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Carlester Crumpler always struck me as a good football player name.

Easy question! The Raiders are not in the AFC East.

The ol' 3-3-3-3-4.

After the amazing number of different spellings of Daboll I've seen recently, I don't think it matters who we hire from that perspective.

Might not want to phrase it that way when talking to him though.

What's funny is I would have counted myself as one who didn't want to move on from McDermott, even as recently as last year. I believed (and still believe) that there is a lot of luck in getting to and winning a Super Bowl. But another year of watching a game slip away in the same fashion is just too much, and I didn't see how you can come back the next season and get everyone hyped up to go for it again. So I respect the man but I am more optimistic than I have been for several years (unless the Bills hire Daboll).

Every so often I'm reminded that I'm out of touch, and should be happy about it

I'm a little afraid to ask!

Yeah, some of the stuff I've been reading has almost driven me to go overboard in the opposite direction, there is a very weird conspiratorial bent to a lot of it. I wouldn't have been shedding tears if Beane had been let go, but with a little thought the practical reasons and timing make a decent case for keeping him even if you think you could do better at GM. I know I certainly would not feel better with Pegula trying to hit the ground running trying to select a GM and HC starting this late in the cycle.

I know people really want to get hired but that seems extreme.

Thanks for this post, I just wanted to say that I thought it was really excellently put together and a much needed perspective.

I am well aware that Arians won a Super Bowl. I doubt he's spent more than 5 minutes thinking about the Bills or looking at their roster since he coached against them.

See, I read that and I just think these guys have no clue what they're talking about. None. And honestly I am beginning to get a bit pissed off at the narrative that somehow a team with a top 5 offense has no players other than Josh, and it's the tremendous coaching of Sean McDermott carrying them through to the divisional round.

OMG

"Despise" is an awfully strong word. Accurate, though.