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1981 playoffs - watching that wild back & forth game against the Jets

Fortunately, we have an annual player draft that rightly or wrongly, DOES reward the worst teams The Compensatory pick system is working EXACTLY as intended. There was no intent around good or bad teams. Bad teams should draft better Bad teams should retain their talent where appropriate Good teams should make the right decisions on what talent to retain and at what cost. If bad teams choose to sign those free agents and have less of a chance of getting compensatory picks, then the system is working This isn't welfare, it's warfare. There's plenty of room in the league for owners like Mike Brown, but they aren't going to be winning titles

This is just an inane statement. Of course everyone wants the team to be better and take the next step toward a SB. But making a "raising the bar" proclamation accomplishes nothing. Absolutely nothing Should Beane and McDermott be on edge if we "only" go 11-5 next year and just win one playoff game instead of two? Will she start screaming for organizational realignment and start trimming back on scouting and coaching staff? SMFH Kim Pegula - the best thing you can do is stay out of the way. That includes public statements on team expectations.

Living in the Harrisburg area, there are more stories of Shady's absolute lack of respect for other human beings than you can shake a stick at. I am sure becoming an irrelevant ex-athlete will only improve that

Ties are the best. They force coaches into interesting logic/strategy in OT that they actually have to think about sometimes. Seeing them fail can be fun (or excruciating, like McDermott's 2017 Snow Game brain cramp) Impact on standings is fun They happen so rarely that they're interesting and unique Frankly, I miss ties in hockey too, and the changes to OT and adding shootouts didn't really move the needle in that sport either More gimmicks in football would be unnecessary

Dick Jauron and Trent Edwards just said "hold my beer"

Barkley is eminently replaceable The trouble is that we don't have the $$ this offseason to find someone that much better. Relying on Davis Webb or Jake Fromm as #2 is probably not a great strategy either

I'm not sure they got much either... Wentz is a basket case

Give Levi the 2nd round tender. He's been a good to above average player who's totally out-performed his original undrafted status At the very worst, he's quality depth for us in the years to come, and the kind of guy that has a really low downside to keeping around

I remember a time when "Marty-ball" would have been an improvement on whatever we trotted out during the Dick Jauron tenure "It's hard to score points in the NFL"

I'm lukewarm at best for anything beyond 1 year @ $5M But good grief, if we gave Josh Norman $6M for this past year, and left Trent Murphy on the bench for $9M, I can see the argument for wanting even the slowly rotting overrated corpse of JJ Watt

It's funny because QB is actually becoming somewhat of a "fungible" position. There are a lot of excellent ones out there, and more coming out every year that look really good right out of the gate, or at least very soon afterwards. So that makes me wonder why any team would trade for anything less than the best. Any team that trades for Derek Carr deserves what they get. He's eminently replaceable

We will be in prime time one way or another for Week 1. If not Thurs night, then Sunday or Monday night. Book it now

This would be amazing if we could pull it off

This hire is maybe great for 1970 when the goal was to matriculate the ball down the field and toughness actually counted for something when you could head slap, horse collar, clothesline tackle and all the sh*t that used to be macho and fun to watch Maybe someone in Detroit has heard that it's OK to pass the ball too and that the top teams in the league are really good at it. Might be good to have a head coach that realizes that too

Sorry man - disagree with you too. Everyone's been trying to key in our passing game all year and few have slowed it down, much less stopped it. There's little reason to go away from our obvious strength, especially with the way that rules are these days. Let next year work itself out. I'm concentrating on winning on Sunday. And the best way to do that is let Josh sling the rock all over the frigging field

I'm sorry man, but I couldn't disagree more. We have a top 5 offense, with a crazy effective passing attack. But we should draft an RB in Round 1 so we can "fix" the running game? And maybe have an 18th ranked offense so we can play Jauron-ball? SMH

I think that the answer to this question depends a lot on Mahomes' availability for the game. If he's playing and close to full strength, strangely enough we might be running more - say 1/3 of the time. We are probably trying to control the clock more and not expose our defense too much. If it's Chad Freaking Henne at QB, then I say bombs away

There is no reason for Bills fans to be anxious about this development. Jimmy G has already reached his development ceiling which just MIGHT be average. He can succeed with all of the pieces around him, but elevate a team past just being good? Nah

Yeah, cause Marshawn wasn't old, fat and slow in his last "comebacks" And he's such a "process" guy too!

The next time that Rivers wins a playoff game based on his own superior play will be the first time.... We just don't lose to mediocre QB's this year. That's what he is at this point Everything else is academic

Well, he's got the "mental" part right... Newton has always been the ultimate "me first" guy. I wouldn't want him on our team for nothing

I think that our ability to close games with the run has a lot to do with how often we're passing throughout the whole game. Teams can't sell out 100% to stop the run because they know that Daboll will still call pass plays and Josh will still drop dimes.

The OP has a decent point in that this is likely how playoff teams are going to try to attack us. It's not rocket science, and even our weaker opponents this year have tried to utilize this strategy. But can they stick with it for 60 minutes if we're putting up 30+ pts? I have confidence that schematically we'll prepare and adjust to teams that try to run against us

Well, he'll have plenty of time for strippers and purple drank now...