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Yeah and he was replaced by Juan Castillo. THE Juan Castillo who is otherwise known as an OL coach. That was a big mistake. Basically the equivalent of Wade firing Bruce DeHaven in favor of pump-it-up Ronnie Jones. Disappointing to disastrous. Reid went from a winning team to 12-20 the next two years and then the future HoF'er got FIRED.

More like: 1. Talent at WR is a problem 2. LB is a problem.....both talent decline and injury 3. Injuries at DL are a problem 4. Kincaid getting injured over and over despite being handled with care is a problem 5. Injuries at CB are a problem 6. Bad safety play is a problem It's on there......but WAYYYYYY down the list is coaching is a problem........they aren't being out coached on the regular in these losses. They are losing individual matchups and fumbling the ball away. Houston didn't out-coach the Bills their defense just won almost every individual matchup. Expecting a coach to elevate the #32 pass WR group over the #1 CB group in the NFL is unrealistic. Allen was going to have to buy A LOT of time for that and like I said......this wasn't the opponent for that.

Coaching is an issue. But they are losing WAY more downs because of talent than coaching. For perspective, coaching is only an issue in the same regard that it is for the teams that have represented their conferences in the SB for the past few years. If you disagree, give examples from what you've watched of those teams this year. I mean the angst in KC in general and in Philly over their REAL offensive struggles is legit. These Bills came into the season with their thinnest and most rookie dependent roster since 2019. They haven't been able to overcome the lost seasons of Oliver, Hoecht, Hairston, Rapp, Kincaid and Palmer........the terrible seasons of Benford, Johnson, Milano and Bernard....... and the armless month of Bosa. It's been a sh!t show personnel-wise.

Yeah Solomon has been unplayable. I questioned his fit at draft time but am surprised that he is this bad. I was very bummed when the Bills traded that 4th rounder to Chicago with Austin Booker on the board and THEN picked Solomon in the 5th. Booker was basically the Bills prototype DE. Booker hasn't set the world afire yet but he is a good player with a very high ceiling. You could argue that they wouldn't have Deone Walker if they hadn't made that trade but if Beane doesn't inexplicably trade that Diggs second rounder just to move up in rounds 2 and 3 last spring he probably gets his man Walker later in round 3 anyway. Solomon has been a net negative. Hopefully some kind of light goes on for him......on the hoof he shouldn't be the second-worst graded edge in the NFL.........but his first two seasons he's been trash.

So what was Brady supposed to be able to change this season that he did not? They basically replaced the 6 man OL and Hawes has been a revelation in that role as the Bills lead the league in rushing and yardage. That was about the only adjustment he could afford to make. They entered the season LESS imposing at the boundary WR position without the threat of Cooper and the reality of Hollins. When players aren't making plays it's always cited as predictability............the problem is the talent. And with a revolving door at the WR/TE position every week people expect a bunch of new sh!t to get drawn up when Allen is indecisive enough. For some reason the takeaway from that Bucs game by some was THAT was the recipe........Allen was pressured ONE TIME the entire game and yet most everything he did well was off schedule. He doesn't trust this personnel. They are going to have to win off schedule. This Texans team was a BAD one to have to play off schedule against.

It's probably the first time the Texans OL has faced DT's lining up on the edge as well. I can't remember the last time the Bills couldn't even FIELD enough DE's to play a game. But that's been their reality lately. The Bills defensive front is not competitive with only Groot playing effectively in an 8-9 man rotation.

It's not news that the Bills do not have great coaching. But who does? KC's HoF coaching staff can be cited for leaving wins on the table this year in the same regard. The Eagles won the SB last year with a sh!t show at HC and a DC who the Bills OC's repeatedly beat like a rented mule in Denver and Miami. I mean how many times did the Bills make Fangio look like the game had passed him by? Over the past couple of seasons I think the Bills rank higher as a coaching staff than as a roster. That's a problem because their roster begins with player #1 in the league. They just have ZERO elite talent at any other premium position. It's left little to no margin for error. And in that stretch of 24 wins in Brady's first 27 meaningful regular season games as OC they had just enough talent available to execute. And what Brady was doing was seen as innovative. In the 2 losses last year and the 4 this year the common thread is not having all of their "modest" pass game weapons available and subsequent turnovers with players trying to do too much.

Boat race? The offense only scored 12 points!😂 And they turned the ball over twice in their own territory, effectively gifting the Houston offense 6 points. And yet Allen still had the ball with a chance to win the game at the end. Just like the last 2 KC playoff losses.

