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Gross. Nothing about this is promising. “try to play” Just put him on the shelf until he’s a go. Im beyond over this guy, but he’s our best receiving option this year and we need him for the playoffs, not a game against the Bengals where he plays 10-15 snaps in obvious passing downs praying his body doesn’t give out.

Definitely don’t love the idea of knocking Bama out due to a Championship Game but their last month is: Barely escape a bad South Carolina team. Lose to Oklahoma. Beat LSU by 11. Barely escape a bad Auburn team. Blown out by Georgia. (Who Georgia Tech took to the wire last week) They've been pretty meh for weeks now, but the Committee inexplicably moved them up a spot for beating Auburn, so…. If the Committee uses Bama to keep a buffer between ND and Miami in order to avoid the H2H and therefore ND & Bama make it. The college football world might riot.

Bama needs to be out. Miami & ND in. Only hang up for the committee is inexplicably moving them up after barely beating a bad Auburn team last week. Georgia is good, they’re not utterly dominate you good. Georgia Tech had the ball at the end of the game with a chance to tie a week ago.

What more would you like to see? Said it before being stabbed? Do you think stabbing someone is appropriate in society over words? This is why we should never cede an inch to you people. You reflexively side against the white man. Reflexively defend the non-white. White people aren’t always innocent. And non-white people aren’t always guilty or bad. But you hate your skin color so much that you’ll automatically defend the migrant who comes here and starts problems or the criminal who makes people unsafe … as long as they’re not white. Its a liberal white reflex and its self loathing and pathetic.

Do you agree that a black man should go free after stabbing a white man, if the white man bleeding out says the N word after being stabbed? I mean it shouldn’t matter when it’s said in regards to a STABBING anyway, but especially after.

Id question that Gallup poll because Trump consistently polls in the positive on immigration as a whole. They somehow have him underwater, which is a heavy outlier. That being said, I agree with you on the economy piece. Especially when immigration is more under control.. we don’t have the visuals of people streaming across the border, so out of sight, out of mind. My guess is Trump will message better on this. And I think he might pull a move like “tariff rebates” where he sends out checks just before the midterms (how convenient). The midterms will likely go how redistricting and the economy go. And Trump has dug himself a hole on the economy by telling us to be patient or ignore our lying eyes.

Agreed. The Madabuike part was strangely specific. The injury part.. pretty well known. Part of being a successful NFL player is the ability to play at a high level through injuries. These guys get scoped/surgeries all the time once the season ends.

Extremely good polling for the GOP if they can get their messaging, policy and act together on the economy before the midterms. If they had any semblance of a plan on healthcare, they’d never lose.

Not Somalian, but this is the view of way too many of these people coming here lately. They dgaf about our country. They view us as a place to make money and that’s it. How is a culture supposed to survive when we import people who want to tear away at the fabric of our society.

This stuff is radicalizing. White dude calls black dude the N word AFTER being stabbed by the black dude. Black guy acquitted due to white guy saying a mean word after being stabbed. FOH

Was hoping there was a small chance he could come back for a few snaps against the Jets, even if a meaningless game, just to get some rust off before the playoffs. But if we can get him back at 80% for the playoffs, that’s still a big help.

Ok… **** this guy. Let him stay home. Cut him on December 29th.

