BigDingus

It's going to be sad if both of the Chiefs early pick WRs develop into legit weapons. Rashee Rice looked like he was on his way to becoming a true WR1, while Xavier Worthy was developing into a big home run threat. People defend Beane's early round draft failures saying it's partially because we pick so late each round, yet the Chiefs actually pick later than us. And so far they've managed to get their D right before us, find an All Pro CB before us, draft at least one great WR before us... We already couldn't beat them despite their injuries & missing weapons, or when they had to finally play on the road, but now they continue to add great players & all while staying in better cap shape than us. Beane has had 8 drafts now, and we've only found 1 star player in the early rounds & several good - very good players in the later rounds. But we need more ELITE players on both sides of the ball. The fact this team got to the AFCCG with 1 All Pro is a miracle.

At WR? Yes. Shakir is our only consistent WR, and he's most dangerous in the slot. Then again, so is Samuel... and Kincaid... and Moore... and even Cook 😆 Can we just lineup everyone in the slot?

Obviously they'll get volunteers like they do to shovel snow. $20/hr + free chips & queso. But you have to bring your own water.

Did anyone tell McDermott "you're overreacting, it's just preseason?" Because I thought people were saying you can't read into anything during preseason?

Another former Texas Tech QB, so I'm rooting for him

Primarily due to 17. The defense has been the weak point the past few years. Crazy that "offensive-minded" Andy Reid has found a way to make his defense a strength, while "defensive-minded" McDermott has gone backwards.

And this is why I constantly say I'd rather just invest more in the offense. I don't know how many times I can say it, but spending all the picks & money trying to get the defense right ultimately won't matter as long as McDermott is here. Yes, it's preseason, but this just shows that if any starter goes down (and they will), they have no depth behind them.

Look at the title of this thread. No, I do not expect that, but clearly some people think he's going to be "the next monster in the NFL..."

Guess I'm a negative Nancy. I think there's a better chance Bosa stays healthy for 14+ games than Jackson turning into an elite edge rusher. And Bosa won't stay healthy for 14+ games, so...

Does the NFL still suspend people for weed? Because there's no way Cook isn't high in this interview...

Is this what pride feels like? I still remember getting excited when PTI featured even 30 seconds of something Bills related during the drought, but now we have a player getting national commercials & making the cover of Madden?! It's so cool!

I'm not jumping to a conclusion based off a preseason game though, I'm seeing it as a continuation of the past few years. They don't get a lot of sacks, they struggle against the run, 3rd & 15 may as well be an automatic 1st down, they give up big plays, are often injured, and competent offenses seem to chew them up. A few years ago we had a top 3 scoring D in the regular season multiple times, but then they fell apart in the playoffs, even with much better talent than we have now. So sure, they may manage to be a top 10 unit in the league during the regular season, and even their sack/turnover numbers might look decent. Just saying I'm not expecting too much. We've seen what McDermott wants to do for years now. The best thing I can say about him is he's able to coach up late round players, and his scheme covers for a lot of individual flaws (or at least it did when Leslie Frazier was still here). But I don't think our D is going to ever have a playoff game where they hold down Mahomes all day like the 2023 Ravens AFCCG or the Eagles in the SB this year or even the 2nd half/OT of the 2021 AFCCG with the Bengals.

This "interception" is still one of the worst calls I've seen (7:27 in the video).

Do Jordan Hancock or Dorian Strong count? I know they're 5th & 6th round picks, but one of those late DBs is going to become a starter. I feel it in my bones.

Your assessment is spot on. Can't even get sacks in a preseason game. Still can't get off the field on 3rd down. I know it's preseason, but I'm just more interested in bolstering the offense at this point. McDermott's D will never be great.

At least the Bengals are trying something different. Bengals with Joe Burrow being 1-9 in the first 2 weeks of the season is more of a Zac Taylor stat than a Burrow stat. Something hasn't worked, so playing starters in the preseason shows they're trying not to start slow again. If it works, maybe they'll do it more in the future.

I still at home with the game pause for the first 30 minutes. I will be so stressed that I make myself sick. I will occasionally un-pause, skip ahead a bit & see who scored. If it's the Bills, I will rewind & watch the entire drive. If it's the opponents, I will walk around cursing & punching an effigy of Tom Brady. I will repeat this process over & over until the final minutes, to which I will stop watching entirely, get black-out drunk & pass out. Whenever I wake up, I will then squint at my phone (trying not to fully see, but also kinda see) just to check if I have a million texts or not. If I do, I'll know the Bills have won, go back & watch the full game, then spend the entire day reading articles, watching highlights & bragging online.

But can you still boof it? I mean, if you were so inclined to do so?

