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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.

One of my best friend's is a bigtime Pack fan, here's how it went:

First of all, this stuff if awesome: Market Spice Orange Cinnamon Tea (Straight from Pike's Place Market in Seattle) second of all, I was being a sarcastic brat.

I think they understand what they have in Dodson, or rather don't have. No one 1BD thinks they have a great defense. Douglas helps shore that up.

"Bean loves to piss away cap money. 40M a year for a QB who leads the league in INTs?"

They think Dodson is good enough on 1st + mid range 2nd down, and can play Poyer/Rapp on passing situations.

There's not even a competition here. Douglas is flat out the best healthy perimeter corner the Bills have right now, until Benford takes his next leap. They also have two dudes who are now in 80%+ percentile for arm length

Johnson likely priced himself out of any trade

Surtain would have cost multiple first rounders. He;s another tier better than Jalon Johnson

He also means the Bills can be patient with Tre White. if that's the route they choose

if you're worried about the 3rd round pick, that's valid considering Buffalo has gotten some value there recently (Terrell Bernard, Dorian Williams, Spencer Brown), but drafting a 3rd round pick who will be as good as Douglas will be the next 3-4 years is going to be tough. Of course thew downside of that is that Douglas' Cap hit (4-6M after an extension) is 4 - 6x higher than a 3rd round draft pick. Sure thing vs crapshoot is basically what it comes down to