TheCockSportif

McD went conservative because O was crapping the bed. Make no mistake about that.

Well... Honestly, man, Bledsoe was on a team who surged, and was competitive in a SB, and later pulled the team out of the fire to get to the SB in the 2001-2 season. Until his injury, his numbers were decent in that era of football. But at the end of the day my comparison is apt. The Rams essentially bet the farm on Stafford, and we've all seen this here before (twice: first with Robosack and then with Bledsoe). For their sake I hope that they can win a SB with Stafford, but time will tell. Personally, I feel like giving up first rounders (for an old QB) is a horrible mistake in an era where football moves so quickly, but maybe the Rams have become a binge and purge squad. Who can say?

Bledsoe, oh, and the picks given up could be much, much worse.

Good luck to the Rams. This seems like a 2002 Billsy move.

I feel bad for the new HC, who believes that Watson will be on the roster next season.

Sure, but it's really the same deal. Participation from marquis players, iirc, really tailed off in the PB after Edward's injury. Let's say that Josh Allen plays in a meaningless game and tears his labrum. Do we want that? I think/hope not.

So, I think that the Pro Bowl, for example, has lost its luster because of that gruesome injury to Robert Edwards 20 or so years ago. Why would a player risk their health and ability to make bank to play a game for nothing specific? The Pro Bowl is no longer anything specific, and the best players routinely don't play, as I would think a bronze cup type of game would be. Not harshing on you, OP, for your POV, but with the Pro Bowl being essentially marginalized, I don't know how a B-grade "championship" would cut through the indifference.

We've all seen this kind of thing before, like many times. Good.

I don't foresee any blockbuster action coming out of the 2020 season. For me, at least, trading out of spots into other spots would be par for the course. I can't think of a single scenario where I would hope for Beane to try and go yard in this draft. BPA, in the right spots, would seem like the smartest move. Cutting dead weight ahead of the draft and bringing in FAs (because the team could afford a few solid FAs then) would seem like a solid, complimentary move.

He's not wrong, but if you work in professional football league, it was an extremely tone deaf move on his part.

Correct. I was going to criticize his drafting, for example, or how humans should not play football.

Like a number of folks (friends, family, etc) I'm still tied to in WNY, we're amped about the 2021 season. Because this is THE year. Or it's not, because I think that there is really no in between anymore. I agree with the OP though that nothing used to work, and the team is far beyond that now.

Drew Magary, even with his myriad quirks and flaws, called KC fans out for who they were about a decade ago. Their board is on point with his assessment. ***** him with an avocado ice cream.

If there's any team who you cannot rely on to beat the Chiefs in the 2020 season, or really any stout competition, it's Cleveland. I'm about to sign off until the 2021 draft, but I had no illusions that anybody but the Bills had the strongest chance of knocking the Chiefs out.

Umm, I didn't suggest that it will take 7 years for the Bills to be full-on contenders. What I'm saying is that it's a combination of ownership > FO > HC > QB, and that once the foundation is in place, which it was for KC years ago, then you can swap in better pieces. Consensus here earlier in the season was that 2021 would be the year that the Bills would make a run at it. KC started refining and tweaking that roster *starting in its early years under Reid*, so 7 years ago. The NFL is always about winning now, but the only "win now" team I can think of, who won a championship, and that's the Broncos w Manning. And look where they are now. Teams still take time to build, to retain talent, to bring other players in, to build a handful of core players, and this takes a long time. It took the Seahawks 3 years, as an example, and they're still competitive.

Don't lose faith yet. Let's say that DC changes. The Bills will have the pick of the litter. Let's say that OC changes. The Bills will have the pick of the litter. I am unfazed by last night, because this team has been trending in the right direction under McD's watch.

It's not like KC was built overnight. It took 7 or so years, and in the face of Andy Reid being criticized as a guy who couldn't win the big one. But look what they built. Amazing, right? I've seen zero evidence that this team isn't willing to make hard choices, and is always try to get better. 2021 can't get here soon enough.

OP, honestly, I don't know. I don't think so, but again, I don't know. The Bills D exhausted its opponents during that run past midseason. No, they weren't the 2000 Ravens (or one's comparison of choice), but they did well enough. The O crapped the bed last night at times, and coaching led to conservative play, I'm assuming because of the various miscues. Once the KC train got rolling, the game was over. I'm not rewatching this one, but coming out of halftime, I knew it.

So, I'm not a doctor. Back in the day my parents got my sister and me involved in science and in math. She became a doctor, and I did computer science resulting in tech. Having written that, I needed to go way, way back about the fibula: https://www.physio-pedia.com/Fibular_Fracture#:~:text=The fibula is a non,articular surface of the talus. Executive summary: Still, must've been EXTREMELY painful to play with, and explains a LOT when it came to watching our receivers not be able to get separation on the regular. My hat's off to Beasley, regardless of whether the bone was weight bearing or not.

Tenacity, and I don't believe that it's a weight-bearing bone.

He was actually on the injury report last week, but with a "knee issue".

Wowza. I'm am glad that the broadcast team gave props to Beasley by saying that he thought his career was over, but his output here has been excellent (that was not a direct quote on my part). I thought that Beasley could be OK here, but he's been excellent.

I agree with everything except point #1. The biggest difference is that KC laid the wood offensively for most of the game. I could swear that Romo called this out last night (not going to rewatch the game), ie the Bills giving Kelce a lot of leeway.

I'm mostly on board with this take, but I found that the RBs on roster in 2020 didn't have a strong first gear, and perhaps for that reason there were no consistent nor strong runs outside. Miami needs a QB or Tua needs to get his head straight. NE has a ton of loot, sure, but no QB ATM, and for a player like Stafford that's gonna be $$$. It's funny how fast that money with dry up. The Bills aren't exactly hog tied, and much can be accomplished with trades and a better than average draft.

The Bills had barely any pass rush and couldn't collapse the pocket. Therefore, every play from KC was like *bang* and KC did something meaningful to move the chains time after time after time. Josh Allen, in comparison, either had time to throw into dangerous situations, got the yips to miss open receivers, or was leveled.