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Ripping him for not playing to the whistle throughout the game I get. What he does after the final whistle is irrelevant and I highly doubt he’s yucking it up in the locker room.

This is a very good point.

I can't help but think that if all the guys we sign are underperforming, that's on the coaching staff. Either the scheme fit isn't right or it's too complicated for them to process quickly. Either way this is becoming ridiculous. Poona Ford and Tim Settle leave Buffalo and became major contributors almost overnight to their respective teams. It's time to seriously look inward at the organization and figure out why guys are so hot and cold in this system.

I've always laughed watching Dion on this play. Guess it was funny because the play worked out. Not funny anymore. Getting sick of Dion and his happy to lucky attitude to be honest.

Landon Jackson had a 9.95 RAS. Does he look fast, quick or twitchy to you?

And Cook was the one made to wait the longest. You take away lucking into Josh Allen, and Brendan Beane is mediocre, at best, as a GM.

You do not keep a HC around because the next guy could be worse. That is living in your fears and settling for comfort over what is truly needed----change!!!

one disagreement -- the d was also good in the second half vs atl, and the exact same ish happened then. 7 and 8 are outmatched (i think they have health issues, in their defense) and the guys behind them are better players right now.

I dont think they can fire him at this point uintil the off-season. My hope is maybe they can hire an special asst to the offense or something along those lines. No idea who that person could be but an other brain getting involved in this O is desperately needed.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRUyGowjcMo/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== please watch this video. Bills were a great “middle eight” team last year. This year. Not so much.

i made an effortpoast thread about my view, but this is pretty close to all of it. i'd say its cuz we play bad vs bad teams on the road, and that's done by us turning the ball over. if we had the exact game we just did vs hou and before that miami, but instead we didn't turn the ball over, we win bad looking games vs bad opponents but are sitting at 9-2. it's a very thin line.

Completely different topic, but Shakir is a weird one for me because he's clearly the best WR we have right now, but winning from the slot is also the easiest role vs. what we've asked Palmer, Gabe, Keon, etc. to do and despite all the good things Shakir brings to the table, he's never been particularly good at winning against man coverage even with the advantages that playing out of the slot afford you. We have way bigger fish to fry on this offense but I don't think it would be all that difficult to find an upgrade to Shakir too even though he's a pretty good player and again, the best of our bunch.

If I step back and look at this objectively, what I'm seeing in the AFC is the salary cap working how it's designed. Teams like the Pats, Colts, and Broncos are on the upswing because they went through the rebuilding cycle. On the other side, teams like the Chiefs, Bills, and Ravens are in a downward cycle due to aging rosters, late draft picks, and a lack of cap space. The main reason the Chiefs are struggling is that some of their elite talent (Kelce and Chris Jones) is aging out of the league. But they got KC three rings. The problem for all of us is that we didn't win during our window, which ran from 2020 to 2023. The Ravens are in a similar spot. The logical step for the Bills is to actually tear it ALL down and rebuild from nothing, take their lumps for 2-3 years, and come back with a new GM, HC, and franchise QB. You do that because this group will never win, and by the time they could be ready to actually contend again Josh Allen will be 34 at best. But that is a drastic step that I'm sure no one actually wants to take. I don't see a solution.

Phil Dokes and AC Cowlings showed more than Rousseau has.

You're probably 100% right actually, despite what "people in the building" say. Do you think any normal GM, who wasn't hired by the HC like Beane was, would spend their first five draft picks on defense and their sixth on a blocking TE when you have Josh Allen and no #1 WR?

"I'll agree that the available names this year aren't quite as inspiring as those two but that doesn't mean you hold onto a coach that you know for a fact is never going to get it done." No "inspiring" coaches available this season, but don't hold onto a coach that isn't going to "get it done". Pretty simple path from A to B. Fire Clappy now and see what they can hire.

i like to say we because i'm a fan and without the fans there is no anything for the team. i get they don't care about me, but i don't care about them outside of playing football for my entertainment, so it's even! anyhow, i think i covered most of this -- we aren't fun to watch because modern nfl football is more exciting but more frustrating, and our team might be the most like that in the nfl. to be clear, i don't think we do it and win the chip this season, or even win the division, but if this silly azz team just figures out to not play bad on the road (honestly, i wonder if the travel arrangements are an issue, remember our guys flew to london late? stuff like that matters), and honestly if the corches and allen get in their tiny heads that turning over the ball still matters, they can beat anyone we (see what i did there?) will play. i don't expect it to happen, but i find it interesting that the deeper we delve and the more science we have to understand this, john madden was always right and football is a simple thing at the end of the day.

And this dude was the sole player to call out Coleman. He should look within.

I dont see positives in McDermott. I think we already got all he has to offer. Team building, picking us up out of the gutter. I know there's no proof but I would guess he has a lot of influence on draft picks. If we didn't have Josh staying the course would be fine. Not getting a superbowl with him would be a crime though. And our guys in charge simply aren't good enough. All this and I'm betting we win a playoff game this year anyway.

This is the biggest fault I have for him. Look, in theory I do get it. We hear it at every end of season presser he does. To paraphrase: "We don't feel we are far off. We had a few key injuries, a few young guys in there and we still were two or three plays away from winning". He's right. We get close every year. And being close puts in his mind that if we "run it back" and make a few tweaks, we will accomplish the goal. It's not a horrible train of thought. But to run it back, he only sees the positives taking place. - Injured players will return and be at full health. - All young/developing players will take a step forward - Zero older player will regress. In the real world however, it doesn't always play out the way he plans. And while Beane is focused on beating his White Whale in the playoffs (Kansas City), other teams have rebuilt, caught up and passed us. For YEARS, Beane has gotten to rest on his laurels because we get the guaranteed path to the playoffs with the AFCE title. Easy peasy, right? We're in and then anything can happen. Times are changing. The division, at least in this season, runs through New England. Beane likes to say "the playoffs show you exactly where you need to improve" or something like that. Well, what about not making the playoffs altogether? Houston, right behind us with a tie breaker. Kansas City can always rip a win streak and Baltimore is back healthy with momentum. There's a real chance that after the final week we are on the outside looking in.

Yeah but he sets the edge. Yeah but he blocks well. Yeah but he plays special teams. Its a theme..................

Every day it is more and more clear that if not for Allen McBeane would not have lasted more than a few seasons.

It seems you've missed the very obvious point of the post. I'm not saying the Bills won't make the playoffs or win the Super Bowl. I'm saying watching the games is not as much fun as it once was. People seem to agree. Step down from your ivory tower and realize that this has nothing to do with self-worth. Of course it has to do with happiness... this is a team and sport that we all dedicate time to and we want to watch our team win. Of course we don't feel neutral while the once in a lifetime quarterback of our favorite team is pile driven into the ground and writhing in pain. You know the most ironic part of your post? You say "we" when describing the Bills several times and still act holier than thou when describing "a team you aren't on" ... good lord. I hope you've considered therapy as well, because "we" are openly expressing frustration and that's perfectly fine.

It was a pre-determined read

Well I assume they watched him in college rather than just looking at the stats lol. He was always this player and has only gotten better at rushing the passer in the NFL. It was a very well known part of his scouting report in college that he mostly feasted off of the pressures that his teammates generated (and was legitimately good at rushing the passer when he lined up as the DT on 3rd downs but that's not what we drafted him for). Again, it's a valuable skill set to have, but he's never been a guy you expected to just go out and win on the edge.