Niagara Dude

This is not new news, it is clear that following Brian Daboll's departure in 2022, the offensive strategy shifted significantly toward ball control and a higher frequency of running plays. As a fan, this transition was disappointing given that the modern NFL is a pass-first league. The quarterback position is the most vital on the field, and its value is not maximized by frequent hand-offs or two-yard screen passes. Fans seem to forget that James Cook was originally drafted to be a pass catching RB and then everything changed From my perspective, scoring points aggressively is the best way to support a defense that was never dominant; high-scoring offenses force opponents to become one-dimensional in their efforts to keep pace. Relying on a ball-control offense actually increases the pressure on a fringe average defense, as the narrow margin for error leaves little room for recovery. Now if you happen to have a totally dominant defence like some of those Ray Lewis Ravens teams then i would be supportive of run first and low risk offence. In regards to McDermott, i think franchises like the Browns and Cardinals would be smart to consider hiring him, because those teams just want to find their way back to making the playoffs and that is what McDermott did for the Bills.

I would have traded out Oliver and gone after Jalen Carter, this team just does not have anyone on defense that can change games. Yes Beane has made a complete mess of the cap and were always overpaying guys and shopping in the clearance bins I would have preferred Pegula just fire both McDermott and Beane

Too bad they could not just have traded him , undersized and always seems to be injured because of the lack of size. This is Beane not wanting to admit of another draft failure

Not sure why we did not include other Samuel or Palmer in the trade. As for Palmer it makes no sense cap wise to cut him this year with over 11 mllion dead cap and only 1/2 mllion in cap saving. It does make sense next season when dead cap would be around 4.8 mllion with 5.8 mllion in cap savings.

When you're in a bad cap situation , these are the types of guys you sign after free agency and after the draft, he was cut last year by the Panthers and Beane had to make sure he wastes more cap space on another fringe talent guy. This is exactly why the Bills are always it cap jail. I cannot think of any game changing play on special teams he made last season and we give him 5 million guaranteed. That position could have been filled by a 5th-7th rounder or undrafted free agent guy or a street guy who gets cut just like we found him last season and then we make excuse why we can't have nice things in the receiver room If Beane continues this path and the talent level does begin to improve because he has overpaid so many fringe talent guys, then call the moving vans because it's terrible cap management . One of the worse jobs of cap management and roster construction in the NFL and only wins regular season games because he has all world QB. I think Franklin is a good ST'S player but not great or elite and i doubt we would miss a beat or could not replace . Beanne does this, overpays fringe talent guys and it all adds up to cap jail and poor roster construction that has very few great or elite players on it

Zero chance this happens, why would the Bills sign some old guy that went on national TV and trashed Josh Allen

Unless the guy is a complete stud kicker who makes 50 yarders look easy then i would never put major cap money into a kicker. Bass is making good money but is not a stud and has had some rough times. Use with 6th or 7th rounder and save cap space

He will make a great defensive cordinator some day. He was total late game playoff choker as HC. Too bad he could not find a way to slow down the great Bo Nix. The reality is Maye started facing teams that had better defences. We need to stop giving McDermott credit when his defences have giving up 33.3 points per game in Bills 6 playoff losses. He was a choker and Terry should have fired him after 13secs I say top 12-15 HC

DOMINIC ZVADA, this dude is a stud that we could most likely pickup in 6th round and you upgrade the position on a rookie contract that saves you cap space

Most likely McDermott, Terry needs to truly answer why McDermott was not fired after 13 secs. I still have my receipts and i was just a waste of years keeping this ch-ke machine around

Smart move because he just does not have the speed to hang with these receivers but i think he has enough speed and the smarts to play safety. Excited because were finally going to do something different on defence

Bass was inconsistent the previous years before getting hurt, the Bills need to drop a late 6th or 7th rounder on a kicker and cut ties with Bass which would save them 2 million in cap space

Only thing that is good is he is not McDermott

I would safety say they got 6 points off of turnover that came on our side of the field, McDermott playoff defences have been trash and Terry agrees. McDermott apologists need to watch 13 secs 100 times over and ask how bad a HC you have to be to lose that game , because Allen had no turnovers

McDermott's system is all about not giving up the big play and that means sacrificing making the big play because your in always in retreat mode. It's a terrible scheme and the results in playoff games just never improved. I believe in 6 playoff losses we had 3 turnovers and just one sack Once a new HC is hired the focus needs to be DC and getting someone that plays a attacking downhill aggressive style. Plenty of guys that were on this defence were either too small or just not fast enough. It's like McDermott has to have all his LB'S at 6 feet tall and then wonder why their always hurt or just gashed on runs and you have so many missed tackles. We need to do better than Cam Lewis, Taron Johnson, Damar Hamlin or Bernard who is listed at 6 feet and 218 lbs. The Pats by comparison have players that are both bigger and faster. Or keeping old guys around , like why was Daquan Jones at 34 years old even on this team if you trying to improve your run defence or interested in getting more pressure on the QB up the middle . This guy had a couple of decent years and should never been resigned once he got into his 30's. Too many guys are kept around way past expire period because they know McDermott's complex system. I also think the Bills #1 pass defence rating was nonsense, during the regular season teams just focused on gashing us for 5-6 yards at a time on runs and never passed much on early downs. By comparison look at how much passing attempts both the Jags and Broncos had in 2 playoff games. I think another starting safety is needed to improve that group and another starting LB with size