Dr. K

This is what depresses me the most. And it's all so unnecessary. And yes, Beane looked and sounded defeated in the press conference. I don't blame him.

The all-whites are my least favorite Bills uniforms.

Ambiguous wording. Try "The Bills fail to sweep the division after sweeping it last year." Sorry to be so picky. I loved the post and I hope they live up to your predictions. My biggest worry is major injuries--the Bills were relatively unscathed last season.

I grew up a bike ride away from RWS, but that was before it got built. Now I live about 650 miles away as the crow flies.

We must be about the same age (ancient). I saw my first live Bills game the day after my 16th birthday, in 1966, at the Rockpile, Bills vs. Houston Oilers with George Blanda at QB, won by the Bills with seconds left in the game by a 66 yard interception return by defensive back Haygood Clarke. I was sitting in the end zone where Clarke scored. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/196609250buf.htm I moved to Kansas in the 1970s and North Carolina in the 80s. It was hard to see the Bills in those days--they were seldom on TV--but I still followed them. I guess I'm a diehard.

You're right. Even if I've always thought that season was a mirage.

Only undefeated NFL season ever. I'm very old. 😀

You're right--I should not have used the term "paper tigers." Maybe it should have been "Chiefs = Vulnerable" But my point is that the Chiefs are not the invincible machine that so many people here and in the press say they are. They are vulnerable, and they showed it repeatedly in the run-up to the Super Bowl, where the best game they played from the beginning of November to the Super Bowl was the one they played against the Bills, aided by refs who put away their whistles on holding by the Chiefs secondary. The Chiefs have more than earned their respect from the rest of the league. But they aren't the 1942 Bears.

If they are so invincible, how the hell did eight teams--including the Panthers and Falcons--come within a touchdown of beating them? Not to mention the two teams that did beat them, by 12 and 17 points in the regular season. And then they lost the Super Bowl by 22 points.

I don't disagree--the Chiefs beat the Bills badly in the title game. It was their best performance in the last three months of their season. They went 8-0 in one-score games in 2020. So maybe they'll just blow everybody out this season, but I doubt it. They won't go 8-0 in one-score games again.

I get it that the Chiefs are the favorites in the AFC, and probably should be. But they also went into the Super Bowl favored to win. I said before the game that they would lose, and lose by double figures. Why? If you look at their play last season, especially in the second half of the season, they barely squeaked out eight of their wins. They lost to the Raiders and Chargers, and in other games: beat the Chargers by 3 in OT beat the Panthers by 2 beat the Raiders by 4 beat the Bucks by 3 beat the Broncos by 6 beat the Dolphins by 6 beat the Saints by 3 beat the Falcons by 3 A good team will win many close games, but when a team wins that many games by less than a touchdown you can expect a regression to the mean. Despite Mahomes and Kelce and Hill, and the fact they beat the Bills twice last year, I don't see any reason the Bills should be quaking in their boots about playing them. I predict the Chiefs will have a fall off this season and would not be at all surprised if they fail to make the playoffs. They lived on the edge last season and when you do that, you are in danger of falling off.

I just watched it a half dozen times on replay. He does get his left foot down--I was wrong about that--but it's very clear that he never gets the right one down. There is no image of his right foot "kicking up turf" and since you took the time to capture these stills you ought to know that this is true. The fact that Duke himself never even tries to protest ought to tell you even he knows he didn't get both feet down.

No he didn't. He didn't even get ONE foot down.

I don't think you guys are comparing apples to apples. If you say Allen will make 43 million per year in 2021 dollars, that is 17.7 million per year in 1986 dollars. Was Kelly's 7.7 million dollars in 1986 his per year salary, or for the life of the contract? If it was 7.7 million per year, then Allen is making a little over twice as much per year as Kelly made.

Me too. I hated hated hated the Rex hire form day one.

Everybody always says this, but he had his best game as a pro against San Diego in his first start AFTER the Cards game. Look it up. .

The Royals won the NBA title in 1951. That was 70 years ago, not 50.

I remember watching this one. The game that showed Ferguson could be a first rate QB.

Again, what you say here was exactly what I thought back then. I hated Rex from day one and thought he was the problem with the team's performance. I hated McDermott shipping out what I thought were better players for a bunch of stiffs. I thought "the process" was woo-woo hype. I was wrong.

This was pretty much my take s well. I think McDermott took too much heat for trying Peterman when clearly Tyrod could not consistently move the team through the air. I just watched that Atlanta game. The Bills played a disciplined game. What hit me was how bad some of the players, like Tolbert, were. And Zay Jones, who back then for some reason I thought had promise, was a liability. He just could not win any sort of contested catch and stood out as a guy without heart. The receivers on that team were just plain bad.

The same is true if he would only get the dang vaccination. Nobody would ever ask about it again.

I'm with those who would like to see Fitz make the playoffs.

I just want to go into the season feeling that, when the Bills face a 3rd and 2 or less, they have at least a 75% chance of getting it. Last season it seemed to me they seldom made that first down unless Josh sneaked the ball, or they threw. It seemed to me it was a case of the line getting pushed around whenever the defense knew the Bills were going to run.

Bates may be the developmental center.

I can see it happening. After decades of complaining about insufferable Pats fans, and recently complaining about insufferable Chiefs fans, we are absolutely no different. It's actually pretty funny to see the inability of Bills fans to recognize themselves in the mirror. But it's always been that way in sports, and human nature. Not everybody is subject to this, but most of us are at one point or another.