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Ken Dorsey is scowling somewhere driving someone to the airport for Uber.

Punt lol

They had one of the worst coaches in the NFL. Tua could barely complete a pass two days ago, and we're talking about losing in the playoffs with Herbert? Ooookay.

You’re naming a lot of defensive players too. Their defense has been 29th, 21st and 24th in points allowed. Do you think Herbert coaches defense or something? Mike Williams has missed 18 games over the last two seasons lol. Their team has a lot of defensive cap dollars and a terrible defense. That has absolutely NOTHING to do with Herbert lol. You’re making my point for me.

Loaded roster? Who is it loaded with? where do you rank him among QB’s? Higher than Derek Carr? Higher than Baker Mayfield? because I got news for you, that puts him squarely approaching the top 10 lol

Really?

He’s missed 12 games in 3 years. Bad game for sure. Still a good QB. Would take him over Tua by a mile.

I think he’s a good QB. Chargers having one of the worst defenses in football and his best weapons being an old as dirt RB and an old as dirt WR isn’t his fault.

Correction: 3 studs, 1 game manager, and 1 healthy RG3 with an awesome team around him.

Yep. It honestly didn’t matter if he ended up sucking. Their process was right on the money. They had a guy they thought had enough tools and the makeup to be the guy, he was relatively attainable in a deep QB class, and their starter was a HoFer but a thousand years old. The Pats didn’t have a succession plan and had to reach for Macorkle. The reasons teams do things matters.

Exactly.

It’s actually incredible. I wonder how many coaches have crunched those numbers on holds on non-rip moves and pressures/sacks from rip moves. probably a statistical advantage somewhere there

It doesn’t matter. If they use a rip move, they don’t get a hold call. It’s in the rule book. I had no idea either tbh. Half of the blatant holds that aren’t called that we see are probably this.

Yes. Rip moves don’t get holds.

Was it a rip move?

This is an elite Josh Allen-esque performance. Dallas fans gotta learn to take this good with the bad.

NFC game was less important for us making the playoffs imo

Do you have any arguments against any of the Dallas players besides they lost to Buffalo?

Once Burrow went down, I was pretty confident the league would fix things a little bit to make sure Josh got into the postseason. Star QB’s in the NFL have always gotten preferential treatment, and the NFL wants their stars in the postseason. The NFL would be very sad if they had Mason Rudolph vs Gardner Minshew in the first round. Not saying any game individually was fixed, but you’re crazy if you don’t think we got the benefit of some 50-50 calls along the way.

Do Bill Walsh without his QB’s next. who are you comparing him to

~600 yards and 2 TD’s is an improvement over McKenzie totals. I have high hopes for Kincaid’s future after what I would consider a good rookie season, but imo, he needs to be an unquestioned top 6-8 TE to be considered a difference maker.

Is there a Jared Goff? I wouldn’t mind it terribly if they didn’t love anyone or whatever and went with QB at 9. Doubling down on Fields and not taking a QB is franchise malpractice when you have two firsts in the top 10.

The Bears would trade Fields for Goff in a heartbeat. Fields and Baker are probably closer to a push, but not because of Fields’ ability today, but because he’s still relatively young and may get better. If you fail swinging for a QB, at least it demonstrates your priorities are in order. Trying to build a super team around a guy who can barely pass at the NFL level shows you’re a disaster from the top

Hurts isn’t that good and this is year 4 for Fields. that organization is in drought era Bills doomed land. Hanging onto a lame duck defensive HC so they can just fire him next season. Every QB in the playoffs currently has proven they can play great in spots. Fields, who was just given another good WR weapon this past offseason, saw his passing yardage go from 150 to 197 per game. Yuck. If they try to build around Fields now, they will end up winning 7 games next year, firing Eberflus, and then have an ugly QB room to attract HC candidates, who won’t want anything to do with them. They have the #1 pick. They should have canned everyone and waved it around to actually get some good coaches in there. If the new coach believes in Fields, cool. If they want Caleb or to trade down, cool. Half measures in the NFL don’t work. The Bears have been one of the worst teams in football because of it. Keeping Nagy to waste a pivotal year of Fields’ development set them up to do it all again this year and continue their cycle of pitiful, miserable football.

I mean, I guess, but the Chiefs in 2021 had less offensive cap hit than the Bills (they had Tyreek and Kelce at this time) and the highest defensive cap hit in football (with a pretty mediocre group of players). I think it's just a bad way to judge. Between extensions, restructures, rookie deals, there's far too many ways to manipulate the cap numbers to make this an accurate way to track priorities. Top 5-10 contracts and AAV would probably be better in terms of dollars spent evaluation. But that would still neglect players on rookie deals. We could draft offensive positions with every pick next year and our cap numbers would probably be even more lopsided with defense > offense because of it. The real problem I think illustrated by this point is the Bills have not acquired enough good offensive players to even dedicate major cap dollars to, yet. We either acquired or drafted lots of defensive stars over the last 6-7 years. That results in lots of ballooning contracts over that time period. We didn't do the same with offense. If Tre White was not a good enough player to warrant a big time extension, the numbers would probably be far closer to even since 2020.