Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

This can't be right, we're not playing in KC!! The irony is the one year we play the AFC west opponent at home, high likelihood we won't be in the same position in the standings as KC so don't play them in Buffalo.

Well my point was it would more likely be appealed and the league would lose if the fine was deemed to be excessive. Likely that will be the NFLPA's argument, not that Mahomes didn't break the rules, but that the fine given is excessive. Reid can certainly make the same argument, but he has nobody fighting for him.

Well they know too that the players can appeal the fine, while the coach can't as no NFLPA to fight Reid's battles for him

One comment I had read online said he should have been fired at halftime when down 42-0

I saw the headline of the article and thought this was a bad look for Diggs. But after reading the article, other than the headline, nothing really bad on his part.

Yeah that's thew trouble with these hail mary's , the defense only rushes like 3 players so the QB has all the time in the world and usually throws this rainbow that takes forever to come back down to earth.

I'd extend Douglas for a couple years while you can do it for ,less money than waiting a year until he's a FA Let Hyde go. may bring back Poyer but at less money, mainly don't want to have two new safeties in system same year and draft his replacement for 2025 I'd keep Elam for reasons mentioned unless they can get decent return on trade which is doubtful. Probably let White go also unless he agrees to big pay cut. Extend Johnson.

He's also a FA now, not bound by rookie pay scale he got a was it a 5th rounder. Likely Bills could do better overall in the draft, maybe not on talent, but close enough on talent and cheaper.

Think there's a better chance of winning the division than getting wild card only because the teams ahead of the Bills in wild card race have much easier schedules Than Bills and Fish and Denver and Cinnci beat them if come down to tie breaker. Plus Bills have bad conference record.

Article states there is only one year left on extension so not that much $$ to absorb if only a year. Kraft may have to lay off the you know what for a year to save some cash, but that would be the ultimate showing of taking one of the team on his part.

So Poona Ford and Linval Joseph were both free agents in the off season. Since Joseph has signed the team has played better and is much more effective at stopping the run. I'm thinking if the Bills had signed Joseph instead of Ford, we may have won at least one, maybe two of the games we lost once Jones got hurt. I wonder if the Bills tried to sign him, but he wanted much more $$ or they just felt Ford was better and never looked at Joseph in the off season.

I'd imagine the other AFC teams hope the Bills don't make the playoffs as looking at that list the only team close in talent is the Bengals, but that's only when you put Burrow back on the field.

So I assume there's never been an actual explanation from YTTV or admit of a mistake?

But the Bills game is on ST as are all games. If I lived in Denver or LA the Denver-LA was on local TV so if I wanted ot watch the Bills game I stil lcould through ST. I get what you're saying, but the game was on ST.

You think it was CBS, not YTTV?? I've seen that happen a number of times, which is fine, s little weird but nothing wrong.

Yeah I did the same. Haven't done that since last year, was afraid I might not remember how. But was like riding a bike!

So I live live in NC, out of local market and subscribe to YTTV and ST. The early game on local CBS channel was Cleveland-Jax game with plans for the Bills-Chiefs game to be broadcast following at 4:25. Cleveland game didn't end until around 3:45 so if watching on local TV was carrying the end of that game and would have joined the Bills game in progress. No issues there, that's typical of the way it works. So instead went into YTTV and selected the Bills-Chiefs game. But instead that was also showing the Cleveland-Jax game. Had no way of watching the beginning of the Bills-Chiefs game. Am I missing something here as that's not the way ST is supposed to work, I'm supposed to be able to watch any game of my choosing?? Wondering if anyone else had the same issue or was it something just going on in my local area. This has never happened prior, regardless of what game was on local station, I could select and watch the Bills game. I'm hoping this doesn't happen again next week when they play Dallas as that will again be a late game followed by an earlier game on Fox.

Why? Is your goal to waste a draft pick? This team is good and Allen is great. There is no QB controversy here. The only way the backup QB sees the field is in a blow out win or loss or Allen gets hurt. As many have said, though not this year, team needs a backup QB good enough to win a game or two until Allen gets back. Why would you want to trust a rookie QB in that role while you can always find a Tribisky, K Allen, and others just like that. Drafting another punter would make much more sense than drafting a rookie QB.

Think Knox's role will be as the blocking TE but probably one of the best pass catch TE's in the league so teams will need to account for him as a receiver where as a guy like Lee Smith they could ignore except for the one time a year he'd go out and catch a pass. Is he making too much money as a blocking TE, maybe depending on how many passes he actually catches. Could see them sticking with the contract for 2024, but once his role is defined more long term, then asking him to take a pay cut. Or restructure in 2024, then pay cut in 2025?

Agree on 1st comment and 2nd one don't follow college football enough to know, but just do know there's a long list of #1 overall flops. Even worse than flopping is you draft a guy who can win you a half dozen games a year, good enough to think next year he'll turn it all around, but bad enough to not ever make playoffs and just good enough to not ever give you any top draft picks. But like you said, by then BB will be sitting on his boat in Florida. Really can't believe Kraft would want to trust a 70 YO something to develop a new fresh out of college QB. That just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen unless the guy is a Tom Brady clone as far as the all out stop at nothing and do everything to win

The Pats could end up with the #1 overall and still no guarantee the QB they pick translated to NFL success. It certainly isn't the first time there's been a can't miss QB selected #1 overall who missed badly. If Belichick was so smart he'd have never taken the chance and waited until the 6th round to draft Brady, he's have taken him in at least the 4th round and for about the next two years been ripped for over drafting the guy. But they got lucky that time.

So the good news is one mock I just read, believe it was in the Athletic have the Bengals taking an O-lineman, the bad news is they also have the Bills taking lineman, believe it was an OT from Iowa.

So what I'm reading here is the local media folks who have some real internal connections to the front office folks for the team are saying McD will be back, but he national media who lack that, plus all the arm chair GM posters here who want him gone all say he'll be gone. Think I got that right.

To a point I can let that one go as officials never want to throw a flag in the last few seconds of game on PI and give the team a play from the 1 yard line. Defenses kind of know that so will play a little rougher too. I'm sure at some point KC defense took advantage of that too so again don't feel bad about it.

Or get a Roku. One thing good about Roku is they seem to pride themselves on having just about every TV app known to mankind.