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Because the Bills haven’t lost to a team that’s worse than them in terms of perosnell. The one big thing they did to make themselves the same level as the Chiefs and Bengals was Von Miller who hasn’t been available.

The reality here is the Bills offense is far far closer to being elite than it is to being mediocre. McDermott knows that and it’s why he made the change. The Bills go up and down the field. But for whatever reason they just can’t score with the same efficiency as they move the ball, and they don’t play complementary football and end up killing their own depleted defense

They’ve lost to Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes twice, took a good DeShaun Watson to OT prior to Allen Taking The Leap, and then last year an exhausted and injuries Bills team lost to a really good Bengals team. This isn’t failure. They lost to teams that were better than them in terms of personell

Diversity of concepts is a good thing. The inconsistent nature of it was probably what got Dorsey fired

Lack of explosive plays is a league wide issue

Firing your hand picked OC is essentially taking ownership of a mistake. Whose job is it to evaluate the talent of your assistant coaches and coordinators? The head coach

His responsibility this season is to own the defense, and give Dorsey general principles of what the offense should be. Clearly, Dorsey hasn’t delivered on thag inspite of all the excellent metrics

the pass rush has been ok actually. Teams are struggling to consistently pressure. Just look at how teams struggle to pressure Allen and we have literally don’t have a single 1st round pick on the OLine. It’s not McDermotts fault that injuries have hugely debilitated his two most talented pass rushers in Groot and Von Miller

You guys act like the bills haven’t been wildly successful under McDermott

You don’t change someone like McDermott unless he loses the locker room. all this “he leans too much on the offense stuff” is just projection. All HCs set general guidelines for what the offense should look like season to season. That’s something McDermott should and will continue to lean into, agains he’s a Head Coach. He owns the complementary part of the game. Dorsey was clearly not giving McDermott the offense he wanted.

Josh is gonna be here another 8-10 years

Thats not how this works

https://x.com/minakimes/status/1724466437190975685?s=46&t=b_6DEUCIOVykcHVZYqq8jg My general thought is that while Allen is good for a bad turnover a game, he’s also been saving Dorsey’s ass for most of the season

May as well post here what I said on Twitter https://x.com/appoo_pratt/status/1724466387924738406?s=46&t=b_6DEUCIOVykcHVZYqq8jg

No this is McDermott. Also not the first time he’s done this

No NFL coach does this

It’s not Sean McDermott’s fault you don’t understand how hard the NFL playoffs and winning a SB is. You’re essentially putting personal blame on McDermott for Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid existing, and for the massive amount of injuries last season. Those are essentially the only reason the bills don’t currently have 3 straight SB trips The bills may not make a Super Bowl in the Allen or McDermott/Beane era. They're still doing an amazing job of having sustainable success while putting out an incredible product on the field. I for one am grateful, having been a of the team since Jim Kelly’s first year when I was in grade school. It’s easily the 2nd best stretch of football in my life as a Bills fan, and better than most franchises have had.

Think McDermott is a great coach but this sport comes down to matchups, ultimately, and the Bills have a terrible matchup with the Bengals O. Bills D is built to pressure and play zone combos behind a 4-5 man rush. Burrow only really struggles against Intense pressure + man coverage. He gets the ball out super quick. However he’s basically a better version of Tua, and McDermott had a fantastic game against the Dolphins, so maybe he can come up with a way to contain Cinncy just enough for his offense to take the game. But bottom line is that he can call a great game, his defense can execute, and that offense can still get a bunch of points just based on talent matchups

Bills are close to leading the league in wins, lead the league in Point Differential, and have at least one playoff win in every season since 2020. Tired of this reductive trope .weve had great teams under MvDermott, and has won a bunch of “big” games. You don’t get to pick and choose crap just to tailor it to your agenda I mean it’s absurd the Bills have walloped the Chiefs for last 2 years IN Arrowhead and both games the Bills D has come up big. But that doesn’t count as a big simply because the Bills played well?

I haven't felt good about the Bills playing the Bengals for about 2 years now. Burrow is a zone killer. But this year's Bills D has been an ever changing defense in terms of what they do schematically. Still, they're undermanned. Need to have a good Von Miller out there, along with their other DEs and Oliver bringing it. Offensively, I have no idea what to predict from the Buffalo offense. The opposition doesn't seem to have any correlation to how good the Bills O is week to week

He's cheap depth that's worth more than the 6th rounder they'd get for him (he's got 3M & 4M in guarenteed money next two years, respectively, which lowers his trade value some)

Bears likely wanted a 1st (considering where the Bills first rounder was going to be), which I think Beane would have been fine paying, but unlikely he was gonna give Jalon Johnson Denzel Ward Money (~20M AAV), for someone who's been mostly good to ok for his first 3 years, and closer to elite for 7-8 games this year

Not neccearily an issue, but worth noting.

But let's not downplay the 3rd round pick. In my view, 3rd and 4th rounders are hugely important, moreso for Cap control than added value onto the field. The Bills have at least 2 starters from the 3rd round this year. Bernard and Spencer Brown. Bernard has been well above expected, but just pretend he was a replacement level player for his position just as Spencer Brown is. Meaning straight average. Good enough to start. Their REAL value is that those two dides have a combine 2M in cap hit, and the Bills don't have to spend 15M in veteran money for those two spots. So if the Bills got another replacement level start from a 3rd round pick in 24, that's a 6M cap hit the Bills are eating for Douglas. So that's the value trade Beane had to make. Not easy, but hopefully worth it.

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