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As a card carrying McD hater (who I will give flowers to on the start of the year) I have been consistent in praising this element of the team. Turnovers, for most teams are fairly random on the defensive side of the ball. But McD's teams historically, even dating back to Carolina, have been exceptional here. It's not random and it does directly lead to wins. When you go down the switch coaching path, that is the element I think you lose the most from. You aren't going to bring another coach in that is this successful at maximizing the turnover battle. He's elite at it, it's in the way our defenses are taught and it's very valuable.

What’d I do? 🤣 Do you mean to say I gave him a glowing review after 20 games last season, and I’ve turned on him after the Raven’s game? I have no idea what you’re talking about. Sorry. Bills defense looks bad against the Ravens. Disagree? I’m not all done wondering is Babich can win a Super Bowl because of how the Steelers defended the Jets week 1. Okay with that? Last season ended when the Bills defense couldn’t stop a college team. Their coach is Babich. What exactly is the controversy you’re trying to stir up. I suggest you pump the brakes, let people have understandable, reasonable questions about the DC in a thread about the DC on the hot seat. If anything, I’ve cooled the “hot seat” talk by saying I don’t think, want, expect him to get canned during the season. Even though Super Bowl contenders have done just that, with success I might add.

Prayers sent. Hope is the best of things - as Bills fans, and in life.

This turnaround phenomenon is getting rather interesting, especially when you consider the parallels. Geno Smith, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold all started for franchises that are poorly ran. They all started year 1. Daniel Jones is likely going to be the next one on this list. Outside of the bad franchise part, perhaps an element exists just not being burdened by expectations. It has to be a bit much to be a 21 year old tasked with turning around a dysfunctional franchise. Most of which are still dysfunctional years later. To go into a situation largely free of expectations but with the experience of your past. It has to be a pretty damn good feeling for some of these guys.

Thanks for clarifying. Was legitimately confused. DQ is the 3 in that picture above. Very interesting. Got any thoughts? Wonder if film reviewers have caught this (haven’t watched cover 1 analysis yet).

Hang in there, brother. Things will get better. ❤️

Yes, he was both TD leader & turnover leader. He's actually still the turnover leader the past 7 years (by a pretty wide margin), and he has Mahomes beat by 3 TDs. I'm just saying his TD to turnover ratio was just pretty good, never great. Even with all his TDs, he had too many turnovers compared to the other guys.

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I think that Buffalo has a pretty good handle on defending against Miami's occasionally explosive passing offense. I can't imagine Miami even slowing down Buffalo's offense. My guess is the Bills will beat the spread and the only thing that will hold the margin of victory down will be Buffalo playing backups in the fourth quarter. My only regret is that Buffalo has to play New Orleans after they beat Miami. It seems like a complete waste of a mini-bye when you have to play the worst team in the league after it.

What a surprise.

I disagree that the NFL does NOT want Toronto. They want any major world class city. Those Canadian corporate dollars will not continue to flow to Buffalo under the current climate and would really really flow expotentially more if there was a NFL for Toronto in Downtown Toronto. When I managed a large law firm in Toronto there was no way I could organize a client function to attend a Bills game yet we had a suite at both the ACC and Rogers Centre. If there was a NFL team in Toronto, it would be in very very high demand for professionals wishing to entertain clients and potential clients. I don't believe it would take $10B. Probably $5B does it -- $2.5B for the NFL Franchise Fee and $2.5B for a new Downtown Toronto stadium -- however that may be $6B now due to the rising cost of Downtown Toronto real estate the cost of the doomed stadium may now cost closer to $3.5B.

Oh.... ok... lmao

I've always believed that except in rare cases where a coach exposes his QB to a severe injury, a coach cannot "ruin" a QB as many here believe. More likely is the QB ruins the coach with his bad play. Most QB busts are the result of bad scouting, not bad coaching. Anyone who thinks better coaching would have worked with JP Losman or EJ Manuel is excusing the people who scouted and drafted them. That said, there's a relatively new phenomenon that used to never happen: Early round draft choices who were basically on the scrap heap & considered busts are turning around their careers & becoming productive starters. They'll never reach Mahomes/Allen status, but they do recover later in their careers. The 1st was Geno Smith, followed by Baker Mayfield & Sam Darnold. Ironically, each awakened on his 4th team. So, while some would say they were ruined early on, none of these 3 QBs were permanently ruined. At best you can say they were stymied by bad coaching, but ruined, no.

There is always a thread.

I think this is the type of ball control offense that McDermott wants and is why Brady is the OC. Complimentary football.

Where did this guy go? Somewhere deep in the red-pill rabbit hole - send a search party.

Pretty sure he simultaneously lead the league in TDs scored and turnovers his first 6 years in the league. I think that was the stat thrown around alot. He cleaned up his turnovers in the playoffs. 25 TD passes to only 4 INT.