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When your head coach is saying he is "very concerned" that his star WR is not at a MANDATORY minicamp, and the last time we saw him he was screaming at the franchise QB and storming out of the locker room before the coaches even got in there to address the team, and he removed references to the Bills from social media. Then yes, it's unreasonable to say you need MORE information. There is enough information here to convict him in a court of law for goodness sakes.

Stef is months away from being 30 years old. That is a grown man.

Well said and well admitted. A true realist.

Someone essentially asked why my username is what is (by mocking it) I simply explained it. Please try to follow along.

Homer'isms Volume III Page 46 : When proven disastrously wrong, dig your heels in and state that you must wait until all details of your wrongness is fleshed out. By that point, hopefully the conversation has shifted and you can avoid all comeuppance.

What is your personal knowledge? Share the details. Is Diggs issue mostly Dorsey related? Josh related? What is it?

We need another thread on how great McDermott is.

It truly is absurd. The realists on the board have been bashed for months for seeing the forest, while the homers scream "stare at the trees!!!"

Allen wasn't playing like sh*t. And I think what Simon said about Diggs being upset with Dorsey and telling Allen to ignore Dorsey is probably spot on. It makes sense.

Are you going to tell McDermott to stop being overly dramatic too?

Just FYI, it's a nickname my colleagues gave me over a decade ago. It's what others call me at work (or where I used to work). It stuck. A realist doesnt just adjust their sails. They see the wind for what it is.

Remember when all the homers told us that Diggs social media stuff was all just him playing around and we shouldn’t look into it? Remember when they told all of the realists that we were being crazy? Ahem.

Bingo. Perfectly written. Spot on.

And Elway had a better coach in Reeves. Though he also struggled to bring home the trophy, at least he got a lot closer.

Simon mentioned that Diggs was yelling at Allen to ignore Dorsey. That made me a feel a lot better about any animosity between Diggs & Allen. It sounds like Diggs is more frustrated with the offense than Allen himself.

Ok, I never flirted with you!

Gunner is my favorite poster as well. Even when we disagree. I thought Gunner was a women though? Perhaps i’ve been wrong on that.

Oh no, not at all. McDermott is NOT a poor coach. He is just not a great or elite coach. And it’s hard for me to watch us waste Allen’s career on a coach that is just “good”.

You simply made more excuses that don't fit in with the facts of what happened. You must be flabbergasted at how the Lakers were able to win the NBA Championship the year that Kobe died in a fiery helicopter accident, and covid was happening,

Right. You can add to that the tornado's that KC gets. Oh no! In fact, the Chiefs matriarch just passed away. I guess the Chiefs are doomed this year. Oh wait, that doesn't work... the Patriots went to the Super Bowl the year that their owners wife, who was deeply beloved, passed away. Oops. The truth is that many fans romanticize the connection that players have to the city. Despite the fact that many hp on planes and fly away the second the season is over. I only wonder how long some posters will cling to these excuses. How long are the players that don't even live here going to be affected by these tragedies? How many seasons are to be excused away?

The point is that these were not traumatic events for the players. The majority of which do NOT even live in the area most of the year. They aren't the first responders that arrived on the scene. Or close family members. They are football players, paid to play in a certain city, and had to fly in to attend an event that the team told them to attend. It's all public relations. No they aren't. You have fallen for the excellent public relations work that PSE does. She is not a virtual family member. She is the co-owner of a team. She was roundly criticized by PSE employees when she told them that they had to increase sales to keep up with their families lifestyle. And implied that PSE employees would be laid off before the Pegula's gave up their vacations. By all accounts, she is a nice, but smart, business women. But she is not a "virtual family member". I forgot this absurd excuse. Ah, yes, the snow storm caused the Bills players to be so traumatically affected that they won their next 6 games before being demolished in the playoffs. It's all excuses and all nonsense.

It does include IR. That’s why the Titans were #1 on the list. They had an incredible 23 players on IR.

Seriously. We literally have posters who think a mass shooting tragedy that happened 8 months prior, in a city that players don’t even live most of the year, had an impact on the Bengals bashing our heads in. Never mind the fact that we won 14 games after that tragedy, including crushing the prior years super bowl champions in the first game after the shooting. Oh and the owners wife having a medical emergency 5 months prior was another reason the Bengals wiped us all over the field. Never mind the fact that players often have the games of their lives after there is deaths in their personal family (ex: Allen after his grandma passed, Tiger after his dad passed, etc). The mental gymnastics are incredible. I suspect if Allen’s cat dies, it will be season over and some posters will be saying “it’s just not fair to expect them to win like this”.

The football outsiders chart takes quality of player (player impact) into consideration. And that STILL places us into the bottom half of the league in injuries. Injuries are part of EVERY teams nfl season. It is what it is. We did not have an absurd amount of injuries - it was average. The Eagles won a Super Bowl without their starting QB, which is far more impactful than losing a playoff game without a starting safety and d-end. It’s all excuses. Yes good point and I did notice that as well. The Chiefs had unbelievable injury luck last year. They were pretty much completely healthy in the playoffs last season. But as you can see, the Bills injuries last year were par for the NFL.

What you just listed is an average amount of injuries for an NFL team in a season. It’s normal. That’s the point. And White wasn’t injured.