Logic

I find your entire shtick incredibly tiresome. This is the most exciting time to be a Bills fan in the past 25 years and you're gonna spend a bunch of time typing up the sort of thing you just posted above? THAT'S the type of stuff you choose to concentrate on and spend energy thinking and typing about? You and I couldn't be more different in how we like to think about things. Following sports is supposed to be fun. Life is short.

Haven't read through any of this thread, but this one's simple: Jalen Ramsey's upset because he's being used in a lot of zone coverage, and he wants to be a man-to-man cover corner, following the opposition's best receiver every week. Does that sound like a fit for the Bills defense to you? Aside from the above, he'll likely take a 1st round pick to acquire. Do you want the Bills to spend their 2020 1st round pick on a cornerback? Hard pass on Ramsey.

It's like people can't tell the difference between me saying "I like how the management of the Bills seems to be more competent than its been in 20 years" and me saying "OMGz BiLls SUPER BOWL 2020 AnD BeeeyOnd!!!1". If you scroll up a bit from your original comment, you'll see me tell the same thing to three other people that told me to temper my enthusiasm: I don't need to see any more to know that the Bills are in good hands. Them losing a few games won't suddenly make me change course on the job that Beane and McDermott have done building this team. I'm not a reactionary, slave-of-the-moment nitwit. I know good team management when I see it. In other words, I'm not tempering *****. Only if you don't know the difference between "it appears the Bills are a well run organization" and "BILLS ARE WINNING THE SUPER BOWL!!!" I remember that. It didn't make me stand up and say "this team management and coaching is pathetic". Context is important.

No TBD thread is complete until ScottLaw comes in and poops in the middle of the floor.

The "Update: Not going well" subtitle on this thread is ***** hilarious. ?

That dude to her right looks like he wouldn't mind getting mono from her!

This is about the third "pump the brakes" response I've gotten, and here's the thing: I've ALREADY seen enough to show me that the Bills are now a well-run organization with a good plan in place. Seriously. I mean, sure, if they wind up 4-12 this year, then I guess the "not so fast" stuff is warranted. But I mean...isn't it obvious to anyone else how much more logical, competent, and coherent the Bills current front office is than anything else we've seen in the past 20 years? Why do I have to wait any longer to proclaim that? Again, with all due respect to the more cautious folks, I've seen enough already to say that the Bills are being run the right way. Certainly better than the teams I listed in the OP.

They did? I must have missed that.

Nah. I'll leave "one game at a time" to the players. Me? I choose optimism. Again, I'm not "crowning" the Bills anything other than having a competent management team with a cogent plan. That's it.

With all due respect, even the Bills laying an egg against the Patriots wouldn't change the fact that the team is run with a competent, intelligent vision. Losing to the Patriots won't suddenly take away all the smart team-building that Beane and McDermott have done.

Looking around the NFL, I see stunning amounts of front office and team building incompetence. The Jets letting a Pro Bowl kicker go despite having plenty of money to sign them, then losing a game due to bad kicking and already being on the FOURTH kicker of the season by week 3. Also not putting good protection in front of Darnold and having to talk Ryan Kalil out of retirement. They also paid infinity dollars to an off-ball linebacker and a running back and a corner that they just benched. The Browns ALSO failing to put good protection in front of Baker Mayfield, who now looks like he may be pulverized into dust before he can set the league on fire. The Giants just...well...there's too much to even list. The Dolphins tanking in such an obvious way that even good, young, recently drafted players like Minkah Fitzpatrick want out. There has always been this level of incompetence in the NFL, of course. The difference now is that, for years, the Bills were near the top of the "stumbling, bumbling" incompetence list. As a fan of the Bills, I never really had room to talk about OTHER teams' bad decisions. Now? I sit back, confident in the fact that my favorite team finally has stability, a GM and head coach that are on the same page, and a clear direction. I look at the awesome offensive line that this front office has built for Josh Allen, the targets they've gotten him, the purposeful building of the defense, the smart free agency spending, the culture...just about everything. I'm not used to looking at chaos and stupidity around the league and thinking "not MY team". This is new. I could get used to this.

Sure did. He FINISHES. He also always looks for work. If he's uncovered on a given play, he finds someone to hit, and fast.

I hope he does. He's one of the nastiest linemen in the NFL. He's the tone setter for the Bills offensive line right now. Coaches say he's smart as hell, too. A great combo.

100% John Feliciano. Of all the Bills free agent signings on the o-line, Feliciano was the biggest afterthought to me. I thought he'd be depth at best, cut at worst. The fact that he is not only starting at right guard but absolutely MAULING people out there is a total surprise to me. He's actually playing SO well that if the coaches ever decide to have Nsekhe start at RT full time, Ford will probably go to the bench.

