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Well yeah, I'm with you there, waddling down the field like a penguin en route to a 6-min 40 time. LOL As to Diggs, I'm simply not seeing what everyone else that makes that claim is. I pulled down one random game, the last game of the RS, @ Miami. Here's the highlights below. Early in the video Diggs beats Ramsey by several yards but Allen overthrows him by a mile, shortly thereafter he has Apple beat. Two decent DBs. Later on he dusts another DB. At the 9:38 mark Allen throws it to Shakir, but Diggs has his man beat down the right sideline, if Allen hits him it's a TD. On a few other plays Brady's got Diggs running laterally across the backfield from the snap, which makes me wonder. There was a LOT of that on Brady's watch. So yeah, I get the narrative that Diggs has lost a step," but I'm not seeing it, at least nowhere near as dramatically as people say. In this game alone there were two plays, and that's only from a highlight video, not the entire game, whereby Diggs would have posted a pair of TDs had Allen first not drastically overthrown him, and secondly gone to him rather than Shakir OTM. That was at the end of the season, when Diggs was supposed to have been the most washed up. This season's going to be very interesting watching Diggs in Houston and what Brady does here.

Just thought it was an interesting point of note. Apparently not for you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We have 7 games against teams ranked in the top-9.

13 seconds? Gee, there's candor for ya.

That's when the fight started. Should have started that with ... "I don't always wear Bills gear, but when I do ..."

Well yeah, that's if your "match-up" options are purely speed on flyers. There are a number of ways that mismatches/match-up problems are created. Point being, how many GMs/Coaches do you know that say that they don't care if their WRs create any kind of mismatch. That's what every game-plan is about except for perhaps the very few teams without a competent QB that you implicate.

It's a pop-culture extravaganza, not something designed for football fans. It's grown to become that over the years. I'll watch it if we're in it if course. I'd turn it off at half time though.

The NFL has eaten itself to death. It's grown to become an insatiable pig. The Bills, in Buffalo, is the only reason I watch any of it anymore. I typically don't even watch the Super Bowls anymore. To each his own, but I have difficulty with anything that has become entirely about money to the extent that integrity is compromised.

Aren't most if not all teams looking for match-up problems for their WRs. That's the most effective way to have a highly effective passing game.

Funny you say that, a lot of Bills fans seem to think that until Mahomes retires we have no chance of we have to go thru them. I'm not one of them, but they always come out of the woodwork using that as an excuse when it happens. We tend to beat ourselves after the wild-card round. As to the premise of the OP, if seems that it depends upon how contention is defined. And if it is true that we have no chance against Reid/Mahomes, then change what you said to come back after they retire. Otherwise, if we can solve the reasons why we haven't, them we're in contention. If not, maybe not.

Entirely out of context and different circumstances. Take a look at Walsh's career and see if you can't identify why. Seems as if you've already looked.

You've leapfrogged the point entirely. Great coaches don't posting seriously losing records simply because they don't have a HOF QB. Consider, our drought era generally posted better records than he did, routinely. With crap for QBs our coaches posted season wins of 9, 9, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 4, 3 Conntrasted with BB's win totals of 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, and 8 wins, of 11 seasons, again, with miserable failures in the playoffs otherwise, once with crap for divisional foes, there's zero argument to suggest anything but failure. In 11 of BB's non-HOF-QB seasons he's posted 8 losing seasons and had win totals not significantly different from the litany of coaches during our drought era. Great coaches should at least be .500 to 10-6/7 even with average QBs.

Roger, but referring to the NFL

The Bob Uecker Suite. Takeo Spikes would have been invited.

To counter, it's one thing to not win a Super Bowl without a great QB, it's another to fail miserably. In 11 seasons without Brady, his HOF QB, he posted losing records 8 times with unimpressive win totals of 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, and 8 wins. 49-81 total (.377) In two of the other three seasons he got absolutely dusted in the wild-card round, once by Bledsoe's Pats, a team/QB he could only go 5-11 with, and the other he didn't even make the playoffs, getting edged by Tony Sparano & Chad Pennington.