Green Lightning

He'll get canned soon. Last laugh clamdigger boy.

I'm not panicked, I'm resigned. This is not a Superbowl team. It may not even be a wildcard team. Years of bad contracts and poor drafts have caught up with us. Milano, Bernard and Taron Johnson are washed. Why? We draft undersized, fast LBS that get pounded and injured. Johnson is a DB they make play LB. They never seem to make it to the playoffs when we need them the most. Massive contracts like Beane gave Knox limit our ability to acquire FAs. Missed early picks on D Line and cornerback have hurt. This big contract to Ed Oliver, another undersized (see a pattern?) player for his position limits us and he is once again out. The money we gave FA receivers is ridiculous. None of them are better than a 3 or 4 wideout on other teams. The pass on Worthy for Keon is really aging well. We do have a solid OL and stud RB, something to build on there. And of course Josh, but the years are flying by and we have no championships to show for it. So no panic, just the realization that not only has the league caught up and passed us, so has the AFCE. The Pats aren't panicking because they win with methodical offense and tough defense -AND- they don't beat themselves. They can run, pass and defend. We can only run. The core of this team is just not good enough. That's not panic, it's just time to flush and rebuild while Josh had some years left. I'd rather rebuild with a new GM and HC. A GM that actually builds around a generational QB and a HC that can maximizes that QB's talent and build a defense with size, speed and grit that can actually stay on the field and not live in the blue tent. I'd rather a regime change, but don't count on it. I just pray we're not in for another few years of washed re-treads at skill positions and a D scheme that OC"s have long figured out.

I am happy to have a good running game. Our pass-first teams eventually got shut down and we couldn't get a first down to finish a game. It's not the run game that's the problem, it's the complete lack of talent at receiver and an OC that can scheme against man coverage. We do not have one receiver that can beat man coverage, not one. Beane like's them big and slow. Load the box and dare one of our receivers to win a one-on-one, they cannot. Josh had 3.5 seconds plus to throw on Sunday, the longest of his career, and couldn't find anyone open time after time. So I do fault McD, but this is mostly on Beane. I think both need to move on.

My thoughts: 1) Relax the rest of the season, this is not a Superbowl team. 2) This is the same exposed team we saw in the two losses before the bye. 3) After this season, yet another season that we waste prime Josh, it's time for McBeane to go. The roster building is flawed and the HC seams to be losing the players. Today's effort was inexcusable. (4) As for Josh, he is just not himself. I don't know if it is getting married and making big time commercials during the offseason, but I don'tsee his usual swagger. Even on the rare occasion someone is open, he is often off target and hesitant to run. He's also likely dispirited with the lack of receiving talent and Brady's inability to scheme against man coverage. 5) All these injuries cannot be just bad luck. Have we gone a game with a long term loss of someone?

Hope you're watching Beane. Josh has to scramble for 10 seconds before any of our receivers can escape man coverage. It's not everybody eats, it's everybody sucks.

You're optimistic for sure, and I pray you're spot on. But based on the last 5 seasons I am not as upbeat. It's not just the one play, it's having the playmakers that can make those crucial plays at crucial times. There is nobody elite on our defense. They are solid, some maybe up and coming, but not a guy that can routinely disrupt the elite offenses. Last week, KC was down 3 starters on their Oline, and still the game was in Mahomes hand on the last 2 plays. On offense, we have Josh and Cook as elite. But how many times does Josh have to scramble and still can't find a anyone open? He doesn't have a guy that will be open no matter what. He has a committee of good, but not great pass catchers. Sometimes you need great to be the last team standing. Will this be year be different than the last 5? I sure as Hell pray so, but it feels like I am watching the same movie. And hey, I have followed this team since 1963, so I appreciate these past years more than you know. But I want to see the Bills win the SB before I check out. To quote George Allen, The future is now.

It's never the in season numbers I worry about. It's about the one play we need on 4th down against the Chiefs in a AFC championship game, or making a stop when we really need it. It's about having an elite player who will get open when we need to stack some first downs to ice a title game. We're good, but always short on the clutch play, on either offense or defense, that the other team seems to have and we don't. I don't care if we rack up the points during the season. I care that we can close out of championship game. Elite players will get open (Kelce) or make that crucial stop (Chris Jones) to ice a game. During clutch time, we don't have anyone who is un-blockable or a player can't be covered. It keeps us outside looking in. What about this roster makes you think we'll get over that hump this year?

A lot of truth here. Even if you subtract the players I crossed out above, we'd same about $14,500,000 in cap, but take a big hit on dead money. If we fall short this year again, we're going to need younger, faster, cheaper and better players, and look deeper into the roster than what you have here. Beane has some pretty bad contracts to deal with. All the while, the clock is ticking on Josh.

Once again we're one special play from one special player away from a championship. Beane makes sure we are good enough to be in the hunt every year, but incapable of getting us over the top, as we waste yet another year of a generational talent at QB. So we save draft capital for another 3rd round undersized LB or another midling receiver. If we fall short again this year, is it not time to say McBeane isn't the leadership we need to finally win this damn thing before our unicorn QB is past his prime?

Felt like a Buddy Nix trade deadline today. I guess Beane is saving his draft capital for either an undersized LB or big, slow receiver he has his eye on.

Mahomes may not feast on our safeties, only because our CBs will be a bus ride off their receivers, giving him 10 yards a pass play. The plan is to exhaust his arm.

We've gone from "everybody eats" to "everybody sucks" pretty quickly. I do wish Beane would get over the Keon bust and trade for a legit threat WR, but there's got to be more to this. DC'S are wise to us, Josh is not being Josh, and Brady has no answers other than hand the ball to Cook or screens to Shakir.

Regardless of who plays at CB, if they start a play in the same zipcode as the receivers they cover, we just may get off the field now and again.

Bacari Rambo

Bizarre. I think I'd rather say it was a shotgun snap!