Low Positive

Hail Murray got a name...

Just click through and watch it. This guy has a leg. I thought I remembered him from OSU

You know they spent at least 3 hours in that film room getting chewed out. I almost felt the earth move from McDermott's yelling all the way here in Cincinnati.

There is a potential that this could be an upgrade. Johnston spent three seasons in Philly, and then led the league in punting yards on a bad Texans team. He then had a few injuries that kept him out. If he's recovered, this could be a good move.

As soon as the kick went through the uprights, I yelled "suck it, Harbaugh!" Maybe that's the name.

One point you're forgetting. The Steelers had ZERO film of the Jets offense. With new coaches, playbook, and QB, the league had little idea of what they would see. We have four quarters of film where they had to pull out all the stops to try to get a win.

And they signed that special teams/safety Franklin to that spot. Someone else must be getting cut (I think).

Jokic is the Dynamax evolution

See, that's a valuable contribution to this message board that will get overlooked because it gets in the way of people complaining about Beane.

That won't happen. He torched that bridge. I wish I could find video of it, but when Mahomes mismanaged the clock at the end of the first half in the AFC CG in 2021, Tyreek was screaming at him all the way into the locker room. Then Mahomes only targeted him twice for no catches in a second half when the Chiefs only scored 3. Everyone credits a huge defensive adjustment by Cincinnati for the Chiefs second-half struggles in that game, but I argue that things were said in that locker room that broke that team. Tyreek had to go, and a few months later the Chiefs traded him in what was a huge surprise move at the time.

I was joking, but leadership is a talent. McDaniel doesn't have it. He will make a great OC somewhere, where he can focus on play design and let others lead.

He's Australian to boot. Hope he doesn't bring any of those big-a** spiders with him.

Well in that case, thank god we've got that dude.

Was the punter bad?

Derrick Henry. I heard he's pretty good.

We should make a list. It's probably deserves it's own thread. But to start Robert Foster against the Jags in 2018 Jake Kumerow in Denver in 2020 Diggs in Detroit in 2023 Palmer

That was his first NFL target and it seems like he knew from the huddle that it was coming his way. He might have been a bit nervous.

Someone saying something positive about the Bills is like the bat signal to some guys around here.

He needs to hit the buffet and get fat. Or he needs to take up smoking to get a horse voice. Or, he needs to hit the gym and buy a case of hair gel. Or he needs to stop wearing capri pants and start wearing cargo shorts and talking about Jesus. I say this because Reid, Shannahan, McVey, and Zac Taylor are also offensive genius/play-design nerds, but they have affectations that hide that a bit.

Your first point requires a coach having enough job security to be confident that losing for a year won't cost him his highly-paid job.

Billie Jean King said "Pressure is a privilege. It only comes to those who earn it." Josh gets that, and lives for those moments. So does Mahomes and Brady. It's the thing that you can't measure at the combine or see in stats that separates the greats from the very good.

It's also a tough ask in week one from a defensive standpoint. The Bills have a lot of new guys on the DL, a safety who hardly played last year and a rookie playing corner. They spent training camp working on their base nickel defense, which will work against most teams. Then, you play the most dangerous running QB in NFL history and a literal freight train at RB in week one. The Bills had to make schematic adjustments, which is something that teams are loath to do this early in the season. Williams played 33% of defensive snaps as a 3rd LB and Taron Johnson only played 67% at nickel CB, for example. That's not what we do. Couple that with the fact that the Ravens came in with a playoff-like intensity, and the Bills got punched in the mouth. If they look this bad on defense next Sunday, I'll hit the panic button. I hope they don't.

All that is true, but you gotta give Cook credit for getting two dudes to wiff making that a much bigger play than it would have been.

The problem is that for so many of those organizations, the problem stems from one thing that can't be changed; involved, bad ownership. That's true of the Bears, Browns, Jags, Panthers, Jets, Titans, and Dolphins. It was true of the Redskins/Commanders, and towards the end Irsay got very involved in personnel decisions in Indy. We should know, as this was our problem for the better part of two decades. And it still could be if Beane and McDermott didn't have big enough personalities to get Terry to butt out of football decisions in Buffalo.

Him, Eli Apple, and Jalen Ramsay just don't know when to shut their mouths.