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The more i think about things, I blame the system more than the receivers. Samuel and Moore had some success on other teams, Coleman has shown flashes but is now virtually invisible, even Shakir has dropped a little. Not an elite unit by any means, but on paper, we have had much worse in the past. In contrast, I remember Fitzy get 300+ yards a game with Stevie Johnson and a bunch of UDFA's and practice squad caliber people. If a career backup can do that with replacement level players, but a HOF caliber QB can't get anyone open all game with WR's who have starting experience, then it must mean that Brady is not calling the right plays or making the appropriate adjustments.

Buffalo is not going to get any better under McDermott and Beane. I am also an Orioles fan and they were the exact same way under Buck Showalter from 2012-2018. Fast turnaround and promising playoff run after a long period of time, but spinning their wheels and refusing to address the weaknesses in pitching and depth, drafting and signing the wrong people until eventually the wheels feel off fast and they were back to being awful again for a few years after. My worry is that Buffalo is doing the same, our cap is locked with defensive players and receivers who disappear for games at a time and most of our free agents do not pan out. Today's game was the first time that I saw the same thing potentially happening here, if we play like that, we will be lucky to win another two games this season. Close losses to young and hungry Patriots and Falcons teams is one thing, but there is no excuse for a blowout loss against a team that fell apart at the seams over the last couple of weeks. McDermott is football's version of Showalter and it is time to move on before it is too late.

We have a top 10 all time quarterback and division playoffs is our ceiling because McDermott and Beane make the same mistakes every year. Players that don't fit the system, conditioning that results in five injuries a week, undersized players in a prevent defense, offenses that start out great, but go to the well too often and become painfully predictable, listless efforts a few times a year and to add, a blatant ignoring of our depth issues at the trade deadline. My patience with them is officially 100% gone.

At this point we need to move on from McDermott and Beane. I am starting to think that even an average coach would have gotten us to a super bowl by now. Absolute lack of urgency and no trades plus our players dropping like flies every week.

Agreed, but I am more confused then annoyed. This was the year where at least one deal seemed like a given. At the very least, I thought that they would make a trade to replace Oliver and Hoecht. Because they planned to trade, it feels like bad preparation on Beane's part which bothers me more than if he had just said that he felt fine with what we had.

I would not have expected trading for nothing at all in any scenario, but At least the Chiefs and Pats didn't do anything. With our luck, whoever we traded for would have gotten injured within a week or two anyway.

Nice game and extreme encouraging progress from Bishop and Hairston, but I still think that we need to add a couple of pieces before the deadline. Especially with the Hoecht Injury. Other than that Patriots win, this was a good overall day for playoff positioning.

The Patriots may be the darlings of the media for awhile with the light schedule, especially if we take an L to the Chiefs. The Dolphins were like that two years ago and were as far ahead as three games, but eventually, we took the division. Granted, Maye is better than Tua and some positions have legitimate talent concerns, but there is still plenty of season left.

"Billy, this is Tre'Davious White. He was part of the team that ended the drought, a two time pro bowler and has lead the league in interceptions before. Perfect veteran leadership and body is as good as new..... from the waist up, only catch is that his legs are ravaged by injury, rendering him incapable of covering someone for more than 5 yards"

This fearmongering over losing SNAP is the equivalent of when the executives of networks and cable/streaming providers bicker over how to divide millions amongst themselves and flood programs with messages telling you that the other side is going to take away your station by January 1st and that we need to call them to complain. SNAP benefits will not get taken away, the chaos that ensued from that would be much more costly than moving things around to make it work. Even if the budget is not settled by then, there will be a "Last second miracle" that allows SNAP to continue. The real problem is that not enough people realize that both sides are at fault and that their bickering always ends up taking precedence over our well being. Talk does not matter anymore, only action when it comes to this budget. I don't care whose fault it is anymore.

