Richard Noggin

Feels like a guy who CAN really contribute at a high level, but...lacks consistency in fundamentals, reads, execution, etc. Love the way he's shown up at times. Gotta have contributions from those high picks. Just hope he doesn't fall back again into mediocrity.

Luckily for me, and the rest of Bills fans, my Wildcard round preparation and focus doesn't influence the team in ANY way. I get to look ahead, behind, above, and below, without any impact on Monday's result. You should try it out.

This person and this genre of streaming video where the content is watching someone watch and react to something else is...vicarious by definition for the viewer and vampiric by definition for the LAMPY 2nd hand creator and fundamentally vain and vapid for everyone overall.

Curious how you'd rate LBs?

Oh for sure. That's the traditional pattern. Going to high school in NT meant almost ZERO snow days due to factors you've identified above. But last year broke with tradition for both major storms, as we got unusually CRUSHED both times. So far, this year, we're seeing a regression to the mean, so to speak.

I liked Daboll's willingness (and/or eagerness) to coach Josh Allen HARD. QB17 responded to hard coaching, to my eye. That's not the consensus these days (to coach guys HARD), even though some guys still do in fact respond favorably to intense and immediate correction. More respectful, calmer coaching in the moment is the direction we've been headed, and with good reason, but there is still some room for intense, passionate correction for certain repeat offenders. The issue I focus on with Daboll is his inability to or disinterest in calling plays sequentially in a way that helps the o-linemen leverage their slight advantage of knowing the play call to win each rep against their defensive opponents. He never had much respect for the realities in the trenches as he called strings of consecutive 5-man protection pass plays even when facing elite pass rushers. He didn't often help his linemen win their individual battles by keeping the box defenders off balance. Allen bailed him out a ton, and when he didn't, the Bills sputtered. (This is still true at times, of course, but I've seen improvement on this particular point about play-call sequencing.) Brady gives the impression of a coach who listens intently to the feedback and input of his position coaches, especially Kromer. I'm interested in how they do or don't adjust to the reality that Torrence got CHEWED UP last week, and they're facing an even better front this week (inside and out) even without Watt. Heyward seems to line up more often to the LEFT guard's side, IIRC, and Pitt likes Highsmith coming off that same side (offensive left). Golden and Herbig aren't trash depth with Watt out. Very curious how the Bills approach this week tactically on offense.

The Bills offense's ability to operate against KC's tight man coverage and various pressure looks is so essential. If the Bills can avoid early offensive struggles, they can control this contest. Of course, defensively stopping the Pacheco and Edwards-Helaire combo and keeping eyes AND HANDS on Kelce is important, but I believe Josh and Co. have a chance to outpace an inconsistent Chiefs offense and alter the calculus of this matchup.

Up in southern Niagara County we haven't seen much accumulation at all. But the wind at times has been fierce, and visibility was null for a spell right before sundown. Hate to think the authorities and the league got it wrong with respect to travel danger tomorrow (I don't know that they did, but it sucks if so), because so many or our fellow citizens are always just waiting for another reason to lose further trust in the "experts" or "authorities". I think the postponement was smart based on best information at the time. Not much of a downside tbh (minus the further radicalization of internet skeptics).

Like the opposite of George Costanza

I am

Eh, why not?

12-18" per hour would be like an extinction-level weather event in WNY lol 1-3" per hour is what I heard earlier today, which is no joke when combined with 20-30 mph sustained winds. Zero visibility in those conditions.

Just started tonight's episode. The only time I relish in punching down.

Agree about Babich as a rising -- but still unsung -- coaching commodity. Gave a press conference much earlier in the season that was VERY impressive, and obviously we're seeing serious progression from basically every single LB on the depth chart. However, it's much more likely Eric Washington is "next up" in the internal defensive coaching pipeline. Feels to me like McDermott wouldn't bypass him for a more junior guy. Frazier, the DC, was also the Assistant Head Coach before Washington got promoted. Seems almost obvious who the next DC will be, if McD relinquishes the title. Wasn't that his dad, though (the safeties coach in the best Hyde/Poyer years)?

