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I’ll respond… I love what Trump is doing with the border and identity politics. Not sure how the tariffs will work out.. and guess what? I. Don’t. Care. Hes already earned grace from me to do whatever he thinks he needs to do given how he’s taken a flamethrower to people like Brennan, Milley etc and followed through on a national policy and identity policy I voted for him to do. Will the tariffs work? What are they for? Dont know. Don’t care. I trust Trump in economic issues 10x more than the brain dead nonsense we had the past four years. Gonna go ahead and say that my view is probably the view most of the country has given Trumps current approval ratings and how laughable most find the current iteration of the Democrat Party. So yall can fear monger about tariffs and cry all day on X over it… ok, we’ll see how it goes. Whatever.

Good thing it’s not just Bills fans then.. it’s literally 30 other fanbases as well. And I never said I’m “taking my ball and going home”, so I don’t know why my post is quoted for that remark… I just don’t necessarily trust that the league is as truly play-on-the-field based as I thought it was.. Not when one team continually gets so many high leverage calls their way.

My favorite part of all this is seeing liberals root for Trudeau to hurt Americans, while Canadian conservatives root for Trump to hurt Canada.

Burrow, even second half Rivers went off and we needed Josh to put on the cape years ago. Bills Defense is predicated on stopping QB’s/Teams that make mistakes. Not many of them in the playoffs. Bo Nix, Skylar Thompson’s etc., sure.. but there’s a reason we’re 2-0 against Lamar.. ..he’s the only elite QB that makes consistent mistakes in the playoffs and the Ravens as a team, the same

Nick Wright on with Big Cat tried saying Josh would only have 1 Super Bowl trophy if he switched places with Mahomes because Mahomes had bad Defenses during the years until recent. So sad, he has to struggle with only Hill and Kelce. How did he ever manage? I can’t debate this stat listed by the OP. It’s obviously pathetic and insane. It just makes me irrationally angry.

Insanity

Everything always has to be so weird. I don’t want to believe this is anything, but they took days to release her name, scrubbed her accounts and she’s a Biden White House aide. I don’t want to believe it’s anything, so I won’t, but it’s obviously going to drive narrative because nothing can ever just be normal. Im 99.9% sure it’s probably nothing. So why scrub accounts? Waiting days, sure.. the family should be consulted and they finally agreed to release her name. But scrubbing social media.. ok.

This is so good..

I think they’re so intertwined that I’m not sure what the correct answer is. We constantly have issues with being undersized, and that seems to be due to McDermott wanting a gap shooting/penetrating DL, while at the same time wanting to play base Nickel and have undersized linebackers. At some point we have to look at the philosophy as to why this defense A) Deals with so many injuries end of season and B) Gets shredded by QB’s who don’t make mistakes. It all starts with the DL, but the entire Front 7 is built in a way that reflects what McDermott wants. On Offense, we’re lucky to have Josh Allen and Aaron Kromer. With those two, we have far more margin for error on that side of the ball.

Hes been the only piece on that entire defense, let alone defensive line. Getting a guy like him would not only unlock Oliver more, but also allow Rousseau advantageous matchups should we decide to keep him. IMO, adding a guy like him, who would immediately be a locker room fit and fan favorite, not only gives us a guy in his prime that can get us a bucket, but also elevates two other guys on this line. Keep one of our seconds and add a big DT next to Oliver and all of a sudden we turn our constant weakness into a potential game changing strength.

They only do this if they recognize they’re in a multi-year rebuild and Crosby asks them to trade him to a contender. He all but made it clear this is on the table in his interviews as their season ended. If he plays good soldier, it would take someone in their FO recognizing it’s not fair to him to keep him around during a rebuild and also makes sense to gets quality picks that are more in line with their rebuild.

He also plays off Chris Jones. As down as I am on Rousseau as a 20M+ per year player, he’d probably be viewed this way if we had anyone else on the line that played to the level of Jones.

Syracuse Basketball used to help, not so much anymore. Free Agency is always a wild week & March Madness typically starts that week too. Draft in April. Then NBA Playoffs for anyone who cares. Bills will have some random OTA’s in May & June. Then training camp and we’re back. NFL actually does a decent job making itself year round, even if the season is only September - February.

