BullBuchanan

Did you need two threads for this? Drinking this heavy on a Monday morning is wild work.

I think this is our weakest team since 2019. It's extremely unfortunate that it's happened in a year when the Chiefs appear likely to miss the playoffs. I think losing Hoecht was the death knell. If I were to write a script for how we get there, it would involve Benford returning to last year's form, Taron Johnson returning to form of 2-3 years ago, and Haiston taking a big step up to create a lockdown secondary. Our defensive line would have to start playing better than they have all season to shut down the run and get big time sacks. Milano would get benched for Dorian Williams who would play at an all-pro level and Bernard would return to his big play ability. Bishop would ocntinue to Ball hawk, and he'd also figure out how to read runs and shut them down before they could turn into big gainers. Allen would have to start taking what's there and making automatic reads, instead of playing 2017-2018 hero ball and throwing into coverage all the time. Cook would win the rushing title and be int he MVP discussion, and our TE's would be the bane of every team's existence. Brady would start faking the screen to shakir that would turn into broken play bombs down the sideline to Shavers and Samuel. Then I would wake up.

He was so great that you can't even spell his name correctly. If google says it though...

Andre Reed never even had a back to back 1000 yard season. Diggs topped Reed's career best season twice in 4 years, and is the only Buffalo Bill with 4 consecutive 1000 yard seasons. The only thing Reed has on Diggs is he played here longer. Also, over his last seven years, across 11 playoff games, reed averaged 42 YPG and had 0 touchdowns.

Most people here had very few nice things to say about Diggs when he left, despite him being the most productive Bills receiver in history over his tenure. I said at the time that we had created an unecessary gap on the team by dumping him, but it didn't take 5 minutes for everyone to jump on the eVeRyBoDy eAtS! hype train. You don't just replace #1 WRs at will. A lot of teams don't even have one.

I think 2023 was our best shot. We were one good throw away from winning that game and we had the horses to beat The Ravens and SF Had we beaten KC last year, I think we would have been murdered by Philly.

We tried the high flying approach for 7 years and never really got close. Some people choose to imagine scenarios where we would've won theSB one of those years had a, b, and c happened and x, y, z not happened, but I'm not one of them. I think the difference between our drought era teams and where we are right now is a similar delta as the one between those AFCCG teams/13 seconds teams and a SB Championship. It's an entirely different tier of roster construction and situational execution that we've never seen in the history of the franchise. At times we've had one, but never both.

Yup. The exception doesn't prove the rule.

It's what worked for Brady, Mahomes, Manning, and countless others. If you want a high flying offense, enjoy the division championships and early playoff exits.

It's championship style football. We tried 7 years of letting Josh be superman and it was never good enough when the games mattered. Championship teams, and more importantly Dynasties, control the clock from the get-go. Josh is going throw growing pains in this style, which is the same way he was struggling when Dorsey was doing the same thing. He's going to need to figure out how to get past it. The way to win with a guy like Josh is for him to make a handful of big plays in the biggest spots, not on every drive. When the Patriots and Brady were at their best, they were downright boring to watch. When they aired it out all over the place, they usually came up short int he big moments. Do we have the right play caller/play designer for an offense like that? Probably not. That's the problem, not the strategy.

I missed the game because of a gig. I also missed the Atlanta game because I was traveling. They're the first two games I've missed since the radio blackout days. Loss is on me boys.

Except for the interception he got this year that won us the first Miami game. There was also a massive fumble he created last year on mark Andrews in the playoffs

The Bills could lose out and I'd bet every cent of my net worth that both McDermott and Beane are back next year.

Oh no, we lost a football game! What about last week when it aged to perfection? You can always count on a Bills fan to find one example of a time something didn't work out in their life and build an entire philosophy on it. Thanks for being predictably you, fellas.

I think people underestimate the responsibilities of the role that Hoecht had. Why doesn't every team have a guy doing that? In addition to needing to be an athletic freak, you also need to be extremely smart. Your responsibilities may shift on the fly and you need to be able to shift from pass to Run in an instant. Hoecht went to Brown where he studied business and economics (one of the top business schools in the country) and tutored calculus. Alexander went to Cal-Berkley where he studied Law (one of the top law schools in the country). I'm not saying Dorian is a dummy. He didn't take a classic athlete type major (Tulane - Homeland Security Studies ?), but I'm just saying that there's a pattern of really bright dudes playing that spot, and I'm not sure I've seen him pop off the screen with diagnosing plays throughout his career.