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Sad but true.

How exactly does a team fire a HC and NOT "blow things up"???? A new HC is going to bring his own philosophy and his own people, and that means that a significant number of the current players are not going "fit" what the new coaching regime wants ... and a bad scheme fit can make an All Pro look pretty ordinary. Allen could suffer if he was in an offense like those in San Francisco and Miami which wouldn't fit his playing style all that well. Your "theory" isn't a theory at all. It's simply your belief -- or more precisely, your prejudice. You have no real proof and no way to actually acquire proof because coaching success is dependent on so many other factors, including team ownership and team management. Bill Belichick was fired from his first head coaching stint in Cleveland in the 1990s because he didn't win enough. Andy Reid was run out of Philly because he didn't get to the Super Bowl enough.

Guaranteed that there will complainers even after a Bills Super Bowl win.

You want to fire McDermott to hire Vrabel????? Seriously??? 🤣 Belichick disciples have been notably unimpressive as Head Coaches at best, so that's NOT a point in his favor. In his 6 seasons as HC in Tennessee, Vrabel has a record of 54-45. Three of his teams made the playoffs. His playoff record is 2 wins, 3 losses with the 2 wins in the same season -- wild card and divisional wins, which isn't any better than McDermott's playoff record. The history of the NFL is littered with "hot" OCs (and DCs, too) who failed miserably as HCs. As for "wasting Josh Allen" by not making conference championships that's bull manure. Playing in the playoffs every season isn't "wasting" a QB's talent because making the playoffs in the NFL is incredibly hard --especially when a QB is at the mercy of mercurial ownership as well as front offices and coaching staffs of questionable quality so their opportunities are extremely limited. Ask Matthew Stafford. He played for the Lions for 11 seasons and made the playoffs 3 times and never won a single playoff game. As for your question, "btw, now that I answered your questions. Who do you have as a HC who took 7+ years with his QB to win a Super Bowl?", as the disclaimers on personal injury lawyers' ads always says, "prior results don't guarantee future outcomes".

Both the NFL's pension and health care provisions are paid for by the NFL and were negotiated with the NFLPA. Under the 2020 CBA, the NFL currently contributes $2 billion to player benefits. Player fines go into a fund to help out players who may have extraordinary medical bills, and that, too, was negotiated.

My guess is that it's a percentage of his salary.

Even if Von doesn't help the Bills get to the SB, his was the better signing because the Bills were actually trying to build a SB team. A player can't help getting hurt. The Bills signed Mario Williams simply to put butts in the seats. They needed a big name to once again con fans into supporting a team that always put profit ahead of winning during Russ Brandon's reign. Williams played for the Bills from 2012 through 2015, making All Pro in 2013 and 2014, but his success was personal because the cast around him lacked talent. His HCs were Chan Gailey, Doug Marrone, and Rex Ryan. The QBs for the Bills were Ryan Fitzpatrick, EJ Manuel, Kyle Orton, and Tyrod Taylor. The Bills went 6-10, 6-10, 9-7, and 8-8 and never made the playoffs with Williams on the team.

The problem isn't the graph. If you wish to evaluate the Bills' WR separation after the Amari Cooper trade, then use the graph of the Bills' WR separation data from weeks 1-6 and the same graph with data for weeks 7-8. Any type of graph or table based on data from weeks 1-8 won't tell you what you're trying to find out. Sure-handedness >>> separation.

Some people do not seem to grasp the concept of depth, especially for a playoff contender.

I'm counting the hours to the NFL trade deadline ...

Despite Mack's 17 sacks last season, he didn't seem to have a significant impact on the Chargers defense. The Chargers won only 5 games last season. Their defense ranked 31st in passing yards allowed and 29th in YPA allowed. IOW, he put up big meaningless stats. Pass.

Absolutely spot on. I think he knows where Woody Johnson has buried his skeletons. ... led by backup QB Jacoby Brissette!

Would any reasonable owner, including Jerry Jones, undermine his GM and HC by giving a player control of personnel? Giving your great QB input on personnel is one thing, but the situation in NY is unprecedented.

It's a reminder that fans should be careful about what they wish for because they might get it. The Pegulas hit the jackpot when they hired Beane who had never been a GM before. They might not be so lucky next time, particularly if they were to "clean house" in the front office (and likely coaching staff) by firing Beane. I disagree. The problem with the Jests is owner Woody Johnson. For most of his quarter century of ownership of the Jests, the team has sucked. In the early 2000s, the Jests had some decent teams with talent left from the previous regime (Bill Parcells). They also had a couple of good seasons under Rex Ryan, but they've had only 1 winning season in the last 13 years. The last even moderately successful QB the Jests drafted and developed was Chad Pennington whom they kicked to the curb for Brett Favre in 2007 -- and like Geno and Darnold, went on to play pretty well for the Dolphins for a couple of years. Johnson's GMs (Bradway, Tannenbaum, Idzik, Maccagnan, and Douglas) have spent a fortune of draft capital on QBs with very little success ... at least for the Jests. Hopefully, Johnson never sells the team ... and lives a few more decades.

