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I'm excited to watch this game, but this Amazon game day crew, featuring two ex bills, are just amature hour bottom of the barrel trash

if garrett keeps it up for another like 8 seasons he can be as good or better than bruce, which goes to show how insane smith was. white and taylor and d thomas were all insane otherworldly talents, but none of them were as good as bruce IMO. he was a wrecking crew pass rusher and sick vs the run as a 3-4 end. the only guy close to that from that position since was jj watt, he was a monster and he was clearly head and shoulders below bruce. i remember a game, i think a prime time game, where pittz had dermonte dawson (hof c) and i think something was said in the media and bruce slid over to him on one play and turned him into a cross between an effete and slinky ballerina and a loose turnstile. the announcers even commented how shockingly easily bruce just walked past him on that play. if you put smith on this team starting the same year as allen the debate would be if the current bills have a chance to be the greatest dynasty ever. lol, i said 8 years too. you scooped me but i was typing it before your post appeared. you win this one 716

top 3 qb (and it's not 3 or 2), top 3-5 Oline, top 5 RB room, and i'll say top 5 TE room with dalty kinky in there (his numbers are just insane this year, and knox is an nfl 2 and howes is a moving truck). that's why i pine for jumbo sets and under center play, even tho allen doesn't like it as much, his numbers out of that and in play action are disgusting, and our run is sick, altho fell off the last two weeks. the one criticism is our total lack of outside wr talent. we are celebrating josh palmer, shavers, and one legged gabe davis being our saviors there as of last week. just one WR on the outside with like top 25 talent would electrify this offensive football team to a silly degree, and by accounts we coulda had waddle for a 2026 1st and another pick, which woulda been like the 32nd pick in the draft if we had him on this team. i think that's the frustration w beany, since it was so clearly there for us as a problem and a possible solution.

2004, right? that and the pittz loss cost us a shot at the playoffs, we were 9-7 w bledsoe, and we went from killer o w no d to killer d w no o. i was big on bishop out of the draft (not based on much, im not a big ncaa footy fan), but i felt bad about him when he wasn't playing so well. am i supposed to brag about "scouting" him, or eat crow for doubting him?

that's very interesting -- is that in like total contract value, or just salary or cap this year? there are obviously ways to massage the numbers one way or another. i think bosa, hoyt (if he weren't hurt, so sad) obiwan and shaq were all good signings this offseason, and groot and benford were ok to good resignings. the real crap of our roster is not the draft picks, or the FA moves we made IMO, but the guys we over paid for second contracts (knox, milano, von, diggs, taron, both safeties poy and hyde as they got older, bass, maybe ed given injuries, and possibly bernard and shakir sadly). the second tier of errors is like samuel, maybe palmer given injuries, and all those d linemen who were jags who we paid up to sign in the past.

philosophically mcd lives in fear of the deep pass, will allow teams to run, and wants to generate run stuffs, tfl, sacks, and most of all turnovers. if we were to make an infinite game out of all of his seasons where, where opponents gain points and yards over time and we gain points and yards over time, the D has been actually quite good. if we look at average game performance, it has also been quite good. where it has failed is that it simply does not provide a high degree of difficulty vs specific teams in high leverage games (every kc playoff game, this year i'll say miami only, new england was lost by turning the ball over this season, atlanta was one of the worst d performances ever for a half, then mcd took the family business back from his wretched fail son babybabich). i think the d roster is a mess with the injuries, but there is an element of mcd being stubborn and sticking to hard to his guns wrt his philosophical goals (putting in less mental mistakes but crippled AJ klien over mistake prone but athletic phenom rookie dorian williams vs kc in 2023, only punt forced in the game came from williams just being a baller and making plays). he will keep an obvious bad athlete like damar on the roster because he likes the steadiness rather than shake it up and put in someone with higher variance guy who can actually make plays. while i respect his bent towards conservatism when it comes to deep passes, we get trucked so hard with explosive runs, and in selling out to just not allow teams to attempt the at best hard passes down the field, sort of make it easy mode for them to just line up and run to move the chains and get explosive scores. it puts us in a bind sometimes where missing one LB or one pass rusher creates too obvious of a hole that the opponents can exploit over and over again. my fear is that he will play a hobbled 7 and 8 (i will admit, bernard did look a lot better vs tampa) and the injuries up front will be too much for our second line to overcome, but if we can get ed back and be healthier upfront, and have more burn for williams and thompson, and have a back 4 of poy/hancock, bishop, max, and christian we might be able to make 4 stops/turnovers in each of our playoff games which is enough to win convincingly based on how allen and cook and co perform in the bright lights.