1 General for me, please. Thank you!

In the NFL, what separates decent or good NFL quarterbacks from ELITE NFL quarterbacks is what they do on 3rd down and what they do in the 4th quarter. Well, in just 13 career starts, Josh Allen already has three (or is it four?) fourth quarter comebacks. Clutch. And how is he doing on third down these days? And just in case those aren't enough, let's take a look at Allen's accuracy/efficiency in throwing the football overall so far this season: So, with the obvious caveat that the Bills have played some poor defenses in the first two weeks....Buffalo appears to have a quarterback who is getting the team in and out of the huddle crisply and efficiently, calling audibles and checks and setting protections, completing a high percentage of his passes, and performing at his absolute best on 3rd downs and in the 4th quarter. The usual "he still has a long way to go" disclaimer applies, but for a guy with just 13 career starts under his belt, well.... I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.

Clearly, your talents are being wasted at whatever job you're currently doing. You should quit at once and become a scout or other front office personnel in the NFL. It's clear you have the expertise and confidence. Don't waste another minute.

It's almost like you didn't even read what I wrote. I specifically stated that bringing in a new GM, an entirely new scouting staff, and expecting them to do 12+ months worth of work in 3 months and make a franchise-altering decision like selecting a QB is unrealistic. Keep beating that dead horse, though.

"Needing a QB for 20 years" actually has NOTHING to do with Sean McDermott. And to pretend that he was just supposed to magically be able to scout and select a QB with, as I mentioned, a walking dead GM and scouting staff is wishful and unrealistic thinking. Also, firing a GM and an entire scouting staff, getting a new GM and scouting staff in the door, and having them scout an entire draft class in three months and make a decision as difficult and consequential as selecting a franchise QB is ALSO unrealistic and wishful thinking. THAT is what I mean by context. Please, though, keep talking about Mahomes for the next decade. It's a fresh and interesting topic every time. ?

Yes, the betting line favored them. I still consider a team that many projected at 6-7 wins going on the road to be a bit of an underdog, but technically, you're right. And anyway, I'm just saying: Anyone who says they're 100% confident in victory this coming week must have missed some big chunks of the past 20 years. That's all I'm saying.

Nothing. Like I said, I think this team has the right type of mentality to not overlook opponents. However, until we see it, there's no guarantee that that's the case. It's one thing to go on the road as underdogs in a league where no one expects much from you and get a couple wins. It's a different type of challenge entirely to be 2-0, facing a team you're "supposed to" beat, and actually get the job done and not have a letdown. I guess you could say that I've seen this movie too many times before, and in the past, the ending has always been the same. I am scarred from the past 20 years of Bills fandom. There's nothing I'd love more than to watch the Bills blow out the Bengals. I'll be at the game -- one of only two I'm attending live this season -- and I desperately want to see a Bills win. But as our old friend Buddy "Froghorn Leghorn" Nix once saidd: "This is a tough game for tough payple!". Wins are never easy in the NFL.

This is your classic "trap game". Coming home after two big road wins, with the Patriots looming in week 4. I think and hope that this Bills squad has the type of mindset and humility that won't let them get ahead of themselves, and that they'll take the Bengals seriously. By the way, the Bills SHOULD take the Bengals seriously. Yes, they looked bad against the 49ers, but the week before that, they looked really GOOD against a good Seattle team. In particular, John Ross (over 100 yards receiving and a score in back to back weeks) vs Levi Wallace is a matchup that scares me.

Two things: 1.) The "Bills should have taken Mahomes" comment completely ignores the context of the situation. The Bills had a brand new head coach. They knew Doug Whaley was a lame duck. The new head coach didn't want the lame duck GM making a pick of such high consequence. Why base the selection of a franchise QB -- a decision which, if it misfires, can sink a coach's tenure with a team before it even begins -- on the scouting work of a GM/staff that you're about to fire? It also ignores the fact that Mahomes was no sure thing. People can look back now with 20/20 hindsight and say that selecting Mahomes there should've been a no-brainer for the Bills, but go back and read the pre-draft profile on Mahomes and what people were saying about him and, again, his selection was no sure thing. Hell, the Bears traded up in the draft, giving up significant ammo in the process, to draft MITCHELL TRUBISKY over Mahomes. Not one single analyst or "expert" anywhere questioned it or thought they should have taken Mahomes instead. 2.) In spite of everything I just said, the fact is this: Constantly repeating the Mahomes line is the definition of beating a dead horse. We all know what went down. We all know how good Mahomes is. We all know he was taken with the Bills' original 1st round pick slot. ENOUGH ALREADY! How long are you people going to repeat yourselves about this? Another five years? Ten? Two more decades? Are you gonna be talking about it on your deathbed? So much happens every week in the NFL and so much exciting stuff is happening with the Bills RIGHT NOW, that to choose "We could have had Mahomes" as your talking point is just lazy, repetitive, irritating, pessimistic drivel. Why not concentrate on some of the many good young players that are actually on the Bills roster? Why not concentrate on the fact that it looks like the Bills may have taken a franchise QB of their own? Why continue to beat the dead horse and ignore the context and fixate on the same damn fact over and over and over again?! It just reeks of grasping at straws to be pessimistic. Enough. Get a life.

This. As far as I can tell, it will go on until the end of time. Ugh.