That article is brutal. While Allen can be coerced into turning the ball over, so can the heralded Mahomes, and the Bills are widely accepted to be an objectively better (and definitely more dangerous/explosive) team/offense so far in 2023/24. The turnovers are the entire argument here, and it's objectively thin and subjectively selective. "I don't care...that the (Chiefs) running back room is full of a bunch of guys you never heard of." - WTF? Pacheco and Edwards-Helaire are pretty well-known. Weird. He leads off with repeated suggestions that fearing the Bills more than the Chiefs correlates to **gasp** using THC (or sniffing glue). Pretty out of touch, although Pittsburgh fans in general are pretty conservative. It's all Mahomes worship, mostly, and while the author couches some of his criticisms towards Allen, he does offer this nugget: "It is probably too strong to say [Allen] is a prototypical “million-dollar talent, ten-cent head” player, but that isn’t too far off."

Come on, you guys. Sexual addiction is not a laughing matter. (It's a touchy subject.)

100% agree, but the point I was responding to was about the emotional peak of a big win against a divisional foe that gets a team into the playoffs.

I sure am brilliant. My point stands, however.

Read the post and/or do the tournament math: the Bills CANNOT host Miami in the divisional round. Miami would be the lowest seed, and therefore would automatically travel to the top seed, Baltimore. I prefer KC, to be honest. Finally get them on the road, in Orchard Park, in front of fans. They've never done it successfully in the playoffs during Mahomes' career (which is just maddening).

So...has the "Shame on us" in the topic title been explained yet? Asking for myself.

Agreed in large part here. As for the bolded, Lawrence was all kinds of banged up, to be fair. Which, awesomely, also highlights OUR QB's most underrated quality: the dude just keeps playing no matter what injuries (often to his throwing arm) he's battling. His toughness, availability, guts, and accountability are ELITE. We've watched other QBs with the same injuries absolutely wilt (recall Allen wearing that effing LB shoulder brace and never missing a game and still gutting out a winning season, whereas 2017's #1 overall pick, Baker Mayfield, suffered the exact same injury and could NOT play the position effectively thereafter (despite trying his best - gutsy guy)). If Allen played baseball he probably would have gotten Tommy John surgery last season and missed 12-18 months. Or then again, maybe he wouldn't have?

REALLY happy to read the bolded. Except for a couple instances of zero-blitzes this season that cost us valuable games.

While I agree that McDermott's treasured "resiliency" is admirable, the Brady/Belichick and Mahomes/Reid on-field products were/are (for the most part) much more disciplined and better-executed. No way were they overcoming so many self-inflicted setbacks. I love the way McDermott's teams, highlighted this season (and 2021 specifically), have performed under adversity and caught their strides when it matters most. However, I HATE the way McDermott's teams, highlighted this season, have performed as favorites and faltered when it seemingly doesn't matter much early and midseason. The admirable character this team has shown is in part a direct response to the regrettable yips they've also shown.

Plus, look at that "clapping" BS he's doing with his hands. His fundamentals have been so erratic with the most foundational part of his job: catching the football. I recall Jerry Rice declaring (in some rando interview or media piece or something) that there are only two ("proper") ways to catch a pass: thumbs together or pinkies together. That's it. Davis often points his fingers of both hands directly AT the incoming ball like a weirdo, or points his hands in opposite directions like an RB taking a handoff, or whatever other nonsense he comes up with on the fly. It's bizarre.

I'm already angry about it. I'm on the Bills side, and I just know I'll be looking across the field at those dumb yellow rags spinning in the stands behind the Steelers bench. They'll be in the stadium early, as visitors always are, so it will seem even worse while the teams are warming up. I'll probably even have to hear the word, "Yinze" at some point. Gross.