[Raiders hire Tom Telesco as next GM]

The Buffalo Boy wasn't out of work too long

[The Hydes appear to be saying goodbye]

Sounds like he might be retiring.

[Hey, Talking Heads, Please Look at the Stats Before You Speak]

Bills should have gone to Neal in the big nickel against Kelce sooner. He was playing him pretty well but they didn't go to it until late in the game.

[The Josh Allen Curse]

The record of teams that beat us during the regular season is pretty terrible the week after also.

[56 million watched Chiefs @ Bills - Most watched divisional game ever]

6 hours ago, njbuff said:

And yet the Bills embarrassed themselves in front of the nation yet again.

 

And the people who threatened Bass should be ashamed of themselves and should hand in their Bills fan card.

 

Embarrassed? Not sure I would say that. They didn't lose 40-0.

[At the end, how Josh Allen's carrer will look like ?]

First ballot HOF with no doubt.

[As much as Bass's missed kick hurts, you have to admit this is classic.]

1 hour ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

I will get my Korean girlfriend to do just that.

 

What do you get for $5 Dolla tho?

[Beane & McDermott end of season press conferences]

Did anyone else catch that he said that "Stef was a phenomenal teammate" using past tense?

 

Maybe I am reading into that and it was just worded weird...but maybe that was a slip of the tongue...

[Beane's Offseason - Should he turn the roster over or stay the course?]

2 hours ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

Sure.  I guess my question is, how much?  

Just using Von as an example.  Do you keep him or bite the bullet and move on?

 

The Bills are going to have to do a reboot at some point.  The question is do they try and clean the cap in one year and take the hit or do they try and do it piece by piece and make it take longer?

[Key notes from players on locker room cleaning day (here is what you need to know)]

12 minutes ago, Patrick Fitzryan said:

He took the game out of the best player's hands yesterday. Inexcusable.

 

You mean the one who dropped a 65 yard bomb that Allen basically placed in his hands?

[Beane's Offseason - Should he turn the roster over or stay the course?]

Gonna be plenty of roster churn, there always is.

[Divisional Playoffs - Chiefs at Bills - Post game thread]

1 minute ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

This still makes no sense to me…you couldn’t bleed the clock for a gw fg in that situation like we have seen in games past…the chiefs defense was getting the best of us late and you absolutely take the open td if it’s there.  
 

this hindsight over analysis is going overboard…even if he takes that throw to diggs there’s still a very good chance we get held out of the end zone and lose the game then we’d all be here saying ‘why would he pass up a wide open td we were playing not to lose’ yada yada 

 

People play too much Madden and honestly think it's like real life. That's the issue.

[Stefon Diggs Trade Proposal (Hypothetical)]

1 minute ago, BarleyNY said:

 

Just to be clear, the Bills already have that $31M in dead cap on their books and it must be accounted for. It’s just spread out right now. Trading Diggs would accelerate the pro rated portion into the current year - or the following year if it is after 6/1. 

 

Keeping Diggs adds to his overall cap impact because we pay him more in salary, etc. This is always the risk when you kick the cap hit can down the road to this extent. 

 

He will put up another 1000 yard+ season next year here. Who do you plan on replacing him with? Signing Mike Evans to a $25 million dollar a year contract?

[Considering this season as a whole…]

At this point, crashing out in the divisional round when your QB played exceptionally well again, not unlike the last time we played the Chiefs in the divisional round is getting to be really frustrating.

 

The games are razor thin and being lost in the margins, but I am not exactly sure what they can do to correct it. The teams are so evenly matched the points for/points against are almost identical over the last 6-7 meetings. Bills have to figure out a way to make one more play than the Chiefs. They do it in the regular season pretty routinely, can't seem to do it in the playoffs.

[Allen's career: Rivers, or Manning/Jordan?]

We need to get him someone who doesn't shrink in the moment like Diggs has been doing. He needs more weapons. One that make it impossible to shut down everyone.

