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If Buffalo regresses, this year, we should ABSOLUTELY do it. We're the perfect team for his no bull####, insane work ethic approach. Dawkins would finally show up to camp in shape, Josh and WRs wouldn't be having miscommunications about where they thought the ball should be, every player would know every nuance of the rules, our clock management would be the best in the business, alignments and formations would be locked down. Saying he's only been good with Brady as his QB is a cop out and wrong. He dragged Matt Cassel to 11-5. Jimmy G went 2-0, Jacoby Brisett 1-1. The problem is that every other QB he had in his coaching career (besides Bledsoe) was an unmitigated dumpster fire. Give him Kirk Cousins the last couple years and they're a perennial playoff team.

For sure. There's no doubt that diminishing returns make it really hard to motivate yourself to improve. When you're competing at an elite level though those razor thin margins are everything and if you wan to be Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt, you have to put in that 500% extra work for that 0.1% gain. Otherwise, you just end up being whoever the #2 guy is that no one remembers. Maybe that's ok with him deep down, and I kind of think it is, because at 27 you should know what you really want. I think Josh would like to be a champion is it just happens with his current level of commitment. I don't think he's willing to do whatever it takes to overcome #15 though.

I put "no patience" as I'm pretty confident McDermott hit his ceiling years ago, but with that said, I'm also not a big believer that we'll hire a better coach or that any version of this roster will win a Super Bowl unless Mahomes and Burrow get knocked out before we face them in the playoffs, and San Francisco isn't our opponent. I think we're basically a less talented version of the 00's Chargers. Maybe when Kelce retires we'll get a shot, or maybe they trade for Sam LaPorta and then we're stuck in the same hole again. My best hope for a Bills SB is that Allen outlasts Mahomes and gets an Elway/Manning type win late in his career. Given the wear and tear his body take though, that's a tall order unless Mahomes just wants to walk away.

I'd rather he be closer to the red dot.

This isn't the only reason, but it's one of a few that makes me think football just isn't as important to Allen as some people think it is. If he cares at all about winning a Super Bowl, I gotta believe there's something better he can be doing with his time. Has he already analyzed every flaw from 2023? Has he already put together a plan for improving and is actively working on those things? Has he focused on healing his injuries or is he playing through them ont he golf course? Has he already scouted every opponent for 2024 and has he put together plans for how he'll exploit them? Most importantly, has he put together a plan to beat Spags and the Chiefs next year and is he taking active steps there? If he's doing all the work all day every day and steps out for a few hours to play a quick 18, I wouldn't think anything of it, but I don't think that's what this is based on what I see on Sundays. I think football is just a job that he's excellent at, and he really likes it, but it isn't his whole life the way it was for guys like Brady and Manning. Brady loves to golf too, but there was never any doubt that football was everything to him. Allen likes the lifestyle that football affords him where he gets to chase hollywood starlets and hang out at the country club. There's nothing wrong with that. My job is just a job, but I'm also not telling a legion of fans I'm trying to win Employee of the Year.

Incredible how Baltimore stays competitive by burning 5 picks on WRs where only one of them is even average right now.

The Bills have been moving further away from being legitimate Super Bowl contenders since 2020 and will continue that downward trend in 2024 barring a miracle where we draft 2 ROY caliber players.

Not in this defense. We don't use traditional Free/Strong safeties

Stroud absolutely was which is why despite the ups and downs he had throughout the year that I have him rated so highly. He took over a 3 win team and promptly won the division with them as a rookie. It was by far the most impressive true-rookie QB season I've ever seen and some of the stuff he was doing throughout the year was insane, not just from a physical standpoint but from a technique and X's and O's standpoint as well. I was not high on him at all out of the draft, and I'm pretty convinced after watching him this year that he'll be locked in the top 3-4 for the foreseeable future.