Rousseau’s contract is fine.. not good, not bad. I criticize him, but alot of it is because we don’t ever have a DE1 across from him. Id point out that since Chris Jones has fallen off a bit, Chiefs fans are having the same frustrations with Karlaftis. Benford just needs to stay healthy in the playoffs. I was about to lose my mind when he was meh early this year, and we’ll see if he rises to the challenge this week, but he’s looked every bit of a legit CB1 as of late. Cook. Home run. Only a handful of RB’s you should pay and he’s one of them. Bernard’s extension is frustrating. Both in terms of paying him and the doubling down of their philosophy at LB. I’ll give him grace for being hurt, and maybe he makes some big plays when it matters.. he has a knack for that, but I just don’t think our undersized DT/LB combo is helpful both in terms of injury risk and play on the field in the current NFL. My most controversial annoyance of recent extensions is Shakir. I don’t think he’s a reliable slot. I think he’s a guy you move around.. slot, backfield, motion etc. A chess piece. I haven’t seen him be a reliable piece in a functioning passing offense. Some of that could be Brady, but I do think some of it is Shakir’s skillset. Good player.. not sure his skillset is something I’d pay what we did for though. I like Bosa a lot. In a vacuum love the signing. Still do. Get him healthy for the playoffs. That said, we had a plan and then completely deviated from that plan and played him a ton. Injuries etc, I get it. Priority 1 has to be getting him healed up now. Hoecht is someone, who as a vision, makes a ton of sense. But we signed him knowing he had a PED suspension. PED’s are known to make you higher risk for tendon/ligament injuries. This was always the risk. Ogunjobi, I’m fine with it. Beane couldn’t foresee all these injuries and wanted to make sure we were OVERLY stocked on the DL, only to have this year be so over the top with guys getting hurt. Palmer, WR room in general. No excuse for. Huge, monument failure. He just paid Samuel whos always hurt and turns around to do the same with Palmer. Two B level WR’s with injury histories and we expected anything different? His drafting has been middle of the pack in recent years with some huge misses in Elam, Keon and Kincaid. All for different reasons, but all showing that they’re guys we massively missed on with three recent top 33 picks. Just can’t happen. Some hits later in the draft, some TBD’s and some misses. Just very meh. This is the first year where I’ve thought Beane has now been hurting us, and I think McDermott believes this as well. I don’t think Beane is awful. I think he’s middle of the pack as a GM since drafting Allen and has been an acting like he’s some untouchable guy this year. If one thinks Beane assembling a team with an elite QB, elite OL, but pretty average everywhere else with a constant issue at WR is worth keeping, so be it. But I fear he’s trending down lately. I do hope this Defense gets healthy and balls out in the playoffs. I do hope our WR room makes some strides and makes Allen’s life a bit easier as they gel with him. I don’t actually want to feel like we need to fire the GM. I’d love to make a post here at the end of the season saying he’s won me back over.

If the Bills beat CIN, I think they go 4-1 down the stretch. Resting players against the Jets. They’ll beat NE and Philly. Since we likely aren’t getting a bye, or home game, I don’t care about seeding. Getting to a point where we can rest guys for a game, maybe even two, is the most important goal they should have.

From a purely business standpoint, you’re correct. I think there’s a bit of a honor code in the NFL when it comes to these situations. Maybe Beane violated it, maybe Slay violated it. Maybe both. My honest opinion.. this is way more on Slay throwing a temper tantrum. I’d just rather not be the team involved in that.

Did Thielen have anywhere he wanted to go? If it was just a contender.. I guess Pittsburgh could suffice. Im just saying, Beane clearly knew Slay was trying to get back to Philly. It wasn’t a secret. If that wasn’t the case, I’m 100% on board with Slay over Ingram. But it was… and I just don’t think this was ever worth it because it seemed clear, within an hour of this move, that this was a possibility. And while I’m pretty much done with Beane, I think he’s smart and is more connected to NFL circles than X users and Philly beat reporters.

I just think of it as this. For those defending us doing this.. how would they feel if Von asked for his release from the Commanders. Everyone sensed he wanted to come back to Buffalo. We desperately need a DE right now. And the Eagles, who don’t even need him, claimed him before us as emergency depth. Would we want to Von to do what Slay is doing? It seems this happens every year but nobody ever really does what Buffalo just did. Vets like Slay typically go through waivers and then sign wherever they want. But, counterpoint, if we get to a point where this becomes more common, how does the league regulate competitive advantage if vets all over are just asking for their release on bad teams or if they aren’t playing in order to orchestrate their way back to former teams they wink wink want to play for.

