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It literally was. That's it.

Yep........the heat was only a factor this season because the Bills didn't make big plays like they had in Miami in recent years.

I have no idea what point you were trying to make.......I didn't see what you said prior nor was I responding to you. "It could be worse" wrt coaching staffs is just an excuse the timid use to excuse failure or to justify non-action. As I said.......McDermott isn't on any kind of hot seat IMO. But could he one day be seen as a Tony Dungy-in-Tampa type whose message runs its course and then be succeeded by a coach who gives the team a better chance to win a SB in that moment? Even if that succeeding coach doesn't go on to win more overall games in his career or achieve some other metric of longevity that McDermott might? Yes. It's literally been done. And ultimately it's about winning SB's.

The point is that the Eagles have defied the idiots who believe that the success of coaching hires is random and therefore you shouldn't fire one if he has had some success. Getting AJ Brown was a great, aggressive move though. Sign me up for having two #1 receivers. If the Bills had that they'd be 4-0 with a bullet right now.

It didn't warrant discussion because no organization was going to wait 20 years for a HC to win his first Super Bowl without making a change.........and that's how long it ultimately took Reid. You are clearly uninformed about Reid's end in Philly as well.........he wasn't just terminated because of one bad season.......after his son died of an overdose in the Eagles facilities it became untenable for all parties involved. But the point I made is a good learning opportunity for you in life and business........."it could be worse" is not a strategy it's a crutch.

How else does one achieve excellence in the NFL? They won the Super Bowl that Reid could not deliver in 14 long years in Philly. You would have failed concussion protocol with that stupid response, btw.

I don't see McDermott anywhere close to any kind of hot seat...........but the old "it sure as hell can get a lot worse" defense is just something people who don't pursue excellence say. It could have gotten a lot worse when New England fired Pete Carroll......but it got A LOT better. There are countless examples of teams firing a coach with some kind of defensible track record and then getting better. Philly fired Andy Reid for going 4-12........Chip Kelly was hired and then won 20 games the next two seasons........Kelly had an off season and got fired and Doug Pederson was hired and won a SB........Pederson stumbled a bit so they replace him with Nick Siriani and are the the only undefeated team in the NFL. Success with hirings is not random.

Unfortunately Trubisky was just so ineffective that he couldn't make it to week 5, despite modest expectations further tamped by the absence of TJ Watt. Still no excuse for the Bills to not make short work of this Steelers team but with Trubisky at QB this might have been one of those games like when the Texans visited last season. Mitch just sucks at playing QB at the NFL level.

The good news is that the people at Brett Favre's cancer and poor folks foundation are backing the synapsin concussion nasal spray......it can't fail with that kind of support.

Yeah he wasn't being compared to Urlacher or Kuechly..........you're right.........never happened. As for folks not having a lot of patience around here..........what about them Buffalo Bills? They are the one's who did not extend his contract and instead are gargling an untenable $13M cap hit.........likely accepting last winter that he was not in their plans for 2023........because they watched him spend most of 2020 and 2021 not being able to get out of his own way to make a play. It's OK to admit that he's been an underachiever thru his first 4 seasons and that put the Bills in a bad situation wrt his future. Live and learn.......it's a lesson for McBeane............1st round MLB's are like 1st round RB's.........they need to be extraordinary on their first contract to justify it. Don't blame fans or media for expecting more, that's just the reality. Hopefully he keeps up the good work and finally becomes a legit top 5 MLB in the league after drifting toward the middle of the pack last couple seasons when there has been something of an influx of more splashy performers at the position from the college ranks. Nowhere did I say I wasn't happy he was playing better though. I've mentioned many times my hope that they finally get one exceptional season out of him at least.........it is what it is........players who don't arrive until their contract is almost up often end up elsewhere.

I think Buffalo and Miami both wanting to stay in the East is more about wanting to be part of a division with the NYC market in it. Imagine how irrelevant the Bills would have become finishing 3rd or 4th every year in the AFC North for 2 decades. And Miami has more in common with the NYC market than they do their true southern brethren.

After one of his catches he walked toward the crowd and appeared to be reprising his act from the game at New England last year.

I never said he was THE reason they lost to KC, Dopey........but he wasn't going to be "even close to" one of the main reasons the Bills won that game if they did, either. Mahomes played him like a yo-yo and he made zero plays. After 4 years of meh, fans and media had both given up on the idea that he was going to make ANY plays........TFL's, sacks, INT's, FF, FR.........so when he does make one it feels like a big improvement. He's improved. But this was a guy who was being compared to HOF'ers before he set foot on the field in Buffalo.