The Bills won, but he was pretty bad for almost all of that stretch outside of the PIT game. We had to win ugly against some really weak teams in the Chargers and Patriots. He was awful in the air vs Dallas, but that was easily forgiven because we completely steamrolled them on the ground. Despite us getting the win against KC, he didn't shine there either despite KC giving us every opportunity to run away with that game. It's obvious that Allen outproduced Jackson, and the analytics make an interesting case that he had more overall value, but Jackson played well in all the big games down the stretch that sealed the #1 seed for his team, while Allen kinda limped through it. I also thought we had a much better offense than Baltimore, especially once Andrews went down. The entire offense in Baltimore has always run through Jackson. I say all this thinking that no QB deserved to be top 2. If you had to pick a QB, it was definitely Lamar, followed by Dak, Purdy, Stroud and then Allen, but I had all of them behind CMC and Hill. As we know, that isn't the way the NFL works though.

There's a pretty reasonable explanation for that IMO. You had two legit candidates for MVP at the time and they played each other. Lamar shined and Purdy stunk.

Truth hurts sometimes. You're still missing the point on that one I see. Impressive.

Easy. Every player above him was unquestionably better than he was, s was Tyreek and Stroud.

He had one of the greatest seasons ever for a WR. Josh had 1 elite performance (PIT) since the 1st of October (MIA) and was largely mediocre most of the year and at multiple occasions was the worst player on the field costing his team games (NYJ,DEN). MVPs don't do that. Injuries certainly played a role in Hill getting demoted, but his season paled in comparison to Tyreek .Allen's one 1st place vote also votes Lamar 3rd and was clearly a troll vote.

what is it with these tiny dudes trying to beat up kids and women?

People arguing that Allen should have been MVP over Lamar while I'm sitting here thinking that it should be a punishable offense that he was given more points than Tyreek Hill or Stroud

Go ahead and take a look at the teams that won (or even participated in) super bowls. There are a handful of teams that didn't have elite QBs int he Super Bowl era and even less that weren't getting elite play from otherwise average QBs (Foles, Rypien, Flacco). An NFL Quarterback is the most critical position in sports to success and it's the hardest to fill. How are we going to sit here and act like it's a myth? https://www.foxsports.com/nfl-super-bowl-starting-qbs

You know that high level statistics don't measure the success of the best player, right? It's the small things they do that don't show up on traditional box scores that are the reason they accumulate the stats. People are using the same argument about stats to argue why Allen should be MVP when it's cl3ear to anyone who watched the games that Lamar was the best QB int he regular season (though also clear that he wasn't the best player) There's a reason that Mahomes is constantly chasing Super Bowls while all Allen has are excuses about how the people around him failed him. Allen's a great QB, but acting like he and Mahomes are even close to being peers is the kind of level of delusion that stops us from looking at the real problems with our team.

It's not "ball washing" when he's the best player in the league by miles, and will be no lower than 2nd in the GOAT conversation with a Super Bowl win on sunday. He could retire today and he'd be a first ballot unanimous hall of Famer. He's earned ever ounce of praise he gets.

He's a pretty good but not great back. I wouldn't give him big money based on what I've seen and I'd keep trying to get better at the position, albeit with minimal investment like late round picks and udfas. I'd try to get him on cheap 2-3 year deal after his contract expires at the end of 2025 or let him walk.

Nah, and I wouldn't really want to either, except maybe once for the experience of it. I vastly prefer watching football on TV vs live if it's a game I care about.

The Bills have a top 5 kit as is. It's a classic and timeless look and it's insane to me that so many in Bills fandom will do anything to try and come up with an awful alternative.

One of those guys is highly successful as a coach, and it isn't Doug.

I don't know. Despite high aggregate stats, he was pretty inefficient. He had 326 combined touches - good for 4.2 yards per touch including 4.2 ypc (prior to the last game of the year he was at 3.9). He had 7 games where he failed to break 50 yards, including 3 where he didn't get 30. Dude had a game where he got 9 yards on 16 carries. He was a complete non-factor for large portions of the season and propped up his pedestrian averages on the back of a couple big games. I watched him routinely get stuffed on critical short downs, which is the whole reason you go and get a guy like that. Towards the end of the year, they put him on the bench in those spots and went pass. In his defense, Cook actually had many of the same poor showings, but he's also a first year starter, not a 28 year old former MVP level back with an injury history. Cook did manage to average 5.5 yards per touch compared to Henry's 3.5, but also had 7 games under 50, 3 under 30 and had a game where he went 5 carries for -5 yards. He's nowhere near the threat he was 4 years ago and has trailed his career average in ypc for 3 straight years.

No thanks. He's done.