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did he hit her or mush her? big difference

that sure sounds like our Bills alright. follow up 13 Seconds with a Super Bowl win, as that's the kind of thing this franchise does. as a Bills fan, I'm sure I won't be thinking about 13 Seconds in five years.

has a team ever opened in two consecutive seasons, without being the Super Bowl winner in either?

Happy for Aaron Donald, a legend of the game. Couldn't care less about Stafford. It's like saying, "finally the long-awaited ring for Kirk Cousins! so deserving!" Satisfied with the Rams win because it might send a message to McBeane since the Snead/McVay partnership in L.A. started the same season the McBeane partnership started in Buffalo. Two Super Bowl appearances, including a win for Snead/McVay. This helps keep McBeane humble hopefully, lets them know their poop does stink. This isn't really a bold prediction considering how hard it is to get there. Will Josh ever get there, with McD as his coach?

Wide Right was a 50/50 kick back in those days. (Nowadays, a kicker would be expected to hit it 85%+ of the time). MCM was a tough call to make. Yes, the ball went forward like 6 inches, maybe a foot, but you could understand why the refs thought it went parallel. No Goal. Again, a bang-bang play on what for decades had been called a goal. I'm not saying there was zero incompetence on the three above, sure there was. But on the scale of incompetence, none of those three come even close to 13 seconds. Not even close.

there's a decent chance he'll be calling play this upcoming season, depending on how badly it goes for first-time playcaller Dorsey

if Cincy beats the Rams, it wouldn't mean that the Bills would've done it also. just like how Cincy was able to figure out a coverage to slow down the Chiefs and we didn't. i tend to think the Rams will spank the Bengals, but IF the upset happens, we can't draw conclusions from it, and it wouldn't make 13 seconds any worse. it's bad enough already.

Clear step forward. Last year, we didn't have a chance to win the Super Bowl. This year we should've won it or at least should've been in the Super Bowl if not for massive unforgivable coaching incompetence. Most likely, next season won't give us as good a shot as we had this year.

Bills would draft a bust or at least underwhelming DE going by past history. Cincy didn't defeat the Chiefs because they had more defensive talent than the Bills. They had better brains than the Bills on defense. Not sure how to fix that, though. Since people seem to support McD and Frazier.

I'm hoping he can last as long as Big Ben did as an elite QB and hopefully we can win two titles. The problem is the coaching in the NFL has gotten a lot better and I don't know if you can make Cowher and Tomlin-like gameday mistakes and still win the two trophies. Josh's body isn't the the threat to Buffalo finally winning a Super Bowl. McD's brain is.

Okay, but this post is ironic because without Spain (and Portugal), the hispanic/latino classification wouldn't even exist. (The root word for "hispanic" btw, is Hispania, what the Romans called the Iberian peninsula where Spain and Portugal reside). See, what happened is this. Way back when, your ancestors from Spain -- great men that I admire -- set out to conquer, colonize, and civilize what we now know as Latin America. In the process of doing this, Spain (and Portugal) spread their seed/genetics, their language, and their religion (Catholicism) to the populations of these countries. So now, people from those Spanish-speaking countries are classified as "hispanic" / "latino". In that way, Spain is the arch-hispanic country. They started it all.

Well, you're assuming that everything else besides experience is equal, which I think is probably a bad assumption. What if, between the two populations, one of them has much more interest and desire to become coaches, for example? That would lead to them being "overrepresented" in coaching. Or what if, between the two populations, one of them has more coaching talent? There are probably several other possible explanations, too, if we brainstormed hard enough. What's interesting to me is that I can't think of any organization where the demographics will be consistent across all levels of the organization. If we're talking military, I would expect the infantry to be demographically different from the group of all lieutenant colonels in charge of battalions. If we looked at, let's say, Walmart, I would expect the demographics of the loaders/unloaders to be different from the demographics of store managers, which in turn will be different from the demographics of VPs. I mean, is there any particular reason the NFL should be the exception if no other industry (or perhaps a miniscule amount) has consistent demographics across all levels of the organization?

First of all, I would hope that 100% of the sport uses two legs for walking. Next, why are we assuming player ratios and coach ratios should be the same? Different skillsets, no?

Really good post. To answer your question, when you're dealing with numbers and sample size that low, 3 years is just a blip and not necessarily a meaningful trend yet. It'd be akin to asking why this baseball player who usually bats .300 is only batting .200 over the past two weeks.

Very good post, and I hit the like button on it. Flores, however, is black and self-identifies as black. Now he may also be "latino" depending on how you want to define that (if being from Honduras is enough without any regard to genetic makeup, then he's "latino") that but his parents are Afro-Honduran. Basically, back in the day, conquistadors would bring African slaves with them while doing their colonizing, and that's how Africans ends up in Honduras.

haha, this post contains at least two bad assumptions, maybe three

Yeah, if someone who's hired and managed both Flores and Daboll isn't allowed to be a reference and therefore influence the decision, that's just stupid. Stick to effing the Dolphins, Flores.

To be clear, I don't think there's a problem with minority hiring in the NFL. (I do support Flores because I think he was getting railroaded by Ross, and I additionally believe his accusations against Ross). But if there were a problem, the Rooney Rule seems to suck at addressing it.

I think in one the Freakonomics books (not a fan generally, but this example is interesting), there was a daycare that had a problem with parents picking up their kids late. So the daycare started charging the parents $5 whenever they came late. Did parents stop coming late? No, what actually happened following this change was that the number of late pickups *increased*, because from the parents' point of view, they were now paying for the privilege of being late and no longer felt bad about it. This could be similar to what's happening with the Rooney Rule. Owners and executives might feel like the Rooney Rule is in place to take care of racism, so they themselves don't have to check their own behavior and make sure they're giving black coaches a fair shot. In fact, they may feel that since they're being forced to interview two black coaches for every job opening, something they dislike and from their point of view wastes resources, they can be allowed to be racist in the final hire in order to balance things out. Here's a very common situation in life: (1) There's a problem (2) Your solution to the problem sucks or makes it worse. Unfortunately, too many people in power don't understand this.

Ha! I get what you're insinuating but frankly, McDermott would be dead on a slab somewhere by now because his benefactor would be worried that McD made it too obvious the fix was in. Ironically, the grosser the incompetence, the more likely it's just incompetence and not malfeasance because cheaters are mindful to "make it look good". McD was too stupid to have been fixing.

Josh is one in a thousand. Literally you can have a thousand QBs with Josh's profile coming out of college, and only he will turn into a great QB. Most will bust. Anyway, with Willis, he doesn't have Josh's size and he doesn't have Josh's intelligence. Poor comparison in the first place.

Hopefully this is Josh's Machiavellian move to improve head coach. McD probably thinks Brady is here to replace Dorsey in a year or two. Little does he know...

It'd be a great get. Heck, I would've given him OC over Dorsey, that's how good this hire would be.

Josh needs to have secret meetings with the Pegulas. They have to come to an understanding that if McDermott continues to flub situational football and game management next season, the Pegulas will fire him. Josh needs to take control of his career, for the good of his career and for the city of Buffalo. If he wants to win Super Bowls and bring home trophies to Buffalo, he needs to surround himself with elite talent at important positions like head coach, GM, WR2, CB2, DE. Now that Josh has reached superstar QB level, he has control over these things and should work with the Pegulas to win Super Bowls.

If what we're good at is drafting and developing DBs, why not use picks on DBs until we've produced our own Legion of Boom instead of de-emphasizing CB2, for example? The Bengals beat KC with coverage.