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Did we miss the window? Of course not. That's absurd. Josh is 29 years old and has at least 5 prime years left. The Eagles would trade for Josh and his salary in a heartbeat and give their first-born son to do so, and they would proceed to win 3 Super Bowls with him. Because they have a great GM and a good enough head coach. McBeane needs to go.

For me, Keon is out of sight and out of mind for me and has been for awhile. I don't even bother to think about him anymore because it's pointless. Here's a guy who, coming out of college, there were advanced statistics showing that he was one of the worst WRs at getting separation. Additionally, there were also advanced statistics showing that he was mediocre to bad at contested catches. So, Keon can't separate AND he can't reliably make contested catches. Against college competition. What chance did this kid really have against pros? Keon will be extinct soon. He's like a monkey who both doesn't know how to crack nuts AND doesn't know how to find fruits, vegetables, and insects. You can't survive in the NFL or the tropics that way.

McD should've been fired after the 13 Seconds game. Nobody that gutless/dumb will ever lead Buffalo to a Super Bowl win. Beane should've followed a season or two after. At this point (and it's way past due), McBeane just need to go.

If Bills-Chiefs is inevitable, and I tend to agree it may be, under what circumstances would you like it played? I'd love to be like the Chiefs last season heading into the Bills-Chiefs playoff clash. The Chiefs were the 1-seed, enjoyed a playoff bye, beat the outmatched Texans for one measly playoff win, and poof, the Chiefs were already in the AFC Championship Game. The Bills had to beat two teams to advance to the same round, including an all-out knock-down dragout fight against the Ravens where we left the game with lots of injuries on defense. And then we had to go to Arrowhead. Yikes. Getting the 1 seed and playoff bye does not guarantee the Super Bowl. But it's the one thing the Bills haven't done yet under McBeane. If McBeane is going to fail us, at least fail us in a different way this season. We need to beat the Falcons tonight and get to 5-1.

I think people are thinking in terms of the 1-seed and playoff bye instead of just making the playoffs or winning the division. When you're aiming for 14+ wins, there are more "must wins" along the way than if you're aiming to make the playoffs.

KC will get the double-dip TD coming out of the half, and Detroit will be chasing the rest of the game.

Ironically, Miami put in a good effort today. Took the Chargers down to the wire and covered the spread. They could've easily won that game.

Detroit secondary is ravaged with injuries. Would love to see it but think the Chiefs sneak this one out.

They need to beat the Patriots for us in Week 16. All I ask.

In the midst of a such a low-scoring game, I wonder if the Ravens will regret not kicking a FG there to go up 6-3 heading into the half. I'm a big proponent of going for it on 4th down, but that idea strengthens in high-scoring games and lessens in low-scoring games when easy points, even if it's just 3 points, are so precious.

Roethlisberger won 2 rings. One was against the Seahawks and one was against the Cardinals. I agree that even if Mahomes is QB1 like Tom Brady was, QB2 and QB3 should still be able to get a ring or two like Manning and Roethlisberger did. That's why it's frustrating that Josh is winning 0 with McBeane. The really sad thing is that Allen might actually be this generation's QB1 and will be shutout by McBeane.

McBeane are the coach and GM that drafted Josh, the only coach and GM that Josh has ever known in the NFL. It's pure fantasy-land to think that he's been deciding whether they stay or go all these years. I do agree, though, that this may come up in the future. Once Josh is 33 years old and still ringless thanks to McBeane, he might ask for changes and a new voice in the locker room / front office.

Bills 27-20

Even if we suck this year, we're still going to win 10-11 games. There's no such thing as tanking for an elite talent when you have Josh Allen at QB. He keeps us afloat too well.

It really just depends on how we respond on Monday night. If we win, then 5-1 is a perfectly reasonable and good record for the first 6 games, keeping in mind we played a healthy Ravens team and New England is, outside of QB, as talented as the Bills and even enjoys clear advantages at certain key positions like CB1, CB2, and WR1. Lose again to fall to 4-2, and it'll feel like we're squandering the massive gifts the football gods have handed us with Burrow's injury, the Raven's multiple injuries to Pro Bowlers, and KC losing close games finally.