We overrate some guys, a lot. Nobody really references OL in these discussions. We have an elite OL.. had a terrible game against KC. It is what it is. KC has a meh OL, were just fine against us. Taron, Benford and Milano are not those guys. Good players, but not game changers. Maybe Milano comes close if he continues his post-injury trajectory into next year. Fact is, we’ve been great year to year because we have a really good team that never really has a major weakness (unless injuries hit) and is led by the 1/1a best QB in the league. We don’t have a Kelce, we don’t have a Chris Jones, we don’t have a McDuffie and we don’t have a guy that scares teams like Worthy. What we do have are Thuney’s, Humphrey’s, Bolton’s, Chenal’s, Karlaftis, Hopkins types etc.. a ton of guys on that next level of difference maker.. but not the game changing variety. Same as it’s always been. We can get by the Ravens, because Lamar has playoff issues. We don’t have to worry about CIN because they can’t make the playoffs. The game changing player personnel and coaching differences come into play against KC every year when it matters.

In fairness, I think quite a few people started to realize that outside WR separation could be an issue.. and it was in the playoffs against Baltimore and Kansas City. We have Allen and Cook on that side of the ball. Chiefs have Mahomes and Kelce. Difference on offense in the playoffs was Worthy seems to be an actual game breaker… both in the sense he makes plays and keeps focus of the defense. Everyone knew the defense was devoid of playmakers. We all hoped Von would find the fountain of youth and Rousseau would step up for once, but alas, wasn’t meant to be.

In new polling, only 22% of men have a favorable view of the Democrat Party. The gender divide is absolutely insane.

Chiefs are the healthiest year in/ year out of all the AFC contenders. First things first, eyes on the 1 seed. We’ve tried a whole bunch of stuff to get to the Super Bowl, but that’s eluded us. Second, McDermott addressed it.. you need 2-3 game changers on each side of the ball. He wouldn’t say whether or not he thinks we do, but the fact he wouldn’t means he knows we don’t… which means Beane knows we don’t. Can they fix it this offseason, who knows, but knowing is half the problem.

If our QB was Aaron Rodgers or Tua Tagavailoa, what do you think our season looks like? How do you think McDermott and Beane are viewed? They get credit for Allen. And he is why they're still here. That's not meant as a huge insult either.. if you don't have an elite QB, unless your name is Mike Tomlin, you have a limited shelf life as a GM/HC.

Do you think Diggs was ever on the level in big moments as Hill, Kelce and Jones? Looking back, he was never that guy.

If the conclusion one is to draw from that press conference is that we won't go outside the organization much because we need to extend a bunch of guys who don't show up when it matters and hit on draft picks that he hasn't been hitting on.. Color me disillusioned that we'll ever get there. Thing is, Beane also says stuff. He's honest, to a point, but is also someone that can surprise us. We can't make players become available, but if someone is, where it makes sense, I'll gladly trade a couple high picks and let a Benford/Bernard walk in order to finally give Josh a running mate like Mahomes has had x2 or x3 his entire career.

This is a fair point but the difference between KC and us is their guys make plays in the postseason and are available. Who on your list shows up when it matters? Milano, Cook and Shakir. Benford keeps missing the biggest game of they year..every year. Bernard is good but looked like a JAG in that last game. Williams, who knows yet. Chris Jones and George Karlaftis were noticeable. Ed Oliver and Greg Rousseau.. to his credit, Oliver was.. Rousseau, again, not so much. If we eliminate the officiating aspect, the games truly do come down to their coaching staff vs ours and their FO vs ours. We're the only team in the league that can cancel out their QB advantage in the playoffs, and as such, need to be held to a higher standard.

Chris Jones, Trent McDuffie, Xavier Worthy, Leo Chenal, Nick Bolton, George Karlaftis etc., all "drafted low"

I think they need a shake up. If Beane isn't lying and our cap space is to be set aside for extensions of the same guys who have been here 3-4 years and haven't made a difference in the postseason, well... I don't necessarily agree with you, but fear this is a potential outcome.

Part of being a successful NFL player is the ability to play through injury. Too often this is the excuse for guys on our team, whether it's Rousseau with ankle injuries or this year's wrist pandemic... it's pretty common for players to announce surgery after the season. This isn't Bills-centric. If you're only a great player when you're fully healthy, you're not a great player.

I don't even have words to describe how impressive Josh Allen is as a competitor. How? I don't understand how he played through that. I don't know how he played through a partially torn UCL in his throwing arm a few seasons ago either.