if bishop ends up being half as elite as this post he'll be in the HOF, a real queen on the field. No Wilkins.

they all use the juice, he just got caught.

we must no longer spend early picks on players from colleges that have the word florida in the title. also -- i get maybin vibes from keon. he's lacking in a key trait (maybin was size, keon is speed) but have oodles of other talents which if they were put together would be an impact player, but honestly neither of them were really that into football. Star looloobear was the same way, except his god given talent (being made of steel, insane size and power/athleticism for that size) was enough to make him the top graded nfl prospect in the nation, but he just didn't care for football. contrast that with hoyt (my current pet favorite bills player) or pat williams (my all time favorite dark horse bills player) who did not have the accolades, but used their brain, work ethic, and sheer will to become valuable players.

true, but we ditched him because spain was playing better, who we extended and then benched and cut because spain is a bit of a head case. if we gave teller a chance and some burn he'd end up being who he is now, which would be pretty great for our team.

he's a disgusting jacked yeti and it's a crime that wayatt teller was not kept to be his pal. dawkins teller any nfl c, cyrus, brown is a legit 3k rushing yards o line

i want the queefs to miss the tourney but to also play spoiler to some teams who would otherwise be ahead of us in the 1 seed sweepstakes. i think they beat the colts. kc has the best run d in the nfl over quite a few seasons now, and i don't think the colts can drop back and pass on them. i think kc might write the blue print for stopping them and they might just end up splitting vs jags, houston (both of whom they play twice after this week) and even the nfc north teams (seattle and sf). i think the colts will be a 5 loss team. i think we can be the one seed if we only lose 1 more game, but we might have to run the table to get it. upside is if we do run the table i think it's almost certain we are the 1 seed.

so i know we play base nickel, but tbh that (for us and other teams at least like 40% of the time, if not more) just means we take off an LB and put in a corner. a lot of the time 7 for us (and the nickel corner for other teams) basically plays linebacker in that they line up exactly where an LB would line up and do exactly what an LB would do on that play. when we are in different formations and do creative things to disguise and post snap and all of that then it ends up being more of a tool for the DC, but the bear formation discussed above is the same thing as a 3-4 where the outside LBs line up on the line in a 3 point stance, there are two things at play -- who you put out and what you have them do. IMO, what we've seen many times and especially this season -- when we go 3 LBs instead of nickle we are taking off taron johnson who is shot/washed right now (hope he's hurt and just gets better) and we put on dorian williams who is perhaps a touch undersized but is a physical player and a real plus athlete. 3 LBs also creates some formation changes so that 8 and 58 don't have to be super fast and perfect in technique and reads or else they get their tiny slow bodies thrown around, so i think having DW out there improves their level of play as well. i think 8, shaq, and dorian williams (when they are available) should be our base LB set and should get a good number of snaps going forward. when he was in his prime 7 was a nasty player, but he's not been steady in coverage for over a year now and he's really undersized in the run game. also, as max gets more burn and benford is back to health (something was wrong with him before, he was just not good in a few games this season), along w old may poy/hancock and the suddenly solid cole bishop, the secondary is better so we can put more resources into the front 7 to stop the run and be physical/pressure the passer.

obv im sad we are not in the cat bird seat for the division, but from a pure fandom POV, this current NFL is flipping really exciting and interesting.

so we won't ever get definitive proof of CJ's statement that he is a better qb than Joshua Prescot Aloysious Captain Allen. pity