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I hope you're right, but Maye has been doing more with less than CJ Stroud's good season.

Have we tried running multiple FB sets while we're at it? Let's just use the full 1960 playbook and stop pretending. Commit to the joke that is this offense.

I'm not worried about the Patriots this season. They have a crazy easy schedule and if we can't take them out, someone else will. I am worried about the Patriots in the future. They may have leap frogged us in one year. Their coach is very solid, they're basically playing with spare parts and have a ton of cap room. They got huge value at WR out of Diggs. They get a little bit more time to play around with Maye's rookie contract so expect this offseason to be massive for them. McDermott is basically Vrabel's B word at this point. He absolutely knows how to slow down Josh and he is great at running it down our throats. I think this is a terrible matchup moving forward and it should be reason number 58 why we need to move on from McDermott before this whole thing is too far gone.

This guy was always worse than McKenzie at essentially playing the EXACT same role as McKenzie. We already have about 3 of these under-6-foot-shifty-but-not-deep-threat guys, on the roster. We literally do not understand how to utilize them. What's the point of this signing? Just in case Moore, Samuel and Shakir all run into each other and explode into a thousand pieces?

A young WR being handed the opportunity to be Josh Allen's WR1, and you think he probably wants to leave? I don't doubt for a second that we'll be looking to move on, but I highly doubt there's any part of him that thinks he's doing anything other than squandering this opportunity.

When the offense can't scheme guys open, and pretends it's the 1960s with its 3 TE sets, obvious passing situations become 10x harder. I'd expect more sacks as we play better defenses down the stretch. The instinct is to blame Brady, and he deserves a share of it in spades, but this whole philosophy comes from the top. McDermott loves this *****.

Which would probably be what the doctor ordered for McDermott to loosen up a little. I'm all for it at this point.

Yeah, they're not going anywhere.

Somehow I think Flacco would shred our soft zone more, but either way it won't be pretty. McDermott is not in a position to walk into an offense like Cincy's and hold them to anything other than 35-40 points.

So let me get this straight... you think Beane went rogue, and while going rogue, he **checks notes** drafted exclusively prototypical McDermott defensive players with our first five picks?! It's astounding the level that some people will go to defend McDermott. Astounding.

McDermott has also proven at this point that he actually doesn't understand how to utilize Allen to his fullest potential. We have completely bought in to our 3 TE running attack and have the highest percentage of rushing plays in the NFL. This is not an offense schemed for an MVP QB. McDermott truly does not value the way we would come out in the Daboll era with 20+ passes and get the offense rolling and a big lead. He wants to eek out wins. That's the mentality when Alex Smith is your QB. It's just a complete mis-match in personnel and coaching philosophy. And we know its McDermott at this point because EVERY OC reverts to this with him if you give them enough time. He and Daboll aren't on good terms (assuredly a power struggle of some sort), he made Dorsey a scape goat, and now Brady -- who was once running an effective 4WR split shotgun offense in CAR -- is basically trying to just call Kromer's rushing attack every chance he can. People claiming for a shiny new WR or blaming only Beane don't realize this is EXACTLY what the conservative McDermott wants. He's said as much. He doesn't want us running a no huddle two minute offense because he doesn't want to gas out his defense. He doesn't want to let Josh go off his leash because he's worried about injuries. He doesn't want to have a high octane offense with deep routes because we might throw a pick. McDermott doesn't want to take risks and he has shown this in the way he's built the team.

McDermott is in love with guys that know his system.

Milano's instincts are top tier. After these next three games, if he's healthy and playing, I'd expect to see him ready for the playoffs where instinctual cerebral players thrive. Not worried in the slightest.

It's the reason there should always be touch up or makeup on set. Nothing should distract you from what they're trying to convey, even if it's just sports talk. Nothing is cheaper than the Buffalo media though.

Screens work best when defenses are committing to the pass rush. Historically, it was a bad idea to blitz Josh, so they haven't been a big part of our game. On top of that, teams used to spy Allen a lot more, which was another deterrent to the halfback screen pass. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets slowly incorporated more and more as Allen gets older and becomes less of a threat to take off.

Rex Ryan was in vacation mode when he coached the Bills, so I doubt it would have worked out for the better. The real question is -- how different would the last couple years have gone if the Bills replaced McDermott with Daboll after 13 seconds?

Fred Taylor in the hall of fame? What am I missing here...

80% of the perfect wing is the blue cheese. Many well meaning people have devoted plenty of time making a good wing, but have fallen short by not understanding this one simple thing.

I think both are true. I think McDermott deserves the backlash he is getting. I also think that Dunne sounded... questionable on the radio.

I don't understand this mentality. He admitted to some of this stuff. He's very clearly lost the good will of a lot of people in that building. Blaming the journalist is wild to me.

Are there actually lunatics here that don't think Josh Allen is the best QB in franchise history? I'll just add this to the list of reasons why I only browse this site every few years. It's just inmates running wild and free with scissors in their hands.

If Dorsey was the actual problem — then the Miami game and similar beatdowns last year sure seems like a strange outlier. While we are rampantly speculating, I think McDermott put the leash on Josh running this season and lifted it in desperation. It’s too convenient to point to Dorsey when the catalyst is our game choking HC. Two of the dumb losses this year with Dorsey were with Josh trotting off the field with the lead.

The irony of you talking about things that are simple.

Allen was incredible on the road against the 9-1 super bowl favorites under the lights with the rain. Basically no one is playing better than how he played in that situation. Either you're just being difficult, have an axe to grind, or simply are not watching other NFL football. Every team except one or two would kill to have Allen, and the Eagles are possibly one of them.

I agree completely. McDermott's scheme works well against bad QB and dysfunctional offenses, but it's the lack of adjustments that is the real concern. Complain about his scheme all you want, but it did in fact fluster Hurts. The issue is that after listening to his OC scream in his ear for 3 quarters about finding the soft zones, it was clear Hurts figured out the mission. Everyone without McDermott's ego could tell that they had that figured out. Logically you would think we would pivot into either a press man D or shake it up in any way, but we didn't. We sat back again. We left the flat open in OT. We essentially forced Hurts to beat us and he did.