yungmack

Sounds like the full phrase should be "NFL executive with close ties to Robert Kraft." NE will be laughing up their sleeve if the Bills take Mayfield.

One of the proudest moments to be a Bills fan. Then the douche bag Pete Carroll went for two. Disliked him ever since even when he was at USC. No class whatsoever.

That is the best. Those teams were outstanding. Thanks for posting this.

What's it matter with this coaching group? If they had the next Bret Favre, they'd have him handing off all afternoon, with the occasional reverse and a few short passes.

Yeah, no way a 6th round QB pick can ever be successful.

Now you're just being persnickity for the heck of it.

Why would anyone "roll the dice" on Bradford? Insanity, it is said, is doing the same thing over and over & expecting a different result.

Not really. And not at all when you are a high school sophmore.

With the signing of Kelly, who's pushing for Rosen to stay another year, and Darnold appearing to be genuinely on the fence about coming out after this season, how would this change your guesses if both stay in school?

And how does this improve the O line? Now you have to expend yet another of the dwindling draft picks plugging that hole.

That's precisely the Devil's Deal. If the Bills stand pat, they are not likely to get the kind of QB that would make the big difference going forward. And if they bundle a bunch of picks to get that guy, they risk wrecking him because the Offense will continue to be mediocre because they gave up that bundle of picks.

I kind of think he's going in the top 12 and maybe sooner. Surely before Mayfield.

If the Bills end up 8-8, they'll likely be drafting in the middle of the round. And which game-changer QB is going to be there for them? So if they want a real shot at one of the top 3 QBs they'll have to trade up. That's going to cost a bunch of draft picks, which will impact filling all the other weak spots. So then this "stud" QB winds up behind the current O line or one very much like it, with a so-so situation with WRs and RBs, trying to adapt to the pro game while running for his life. So...voila, the Buffalo Colts.

Just taking the Rams Offensive turnaround as an example, it seems like the Rams would have been better off firing Fisher at least a year earlier than they did, and many critics say he should have been fired before that. In other words, if the guy isn't the right fit, keeping him around another two, three, four years and hoping things change is kind of nuts. So yes, if the Bills are serious about solving their QB situation, getting rid of McD and replacing him with an offense-minded HC might be the right decision to make. And if it is, it's better to do it sooner than later.

Read this today in the LA Times. His comments on coaching, on how the offense was changed and how Goff, a seeming flop, has turned his career around. It almost seemed like he was diagnosing what's wrong with the Bills and how OBD should proceed to turn things around. http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-week-13-farmer-20171127-story.html

Nobody I know of, including myself, is saying the protests aren't affecting ratings, just that ratings have been in decline for years. The insistence by some that the decline is all about protests is disingenuous at best, and something darker at worst. As an aside, I find your statement, "Regardless of explanation," to be odd. When someone clearly tells you they're doing something for a specific reason, with no hedging, it's off the wall to tell them, "It doesn't matter what you say because I've decided the real reason is something else entirely and I'm going to criticize you on that basis."

I believe you are right. Ratings (vertical/growth ratings) have been in decline long before the protest, which those who insist the decline is due to the protests conveniently overlook. But they also conveniently overlook that Kaepernick's protest had zero to do with the military and everything to do with the killing of black men, and the eruption of protests this year was specifically in reaction to Trump's bizarre attacks on players and their mothers. The protest was essentially dead and over with until The Donald brought it back to life.

I read most of the comments following the article and about 95% hit the protests as the reason for the ratings decline. Yet according to polling done among the general population, it is only one factor, and not a major one, as the article states. In fact, ratings have been in decline long before Kaepernick taking a knee. So how to explain the large number of anti-player protest comments at this particular website? So many of them went off into a litany of racial caricatures that it seems the protests just serve as an excuse to spew out long held negative opinions about black people, Democrats, MSM, "elites," etc. that it seems to me the website must for some reason appeal to these sorts. Anybody know anything about it? Funny thing about the comments is they overlook the vastly greater ratings and attendance decline that's hit NASCAR the last few years. And there is no "sport" in this country whose fan base is more white, more support-the-troops faux patriotic, more right wing than NASCAR. When it's the NFL in decline, the cause is ignorant, uppity, ungrateful, entitled black men. When it's lily white NASCAR, we get crickets.

Then Dennison needs to have him play out of the shotgun, with two backs and maybe two TEs. Think he'll do it?

I clicked here to find out what you meant by 14 foot and 15 foot and still don't know.

Schmidt deserves one. His kicks were phenomenal - and critical - today.

You probably shouldn't post after a full day of libations.

A farewell gameball to Rico, plus a packed suitcase and a Greyhound ticket to Olean

My objection to his criticism is that it shows extreme bias. There at least a dozen other plays that could as easily been pointed out, including that 3 and out series before KC took over for the last time. But some around here only ever harp on TT's screw ups. Sure, you could say that play would have been the key play. Or you could have picked from a ton of other ones. But certain people are only going to focus on Tyrod.

One mediocre pass from TT is all you can focus on? Not the play calling? Not the right side of the line? Not the dropped passes? Just that one play? Sheesh.