 

Kincaid is trending towards being one of them. They need another WR to pair with Diggs and Shakir who can cause havoc and play the John Brown role. That's when the offense was at it's best...when it could threaten you vertically and you had to respect it...that opened up so much stuff underneath and even those tunnel screens with DBs backed off.

 

They better address it in the draft this year or Beane will be neglecting the major issue for the 3rd straight year.

[Stefon Diggs Trade Proposal (Hypothetical)]

17 minutes ago, SCBills said:

IF the Bills are able to maneuver around his cap hit and someone offers a Second Round Pick.  Do you take it?

 

Where there's a will, there's a way and I think it's a no-brainer to trade him at this point if not for the dead cap.  I was on his side over the summer, but he's just negative energy at this point.  Weird vibes and doesn't back it up on the field.  Gets shut down, again, by Kansas City.  Fumbles on the first play.  Drops a 65 yard bomb in the 4th Quarter from Allen and makes a gesture intimating that it was on Allen.

 

I'm over it. 

 

I'd rather give Allen a couple Day 1/Day 2 Wide Receivers to go with Kincaid, Knox, Shakir and Cook at this point.  

 

The dead cap hit might make this completely impossible, but if the Bills can get creative, I think we're better off.  The relationship just seems like it's run it's course. 

 

Fvck no. What the hell is a 2nd round pick going to do for us? Take on 31 million in dead cap for a 2nd? You must have lost your mind.

[2020s Buffalo Bills are The Miami Dolphins of the 90s]

26 minutes ago, 78thealltimegreat said:

The difference is the Dolphins many times were getting jackhammered by the bills in the regular season and playoffs.
Mahomes and the Chiefs aren’t running the bills out of their building the Bills and Chiefs every single game are literally going down to the final possession. 
This is more a mental roadblock than anything. 
 

 

The games are being won and lost in the margins between the teams. Seems we know how to have the margins in the regular season but Reid and the Chiefs know how to have them when it counts the most.

 

Not sure what it is or even if it's a single thing.

Literally a play here or there could have been the difference.

 

The teams are so evenly matched the points for/points against numbers are almost identical over the last several meetings.

[2020s Buffalo Bills are The Miami Dolphins of the 90s]

More like the Chargers under Rivers and LT. Comparisons are almost identical across the board over the past 4 seasons right down to record, points per game, points allowed per game, winning 4 divisions titles, making 1 AFCCG, losing in the divisional round repeatedly, etc...

 

Someone put out a tweet, I reposted in another thread but can't locate it. Comparison are almost identical. The Dolphins in the 90s almost never won the division

 

[It may not be fair to Brady but we need to expand our search for offensive coordinator]

3 hours ago, Brian Higgins hair said:

I’d say we are just fine with Brady. No need to search.

‘Diggs has definitely lost two steps, and Davis was out. That’s a lot of issues in itself. 

 

Diggs seemed pretty open on that deep ball he dropped...

 

Lions seem to have no issues scheming players open.

[Don't Blame Bass]

1 hour ago, Tommy said:

 

 

 

 

I think people are conflating the Dead Cap with the net effect on our Cap Space. You have to cancel out the savings from his Cap Hit from his Dead Cap to see the net effect to our salary cap situation.

 

In 2024, Bass has a $4.42M Cap Hit which would go away if we cut him, which means if we cut him Pre-June 1st, it's a net of -$2.96M against our Cap. Still not good considering how bad our cap situation is already going to be, but we aren't losing $7.38M against the cap as is being implied. If the Bills were to designate him as a Post-June 1st release, we will save $100K in cap space.

 

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/tyler-bass-47784/

 

You would still need to sign a new kicker on top of that.

[I was convinced the football gods were helping us]

While that stadium sits on an old Native American burial ground, nothing is going to change. Luckily In a few years the stadium will move and that hopefully will end this chapter and the curse.

[Tyler Bass Contract]

6 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:

 

Bass is 26/34 between the regular season and Post Season this year. That's 76% - basically one miss in every 4. He was an abysmal 2/5 in the Postseason, including a miss from 27 yards. One of two needed end of the game playoff clutch kicks that he choked on in back to back weeks (luckily we were bailed out by the Defense last week).

