Low Positive

I have never seen this fanbase turn on a player like this. Ever. This level of vitriol is usually reserved in Buffalo for tall defensemen who don't like to hit.

I'm as negative as anyone right now, but last week was the first time all season that the Bills went 3 and out to start a game. They have started strong on offense in every other game.

I feel ike I've taken a time machine back to 2014 and the Bills are "in the hunt."

That loss in Miami keeps growing in significance as the week goes on. We'll know by about 2:00 on Sunday if McDermott has lost the team. If this team comes out flat on Sunday and again on Thursday in Houston, the last few home games at Highmark will be ugly with fans booing and demanding McDermott and Beane's heads on a platter. We can all see the window slamming shut and the emergence of another dark period on the horizon, and if Terry does nothing, the fan revolt going into the new stadium will be epic. For me, there is no going back to drought-era apathy and rooting for a lovable loser. We all got a taste of success and will demand nothing short of Super Bowl contention. This has the potential to get really bad.

This loss broke something in all of Bills Mafia. That much is true. For the first time since 2018, I no longer believe that this organization, as constructed, can win a Super Bowl. Terry was at the game in Miami. Hopefully he saw that too.

The Ryan Miller and Dominik Hasek trade demands caused some pretty deep scars with Buffalo sports fans. We just assume that the other shoe is going to drop at any moment and that the fall will be catastrophic.

I’ll keep arguing this point if I have to scream it. The 2021 Bills were 7-6 at one point and almost missed the playoffs. The 13 seconds was a divisional round game. They still would have had to host Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase, and the Bengals in the AFC CG the next week. We would have lost that game, just like the Chiefs lost it. The closest the Bills got to winning a SB was last season, when they were a spot away from taking a lead in the CG. But the best Bills team was the 2020 team, and they blew their best chance at greatness by not being ready for the moment in KC.

He's made almost 20 million in his career. He may have wanted to wait for the right situation. He has excelled on the Rams and Chargers but struggled on the Panthers and got cut from the Falcons. He knows that fit matters.

Morgan Fox is a legit player.

he got injured in the 2022 season and hasn't been the same since.

We don't even know if the Dolphins would have even made the trade. They seem petty, so I imagine they would have just kept moving the goalposts until the deadline passed.

I keep it bookmarked. Comes in handy

I got one for ya. Keon Coleman couldn't beat my mom in a race, and she's 76, has two knee replacements, and uses a walker.

Could be worse. Some boards, like the 49ers and Ravens, have single threads for each player that span back to their draft pick. Imagine a 30,000 page thread on Josh Allen being the only place you can talk about that player. That's what the Ravens board has for Lamar Jackson. Here, I don't think anyone wants to remember their draft night hot takes on Josh.

I think that is very true. By the time they figured out that they were in a dogfight they were down 13-0. They couldn't adjust their gameplan on the fly until halftime and by then it was too late. They seemed shocked by the energy the Fins brought to the game. Also, the coaches seemed to be working on things or putting things on film rather than playing a regular season game. That fake tush push felt like a play they would try in a meaningless game. They also seemed to be trying to force the ball to Coleman. It felt like one team was playing for pride and their coach's job while the other was playing a preseason game. If they miss the playoffs because of this game, it serves them right for taking a divisional opponent lightly. You can't save it for the playoffs if you don't make the playoffs.

If the mods didn't clean up the board, the list of threads would look something like this: McDermott sucks and he should be fired McDermott should be fired and he sucks McDermott, fired he should be and sucks he does Keon Coleman is lazy and should be benched Keon should be benched and he's lazy Coleman? He's lazy and should be cut. And he's slow too. Brian Daboll for president!

1) All these guys have giant egos that clash. They would be in a different business if they didn't. 2) Pegula has already cleaned house with the Sabres multiple times. Each time, they have to start a new rebuild from scratch. And in hockey where teams draft literal children, that takes years. Now that they need to do it again, he's loath to pull the trigger. But he has to do it.

Collinsworth for GM. He's good at scouting young talent.

First of all, I don't think he would take the job. Those TV gigs are cushy and probably pay a lot more than an OC job. Secondly, if you want to take someone from the booth who could call a game you should take Romo. Before CBS neutered him, he was calling both the offensive and defensive plays based on pre-snap looks.

As a related point, I wish Prater could learn to kick a squib that hits in the landing zone like the Miami kicker was doing to us all game. It's the only way to pin a team inside the 30 on kickoffs.

It took a bunch of days for MVS to appear on the Steelers PS on their online roster. I think it updates once a week.

I'm an IU grad and I'm against this. There is no quick fix like the transfer portal in the NFL. Cig is winning in Bloomington because they have bought two teams in the transfer portal with NIL money. Go Hoosiers!

He would still be a first-time play caller. He didn't call the plays when he was OC in Chicago; Trestman did.

I got another fun one for us to revisit. Here is a fire Dabes thread from after the Jags game

But I still don't know who takes over. Last time, there were two good options in Brady and Mike Shula. This time, there is nobody with OC or playcalling experience at the NFL level on the staff.