BigDingus

Sure, he says the same things about toughness after every game, but he says the other usual cliches after every game too. "All three phases playing together!" "Never quit." "Buffalo Bills style football!" "Organizational win!" "Stay humble!" "Something positive about the 2nd half coming together!" That's about all I can remember, but his speeches usually go the same way each time, followed by Josh coming in with a smirk, man of few words, then capping it off with "Win on 3! ONE-TWO-THREE-WIN!"

At this point, everyone's just guessing who's more to blame for the roster situation. I highly doubt Beane unilaterally makes any of these calls. I can almost guarantee McDermott tells Beane his targets & signs off on roster moves every time. But if they're at odds with each other, that's actually a pleasant surprise. That tells me I've got it all wrong, and at least ONE of them has some sense. Not sure who, but it's a sign for optimism either way.

I couldn't care less about ND's whining. I haven't been able to stop smiling after seeing Texas Tech not only make their first CFP, but to win the Big 12 Championship & earn a 1st round bye! Back in my day, we were the underdog to UT, OU & Texas A&M, but they all pissed off to the SEC, schools can now pay college players, and the paradigm has shifted! It would be sad to see them go one & done, but either way, it's just cool seeing them make it in the first place.

The only reason I care about winning the division is that it guarantees a home game or two. And this team really needs the home game, as we've never won a single playoff game on the road with McDermott & Allen.

Tbf, the Bengals then proceeded to boat race the Bills just a few weeks later & blew them out of their own building. But yes, you're correct. First quarter doesn't dictate the entire game.

This is why I try not to post during games anymore. Games are stressful enough, but when you watch the D get chewed up & see yet another turnover, I begin sharpening my "fire McDermott" pitchfork. But I took a deep breath, waited it out, then watched them pull off a miracle. Whew! I can't stress enough just how annoyed I've been seeing the INTs creep back into Allen's game recently, so to get a win AND see a clean game from Allen? Amazing!

Seeing this reminds me of why I so desperately wanted the Bills to draft Mahomes in 2017. I was one of the only Bills fans in Lubbock, TX (as far as I knew), and I knew the whole city would become Bills fans overnight. I would've went from nobody caring about the Bills, to having an entire slice of West Texas carved out as Bills country. But now Lubbock is predominantly Chiefs fans... 🤮 Imagine being a Bills fan from Wyoming or graduating from the University of Wyoming, now with most of the state being Bills fans. Probably feels special, especially when Josh Allen comes back to visit. Love our QB, and glad the people out there have been converted to the light side!

Outside of Josh Allen, Beane's best 1st round draft pick was used acquiring Stefon Diggs. Since then, he's been sub-par at both drafting & signing impactful free agents. How anyone could argue Beane's been paying the right people is insane to me. We have the least cap space in the entire league, with next to nothing to show for it. That's not good! Meanwhile, the Pats have the most cap space available, are already way ahead of us in progress, and still have Maye on a rookie contract. When they have to pay him, that gap will close, but it's a huge boon for them right now.

Exactly! That's why I said both Qwan'tez Stiggers & DeMarvion Overshown sound like Key & Peele skit names 😂 Just real enough to be believable, but also ridiculous enough to sound like a joke!

According to Wikipedia, he was released in the final roster cuts on August 27th 2024. This lead me to lookup other players with interesting last names, and here's what the website "Ranker" listed that people voted on: 1. Storm Duck (Ok, how tf is this an actual name?) 2. Kool-Aid McKinstry 3. Amen Ogbongbemiga 4. Qwan'tez Stiggers (Sounds like a Key & Peele skit name...) 5. Rock Ya-Sin 6. Isaiahh Loudermilk (The last name is funny, but why spell "Isaiah" that way?) 7. Shy Tuttle 8. DJ Glaze 9. Divine Deablo (I think his parents just wanted to balance out the last name) 10. DeMarvion Overshown (Another Key & Peele name)

They should've gone a step further & required a uniform surface for ALL fields. This quote also annoyed me: "The league's chief medical officer, Dr. Allen Sills, said there are no "statistically significant differences" in lower extremity injuries or concussions that can be attributed to the type of playing surface or a specific surface, despite widespread preferences by players for grass fields and complaints about surfaces such as the one at MetLife Stadium, where the New York Giants and Jets play." Reminds me of your average workers, all experiencing the same issue on a daily basis, who then repeatedly notify upper management of that issue. Then management comes back & tells the people who know better, "We reviewed your claims & have found nothing wrong. Thanks for your valuable feedback while we do nothing to address your problems!"

At this point, they're just looking at guys with cool last names. Slay? Savage? I mean the Browns used to have players named "Ben Gay" & "Fair Hooker," so guess we're just going a different, more intimidating route. Maybe we can trade them for Amari Thrash & convert him to DB?

Didn't Anquan Boldin also choose to quit before playing for the Bills? Pretty sure we signed him as a FA, then he quit during preseason or something. Slay is different though. It seems like he probably hoped to go back to the Eagles.

People were clearly mad at this comment, but based off this year, you're 100% right. We used to argue Josh was better than Mahomes based on CURRENT play, and Chiefs fans only had past performances & accolades to hold onto. Well right now, we're those Chiefs fans. We know what Josh has been in the past & what he's capable of, but he sure as hell hasn't been that THIS year. INTs every game, struggling to throw the ball at all, mostly only winning when Cook is on point... But that's not Maye. He's been on fire. There's no doubt he's played better than most QBs, Josh included.

