Casey D

Better team is asserting itself. Stopped the mistakes.

Singletary I think

This guy can be moved to safety. Good pick.

The bottom line is that the deal is the cost of having an NFL team and the prestige and community benefits that come with it. All the editorial writers can rail against it as a waste of taxpayer money, but that argument is in the abstract. Public dollars fund stadiums all over the country. Right now Virginia is bending over backwards and throwing money at the Commandos to get them to move. The market indicates you need public money to have a team, see, e.g., San Diego, St. Louis, Oakland. So for folks who don't give a rat's ass for NFL football, it is a bad deal because the economics never indicate you will more than recoup the public investment. But the market says different, and for a city like Buffalo, the team is priceless.

It is.

Great value signing!

He is claiming is claiming economic damages in all counts, but you are correct he does not link it to any particular action or job, just the penumbra of discriminatory conduct (alleged). And I totally agree that this is going to be played as a PR case that makes the NFL look awful and thus will make the NFL settle. The law is not on Flores's side, but the PR truly is-- and the ***** that will come out in discovery will be a nightmare.

You are correct. And the Rooney Rule-- or faux compliance with the rule-- will not be the basis for liability. The basic claim is that black coaches are not being hired because they are black, i.e., they are qualified but not being hired simply because of the color of their skin. The Rooney rule actually cuts against this claim, as it shows the NFL is trying to promote black coaches. The alleged faux compliance with the rule is simply a piece of evidence suggesting that the bias is so great that teams will not even interview in good faith. But with no Rooney rule, the claim would be the NFL is not even trying to overcome alleged systemic bias. The discrimination claim is much more fundamental than simply not complying with the Rooney rule. At the end of the day, it is hard to see how this can be a class action. Each situation is individualized, not common to every coaching candidate. Unless there is some grand scheme to deny black coaches jobs at a league-wide level, there can be no class. And all of this will be hard to prove, because it will be difficult to show the reason for the failure to hire a particular person was due to race, and not because the Giants, for example, simply wanted an offensive minded coach. And was racism a factor in the hiring of David Culley and his rapid firing, or was it because he seemed in over his head. This could be a long slog that the NFL will want to settle IMO, because the defense evidence of "merit" will have ugly overtones that will be a PR nightmare. .

I agree. And while I did not mind Daboll, I think his biggest asset was letting Josh be Josh. Outside of that, I did not see a lot of creativity out of him. There was no dynamic running game, little screen game, and little for Diggs over the middle. Continuity is good IMO, but I'd like to see some creative planning that takes some of the burden off Allen. I mean he rode Allen to a head coaching gig so that's great, but I think there is lots of room for improvement in game planning with the right person.

This Board on these coaches reads like the 2018 Josh Allen thread during the draft. Thank God the front office did not listen then. I mean no one here has any idea about these guys personalities, back stories, coaching philosophies, ability to adapt to the talent at hand or much of anything else except I heard of him, or the team he coached for was no good so it must be his fault. I trust the front office has a much better idea of who will fit and who will not than anyone here. And they have already said Josh will have input. Trust the process.

The amount of time elapsed in overtime in the Chiefs-Bengals game from kickoff to Mahomes throwing the deciding pick. Football gods have an amazing sense of humor, unless you are a KC fan.

Rams gonna Ram

Today also shows if the Bills had won last week, today would not have been an automatic W. Bengals defense is not much, but it was good today for a 1/2 plus. Whether it was their D or KC hitting a wall after last week's game, who knows for sure.

Chiefs had their A game last week and for 1 1/2 quarters today. Then they hit a wall. What the other team does matters.

Not if you are a Chiefs fan.

Looks like KC is gassed from last week's game. No juice left.

Being from Buffalo, I like to come here and watch snowflakes.

That is a pretty deep back story, and even the originator of the concept concedes how the $13 would be misconstrued. But people eff up all the time, in fact, I make my living off of it. So I'm cool with this now. Thanks for explaining.

I think it is great that Chiefs fan are donating so much money to a great cause. But the $13 amount to represent the last 13 seconds of the game-- which it is, not a tribute to Gabe Davis-- is kind of dickish IMO, and not in keeping with how Bills Mafia does things. But that's just me. I am glad to see the hospital take their money.

"What if"--- two of the most horrible words.

I don't know what his contract provides, but generally if he has three years left on his contract he cannot just go elsewhere-- he is obligated to the Saints. It is the flip side of being terminated-- you still get paid over the life of the contract, see, e.g, Rex Ryan. He cannot be forced to work for the Saints, but I believe that the Saints could preclude him from working elsewhere, absent the Saints releasing him in return for other considerations, like cash or draft picks. Again he may have a termination clause in his contract or something, but I do not think you can assume he is free to take another job during the life of the contract.

In his paywalled article in the BN today, Jim Kubiak alludes to the last 13 seconds as a coaching choice between "preventing disaster" and being "aggressive." Bills took the prevent approach, and lost. It does not mean there were ridiculous decisions, given the text and flow of the game. Let's look at the final 13 seconds. To elaborate, the first debate was whether to kick away or squib. Most people say we should have squibbed or pooched. Obviously in hindsight that seems right. But the Bills had just given up a crushing punt return by Hill. That being front of mind, the lean would be to kick away. Nothing terrible can happen on a touchback. It was a safe call. It was not profoundly stupid, but it was cautious. And I think the Hill punt return played into it. And it was just 13 seconds, no one but Mahomes likely could do what he did in such a short time from the 25. Next was defending the last 13 seconds. Again, we need context. Bills took the lead with under two minutes. At 1:02 KC was back on top. Why, a 62 yard pass to Hill. Earlier the Bills came right back after a 9 point deficit with a quick 75 yard strike to Davis. Again that would be front of mind with coaches. But in basically trying to prevent a loss with a deep pass, the Bills almost gave away a FG. I'm sure the thinking was that in a worst case scenario, giving up a FG was better than a TD. But then the coin toss, and the rest is legendary history. McDermott got way too conservative in the final 13 seconds. By nature he is conservative. He has learned to be more aggressive in some situations, like 4th down. But in crunch time, when the amygdala kicks in, he reverts to conservative, unduly conservative IMO. Maybe that is a choke. But I am hopeful that it won't happen again, because McDermott is evolving like Josh is evolving. He needs to learn from this, like he learned from the 2020 championship game that FGs don't cut it against KC. This team has come so far under McDermott, and I think he will learn from this. Obviously, given the outcome, he should have done something different. But when Marv Levy was once asked after a failed call cost the Bills a win on whether he thinks he made the right choice, he said "of course not, we lost" I am sure that McDermott feels worse than anyone on this Board. Let's hope that pain moves him to improve.

That was one of the greatest NFL games ever. Neither team deserved to lose. It's like two great boxers going at it, or two race horses like Alydar and Affirmed. It hurts so bad to come so close, but the team has nothing to be ashamed of. An instant classic

Who cares?

Geez, KC has an elite O. If D can make a play or two, that's all you can expect. It's like defending us.