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I recognize most of the posters on this side of the board are not currently living in WNY and they might not even know who the Bandits are LOL. For those that still live in WNY what is your interest level in the Bandits? I'm diehard when it comes to the Bills and Sabres but I just can't find myself getting into the Bandits even though they are about to play for their 2nd consecutive Championship tonight. They do have a nice niche following around here but it's nothing like it would be if the Sabres were in the playoffs right now. I believe the game is being aired live on some channel here tonight but I don't even know if I can sit through the entire game. *For those that don't know the Bandits are the professional indoor Lacrosse team we have in Buffalo. To be fair they are the most successful professional sports franchise we have ever seen in Buffalo haha

I'd be okay with this. We don't have a field stretching WR on the roster. He gives us a baseline for that role, albeit a low baseline.

Bills might be facing a tough decision heading into 2025 if Cook has another good year this year. Cook will be on the final year of his deal in 2025...so do you think if he keeps playing at a high level they commit to him with an extension or do you think they avoid having an expensive RB and either try and trade him or just let him walk in FA?

If you started watching football in the 90's or earlier you got to witness the entirety of Brady with some decent context to boot. It felt like Brady was inevitable . If he had the ball late it wasn't if he would score but when. Leads didn't matter. He practically erased other HOF level QB's of that generation. Sure Ben, Peyton, and Drew eventually got one, which is good lesson for us because it really felt unlikely for a period of time. I think most of us feel like that level of domination just isn't possible again. Like what we saw was a once in lifetime thing. Bruce Smiths sack record, Barry Sanders doing Barry things. You just don't think you will see some things again because until that point all those years taught you they shouldn't happen in the first place. So when we see a guy like Mahomes have this type of success we sort of think, ok, ya, he's good but do it again. Then the next year you say the same thing. Then the next and the next and eventually you forget that you have been saying do it again for half a decade. Maybe what we are seeing is in fact another version of what all of us hoped we would never see again. Which as history has taught us, does not mean we will not get one or perhaps more, but it does mean it will be a very difficult path. Brady played in an era where stats were just not as easy to pile up as Mahomes so when you look at the data keep that in context. After 6 years in the league...... Mahomes = 4 AFC Championships, 2 Super Bowls, 1 pending Brady = 3 AFC championships, 3 Super Bowls The stats after 6 seasons aren't really close. I included Allen's most recent 5 years and extrapolated it into 6 years for comparisons sake. We sit here every offseason trying to solve why we didn't get to the Super Bowl like it's a physics question. Nobody would think that way during the Brady era. You knew out of the gate you weren't the favorite. You never were going to be the favorite and it would take something special to overcome it. We don't think that way because we keep saying ya, sure, do it again. Over and over it goes.

Granted, I live in Brooklyn, so I’m biased, but I just discovered that Curtis Samuel went to Erasmus High School. Check out the graduates of Erasmus HS!!! Click on the “notable alumni” tab and scroll down: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Hall_High_School

I think Beane is not getting enough props for adding a piece to every single group on both sides of the ball. This is an infusion of youth everywhere on the roster. We are now a younger team that has good depth pretty much everywhere. We may need a gamechanger or two, but now at least you reloaded the roster with promising young players, and next season we will have cap space and even better draft capital to make a power move or two should we have a glaring need. I like the approach, and we'll see how good McDermott and his staff really are given the makeup of the roster

I understand Chiefs and Niners even the Lions…I just don’t see where Baltimore is better

very interesting comment there

Debbi from Depew? What I really want to know is the opinion of Don from Dunkirk, but unfortunately he’s tied up all day in high level business meetings.

Patience is a virtue. That is not in dispute. So it is arguable that the more patience one has the more virtuous one is being. This poll is a test of your virtue. More undisputed facts: Sean McDermott Bills head coach since 2017 The Bills have made the playoffs 6 of those 7 years The Bill have not made it to the super bowl in any of those 7 years. Only three NFL head coaches (Reid, Tomlin, Harbaugh) have been with their teams longer (all have coached Super Bowl champions in their career) Two other coaches have the same number of years (McVay, Shanahan) Both have been to the Super Bowl twice. One has won a Super Bowl (weaker NFC) Generally speaking teams in the NFL do not seem to be patient with coaches. Teams have fired relatively recent super bowl winners (Pederson, Bellichek, Riveria for example). Teams have fired other coaches that made the playoffs numerous times. Some teams have been more patient (Shottenheimer, Marvin Lewis, Dan Reeves spring to mind) This poll is intended to record your level of virtue. The bigger the number you pick, the more virtuous you are.

He's a big body. Seems to me to be better suited at true NT than 1T but is a good run stuffer. Would NOT count against any comp pick formula for next year.

To be: Worse Better About the Same Arguments for worse: Losing key players can't afford to keep Most of D line free agents May have cap casualties Cap hell..cant pick up any real impact players Drafting low each round..Best talent already off the board Argument for Better: Lots of key positions already locked up like O-line..can target areas of need. Bills may get discount from some players in free agency as they are a contender Trust Beanes scouting to pick up talent at a discount...see:Poyer/Hyde Good depth in WRs in the draft. many gems may be available in middle rounds. Beane may swing the surprise trade to move up in draft getting impact player See: Kincaid What say you?

