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There is a fairly straightforward solution to this problem. Have NFLPA and owners recognize that RB is a unique position, and make the first contracts 2 yrs with a team option for a third. That way RBs can hit a second contract 2-3 years sooner.

Uhh…. Just because they talk about it on sports talk radio doesn’t mean it’s true. Barkley was never offered a 2 yr $26 mil guaranteed contract. Now who looks stupid?

Ah, this is a pedantic argument. That’s pretty close to what it means, and it represents the cumulative opinion of the worlds betting public as to the likelihood of the Bills winning the AFC. it’s the most objective way of obtaining an estimated probability of a future event. Or if you have a better metric, please let me know.

Per DraftKings, Bills are +500 to win the AFC. In others words, DraftKings is saying the Bills have a 20% chance of making it to the SuperBowl. Do the Bills have a 20% chance of missing the playoffs? I don’t think so, my guess is about a 10% chance of missing the playoffs. If they get a rash of key injuries and bad bounces.

Take a close look at that selfie. That’s not McD, it’s a comedian named Bill Burr. He catfished the dude who wrote the story.

I'm not a huge fan of ESPN these days. But they got this right. Kudos to Bills top notch training staff. And Damar for his tribute.

Let’s be clear. The only facts on this topic are the won-loss records that i cited in my post. everything else, no matter how definitively it is stated, is conjecture and speculation. “100% of Josh’sdevelopment” “80% of our wins are due to Josh ; Bills are a 6-7 win team without Josh” is stated as a fact, but it’s complete speculation. Ie, bullcrap.

I specifically phrased this as: "But how much of Allens success is due to McD leadership and coaching?" Yes, of course, McD isnt coaching Allen's throwing mechanics, and the reciever's route trees. But he is the team LEADER. He sets the tone. He sets practice and meeting parameters, he picks (with input from GM) the coaches. He is the one ultimately responsible for success or failure. Not Allen. If the Bills fail to win an AFC championship over the next 3 years, who gets fired? Allen? Nope, it'll be McD. Because he's the leader responsible for success or failure.

"McD is a very polarizing HC." I find statement like this to be absolutely stunning. McD is the best Bills coach this century. Full stop. End of story. McD 62-35 (.639); 5 of 6 season in playoffs. All other Bills coaches since 2000 102/169 (.377); 0 of 17 seasons in playoffs. How is this even a debate?? Yes, of course, McD has had Josh Allen. But how much of Allens success is due to McD leadership and coaching? This is, of course, an unknowable question. But realize that Allen has never had a remarkably successful season except as a Buffalo Bill. His record at Wyoming was 16-12. Allen was regarded as a raw talent, and didnt become a superior QB until his Buffalo Bills seasons. How much of his success was due to his own hard work, his QB coaches (including Dorsey btw), his OC, and his HC is impossible to know. But it is inarguable that McD is the best Bills coach of this century.

I’m just glad it’s not Art Wander and Chuck Dickerson.

“Hey Thad, guess what I like about you?” ”Hmm,what?” ”Nothing. Not a f****ing thing. “

If you look at this from a purely logical point of view, you cannot say that Allen without McD is a winner in the NFL. There is no evidence for that because it has never happened. Allen hasn’t played a down in the NFL without McD. So any opinion as to whether Allen equates to Bills winning is simply a guess, an opinion not based upon fact. On the other hand, if you ask whether McD can produce a playoff team without Allen, the answer is yes. It happened with a pretty marginal QB who only started a few games after leaving the Bills, and never led a team to the playoffs without McD as a coach. Lookit, I think Allen is a top 3 QB in the NFL, and I’m glad he’s on our team. But I also think McD is far and away the best Bills coach in this century, and a top 3 Bills coach of all time. McD and Beane turned the Bills from a perennial loser to a consistent top 5 team in the NFL. Winning a SuperBowl requires a bit of luck. Ask Jim Kelly. If his kicker truck the ball a couple millimeter s to the left, he’d be a Super Bowl champ. If Levi Wallace had played smarter coverage in the 13 sec, not allowing inside release, Bills might have been Super Bowl winners. If Bills D hadn’t been down 2 of top 3 DL and both safeties then Bills may have won. it’s maddening to listen to folks pretend McD is some average coach. He’s very good.

Deny everything. Admit nothing. Make counter-accusations. Hmmm…. Seems like a familiar strategy. I think it’s been in the news a bit.

+1 Excellent analysis. As a long time Bills fan, this all makes perfect sense.

Once and for all,it wasn’t the defense “formation” that lost the 13 second game. it was how the players played. The DB funneled everything to inside releases. Which is fine in a 13 sec drill if the other team has no TO. But Chiefs had TO. The DB needed to play tighter. They had deep cushions. I don’t know why they didn’t play tighter. Was it coaching, talent, misinterpretation of the goals? I don’t know. But the “formation”. — a 3-2-6, was fine. DBs needed to play it tighter.

Call me crazy, but I’m thinking that Einstein here is a Mellow And Grand Adult thinker.

You realize that McD is paid extra for driving traffic to TBD, right? I thought that was common knowledge.

Whoa, that’s a bold statement Cotton…. Harty is now a physical receiver.? Really?

Hmm….maybe Josh is team Trump and Diggs team not Trump. Makes as much sense as anything else.

Ironically, that catch could have lost the game for us. if Bills are up by one point instead of 3, they would have played a tighter defense.

This was discussed in another thread. Converting salary to bonus can lead to a loss of money for the player. The bonus is taxed at NYS marginal income rates. About 11%. Whereas salary is taxed at the rate of the state where the game is played. So when Bills play in Texas, which has 0% marginal income tax rate, he keeps more money. At least that’s how I think it works.

Was there ice in the netting? Why?

This is a really interesting point. When the Bills convert $20M or Josh Allen salary to a bonus, is he really losing money? Because 100% of his bonus is subject to the high 11%, but only 50% of his salary is subject to the 11%. The other 50% gets taxed at rates of the state where game is played, generally less than 11%. CA at 13% the only exception. Have any plates refused a conversion of salary to bonus for this reason ?

I dont think that you can know that with any degree of confidence. Hundreds of players get hit in the chest similarly hard every weekend during football season. Yet they dont develop commotio cordis (presuming that is what he truly had) and cardiac arrest. Commotio cordis is a "diagnosis of exclusion". Meaning that the docs eliminate all of the possible diagnosis that they can think of, and then say, well, its consistent with commotio cordis. To my mind, it is certainly possibly that commotio cordis has a genetic component, and that some individuals are more susceptible than others. Here are a couple references, in which well-known cardiologists and scientists suggest that there is a genetic predisposition to commotio cordis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31179551/ https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circep.111.962712 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.110.955336#:~:text=It is likely that genetic,in cardiac depolarization or repolarization. Sure, it could be just bad luck. But for such a rare condition in football players, you have to wonder if there was some unanticipated predisposition. Its a tough call. Football is Damar's livelihood, so the docs dont want to prevent him from returning to his profession. But I'd best my last dollar that when/if the Bills medical staff clears him to return to full contact, the language clearing him doesnt say there is no risk of a recurrence.

It’s not a philosophy, it’s simply physics and physiology. DL is the most tiring position to play. Since the 90s Cowboys introduced the concept of rotating DL, all good NFL teams have done this. You don’t see heavy rotation of LB or DB, but all NFL teams rotate their DL. There are a few exceptions who might play 80-90% of snaps . Aaron Donald and Chris Jones. That’s about all I can come up with right now. But it’s not some “philosophy” unique to McD. It’s smart football.