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What if your boss asked you to cheat or steal?

Yes, Flores is more qualified for head coach. He's had decent success as a head coach relative to his team's talent level. Daboll has no head coaching experience, and the coordinator skillset is different from the head coach skillset. Additionally, even Daboll's coordinator resume is a mixed bag, as he's been fired a few times from offensive coordinator after producing lowly-ranked offenses before finally landing in Buffalo with Josh Allen. To be clear, I do think Daboll is a good coordinator and I would've given him the head coaching job after 13 seconds happened to McDermott.

Michael Silver is a disgusting human being and should be ignored. He and all his ilk. I also don't think Flores' career is over. If we replaced Frazier with him, many people here would jump for joy, me included. (I'd replace McDermott with him, too, but that's more controversial).

We can all agree that the 58% doesn't mean there is pro-black racism or anti-white racism in hiring NFL players, right? There are probably advantages -- whether genetic or cultural or both -- for blacks to be better athletes. For that matter, asians are very underrepresented in the NFL. Again, we are mature enough to understand that there are probably genetic or cultural reasons for the lack of asian players, not incredible anti-asian racism. You can figure out where I'm going with this.

Trying to show that his interview was a sham, but everyone already knew that sham interviews occur anyway. The real meat of the lawsuit is still the Dolphins stuff and Ross' shenanigans.

Time will tell. If over a a 10-15 year period, the Rams still have achieved more, despite the Bills having the better QB, we'd have to conclude that they had the superior strategy. Bengals feel like they just had a fluky run to make it this season (even though their future is bright with Burrow). Also, when you draft overall #1 to land your franchise QB, it's hard to give the organization too much credit. For example, I think the Bills deserve much more credit for drafting Allen because there were so many question marks and naysayers about him.

This is a very bad take. Kaepernick clearly had the support of the ruling class, of which Ross is a member. Here, publicly going against Ross and exposing Ross' misconduct will certainly not enrich Flores. The ruling class will view this as a black man biting that hand that feeds him. I think that's exactly right. All the "Flores just ended his career" takes ignore that Ross was already doing that. Flores must've felt that he had close to nothing to lose. Look, usually I'm as "racist" as they come, but I have to admire what Flores is doing here. Instead of going meekly into the night, he's taking some swings and trying to bring people down with him. That the Dolphins might suffer at his hands is a very nice bonus.

One other thing about this. The Rams have the best special teams in the league by DVOA, so it's not like their strategy has cost them depth or on the margins. At least not yet. They are still a well-rounded team despite having elite talent in many places and despite given up many assets to acquire that elite talent.

This will be a replay of last year's Super Bowl where a D-line dominating an O-line is the story of the game.'' It'll be a good results for the Bills as it will encourage McBeane to make aggressive moves to bring high-end talent onto the team to support Allen. The McVay/Snead era for the Rams and the McDermott/Beane era for the Bills both started in 2017. Both regimes have been highly successful but the Rams are going to be the one who's been to 2 Super Bowls, winning 1. This, despite the Bills having the better QB. Hopefully McBeane will think about that a little bit and take some lessons from the Rams.

Just hire an experienced playcaller from the same system so terminology won't change. Josh will do the rest.

Hopefully we don't end up running the ball too much next season. I thought the push/pull between McD and Daboll eventually led to the perfect balance towards the end of the season. I don't want McD dominating some inexperienced coordinator.

You can still root for the Bills in these final three games because not all outcomes are equal and/or irrelevant to the Bills, imo. For example, what if KC gets destroyed in the Super Bowl again? That would cause them to have a lot of angst and uncertainty about their "dynasty", and maybe they follow up the Super Bowl beatdown with another Super Bowl hangover like they had for like half the season this year. Furthermore, what would be the concern about McBeane? That they're too aggressive in trying to win a Super Bowl, or that they're not aggressive enough, or perhaps neither? I would say my concern with them is easily that they don't end up being aggressive enough in acquiring elite talent fast enough to help Josh Allen out. So wouldn't the Rams winning the Super Bowl be a nice message to send to McBeane? That's why I'm rooting for the Rams to spank KC in the Super Bowl. I believe that's an outcome that would increase Buffalo's chances in coming seasons, however slight the increase.

3.5" 4.5" 9" 12" My hard-on for Josh Allen

one thing I don't want us to rally around next season is thinking that home field advantage will be the difference in beating the Chiefs. they're absolutely good enough and a veteran playoff team enough to go into Buffalo and win, especially since McD served up the mental edge to them. but we shouldn't pretend like it doesn't matter, especially against non-KC opponents. The Titans will be much easier to beat at home than on the road. Same with Baltimore, Cincy, and most of the other AFC contenders. The Perfect Game probably doesn't happen in Foxboro but rather something more akin to the regular season win in Foxboro, etc.

I was obviously referring to the situational football aspect, as that is where McDermott failed miserably. Madden players can play like 20 games a day, so they run into 4th-down decisions, 13 seconds left decisions, etc at a much higher frequency than NFL coaches who only coach 17 games a year. Like I said, it's why the young online poker players are the best in the world. They just see so many more hands than the old-school guys who aren't 8-tabling online. Madden is not my preference, btw. I want the Pegulas to pay for a proprietary simulator software for situational gameday decision-making.

If some proprietary simulator can't be developed, then McD should just play Madden 8 hours a day to get the reps he needs. The top 100 ranked Madden players in the world would run circles around him for gameday management.

The only way to improve is reps but unfortunately NFL teams only play 17 games a season, and when you're a very good team like the Bills, many of those games don't even put the coaches into high-leverage clutch situations. McD needs to spend 8 hours a day with some sort of situational football simulator software, so he can increase his reps. It's like how the best poker players in the world are 22-yr-old computer dorks who play 8 tables at once online. They can see as many hands in two weeks as Doyle Brunson sees in a year.

this is one award that should wait for the playoffs to finish. this was a shaky pick already, and it's going to look dumb when the Rams win the Super Bowl.

Hopefully Josh can have a similar career. I think McD can probably be similar to Cowher and Tomlin - good team culture guys who struggle on gameday.

It helps if gambling is a hobby. I'm going to have to check in to see how my KC -7 bet is doing, and if KC blows them out as expected, I believe the wrong team will be favored in the Super Bowl (or at the very least it should be pick'em), setting up another great bet there.

Rodgers at 38 isn't thinking long-term. in fact, the short-term play in his head may be to come to Mahomes' division and beat him head to head. i'm not saying it makes sense or is smart, but i can see a hypercompetive athlete who wants to still be known as the best QB do this. as a Bills fans, we should hope the Chiefs have as loaded a division as possible

Very doubtful. That was a flukish run in the 90s. If the NFC has 1-2 great teams a year and the AFC has 5-6 great teams a year, the Super Bowl will still likely be great team vs great team, a toss-up.

I agree. McBeane can waste draft picks on the defense for the next decade, and they'll still give up 30 to the Reid/Mahomes Chiefs. The path of least resistance is to give Josh weapons and protection so he can score 40. But I doubt our braintrust will will figure this out.

Bills at Rams is the NFL opener.

Cincy would've been a 51-3 repeat. Super Bowl vs the Rams would be a toss-up. If it were the 49ers, we'd be the heavy favorites. You're right but we shouldn't underplay it either. This was our best shot at a SB in forever and the coaches blew it.