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Lmao I would have paid real money to be sitting with him watching the game 🤣

I would not put a waiver claim in, he prob won’t play this year and may never live up to the contract. He clears waivers, then sign if he’s healthy

Ouch. Too close to home. (I'm actually more active than a lot of other elder millennials, I love playing sports)

Maybe the next GM get McDermott a quality QB to rebuild the team around.

Come on down! You can be the next contestant on "tear a body part as a WR on the Bills!"

Some of us said after the Buccs..... this is about opposition nothing else. The Bills are happy to dial up deep shots. They took them against the Buccs because guys were open. Cos that was a bad secondary, especially with Dean out early. The Texans secondary is darn good. Their corners are excellent. I was one of the few who stood pat on Lassiter when everyone downgraded him for a bad combine. Dude can play. And Stingley is a stud.

The blame is equally shared by McD and Beane because both are joined at the hip. Beane is the GM and has the final say, but I believe McD has influence in every decision made when it comes to roster construction with the draft, free agency, and the coaching staff. 1. Coaching Staff. It's no coincidence that coordinators who have had success prior to being hired by the Bills such as Frazier, Daboll, and Kromer, have had the most success with the Bills compared to everyone else we've hired. Assistants such as Rick Dennison sucked as NFL OC for the Broncos (2006–2008, 2015–2016) and the Texans (2010–2013). We have inexperienced assistants like Dorsey, Brady, and Babich. Dorsey had zero NFL OC experience prior to being named OC for the Bills, and the same applies to Babich whose NFL experience as DC is limited to his time with the Bills. Brady spent only 2 seasons as OC with the Panthers (2020–2021). When you have a unicorn like Allen, we should be hiring some of the best and brightest in the business but we're having to pass on some of the best and the brightest because McD wants YES MEN he can control. No man worth a lick is willing to be a yes man which is why we don't hire some of the best and the brightest. It was widely reported that Leslie Frazier's departure from the Bills stemmed from a disagreement with McD over defensive play calling duties. Tensions began by the defensive play-calling during the final 13 seconds of the AFC Divisional playoff game against the Chiefs in 2022, when the Bills surrendered a field goal to tie the game, which many attributed to a soft defensive scheme. It was later reported that McD had called the plays during that specific sequence. After the 2022 season, the issue came to a head when McD decided he would call the plays for the 2023 season. Frazier was unwilling to accept this arrangement and reportedly refused the demotion, leading to McD suggesting he could leave. The official announcement stated that Frazier would be taking a year long hiatus from coaching to "take a step back". There's friction between McD and Daboll, primarily stemming from philosophical differences, specifically regarding the run game versus the passing game. Daboll wanted to pass more and McDermott wanting to run more. Daboll was looking for a new job and wanted out of Buffalo, even without a head coaching job in place, partly because of his relationship with McD. Dorsey was fired during the 2023 season because of ongoing conflict with McD stemming from McD's micromanagement and the two disagreeing on how to implement the offense. McD Effect: McD's defense leans heavily on zone coverages — Cover 2, Cover 3, even Cover 4 are commonly used. He’ll disguise coverage frequently by showing two-high safeties pre-snap and then rotating one into the box or another area post-snap, but the problem with that tends to work most of the time vs average QB's or offensive coaches but mostly not vs the good or great ones. Same old one gap system which means linemen focus on penetrating specific gaps rather than two-gapping and reading blocks. The idea is to keep the structure simple, so players can react quickly, play fast, and be aggressive without overthinking. This allows his front to be aggressive and disrupt plays early, rather than absorb blocks, but the problem with that is the rush defense is prone to long runs if we're unable to disrupt plays early or shoots through the wrong gap which is what we've seen happen to our rush defense year in and year out, no matter who or what the personnel is. While McDermott’s approach is aggressive, that doesn’t mean he blitzes constantly. Instead, his aggressiveness comes through line stunts, movement, and pressure generated from the front-seven, not just sending extra rushers, but the problem with that vanilla style of defense is it makes life easier on the opposing teams to gameplan for and play against since it's so predictable. Another problem that McD has is he makes too many defensive substitutions which doesn't allow anyone to get into a groove. The same can be said about our WR core. Not only does the offense eats, but the defense does too LOL. Joe Brady Effect: The biggest red flag with Joe Brady is he has a habit of making WR's stats worse. Curtis Samuel, Joshua Palmer, and Elijah Moore, all had better stats before they played for the Bills and during. Stephon Diggs statistical drop-off from Ken Dorsey and Joe Brady will blow your mind. Dorsey was fired by the Bills the day after our 10th game of the season which was a loss to the Broncos on November 14th of 2023 and replaced by Brady on the same day. Diggs stats with Dorsey: the first 10 games was 73 Receptions (7.3 per game avg) on 102 Targets (10.2 per game avg) for 868 Yards (86.8 yards per game avg) and 7 TD's (TD rate of 0.7). Diggs stats with Brady as OC the last 7 games of 2023: 34 Receptions (3.4 per game avg down from 7.3 with Dorsey) on 58 Targets (8.28 down from 10.2 with Dorsey) for 315 Yards (45 yards per game avg down from 86.8 with Dorsey) and ONE TD (TD rate of 0.14 down from 0.7 with Dorsey) This indicates a 53.4% decrease in receptions per game, 18.8% decrease in targets per game, 48.1% decrease in yards per game, and a 79.6% decrease in TD's per game. It's safe to say Brady's system is not WR friendly. 