The Red King

A Tua-led offense reminds me of our Frazier-run defenses. Capable of wrecking mid-to-low tier teams. But if the opponent can counter (in this case by forcing Tua to go past his first read), they are simply unable to adjust. We're seeing their ceiling with Tua. I think with high-enough seeding they can win a home playoff game, but will never reach the AFCCG unless they are the #1 seed, which I don't see happening.

We need a speed receiver to stretch the field. We get a fast enough one and pair him with Allen's arm-cannon, *any* pass play can be a potential TD. Opposing Ds will have to account for that.

Do the XFL rules allow for an onside kick?

On its own? Can't answer, too vague. How good were the Bills? How about their opponent? What was the final score? Were there turnovers (Buf turns the ball over four times, that's not on the coach). Were we in position for a winning chip-shot FG we shanked. Did McD blow the game through poor clock management? Did he play it too safe and punt on 4th and 3 with one minute left? Too many variables.

People here were all too quick to throw him to the wolves without a shred of evidence. And, once cleared of all wrongdoing, just left him there. Should have signed him the day after we got eliminated. You know he's gonna light it up, steal a game or two for them, and kill us at some point late in a game where they run it three times to kill the clock and then cannon a punt to bury us deep when we need a score and there's, like, thirty seconds left. We deserve this. This is karma. Good for Matt. He didn't deserve any of this, and once cleared didn't deserve to keep sitting and waiting. I actually hate KC a little less for this.

I think extremism is the issue in this thread. * No, injuries were not the only thing wrong with the Bills. It's wrong to say that the team was perfectly fine and would have easily gone undefeated w/o injuries. * It is, however, equally ignorant to say that those injuries were a "non-factor" that all teams had to deal with. Buffalo had a lot of key injuries, and came into that KC game decimated in comparison.

Diggs' dead-cap hit this season would be higher then what we're actually paying him. It would quite literally cost us more to get rid of him.

So, how do you build a team to avoid losing key starters in every level of your defense? Not saying the Bills were a perfect team by any measure. I just can't understand how people can just handwave away the number of key injuries the Bills had as if every team had to deal with them. The Chiefs certainly didn't when we met in the playoffs. But that leads to a different topic. *Can* something be done about these injuries? The last two seasons the team was shredded by crippling injuries. Was it all flukes? Do we need to look at strength and conditioning?

If backups can step in for starters with no loss in production, why do we pay starters more? If you honestly think that our healthy starting D wouldn't have done any better against KC out there, I can't take you seriously anymore.

They slowed down KC well enough in the regular season. Remind me who covered Kelce in that playoff game? You think our healthy starting D would have been ripped up even half as bad?

Yes, but the Bills didn't just lose one star, did they? Again, look at KC's injury report for that game, look at ours, and then look me in the eyes and say it was a wash.

Should Cincy have overcome losing Burrow? Should the Jets have overcome losing Rodgers? No? Can we stop pretending injuries were a non-factor? As posted above, look at KC's injuries compared to ours going into that game. Can you look me in the eye and say those injuries were equitable? Of course not! The argument that "all teams get injuries", suggesting each team's injury situation was equally damaging is ridiculous.

Again, not every OT will have a Mahomes and/or Allen in it. Different tactics for different teams.

I actually like this version. There are arguements to both sides. Be careful not to look at this through the lens of one game. Not every post-season OT game is going to have Mahomes. There are a lot of different tactics depending on the teams.

Cap'n! That fleet! They're all flying the Jolly Roger!

Unless Allen and Mahomes were playing 1-on-1 out there, boiling it down to Mahomes beat Allen is ignorant. Josh played fantastically in the playoffs this season. He did not turn the ball over or make a critical mistake. He played as well as Mahomes, if not better. He just didn't have the supporting cast.

Those horrible color-rush jerseys might actually look good with white pants (and keeping the white helmets).

IIRC he took a cheap shot from a Jets player several years back and was never quite the same. I might be misremembering that though.

The theme from Halloween? I mean, these Bills were like Michael Myers. At one point, at several points this team was proclaimed dead. They rose from the grave, knifing playoff positioning and playoff aspirations of other teams in the league, culminating in killing the Dolphins' division hopes and taking the #2 seed. Sadly, as in most horror films, the killer was vanquished...this time/season.

The section you highlighted was a standalone statement showing they were always in games. Nobody took them behind the woodshed. As for the rest, we needed some of our better players to not be out with injuries. Even a 90% Bills team could have won that game. Injuries affect execution. It's why backups are backups.

Injuries, injuries, injuries, including injuries suffered in a Wild Card game we would not have to play if we were the #1 seed. This team, if even mostly healthy, could well have won the SB.

Bills have been annihilated by key injuries the last two seasons. If they find a way to stay reasonably healthy they are a serious threat. The Bills did not lose a single game by more then one score last season.

If you receive, so long as you at least match the other team you get first crack at sudden death. If SF even just held KC to a FG, they would get the ball back just needing another FG for the win.

I would love to have him on the team, I really would. But the league has a salery cap and the Bills' have many other positions in worse shape then RB.

Diggs wants out. Something broke between him and the Bills. However, he knows the cap situation and knows he's going nowhere. He'll play for the Bills, and is enough of a competator to play well, but I think once it is feasable, he's gone. Unless something drastic changes.