I knew our defense in the playoffs was bad, but I didn't realize it was at this level of bad. These are our DVOA rankings since 2020, which are all above average with 2021 and 2022 being elite. 2020: 11th 2021: 2nd 2022: 1st 2023: 12th This is EPA allowed in our playoff losses along with the EPA each of these teams posted in other playoff games that same year. I included how that EPA ranked on the season for that team. Kansas City 2023: vs Buffalo, 11.85 EPA 5th best on the season Other playoff games that year: Miami EPA 9.58, 7th best Bengals 2022: vs Buffalo, 22.03 EPA, 3rd best on the season Other Playoff games that year: KC 4.06 EPA 10th best, Ravens .7 EPA 16th best Kansas City 2021: vs Buffalo, 32.62 EPA, 3rd best on the season Other playoff games that year: Steelers 16.09 EPA, 9th best, Bengals 11.28 EPA 12th best Kansas City 2020: Vs Buffalo, 30.34 1st best on the season Other playoff games that year: Browns 19.09 EPA 9th best, Tampa Bay: -7.90 EPA 19th best For context, Kansas City has not had an EPA in the 20's in a playoff game one time since 2020 but they have had 2 games vs us in the 30's. The Bengals have not had a offensive EPA over 10 in any playoff game in the Burrow era but they had one in the 20's against us. It's not just that we underperform, it's that we allow historically excellent performances from these teams with a defense that rates either above average or far above average in the regular season.

Since @Einstein is in high-level meetings in India, let me just say you’ve been gouged.

I'd say I'm at a 6.5. With the wind still projected to be bad, it doesn't seem like a great passing day. I still believe we have the better overall team, but this is the type of game where fundamentals are key, to which I do believe the Steelers are more disciplined than us. As for home field advantage, I'm not sure what to expect. Like KC last night, I expect there to be a lot of empty seats. There were a lot of seats available, and who knows which fans those went to. Also, Pittsburgh is as prepared for these conditions as anyone in the league. Also, I absolutely hate when EVERYONE picks the Bills to win. Even still, we have Josh and I like him running the ball and making plays to squeeze out a win. Cook needs to protect the ball and Fournette just needs to keep it consistent. I believe we should win and think we will. But, and maybe it's the BBFS in me, I'm also very much prepared for a loss. **Update** Winds are projected at 10-15mph for the game. I’m sticking with my ratio

😆 Karen Mahomes too slow! 😆

Something that's been on my mind for a while now is that while Beane has done a fairly good job of cutting losses and getting something for a guy we don't need/want anymore, he hasn't ever really "sold high" on an upper shelf type of player -- the sole exception being the fire sale we had year 1 / 2017 when McD and Beane decided to dump anyone who wasn't buying into their culture immediately. That's fine. But consider that we might have identified TreMaine Edmunds as someone we weren't going to make the top paid linebacker in the NFL before the '22 season started -- might we have traded him and gotten something back? Instead we spent all off-season monitoring whether we spent ourselves out of a comp pick for the guy. Consider that Gabe Davis never turned it on last year and moving him prior to this past season for a day 2 pick and signing Hopkins in his place would have had a huge effect on this season -- how many interceptions wouldn't have been thrown? How many big plays might D Hop have made for us? AND we could have possibly had a future pick to help restock moving forward. (maybe I'm overvaluing him going into this season, but I think his big games and big play potential could easily have gotten a rd3 out of someone) Unfortunately most of our "top shelf" type of talent right now is buried into their contracts with dead money. Diggs and Miller are unmovable, even if a team wanted them. Honestly coming into this off season we might not even have anyone of intrinsically high value -- those "pro bowl snubs" outside of Allen don't look like they were snubbed very much at this point. Might be we just don't have that level of talent some of us thought we did. But going forward McBeane might benefit from identifying they aren't going to keep a guy and making a move for top value while they can -- it certainly hasn't hurt KC after they did so with Tyreek.

I'd be disappointed with C Sutton as the addition. He doesn't meet the 2024 Diggs level expectation for me.

The stress levels are high

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39571336/nfl-shareece-wright-sexual-assault-lawsuit I honestly don't remember him as a player

So many more that flame out at power 5 schools too. High school quarterbacking in Southern California is big business.

I’m in the 200 level clubs (I think). They are in the 200 level and 300 level and only on one side of the field (visitors). I didn’t commit at the meeting. I waited until they released lower PSLs the next week and moved closer to the goal line. I’m at like the 20 yard line.

When you’re at your next high level financial market meeting, explain to the snobs what over/under means.

Remember how this place acted when we drafted him? I ‘member.

Man, if they put you and Alphadawg7 in a room together, we are going to have one of those universe level destruction events where matter and anti-matter meet.