Cray51

Jesus, just got bad luck all throughout the 4th. Two washy penalties on 4th down, and missing that punt pin inside the 5. it’s a game of inches, take the win and move forward.

I'll be honest, I actually think the Bucs lock you in for the next season at Week 1. It screwed over my friend who wanted tickets for Brady's last year but not the next. Regardless, the immobility of season ticket holders to cancel reasonably is a bit annoying.

I think you are taking very complex situations year over year and trying to boil them down into a few sentences. We can claim whatever narratives we want, none of us are in the building day to day. Last year Frazier was the coordinator for the beginning of the season as well, where we were doing incredibly well on defense. What happened? We lost our entire secondary to injuries, and then Von went down on top of it. That's factual. From there, we have the Hamlin situation. With all of that being the case, we still were a top 5 statistical defense and went into the playoff game without several key players (Von, White, Hyde, Daquan). We were flat. But this is the NFL, perfection just doesn't happen. We sucked when it mattered. But at least we got there. That's not a total failure, its an outcome of several factors. Allen being emotionless? Yea, we can try to build a narrative there. If it means anything, he was incredibly quiet during the 13 seconds game UNTIL the final two minutes. He was incredibly quiet when we whooped the Patriots two years ago. He was full of sly emotion during the Miami game this year as we hung 48 on them. So, maybe he isn't happy, maybe he is. We dont know as we aren't in the room. Eagles players hug Nick Sirianni during games, but I have family who work in the building who tell me players dont like him and he is an ass. But the narrative to the public is everybody loves the guy. I guess our views from afar dont point a full picture. If the Bills fail to make the playoffs, it will be a problem and legitimate questions will be asked. Allen isn't going anywhere. Diggs wont go anywhere. If someone takes the fall, its McD or Dorsey. However, at 4-3 we are still in a good position and the team has shown the ability to win games over the past 4 years. I understand pessimism... you should meet my wife. I try to be a realist through being analytical with what I can prove. Nobody here can prove Allen is checked out. We can claim it to be, buts that just self-driven narrative. Wish whatever you want. Think whatever you want. For me, I'm acknowledging that the numbers and past have shown this core team can win games and make the playoffs. Right now, that's my focus, and then we will go from there. If the players called a meeting to discuss their recent hardships - fine by me. If they didn't - fine by me. The team is expected to produce results, my focus in wins and losses.

First post: "McClappy lost this team in the 13 seconds." Second post: "And how did last year turn out. I guess you and McClappy are satisfied. Keep drinking the kool-aid." So McClappy lost the team the year before 13 wins and then you implied we should not be satisfied with 13 wins and a playoff loss. So it's not a long shot to assume you are saying a lost team and a team not reaching the Super Bowl both carry the same level of negative associations. I disagree that McD lost the team at any point. McD is one of the best coaches in the league, and will adjust as this season goes on. However, only two teams make the Super Bowl every year. We have to continue to re-tool and adjust until we get over the hump.

Are you saying there isn’t a difference between losing the team and not winning the SuperBowl?

I only took stats from the previous two seasons, where both QBs played at least 16 games.

So you are saying Burrow is a better passer in every phase, both mentally and in translation to physical output, but has never had more passing TDs than Allen in any season. And if Burrow is the clearly better pocket passer, who thinks the game at least two or three tiers above Allen (since I'm assuming you are weighting Allen's mobility difference to Burrow in the same way you address Burrow's advantage in processing), why isn't Burrow clearly dominating in any single statistical category in pure passing? You can reference to his completion % gap, but this year when Allen has stayed truer to the pocket, he is putting up incredible accuracy metrics. Let me take a step back. The claim is Burrow is a much more accurate thrower at every level than Allen. But Burrow ranked below Allen in deep ball accuracy last year... even though Allen threw 20 more passes downfield Burrow is claimed to be unphased and ice in his veins, and the clearly more clutch player (would love to know how that is measured), but Allen has more 4th quarter comeback wins since the two have both been in the league (9 vs. 5) Burrow is less spooked by defenses, but Burrow only has 6 less TOs than Allen (37 vs. 31). So if Burrow isn't spooked at all, then do we say Allen is only spooked a little? Because the difference here is a level, but it's not two or three tiers better. Burrow has fewer total yards, fewer total touchdowns, fewer passing touchdowns, more passing yards, fewer overall turnovers, fewer comebacks, more man games lost to injury, more playoff wins, but fewer impactful playoff performances, same amount of Super Bowl rings, and fewer wins every year they have played in the league (including this year) If you want to say Burrow is in the same league as Allen, sure. But to tell me to stop being a homer when I've tried to be analytical in my approach while you use "Doesn't get phased or spooked" and "Clutch play" as your defining factors.... maybe stop being so poor in your ability to rate quarterbacks if you are asking me to stop being a homer. Jeez my math is terrible.... you are right. Total apologies! Adjusting my list to 20 years: Greats of the game: Brady Manning Mahomes (yes, he is a great right now) Brees Rodgers Roethlisberger E. Manning (I consider all of these guys top 5 QBs of their generation, so to me they are looked at as "greats". Understand if others feel differently) MVP/Good QBs with great postseason winners: Stafford Wilson Flacco I have no idea how they won: Foles Point still remains, you need a top 5 QB to have a chance to win the Super Bowl. I believe Allen fits that criteria

