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Jordan Love’s cap hit is $6M less than Josh’s this season.

I don’t know how it could blow up in their face. They have made the playoffs the last two seasons. Even if Micah isn’t great there, do we think they will go 2-15? I don’t. They will compete for a playoff game regardless.

Folks used to say there’s no downside to locking up your own talent early. I think we just saw the downside.

There’s another ep

They suck at drafting after just trading a potential future HoF on his rookie contract?

It was the trade to make to break through. I didn’t think he would’ve been traded but I would have tried to outbid GB aggressively today

We could have done it. Choices again.

Dang. Should have been us.

Imagine Shaun Dolac in those colors….

I’m not convinced that the NFL is making jersey decisions to honor our previous owner who died over a decade ago.

I really like McD. this thread was not intended to trash him or the Bills really. moreso it was to contextualize the Bills playoff success/failure in regards to rule changes. Ultimately, I think there’s an argument that under the old rules we may have less overall playoff wins, but with the bye, have gone further or even won a Super Bowl by now. There’s a certain irony that the rules allowing an expanded playoff field and loss of bye is a disadvantage that only came after the Bills probably could’ve benefitted greatly from during the drought. But that’s a different topic.

We traded for Amari Cooper last year mid season. we traded for Rasul Douglas midseason the year prior. The defense and offense weren’t that complicated for 2 vets to come in and contribute without practice squad reps.

I mean, guys get signed off the street mid season and learn enough of the playbook to play all the time? Like every season? I’m not really overreacting because it’s not that big of a deal to me, I just disagree. I think if you want Jordan Poyer’s mind helping the young kids out there, he doesn’t need a PS spot to do that. I think I would take my chances on elevating a Tony Jefferson or a Jordan Whitehead week 8 from the PS after learning the playbook than 35 year old Jordan Poyer. That’s jmo

Nothing we say on here matters. It’s just an opinion.

The bills can call Poyer a coach and let him do basically everything except potentially dress on Sunday. The distinction is irrelevant. He doesn’t need to wear a polo and whistle because he’s listed as a coach. They can pay their coaches whatever they want without any salary cap impact. I would rather a player on the PS that can potentially be better than Poyer as an insurance policy.

You could add Poyer as a coach and do both.

Think you’re overestimating the home crowd. the guaranteed prevailing opinion in KC is that there’s a gap between Mahomes and Allen at 2. if the situations were reversed, I think our prevailing opinion would be the same.

I hear you, but what “actually did happen” is that the playoff seeding rules changed, giving the Bills opponents in round 1 that would not have made the playoffs in previous years, instead of a bye for the Bills to rest their players. That’s what did happen. That’s part of my point. we may have had a worse win total in the playoffs, but with the advantage of a bye, maybe we change the results of at least one of those other games.

Going back to 2000 is hard because the playoff format/divisions were different before the NFL expanded in 2002. What I can say is that from 2003-2019, the two seed made the SB 7 times. So closer to 41%.

I saw a few post on some of points below and I wanted to put some things together. #1 Josh Allen is the only QB with 6+ playoff wins and no SB appearance #2 Josh Allen is 7-6 in the playoffs. McD is 7-7. both of these stats are kind of interesting to me. Mostly in the context of the rule change in 2020, expanding the playoff field to 7 and eliminating the bye week for the #2 seed. Under the pre-2020 rules, the Bills would have a bye week in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024. thats 4 extra playoff games (all wins) against teams that would not have qualified for playoffs prior to 2020. So under the old pre-2020 rules: Josh Allen would be 3-6 in the postseason. Sean McDermott would be 3-7. Here’s another stat. Since the rule changes, only ONE two seed has made the Super Bowl. And that was this season in the Eagles. from 2010-2019, a two seed made the Super Bowl 5 times, good for 50%. So, major points. Has the 2020 rule change helped the PERCEPTION of the Bills playoff success with an inflated win total, but in reality, actually damaged their actual chance of playoff success by eliminating such an advantage?

That was 12 years ago. Things are a lot different now. The price of Bitcoin was $13 when that happened.

DV isn’t a lifetime ban. you have to pay attention to make sense of it.

@C.Biscuit97 raised the point that if Allen was a 3 time SB MVP and 2 time MVP, and Patrick was just a 1 time MVP who couldn’t beat him in the playoffs, Bills fans would outright reject a “razor thin” margin between the two players. we’d probably call Mahomes a loser and nowhere close.

I think Hawes will basically take over Knox’s role in 26 when he departs.

There’s something poetically sad about the constant desire to bring back Bills from the 2020-2021 rosters. Almost a tacit admission that those were the good ol days.