MJS

This will be an interesting off-season. With the vets gone in Hughes and Addison, the young guys will need to step up. Honestly, Obada has been promising the last few weeks. We've seen flashes from the rookies. I remember Bills coaches and players talking Epenesa up so much in the preseason, but he hasn't been a factor in the regular season. It is for sure disappointing. I agree completely. I do think it would be great to have that finisher. But I do think we have been affecting throws and causing discomfort. It's just been a long time since we had a guy who consistently brought the QB down. Probably Mario Williams was the last guy?

Wow, that's incredible. So proud of him.

Not a coincidence, but Dawkins seemed much more determined than in other games. He was fired up and throwing his body around. He needs to keep thay kind of play up.

Dang, the Dolphins have a ton of cap space. Maybe they'll spend it all on TE's and not use them much like New England did last off-season. Bates can play center...

I agree. My vote would be for CEH, but Singletary is a close 2nd. All of them were decent, though. I think if you get immediately tackled by the defender you supposedly trucked (Tua, I'm looking at you) you shouldn't win it, but maybe there weren't other quality candidates that week?

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure Jim just laughs about that now and has moved on. I'd be very surprised if he holds any resentment. I think Harbaugh is a good coach. He gets really animated, but I don't think all the hate he gets is warranted.

Where does the Harbaugh hate stem from? Just his sideline antics?

Seriously. This defensive run has been amazing: 2017: 26th 2018: 2nd 2019: 3rd 2020: 14th 2021: 1st Only poor year was 2017 in their first year here. We think of 2020 being bad, but it was actually average. We were just spoiled. The question is, how much do we attribute to Frazier and how much to McDermott? To muddy the waters even more, we have seen McDermott take play calling away from Frazier in certain games and the defense usually performs better when that happens. But Frazier usually calls plays. He deserves a lot of credit, I think, but this is McDermott's defense. Regardless, Frazier is a great coach.

Wow, if it is true that Dorsey has been groomed to be the next OC when Daboll leaves, that would suck. But this is what happens to the best teams. Coaches get poached. Players get overpaid in free agency. You have to overcome losing coaches and players and keep the ball rolling. It's why drafting and developing talent is so important. Hope Leslie Frasier and Brian Daboll get a real shot this year. They deserve it.

Bates is on the team because McDermott likes him. McDermott has built a perennially contending team. Maybe stop talking badly about the best coach we have had since March Levy. I wonder what the goal was there...

This is the worst finalist list I have ever seen.

I know he is a fan favorite, but he is a practice squad player. And no other team claimed him this season or last season. So, maybe Bills fans are reading too much into his one game performance.

Wow, 3 of 4 from the AFC East. What a sportsmanship powerhouse!

Bills in Space! A new hit Sci-Fi sitcom!

He can do better than SNL. He's actually funny.

It's a pretty small sample size for McKenzie. Only 23 targets on the year, and up until last game a lot of those were those tap passes that are basically runs. Not trying to take anything away from him. He did great and I want to see him more. But it stands to reason that if he gets more involved and runs more traditional routes, that number might come down a bit.

I agree completely. I really thought that was a great defense. I just think it is quite a different scheme from Sean McDermott's. Leslie basically runs McDermott's defense, so I'm sure McDermott would bring in someone, or promote someone from within, to do the same thing.

The game was already basically won at that point. I would have gone for the INT as well. The only iffy thing was it didn't leave a ton of room to kneel it down. Oh well. I'm glad he got an INT. These guys work hard and deserve to get the individual stats sometimes.

Falcons trying to get intel on the Bills?

I don't think McDermott would change the defense that much.

It's hard to know if he is easily upgradeable or not. He has barely played. He could turn out to be a strong starter one day, or maybe he has reached his ceiling as a backup already. We just don't know. I personally have always liked what I have seen from him and I want to see more.

Passer rating also takes into account yards per attempt and TD's per attempt, so it does account for just checking it down all game. Trent Edwards has a career rating of 75.5 which not good. I think that accurately reflects him.

Oh, I think passer rating does a decent job. It's problem is it doesn't take into account running, so dual threat QB's aren't properly accounted for. I'm assuming that's why QBR was initially created, but they did it all wrong. But yeah, you have to take into account a lot of different things when judging a QB, and QBR is not one of those. Passer rating is, though. As for the two performances mentioned, Burrow had a passer rating of 143.2, which is insanely good. Wilson had an 89.6, which is decent, but does undersell his rushing. I think that more accurately reflects their respective performances.

That's just not true at all. If you win, you keep your job. If you lose, you lose your job. Whether or not you are entertaining, or a good interview, or have a sense of humor, or anything else is irrelevant. For a coach, it is only about winning. That's the only thing that will save their job. All those things you said are literally the LEAST important thing about their job. Yeah, some coaches are more personable, and that's nice. Good for them. I like that McDermott answers questions and isn't a jerk to the media, but McDermott knows that being a nice guy in interviews is not his job and will never save his job. He knows it comes down to building a winning team and winning football games. Period. As for Belichick? Yeah, I don't like him. His interviews are stupid. But I respect him as a winning coach, all cheating scandals aside. And he will have a job in New England, or for almost any other team in the NFL, for as long as he wants because of what he has accomplished on the field, regardless of his bad interviews.

Officiating has been inconsistent for years. It's not any worse this year than it has been. In fact, just a couple years ago we couldn't even get the catch rule right. Catches that were obvious catches were being overruled. Challenging pass interference a couple years ago was the biggest joke of officiating I have ever seen. So maybe if I felt officiating was different now I could entertain this idea, but it's not. You just have recency bias.