BullBuchanan

Favre peaked at 27 and Allen is 27, so let's hope not. I also don't see any comparison to Favre as a complement.

We won't be able to afford AJE. I figure he'll get $12-14M for 4/5 years. Floyd likely doesn't have many more great years in him at 31 either. Maybe he can have one more year like this, but I'll be shocked if he has two. I'd try to rent him one more time with a 2 year deal.

I don't disagree.

I'd be shocked to see us go WR higher than the 3rd (requiring a trade up). They'll likely consider themselves in a decent spot with Diggs and Kincaid. They have bigger holes to fill on Defense. I could see them going S-S or S/CB and then get to WR in the 4th round. They'll also need a DT and of course no Bills draft would be complete without another RB. Might be a good time to take a project QB too.

Going to the playoffs when they let 7 teams in on a 17 game schedule doesn't mean very much. It's the modern equivalent of a 1000 yard receiver or rusher. I don't deny that we could get in as a 7th seed, bu there's a zero percent chance this team runs the table. They don't have the mental fortitude, discipline or coaching for it. We lose 2/5 and possibly 3/5. Maybe 9-8 still gets you in at #7. That's my best case scenario.

You should have paid more attention. You don't remember Gabe Davis running wide open to the endzone in the 3rd? You don't remember the 3 yard out to Kincaid on 3rd and 10? He often fails to see the open player and when he does, he too frequently throws an inaccurate pass

Agreed on all but the "Offense played at an elite level" part. We had three drives deep in Philly territory that resulted in a total of 3 points. It sure didn't seem elite to me when Allen threw a 2 yard out to a well covered Kincaid on 3rd and 10 at the Philly 30 when Shakiir was breaking wide open. It didn't seem elite to me either when he threw a ground ball to a blanketed Sherfield in the endzone. It especially didn't seem elite to me when he missed a wide open Gabe Davis for a should have been easy TD instead hitting the DB in the back. It also didn't seem elite to me when he threw a should have been pick early in the game into a blanketed Gabe Davis with open receivers breaking across the middle. We should have laid another 10-14 on Philly at minimum and we didn't. They started the game off horribly through the 3rd quarter on defense and we didn't deliver. I'll keep saying it. Josh makes all the miracle plays, but it's his inability to make the plays you expect your practice squad QB to nail that is starting to cement his legacy as a loser. Should we ask him to be perfect every week? Of course not, but as long as McD is here, that'll be the game script.

Our coach was bad, but he didn't throw another INT making it 8 straight games, miss multiple wide open receivers, take dumb penalties that gave the other team life or drop passes right in his hands. The whole team is playing poorly, which yes is a coaching problem, but not one that would be fixed this season if he were fired today.

It's a massive nothingburger. dude got a slap on the wrist from the Big 10 and will be back after next week. I'd be shocked if this impacts his future with the school at all.

We wouldn't beat KC or Dallas with that effort for certain. Philly played like ass the first half. We should have put up 18 more points based on the opportunities we were handed, but we couldn't close. We won't get that lucky the next two weeks. I expect the better McD in Miami to learn from his previous mistakes and give us a much tougher game unless it ends up being meaningless for them.

The Bills team we saw yesterday probably loses 3/5. If there's a bet that I can make that they lose 2/5+, let me know because I'm very interested.

Not at all. The university and his coaches are behind him and he'll be competing for a National Championship soon.

Harbaugh? Why on earth would he leave his dream job where he'll have a ticket for life to work for the Bills where he'll be on a short leash from day 1.

He could not throw a costly int every single game. He could go through his progressions to find the open man instead of holding the ball too long, throwing the ball away, or chucking a ball into multiple coverage. He could throw balls so that his players don't constantly have to lose their stride to catch them.

What a bunch of losers.

McD is the only coach of a team with Super Bowl dreams that would kneel there. What a loser decision.

There's the Hollywood we all know. Can't throw into double and triple coverage all game and not get bit eventually.

Is this for real? I haven't seen a guy as chronically afraid of 50 yard FGs since the 1980s

Who else is having fun?

Probably, but at least you'd have a chance. It was a guarantee that Kincaid wasn't getting 9 yards there.

Allen is such a clown. Shakiir about to be completely open and he throws a 1 yard out.

Good call on Campbell, but Harbaugh is no worse than #2 this year. I disagree that it's a lateral move. Both Tomlin and Harbaugh are a full tier above McDermott. McD isn't even in Schottenheimer territory. His gameday coaching is just flat out terrible. He's propped up by a great roster, including a top-flight QB and they seem to run a cohesive clubhouse. There isn't a single thing about him that's innovative though, and ultimately that's what you need to win it all.

I'm not sure how you're slotting him ahead of Jackson, Tua, Stroud, Prescott, or Wilson based on this year. They are all performing significantly better. You also have Hurts, Mahomes and Goff right there too.

Just checking, but you'd prefer 1 Super Bowl win to 0 right? It's quite interesting you're gunning for Harbaugh so hard when he's probably going to get Coach of the Year and his team will probably get the #1 seed.

I think so, and I'd say almost certainly if this coaching staff sticks around. We've seen him play a couple of perfect games and we've also seen multi-week stretches of him being really bad to the point of being the reason we lose games. That inconsistency of scorching hot to ice cold is what defines Josh Allen as a player. I had hoped that the staff was coaching him to maybe not burn as hot but also never be cooler than "warm". Unfortunately, I don't think he's capable of it, and I chalk it up to football IQ. I don't think he processes the game well enough in real time to be able to go through progressions or effectively hot route to pick apart a defense. Instead, we're going to have to live with the Hollywood version where he holds the ball for 5 seconds and has to stiff arm Maxx Crosby, hurdle Kevin Byard or drop a 65 yard pass on a dime to a double covered receiver in order to win big games. That reliance on high variance play has and will continue to be the main reason he doesn't win Super Bowls. He can do all the hard things that no one else can do, but he can do shockingly few of the things even backup QBs can do. If the stars align just right, or he gets an OC that can channel his limitations and exploit his strengths, he has the talent to win it all, but I don't see him leading a dynasty and I don't see him being an elite QB in his mid-late 30s as his athleticism fades.