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  1. On 2/1/2024 at 9:36 PM, BADOLBILZ said:

     

     

    I don't need to watch it,  I knew they dropped the ball by not selecting Mahomes in 2017.    THAT team and THIS franchise passing on a QB in that draft was preposterous.  The excuse that they needed more than 4 months to evaluate a QB class(:rolleyes:) was the first of many ridiculous excuses made by McBeane.

     

    The Mahomes hype in summer of 2017 was huge.....his lone start backed up the hype......and by the time he went off in the opener of the 2018 season I could already envision our new young QB perennially being 2 steps behind even if he turned out to be as great as his athletic ceiling.

     

    The reason I thought that far ahead was because the Chiefs had been eating the Bills lunch since Reid arrived.    They dealt some critical blows to the playoff hopes of Marrone and Rex teams that were about equally talented.   They outmaneuvered the Bills for Alex Smith.    They were a problem and as big a rival to me as anyone outside of NE.   But for most Bills fans they were just another team on the schedule.    I was very irritated to hand them a QB........with a below market value trade no less........when we were so desperate for our own QB.

     

    When Allen was just playing like a wild man with mixed results in 2018 and Mahomes was being the most prolific passing first year QB I was already figuring "best case" scenario was that Allen could be Jim Kelly to Mahomes' Dan Marino.   Marino had excellent individual and team success at the beginning but 5-6 years in Kelly started winning the majority of their matchups because of a better roster and the Bills team surpassed Miami.

     

    Allen held up his part of the bargain by improving quickly............Beane just proved to be to much of a work in progress as a GM and never was able to out-personnel the Chiefs.

     

    As I've said before though.........it was wishful thinking that the Bills organization could go from decades of dysfunction and terrible stewardship and suddenly hit on the perfect GM and HC and QB combination all at once.     I like Beane and think he could actually eventually live up to the BS "wizard" hype he got early on.........but it's entirely possible that his best work won't line up perfect with the prime of JA17.    

     

    The lesson is that sometimes the initial moves a regime makes can be the most impactful.

     


    In 2018, Allen pulled off the impossible as a rookie.

     

    He didn’t have a losing record in games he started and finished with one of the worst offensive rosters in history. 
     

    A very solid feat for a supposedly “erratic” rookie QB.

  2. Problem is…..

     

    the toughest opponent for the Bills has been the BILLS.

     

    If you can’t stop beating yourself, you ain’t beating any quality team in the playoffs. Hence the CONTINUOUS playoff disappointments, WTH no end in sight.

     

    Josh being a one man gang won’t get it done.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Gregg said:

     

    This woman might be dumber than AOC and that is saying something. Pathetic.


    Yeah, Dumb and Dumber.

     

    But I’ll give it to you and I’ll agree that the Chia Pet is the dumbest box of rocks as a PS, which is also saying something, because Dana Perino didn’t exactly come off as being smart.

    1 hour ago, Tommy Callahan said:

    This lady and her style of "journalism" is exactly why readership fell off the cliff.

     

     


    If she has a significant other in her life, I feel truly sorry for that person.

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  4. 25 minutes ago, QB Bills said:

    I feel about as bad as one can feel for a guy making 45 million dollars a year. Josh has to be just about perfect for his team to have a chance against a good opponent in the playoffs because his coach and his defense will inevitably choke and even then it's not enough.

     

    He has zero margin for error whereas guys like Mahomes can miss wide open TDs like he did early Sunday and not have to worry because the rest of his team will pick up the slack.

     

    Allen is the best QB in the league and if he had any kind of competence patrolling the sideline, he'd have a super bowl or two by now.


    You said it perfectly, but there are Bills fans who think McDermott and co. Can be on Josh’s level.

     

    It has been proven time and again that even the perfect Josh Allen isn’t good enough in the playoffs.

     

    Definition of insanity??

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  5. 12 hours ago, Big Turk said:

     

    2 games down to the wire back and forth that could have gone either way. Obviously 13 seconds never should have happened, but we can't rewrite history.

     

    Not happy about it but it's not embarrassing either. Get a grip and step back from the ledge.

     

    The first Dallas Superbowl...THAT was embarrassing.


    I’m fine.

     

    If you think this team is ever gonna be championship material, I don’t know what to tell you.

     

    It’s ALWAYS something and until proven otherwise, it will always be something.

     

    Oh, and McDermott is the new Marvin Lewis. FACT. Ain’t getting over the hump with McDermott and if by some miracle they do, I’ll gladly eat crow.

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  6. Who cares.

     

    As long as McDermott is still the HC, NOTHING changes.

     

    In other words… wash, rinse, repeat…

     

    the Bills will be bounced in the division round in the 2024 season, or worse. And they will find a new Billsy way to choke as well. We have seen this movie before.

     

    Bank on it.

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  7. 58 minutes ago, zow2 said:

    This game is going to transcend defensive injuries, extra rest, referee, etc.. 

     

    Kansas City *thinks* they are prepared for the kind of noise and violence that will greet them on Sunday eve.  They aren't and I agree with Dion Dawkins on that point. 

    I think the environment and the circumstances with Buffalo desperate to beat this club in the playoffs is going to carry the Bills.  It's going to overwhelm KC.


    KC will not be overwhelmed.

     

    They have been in plenty of hostile environments before. It hasn’t been in the playoffs, but they’ve won two SB’s and have been to another.

     

    The Rich Stadium environment will help the Bills more than it will overwhelm KC.

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  8. Next man up.

     

    As long as #17 is out there, the Bills will always have a chance.

     

    Just remember when Josh was a rookie in 2018, he didn’t have a losing record in games that he started and finished in, with the ABSOLUTE worst offensive roster in recent memory. FACT


    That alone has always given me confidence that the Bills are never a true underdog with Allen at the helm.

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  9. If the Bills lose this game, what’s the fallout?

     

    Where do they go from there?

     

    Questions I DO NOT want to have answered.

    38 minutes ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said:

    I thoroughly expect Beane to take a WR in Round 1 or 2 and be willing to burn some resources to move up. No other position of need we have will cost as much money to fill in free agency. What else needs filling that can't be done after the the FA flurry subsides?

     

    Safety to replace Hyde and/or Poyer? They were journeymen when they signed here, we can probably do something similar as a stopgap. Center to replace Morse if we think Bates isn't good enough? We are locked into the money on Von and Groot is set at DE. Oliver is killing it as 1 tech, and you can get gap plugger 3 tech at reasonable rates (Ford, Phillips, I expect to get DaQauan back coming off injury). Bernard has been killing it at LB and he and Milano are looking like a stud combo. 

     

    WR2 is where stupid money gets spent/


    Keon Coleman is a name to keep an eye on, but I don’t wanna have to worry about the draft until mid February.

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