLB. No longer is the game about skill, or discipline, or team work, or will, or knowledge but it turns into a drug arm race. It dehumanizes people and the game looses even more individuality. Teams look the same, and people who have families turn into a pack of race horses.

Two way street. NFL players are spoiled millionaires and stopped maturing as teenagers. Slightest misstep will ruin a relationship. Why increase the surface area of it by teaching stances or steps?

He threw over the middle. He ran a touchdown. For the Bills, that's a QB lighting it up.

Nope. They had problems with getting a new stadium, and the news was for about a week they were going to dissolve the team.

Same reason Bernard Hopkins and Floyd Mayweather are so good at boxing, they ruin it for everyone. 20 years ago, football was a lot of fun. You could win a lot of different ways. Running game, good defense, good oline, a hot WR. In 1998 the Patriots were about to be dissolved. Not relocated, just gone. They were closing down the old stadium and the fans were going to storm the MNF booth and beat Dan Dierdoff to death with Al Michaels body. 9/11 happened. Refs looked the other way while Ty Law raped Issac Bruce, and Brady dinked and dunked his way to the Super Bowl. Tom Donahue signed Lawyer Milloy, and Bellichek saw the power of knowing the play before the snap. Now it's just QB, and a coach who teaches his players how to get away with holding. The game is suffering. It's horrible to watch. Ratings are down. People are not playing it

Cover 7 bump and run, no running game, and Brady puts up 31 straight. Hand the offense over to Matt Ryan and give him RPOs when the Super Bowl is right there. Yea that's pretty bad.

Cowboys were just getting rid of Landry. Big teams then were the Giants, Bears, Dolphins, and Skins at the tail end of Riggins career. What happens is locker room veterans. A lot of times I saw where someone could just kill Brady. He was running downfield, or on a turnover. No one did it because they would be cut by their own GM, and their own vet team mates, (like Gilmore), would banish them. The other way is rich owners. They run a scheme on other naive owners, dumping player contracts on them, or staff, or getting them to buy highly paid consultants who recommend law and construction firms. There are only two teams in the NFL, insiders and outsiders. Outsiders get screwed big. Fans are just a mass of cattle.

Second half of the Jets game was some of the best QB play the Bills had all season. Wow, a QB who throws over the middle.

Lombardi died tragically while coaching the Redskins. I think that's the big reason they have the name. Best coach in history? Paul Brown. Built two NFL teams from scratch. Advanced the league in professionalism and a lot of the tradition, like weekly schedules, breaking down tape, rules and even equipment come from him. He also transcended the game and uplifted the society around him by fighting against segregation. A lot of the league today is taken directly from Paul Brown. Bellichek wins but at the expense of the game. Kicking the ball to stop Kelly's no-huddle, or teaching how to hold without the refs seeing, or changing eligible wide receivers. When he got there, the NFL was fun. Exciting games almost every week. After he's done with it, it's boring television filled with spoiled players looking at refs asking for a flag.

He ran the same predictable blitz, and all his corners play 10 yards off the WR. That's exactly the opposite of what's needed to stop the quick catch 'n throw. He got payed millions of dollars and never adjusted. So yeah, my heart is really broken for him.

ugh. 17 years and people still haven't figured out everyone in the NFL is interchangeable except coach and QB.

Starting off boisterous, and then ending in defeat is the epitome of failure. Definitely not Paul Brown.

Didn't he hire Warren Buffet to sell us out to the Chinese?

NFL ratings are down. Perhaps Atlanta is head of the curve, for ignoring drug addicted spoiled millionaires, and the billionaire monsters who rip off and ruin entire cities.

What's that service called where they cut out all the breaks in the NFL game, and it's about 30 minutes long? I'm cutting the cord.