MJS

Did he get an interview because of the Rooney rule?

Flores comes across as a big baby to me. Boo hoo, you didn't get the job. Everyone must be racist. Teams are required to interview minorites, which is what you are Flores. What did you expect with such rules in place? The Bills didn't even want to interview anyone and just wanted to promote from within, but they were forced to go out and perform 2 sham interviews. Does that make them racist? No, they are just following the rules, just like the Giants were. It's what you have to do if you happen to want to hire a white guy in the NFL. If you happen to want to hire a black guy, you STILL have to go out and interview another minority because the rules require two minority interviews now. Just insane logic and stupid that anyone would think this rule is effective at all. Every organization is going to view certain candidates as frontrunners for the job, which is what Daboll was. Bill Belichick heard Daboll was the frontrunner and texted to congratulate him, but had a senior moment. But the Giants had more interviews to tie up before they gave the job to their frontrunner candidate. Although, the Dolphins owner paying him to lose? THAT is the real story here. Just crazy. The NFL is NOT going to like that.

Well, since teams are required to interview minority candidates, sham interviews are going to happen. It's the rule.

They should have chosen a different photo. He looks really confused in that one.

Guess we better not move the team to Italy. "Number 17 is associated with the 17th card of that Major Arcana of the Tarot which is The Star. Coming after two highly materialistic cards in the series of the Major Arcana, The Devil and The Tower, The Star is like an oasis of spirituality that rejuvenates and restores the weary traveler on the journey of life." From my 2 seconds of research, I think 17 sounds grand.

Nothing you stated seems to say 17 is bad.

Part of it is scheme and rotation. With a heavy rotation it is hard for those guys to get into the flow of the game, I feel. Part of pass rushing is setting up the lineman across from you over multiple downs. You do certain things and then catch them off guard with another rush move. It is a chess match. Keeping guys fresh is turning out to be overrated, I feel.

There are so many

Why would you not include the Mahomes/Rodgers State Farm commercials? I like the Baker commercials just fine, except their frequency.

Isn't it just one for coordinators?

The Bills do not block things. They want to be on the side of the coaches and allow them to move on to other things. It's the correct approach anyways. You want the best and brightest to want to come to Buffalo knowing that they can develop here and move on when new opportunities are presented. You don't want to miss out on talent because you were short sighted and blocked a move. And who cares if we lose our oline coach? Our oline has not been good. And there are plenty of guys they can bring in to replace him.

I think Allen will be on a mission next year and will take the league by storm. Yes, he'll have some down quarters here and there, but I think he is going to take full command of that offense. I think it will be the best Josh Allen season yet. Does that mean the Bills will win the Superbowl next year? Maybe. Maybe not. It takes so much to get to the Superbowl and win it. But no team has a better shot than the Bills next year. Some may have just as good of a shot, though. The AFC is becoming a monster.

Most coaches haven't played, at least at the highest level.

What effectiveness are you referring to?

That's the hope. Ed Oliver has been progressing nicely as well.

Maybe he stubbed his toe. Well, actually the Bills beat them the last time they played them, which was in the regular season. So it wasn't two Chiefs games in a row. But yeah, playoff games.

I was very heartened when they picked up that "defenseless receiver" flag in the Rams vs 49ers game. It was a great, clean hit by the defender.

Yes, we have been missing that elite guy on defense. A game wrecker on the defensive line would make this team truly elite. I don't think we need another elite receiver. We have Diggs. The rest of the guys have shown they can take over when Diggs is doubled and game planned out of the game. Obviously, we have an elite QB. I didn't want Beckham and I stand by that. Von Miller, though? Sign me up. But they traded him out of conference for a reason. On defense we have Tre White, but we need one more elite guy. An elite MLB or an Elite pass rusher would go a long ways. The Bills of the 90's had that on both sides of the ball and it is what we are missing now. Jim and Thurman on offense, Bruce on defense. We need our Bruce.

They might not win it. We'll see. Stafford is a good QB, but Burrow is becoming a great QB.

I didn't even need to check who gave you negative reactions. So predictable.

Wow, that hit on Stafford was ridiculously dirty. Went right for his head.

Chiefs were holding all day on defense too, and it didn't get called at all.

And then they beat the 1 and 2 seeded teams in the playoffs to get to the Superbowl...

What happened to her hair? Did she lose a bet?

Mahomes choked. That wasted time out by Andy Reid in the first half cost them points at the end of the first half as well. Happy to see the Bengals advance. Good for them.