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I agree. Before the year started we were talking about tie breakers with Balt and KC for top seed, but we are actually talking about tie breakers to get in the dance with them Weird year

Overdorf still does the contracts, and his boys do the spreadsheets. Ultimately all decisions are Brandon Beane's.

Exactly. And... he realized he was more than just a Quarterback.

Now the Bears have passed the Bills also, amazing job Beane and Mcdermot

Hey, having a 2nd place schedule next year would be refreshing. And I still think they make the playoffs this season.

Im gonna go with no.

Its basically what happened to Andrew Luck too. He got beat up for so long that football wasn't fun anymore

So who is currently filling this role? They need to take a hard look at his efforts. Or is Beane just ignoring him and doing whatever he wants, to hell with the cap?

Consider we have the h2h tiebreakers of teams like Baltimore and KC that might be looking to leap us gotta think we have that in our favor. Of course it will depend how we play last few weeks.

I am a huge proponent of an honest inventory being absolutely critical in order to make changes, and this is.....not exactly honest. DIons job is to keep the QB clean. He didn't, and that means he shouldn't be talking about anything or anybody else unless he leads with "I didn't hold up my end of the bargain, and it made it more difficult for everybody else". If that is the sentence before the Gabe Davis comment, then that doesn't bother me. But it's not, so I assume he believes he did a good enough job. He was 1/5 of the group that let the best player in the league get the shirt kicked out of him last night.

Anything can happen, this is the most wide open the conference has been in some time. That being said, the most probable scenario is the Bills finishing as a 5th-6th seed and they’ll have to win this thing from underneath.

As long as the mandate is to hire the new coordinators from outside the organization I'm in.

It's a week to week league. Matchups play a huge role in who wins many of these games. There isn't as many "hey, we out-talented you and won by 3 TD's" games these days. There are a handful of them. Miami and Atlanta have great RB's and exposed a Bills weakness. The O didn't come to play in either game. Houston's D overwhelmed the Bills. Stuff happens, we might actually match up really well against Pittsburgh, we'll see.

Yeah this is essentially McD saying “this is not Allen’s fault”.

Mack had it.

This crew has been around too long, and been The Team to game plan / draft against for too long to be successful anymore IMO (hoping to eat crow). They've promoted from within and been together too long to come up with any new ideas. I'm terrified of the potential drought returning, but I believe that had more to do with liquid assets / contract structures, than it did just about anything else. Meaning, I don't believe we're necessarily at risk for that happening again with the current owners / investment in the franchise. So I say we need clear out everyone (other than Kromer). And enough with the Billsy mentality of "who's available that will want the job?" and think "Who TF wouldn't want to be handed the keys to this race car of a team?" It's like a dream opportunity! I bet better than 1/2 the current head coaches in the NFL would trade jobs today for the chance. So contracts aside (we can buy them out right and it doesn't affect the cap)...lets assume we can nearly call our shot... Why wouldn't we do this? (Hoping for crow!)

call me crazy but I do t think Josh and McDermott are a particularly good pair to begin with. and now it feels like a lot of the offense is a Josh fan club instead of guys that will press/challenge him It just has that “low positive” season lack of fire to win around the whole group

i do a sit down w mcd and ask him what he and beane did wrong, and how to fix it. brady is gone. I make him DC and HC, i get a top flight wr in (waddle will likely be available, but there are others too) and also draft one. I draft DE and LB and corner with speed and athletic ability. i clean out the dead wood (many who will go anyhow). i bring in a shanahan tree OC, maybe hc in miami is fired, i'd take him in a second. maybe firing mcd would be better, but i don't know who would be better off the bat, and my goal is a year 1 chip.

“Never adhering to doctrine” isn’t the slam you think it is it’s how a secular democracy works. No party is obligated to legislate based on one church’s rulebook. Acting like they should is pathetic and just lazy deflection. And speaking of deflection, spare us the moral grandstanding when your own cult is busy hawking Bibles with Trump’s name slapped on the cover for sixty bucks. So before you lecture anyone about doctrine, maybe ask yourself what “religion” the MAGA brand is actually selling.

And yet, with that contract he's still their second most valuable asset behind Allen. He's a top 30 player at a premium position and a guy one could easily see playing another 10 years in the league. The bar is high because Allen has continued to will them into contention the past few seasons and contenders typically have a number of elite talents. The Bills just have the one. Rousseau isn't a $40M-$50M edge but he is in a much different category than Bernard.

I firmly believe we will get a Lombardi or two with Josh. And as much as I am one to not think making big changes works, it is clear some changes are needed: 1. Brady and Babich: neither have shown the ability to make in game adjustments. Babich to the point where McD has to take over D calls. We need coordinators that have the skill and experience to look dispassionately at the talent available and use that talent in the best way possible. 2. McDermott: he needs to realize the coordinators he has are not cutting it and bring in new ones. He needs to remove his ego from the process and get some proven guys in here, maybe even Daboll. And on D he needs to look in the mirror and ask himself if his D philosophy works in today’s NFL. If he can’t or won’t do that, then it’s time for a change. 3. Beane: he has to commit to doing all he can to maximize talent around Josh. He has to get rid of our older warriors that have had age catch up or simply aren’t cutting it (Tre, Taron, Milano, Bernard, Dawkins, Knox, Samuel, Moore, Coleman, Jones to start) and bring young talent in through the draft or free agency that add speed and/or size. Receiver has to be a priority. As long as Josh is playing QB we are a contender. But we need serious re-evaluation of everything around him.

I have Terry give me the money to being in the beat talent evaluators possible. I do as you said amd take the painful cap hit of a purge and depend on the draft. I emphasize upgrading WR, CB, Safety. I bring in an offensive minded HC, and have him bring in a damn good DC and trash the crap schemes we have been using

Problem is its easier for the O line to blow up the guys next to him or on the other side. I still feel a true 1 tech in the middle eating space is more valueable we care to find. If you can jam the middle rushing the ends is much easier task because there is less routes to get away.

Also a sign of hypocritical behavior. Dawk wants to call Keon out in effort than lays a complete egg last night? Key penalty on the last play? Dion needs to grow up. Didn't even have the decency to yell "RUN, JOSH, RUN" that I could hear

Exit interviews should be interesting at the end of the season.