Brees was 23 years ago. I took the last 20 winners

Name a single year Burrow was the "better" QB, knowing he has in fact taken his team to a super bowl, when his postseason stat line was 5 TDs 2 INTs and averaged 280 total yards a game. Yes his team won to get him to the Super Bowl, but Burrow was not the driving factor in that postseason

Over the last 20 years, the only QBs to win the Super Bowl are: Greats of the game: Brady Manning Mahomes (yes, he is a great right now) MVP/Good QBs with great postseason winners: Stafford Wilson Flacco I have no idea how they won: Foles Regardless, only 1 QB (Foles) who wasn't a solid top 10 QB has won a super bowl in 20 years. Allen, by all statistical and eye test measures is a top 5 QB in the game, and has been over the past 4 years. That gives him as good a shot as any to continue with the trend of Super Bowl winners. Allen is IMO the second best QB in the game right now behind Mahomes. I think he is trying to win games this year without the physical tax on the body early on, which I do believe has worn him down over the course of the past few seasons. He has the chance to turn it on at any time, so we should rest easy that Allen will put us in any game we play. Is he a robot? No. But is a QB good enough to win the Super Bowl? Absolutely.

Jones is terrible Patriots offense wont score much against us. If the Bills can put up 17 or more, they win. I expect the Bills to run Murray and Cook quite a bit, and then bring PA with Josh's legs to finish the job. 30-13 Bills

They used Achane so well to start the year. They motion him to allow him to pick up speed, and then keeps everything to the outside and can speed past linebackers. Really unfortunate for them, however they have the talent to overcome it. What you dont want, is for this to be a recurring issue for a guy who is trying to make a career. Still so young.

Kair was absolutely abused in coverage. Ridley beat him 3-4 times cleanly on important 3rd down plays. He was a contribution to the failure, I dont see what the problem is with acknowledging that.

We were down to our bottom corners, against a team with 3-4 viable pass catchers each down. They converted tons of third downs specifically against Elam. then, we lose our top DT, with Milano, and we already are down Rousseau. I’m not shocked they killed in time of possession, and while the offense was subpar, our defense couldn’t do much either.

Then have a team spend a full preseason over and survey the three teams they face and the team themselves. Not a friggin week 5 game in the regular season

Neal looked awful the other day, and him saying what he did points to a completely lost mental game. Guy won’t be on the team much longer if he doesn’t improve. giants are a tire fire this year. They look dysfunctional.

It's interesting, I am not upset at the Bills taking the chance on Edmunds. He had all of the physical traits you would look for, and Im sure Beane and co banked on their ability to take a young, raw, athlete and turn him into a ballhawking instinctive MLB. Problem is, Edmunds just never developed that killer instinct. We've seen it with lots of busts, Darnold, Wilson, Rosen, etc. Guys who just couldn't run mentally at the pace of the game. It's a shame, but man did they hit with Bernard.

On X, when you want to understand an accounts details, you have to legitimately type in the account name and hit forget password to initiate a reset request to your email. Its attempting to act like the account owner to uncover their email. That's legal, but IMO unethical.

It's one of those "it's legal but not totally ethical". You dont casually click on log in, put another person's account name, and forget password just for the hell of it. What's next, you go to the email and click forget password on that domain so you can try to get the last digits of a phone number? Then plug that into a local search to try to find the match? Just annoying that this will be praised when it has some crappy undertones.

I dont love some random person using "forgot password" on an account that isn't theirs and passing it off as investigative journalism. Now we will see a thousand people doing this to every handle they disagree with. However, if it's true, Canada is an absolute idiot

Cousins and Jefferson are the most like Batman Robin, with Jefferson dragging Kirk's ass around the field. But the real answer is Milano/Bernard. The true GOATs

This young kid comedy stuff is going to give me a seizure one day...

They are going to be 2-4 going into their bye, with 49ers, Bills and Ravens as 3 of the next 4.... They could be sitting at 3-7 halfway through the year! Unfortunately, they know they will be losing more talent this year (Higgins) so they are pushing Burrow to play to try to make the playoffs and get a ring. They are thinking short term, and its killing them

Also, on the 3rd and 22 Mahomes picked up where there was also the flag for illegal contact, there was a BLATANT hold by Donavan Smith that should have been called

Two things: 1) Mahomes showboating like he single-handedly won them the game when he was ass the whole time is why I don’t like him 2) refs are so far up the chiefs butt it’s like they are the 1960s white team in the Deep South facing the integrated team from California…. It’s a joke