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I was thinking FleaMoulds89 would do it.

It's funny you say that because I thought for sure the Bills would be in Munich this year based on digital marketing spend. There's been a lot of spend in the paid online marketing world(search terms) for the Bills, to promote them, within Germany this past year. Generally that's been an NFL hat tip, that that's who's coming for the international games. I guess maybe they are building for 2027?

I work with a lot of advertising in Europe, and generally speaking looking through previous year spends, it leans to which team ends up in which international game. There has been a significant increase in advertising spend for Buffalo Bills in Germany. I think the Bills are headed for the Munich game this year.

But, but, but Ian said he’s respected!!

Same. It was Kubiak for me when McD was fired. Then seeing him make Super Bowl and not being available for 2 weeks, I came around on Udinski.

Browns going to do brown things 🫣

I rate this just above a Daboll hire. Wanted Kubiak, Udinski or Webb, in that order. Would have taken Brady like 5th? This is Beane choosing continuity. In my head, I wanted a new voice. I guess we will see with his OC and DC hires. This does just feel like roll it back out because all that was wrong with the Bills was McD and his defense.

Can’t say I’m thrilled. You can point to his success as the OC but literally every OC with Josh has had success.

Nice lil nugget on the bottom paragraph

Not sure I could have articulated it better. There's so much about the reponse both nationally and locally that annoys me. I am on record as would have cleaned house, I think the Bills going deeper into the playoffs made that difficult, timing wise. This whole idea from the outside that people can't understand why the Bills would fired McD reads like we as fans should just be happy to be making the playoffs every year. Lil ol' Buffalo, don't be so silly, you should be grateful. Screw that, McD had 7 years with the best football player on the planet, said many times by national media, and hasn't even made it to the Super Bowl or won it. Why is that so hard to understand? What would the narative be if Pegula did nothing, the Bills never get to the Super Bowl under McD and they waste Josh Allens career? And it's like crazy to think that this press conference was any worse than Steve Bisciotti's PC after he fired Harbaugh, who actually won a SB with that franchise. The guy was making jokes with the media and laughing. "He would have got one more week...<grin><laughing>."

I think this perfectly explains it. Fans too much want to say it was this ONE persons decision. They want a bad guy. You've got Pegula/Beane trying to explain that it's collaborative and some people still want to paint in on one person. McD's staff rated Keon higher and wanted him picked when they did. Beane may have rated him lower but ultimately signed off on it, as did Pegula. All 3 signed off on it, even if one party wanted the player more. Happens all the time, as Beane said again, with scouts, with Pegula, with coaches. There literally has to be collaboration within NFL team structures. No GM is picking players that can't be used within a teams build.

You need to REALLY go back and listen(27:43 mark of PC to help you out): Reporter: Is it Super Bowl or bust in 2026? Pegula: No it is not, we can't say that to someone coming in, we are making a change... 2026 would be season one, no one specifically said season one.. But what would 2026 be to a new coach? It would be season one.