Kirby Jackson

Vrabel would have been a really good hire. Kubiak has probably vaulted himself into the top coordinator candidate (or at least one of the top). He’s the new Ben Johnson. Here is a list of 20 candidates for the Giants job. Joe Brady will also be on most of these lists but the Giants won’t hire another Bills OC yet after Daboll so he isn’t on here: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6799945/2025/11/12/ny-giants-coach-candidates-lane-kiffin-jaxson-dart/ Here’s a different list: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-coaching-candidates-to-replace-fired-brian-daboll/ Here’s another: https://www.si.com/nfl/giants-top-head-coach-candidates-daboll-fired Here’s one with Titans candidates: https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/nfl/titans/2025/11/03/titans-coaching-search-mike-vrabel-mike-mccarthy-joe-brady-brian-flores/86883023007/ Between these lists you’ll see a lot of the same names. There are probably going to be 5+ jobs open. Usually it’s somewhere between 5-8 or something like that. All of the names will certainly be mentioned on one of these lists.

I’m a little bullish on Sanders. He was my favorite of the draft picks. He’s a good athlete and the scouting community liked him a lot more than the draft talking heads. He got off to a slow start but think he could be a good player along with Walker and Oliver.

I’m not advocating for those guys staying. I’m saying Gruden is a horrendous option. He’s been a bad football coach for a really long time. There are dozens of better options out there.

He has a win percentage of .511. Mike McDaniel has a win percentage of .528.

Agreed. Every team is in a different situation. If you’re the Giants and it looks like you’ve found your franchise QB you can take some big swings. If you hit, great. If not, you have a window to upgrade those positions. The Bills are in a different spot. They have maybe 6 years of Josh’s prime left. Those 6 years (or whatever) represent a wide open Super Bowl window. You team is flawed and has holes. You can’t take the next Keon hoping that he’s better than the last Keon. You don’t have that luxury. You need to take the guy that can help immediately even if that means his ceiling is Darnell Mooney.

I bought in on Keon having a big game last week. I’m not doing it again. I just hope he’s more efficient. If they throw him the ball 6 times I hope it results in 4+ catches.

A guy that knows football breaking down games on YouTube isn’t of interest to me. I’d just assume hire those dudes from Cover 1. Gruden sucks. He shouldnt be anywhere near an NFL job. He has a long track record of not being good. Doug Pederson would be better.

Fitting Keon for his gold jacket after 5 catches and 71 yards on 11 targets vs. Tampa.

I can’t give you Atlanta when they have Drake London. He had 16 targets against us. His 17 game pace is 113/1468/13. That’s a better year than any Bills receiver has ever had. When Mooney is healthy, he too, is better than every Bills receiver. No to the Saints. Olave is way better than anyone that we have and we all pretty much agreed that Shaheed would represent a big upgrade. Those guys are better than ours (or at least certainly were before the Shaheed trade). The Patriots isn’t much of a dicscussion either. Diggs and Boutte are both better than all Bills receivers. Maybe you could make a case for a beat up Miami but they have a guy. They have a guy that has killed us. The Bills offered a 1st and 3rd for that guy. He is so much better than anyone that we have. The Jets also have a guy that’s great. Our 2-5 may be better than theirs but the gap in 1’s is so large that I’d pick the Jets (like Miami). Carolina is interesting because they have more talent but may not be better. Tet McMillian might be a 1k guy but the rest of them aren’t great. You could make an argument that we are similar.

For better or worse, I would pay Kincaid. He’s dynamic (when healthy). The problem I had with the Rousseau, Shakir (a little) and certainly Bernard deals is that they’re all role players. I wouldn’t make a habit of paying for role players. Milano has been hurt the last few years but when he was healthy he was dynamic. I’d always pay guys that I think can be all-pros even if it doesn’t work out. I wouldn’t pay role players as a rule because I think you can find them pretty easily.

I would have paid Benford and Cook. I didn’t love the other deals. You could make a case for Shakir and Rousseau.

Every team has injuries. Total injuries mean nothing. The only thing that matters is WHO is injured. If you asked the Ravens would you rather lose 6 starters on defense or Lamar, they pick 6 starters on defense. Oliver is the only impact player to miss time. Benford is a good player but isn’t having a great year. He matters too. The Bills injury issues are WAY overblown because their best players are playing every week. Oliver is the only guy on the team that matters that has missed more than 1 game!!