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"Which one of the homegrown off-season signings has met or exceeded expectations besides Cook"

Because Joe Brady is a poor game planer and his play package is primitive. The other teams knew what we were going to do since Atlanta. No I am not saying it because of that tweet in this thread. I have said it since the Atlanta game. Atlanta at minimum figured out our motions and how to get fool Josh and get him to play into the defense. On a side note: I think this game might have been slightly different if we had Kincaid available. They don't use Knox in the same way and Kincaid has a knack for them short to mid range quick throws and turning them into first downs. I would have liked to have seen more passes to the backs last night. Texans LBers are also very good though. A lot of people want to blame Josh for everything. I guarantee you if Josh had a real OC and one #1 guy that this team would be nie unstoppable on offense. Sure, Josh has his head scratchers but what QB doesn't? Hell, Id bet just a real OC and this same crew would perform better and we lose maybe 1 game thus far.

With Spencer Brown out, how does it look facing TJ Watt and Myles Garrett?

Then Beane should have traded up to get a difference maker instead of trading back multiple times to the team's detriment.

Lol. I feel like most people that say 9-8 want to be 9-8. We aren't going 9-8. We have 6 games left. Jets and Browns should be wins. That gives us 9 right there. Then all we gotta do is go 2-2 in the other 4. Completely doable. 11-6 is where I think we go

Agreed. The Championship roster comments are interesting. I liked this topic.. I think it was the morning show, but he keeps referencing points per possession to show how the Defense, while not good, is doing enough for what one would think a Josh Allen led Offense can win with. I think we’d all agree the Defense has been pretty bad these past two weeks, but giving up 32 in a high possession game isn’t awful. Giving up 23, when 6 of those points came off turning the ball over in FG range, while forcing 6 punts, isn’t awful.

I think all of that is still on the table. Obviously the Pats are good & improved - but in a few ways, they're entering the "tough" part of their historically easy schedule. If they lose to Cincy, it's no guarantee they can beat the Giants, Ravens, us or Miami, among others. I think they probably win the division, but it's far from over.

Exactly, we need a fresh approach

Pittsburg: win - we will come out on fire after being embarrassed Cincy: win - their defense is horrific NE: would like to say win but have to say loss Cleveland: win - even our D can stop them Philly: good game and I think we win a close one at home Jets: win if we have a shot at the division, lose if our spot is secure and can’t change

Jerry O is great with injury related stuff too.

He won't and you won't so given that you have nothing to do with making any of these decisions--decisions that will likely be far more incremental than the posts on this board demand, if any-- don't think too much. Take a step back if need be. You are simply a passenger, not the pilot, for better or worse.

I’m down on this team as much as the next guy. I think we’re wasting a generational talent, but we have some bad teams on that schedule. I think we’re going to win a decent amount, maybe just a loss to Philly and the Pats. However, we aren’t going far in the playoffs.

I don’t think they are firing Beane and McDermott (maybe Beane but not McDermott) but here a few somewhat realistic ideas that I think should happen: -swap out both coordinators (prefer both from outside the org and not Daboll) On Offense: -Trade Keon Coleman and a 2nd to the eagles for AJ (Coleman needs a fresh start and Brown/eagles seems like it is - Release Samuel, restructure Knox, let Moore walk -Let Edwards walk, resign McGovern, trade Torrence (probably can’t pay him after next year and can get a 2nd or 3rd most likely. Have Anderson and the other backups along with a mid round draft pick compete for the 2 guard spots On Defense - try to bring bosa back if he will take a reasonable deal - move Bernard to Milano spot and get a bigger middle linebacker - explore moving Taron Johnson to saftey next to bishop if not cut him - cut Rapp Guys that should not be back next year on 😧 Hamlin, Rapp, Poyer,Ingram, White, Taron?, Milano, ogunjobi, jones, Phillips, Mathis, Solomon, Epenesa (Carter and Jackson probably don’t deserve it but need some additional play time)

If we are eliminated from the playoffs by kickoff time against the jets, I think we lose that game.

Bills Squad is great. I really like Jerry Ostroski's point of view.

I agree we don’t have talent but it’s BS that we can’t draft better talent. Not every good player in the nfl is drafted in the top 20 picks. We could have taken Worthy or Ricky Pearsol or Ladd McKonkey over Coleman and that’s just at WR. Cooper Dejean was key to the eagles winning the superbowl last year - thy may not win it without him - and that CB Lassiter, who helped destroy us last night, was drafted just after Coleman too. Maybe we don’t need Coleman at all if we took Troy Franklin the year before instead of Dwayne Carter!?!? We could have drafted some of the highest rated defenders in the league this past May. Jihad Campbell LB or Nick Emmanuwari S/CB in round one were available, Donovan Ezeiruaku EDGE or Will Johnson CB in round 2, Xavier Watts Round 3. All big time difference makers from day one. And if we wanted to be a running team maybe take Skattebo at the end of round 3??!?!!? Fact is basically anyone would have rebuilt the back end of our defense by just looking at mock drafts and all America lists.

Yeah I think you and @HappyDays are kinda' holding onto your opinion from when they signed him. I was against the extension after the horrific concussion in the AFCCG. The juice wasn't worth the squeeze. The reality is that he is playing like a guy who was going to get low-balled in free agency this winter and would be signing a one year deal after the compensation formula period in May. Zero picks, Zero passes defensed and a 110 passer rating when targeted is not getting you paid.

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i'm convinced we walk over pittz, and if NE drops the next one to cincy the division is fully in play.

Defense. Got to invest in the Defense. Haven't done it enough

He also had a lot of 0, 1, 2 yard gains. Kind of hard to keep using him in those situations because they are behind the sticks. Then Josh makes an inc or takes a sack. They arent going to run the ball on 2nd and 3rd and long. In fact they did run the ball one time on 2nd and long and he got 2 yards which created 3rd and long.

That's an argument I'm not willing to engage in at this point. For the most part I think he's a good administrator who eventually learns from "most" of his mistakes, but he's also still an OCD micro-manager with a set in stone philosophy that does not maximize the value of the unicorn that has been dropped in his lap.

This year is somewhat of an exception Bosa, Oliver and Hoecht all got hurt.... Others got banged up too You double Rousseau and it's basically game over When they had everyone for about 2 qtrs, it looked awesome

Speaking from personal experience, I think “culture” is a good way to turn around a struggling entity. Culture talk also can get old when people start seeing the same old results. The preaching of culture is something that can easily go bad when results become stagnant.