Billy Claude

I don't think you can blame the Bills. Plenty of other teams had him evaluated him as barely a JAG before the Bills released him. If the question was "Which former 2022 Bill would make the Pro Bowl", he would have been pretty low on my list.

This is different from the Saffold situation, Saffold was living off his reputation while Van Roten's reputation was that he was just horrible with the Jets and with the Bills. If Van Roten actually makes the pro-bowl he has to be having the best year of his career.

Did Boras miss any cliches?

Holy confirmation bias. How could Prescott possibly have slid at the last nanosecond if Rapp actually dove over him?

Your analysis is great except for the part about the ST unit not being football "tragic". When the special teams has directly lost two games (and indirectly lost more than two games due to high percentage makeable miss field goals and the lack of confidence in the kicker adversely affecting in game decisions) and your fighting for a playoff spot than that is definitely "tragic" in a football sense.

Agreed. I don't understand how Patricia got the job in Detroit in the first place. The Patriots defense was 2nd worse in yards per play and 4th worse in total yards given up in Patricia's last year as D.C. in New England. Their defense also gave up 41 points to the Eagles in the Super Bowl that year. Partly the stats are due to teams playing from behind but being 31st in an important defensive metric is not good no matter how you parse it.

Every questionable call went the Bills' way.

Obvious solution, offense fumbles out of bounds, 5 yard penalty from spot of fumble, plus loss of down. The same rule applies everywhere except in the offense's own end zone where it counts as a safety similar to the way a holding call in the end zone would. That would give you a consistent set of rules everywhere on the field. If you make it a 10-yard penalty, it would effectively be the same as illegal batting and the referee would not have to judge whether the offensive player intentionally knocked it out of bounds or not.

There's definitely a bunch of games that the Bills were "supposed to win" that they didn't.

Average NFL referee salary is already 205K per year.

I have zero idea why this offside call is even an issue. Toney is clearly lined up offside. Von Miller looks like he is most likely not. This penalty is called all the time as it should. The Chief's 8-4 record was a mirage almost as much as the Steeler's 6-3 record. Kelce has lost a step and a half and their WR group went from mediocre last year to just plain bad this year. If it wasn't for reputation, Mahomes would probably be barely be a top 10 QB in most of the media's ratings this year.

I don't think it is a question of having fast guys on the field, it's that most of the time the guy intercepting the hail Mary gets tackled right away. Otherwise most of the fast guys on offense are on the wrong side of the ball. If the defender doesn't get tackled right away, there's almost no one to stop him on a hail Mary as we saw in the Bills Jets and Jets Dolphins games.

If one is going for the least disruption and maximum fairness, just go to 16 international games and an extra bye week, six games in England, three in Germany, three in Mexico and 4 others in random places around the world. Everyone has an international game so it would just count as a neutral site game and you would have the extra bye week before that game. Of course, the league has shown that they care nothing for fairness. Its amazing that they haven't extracted that extra dollar out and have a Monday night game on week 18.

Anyone expecting a 35 year old coming back from an ACL to look good right away is delusional. The hope was that he would be a positive contributor by the end of the season. Forgetting about the off field stuff, people ragging on him for not playing well are just being unreasonable.

That was before Hackett demonstrated that he is historically horrible at calling plays or managing offenses.

I really don't understand the belief that Rodgers is super loyal to people like Nate Hackett and Tim Boyle. Boyle played two years with Rodgers, he was third string one year and second string the next. Rodgers probably barely knew Boyle existed. Same with Hackett. He was OC for two years with Rodgers and didn't even call plays, Matt Lefleur did. This year Hackett's offense has scored 10 TDs all season, the same as the Dolphins scored in one game. Hackett's offenses have been historically bad for two years in a row. Why would Rodgers refuse to play without Hackett and Boyle?

The league won't do anything unless the woman changes her story. Look at Frank Gore. He was accused of dragging a woman naked across a hotel hallway, pled guilty to a reduced charges of violating the public health code and then the 49ers hired him for the front office.

That's a bit unfair. The Bills looked great for the first five or six games last season.

Here's a bunch that were/are coaches at the positions HC Frank Reich (Colts/Panthers) OC Alex van Pelt (Bills, Browns) DC Jim Leonhard (Wisconsin) QB Davis Webb (Broncos) RB Sam Gash (Lions, Packers) OL Mike Devlin (asst OL Ravens) LB Kelvin Sheppard (OLB, ILB Lions) ST Colt Anderson (asst ST Bengals) WR Naaman Roosevelt (Off asst - Saskatchewan Roughriders) Couldn't find a former Bill at secondary and DL.

Individual referees being on the take is certainly a possibility but the idea that the league decides beforehand who will win games, not so much.

Not to mention Jerry Jones being perfectly happy not being in a Super Bowl for 30 years. Also when do they tell new owners that all the outcomes are predetermined? Is David Tepper OK with this? Why don't any of the new owners sue the NFL when they find out about this?

Mainly because he was an awful offensive coordinator in Carolina. That's why he was QB coach with the Bills instead of an OC somewhere else.

Don't want to pile on but I never understood the Bassomatic stuff. His statistics are average throughout his career though I guess he should get a boost for kicking in Buffalo's weather. Even when he was special team player of the month, his "clutch" kick against the jets boinked in off the upright. That's hardly clutch if you have to rely on getting a lucky bounce. To me he always had a lot of kicks that just barely made it thru the goalpost.

Yes, he supposedly gave up some money to get his Packer buds in but 5 out of the 6 of his players they brought in will be gone by the beginning of next season and they would get rid of All Lazzard if it wasn't for the cap hit. I don't see how they can keep an OC who has been historically bad for two seasons. Just my opinion of course.

You probably didn't watch the game. Not many points but over 400 yards of offense. They looked nothing like they did under Canada.