 

This is not an overreaction. Kickers have lost their jobs for a lot less.

 

Every kicker has a down season. Pretty much across the board. That's the nature of the NFL kicking in weather and only getting few attempts that cause every miss to be a large percentage.

 

Plenty of dome kickers have the same issue. What's their excuse?

3 minutes ago, Bob Jones said:

I don’t think Bass deserves to be cut. Last week his foot slipped on the turf when he duck hooked that one kick. And yesterday the wind seemed to have a great effect on the ball.

 

I know in the game day thread some people were saying he's got a "bad slice", similar to what a golf hacker does. Question: is that even possible, considering the physics of it? I'm no scientist, but I don’t even think it's physically possible to put the spin on an oblong ball during a FG try, to make it "slice" like a golf ball does. If the kick is hit properly, AND the ball is tumbling end over end, there can be zero side spin on it. The latter is very different from a punt, which of course can have sidespin, as the foot contact the ball in a totally different way vs a placekick.

 

Yes it's possible. I kicked for a few years in 2 leagues...flag and touch football. While I am no expert I played soccer for 25+ years growing up and kicked footballs 4-5 time a week when the weather was nice going to the high school nearby for 6-7 months starting in March during that time.

 

You definitely can hook the ball depending on where your foot makes contact with it, no different than a soccer ball, although kicking the two are completely different. Took me a few days to not consistently kick the football into the ground when I first started as you have a different target on the football than the soccer ball typically.

 

However in this case, I don't think the ball was hooked, I just think he didn't push the ball far enough left. Donn Paul posted the winds had picked up to 21 mph at 9pm which is plenty strong to push longer kicks like that.

[Don't Blame Bass]

1 hour ago, peterpan said:

Wait- this can’t be true.  Our kicker has a 7.4 mil dead cap? Are you kidding me!?  
 

no wonder we are in cap hell.  

 

We just signed him to an extension

[The Million-Dollar Question Sticking in My Mind]

20 minutes ago, Roundybout said:

While walking down Southwestern Boulevard to my car in the gloom and cold last night, the following question stuck in my head:

 

Why is it so goddamn hard for our offense to make a single play?

 

Why does Josh have to kill himself for a first down? Why does he have to make pinpoint throws across his body for touchdowns? Why is every receiver covered so easily? 
 

I take a look at other games, like the Detroit game, and I see playmakers schemed open with ease. Goff is an alright quarterback but he’s helped by guys who are easily open on their own. 
 

I don’t know whether it’s scheme or talent or both, but it shouldn’t be so difficult to just sustain a drive. 
 

Case in point, we STILL cannot run a screen to save our lives. Brady kept dialing up screens to Kincaid or Diggs that would gain a few, but never a back-breaking 25 yard catch-and-run. 
 

Or, Josh throwing a nice ball over the middle to Cook. Would have been an easy touchdown, but it was dropped. Why does he have to truck 6 defenders just to keep a drive alive? 
 

Why is it so hard for us? 

 

Why is Diggs limited to 10 catches on 24 targets for 63!!! Yards and 0 TDs in the last 3 elimination games for the Bills?

 

3.3 catches a game and 21 yards isn't going to get it done.

 

Inexcusable performances from a #1 WR when we need him most.

[Tyler Bass Contract]

4 minutes ago, Aussie Joe said:

Sorry … can’t agree .. I think he gets cut … happy to revisit and accept my Medicine… but I think he is gone 

 

You don't need to agree, you simply are being emotional and not basing it off facts.  Bass is squarely in the middle of "good" kickers over the last 3 years and is 3rd in XP percentage over that time.  The "clutch" kicker Butker is a few percentage points better than him, which is statistcailly meaningless really with how few attempts they get each year. You don't create a huge dead cap space to get a marginal, if any, upgrade.  That makes zero sense and only someone who is basing their decision on emption rather than logic would do that. Bass was also 9/9 before that kick in those situations.  You don't get rid of a guy who misses his first kick after making the other 9.

 

Guess 2am counts for Overreaction Monday.