Logic

It sure seems likely that Von will start the season on PUP and miss the first four games. Beyond that, who knows?

Former Buffalo Bill who still collects his paycheck from the Bills organization praises team on organization-run marketing propaganda program.

Sean McDermott's career record: 66–40 (.623) There are only 21 coaches in the Super Bowl era with at least a .600 win percentage in at least 80 games in the regular season. Just 21 coaches! Ever! Quantify it however you want. Sean McDermott is a very good head coach. I get that you want the Bills to win a Super Bowl. So do I. The failure to do so thus far does not mean he's "inadequate". You're free to have that opinion, of course, just as I am free to point out that history and common sense and eyeballs all indicate that you're wrong.

This. The FINAL SCORE does not matter. This is true. However, you do want to see crisp execution, attention to detail, organization, cohesion on offense and defense, players winning individual matchups, and a general display of competence. The Bills during the drought often looked poor in all of the above areas in the preseason and -- wouldn't you know it -- they'd continue to look poor come the regular season. Conversely, the Sean McDermott Bills have tended to check all of the above boxes in the preseason in recent years, and that competence and effectiveness carried over into the regular season. So...what are we to make of two straight weeks of sloppiness and lackluster play? Are the Bills going to magically flip a switch, stop committing 10 penalties a game, and start looking as talented and competent as they should? Maybe, maybe not, but it's a reasonable question to ask. The outcome doesn't matter. The way the team performs en route to the meaningless outcome does matter.

When he stops having 11+ win seasons and making the playoffs every single year?

Fair enough, thanks. I could point out that the Bills then proceeded to have a 13 win season, which ought to have re-instilled some confidence. Then again, THAT notion could be countered by the ensuing Bengals playoff debacle. It would be interesting to know the truth of the matter, but I suspect we never will.

Legitimate question. I'm not trying to be confrontational, I'm just genuinely curious: Upon what evidence do you base this suspicion?

That's part of the problem, I guess. Beane's only meaningful roster additions at such a crucial position have been late round stabs in the dark. As for Knox...for a team that needs more short, intermediate, and middle-of-the-field receiving production, it would be nice if the athletic tight end to whom the Bills are paying a decent sized contract could be free to catch passes more often than he's kept in line to block. Granted, they have Kincaid now, but "we'll just keep the tight end in to help a lot" is a solution I wish they Bills didn't have to utilize to the extent that they likely will this season. I think the Bills hoped that Dawkins would return to form and that Brown would improve from last season. The problem is that "hope is not a strategy". At this moment, neither thing seems likely to happen, and it could greatly hamper offensive production.

Indeed, it is quite ironic that the Bills FINALLY seem to have fixed the interior offensive line just in time for the tackle position to go to absolute hell. I'm a Brandon Beane fan and defender, but his handling of the tackle position -- from not bringing in legitimate competition for Spencer Brown, to spending picks on guys like Tommy Doyle and Luke Tenuta, only to have them barely be roster-able players -- has been very suspect as of late. No roster is perfect, and no team is good at every single position. But offensive tackle is NOT a position you want to be deficient at, particularly when you have a superstar franchise QB to protect.

1.) I can't get out of my head what I saw on Twitter after the game: The start to that game looked A LOT like the Bengals playoff game. 2.) That was the most disorganized, undisciplined, and ineffective I've seen this team look under Sean McDermott -- preseason or not. I'm trying hard not to overreact to one preseason game, particularly when this roster is so talented and coach McDermott has a track record of 10+ win seasons. It's almost impossible for me to believe that a team this good, with this good a quarterback, and a good head coach...could possibly be as bad as they looked yesterday. But what if they are? I'm waiting for something to wash the bad taste of the Bengals loss out of my mouth, but yesterday's game certainly was not that thing. I'm normally the most optimistic, glass-half-full Bills fan you'll ever meet, but doubts and worries are starting to creep in. Something just seems...off....with this team. It's a subtle, intangible thing, but...I can't shake the feeling.

