Perry Turtle

Jets, 49ers, Browns, and Bears desperately needed a QB (the Bears drafted one). Bengals, Jaguars, and Titans needed an upgrade, but they won't admit it. Chargers and Panthers were set at QB.

Browns, Bears, 49ers, Jaguars, Chargers, Jets, Panthers, Bengals, Titans. All passed on Mahomes. That's a murderer's row of compentantly-run franchises right there! Aside from the Chargers, not great company to be in. Trubisky is fun to watch, but Mahomes does everything Mitch does, but better.

Likewise, culture doesn't come before results. Winning creates the right culture.

Hard to believe that they're going to go 0-60 in one off-season. Not much salvageable on the offense here in the 2nd year of the process.

They're tied at the hip. Neither one does anything in a vacuum. Together they own this mess.

Yeah, the guy making the personnel decisions is making his life a living hell! ?

I think there's been outrage about the way McBeane has been handle the QB position since the '17 draft.

I think the reasons why they had to sign a scrub off the street is the real reason people are ticked. Watching Kelly and Reich on the field today you have to note that it's been 30+years since the Bills had the QB position figured out. Watching the latest GM and HC so spectacularly mismanage the position just reminds us how far away from success the team remains. That's what's frustrating.

Tanking is idiotic in the NFL. There is just no need to do it. Changing the GM and coach is a much quicker way to success.

I'd have sympathy for McDermott if he weren't directly responsible for the roster decisions that led to this mess. Face it, this is Jared Goff playing under Jeff Fisher type of bad.

From just this season?

Yep, he was also available when Rex was hired.

Like clockwork, the McDermott-led Bill's get nationally embarrassed once every 3 or 4 weeks.

The Titans might be a division 4 franchise

For all those tanking fans, here are the Bills top ten picks the last 20 years or so: Mike Williams, Dareus, Spiller, Watkins, and Allen. Tanking in the NFL is idiotic.

Trust......the..........process

No doubt, it's malpractice. Whaley built a #1 running game and a top five defense in Buffalo, but he totally whiffed on the QB position and was justifiably fired. McDermott has long career ahead of him as a DC in this league, but his future as a HC entirely depends on his ability to fix the current issues at QB. Bean and McDermott have been playing with fire since the '17 draft when it comes to their QB decisions.

Sure, he'll have to make a few key throws, while handing the ball off 75-80% of the time. The Jets ran all over the Colts defense. The Bills can too. And how complicated do you think the Bills offense is right now? It's designed for a rookie QB. Most plays have one or two reads. A 35 year old veteran should be able to manage it easily, even if he only has two weeks with the playbook. Avoiding turnovers is the biggest key to getting a win this week. Knowing that, only a total fool would start Peterman.

If the Bills run the ball 80% of time, they can railroad the Colts defense. The Bills defense can handle Luck. The key is not turning the ball over (and that includes special teams). Give Anderson the start and let him play the role of a veteran game manager. That should be enough to compete with the Colts. The Patriots will murder us, but a game manager can win against Indy's defense.

The Pegulas have had 3 head coaches and two GMs. They had to fire their team president because he followed the Michael Scott method for running the front office. In a league that has been trending hard toward offense the last two years, they've hired two defensive coaches. In a league where it has become essential to have QBs who can read defenses, the only attribute the GMs they hired seem to value is "arm talent." No doubt that the Pegulas are great for the franchise and great for the city. But they have had more than enough opportunities to fix the franchise. They own this now. Holding them accountable for it is not a bad thing. The whole QB situation is a blight on the franchise, and it needs to be addressed. The Pegulas need to be part of the solutiom.

There is something wrong with the way that Allen is reading defenses. Daboll's play calling is giving him open receivers, but Allen isn't taking them. It might be an adjustment where Allen has the pre-snap read right, but then goes top-down, reading deep before short. He might be trying to live up to his rep as a gunslinger, but with the Bills lack of deep speed, it's taking him too long to get to the shorter routes. Brees takes the shorter routes, he generates a lot of completions into the heart of the field. Having Anderson in the fold can help Allen read bottom-up, and encourage him to hit more crosses and drags. The darker possibility is that Allen can't make pre-snap reads, and is locking onto one receiver and then he pulls the ball and runs when his lock is covered. Nobody can really help him with that.

Yeah, in-game decisions. For example, that decision to try to pull Houston off sides and using a TO was mind-blowing. First, that ploy never works. Second, burning a TO to save 5 yards on a punt, when the game is late and close, makes no sense. You can be a fan of McDermott and realize he has shortcomings he has to address. Hopeful he's learning and we'll see him take steps to fix the coaching issues.

McDermott is a great NFL DC. Problem is that he's not the Bills' DC, he's the HC. The HC has responsibility for offense, defense, and special teams (and nobody is talking about it, but McDermott's special teams are awful). The Bills having a great defense isn't enough for McDermott. As the head coach he needs to ensure the team addresses all it's short comings. He needs to work with the GM and position coaches to deal with the roster talent, play calling, and stupid penalties. I'd take McDermott as a DC every day of the week. As a HC though, he has a lot to prove.

GM/coach relations run the gamut. You have the Cowboys situation where Jerry is the defacto GM and the Garret has no real say. Then you have the NE situation where Belichick is the GM/coach. From what we seen, Beane and McDermott look to be a true partnership. There is no doubt that McDermott has had faith in Peterman. He's the one who named him the season starter. I think Beane trusted McDermott and followed the coaches lead. I think accountabilty for the management of the QB position is on them both.

McDermott is the only reason that Peterman is still on an NFL roster. Everything good he does is undone by his management of the QB position. I loved the way the defense played today, but McDermott is accountable for keeping a player who has no business being an NFL QB on the roster.