2. McBeane Personnel and Roster Construction: For the most part, ever since 2018, McBeane has failed at finding premier or blue chip players in the first 3 rounds of the Draft, failed in Free Agency, failed at managing the cap, and doesn't have a clue as to how to build a team physically. Too many undersized DT's and LB'ers. Too many 3 TECH DT's and not enough big, nasty, and physical 1 TECH DT's. Too many tweener DE/3 TECH DT's. Too many big DE's and not enough athletic types. We've seen a pattern of struggling vs the run, generating sacks, small and fragile Linebackers and DT's, reliance on too many big outside WR's no jitterbug types surrounding Allen with WR's that opposing teams Some players who left Buffalo played better elsewhere. Take Poona Ford, Wyatt Teller, Jerry Hughes, and Harrison Phillips as examples. Ford was with the Bills in 2023, but had a much stronger season after leaving and signing with the Los Angeles Chargers. In 2024, Poona recorded 39 total tackles, 3.0 sacks, 5 passes defended, and a superb PFF score of 85.1. His performance was disruptive in both run and pass defense, and that led to him getting a 3 year deal afterward with the Rams. Poona's PFF thus far this season is 82.9. Despite playing well, McBeane traded Wyatt Teller to the Cleveland Browns for a 5th and 6th round pick. Hughes had only 2 sacks with the Bills in 2021, but the following year had 9 with the Houston Texans. With Buffalo (2018-2021) Harrison's role was more rotational; his single-season high with the Bills was modest (he never posted huge counting totals while in Buffalo). After Buffalo (Vikings, 2022–2024): Phillips became a full-time starter and recorded career highs — most notably 92 tackles and 3.0 sacks in 2023. That single-season tackle total is clearly higher than any year he had in Buffalo, driven by a jump in snaps/starting role. Offensively, our pass catchers is not built in a way that's taylor-made to bring out the best of Allen's strengths and physical skills. Too many slow OUTSIDE WR's instead of fast and shifty despite having a QB with a howitzer for an arm is mind boggling. Top end speed make plays downfield and stretches the field to keep defenses honest. Too many SLOT WR's. Dalton Kincaid is a TE posing as a SLOT RECEIVER. Curtis Samuel is primarily a SLOT RECEIVER. Khalil Shakir is a SLOT RECEIVER. Elijah Moore plays SLOT and OUT WIDE. For God sakes, there's not enough snaps for all of them. Brandon Beane threw two 3rd round picks in the trash for Kelvin Benjamin and Amari Cooper because we didn't get a good return on investment. In 16 games played, Benjamin had only 39 receptions on 89 targets for 571 yards (35.7 YPG) and 2 TD's between 2017 and 2018. Cooper had only 20 receptions on 32 targets for 297 yards (37.1 YPG) and 2 TD's in 8 games. It took McBeane 2 full seasons (2018 and 2019) before they paired Allen with a stud #1 WR in a trade for Stephon Diggs in 2020. Since May of 2017, McBeane have only been able to add a stud #1 WR a grand total of ONCE in 9 seasons, 8 WITH ALLEN, which is unacceptable. McBeane hasn't been able to find a stud WR themselves be it through the Draft or FA, they're so inept they needed to trade for someone else's stud receiver. Cole Beasley signed as a UFA in 2018. In 2019, John Brown and Tyler Kroft signed as a UFA, and we drafted Dawson Knox. Traded for Diggs in 2020. In summary, it took McBeane 3 full seasons to finally surround Allen with a pass catching core that threatens defenses when it should've been done sooner than 3. Gabe Davis was drafted in 2021, Khalil Shakir in 2022, and Dalton Kincaid in 2023. By my count the hits include 1 stud WR, 4 good WR's, and 2 good TE's, in 9 seasons. Here's the whiffs by McBeane. Zay Jones, Kelvin Benjamin, Jordan Matthews, Deonte Thompson, and Andre Holmes in 2017. Zay Jones, Robert Foster, and Kelvin Benjamin in 2018. John Kumerow, and Tommy Sweeney in 2019. Isaiah Hodgins in 2020. Jake Kumerow, and Marquez Valdes-Scantling in 2021. None in 2022. Justin Shorter and Tyrell Shavers in 2023. Keon Coleman, Amari Cooper, and Elijah Moore in 2024. and Joshua Palmer in 2025. I won't count Isaiah McKenzie in 2019, Emmanuel Sanders in 2021, or Jackson Hawes in 2025 as a whiff since they're all solid players. By my count, that's 19 whiffs by McBeane. In summary, by my count when you count the hits and the whiffs, only 7 of 26 total pass catchers (27%) in 9 seasons between 2017 to 2025 are hits, 19 are whiffs, and 3 are neutral. 2026-2027 Season: Bills have 15 UFA's, and 3 RFA's. UFA notables on Defense are Joey Bosa, A.J. Epenesa, DaQuan Jones, Larry Ogunjobi, Matt Milano, Shaq Thompson, Tre White, Cam Lewis, and Damar Hamlin, UFA on Offense are Connor McGovern, David Edwards, Mitch Trubisky, Elijah Moore, Reggie Gilliam, and Punter Mitch Wishnowsky. The 3 RFA's are Ryan Van Demark, Alec Anderson, and Ja'Marcus Ingram. 3 of these 19 players are OL, 2 of which are starters which won't be cheap to re-sign. I expect Van Demark to be tendered, and Trubisky and Gilliam to be re-signed, and possibly Wishnowsky. Out of the 9 defensive players, the only defensive player worth a lick to re-sign is Cam Lewis. The defense needs a makeover anyways. I expect there to be some cap casualties as well. Knox $10 million in savings, Samuel $6 million, Palmer $5 million, and Rapp $3.5 million. Post June 1st release candidates could be Taron Johnson $9 million. Spotrac projects the Bills will have approximately $8.5 million in cap space for 2026, and $3 million according to Over the Cap. The final 2026 NFL salary cap amount is not yet set, but projections estimate the cap will be around $300 million, which is a nearly 7.5% increase from the 2025 cap of $279.2 million. Based on these projections, the Bills will have approximately $24 million to $28.5 million in salary cap space in 2026. McBeane has their work cut out for them. I know I left out other concerns but flame away.

