Luka

I mean at some point, you have to think that he finally has to answer for the mess this team is. How he keeps getting let off the hook is beyond me, especially when it was his defense that was costing us games in the playoffs, not the offense.

We are the Aaron Rodgers led Packers in the latter part of his career there. Middling coach who looks good enough with a Hall of Fame QB, no weapons for said QB in sight, wash, rinse and repeat.

@Pittsburgh- WIN vs Cincinnati- LOSS @ NE- LOSS @ Cle- WIN vs Phil- LOSS vs NYJ- WIN

Well the ongoing saga with Coleman, the handling of Elam publicly last year, it makes me think that if the curtain is pulled tightly but somehow the dysfunction is still visible, it's a circus. You had Beane going on the radio in the offseason and having a childish meltdown because he was (correctly) criticized for not trying to get a weapon or two for his MVP quarterback. I've worked enough in corporate America to know this alleged "professionalism" is simply a large marketing department and PR team keeping the wraps on things.

I guess the bottom line is, whoever is allegedly in charge of the circus at OBD needs to go. Too many misses in the draft and in free agency.

How exactly has that worked over 3 decades and multiple coaching staffs? Sounds like their coaching staff might be required to be a bit more flexible and use the talent that Newsome drafts...

If you are drafting based on your scheme over BPA, then you are doomed in the modern NFL. At this level, the players make the plays. With how much talent the Ravens and Eagles have, I don't think that argument is true. I think their coaching staff and their scheme is more adaptable than Buffalo's. The Ravens have had an excellent defense essentially their entire existence thanks to their talent evaluators and their GM, which tells me they do not draft based on scheme, at least not in the first 3 rounds. They are after the best athletes with production at the highest levels of college football. You draft for scheme when you're in the 3rd day of the draft and you're looking at limited athletes or guys from small schools that will need to be a "fit" so to speak to be successful at the NFL level. Is it under valuing speed or is it under valuing physicality in the name of chasing speed? I think that's where they end up with players like Bernard. A little faster than a typical MLB because they want "speed" and "coverage ability" and end up with a guy that can't shed a block of fill a gap. I do agree that our positional value is completely out of whack. The first two rounds should be producing absolute play makers for your team. And he's whiffed big time in that regard.

That is not what I meant. If McDermott says I want a fast middle linebacker who excels in coverage, then Beane is tasked with evaluating the players available and attempting to draft that player. A good coach would be more flexible in their scheme and want the best middle linebacker available, period.

I actually would love to see Gruden coach in college. I think his energy and love of the game would work at that level. But he'd have to really simplify that play sheet I think.

Is Beane drafting the players he wants or is he drafting the players McDermott wants? To me, I feel like we are definitely drafting the players McDermott wants. I still say fire them all and start over. But I have a sneaking suspicion McDermott is the man responsible for all of this because he's also the first to scapegoat whoever he can.

They also had Dorian out there more in the second half. The coaching staff needs to understand that they cannot stop the run unless they play a traditional 4-3 with the personnel currently available. And for God's sake, you are playing Davis Mills. No need to play two high safeties. It gives a game manager like Mills easy underneath throws and allows their offense to seemingly run at will. The focus should've been shutting down the run and forcing Mills to make throws under duress.

When you have excellent defensive ends, it really frees up the interior. Scheme is also a big factor. If you watch our defense, there is essentially not a play call for the line. They rush 4 straight. The Texans were stunting, using safety blitzes, spying with one of the best MLBs in the league. The Tampa 2 is a crap defense that relies on individual guys making huge plays. We do not have the guys to make those plays.

Brady's play calling is already suspect. Put McDermott's ineptitude in the mix and last night is the slurry of ***** you end up with. It's time to call Lane Kiffin and see if he wants to coach in the NFL. Need a quarterback focused head coach.

He's clearly lost the locker room. A lot of these guys look like they've packed it in for the year. Our start QB committed zero time in the offseason to football. You can tell he did not train, thought he'd made it once he won the MVP and could just stroll out there. He's playing like it's 2018. The rest of them team is playing like it's 2010.

This game is exactly why there are many on the board pointing out how poor the defense is. The Texans showed all of us that with a real pass rush, you can beat any team in this league. McDermott is a failure and should finally have to answer for this team's lack of success.

I voted no because no way in hell is another team trading anything for him. If the disciplinary problems persist I'd imagine he'd be cut.

Diggs is a pile of human garbage. He dropped one of the biggest passes in Bills history. Good riddance. It's not that Diggs left, it's that we adopted this stupid everybody eats mantra as an excuse to not sign, trade for or draft a quality receiver.

The Von Miller deal may have been one of the worst signings in Bills history.

Yea if it's just Beane making the picks without input from the coaching staff then the whole thing is busted and needs to be blown up. But I have a strong suspicion that McDermott is the one with final say. Remember when he benched Cook for like half a season because of a single fumble?

Beane is trying to fit round talent into the square peg that is McDermott's antiquated Cover 2 defense. They've spent all of our resources and money on the defense and have literally had zero return on those investments. When speaking of the GM, people need to understand that McDermott hired him, not the other way around. I think McDermott needs to go way more than I think Beane needs to go. I'd like to see Beane hire his own coach and if I were him in that position, I would be pursuing Lane Kiffin.

We lack a championship caliber defense and the Ravens choke, hard, consistently.

The KC game, as illustrated time and time again by graphics splashed all over the screen, was a meaningless regular season game for the Chiefs and our Super Bowl. We never beat them when it counts so it isn't really impressive. We also tried to lose that game at the end so it certainly wasn't an impressive win.

I don't think so at all. He's got the same look on his face during that interview that he does while he's sitting on the sidelines after turning the ball over in the end zone. He's clearly not putting the work in in the offseason anymore. Looks to be regressing a great deal. His priority is no longer football. And again, with the continued mismanagement of the organization, I really can't blame him. No matter how perfect he plays they can't get over the hump and if he has one off week there's no one on this team that can back him up and they look like the drought Bills all over again.

When your star player is asked by a reporter in the offseason "what are your expectations for this season?" and he responds " I don't have any expectations for this team" you should know that it isn't going to be a good year. Not even towing the Super Bowl or Bust line or anything. Just pretty plainly stating he doesn't give a ***** anymore. Can I blame him? No.

Remember how long the media kept trying to prop the Pats up after Brady left? Don't fall for the marketing.