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It's a larger issue involving amateur scouting on offense. They made their bones building an offense around UFAs and haven't developed much particularly on the OL. Brown is there, but he's a work in progress. The only other drafted starter, Dawkins, is kinda meh right now. The top WR's - Diggs, Beasley, and Sanders are all veterans acquired. Knox, Singletary, and Moss are all OK, but not anything to write home about. Beane needs to up his game on draft day on offense. Because aside from Josh they've been pedestrian drafting there.

NFL is announcing that there is "nothing to see here" https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32407532/report-nfl-finds-no-other-current-team-personnel-implicated-washington-football-team-email-investigation Amazing to think they went through hundreds of thousands of pages of emails and made a determination so quickly. Do they have the Ef Be Eye on the case? Only 1 guy was apparently saying such egregiously poor things that it warranted leaking. I'm guessing there was plenty more and De Smith was looking to become the hero to and convince the players he should remain NFLPA Executive. What a sham.

Nick Wright is a clown. 🤡

With this latest news, I bet De Smith gets re-elected NFLPA executive. His position was in doubt after this last CBA, but now is much more certain.

Can't remember who said it, maybe someone on NFLN...but the idea is the Chiefs (or Cheaps as referenced by the late, great RL) just had other teams catch up to them. Allen's emergence in Buffalo and their team building, the Chargers with Herbert and similar team improvement, Baltimore with Lamar Jackson et al., even Tennessee. Kansas City is still a solid team, but they've plateaued, and as a graphic I saw on Twitter today noted, Josh has matched Mahomes over their last 21 starts. Both are 17-4, both have passer ratings above 106.0, are completing about 2/3rds of their passes and have practically the same TD-INT ratio. The AFC has changed considerably with the rise of those QBs, demise of Roethlisberger and Brady's departure to the NFC.

De Smith gonna drive the narrative away from himself and onto all the other controversial NFL management types. First Gruden, next up Dan Snyder. Maybe it works and the NFLPA votes to keep him as their executive director. Because that's all this is about.

It was impressive that he and his staff kept that team focused on the task at hand during a 1 hour break. Cannot say anything remotely negative tonight about McD.

I'm interested to know when they'll be charging Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes. One would think the guy who ran that outfit and coordinated certain "activity" on 6 Jan would be indicted given the others awaiting trial.

Who cares? Tua got hurt, he was behind a bad OL, and Buffalo won by a huge margin. Still not clear why people agonize over hypotheticals. There's plenty enough already to be concerned with.

Wonder how Coach McCla...oh wait, Coach McDermott feels about this. The trust the process line is great.

My concern is that McD isn't supervising the OC and, like other defensive type HC's, hasn't grasped that side of the game enough to do so. Reminds me somewhat of Chan Gailey who abdicated responsibility of the defense to Edwards/Wannstedt to focus on the offense where his background was.

Daboll going to the McDermott school of PR. Reminds me of when, questioned about a lack of scoring, McD responded by saying "of course we'd like to score 50 points a game."

Not going to disagree...but Milano is the second highest paid Will in the NFL.

Did you miss the part about "DE" in my post? In a 40 front that's where your pressure is more often than not coming from.

At some point, offensive scheme needs to align with offensive personnel. Their game-plan yesterday tried to use OL who are solid run blockers (save Morse) and needed them to pass protect 50 times. If they wanted to be pass-happy (and I can understand with Josh and those receivers) then invest in better pass blockers. Issue is, they didn't do much to improve their ability to run and now it's too late to be adding pieces to enable them. When you become a good team, scheme versatility is a must and I'm not seeing this organization doing that on offense.

Hence why investing in more high dollar defenders other than at CB and DE is often a bad investment. One would hope the HC's defensive pedigree would slowly retreat toward accepting this, but it has not.

Season 5 of McD (and I'm not going to isolate all yesterday down to him) but this is who he is. He's a conservative coach, both in crucial game-day moments but more in the predictability of their game-planning. People act surprised when he talks about post-game about field position, but even with Josh and a much better offense versus 2017-18, he's going to play it safe as a rule. The other thing is he's slow on the draw sometimes in adapting to what the other team's doing. I didn't see much change in the 2nd half despite being bottled up offensively. It's as if he and Daboll fall in love with their game-plan and will not yield it may need to be tweaked to get the desired result. Look, I know all NFL HC's are type A personalities, but McD has rarely if ever showed a willingness to modify his approach when it's not working. Resistance to that is going to hurt this team now that they're top tier.

People want predictions on everything...I'm here to calm their anxieties and fears with real life answers. It's like a few years ago, someone wondered about what would happen if Allen's backup got hurt. Not Allen, but Matt Barkley. I helped the poster out by telling them it didn't matter and they needed to take off their diaper.

This thread makes me think Step Brothers all over again. Specifically, the scene where the night vision goggles are used. Question is, which one is Brennan and which is Dale?

My prediction is we're going to find out Sunday and then learn more every subsequent game day. I also predict Daboll will scheme up plays where Allen throws it to both of them and eventually one or both will make a TD catch. That's what it's probably gonna be like to play with Cole Beasley and Emmanuel Sanders.

Sal sounds like he's had about 3 espressos before coming on the show some days. At 8am I'm not ready for that because I haven't had my coffee. I also struggle with him being a massive homer. Just give it to me straight and put the pom-poms away.

Mike comes off as a guy who's bored with life and the show. He retreats into analytics and, as a result, betting to spice things up. For whatever reason, he sounds like someone winging it and doesn't care. I tire of hearing him simplify everything down to metrics when the human component to sports is always in play. Another thing I've noticed...I tuned in a few weeks ago after something Sabres related had happened only for him to talk 10-15 minutes about an experience at the vending machine. What program director or station manager listens to that and doesn't make a point of ending the incessant banter about nothing. The afternoon show needs some energy, but they won't alter their hosts because there's no competition.

2007 game, but for all the wrong reasons. I've never heard the stadium more quiet than when Everett was down on the field. Only real highlight was Roscoe Parrish returning a punt and jumping into our group. Then in the final seconds Denver has zero timeouts. Then run their kicking team out, make the FG as time expires to win 15-14.

If Terry wants to make the case he's the least valued team, per a second hand source, to leverage taxpayer dollars it's a weak argument. He invested in the team knowing full well they'd need a new stadium within 10 years of that purchase. That 1.4B spent to buy the team was made knowing the stadium's condition. Need to understand the political part of this debate. Upstate NY (area above Westchester County) has about 35% of the state's population per recent (2019) estimates. Downstate runs the political theater here and their willingness to put more money in upstate when NYC/LI is the economic engine of the state must be considered. The people who decided those expenditures on New Yankee Stadium and Citi Field are pretty much long gone. And, more importantly, downstate doesn't need upstate's votes to maintain the Assembly, Senate, or Governorship. Why would they itemize in the budget 750M or some figure in that area for the Buffalo Bills? Downstate pols aren't handing handing out money proportionally between upstate and downstate.

Hard for ownership to have a worse month than the Pegulas without moving their teams. Their PR department is woefully unprepared for the onslaught that's coming from the fans.