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Josh is the best player in the league to never win a Super Bowl. He’s extremely marketable and dates a Hollywood starlet. Damar Hamlin was the biggest story of the 2022 season. If there was ever a time for the league to promote a team, it would have been for the Bills one of the last two seasons. It didn’t happen because it doesn’t happen.

All sports leagues are entertainment companies. That’s precisely WHY they suspend players. If I went out this morning and did exactly what Rice did, my employer wouldn’t suspend me.

Must suck knowing that literally everything she does in life is more successful than every achievement you’ve had in your life put together by orders of magnitude. I’m sure you think she should have married young and had kids so that your worldview would somehow be validated. That’s what Britney Spears did, and that seems to be working out great.

It’s impossible to quantify everything, particularly with Quarterbacks, but sometimes you know it when you see it. In the second half of the Super Bowl, I could tell that Purdy was getting rattled and I knew there was no way he was winning that game. He wasn’t quite trusting his eyes, and it seemed obvious to me that he didn’t have it in him to power through it and rip the Chiefs’ heart out. To his credit, he didn’t crap in his helmet or anything. He did a good job of holding it together, but even with all that talent around him he wasn’t winning that game with #15 on the opposing sideline. IMO, the right move would be to trade him and find his replacement on the cheap. We’ll see if SF has the stones to do it. If anyone does, it’s them.

You can’t possibly be serious.

So the fan base of the team who cut Araiza is complaining that the league isn’t rushing to judgment? This isn’t some heinous crime. We don’t even know what he’s being accused of. There is nothing to be gained from not waiting until the legal system sorts everything out.

You’re right. It’s the Chiefs that keep “running out of juice”. Funny how they managed to find an extra drop with 0:13 left and then again in overtime. And then they found some more against the Bengals in the 2022 AFCCG…and then again on the last drive of the Super Bowl against the Eagles. They were clearly out of said juice against the Ravens when they won the 2023 AFCCG before running out again in the Super Bowl…right before they scored at the end of regulation to tie…and then scored a juiceless TD in OT to win yet another Lombardi. So now that we know that my theory was wrong, what’s your answer? How do the Buffalo Bills consistently manage to be the only team to have good players? How do they just keep “clicking on all cylinders” while other teams are “just running out of juice”? What is the secret to pairing this unstoppable force of an offense with an immovable object on defense, and why do they keep losing in the playoffs to inferior teams who clearly are incapable of running up the score during garbage time of regular season games?

You win. Breece Hall is a less effective James Cook.

Congrats on assigning a take to me that I didn’t make and then attacking it. Hall had 72% of his team’s rushing TDs and 52% of their rushing first downs. Cook had 9% of the Bills rushing TDs and 34% of their first downs. When their teams needed tough yards, Hall got the ball and Cook didn’t. Whether Hall was effective or not, he got the ball in short yardage situations. That lowers YPC (which is one of the least meaningful stats in the sport).

Cook had 6 TDs and 4 fumbles. Hall had 9 TDs and 2 fumbles. The 0.3 yards per touch extra that Cook gets is attributable to him not being used in short yardage situations. If you think they’re similarly productive players, you don’t understand football.

I’m not interested in reading the article, but I do feel like a lot of Bills fans take for granted what having a competent, professional front office means to a franchise. You can argue over whether or not McDermott and Beane are good enough to win a championship, but a dozen front offices every year are complete clown shows. If nothing else, they’ve elevated the franchise beyond that category. Say what now?

In 2021, Buffalo went 12-7 overall. They outscored opponents by nearly 23 PPG in their wins. The Chiefs have won the Super Bowl the past two seasons while winning exactly one game by more than 23 points. McDermott will absolutely run up the score when he can. I’m certainly not saying there’s anything wrong with that, just that it exists. Even in the postseason, you saw Buffalo score 14 points in the fourth quarter against the Patriots to win by 30. The previous season when Buffalo was down 38-15 with 5 minutes left of the AFCCG, Kansas City shut it down, and the Bills scored a garbage time TD and FG.

Unless I’m misreading it, the OP’s DVOA rankings listed are overall team rankings, not defensive-specific. If other top teams are taking their feet off the gas while the Bills aren’t, the Bills are going to have an inflated DVOA relative to those teams.

Seems like a combination of a couple of things. One is that McDermott has no reservations about running up the score against inferior teams. This leads to an inflated DVOA during the regular season compared to other teams with coaches who let off the gas when the game is under control. Another is that the Bills tend to favor older players who are at their best early in the season and wear down by the end while Kansas City tends to play youngsters more who make mistakes early in the season but improve over the course of the season and are relatively healthier than their older counterparts. There’s also the fact that Mahomes is much more conservative with his running during the regular season than in the postseason. Nobody here is going to agree, but he’s every bit as effective of a runner as Josh is when he chooses to be. He simply doesn’t fully unleash that part of his game during the regular season.

It’s complicated. The Dolphins and Cowboys are stupid for paying Tyreek and CeeDee $30-34 million per year to rack up 1800 years and 13 TDs, but paying Diggs $31 million to play for the Texans is addition by subtraction.

Why would anyone want a 31 year old WR who hasn’t played a down of football in 2 years and was JAG when he was in his prime?

LOL, maybe if you add a first and a third to that offer. He’s a #1 WR with three years of control. That’s the hottest commodity in the league short of a franchise QB.

1862 yards and 14 TDs isn’t elite?

You’re correct that Mahomes has more to work with than Allen this year. Vegas has the O/U for Mahomes set at 4350 yards and 33 TDs. They have Josh at 3750 and 27.

This is as much of a “must win” game as any team can have week 1. Given the difficulty of the early schedule, 3-3 wouldn’t be a bad start. If they lay an egg like last year, they’re 0-1 and underdogs in 4 of the next 5 games.

2 players who have put up 1400 yards in a season, another who has put up 1000, another who has put up 900, and a first round draft pick in this year’s draft. Kelce is the only star, but that’s got the potential to be a pretty good group.

I’ve got Allen as the clear second best QB in the league, but I don’t see how even the biggest Allen homer can believe that the Chiefs would have 3 Super Bowl wins with Allen. Josh threw for 3100 yards and 20 TDs in 2019 and played poorly against the Texans in the playoffs. There’s zero chance that Kansas City wins that year with Josh. Reasonable people can agree or disagree about the last two years, but Mahomes was better in 2019 by orders of magnitude.

They can afford both.

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Coming into this year’s draft, the top needs were WR and then DE. Coming out of the draft, it was DE and then WR. Those almost have to be the top two picks next year. After that, it could be just about anything. CB seems the most likely, as Douglas will be 31 when the 2025 season starts.