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You can as long as they fit inside a quart-sized ziploc. Any larger and straight to jail - no trial.

If this is true, it's absolutely wild to me that he allowed Frazier to run a vanilla defense that didn't do any of these things for the last 6 years. I don't have any reason to doubt you, but basically everything you're saying he excels at is what this team has been lacking since he showed up.

The bolded is such a killer. I don't remember exactly which game it was, but it was a good way through the season and we we clamoring for the bills to run the ball and they finally started to. Going into halftime we were just wrecking them on the ground picking up 5-6 yards a clip. Then the bills come out int he 2nd half with a lead and just start throwing hail mary's again and we let the opponent back in the game. We played multiple teams with battered offensive lines, including the Bengals who were down 3 starting linemen in our playoff game. Instead of changing up our looks and bringing pressure that backup olinemen cant deal with, they ran the same vanilla soft zone, rush 4 coverage they schemed in august. And that type of stuff - taking advantage of glaring personnel weakness or broad scheme is the 101 stuff. That's the bare minimum and we don't do it. Guys like Reid and Belichick do things like, "I know they've seen us do a thing on tape, so we're going to set it up like we're doing that and then do a totally different thing to move the better player out of position to take advantage of the weaker player". Without being int he room, I'm fairly convinced that's how Travis Kelce is routinely open with no one 10 yards around him despite being the primary threat in nearly every game he's in.

I feel significantly less optimism than I did last season. I feel our decision not to acquire a starting caliber MLB was a gross misstep. There are still players ont he market I'd be happy with, but they seem content to roll with a bunch of 220 lb third-rate prospects. I expect this to be a constant point of pain for our defense this season and won't be shocked if it's ultimately our undoing. Our decision to not address WR2 is another area where I think we've intentionally shot ourselves in the foot. By not addressing the position, the Bills have put an implicit vote of confidence behind Gabe Davis, and I expect him to fail to rise to the occasion. People will point to Kincaid, but the history on production of Rookie Tight Ends is pretty clear that we shouldn't be expecting massive production, even if he turn into a top player. Our RB room, while marginally improved, is still a RB by committee without a truly elite threat. Lots of teams win without elite threats, but I'd feel better if we had a player back there that gave us a way to win without Josh Allen. I don't expect our offensive line to be massively improved, despite investments. Dawkins is still a middling LT, Morse is a middling and aging C who is a concussion away from retirement and Spencer Brown is still a liability at RT until proven otherwise. I don't see a medicore veteran guard or unproven rookie guard being the difference makers others do. I wouldn't feel ok betting on the bills to win the superbowl at anything lower than +3000. I just can't draw a path to them winning it all that doens't involve injuries to other teams

And that's part of the problem. The rest of the coaches I mentioned are chess grandmasters of the NFL. Other coaches put pressure on our team, and we settle for the scraps instead of outsmarting them. The Cincinnati game was a prime example of us having absolutely no answer to gameplan adversity. We defer to dictate the pace of play far too often in big games. The heatstroke game in Miami is another example. I don't need a perfect season by any means. What i need is situational awareness and execution that shows a coach knows exactly what he's doing. Coincidentally, if we had that, I believe we'd already have a championship or two. McD's teams run the most vanilla "beat the man across from you" systems I've seen in years. He's a coach born 40 years too late. having an offense/defense that's top 5 is meaningless when the goal is to win a championship. Those ranking are determined in aggregate. Championships are determined based on situational football. When your team has to make 1 play, can they do it? What will the coach dial up?

That's a very bizarre set of logic. I'm extremely unsatisfied with McDermott and the results he's brought. To invent a scenario where an offensive coach had the same results, and say, "just as good" doesn't make any sense. I'd want that offensive guy gone too. The plan isn't to hire an underachieving offensive mind - it's to hire a great one. I was against the McDermott hire from the beginning because of his defensive leanings, outdated scheme, and a lack of being an elite coordinator. Now, maybe he turned out to be a great hire for what we needed at the time, but I've seen enough of him on Sundays to know that he isn't at the level of Championship-tier coaches. He doesn't resemble Belichick, Reid, Pederson, McVay or guys on the cusp like Siriani and Shananhan. Never, NEVER, have I gone into a game and thought, McDermott is going to out maneuver the other team today - the Coach is going to win this one. If you want to win it all, I think you need a coach that can do that, even if he doesn't have to. That, or you need a lot of luck to swing your way.

My opinion of his past results would be the exact same, but I might be more hopeful than I am about future results. I'm pretty well resigned that he's peaked.

Given you struggle with "whose", not sure this is the litmus test.

The GOAT is still active, so it's silly to take anyone but him. Belichick all day long.

Doesn't make a player a "piece of *****". There are a lot of players over the years that have missed a practice, and I don't recall anywhere near the level of vitriol on display here.

So does Diggs. We're talking about one pracitice, my dude. Diggs has never given less than 100% on the field.

why is Diggs a POS and how has Allen done "everything right" when Diggs hasn't?

It's financially impossible to trade him.

you have no idea why he isn't there, so stop assuming things based on zero information. It makes you look like a clown.

It's my response to you being a child about it. You seem to have some weird agenda with trashing him despite him being a top 5 player at his position and putting together the best receiving seasons in Bills history. I don't give a ***** about a 3 day minicamp in early June. I just hope the dude is ok. If he misses time in September, I'll be concerned about it.

cry more.

if he showed up for his medical yesterday but not today, maybe it's related to that.

I didn't conveniently forget anything. He injured his ankle before week 2 at practice, hence the missed week 2 game. Week 3 he would go on to post his biggest game of the season. My numbers hold up even considering that he didn't even play week 2.

It might be good season stats if you spread them out over a full season. Unfortunately Davis had 3 of his top 4 games in the first 6 weeks of the season where he also had 57% of his TDs and 46% of his yards. He wasn't there when we needed him.

Oof, not good that he's following this Saladino quack.

history says that a great season would look like 45 catches for 500 yards and 4-5 TDs. If I were pressed to take a specific line I'd say 42/450/4

Blast from the past! It wasn't Age of Empires, but it was a good one.

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The point of trading for him (from McD's perspective) is that they acquired the best returner in the league for a 5th round pick. Now, we all know (as does Beane) that he's much more than that, but despite having a bare cupboard last year when it came to receiving options, McD/Dorsey refused to integrate him on offense. Now they have a RB room overflowing with mediocre talent. if Murray makes the roster and is active on game days (which I think is unlikely) Hines might be lucky to see 20 touches on the year. There's no room for him on offense anymore (barring injury), even if he has talents no one else has, and he won't be in enough packages to disguise his usage. They didn't even use Cook to his strengths as a receiver out of the backfield. I have absolutely 0 expectation they'll do so with Hines. Ford should backup Jones as the #1 1-tech. Jones was amazing last year, but when he got banged up down the stretch it exposed Settle and the rest of the D-line suffered.

That's pretty disingenuous to the role he had there. He filled a role that many change of pace backs do as a gadget player, receiver, returner, and outside rusher. In 2020 he had 1200 combined yards and 8 tds. In 2021 he had 825/3. In 2022 he destroyed his career best as a returner with over 700 yards and 2 tds, but had -3 yards rushing as a bill (career low) and 53 yards receiving (career low). He's one of the fastest players int he league and we waste him on special teams.