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I hate the Patriots as much as any Bills fan, but the officiating in that SB was not an issue. The holding was pretty blatant. If they were going to call a face mask on that play it should've been on the ATL wideout. He ripped the Patriots defenders helmet off as he was being tackled. edit: the play in question is at 5:50 with a replay of the hold at 6:18

McIntyre is a good one! That link is awesome. How could I forgot about Incognito going bat ***** insane ? And I have no memory of Donte Twitner being arrested...TWICE

Do former players count? For that matter, does arrested but not charged count ? Ed Oliver was arrested for DWI and weapon charges but charges were dropped. Marcell Dareus - couple arrests. Weed (synthetic) and drag racing right? Zay Jones - jumping through windows naked while fighting his brother Cyrus Koundijo (spelling) - didn't he have a breakdown and was wandering around near the 400? I f orget if that was an arrest or not Was Shady ever arrested for anything ? His posse had that run in with an off duty cop in Philly. Can't remember if there was an arrest. There was also all that ugliness with his ex-GF

The media would salivate over the "Bills/NFL are heartless" puns

Didn't Dwight Howard eat pounds of candy every day in his 20s ? His diet caught up to him eventually, but it's incredible what good genetics can do for a person

I was arguing with some co-workers about this. Josh has 3 playoff games (Colts, Patriots, Chiefs) that are far and away better than Burrow's best playoff game. I think it's silly to say that Burrow is a better playoff performer just because he has a defense that actually shows up.

I'll go with 15% to win the AFCCG vs 10% chance of missing the playoffs. We should really only miss the playoffs if Allen gets injured.

Of those 4 I'll vote for Danny Dimes. The guy is the white Tyrod Taylor Watson, Murray, and Wilson all have spicy contracts too even if none were this offseason

People see "racist, homophobic, sexist" in the article title and go straight to "he has to be cancelled" without allowing for any leeway. As far as the racist part goes I thought his emails were pretty mild: "Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin (sic) tires." Gruden's explanation: Gruden, speaking separately to The Athletic, said he didn't remember the specifics of the email to Allen, and that he uses the term "rubber lips" to describe someone as a liar (a possible explanation for his comment on the size of Smith's lips). For the rest of it, looks like he was a fan of using the words q---r, f----t, or p---y as insults. All in all I don't think this was bad enough to force him to resign. Given these were what he thought were private emails sent 10 years ago when he wasn't even employed by the NFL I thought a public apology and maybe sensitivity training would've been enough of a punishment. My apologies if anything in the post runs afoul of this sites censorship rules.

An improved O-line that's still below league average is a fair assessment. I don't get the trust for Spencer Brown. He's been wildly inconsistent and if there's one position you want a guy to be consistent it's OT. Injuries cutting into his last offseason is a lame excuse.

I didn't find the article to be particularly useful. I think they needed to look at what players on each team would be looking for big contracts in the 2024 season. The only guy on the Bills is Gabe Davis. With how he played last year I don't think anyone on here would care if we let him walk. We're hardly in cap "jail" next season even though we have a lot of guys on big contracts. The Bengals are gonna have to give Burrows and Chase MASSIVE contracts. Even if they sign at a discount they will probably be the highest paid QB and WR when they sign their deals. I have to admit that the Chiefs have one of the best cap situations in the league going forward. MAYBE the lack of a big name WR and an aging Kelce will slow them down? I can dream anyway

Yea, theoretically we could have had Edmunds tackle Kelce at the LOS. Taking a pretty big risk though if another player commits a penalty organically you're giving up 15 yards and no time off the clock.

There's been a rule for a few years now to make it impossible to kill the clock by fouling. ARTICLE 3. INTENTIONAL FOULS TO MANIPULATE GAME CLOCK A team may not commit multiple fouls during the same down in an attempt to manipulate the game clock. Penalty: For multiple fouls to run off time from the game clock: Loss of 15 yards, and the game clock will be reset to where it was at the snap. After the penalty is enforced, the game clock will start on the next snap.

In order for me 1) Preparation and game planning 2) Defense needs to improve 3) Offense other than Diggs/Allen needs to improve 4) Allen/Diggs need to improve The O-line has been a major liability and if they improve then Allen/Diggs will naturally improve as well. The defense has been a train wreck in 3 straight playoff losses. Spare me the "they only allowed 27 points to the Bengals" argument. They gave up 30 first downs, forced 2 punts (1 in garbage time), 1 sack for 2 yards, and 0 turnovers. That's not close to being good enough to win a game.

The article I saw lead with Isaiah Rodgers (Colts kick returner/backup CB) "and others". Presumably he's the biggest name on the list.

I don't want to fire him (yet) and I couldn't care less that he's a defensive minded head coach. What I care about is that his "side" of the ball has been absolutely dominated in 3 straight playoff losses, that the entire team looked woefully unprepared for 2 of those games, and that 13 seconds was an all time coaching blunder. From what I can remember Dungy's defenses with the Colts played relatively well in their losses (other than the 41-0 loss to the Jets). I don't recall any coaching blunders like 13 seconds by him either, but it has been a while.

Given the massive dead cap we'd incur the next 2 seasons by trading Diggs there's really no "right circumstances" that we can trade him. The situation would have to deteriorate to the point that he's sitting out or sabotaging his on field play. At which point we trade him for whatever we can get and live with the dead cap

Bengals have a defense that actually shows up in the playoffs. They haven't allowed more than 24 points in a playoff game these last 2 years

Tremaine Edmunds is coming back ? I was never a huge fan of his, but losing him is going to hurt the DEF. That being said I could easily see our DEF being top 10 next season. Maybe top 5 OFF should be top 5

Foster is a good one. I don't know if they've been mentioned yet in this thread but what about PS heroes Duke Williams and Gibran Hamdan ? There was so much hype on here about those guys over the years. For me it was probably JP Losman. I spent years thinking he was the guy and just needed better coaching / O Line. And of courses the 2018 draft I wanted: 1a) Baker Mayfield 1b) Sam Darnold 3) Josh Rosen 4) Josh Allen N/A) Lamar Jackson - I never even considered that we would draft him as a QB so didn't have him in my rankings. I could not have been more wrong on that QB class

Beasley is an idiot that can't tell the difference between "boo" and "bease". Why would I care about what he thinks of Dak's leadership ?

I feel a little bit worse this year even though it's pretty easy to convince myself that the roster improved this offseason. Going into last offseason, with how Josh played against the Patriots and Chiefs in the playoffs, it felt like we could only lose to Mahomes or maybe Burrow in a playoff game. Going into this offseason I've been reminded that this team will pull a disappearing act for at least 1 game per season under McD, and if it happens in a playoff game again we're obviously toast.

McDermott is a dinosaur of a coach and is "very concerned" if a player skips practice. If Diggs wasn't one of the best WRs in the league you can bet that McD would've kicked him off the team by now.

I'm not big on McDermott, but SB or bust is too high of a bar. I'd be bitterly disappointed with another early playoff exit, but there's multiple elite teams every year that don't win the SB. What I think should put him on the hot seat / get him fired: 1) End the regular season with a losing record and miss the playoffs entirely 2) Another terrible defensive performance in the playoffs (4th year in a row and can't blame it on Frazier this time) 3) Another coaching blunder in the playoffs ala 13 seconds