GunnerBill

Now Tre hurt.

Our dline is decimated.

Block in the back. That should come back.

Jackson is done. That is knee ligaments.

Landon Jackson first game down holding his knee. That looked bad.

Great punt.

Our scramble drill needs work.

Good start. Bish Pick vs the Fish.

Walker and Jones start at DT.

Let's gooooo Bufffffaaaaalllloooooo!

It isn't just PR and I wouldn't want to suggest that. He has been a decent GM for the Bills, but he has always wanted to control the narrative and you have to sift through it. I never bought the inevitable trades narrative all that time ago. It was a choice. A choice I agreed with as it happens. But he didn't sell it like that.

He is a good special teamer. The Bills are so thin on defense but I think we have seen Spector's limitations in that phase plenty.

Well by necessity you can't win a Superbowl without winning some other games. So they are not all meaningless and if you traded all of them you can't win a Superbowl.

Yea. If we had lost every regular season game we'd be much more likely to win a superbowl.

He is, without doubt a bit of a PR master. And in fairness PR is part of a GM's job. So I don't hold it against him (and he is much better at the create a narrative stuff than he is at the poker face pre-draft stuff anyway). He started the narrative spinning basically as soon as he got here. He managed to convince everyone that the Sammy and Darby trades were inevitable because of the cap and not part of a concerted effort to start afresh with new players and a new culture.

I tried to date Claudia Schiffer. Asking people who are definitely going to say no isn't much of a strategy. Ha. But at the same time glad he made the calls. Just they were really low percentage hail marys. 2025.

Pantheon of "greatest ever" I think it would take more than 1 Superbowl. I agree with a Superbowl he will be among the best of his era, but given the comparison was guys like Paul Brown I don't think one Superbowl gets McD into that territory.

There are some legitimate criticisms to make of McDermott. Some of which you allude to in your first para. But your contention in the OP is still completely wrong. Nobody is trying to cement him in a pantheon of great coaches.

It isn't skewed. Because all Head Coaches who are coaches for a long time play against bad teams plenty. Tampa were mainly incompetent during Payton's run with the Saints for example. The article isn't doing what you claim it is and the rest is just digs at McDermott because you don't like him.

If it was trying to do that it would indeed be a dumb article. But it isn't.

They didnt actually stop Cook. New England did a bit. In the Falcons game Brady just got away from him. On the OC.

My prediction is he isn't signing anywhere for at least another month. He isn't healthy.

That is true. But I am worried about the interior rush moving forward.

This doesn't only apply to Buffalo though. Normally when you look at the top teams and players in sack production there are a few in there who just fatten up against bad teams. I remember the year the Tampa fella (Barrett?) led the league.... I think he got 19 sacks. Six came vs Dallas's turnstile of a backup LT. It's also worth saying the Bills are 3rd in the NFL in pressure rate this season, again while the two games you mention help that as well it suggests the sack production is not a fluke. I think rush the passer is one thing the Bills D has actually done at a reasonable level this year. If the coverage can hold up as it did v KC maybe we can be in business. Hoecht joining Ed on the sidelines does not help though. I reckon if I had a couple of good dinners and turned up in Miami tomorrow there is half a chance Id get snaps at defensive tackle 😆

Hard to do that if he lines up in the A gap.