Ok. Glad you acknowledge I’m correct. I’ll try to be nicer next time. Maybe put a glitter emoji ✨ next to Beane’s name for you. So what IS the context? I grew up and all I knew of the Bills before Josh Allen was the drought. I want one, just one, Super Bowl while my Dad, who raised me in Bills fandom, is on this earth with me. We have the most talented QB, maybe, to ever play the game. And his GM has gotten worse and worse in recent years to the point where most unbiased folks would admit this is the worst Bills team Allen has ever had around him in our contending years. KC might not even make the Playoffs. Yet we’re in a dogfight for a Wild Card. Last year of Highmark, likely zero home playoff games. New England has caught up and has a ton of cap space next year. Divisions are no longer a given. We have 20M tied up in two WR’s we knew had injury concerns.. and they’re both never healthy. We seem to have missed on our last two highly drafted weapons.. one bc of talent/immaturity and the other due to injuries and an inability to be a complete TE. We extended a chess piece to play slot, but he’s really not a reliable slot player. Credit for the OL and RB room. 100%. Kromer is amazing and they can draft, sign and develop OL like few others. But the weapons, for the investment, might be the worst rate of return in the league… for Josh Allen. The guy most of us have waited our whole Bills lives for. Not rehashing Defense anymore. You should know where I stand by now. I hate the scheme and philosophy. Think they’d be pretty good if healthy, but could see that not having any chance of happening a mile away.

Couldn’t care less about Ingram. Do think perception around the league matters and im not sure blocking a vet from playing his last year with a team/city he and his wife love, is the greatest karma. On Beane.. I’d be interested to see the age breakdowns of his critics and defenders. From what I see on social media, older folks tend to defend him more and think he’s still doing a good job, whereas younger folks are just about done with him or are close enough to the ledge with him that their belief is he’s done some good but his act has grown stale.

Completely disagree with you about Beane being considered a very good GM. He’s getting dragged a lot this year and not just by fans like me or hot take artists. Vons injury was brutal. He was a beast before it. But that’s the risk you take when you can’t build a DL and have to pay a mercenary. Benford has been out in consecutive elimination games. Yet we still paid him. Hopefully that doesn’t continue. My only issue with the “it’s the injuries” crowd.. because in fairness.. we’ve been bit in big moments whereas Kansas City, against us, has not…. My only issue is that yall think it’s all bad luck. … I don’t. I think a lot of our injury issues lately are scheme (undersized defensive spine), philosophy (ball control offense that can keep scores close) and personnel (older, past injury history and/or finesse, undersized)

Josh Allen (and his durability) are the reason. Baltimore has had better rosters but Lamar has had injuries and chokes in the playoffs. Joe Burrow’s injury issues are the biggest reason the Bengals haven’t been consistent. You can say it’s because they’ve invested too heavily in WR’s at the expense of OL, which has perhaps led to his injury problems. Stroud and Herbert aren’t in the convo with the above 3.

We’ve been going back and forth but this is a good post - thanks. My issue is I hate how this defense is built. You point to injuries, which is valid, and I simply think our philosophy is a factor in that. I hate, so much, how small the spine of our defense is .. and it’s by design. Smaller players get beat up more.. and it’s amplified, somehow even more, by our offense wanting to be ball control - which allows the other team to continue pounding the spine of our defense with runs. Nothing about any of this makes sense. Small DT’s. Small LB’s. Injury prone DE. Hoecht off PED’s, which are notorious in leading to tendon/ligament tears. I’m not surprised. While it’s a great OL, the weapons are so poorly reflective on our GM. You can’t miss twice on B level receivers, because they’re expensive if you sign them in FA, and he did it with Samuel and Palmer. He strapped us with the Knox contract and then doubled down by drafting a finesse TE.. who, I’m not shocked, is hurt all the time. Busted on a WR hardly anyone in the NFL community thought could play outside at a high level. Thats a lot of poor asset allocation on a roster for a contender. And this year seems to be getting worse with his recent extensions and signings. Now this Slay issue is just comical. It was clear he wanted to go to Philly.. this was in the realm of possibilities when Beane decided to block that.

All I know is the drought, which is why I’ll gladly talk like this. My entire fandom was growing up during the drought. Sorry I didn’t get to experience Super Bowls like some of those upset I’m making comments about our GM that most of the NFL community agrees with. There isn’t some loud contingent of NFL people praising the roster around Allen. There is zero part of me that thinks he’s a good GM anymore. I think he’s fine - strong in certain areas, poor in others. And I think he’s fading. This year being almost comical. Bad extensions, bad signings and now two ridiculous situations where he’s somehow the focal point of our team.

Never said any of that. Specifically pointed out he gets an A+ for Allen, A+ for OL construction and A+ for Cook. We compete every year because of Allen. Not because of Beane and lately, it’s in spite of Beane.