st pete gogolak

What if this is the deal - Terry Pegula is an awful owner and manager of a sports franchise (see Rex Ryan hire; 2012 - 2024 Buffalo Sabres). He did get very lucky once hiring McDermott, who is a good coach, and Beane, who is a very good GM. Do you really want him to be making any more decisions with the Bills? What if there is a team with a better coach and staff, make better personnel decisions and have a QB as good or better than ours? What if there is another team with an elite QB who presents a nightmare matchup for the Bills? It’s horrible. It isn’t fair but, personally, I keep McBeane in place and upgrade at OC and DC. Maybe that will be enough to get us over the hump.

I guess my point is that we shouldn’t be that quick to retain Brady as OC. The second half of both games was a failure of halftime adjustments and play calling. Let’s at least see if we can do better.

The win in KC. 14 - 7 at the half. Yards in favor of Bills 226 - 176. Bills dominate first half and could have come close to closing it out if not for a careless INT by Josh near the end of the half. Second half. Chiefs D completely throttles Bills’ O and Chiefs outscore Bills 10 - 6, win yardage by 170 - 101. Of course, Toney penalty wiped out additional Chiefs’ TD. Not saying Bills were fortunate to win. It was a tough, close game but Bills clearly outplayed in the second half. Sunday. Bills lead at half 17 - 13. Lead in yards 234 - 164. Second half, outscored 14 - 7, outgained 197 - 134. Again, tough, close game that could have gone either way. I firmly believe Bills win but for the injuries on D. Nevertheless, the drastic drop off on the offensive side of the ball in the second half of both games is stunning. Chiefs made adjustments, Bills didn’t. If they played five more times, I see it happening over and over. Yeah, it’s the coaching.

You know what would have been a great call on 2nd and 9? A screen pass to Cook. Safe play, would have killed clock even if it didn’t go anywhere, potential to break big. Plus, it would have caught the Chiefs totally by surprise because we haven’t run a GD RB screen all GD season.

You’re right that it wasn’t a significant game but if Clay makes the catch, that play would have been a candidate for play of the year.

I think this is pretty spot on. There isn’t going to be mass turnover as some are predicting.

Seven is awkward. Go back to six with two byes or eight with no byes. Seven gives too much of an advantage to one team.

Mercifully, no pundits stated what was obvious to all Bills’ fans. If Bass hits the FG, Chiefs march down for winning FG (99%). If Allen hits Shakir for TD, Chiefs march down for winning TD (90%). See above re 8.5 yards per play.

I know, I know. They’re Talking Heads. They need to talk about Josh Allen (is he really great or not, can he get over the hump, yada yada). I haven’t heard a single pundit talk about the Bills D in reference to the last four playoff losses (Orlovsky was the only one I heard mention the injuries on D in Sunday’s game). The stats are sickening. In the four playoff losses, Bills have surrendered an average of 33.5 points, 398 yards, have four sacks for 10 yards and forced two turnovers (one on special teams, zero interceptions). On Sunday, Bills gave up 7.7 yards per play. Excluding kneel downs, an astounding 8.5 yards per play. That’s a full three yards per play better than KC’s season average and a full yard better than their best game of the season against the Chargers. If Lamar Jackson and the Ravens win on Sunday, I guarantee that it will be because a great Ravens D shuts down Mahones and the Chiefs.

Is there an under the radar FA WR who wants a big pay day but needs to pump up his stats to get it, that is one year of Josh Allen throwing him the ball on a cheap one year deal? It’s nuts if Buffalo can’t attract quality FA WR’s. Of course, that would apply to KC and Mahomes. Crazy that their WR’s we’re as bad as they were this year.

Ironically enough, I look at this off-season as similar to the Sabres’ 22 - 23 offseason. Sabres were an up and coming team (of course that differs from the Bills who are an established playoff team) with well defined needs (veteran goalie, vet D man to partner with Power, add some grit up front). Kevin Adams failed miserably in the off-season and the Sabres have paid the price. Bills, like the Sabres, have well defined needs going into the offseason - WR, S, depth on the DL. I have no doubt that Beane, unlike Adams, will adress these needs in free agency and the draft.

Did you see list of Bills’ FA’s? There isn’t going to be any big splashy FA signings. I’m not a doom and gloom we’re in cap hell guy. The recent drafts have turned out to be pretty damn good and that’s going to help. Just have to have another strong draft and sign a couple of our own guys, especially Jones.

I hear you. If we had a strong owner, I might agree that a change is imperative. I do not trust Pegula to make a good decision. Again, look at the Sabres for proof.

Be careful what you wish for. It wouldn’t be Beane’s decision. It would be Pegula’s. Look at the Sabres. Three assclown GM’s and four assclown coaches. Oh yeah, first Bills’ hire was assclown Rex Ryan. Our best hope is that McDermott brings in a DC that will bring some wrinkles to the D but still mesh with McDermott’s philosophy.

Is Darnold really worse than Purdy?

Many good points brought up. Maybe the rule is like democracy. It’s imperfect but better than any other system.

Pretty sure everyone on earth (except if you lived in New England) thought the tuck rule was stupid beyond human comprehension. Never heard a reason why it was in the rule book to begin with. I think the new tuck rule is the football is out of bounds when someone in play touches it even though the ball is inbounds. Why is this a rule? What purpose does it serve? The stupidity of the rule was really driven home in the regular season when a kickoff was close to the sideline (but still inbounds by a foot or two) and the Steeler jumped out of bounds, touched the ball (still inbounds) and drew a flag. Everyone said it was a smart play. It was but it still seemed idiotic. Honestly, does anyone have a rationale why this is the rule?

Wasn’t that play pretty identical to roughing penalty on Bills in Dallas game when Prescott slid? Tough on the defense but it is what it is.

I was going to start a topic on a similar note but OP beat me to it. My point was going to be what a difference a couple of months make in looking at Beane’s drafts and other moves. So many draft picks were meh or questionable or unproven going into the season have come through in a big way (Oliver, Bernard, Bedford, Cook, Kincaid, Torrence, etc.). In fact, look through all his drafts and the only busts are #2 rounders Ford and Basham. Those picks look worse in hindsight to posters because we passed on Metcalf and AJ Brown for Ford and Creed Humphrey for Basham. (I’m in the camp that you can’t call Elam a bust yet. He looked decent rookie year and has supposedly been hurt this year.). Add the great looking trade for Douglas and it’s hard to argue Beane isn’t an upper echelon GM. You need a Super Bowl win or at least an appearance to rank with the very best put we’re lucky to have him.

286 yards of offense and 7 points. Yesh.

That’s such a false narrative. Pretty much every poster on this forum was big time nervous about last year’s team from halftime of the Green Bay game forward.

Is my memory correct that he wasn’t even tossed from the game after pummeling White? Outrageous.

So which was worse? Picking Spiller when Jackson and Marsh were on the roster or picking a RB with the first pick in the second round when you’re first round pick was OJ freakin’ Simpson!

What a hilariously bad list. Henri Richard higher than Marcel Dionne? Newsy Lalonde? Was this put together by an 80 year old?

No intentional grounding? In the pocket, didn’t make it to the LOS, no receiver near it.