I agree. I was pointing out that Reid has done similar things that you posted about other coaches.

It’s not about the coaching, really. Every brilliant coach in history has had massive ****ups. Whatever.

It’s more about a prevailing attitude in the organization and the media surrounding them that the team is OWED success in some way.

“What do you mean they’re making us play mistake-free football?! We beat all those great teams in the regular season already!”

Their fans are definitely on board with this delusion.

Before the AFCCG all I heard was how they would be ok with losing because this was supposedly a step back year. Then after taking the L AGAIN, they were heart broken and thought this was somehow their “best shot” despite them getting us at home last year.

People love to point out that this was a reset year for Buffalo and cling to it as a beacon of optimism for years ahead.

The difference between their little rebuild and Kansas City’s post-Tyreek is the Chiefs actually improved the roster. The 2022 class came at the perfect time.

Buffalo lost a lot of vets last spring, but the problem I see is they didn’t supplement with many quality long term solutions. Now this is going to be another spring of departing veteran talent, and if you continue to miss in the draft…

You’ll find out what a real rebuild year looks like.

They have Joshua Alllen and a good Oline. They will be in contention every year as long as that’s truth.

It derails the bought ref talk. Which would lead to their front office being bought. As that looks to have a stronger case

I’d say this season is a potential reset year for KC as well. The thing with Mahomes and Josh are they can still carry a team through it. Lucky for Buffalol they still have a dysfunctional division. Ours is gonna be a bit more difficult than we’ve encountering in the Mahomes era.


I’m just hoping we didn’t lose a very important cog in our scouting department with Borgonzi. Veach hasn’t been great at drafting OL, or DL overall. But has made up for it in other areas. But also we have some HOF, and elite coaches that have probably helped to get the most out of some of the lesser players that have worked out for us.

Does anyone try to get the rules changed more than Buffalol? Guess they think they may have to face the Eagles next season?

Sean McDermott expresses safety concerns about the “tush push”
Of all NFL teams, the Eagles and the Bills have made the most effective use of the so-called “tush push” play. And, at a time when the Packers have proposed a rule prohibiting the move, Buffalo coach Sean McDermott has expressed concerns about the technique.

“To me, there’s always been an injury risk with that play, and I’ve expressed that opinion for the last couple of years or so when it really started to come into play the way it’s being used, especially a year ago,” McDermott said Monday, via Alaina Getzenberg of ESPN.com. “So, I just feel like, player safety, and the health and safety of our players has to be at the top of our game, which it is. It’s just that play to me has always been . . . or the way that the techniques that are used with that play, to me have been potentially contrary to the health and safety of the players. And so again, you have to go back though in fairness to the injury data on the play, but I just think the optics of it, I’m not in love with.”

McDermott is a member of the Competition Committee, which gives him a direct avenue for raising those concerns. The fact that his team uses it gives his position more credibility than a team that doesn’t.

Via Getzenberg, the Eagles and Bills have used the play 163 tush pushes over the past three seasons; that’s more than the rest of the league combined. Philadelphia and Buffalo have scored a touchdown or gained a first down 87 percent of the time. The rest of the league has a 71-percent success rate.

“We do it a little bit different than other teams,” McDermott said. “One team in particular, who does it a certain way, that’s the one that is really, there’s just so much force behind that player, but yeah, you try and keep . . . not try, you make number one always everything we do, fundamentals, what we teach technique, in this case, what we ask our players to do, health and safety number one.”

In the end, the rule allowing players to push the ballcarrier from behind will remain on the books unless and until 24 or more teams vote to change it.

He's actually right this time. The tush push presents a real player safety issue. It should be banned.

I’m 100% behind it as well. Just saying seems they constantly try to change rules. Will be interesting to see how Philly looks without the option of using it. That play is almost guaranteed when they run it, and that’s an easy call for Sirianni. But if it’s off the table, how does he react?

If Allen wouldn't have gotten stuffed on it twice (3 times?) McDermott wouldn't have shit to say about it.

The Bills are just ridiculous hypocrites with this stuff.

15 million a year for a guy who scored 4 TD LMAO

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bills</a> and WR Khalil Shakir agreed to terms on a 4-year contract extension worth up to $60.2M, including $32M guaranteed at signing, per me and <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TomPelissero</a>.<br><br>Deal negotiated by <a href="https://twitter.com/EquitySports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EquitySports</a> Co-Directors of Football Sam Mirza and Derek Hawkridge along with CEO Chris Cabott. <a href="https://t.co/aSxpLmRVbF">pic.twitter.com/aSxpLmRVbF</a></p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1894443494313164885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Oh I know they are. But the enemy of your enemy is your friend. The tush push needs to be banned. How it happens is immaterial to me.

If they keep it in, it’s absolute bullshit that the offense is allowed to push players but the defense isn’t.

They’ll never let the defense match force with force because “that would be dangerous!” so they need to scrap the whole thing.

Either you care about player safety or you don’t, NFL. Pick one