I'm a hypocrite, and I know it's a double-standard, but I think it's funny in an NFL game but disrespectful in a WNBA game. An NFL field is huge, the sidelines are huge, there's hundreds of coaches, players, crew, etc. surrounding the field. When something gets thrown onto the field, you can barely see it unless a camera man on the ground catches a glimpse (like the endzone one), and players can continue on with a high likelihood of missing it entirely. But in an NBA/WNBA game, fans are seated right up against the much smaller court. Players fall into spectators all the time. You can reach out & touch people on the bench. Anyone can throw something onto the middle of the court (if they wanted to). Cameras can't as easily avoid it since they're so zoomed in, and if it went further on the court, it's likely to stop play. The WNBA is also in a different position than the rest of the leagues. It's much younger, only now breaking out & building an audience, climbing up from the bottom and now working hard to gain respect & legitimacy. Fans could throw whatever onto an NFL field & people would just laugh mock the guy who did it (or not care at all). But throwing women's sex toys onto WNBA courts just invites a ton of jokes onto the league. I've already seen a ton. Whether it's fair or not, there's a different connotation surrounding it when the athletes are women vs when they're men.

Long time Brady hater, but I always respected & defended him when people would downplay his success. Everything he said here lines up exactly with what we saw on the field. People sometimes talked about him like he was just good with timing routes, but the reality was he knew where he wanted to go before snapping the ball. If that wasn't there, he knew exactly where everyone else was. His internal clock was nearly perfect too, and if a play took a bit too long to develop, he'd just get rid of the ball. He wasn't athletic enough to try & extend plays too long, but he sure knew how to move around in the pocket. What's most impressive to me is the fact he always maintained that same desire to win, regardless of how much success he had. Even when he already tied Joe Montana & Terry Bradshaw for most SB wins by a QB, something that wasn't supposed to be possible in the free agency era, he wasn't satisfied. Even when he was alone at the top of the record books with 5 SB wins, he went on to win another. In one QB generation he took the Pats from a 0 SB win franchise to tied with the Steelers for most all time. Then he won a 7th. Winning 5 or 6 rings was supposed to be an NBA thing & not possible in the NFL. That's why despite how much I hated him as an opponent, I'm still glad I got to watch him. Only wish we could've been the ones to face off with him in the Super Bowl when he went to Tampa Bay.

It's depressing. And just keep in mind there's more coming throughout the season... There always is. All you can do is hope it's not our best players, but each year, even some of them inevitably go down too. Then you have our best offensive weapon sitting out (which might help keep him healthy), combined with a limited cap that can really hurt our ability to get decent help to fill in for these guys. Sure would be nice if we could snag Terry McLaurin right about now.

Tre looked really bad last year, and he was healthy. It's probably a bit overly optimistic to expect him to be anywhere near Pro Bowl form after multiple season-ending injuries & now being 30. It would be amazing, and I hope he can stay healthy, but I'm not sure he'll be that good even if he is.

It's times like this that the whole "salary cap is fake" thing falls apart. Terry McLaruin & Micah Parsons both wanting a trade? Two positions we could definitely use help at? Unfortunately, I don't see how we could swing either one with the cap situation we're in now. We also need an established starting RB. Probably shouldn't trade the guy that was our primary weapon, biggest difference-maker on offense, and the guy who allowed us to finally have a run game & open up the offense for Allen to be much more efficient. Despite what fans say, RBs aren't a dime a dozen. We tried to find someone for years that could do what Cook has done, but because we don't want to pay him, everyone is ready to ship him off. Look what happened in the Chiefs game when we stopped going to Cook. Allen had the ball in his hands & got as many yards as his jersey number. He needs help, and going away from Cook hurt us. I don't think we should be so willing to move on.

You say that, yet against KC, we got the ball back in Josh's hands with 3:30 left + timeouts, and got nowhere... 2nd time in 2 years where the offense had an opportunity with the ball in Josh's hands. People talk about our offense like there's no room for major improvements, but that's just not true. Yes, our D has been bad in the playoffs, but why do we keep trusting McDermott to get his side of the ball right, despite his constant failure to do so, rather than giving our best player more support? Imagine how much better they'd be with more talent! They tried with Diggs, and he was instrumental in Josh's improvement, but he never was a game changer in those big playoff games. Meanwhile, people expect the "defensive-minded" HC who couldn't get his D to protect a lead for 13 seconds, who wasted numerous early picks on defensive players who haven't been relevant in the playoffs, who had All Pro players at both safety positions, LB & CB, to suddenly figure out with new players? Adding an unselfish & great all-around talent like Terry to THIS offense would be amazing. Dude is like the modern day Eric Moulds, only with even worse QB play up until last year.