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In fairness, Chan is a tremendous offensive mind............he can scheme a system to whatever talent he is given.........and subsequently made something of offenses that the system-bound Daboll would have finished dead last and been fired with. Gailey is like Wade Phillips.........Daboll is like Jim Schwartz. Both work.......one REQUIRES more talent than the other to be competent. I prefer the Bills stay with this system they are in and build on it and Chan is friggin' 69 years old at this point.......but he's no joke.

I would have said it seemed like a lock but now Dean Spanos is going to be involved in the hiring so there is hope yet that the Bills won't have coaching turnover.

Yeah he is full of hot air.....he literally said that Darnold had pretty much the same ceiling later in the segment.......... but there is some footage of his footwork and mechanics at the bottom of the article linked from when he signed with the Bills in camp in 2014.........so there is his footwork. Back then "Bills Roundup" meant "7-9? Pretty much .500".

Yeah the weather isn't going to stop his ascent

https://www.buffalobills.com/news/jordan-palmer-hoping-to-stick-with-bills-13565755

Meh......nothing new..... just another Danny Crossman-lead special teams unit getting pantsed on the field in Buffalo.

Yeah Dean Spanos needs to be more involved........like when he hired Mike McCoy prior to Anthony Lynn.

Mini-Bills 24 Colts 14

Best point they made was about not needing to be in the perfect play. That had been Daboll's biggest weakness in his first two seasons in Buffalo...........he LOVES the gotcha' plays..........and sometimes really what they've needed is to get in a rhythm with tempo or simpler play calls that don't necessarily leave the opposing defense with their pants around their ankles if everything goes right. Two former QB's get it. That drove me nuts in 2018-2019 when they didn't have the personnel to overcome all of the give-away downs and yardage.

He had a few terrible games but in general he wasn't terrible in 2018, IMO. Inconsistent and inaccurate but he made up for it with athleticism and big plays. Some rookies and second year QB's have been great though........but that too is context which shouldn't be held against him.........that was a real low point for the roster after a really bad pro personnel year and a half from Beane and staff. If the OP is annoyed by that........how about my take that we probably owe a lot of his improvement to Tom Brady? Allen idolized Brady and he seems to have taken the same "never good enough" approach to his own development and success............and of course he's been indoctrinated into the same complex system that Brady ran.

Yes, SJ13 was a player who set a bad example by putting self promotion and emotion above team goals. In doing so he put himself in tough situations with his loud mouth that put pressure on him that he then couldn't handle in games and lead to key mistakes/drops. He also didn't keep himself in top condition and was subsequently constantly bothered by soft tissue injuries that compounded and prematurely shortened his career. People cite his 1,000 yard receiving seasons but they were mostly possible because he had a platform on a losing team where he could play undisciplined and get away with it. Most of the job of anyone on the football field, be it refs or cornerbacks, is anticipating what will happen so that you are close enough to do your job right at the moment of truth. SJ13 free-lanced and having the freedom to do that made it MUCH easier for him to get open.

Yeah it's been tried before and proven difficult to pull off without talent so I had my doubts they could get it done with the approach they used and new that it was going to take longer to get to SB contender status this way than the way the Rams did it. It's easy to just get rid of all of the players who have leverage(young stars recently paid or pending free agents) and leave yourself with a roster of players who really need this job the way they did in 2017. It's another thing to then actually execute the plan long enough for the roster to catch up talent-wise. He and Beane have done that. I like the love approach. That is a lot more individual work than the do-your-job Belichick approach but if you can pull it off it has legs with this generation of athletes and it's easier to root for. Even worked to their advantage with guys like Shaq and Phillips who are a bit immature to be ideal for the longer term goals in mind.......you can let them leave and call it a cap issue and no hard feelings. Of course no amount of process and culture works without the stud QB because you can't string together seasons like 2018........but that's kind of a given in the NFL.

We gotta' be in the stadium by like 11am for some reason so probably whatever they are selling at concession. Maybe a $7 slice of La Nova with the cup and char pepperoni? Maybe bring some Wegmans/DiBella's subs in our clear bags like a bunch of shmucks in case the only thing offered are those raunchy nachos? After fresh out the fire strip steaks and prime rib and wings every week this season it's going to be a sacrificial food day..........but someone's gotta' do it.

