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Why you bashing Boogie Bashum?! 🤨 * (Purely rhetorical. We know why. 😁)

Unlike the redhawk’s boy, the repellent Tim Kaine, Lurch actually put people over politics and party. Good for him and it would be nice if each side had more than one like him.

There have been 7 different head coaches to lead a team to a Super Bowl victory in the last two years. 4 of 7 had been head coaches for a different team prior to coming to the Super Bowl winning team. 6 of the 7 coached the offensive side of the ball before becoming a head coach. If we are going to move of from McDermott, I dont want a young coordinator who will take time to learn the nuances of gameday and roster management. That said, a team of Jon Gruden/Reggie Mckenzie or Matt Nagy/Mike Bradway would be the way I'd lean. If you are going to fire a coach that has been pretty damn good for 9 years it better be for a guy who can have you in the Super Bowl the very next year. McDermott would have a job in two seconds if they fired him.

Only if they throw in Nacua.

I've been gradually moving in this direction for years. In many ways, football can be an addiction. You deserve a lot of credit for being able to properly put it into the backseat of your life. A few years ago, my wife pointed out that my mood with the rest of the family was being negatively impacted based on how the Bills played that week. Since that point, I've learned that if games aren't going well... I can just turn them off and do something else. I don't need to plan my Sunday around it. It's honestly been a work in progress, but I have gotten much better. Last year I skipped watching the Super Bowl, and totally ignored anything related to football until around free agency. Of course a championship would still mean a lot to me. But I've pretty much accepted the fact that it probably won't happen. And if it doesn't, I'm blessed in lots of other ways. Once Josh Allen's career is over, my plan is to call it quits on the sport altogether. Whether we ultimately reach the promised land or not. As someone who loyally supported and watched every game during the 17-year drought, I've got zero interest in going through that again.

Likely both. Beane ultimately had the final decision but Schoen was the guy that basically led scouting. He likely played a leading role in selecting Josh (as he just did with Dart). At least that’s how I understand the relationship. Perhaps @GunnerBill or someone more familiar can correct me if I’m wrong. That’s not all that uncommon. An extreme example is when Russ Brandon was the “GM.” He didn’t make any football decisions. That I know for a fact. He ultimately signed off on everything as the de facto owner but he wasn’t evaluating talent and overruling the guys in place (Modrak and Whaley if memory serves).

Ravens have some tough games coming up, including 2 Burrow Bengals games, Patriots, Packers, and Steelers twice if you want it (Pittsburgh always plays them tough even when they're bad) Every one of those teams will be playing all out to win because they need the W's for division races, seeding, etc. It's no guarantee that the Ravens suddenly became inevitable If they are some juggernaut and beat all those AFC teams then it just helps us

1) All these guys have giant egos that clash. They would be in a different business if they didn't. 2) Pegula has already cleaned house with the Sabres multiple times. Each time, they have to start a new rebuild from scratch. And in hockey where teams draft literal children, that takes years. Now that they need to do it again, he's loath to pull the trigger. But he has to do it.

Cook has an amazing ability to "get skinny on inside runs to slip through small gaps, but when that wasn't working so well versus the Dolphins Brady seemed to have no effective fall back options. Screens to Shakir behind the LOS didn't work either. A healthy Palmer may help a bit and there's a chance Hardman could too. At the moment there's not much else the Bills can hope for.

Trade 3 first round picks to the Rams for McVay. He would love the snow up here

Yes he did - but he also did that with top 5 picks. My son is a massive Giants fan and trust me, you don't want him anywhere near the Bills Org. He has messed up way more than he has succeeded. yes, his recent 2 drafts were good but so were Beanes.

Obviously!

Yes.

I used to be a huge Marty fan and defended him all over the place. The Football Life episode on him was awesome. It showed that Chargers/Patriots playoff game where Brady threw the game ending INT but the idiot Chargers DB started running with it, fumbled, and NE got it back and went on to win. The kicker was they showed footage of Marty pre-game saying to that very same player "when you catch the game winning INT, just go down and don't go running all around!" Both laughed. In the end, the guy did exactly what they coach joked about not doing, and it's the final example of "Marty can't win the big games" It's cruel irony.

Won’t this be a dome?

Was Schoen or Beane responsible for Boogie?

Collinsworth for GM. He's good at scouting young talent.

i wish i had a reaction to put on this post of a pondering the info. I think you are more correct than any kind of wrong, but i have been thinking one thing (dangerous, i know) and hearing another lately that i'll chime in w 1) some podcasts i follow and just rando twitterati have been going on about how McD and beane might not be the best of pals. mcd is obviously super stubborn to the edge of arrogance and does not like being pointed at as the problem (he canned two OCs, had a battle w dabol, at the very least helped our prior DC walk out the door, and snap reversed keeping the ST coordinator). Beane has an ego that makes mcD look like a monk. lots of comments like beane saying we had/have a chip roster, that saying we aren't good enough at wr is stupid, mcd saying that he tells beane what he'd like, and then it's "his stage" to do the trades. i used to think mcd called the shots, but i think more and more beane has become a power unto himself, but not over mcd. for this reason, i could see beane getting the bum's rush and mcd staying, which would be kinda insane and would mean whoever came in as GM was just a scouting/contract/football operations guy and not a true GM (which beane is not either if he can't fire mcd). 2) i honestly think mcD is a very good DC, and at the very least a solid HC. i think the above mentioned stubborn/arrogance thing means he just won't bring in a high quality pair of coordinators. no one who has been in and out of our building (save kromer, but i think he left before mcd, no?) has been anything but basically ass without josh allen (aside from McD as a successful DC). i'd love him as our DC with an offensive mind at HC. McD would fight for his side, get his guys going, and we know he can call a d. if the HC in clevland gets the boot next season, i would jump head over heels for him as OC, especially of brady walks off into the LSU/Penn St sunset. I think our FO is in a holding pattern because of good regular season success and the magic of josh allen in the same way our talent levels were in a holding pattern in the boring drought 7-9 days. never bad enough to tank for real talent, never good enough to be worth watching, and the same way ralph was cheap (altho he broke that trend to get mario williams) pags is a disaster sports owner w the sabres so he is kinda hamstrung in the confidence to clean out guys department.

He's no Slick Rick.

I thought Terry's oldest daughter is learning the ropes from Terry to become the next Bills owner when he is no longer around.

Chiefs would likely butcher the Patriots if they met in the 1st round. Come playoff time they become a different animal altogether as we should know. But the Pats still have flaws to be exploited and with preparation can be disemboweled.

Would missing the playoffs with the reigning MVP of the league at QB count as crazy?

Joe Schoen has a scouting background and familiarity with Pegula. He drafted the likely offensive and defensive rookies of the year this year. He drafted a superstar last year too. Schoen is a much better talent evaluator than Beane. Lol, Beane would probably admit to that. We don’t need a guy at this point to be the “ceo” of football ops. We need a guy that find more high end talent. Schoen likely stays at the Giants though.

It would take Romo 47 seconds to get a play call in. NOPE

Joe Ferguson of course, 2nd best QB this team ever developed behind Josh Allen. Gotta love LSU WRs er except Josh Reed.