That was the most painful preseason game watching experience I may have ever had. If anyone read my pre-game post about the Kansas diner waitress named Marge, well... Anyway...YES, it's true that the final scores of preseason games don't matter and that the schemes are vanilla. With that said, you'd like to see crisp execution, players winning matchups, some cohesion on offense and defense, and at the very least, A GENERAL DISPLAY OF COMPETENCE. Whatever that abomination I just watched was...it was the exact OPPOSITE of everything I just said. I'm not an "overreact to the preseason" guy. I am also not a "nothing in the preseason matters at all" guy. I think preseason performance very much CAN be an omen of things to come. For years during the drought, the Bills would be awful in the preseason, and we'd all say "it's only preseason!", and lo and behold, they'd be awful in the regular season, too. Conversely, McDermott's squads have always looked pretty good in preseason. Well organized, executing well, winning matchups, etc, and then that would carry over to the regular season. To overreact to this game would, of course, be foolish. To completely sweep it under the rug, though, and to pretend like it's not at least a little bit concerning...that seems just as foolish. This was U-G-L-Y you ain't got no alibi, ugly. Just bad in every way a thing can be bad. I want the last three hours of my summer Saturday back.

She had a heart of a gold, but....it was kind of difficult to get past the mop leg.

Preseason football is so weird. It's sorta like... if you hadn't gotten laid in 6 months, and then the opportunity FINALLY came, but it was a mid-Kansas truck stop diner waitress named Marge with a square ass, smoker's voice, and a mop for a leg. Like...it's nice to be getting some action, but THIS?!

I've never been angrier. Clown shoes.

DAZN is three bags of garbage in a man suit. DAZN is run by a family of degenerate reptiles. DAZN's software engineers stand facing the wrong way in an elevator. DAZN employees don't say "God bless you" when someone sneezes. DAZN women wear white dresses to other people's weddings. DAZN staff members double dip their chips at parties. ....Sorry. Just letting off a little DAZN frustration on this Friday night. Alcohol may be involved, but mostly its just unbridled rage. Don't mind me.

I've never seen a running back that could cut quite like OJ Simpson! ...In all seriousness, though, one of my favorite all-time football highlights is the play at 11:19 of the video below, against the Browns, where he has a few tacklers in hot pursuit, slides on his back/butt causing the defender to fall as well, gets up untouched, and proceeds to run away from them.

Well... Some of us are better at seeing the talent level of players than others.

More like...some of us have delusions of grandeur and unearned confidence. Like I've said before, though, props on committing to the bit. You're an excellent old timey wrestling heel. Like Roddy Piper or Ric Flair, but without the sense of humor and the style. Kudos!

God almighty. Imagine thinking that 16 games and 1 start by a 3rd rounder are enough evidence to call him a bust. Woof. Even for you, Einstein. Woof.

I don't really understand what your purpose was in engaging me on this matter. You specifically asked for my opinion. I gave it. Now you're explaining to me how message boards work. Color me confused.

In my opinion, Diggs is a legitimate, high quality, top 10 WR1 in the NFL. A playmaker and a matchup dictator and a superstar, just like Tyreek Hill. In my opinion, beyond having a star WR1, both Mahomes and Allen have mostly had a cast of JAGs at WR. I do not believe that Mahomes has had better wide receiver corps throughout his career than Josh Allen. I'm not sure how else to state it.

I think both things are true. KC DOES have the best QB in the league. Mahomes DOES have a lot of easy answers, provided by plays drawn up by a Hall of Fame offensive mind and one of the best to ever do it in the NFL. While I won't deny for one second that Mahomes is the best QB in the league and may go down as the GOAT, I still think it's valid to wonder what Allen's production would look like if he had Andy Reid calling his plays.

Wide Receivers? Yes. I am denying that. Mahomes has had a Hall of Fame tight end and Hall of Fame head coach calling plays throughout his career and -- as of last season -- a better offensive line. I have acknowledged these facts previously. Those are the things that Mahomes has had over Allen. But receiver? I'm not buying it. Outside of Tyreek Hill, the rest of the KC receivers have always been a cast of replacement level players, just like Buffalo has had.

You: "What dime a dozen talent had Mahomes turned into contributors? He has had a lot more to work with than Allen." Also you: "Hill and Kelce coupled with Mahomes was the best in the league… better than anything the Bills have ever given Allen and even with the Hill trade they still had JuJu and MVS with Kelce… not great receivers but not nobody’s/scrubs like the Bills trotted out last season behind Diggs and the inconsistent Davis. … the investment also isn’t nearly the same as the Bills lack there of." Don't pretend like you haven't been beating the "KC consistently gives Mahomes better receivers" drum recently. But let's suppose you were only talking about the past there, and not the present. Do you still feel like KC has a better receiving corps than Buffalo this season?