Sure they do.........Stevie was a pig in sheeeee-it with this dysfunctional franchise. There have been some doozies over the years..........Moulds quitting in Miami......Phillips back-to-back personal fouls more recently.........many more...........but SJ13 getting an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in NE after Gailey had pleaded with him not to do his dumb celebrations.......and basically forcing Chan to bench him and the team then collapsing and blowing a big lead..........that might have been the most absurd case of player selfishness in Bills history. But some people loved the irreverence because they think rules are stupid.

It's not factored into your equation..........but Addison was also a character signing. Shaq, even at his best, was always something of a character compromise. There was a time where they were so thin on defense(and so bad offensively) that they had to have guys like Shaq and Phillips around but they had choices last offseason and they chose wisely, IMO.

I never banged the drum for the Bills to hire Anthony Lynn as their HC. Was I greatly disappointed in the Rick Dennison hire and did I want to retain the very successful 2016 offensive playbook they had? Yes and that opinion angered you and many others. McD did the right thing admitting the mistake immediately and firing Dennison after just one woeful season(including the worst QB'd game in NFL history). Lynn appears to be a Wade Phillips level HC. Initially inspiring and capable of getting production by adapting his schemes to the personnel like few can. But the message falls on deaf ears after a while when it's clear that the HC isn't next-level prepared. His mistakes this year were like a mirror image of bad-Wade. Some of you loved Wade as a HC. When things went wrong for Wade they went REAL wrong. But ultimately he was a hell of an assistant coach and so is Lynn.

I think you better review the tape, bud. He had moments on the field where he was just totally out of control and hurt the team. That's not missed. Nice pass rusher........terrible against the run.........fun guy on social media........but either way the team is much more disciplined without him.

Big Stuff was Dareus. Some fans just love irreverent clowns like Phillips and Stevie Johnson. One of the worst things about the drought was seeing a generation of fans who only knew losing learn to idolize losers like that who would selfishly put themselves in front of the team with stupid personal foul penalties and bulletin board material etc.. McBeane has done a good job managing a range of personalities but giving dudes like that big money makes it even harder to reign in their antics.

As I said at the time......well done by McBeane not giving Shaq the 5th year extension. That's the only reason they got any good football out of him at all. Jordan Phillips was a long prior proven unaccountable dude on a contract run as well. They got the most out of both of them.

The only name free agent I've put any thought into is the idea of Gronk coming home and filling the TE vacancy. Knows the EP system.........still pretty good and more reliable than what they have. Plus maybe G&G Fitness would run ads on WGR so we don't have to hear that Pacillo's Fitness guy with his preachy quote 2 minute commercials. "No mayin' steps in da same river twice....."

The Lynn Bills were 7th in the NFL in scoring........lead the NFL in rushing AND plays of over 20 yards...........and had yielded the fewest turnovers by any team since the merger thru 16 weeks in 2016. The EJ/Cardale disaster in the finale tarnished that some but it was still the best offensive season the Bills had since mid-way thru the SB years. Under Lynn.......Herbert just had the best statistical season for a rookie QB in NFL history. The Bills system might be best left as it is.........but if Lynn doesn't get some good OC offers at least then something ain't right.

Yeah Herbert had the most successful rookie season EVER by a QB. Chargers gonna' charge. But in this case I think it might be more about Tom Telesco getting to HIRE Brian Daboll rather than fire Lynn. GM Telesco and Daboll are HS buddies from St. Francis..........I'd be surprised if Daboll went anywhere else..........only issue is that, as you certainly know, the Chargers ownership may be even worse than 2000's Ralphy. Lynn did a great job early with that sh*t show organization but being a black HC without a long history of coordinating success he would seem to have very little chance of getting hired outright by an unfamiliar franchise as a HC again. His best shot to get back to a HC position is to go somewhere that the HC is on his last chance and maybe he can get an interim gig and win a HC job.

Will the next person that sees anybody throw any shade at Bills fan Chad Kelly, point them out, and get them out of here. You don't live in Cleveland, this isn't TwoBrownsDrive!

Good for Williams but what current NFL RB wouldn't score a TD on that play?

Ask @Simon. After the "7-9 not good enough" press conference he couldn't have been fired soon enough.........and then literally wasn't fired soon enough for whatever reason. Not sure what the fixation with Whaley is around here is though............he was a pawn in the Buddy/Pegula/Russ/Marrone/Rex buffoonery in that period............a road scout hired by a road scout for an administrative position who himself had been hired by an old man whose rep was so tarnished from mistreating his managers that he couldn't get anyone fully qualified to come work for him. Ralph's GM's were scouts, his HC's were assistant coaches.