"I've never seen a team run the same play as much as they ran it tonight and had as much success as they had." - TJ Watt (4:34 in the video below): https://youtu.be/apzc-hp0unM?si=uIOdYCJ-sb562rE4 Is that an indictment on Joe Brady? Is that a good thing? I'm trying to figure out how TJ Watt claims their defensive guys are so good, yet he's almost distancing himself from the issue. But I couldn't watch a lot of the game yesterday, so was it really this bad? Did the offense look simple but still had success?

I'm glad to see I was in early with "🙄"emoji nearly 1 year ago. Looks like Ben Johnson knew what he was doing after all.

We still made the divisional round in 2022 & 2023, despite Allen turning the ball over a ton? And we're bound to get SOME people back from injury. If this keeps up, McDermott and/or Beane could get fired? If not, at least we can look forward to another year of bad defense, interceptions & injuries but in a shiny new stadium! 😁

I couldn't care less about the drama at this point. The health definitely matters, but we need talent, and I'm not holding my breath that McBeane will do anything differently in the draft or FA than they've always done - waste picks on a D that will never change & sign a bunch of JAGs to fill out the roster on offense.

I dunno, unless you're saying it gets in his head so he just makes bad decisions. Like nobody made him shovel pass last week, nor did he need to throw that soft pass to nobody over the middle right there at the end.

I'm just so tired of the turnovers. Do we need to get used to an INT or 2 every single game again? This is getting ridiculous.

When we finally play competent on defense, the offense does nothing. We even got production on ST & still flounder.

Texans are 23rd in rush yards per game. Tonight will show us how much our own run D benefits the opposition.

Yes, I agree. But I'm saying they wouldn't be able to add 8 teams overnight. It would be a 20+ year process to slowly add teams every 4-5 years until they hit 8 teams. They don't need kids to be born with the NFL already in their location. If you put a team in Berlin today, it's not that you need to wait 20 years to see an NFL player from Germany appear. An 8 year old in elementary school could become a fan & start playing. Some teenagers could get interested & change sports. It's a process. Europe has athletes. Mexico has athletes. There are hundreds of millions of people out there, and some people just have great genetics regardless of where you're born. The key is to get some of those people interested in YOUR sport over the others. If 2 new expansion teams were added over the next 5 years, there's enough college players & talent on benches/practice squads to do the usual expansion drafts to fill out those rosters. It would be similar to adding the Panthers & Jaguars, only there's WAY more talent available than there was back in the 90's. The Jags had pretty immediate success. The Panthers made a Super Bowl a little after 10 years of existence. Each team carries 90 players at the start of camp & cuts down to 53. That means over 1,200 players don't make a 53 man roster each off-season, and I'm sure there's at least some that could very well be NFL level talent. Not only that, expansion drafts take players from a pool of existing teams as well. Adding 2 new teams wouldn't break the league. You do that to start, then after another 5-6 years, add another team. You do this until you hit 40 teams. And while this is going on, even having 2 teams in Europe (say 1 in London, 1 in Berlin) would attract viewership & fans from other places in Europe. Just because they're located in those 2 places, doesn't mean they will only appeal to people in those 2 locations. It's a source of pride, like how all of Canada rallied around the Raptors in the NBA Finals or around the Blue Jays in the World Series. I'm sure plenty of young Canadians watched these games & got interested in basketball & baseball. This is ignoring that some schools in Europe ALREADY offer American football as a sport. Leagues already exist for universities, and some high schools offer American football as well. So it's not like they're starting from zero. Again, you have to start somewhere if the league ever wants the kinda of appeal MLB, NBA or even NHL has internationally.

Oh absolutely, it would definitely be watered down. But there's a ton of potential with spreading out the sport even further & growing the pool of prospects. That's why basketball & baseball (and obviously soccer) now have such a huge percentage of players coming from international markets. You make NFL football popular in the UK, Europe, Mexico, Canada, etc. and you'll slowly start getting talent from all over the world. It's a long-term thing, which is why I don't think this will happen (at least not any time soon), but I think it could pay off huge in the long run. If you dropped 8 teams in overnight, it would make the product extremely watered down. But if you slowly added 2 teams every 4 - 5 years, it would lessen the immediate blow to quality & spread out the talent more gradually. It would make divisions/conferences/playoffs a little wonky, but they've had strange division setups in the past. Again, I don't think they'll go this route, but I think 20+ years from now it would make sense IF they lay the groundwork now.

I think it'd be cool if they expanded to 40 teams. The NFL is popular enough that they could put a franchise anywhere & have success. They could drop a team in El Paso or Omaha & probably sell out every single game, and TV ratings would be high regardless of where the team is. The issue is obviously the amount of revenue that an owner can extract from that market though, so they'd obviously want bigger markets than those. But still, you could find 4 x European teams to create a new division (if you wanted to go that route to limit travel distances), along with 4 new teams in North America, whether it be 1 in Canada + 1 in Mexico + 2 in the US, or they could just drop 1 new team in each existing division. Of course, that'd be a huge undertaking & never happen, so I think we'll just get international games for all eternity. Either that, or a team will be relocated at some point.