That's a real cherry pick though. They had averaged 25 at home.......got held to 23. The big tactical defensive error for the Bills was not just playing press man and tackling the receivers at the snap with 9 seconds left in the half. Inexcusable.........especially given that they had been given time to think about it after that dumba$$ Ersery cost the Texans a 10 second run off and gave the Bills time to strategize. That and the missed extra point was the margin of victory needed.......5 points. Otherwise the Texans didn't get much done offensively.

Yeah what set the Bills roster back was not being able to make it work with their own early 1st and 2nd round picks in Gilmore, Woods, Watkins, Dareus and Darby. In bringing in a nobody head coach and GM combo they felt compelled to relieve themselves of prime aged players who had enough contract leverage to question McDermott's tactics. Trying to find that many athletes like those while drafting in the late 20's of each round isn't really do-able on that scale. It's cost Beane hundreds of millions in bad free agent contracts over the years trying to do so.

Yeah, sorry @LarryMadman..........it will basically cost you FOUR #30 overall picks to move up to #3..........and most years you still aren't getting a prospect like Anderson at #3. The Bills entire draft hasn't had enough value in any year to move up that high since the 2018 draft with multiple #1's, #2's and #3's.

You can't talk money and gloss over how little they've gotten from Christian Benford. He'd be near worthless in free agency this offseason if he continues to have a 110 passer rating against and 0 passes defensed. So his extension is looking like a windfall compared to the one year prove-it deal he'd be looking at at this point. Ed Oliver will only play like 8% of the teams defensive snaps coming off a season when he was one of the very worst run defending DT's in the NFL. Two years into the extension, he's had one bad year and one lost year. Rousseau would easily get the same deal or more than he got from the Bills in free agency this offseason. That's just the nature of DL value. You disagree? If not then you guys are just b!tching at the wall for the sake of it. We can be disappointed that Rousseau hasn't risen up to carry the defense like Allen does with the offense but aside from him nobody else on the Bills does that either. The team lacks elite talent at premium positions but Rousseau is not paid like an elite player. Not even close.

We've seen horrible performances in certain games from Allen the past two seasons. The passing game talent is so poor that it is always hovering around the critical mass line where it could turn ugly.........not having a healthy Shakir or Kincaid or Palmer is enough to require Allen to play off schedule all day to succeed. We saw it against Tampa last weekend. The Bucs pass defense was decimated and couldn't muster a pass rush to save their lives but Allen STILL had to live off schedule to get his passing production. That doesn't fly in some situations........like on the road against the league's best defense.

Diggs was getting fed at the expense of the team. Personally, I thought Dorsey got scapegoated for giving the world what it wants.......Josh Allen throwing the ball all over the field. But Diggs was getting doubled and that allowed teams to put CB1 on Gabe Davis and make throwing to him extremely unproductive. The personnel wasn't there to make that the right approach and I thought Dorsey had already begun the changes a couple weeks prior that Brady would further lean into. They lost that Denver game because of a substitution error by McDermott at the end of the game. Dorsey got scapegoated but as I said at the time it wasn't a big dropoff and a shot in the arm couldn't hurt. Brady was capable. They went from 5-5 at the time and then won 23 of their next 27 meaningful regular season games under Brady. The issue here isn't the OC. Does he have some ineffective calls we hate every week? Yes, but that only seems like a HUGE problem because the margin for error has diminished as the available talent has. As impotent as they've looked on the road they might have won those Atlanta and Houston games just having Glass Kincaid healthy.

I know that is the popular perception but I think the coaching is the same level as ever. The talent drop on the team from last season to this season has been SIGNIFICANT. Taron Johnson, Milano and Bernard were very good when healthy last year. This year they are HORRIBLE. That's basically their 3 man LB corps.....all sh!t. The D-Line rotation is also FAR worse than last year. I can't believe my eyes seeing Jones and Sanders playing significant DE snaps. That makes having Dawuane Smoot in the rotation last year look like having an All Star in rotation. And Jordan Phillips playing big snaps at DT after sitting on the couch all offseason. That DT rotation has been garbage. I can't remember a time when they've been more impotent on the DL in my lifetime as a Bills fan. CB play has been far worse overall because of the vast decline of TJ and the astonishing decline of Benford. Bishop has rounded into excellent form of late but overall the S position was more reliable with Rapp and Hamlin last year than it had been in Sept-Oct. I haven't even gotten to the WR corps! I don't know how you coach up having to play 3-5 guys on defense regularly that probably belong on practice squads at this point of their career(Phillips, Tre, Poyer, TJ and Milano).