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I don't really disagree with any of that, though I will say that--at the NFL level--it's not so much about teaching. College? Yes. NFL? It's more x and o scheming, working 20 hour days, and cheerleading. Getting the boys fired up. I often wonder how much raw teaching is done at the NFL level at all.

Yep, there is still a path for NE to be the 1 seed. Don't hold your breath though.

I think it's fair to suggest straight up better coaching would have turned a number of our 1 score losses into wins.

Beane, get 'er done!

I have no idea what this is.

You're hitting on what I consider to be a really interesting topic here, though it deserves its own dedicated thread. Namely, the community's views HERE form a tiny percentage of Bills fans' views overall, and what amounts to a majority view here would likely not be a majority view among all Bills fans at large. The vast majority of people who contribute to these sorts of online sports message boards are overwhelmingly kool aid types looking for a "booster club" environment to cheer on the team. Nothing wrong with that, but in my experience of actually talking to real Bills fans in the real world for 50 years, your average fan is not like that at all. They are much more objective and maybe even pessimistic. I have often wondered why the Kool Aid Konnection exists in the online environment, but I don't have an answer.

None were the top 5 best team of all time, however. I think it's really hard to state a top 5. I agree with the OP that the 1985 Bears had the strongest defense I've ever seen. Also, at the time, the 1990 Bills had the most potent offense of all time, or at least one of them. Both those teams would go on my Top 5 list.

He actually made several points not totally related to one another. The one thing that I find interesting is his discussion about young coaches not being able to stand in front of a room and talk to people. They have to hide behind email or a text. This is a really interesting trend and it's permeating throughout society now. The internet has been around long enough now that an entire generation of adults have grown up, if they wanted to, living in a fake world called "social media" and not being around human beings. They only now how to interact with humans through a computer. They don't know how to talk to real humans face to face, interact with them, or get along with them. And it's a HUGE emerging problem for employers across America. I would imaging a number of people here fall into this category, whether they realize it or not.

At least he gots his chicks for free.

Of course he was still alive, though he has been retired from the Hollywood scene for a very long time. RIP! "They call me Mr. Tibbs!"

All the touchy-feely stuff referenced in the OP isn't going to help us win a game! Josh throwing the football is going to win the game, and if it's THAT cold and at night, it only helps Mac Jones close the gap to Allen. This would be a pretty bad scenario, actually. We want unseasonably nice weather for any game we play at home (or on the road for that matter) this year.

I would suggest the first game with Miami was one of the poorer games of the season. Watching us beat the crap out of a lousy team is not a lot of fun. My favorite game was probably Tennessee, as much as it made me sick to my stomach right at the finish. Great game though filled with drama and intense interest the whole way through.

Out of all those big name QBs in Josh Allen's draft class, how many are going to still be playing for the team that drafted them after next year? Maybe only Josh Allen! It's funny to think of the hype at that time and all the talk...and if some pundit had said "I don't see what all the fuss here is about; the pick of this litter is Josh Allen; the rest are varying shades of bust and won't remain with the team that drafted them for very long." The guy who said THAT at the time would have been laughed at, and yet he would have been dead on. Goes to show you cannot form an accurate opinion about any DRAFT DAY DECISION for YEARS.

These are good examples of why it is kind of idiotic for people to repeat the mantra: "Take the best man available" in the draft. It assumes you have an accurate master list of all the players and their ranking. You don't! Who the hell knows who the best player is? Not these NFL teams doing the drafting! Look at the shenanigans we pulled and the assets BURNED to move way up in the draft and get Sammy Watkins when much better receivers were available for much less lower in the draft. We clearly had no idea who the best man available was. I can't imagine BB switching his life up like that at his current age and with his current legacy in NE... He's obviously an enormously ambitious workaholic (as all these NFL HCs are), but... 20 years ago? He might well make that move. Now? I assume he is winding down and will retire with the Patriots.

"let's move on" LOL. We can eliminate this entire board and any reason to post anything in it, ever, with the simple statement: "We'll have to wait and see how it all plays out." But what fun would that be?

Easier said than done though! Especially when Bill Belichick lives in your division. We are lucky the Jets have been irrelevant for a very long time, NE is in a transition period, and Miami is still struggling to find itself, even though they'e had a remarkable comeback this year. We have to feast on seasons like this where the division is just waiting for us to claim it while we have them. And we did last year and will this year too! Once the playoffs start, it's a whole new world and you just have to win a handful of games and boom! You're in the big dance.

Insofar as "sports" is a cultural creation of human society, other aspects of human society such as politics are bound to blend in to to some degree. Would the NY Times exert some level of bias into how they report or what they say? Maybe, but they are one of the best media outlets left in a dying industry, and papers like the Times (or WSJ if you lean to the right) serve an absolutely vital function in this country going forward into the 21st century. When the NY Times dies, and the other handful of big-time papers like them of any political persuasion, we're officially screwed as a country.

I have heard of this but not seen any of it yet. Sounds like an interesting setup for a story. And it just goes to show that a story can be about absolutely ANYTHING as long as its good and well told. It's also why it can be so frustrating to see the same formulaic ideas over and over and over.

If they are going to put it in Orchard Park, let Pegula pay for every nickel.

When they took Barkely at No. 2, I was like "OMG. I can't believe that. How clueless are these football people?"

Hey! One less slip by Josh Allen in Nashville and a converted 1st down followed by a TD in the dying seconds of that game, and we are the number 1 seed RIGHT NOW. We didn't miss by much. Also: look at all those 1 score games we lost....combined with all those blowout wins. And the best news of all: A PLUS 177 point differential, good for THE BEST IN THE NFL. Signs like this are arguably better indicators of quality than actual record, even though that may seem counter-intuitive to some fans. As long as the offensive line can find a way to get it done--even if ugly--and Josh can do his thing, the only team in the AFC I see keeping up with us is KC. It's also why I think we will face KC in the championship game again...just as all the pundits predicted pre-season! The more things change, the more they don't change.

I'd be shocked if he doesn't have a diagnosable mental health disorder. My guess is he has borderline personality disorder. Read about it. He exhibits almost all of the symptomatology to the hilt. He needs to be diagnosed and prescribed the appropriate medication and he would be living in a different world as a different person. It's actually shocking to me no one has made that happen by now. What are these NFL teams doing? How dumb are they?

This is the ENTIRETY of what sports is all about. And yet fans/media love to generate false narratives built around human nature. "They had to learn how to win." "They didn't want it badly enough." "We weren't tough enough." "We needed to come together as a team." ...and all this sort of total garbage!

Jimmy Spags finally quit on the Jets. Smart man. Only took him 30 years too.