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Interesting. Wide receiver is Buffalo weakest area on offense. Buffalo only gets a handful of receptions out of their receivers anyway. Running back and tight end, along with Josh, of course, are the skill players carrying the Bills offense this season. Those realities, along with New England's strength at cornerback has got to inform and shape Buffalo's offensive strategy.

5th year option is a no-brainer. What Beane tends to do is to re-sign players they like after 3 seasons before the 5th year kicks in. I think they like Kincaid but I wouldn’t re-sign him to an extension until he can show he stay healthy.

I remarked in one of the other threads That again Cincinnati the bills were pulling out a Peyton Manning special Trap play action tight end crossface It really sells the run.. and it's a very highly effective play Peyton Manning and Dallas Clark perfected it.. Tom Brady and gronkowski stole it We ran it really well a few times... To Dawson Knox maybe once to Dalton We open that up and it's going to add a different dimension

You're claiming the regime is leaning away from Josh but it can easily be explained. The Diggs situation brought about a unique situation. They did draft Coleman - and I think he was slated as WR2. They brought in A Cooper, so last year they weren't leaving Allen totally bare. The last offseason was a miss on WR. The ugly Palmer deal. But once again tried to rectify it early season. This WR group would be much better with Waddle here. Beane said he tried. It could have been their plan all along that failed to materialize. So the alledged second window has really only been two years and in one of those years they did bring in A Cooper.

People want to trash McDermott and blame him for everything but he’s done a very good coaching job this season. I feel that internally they expected the defense to struggle with younger players needing to contribute. What they didn’t factor in was veterans like Rapp and Bernard struggling as bad as they did and the numerous injuries on the DL. We all know what the biggest problem. It’s the lack of talent at WR to stretch the field vertically. That’s not as much of a McDermott problem as much as it Beane and Brady. Not really… Watch the AFCCG last season.

I mean Mike McCarthy was a very good head coach for a solid stretch in there, he fell off hard after the 2016 season with 4 out of 7 seasons below .500 and poor postseason showings as head coach of the Cowboys. I think McDermott is more adaptable than McCarthy and more likely to make changes when not getting desired results. McCarthy failed to adjust as the game evolved and does not come across as a particularly strong leader of men. The Bills under McDermott are resilient and players vocally like playing for the team, even after having left the Bills. If McDermott's Bills start posting sub-.500 regular season records and/or start getting regularly bounced out of the Wild Card round with prime Allen playing, I'll be fully on board with him getting fired and a new regime getting brought in.

I wouldn't rule out that he's forgotten how to play. He looks lost at times out there. He's had a ton of concussions in his career but he usually(remarkably) cleared protocol and was back out there the next week. It's not just the bad shoulders and aging wheels he has been the antithesis of the heady player he used to be.

Sure, he says the same things about toughness after every game, but he says the other usual cliches after every game too. "All three phases playing together!" "Never quit." "Buffalo Bills style football!" "Organizational win!" "Stay humble!" "Something positive about the 2nd half coming together!" That's about all I can remember, but his speeches usually go the same way each time, followed by Josh coming in with a smirk, man of few words, then capping it off with "Win on 3! ONE-TWO-THREE-WIN!"

That yard per route run chart someone posted had me laughing pretty hard. That’s insane.

It is criminal that it took that long for Shaq to show up. Thank you, Johnny, for righting that wrong.

YES IT WILL

Fun read thanks brother.

At this point, everyone's just guessing who's more to blame for the roster situation. I highly doubt Beane unilaterally makes any of these calls. I can almost guarantee McDermott tells Beane his targets & signs off on roster moves every time. But if they're at odds with each other, that's actually a pleasant surprise. That tells me I've got it all wrong, and at least ONE of them has some sense. Not sure who, but it's a sign for optimism either way.

I hear ya, but my main point (lost, my bad in not being clear) was not comparing OJ and Cook, but just that it was a great season by Cook amongst all the 33 rushing seasons in Bills history.

Patriots, Broncos are currently shoo-in Jaguars, Texans - Division winner and a. Wild Card Bills - definitely in as a wild card Steelers are most likely winning that division, as Baltimore has tough games ahead Chargers are the 2nd best team in the AFC West and I don;t see them losing that grip This makes it hard for the Chiefs or the Ravens to enter the playoffs.

Where you took a wrong turn in this comparison is that the league yards per rush was 4.0 in 1975, 4.1 in 1976, 3.8 in 1977 etc.. and fluctuated in those ranges for many years thereafter. Nowadays that number is all the way up to 4.4 yards per carry. WAY easier to run the ball in the NFL today.

Genghis Khan, WTF. Now that was funny. I’ll read the rest in the morning. My wife even laughed at that one. Then again, she’s Chinese and knows Genghis Khan’s lore. You made her laugh. Good. i promise I’ll read the r3st in the morning as you’re posts are always thoughtful.

I bet Beane blames Mcdermott for 13 seconds and McDermott blames Beane for the roster and poor drafting. I cannot believe once again Josh has dumpster fire wrs yet again Beane should be canned for the sheer audacity of trying to get away with it again

Ok Brandon

The Patriots, Broncos and Jaguars have made good use of their 3rd place and 2nd place schedules to rack up wins against bad teams (and won a few against good teams such as BIlls, Chiefs). With no power house in the other conferences, this year is going to be a wide open race. The Bills will be kicking for not being in the position to control that #1 seed and home field through the playoffs. Those bad losses against the Falcons and Dolphins leave a bad taste in the mouth on what they could have done now.

lol what evidence do you have that McD is any better than a Mike McCarthy

Frankly, there is tension between every HC & GM league wide, so…,

No. No there isn't.

When you have THE onlyQB in the NFL, a pretty good team, this is bound to happen 👍