If you want to get bad real quick and have your QB looking for greener pastures............use all of your top picks on defense and then extend 8-9 of them with lucrative contracts. That did the trick for Seattle. Beane has had his fun extending lot's of defensive players that most teams would let walk in a similar cap situation..........because the Bills are in a window where they can be a clear favorite. But they will have to start making a lot of business decisions on defense. Not a concern for this season though. Let's enjoy this STACKED defense for one season and then next year balance will likely need to start being re-stored.

Who could have imagined that Jamison Crowder would miss a bunch of time with an injury this year after how remarkably durable he's been in the recent past and that Gabe Davis might re-aggrivate his boo-boo foot(for the 3rd year in a row, talk about unforeseeable bad luck, geez).

I guess you will find out when he plays behind the worst defensive line of his career next year when he signs elsewhere. Bottom line: walk years either bring out the best in a player or bring out the worst. He's got a lot of money on the line and he started from the bottom of the barrel with low expectations from the fans this year after a disappointing season culminated with a disappearing act in KC. He has played well this season. Is he in danger of becoming a DPOY candidate as some had predicted at earlier points in his career? F*ck no. Just as the defense has survived without Tre White.........despite claims it would not by many doom-fantasy gimps on TSW........they will fill the MLB role with someone different next season and he will be much cheaper and play just fine. This defense is a showcase for a MLB. His slow ascent to "difference maker" status has been unfortunate.

Maybe. Or maybe he's trying to keep the chains moving because his "playmakers" are making too many mistakes. Just because Diggs and Davis were open today doesn't mean they were going to catch it. They put footballs on the turf they should have caught. And McKenzie? Nothing he has done as a pro leads me to believe that he's a deep threat. Tracking the ball deep down field and catching it are not something he has proven he can do. You don't hear about it in practice either. You can't cover everyone on defense so they will look for things they don't have to cover. Remember the ham-handed former Bills TE Robert Royal? When teams realized he couldn't catch a pass to save his life they literally stopped covering him. That's McKenzie 25-30 yards upfield........a non-threat.

To quote @GunnerBill from earlier today...........RB's are the least important player on the field. In non-special teams situations......truth. It's the only position teams might draft early with no intent on giving them a second contract if they pan out. And that being said.........when they are drafted early they have very little runway to get off the ground before they are seen as disappointing. Getting exercised about that is futile.

@Rc2catch just thought listening to someone upset enough to make it laugh worthy to opposing fans on THIS site after a loss was going to be good clean fun.

So you are listening to twitter and sh*t like that at volumes that are audible to co-workers at your job? Wtf kinda' job is that? If they know you guys are just jaggin' off in your cubicles and are OK with it you'd assume that they'd let you wear some headphones.

If you gotta' make a special plan for a RB..........you haven't made a good personnel decision at RB. He just needs to not put the ball on the carpet and then start making plays when they give him the ball. RB is far from a big concern with this team...........the lack of explosiveness at receiver has been the problem the past two weeks. Too many small plays. Too many 3rd downs. Producing MORE small plays by giving the ball to RB's isn't a solution to scoring just 20 offensive points per game the past 2 weeks.

Not a lot of SB winners in that pile, are there? Having a highly-invested-in RB has become a pretty accurate predictor that you will not win a SB with said player. Reasons aren't that complicated..........the passing game drives the teams that score the most...........even the best receiving RB's are no substitute for a decent slot receiver in the passing game..........and in the playoffs the level of run defense wratchets up immensely so if you are compelled to give a "valuable" RB touches you are putting yourself at a disadvantage.

Why is it considered likely that wet weather is going to inhibit scoring? That obviously didn't turn out to be the case. The offense has the advantage when the field is slick. It was the wrong decision.......they won anyway.

How do you know if McDermott and company are giving Cook "a fair shake"..........are you at practice and seeing if he is doing his job? The mother hen fans are ridiculous..........it's OK that he needs to earn playing time in small sample sizes. And occasionally some players don't have the cognitive function to ever learn..........see CJ Spiller.

The era where bigger, taller, less athletic QB's like Kelly, Marino, Bledsoe and Peyton Manning ruled the game is long gone and they have been replaced by more athletic 6'2" guys like Rodgers, Mahomes, Dak, Lamar, Jalen Hurts etc.. It's why people act astonished about Josh Allen. He's tall like an old school QB but also athletic.