Ravens lost.

How can an 11th round (#285) round pick ever be a bust?

I think that the media types are assuming that Cooper is a part-season rental, but my guess is that it's really a try out to see if he fits the Bills and he wants to be a Bill in 2025. I would love to have Myles Garrett on the Bills but I don't think it happens even if Cleveland was interested in dealing him, which I'm not sure they are.

Flutie was never a bust. He chose to play in the CFL because he realized he'd never get a chance in the NFL because he was considered too small. His situation was much like Warren Moon who also chose the CFL because he didn't want to play any position but QB and knew he wouldn't get that chance. Both had great careers in the CFL before coming into the NFL and proving themselves. Absolutely true. Under the control of the Bills' Evil Genius Russ Brandon, the Bills offensive coaching staff was sketchy at best when they drafted Allen. The Bills "QB coach" in 2018 was a guy who hadn't actually coached QBs in 20 years, and only did that for a year on the college level. Brandon was fired in May, 2018, and Beane was given full GM powers. After the 2018 season, all of the offensive coaches except Daboll were fired and Ken Dorsey was hired as Allen's QB coach. The rest, as they say, is history but it could have been very different for Allen, too. Smith, Baker and Darnold all were drafted by substandard, perhaps even dysfunctional, organizations. Hell, the Jests under Woody Johnson, can't even put together a good team with one of the greatest QBs playing for them. What chance did Smith and Darnold really have with them? Once a high round QB fails for his original team, he's generally relegated to backup status. Smith, Baker, and Darnold all spent time as backups under great coaches with excellent assistants (Carroll, McVay and Shanihan) and emerged as better QBs for it. Once again, coaching matters.

Great name for a WR.

FYI GMFB just interviewed the Bills' Ray Davis. It was maybe 5 minutes or so. You can probably catch it again at 10:40-10:45 and 12:40-12:45

You may be right about Darnold but Mayfield has always been at least a decent starter. He was Rookie of the Year in 2018, and he played pretty well in Cleveland, including 2021 when he played hurt most of the season. The Browns kicked him to the curb in order to get Watson. He spent part of 2022 in Carolina and the rest with the Rams (replacing Stafford who was injured). In Tampa, he's shown again that he's a really good QB.

I liked Kay but Jamie is better IMO. Nobody can replace Nate, although Jason was decent as is Akbar. I really don't like the changes brought on by the move to LA. First of all, the in-season show has been shortened to 2 hours, which is why they probably give more cursory attention to less "popular" games. The show also starts an hour later in the eastern time zone (8am vs 7am before). They have a lot of guest discussion participants because Kyle and Peter are frequently in NY. The show also seems more scripted and less spontaneous.

I think that there's a growing sentiment among sports analysts/media types that echo Ryan's sentiments. Kyle Brandt brought it up last week after the Jests lost to the Bills: the Jests have plenty of stars but they aren't a very good team. Somebody else -- maybe Maurice Jones-Drew -- also mentioned something similar after last night's loss to Pitt. They're not a good team despite all the stars on their rosters because they seem more interested in themselves than in doing what they need to do to win football games. I think that Rodgers' throwing Mike Williams under the bus after the Bills game is a perfect example. The quality of ownership. The billionaires who own the NFL teams have lots of reasons for owning football teams and lots of ways of managing their teams, both in style and quality. Some are astute while others are just lucky. Others think they're football geniuses and are determined to prove it. All teams have poor seasons. When a team is a perpetual bottom feeder for years and years, the problem probably starts at the top of the food chain. Management/administration. Owners hire the GM (unless they want to be the GM themselves) who then hires coaches, scouts, etc and eventually selects players. GMs also hire the numbers guys who manage the cap, etc. Teams that regularly make the playoffs always have good management -- and vice versa. Coaching. In a league where the talent differential between the best teams and the worst is really very small, the quality of the coaching -- not just the HC but assistants -- is often the primary determinant of how the teams perform on the field. Luck. The numerous injuries to star players this season has demonstrated how the loss of key personnel can impact a team's season.

That's what we keep hearing ...

The only hope the Pats have is that they can outscore the Jests ... like 50-48. They're totally inept on defense.