JohnNord

Surely you must be a Bradley Gelber fan?

Of course…I was at the game. But what happened to that team? I remember old Aaron Schatz used to appear on Schopp and the Bulldog and crow about how “historically good” the 2019 Patriots team was - especially the defense. By December they struggled to beat the Bills, lost to the Dolphins, and got smashed by Tennessee in the playoffs. So much for historically good

No but how about Bills Wire?

He was playing in December because I remember John Brown undressed him so badly he did his usual finger pointing at his teammate.

How did that 2019 Patriots team fall apart? I remember they started off hot and by the end of the year they were struggling with the bears and got upset by good old Fitzmagic

Fascinating… it’s interesting how some great QB’s are able to mask a average to below average offensive line. Despite the low percentage, I don’t think any of the lineman have a high individual rating for pass blocking so far. Johnson was brutal with holding onto the ball. It’s was gave him several concussion and likely shortened his career. I remember that Bledsoe was a statue in the pocket and was responsible for many sacks

LOL I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t click-baiting the clickbait

If you are into the Bills or any sports team you’ve probably encountered the occasional clickbait article. Recently, my browser landing page has pointed me to several of these from Heavy.com. It’s a blogging site who covers the Bills beat on a subpage called Heavy on Bills. https://heavy.com/sports/buffalo-bills/ While many of the articles simply regurgitate what already being reported, this site will frequently produce a comedically bad clickbait article about the team. I’m finding 1 or 2 each week. Case and point - there is an article titled: “Bills Head Coach Throws Subtle Shade at Jaguars’ Urban Meyer” What did McDermott say? Simply that we went back to the office after his flight from KC. The author claims that some online speculated it was a shot at Meyer. I don’t think it was and even if people did speculate that why report it? This reeks of desperation. https://heavy.com/sports/buffalo-bills/sean-mcdermott-urban-meyer-twitter/amp/ How about this one from last month: Bills QB lgnored Coach to Throw ‘Unbelievable’ TD to Stefon Diggs The article says nothing about Allen ignoring McDermott and simply echoed one reporters inference of what ‘atta boy’ might mean - which I believe was sarcastic: https://heavy.com/sports/buffalo-bills/josh-allen-touchdown-stefon-diggs/amp/ Here’s one post-Washington: Bills HC Reveals Honest Opinion of Washington QB Taylor Heinicke The inference here is that “honest” is going to be somewhat controversial or at least insightful. All McDermott said was that Heinicke was “a good quarterback.” So honest. LOL https://heavy.com/sports/buffalo-bills/sean-mcdermott-wft-taylor-heinicke/amp/ Here’s the last one: Bills Running Back Could Be on Hot Seat After Coach’s Comments He the author takes conjecture by Jeremy White and runs with it as though it’s a fact. I feel that claiming he’s on the “hot seat” seems like a more of an embellished way of inferring less carries. https://heavy.com/sports/buffalo-bills/bills-devin-singletary-hot-seat/ Just some funny headlines I thought fellow Bills fans might be a kick out of.

Doesn’t make sense. I think we are ok at RB with Moss and Singletary and Brieda as insurance

You never know which one of those teams will suddenly improve or get hot. At this point though, I like the schedule given the Bills history of usually taking care of teams they should beat under McDermott

I’m not defending Gruden at all. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of the NFL not tolerating any more racist, sexist, or homophobic actions or language while hiring and promoting entertainers with an extensive backgrounds of using all those words plus more. I agree…

I think Daboll would be a great fit in Jacksonville and he’d likely get the job over Bienemy given how he developed a young QB.

Not sure how the NFL can justify any of the three performers given their lyrics, themes and content…but I’m sure they will Yes they will

I think Joe Brady might be the guy

They *should* be considering him, but hiring seems to go in trends based on what has been successful and I have a feeling that teams are going to want another young, Brandon Staley-like coach , as opposed to an older experienced hire. I do hope Frazier gets one more HC shot. He deserves it

You don’t think that NFL Films has audio of players using homophobic or Misogynistic, or racially insensitive insults thrown around on the playing field over the last decade so you? They would never… Meanwhile NFL hires Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Eminem to perform at the halftime show. 3 men who made a career out of using sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic language include saying the words Gruden is getting grilled for thousands of times in public . Oh yeah, Dr. Dre once slapped around a female reporter too.

Ok I missed that part. I was thinking this happened 10 years ago around the time of the Smith comments

Wasn’t Allen blitzed a few times during the first few series of the second half? I don’t think teams have abandoned blitzing him entirely as they have with Mahomes and Brady. But I can see the overall numbers declining

Man I am so sorry. It sounds like you have some great memories of watching Bills football with your dad. And damn, that MNF NE game was a fun one! There are some people in my family who have passed and I’ve thought about them a lot during this recent resurgence over the past year or so. Mostly aunts, uncles, and grandparents who I remember watching the team when I was little. We enjoyed the Super Bowl years together, and I’m hoping to share a few more successful seasons with my own family. Following the Bills has caused us some disappointment and heartbreak but also left with unbelievable memories with our loved ones and important people.

It’s a lot of hypocrisy. If this has happened last year, then that’s one thing. But this happened a decade when Gruden was in a completely different situation and our world was a much different place.

Everything that I’ve read said this was not the case. Terry had a fondness for Doug and never held the Rex hire against him. If anything, the hire was Terry’s and Russ Brandon who famously told him not to let Rex leave the building. Even with the embarrassing presser, I feel that Terry wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. I can guarantee you that the press conference was what made McDermott want a new PR person though. The question that we’ll probably never know is whether there was a plan to fire Whaley after the draft back in January when McDermott was hired or if it was a decision Terry arrived at later once McDermott took over and slowly started gaining influence. Whaley (along with Jim Monos) will contend that he felt blind sighted by the firing in May and at the time, had no idea it was coming. Though it’s possible he’s either covering to make himself better or he simply was too naive to see it coming

Can we put to bed the narrative that Aswan McDermott hasn’t defeated a team with a franchise QB?

Yeah so this is not true at all. Russ was around through McDermott’s first year and into 2018 through May. I believe he was in the draft room when the Bills took Allen. That’s over one season. The Bills had a GM and HC for years before McDermott and Russ still found a way to involve himself in football decisions. McDermott made sure this didn’t happen. As far as Whaley being a dead man walking, that wasn’t the case in January 2017. He allowed Doug to run the job search and he was involved in some football decisions at first. Terry liked Doug personally, I think he was hoping things would work out with Whaley and McDermott, but it became clear that he needed to go Not firing the GM was not “Billsy incompetence.” It was standard across the league for decades, though not all team subscribe to this procedure any more. If you are going to fire your GM, you usually wait until after the end of their “season” which is the draft. The reason being is, if you fire them before, you risk them leaking all the scouting info to other teams. Also scouting beings nearly a year before the actual draft (sometimes longer). A few months really isn’t a lot of time for a new GM to put together a new staff and scout players The reason being is,

I agree but he is always horrible ALWAYS. I was shocked reading a thread in here where several members posted that he was their favorite announcer. He always sucks