I still believe that Buffalo has the better team, but the cupcake Schedule that New England has is extremely concerning. The Bills are going to have a small margin of error going forward to win the AFC east. I am hoping for something similar to two years ago where we take the division back when it counts after letting the division rival enjoy it for awhile like when we did that to Miami.

Who would win in a Basketball game between the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, if the Ohio State football players were the refs and Josh Allen and Tage Thompson switched squads?

Joe Klopfenstein, for just one day, then he will be cut and they will sign who they really want.

I got frustrated and stopped watching in the second quarter. When they did better in the 3rd quarter, I started watching again and that is when they fell apart. If I had just waited to check the score until after the game like the Ravens game, they would have come back and won in the same manner.

This system is not working. It is time to move on from McDermott. I would rather have a mini rebuild and a chance at a Super Bowl before the end of Allen's career and miss the playoffs for a year or two to get there, than seven more straight years of 11-12 win wild card seasons and a defense that allows 30+ a game.

If Allen is shaken up, shut him down for the game and keep this day from getting worse. Then make some heads roll in the coaching staff tomorrow.

I blocked you months ago, but am going to say this, then block you again. You are a knowledgeable person, as doctor you have to be. However, I have yet to see you say one thing that does not line up lock and step with the far left ideology. This is a willful prioritization of politics over science and an abuse of your knowledge because instead of trying to educate everyone with neutral and objective data and make everyone around you more informed, you choose to wield that knowledge like a hatchet to present one sided data that aligns with your political view and tell everyone that we are not to question you because you are a doctor. You may know more than the rest of us about science, but you misuse that knowledge for self serving gratification and to demean others. That is the opposite of what science should be and you should know that better than anyone else on PPP. That is why you offend me so much more than the rest of the resident progressive trolls. Now, back to being blocked.

It is many people get all of their opinions from media spin and social media rage bait instead of thinking for themselves. For example, the same people up in arms about a warning label on Tylenol because there is only an inconclusive connection to autism that needs further research instead of a statistically significant conclusion had no problem when Fauci was doing the same thing prematurely in every single phase of COVID. Regardless of whether they think RFK's decision was right or wrong, it should be consistent with their views of premature conclusions during COVID, but it wont be.

The Libertarian part of me does not like to see anyone cancelled, the conservative side of me makes it hard to feel sorry for him because, what goes around comes around. Most of those who are upset today about Kimmel getting cancelled were not quite as upset when conservatives were getting cancelled from 2020 to 2023.

I ripped the defense in previous posts, but they came through when it counted, I stand corrected. Hopefully as the season progresses, they become more consistent as the newer players gel together. Great comeback, Go Bills!

I expected a rough night for the defense because Baltimore's offense is always a tough match for the Bills, but the listless effort and constant giant gaps in defense with no one around around for ten yards is inexcusable. A prevent defensive scheme with players that are 20 lb undersized will never get us to a Super Bowl no matter how good Allen plays.

Funny that in a sports weekend with the opening week of the NFL, a new college football season and the peak of the pennant race that the biggest news of the weekend is going to be finding out that Elizabeth Warren is a Phillies fan.

We are getting gashed by screens today, I hope we can figure it out before the season.

It's been nine years and this on defense still? I know that its preseason, but at some point, McDermott has to realize that the bend but don't break prevent scheme is not going to get us to go all the way no matter how good Allen is.

I don't post here much anymore because 80% of the posts were dominated by a small six or seven person TDS echo chamber with no interest in anything except for the same 10-15 talking points that we have heard for over a decade. It's not democrat vs Republican, it's only TDS. its an animal like impulse and reflex to be against Trump 100% of the time no matter what. For example. if Trump was to ban Pharmaceutical ads, we would get ten new threads a day from the same two people about how informative and popular Big Pharma ads were and how our ability to make medical decisions is being violated. As far as Canada and the US, the only thing that I see are a failed tariff negotiations and an unhealthy obsession from you that seems to have still been going on for months. I wish you the best in getting treatment and recovery for that. Enjoy your day, and Go Bills!