Yeah I can say he's not getting a Valentines card from me.

Yup strictly talking Texans game

Wear and year of years of bench press and playing OL. Just have your arm in a certain angle amd it goes. After 25 years in the highland games, I was getting off the bed after playing with the dogs, there was a pop and crunch. Had half of the supraspinatus anchored back on, biceps tendon moved as the long head of the biceps attaches to the labrum. They moved it then fixed the labrum

Then cut Elijah Moore as he is the most invisible guy on the WR front.

I never under why aiyuk got the contract he did. He was never in that top tier of WRs. But I’d be happy to bring him here on a much more realistic deal. Aiyuk hurt his knee around the same time as Diggs right? Diggs is already back to 100% but I assume Aiyuk is worse? this to me is a next year deal. Get him on the team then IR him

To answer the question posed in the thread title: right?

The 49ers passing offense is predicated in QBs getting the ball out quick to open areas in the field. Yesterday and other games this season have shown Josh doesn't always do this or when he doesn't get struggles horribly.

Bills would look silly to bench Coleman for missing meetings… and then replace him with a WR who was cut for missing meetings.

Demeco Ryan’s had never won a game on Thursday night. until now with a backup qb. Another quality night for the head coaches defense.

I knew this would happen when he held out. All these Niner receivers are injury prone and not good.

I know we're talking hypothetically, but are you serious? 🤣

I still haven't binged GoT. Does that guy make it?

Yes. Yes it is.

Deshawn Watson played a huge part in putting that defense together. He directly led to both Stingly and Will Anderson.

Remember when bear hunting.... It's always customary to bring a extra friend along as a sacrifice to smokey It's not about being faster than the bear .. just faster than John

That was probably some of the most depressing film I've ever seen lol. Its amazing Josh got out of this game without a serious injury

How's it possible with so much money tied into terrible contracts? That's the problem.