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I think we also need to think about drafting a new left tackle

If we fired the coaches this offseason, take our lumps next year and eat salary cap, we could be back in action for the 2027 season, Josh's age 31 season. We could be one of the youngest teams in the league again. Imagine Hairston, Bishop, Hancock and Walker as our defensive vets. Josh, Kincaid, Hawes, Shakir and Cook are the offensive vets. Other than these 9 players, our 53 is young and cost-controlled. Imagine a coach who is a great offensive playcaller and hires a great defensive coordinator... and both guys adjust at halftime! Imagine a young, hungry DL with a big 1 tech and dominant ends. Imagine JA with a stock of receivers drafted in 2026 and 2027, plus a bruising running back to complement Cook. Imagine a 50 TD season from Josh and a 15-2 record, a 1 seed, two home playoff games at the new pile. Imagine... It's fun to dream...

It’s time to bring an O mind HC. HC and GM are peers at BUF. does anyone trust MickeyDermot input to big decisions? I don’t.

Cowherd has been critical of the Bills coaching for awhile too. He thinks McDermott is a good coach but that head coaches need to be offensive minded in this day and age. The criticism is finally catching up to Beane who had evaded it almost entirely for years. McDermott rightfully gets criticized for not having what it takes to get us to the Suoerbowl. But Beane sits right along side of him as an anomaly in this league. Every GM that has been tenured longer than him has been to a Super Bowl. He made two good moves in his tenure, drafting Allen and trading for Diggs. He stopped making big trades, his one big FA signing - Von -didn’t work, and his one top 10 pick post Josh has been just ok (both big Defensive splashes of course). Too many misses, not enough swings. Not f’ing things up too bad can keep you around for awhile, but not hitting on enough should get you canned.

If Tony Danza isn't in it I'm out.

I have spent years KILLING this defense and specifically the coaching of it. We never make stops, can’t stop the run, every QB has all day on third down and every physical team blows us backwards off the ball for 3 hours. The defense is why we haven’t won a Super Bowl. The defense is why we have lost in the playoffs every year. The defense is why I felt we can’t win this year. All of that is because the guy coaching the defense is beyond useless. He has one job and sucks at it. He plays the wrong guys, the scheme has been since figured out and the stubbornness is crippling. The offense has earned the benefit of the doubt 10x over and as long as we have Allen we will always be good enough to make a run on offense. The defense is the thing that holds us back. I’m the #1 loudest guy about how TERRIBLE our defense is and has been…… silver lining The defense was good in that second half. Once Bernard went out. (Sucks for him. Seems like a good guy I never wanna see a guy get hurt. Hope he is ok I’m not a POS) The best thing that ever happened to this 2025 team was getting 45 and 58 on the field together. It sucks that it took an injury to get the good guys in but we are here. If we could ever get Tarron Johnson out we might have something. Against Carolina and against Houston post Bernard were the two times I felt good about our defense in years. If we can stop people, we can win this whole thing. The offense will figure it out. The offense will be fine. If we play Thompson and Milano, we might have something here. Bernard and Tarron Johnson have been killing us for months. IMO the single most important event of the Bills season might have happened in that second half against Houston. Hate it for the reasoning but we are here now. And it might have saved us. God knows the coach was never going to do it on his own.

I did just notice that Denver, which has allowed only 2 sacks all season, has their C and LG playing on contracts for just around $1MM per year.

I’ll definitely watch it at some point. I’m sure that it’s terrible. If the Bills are involved I watch regardless of how bad I know it’s going to be.

A lot of people didnt like Jim back in his playing days. Actually a lot of people outside Buffalo hated the Bills and rooted for them to lose. I was a Kelly fan because he backed up the arrogance/bravado with his play and leadership. I still say that he throws a nicer touch pass than Josh does (esp deep). In short he was a special QB to watch. Never heard of the personal bad behaviour of Jim towards his wife or people in the Western NY area back then but remember that was pre internet and anecdotal stuff (combined with damning videos and audio) didnt really exist for another 10-15 years. I did hear from people who were connected to the team that the Bills loved to party back then. Something that I can personally attest, to seeing Bruce Smith at the Late Show in NFalls about 1AM on a Saturday night during the season. However in Bruce's defense, I think it was during the 1990 season and he was possibly injured. In the end judging Jim harshly seems a bit ridiculous considered the personal pain that he suffered with Hunter's condition and his own battles with cancer. That guy has been through a lot.

Bingo! I was surprised by the complete lack of adjustments to Houston's defense, as amazing as that defense is. I kept thinkiing they will adjust with quick throws, as opposed to the long ball when you have no time in the pocket, perhaps, a few well-executed screens. etc. But, we got zilch in terms of adjustments even after half-time. The coaches messed up big time first in terms of: (a) complacency; (b) preparing for a super, but somewhat predictable defense; and (c) making appropriate adjustments based on what they were seeing on the field.

Brandon Beane looks so incompetent right now after the beatdown of Josh Allen on national TV. Mercole Hardman was his solution. Who is Josh Palmer?

There’s several teams over the years that don’t appear to be special, but get hot and make the SB. They may not win, but teams have gotten there. Gotta get in the tournament though.

The national media is turning on the bills mgt now. Something the locals can’t do as they need access and jobs. That’s a big shift.

I think that the coaches see it but can't do anything about it due to the lack of talent at WR. There is nothing they can do about it at this point in the season. If the Waddle stuff at the trade deadline was true then Josh Allen has every right to be livid.

..........we're still in play for a WC spot

Teams are constantly intentionally changing and disguising their looks, so i don't put a lot on JA's shoulders when it comes to missing what the D is doing sometimes........it happens to every QB and it takes time to understand these new looks, however, it should be up to our coaching staff to help him understand what he's seeing out there and i think they are sorely lacking on this.

Sometimes change is good for change sake. I think it applies to the mgt team now. They brought Diggs in and bam and somehow have unlearned that lesson. I think there’s a quality + trust + consistent WR issue and 17 frazzled

It’s only a flesh wound.

Why not? Dont have any mindset about it other than entertainment ..

Well, so much for being a fiscally responsible perennial contender.

It’d be a huge help if we could get more than one starter out of each year’s draft class. I’m certain it’d curtail the need for the free agent dumpster diving we’ve been witnessing.

Well said.

That's not how any of this works. If he walks into McDermott's office and demands a trade, he's traded. And if you remember, like late Payton Manning, he had little to do with them

I probably have to. Those hallmark acting is horrific. I see 13 seconds of bad acting and walk out of the room

Theoretically Josh should outlast Cam and Russ but it concerns me that he doesn't seem to be reading or seeing the field well this year. That skill should be improving, and it's going to have to to offset his decreasing mobility once he hits 30. Or perhaps he's seeing the field well but there's no body open?