The Falcons have a light front 7 that hopefully the Bills can roadgrade a bit. Penix is also a tier or two down from Maye and will hopefully help us with a few misses here and there on key downs. The matchup isn't that bad imo.

Who exactly is this news to? We are on the road as only a 3.5-pt favorite, against a team coming off a bye. Of course we could lose. Now I happen to think the Bills bounce back here, win and cover. What is even the point of McDermott and his "culture" if it isn't to have a strong bounce-back win here? We have to show our character here.

Vegas isn't predicting the Bills to win the Super Bowl lol. Our odds are just a function of our schedule and how we're positioned in the standings vs other preseason favorites in the conference like the Ravens and Chiefs. We're overrated in the odds, but that's Vegas' job. They want to make it so that if you bet the Bills, you're making a bad bet.

Both the Bills and Falcons like to run the ball too much to get into that kind of a shootout. Plus, statistically, Atlanta's D has been really strong through 4 games. They haven't given up 300 yards yet. And I don't think Penix is on the level of Allen, Stafford, Mayfield or Darnold (of the past two seasons).

I really doubt there was heavy action on the Bills to cover the spread. Especially after the Bills had already failed to cover the previous two weeks against the Dolphins and Saints. If anything, I would guess the public was on NE if it wasn't an relatively even split.

I don't get the "who would you replace him with" questions. We'd have to wait until the offseason, sure, but then the Bills would have the pick of litter among the best OC and head coaches available. (I would not hire a DC). Every coach would love to coach Josh Allen. Heck, we probably should've just hired Vrabel ourselves.

Outside of QB, can we really make a case that the Bills have more talent than NE? Both teams have good o-lines. Both teams have RB depth. Maybe Cook is the best RB talent but it's just RB; Stevenson and Henderson would thrive in Buffalo, too. Diggs is better than any WR we have. We have more TE depth but Henry is as good as any single TE we have. Neither d-line can rush the passer consistently. Pats do have a couple of good interior rushers, but hopefully Oliver coming back evens that up. Pats secondary is better, and Christian Gonzales is easily better than anyone we have back there. We probably have better LBs but are lacking depth. As for QB, Maye still has a lot to prove. If you scheme to stop him from rolling right (lol at McDermott), then he's too concerned about the pass rush in the pocket and can't make plays downfield. Collingsworth made it seem like that's just something he'll have to improve on but that's easier said than done. A lot of QBs never get over this.

Re: Brady's LSU stint The season right before Brady arrived, LSU already had Burrow, Jefferson, and Chase, and they were a bad offense. Seriously, the season before Burrow threw for 60 TDs, he threw for only 16 TDs without Brady. Brady actually was not the offensive coordinator and didn't call the plays on game day, but he designed that passing offense. If you followed college football closely that season, there was no doubt that the bulk of the credit went to Joe Brady for LSU's transformation from bad to historically great offense.

I support the "4-0 is all that matters" type takes because we've literally done it the other way before. There were at least two seasons recently where we had a dominant September (but were only 3-1 instead of 4-0 after four games) and statistically, we looked like the best team ever according to EPA / play or something like that. (There were threads on here that shouldn't be tough to find). But, as we should know by now, dominating September doesn't matter and didn't matter in those seasons. By the time the playoffs came around, we didn't play that well. For this season, I want to see us healthy and playing our best ball in January, after having rested because of the playoff bye / 1 seed. All that matters at this point is that we're 4-0 and in pole position for the bye / 1-seed.

Yeah, plus the relatively early bye isn't ideal. It also might be more accurate to say that the Bills' schedule is backloaded rather than outright easy. I mean, we're still playing first-place teams as a division winner from last season, we just happen to play most of them in the back half of the season.