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How does this trade make any sense for the Titans? Titans get: Edmunds 5th rd pick 6th rd pick 8.8mm dead cap in '23 13.3mm dead cap in '24

I know Allen endorsed Dorsey for OC, but I feel like it's revisionist history to say that was the primary reason he was hired. Everyone in the organization was ok with Dorsey being promoted. It's not like we were holding open interviews and Dorsey was some dark-horse candidate that we brought in because of Josh. McBeane are loyal, to a fault, and tend to go back to players (or coaches) they are familiar with. How many times have they tapped the Carolina Panthers connection ? Do you think Josh was whispering in their ear to sign Josh Norman to the PS? Josh and Dawson are friends, but I don't know how much of an impact that had on his contract. A bad contract for Knox fits the McBeane MO perfectly.

That was a weird kick for sure. Watching it again I think Bass just sliced the heck out of it. The streamers on the goal posts were barely moving, and I don't see the refs pants moving either. If it was the wind it would have to be the flukiest burst of wind in history to only effect the path the kick was on and nothing else. Doesn't look like a defender tipped it either.

No wonder why I didn't notice him! If he's THAT limited from the injury recovery, why are we wasting a roster spot on him? We should've left him on IR...

I don't know how people can watch our O-line get caved in play after play and think Allen only had an average game. Joe Burrow behind this O-line would've been sacked a dozen times on his way to 50 yards passing and no points scored for the entire game. The offense had 1 turnover (I'm not counting the final play fumble) and 1 punt against a very good defense. I'd call that a pretty good outing

While that is technically true I feel like it doesn't tell the whole story. The only turnover by our offense turned into a 1st down for the Patriots from our 45 yard line. We allowed them to slice through our defense for a TD. The long punt return gave the Patriots a 1st down on our 46 yard line. Our DEF got shredded and let them drive down to the 6 yard line before settling for a 24 yard FG. Those were NOT good defensive drives, even when you account for the short fields.

That's the point I'm trying to make. McD took a generic question about slow starts and turned it exclusively into an offense issue. He completely ignored his defense's slow starts to games this season (and this game in particular). He's scape-goating the offense when HIS defense was a complete train wreck from the opening whistle.

While I agree the offense had it's issues (to be kind) to start the game. What about McD's defense???!!??? You can't give up a 9 play 63 yard FG drive followed by a 7 play 45 yard TD drive to the worst offense in the league

Only talking about "rhythm" to me feels like McD is blaming the slow starts on the offense. His DEF has been absolute ***** to start games. Even the Raiders tore us up on their first possession. The Jets (A A Ron injury) and the Commanders (lol) are the only teams to not score on either of their first 2 possessions against us. Your DEF gave up 10 points to the Mac Jones Patriots on their first 2 possessions. They haven't scored more than 20 points in a game before playing us this season.

Wrong sport. NFL trade deadline is nothing like the other sports. Rarely see big trades during the season. The comp pick formula and trades triggering dead cap makes trades difficult

I know a lot of people will point to 2021 being the year that the Bills should've won the SB. We started that season 7-6 and looked a lot like we do so far this season. Wildly inconsistent on offense, some terrible defensive games, and losing some very winnable close games. Just gotta make the playoffs and anything can happen

Do we have snap counts yet? I honestly can't recall a single play with Von Miller on the field. I at least noticed him the previous 2 weeks even though he didn't really do anything. I get that it takes a while to come back from an ACL injury at his age, but he's been a complete non-factor. There's no reason he should be on the active roster if he's going to be this limited in games.

Did Von Miller play? The only time I noticed him was that commercial with Diggs

Or an example from a Bills game https://x.com/BradleyGelber/status/1333128939049512968?s=20 Still think it's incredible that Josh wasn't injured on that play

Do people understand what a hip drop tackle is? There's plenty of ways to tackle a guy from behind without doing this

This question is too black or white, so I went with No. If we make the divisional round and lose a well played/coached game to the Chiefs there's no way I'd want McD fired. I think there's 3 basic scenarios I'd want to see McD fired, and all of these are only if Josh is healthy. 1) We miss the playoffs entirely 2) Lose in the 1st round to a bad team 3) Coaching flop ala 13 seconds So in short, it doesn't matter which round we make it to. It matters how the team looks.

I thought we'd win the superbowl coming into the season and my outlook hasn't changed. Our preseason odds to win the SB were +900. Same as they are today

Josh really doesn't seem like the type of guy to try and force his way out. If the Bills crash and burn and miss the playoffs, or if there's a repeat of 13 seconds, I think Pegula would fire McBeane well before Josh would consider forcing a trade.

Wasn't there a report that he "stole" $20 from a cop's wife at an Applebee's ? Would not surprise me at all if they targeted him after that

I know the 3 quarters shutout thing is technically true, but we scored a TD on our first possession of the 2nd half. It just happened to come on the 1st play of the 4th Q because we put together such a massively long drive.

4 seems unbelievably low, where is that number from ? https://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/advanced-stats-wr.php Looking up individual players Knox: 4 (yikes) Diggs: 2 Davis: 2 Harty: 1 Doesn't look like they track RBs but Cook has at least 1 drop this season. That would put us at 10 for the year, which passes the eye test for me. No idea how it compares league wide. For Josh running the ball: I'd love to see more scrambles and bring the designed runs back. Josh has that 6th sense where he avoids big hits while running the ball. With a few exceptions he's the one delivering the energy of the hit not absorbing the energy from the defender.

That's my point though. We're not good at running the ball, and particularly not good at running the ball with RBs early in the game. We keep wasting early plays on non creative James Cook runs up the middle for 2 yards (at best).

I think our problem is trying too hard to establish the run on our first possession (although the Giants game does counter that trend). We have 2 first downs on opening drives this season on rushes, and 1 of those was a Josh scramble. I wonder how much of it is McDermott vs Dorsey. It seemed like there was friction between McD and Daboll when he was here in regards to running the ball. McD is old school and wants to establish the run - but not via designed QB runs. Daboll was ok with calling 20 pass plays in a row. Opening drives this season by play Jets pass pass run run pass punt Raiders run run pass punt Commanders pass run scramble run pass pass pass pass run pass FG Dolphins run pass run pass run run pass pass- TD Jaguars run pass pass punt Giants pass pass pass punt