Avisan

Guess I wasn't referring to you then, no?

Wait what Do tell

I didn't, and it's telling that you assumed you were being referred to And we don't get to choose 100% of the people we exist around

Sure, sure. I know many people who will say that when they're calm in in "polite company" Those same folks sing a very different tune both IRL and on this board during games, after losses, or during any other Bills-related distress When people tell me who they are, I believe them

Genuinely most of the people that most vocally want him gone seem to be upset that he's a decent human being It's why they have to make up absurd character attacks or call him spineless or gutless or other things that are demonstrably untrue They want an ***hole at head coach because they themselves are miserable ***holes and they can't stand the idea of success from somebody that's actually a decent human being so he MUST be a coward and/or incompetent Shoutout to the couple of folks on here who seem to be level-headed about it but goodness you are few and far between

Our defense is fine, it's been ~average all year despite losing a ton of man hours to injury

Because sometimes opposing teams have successful drives?

I don't disagree but the Bills have a much better chance of not having a freak injury occur than getting better value than JJ out of three bottom-of-the-round picks imo

I am generally pretty risk-averse but prime JJ is absolutely worth having to have a reset year or two

Certain Bills fans are literally the only people who think that the Bills aren't a way better team than Cinci

Dang, what would it take to land him? Our draft picks our so late they're seriously devalued. I would absolutely give up the next three first-rounders, though.

Our defense is solid The run defense is rough, but overall ranks are pretty average

It's literally injuries We aren't in this position because we cut a bunch of players that couldn't hack it, we're running out of bodies due to injury I don't know why this is so hard for folks to process

This is exactly what I'm talking about He's objectively a good and impactful player, but his impact doesn't show up specifically in sacks, so he must not actually be good. If he were the high-octane pass-rusher you want him to be, he would have re-signed for 40mil+. He makes half of that, because he's merely adequate as a pass-rusher while doing everything else exceptionally well.

To do that, you need to sign those players to your active roster without them having a down in your system. Lawson comes in on a Practice Squad spot. Big difference. It's literally just injuries, in this case. We're low on bodies. This is the regular-season equivalent of bringing in players during training camp/preseason to just take reps, except unfortunately the games count.

Because promising young players are already on active rosters by the time week 13 of the regular season rolls around.

Just fantasy football/gambling mentality imo Pretty much every time I say Groot is good and worth his contract here and on other boards I get a nice wave of negative reactions from all of the very smart and stable football geniuses that are "fans" of this team If there isn't a big box score the player must be terrible

It's not that he can't do it, he just doesn't like to do it Like you can tell the games/stretches where he does his homework and the ones he doesn’t. The start of the 2024 season predictably was a trainwreck in large part due to his postseason "I'm the best athlete in the world/I'm not much of a film guy" arc Still obviously an amazing quarterback but he has yet to come around to WANTING to kill teams with homework, and it does limit our offensive options to an extent

Solomon is unfortunately pretty garbage at DE and iirc Epenesa is nursing an injury. The org isn't just doing this for fun.

They wouldn't. There isn't that much DE talent to go around. Anyone with the ability to come in and make a plus impact is already on a roster, it's a premium position for a reason. RB, TE, and S are the only positions where that might be feasible and S still needs time to acclimate to a defensive system.

Brother we ran out of bodies at DE to the point that we played a rookie DT completely out of position just to make it through the game. This isn't a discussion about player quality, the Bills literally just need the best available warm body to plug into their DE rotation. That's likely Fox while Lawson spends a couple of weeks getting in shape so that we have another body in case someone else goes out.

We ran out of bodies Anyone acting like the Bills WANT to be in this position is not a serious person

It makes sense, good young players are already on rosters and we're literally running out of bodies to put in at DE.

I think both units had/allowed fairly "normal" production relative to expectation, but the offense had 3 big drive-ending errors, two of which gave the Texans points, and Allen took a beating in the process. Not good. Also, the Dawkins false start was infuriating.

I'm mildly exasperated because you're arguing against yourself and don't realize it The Bills D and O had similar days EXCEPT, prior to the final drive -2 big turnovers on offense -A big failed 4th down conversion that squandered one of the good offensive drives This led to the Bills being in a one-score game where they needed a TD on their final drive to win it and unfortunately they couldn't come up with it. Which is why people are dinging the offense, things looked ugly and unsustainable, and their net points squandered the production that they did have. Meanwhile you're arguing that the defense was the problem, which is ????