Simon

If you discount the ridiculous heat stroke game, the Bills have beaten the Dolphins 10 games in a row. Pardon me if I'm not overeager to start modeling ourselves after our personal cell block bltches.

I remember a couple years ago when running a bunch of man against this offense was pretty much akin to ordering yourself up a 40burger. I miss that. I also miss tossing out a dozen trail technique jokes every time we played the Dolphins.

fwiw, Gabe got an earful from my couch when the ball hit the ground. I thought he absolutely should have attacked that route upfield.

Are Simms and Florio the two guys in the video?

My ongoing suspicion about your username has now been confirmed.

I guess it was more a case of a poorly worded, incomplete thought than trying to suggest that one experience speaks for all others. I just think that in a lot of these cases that involve a younger male and an older female that there is not really what I would fairly consider a "victim". Female victim? Absolutely a problem. Double standard? Yep, and I have no problem with that. I just see the backlash as oftentimes more cultural than it is criminal. And I'd guess there are actually a fair number of instances where the young fellow didn't feel badly about the experience at all, but then was convinced by external forces that he was actually victimized and as a result made to feel bad about something that he shouldn't necessarily feel all that bad about.

Sort of. If it's a Cowherd/Rome/Wright sort of thing I'll move them, but I wanted to be fair in case it's somebody respected with a good reputation (i.e. Dan Orlovsky).

Could somebody tell me who those two guys are so I can decide whether to drop them into the Random Talking Heads thread?

It seemed to me that Ed played the vast majority of the game with Jordan Phillips beside him (who I thought had a terrible night), while Linval Joseph got most of his snaps rotating in with the "2nd" unit.

I got the sense that trade was done with the long term in mind just as much as the short term.

The reason he's 10yrds off is that Davis has stopped and is coming back to the ball. If that ball is thrown to the top of his route instead of well short, the safety is all over it. You could see it much better in real time, imo. Personally, I think that with nothing to hold him to the post, the Safety was trying to bait Allen into it. It was just a terrible decision with poor execution to boot.

There's a safety over the top that is just outside the edge of this photo. It was a stare-down with a bonus double clutch, to a covered receiver in a vertical bracket with no window. That ball was doomed before it even left his hand.

It was worse than just a trip, imo. It was a legit leg whip. And call in to tell that guy to quit stealing stuff from TBD without giving us credit.

C'mon man, you know I didn't say or even imply that. If McDermott was genuinely awful or had been for years, then of course you cut bait and let Pegula hire anew. But he's not awful and has been successful sine he's got here. I don't want to see perfect become the enemy of good when the downside is arguably greater than the upside You want to use the same consulting service to hire the new coach that you used to hire the coach you're now firing for cause? There's something in there that doesn't smell right. Some mostly irrelevant Insider info: You know who in the organization was selling McDermott hard and was primarily responsible for his hiring? Doug Whaley was the one who talked Pegula into hiring him. 🤯

There's more than just a "risk" of getting worse. The Bills best chance of maintaining success is probably to minimize the amount of involvement that Pegula has with the football (or hockey) side of operations. McDermott is a solid coach who is respected by his players and his peers. Letting Terry pick another coach to replace that is a potential nightmare in the offing. The only thing the Bills should do in regard to McDermott is hire a real DC for next year so he's not walking around with so many hats on at once.

Yeah, I don't think we can handle another game like yesterday's where the Bengals averaged about 2.5 yrds/carry for a whopping 54 yards on the night.

Buying or selling?

If it happens again, I have zero problem with Brown going after him and getting tossed. And I'm not talking about some pushing and shoving; we've now entered throat punch territory.

Do you really want Terry Pegula making another coaching hire? What are the odds that he is capable of hiring somebody that is an actual upgrade over McDermott?

OK, fair warning time. I've asked and asked so going forward the next person who brings the Bills bitching in here is getting locked out.

I'm not sure where you're talking about. I was the only one who actually mentioned it here, nobody else said a word about it in the game thread. Bless you, sir. Thanks for the confirmation that this guy is a 100% scumbag. I don't know the verbiage on the rule, but a leg whip is considered an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. I can't imagine that the penalty depends on whether the effort to injure another player was actually successful or not. 🤷‍♂️

He was attacking anything that moved last night and playing with a total lack of fear. He clearly knew he was playing for his job from the moment he walked onto the field.

I was asking for a clip myself. And I haven't seen or heard a single other soul mention it (although I admittedly don't watch sports media or twitter, etc). Who else did you hear talking about it?