BullBuchanan

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.

No. This year's team finished as high as they should have. They aren't on the same level as KC, Baltimore, SF or the Lions. They weren't last year either. In 2021 you could argue they were.

You know the people that pay them are the folks with the real money, right? I always laugh when people use "cheating", like it's some derogatory term, especially in college sports and baseball where it's so interwoven with the fabric of the sport that it's actually part of the game.

I'll be positive when the team stops regressing and shows progress. Until then, it's irresponsible to be positive in my book.

hit me back in 2025. It's now been two seasons in a row where we haven't been playing great football, and I don't see a Super Bowl as likely next year either. We have a lot of inexperienced staff, aging vets, big holes to fill on our team and a bunch of cap tied up. We're going to need 2 very good drafts with elite talent on rookie deals to re-open another window, imo.

good luck with that. Go ahead and bet the farm on the Bills next year. I'll put my money on the Chiefs or maybe SF.

As a Buffalo Bills fan, I'm privy to some really exclusive information like watching what happens when you have a coaching and veteran talent pipeline that is extremely dependent on the franchise juggernaut that is the Carolina Panthers. I've watched how continuity of a mediocre staff has manifested in the same form of mediocrity and continued mistakes despite many, many attempts. Promoting from within is generally an indication that you want, and should expect more of the same. It's great thing when you have a history of success. When you have a history of falling well short of expectations, well, expect that to continue. These are company men towing the company line that owe their future to McDermott. I don't expect anything to change significantly and I don't expect them to improve significantly unless something crazy happens outside of their control, like Beane drafting a few rookies that play at an all-pro level.

Absolutely. 99.99% sure that won't be happening though.

Be sure to remind us all of this after KC or Cincy's offense rolls our defense over in the playoffs next year.

So close to getting the point and you blew straight past it.

Lol. Another completely surprising move from one bills drive. For the 6th year in a row they intend to run it back and try again with the same personnel and will hope for a different result.