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I don't see the Eagles dominating the Buffalo offense like they did against the Chiefs. I mean in the 3rd quarter of that SB the Eagles were up 34-6...Philly then allowed some garbage yards so it didn't look as lopsided as it was ending in a 22-40 beatdown. However, the Buffalo defense was dealing with injuries while starting a rookie safety and the Chiefs torched Kaiir Elam so badly that the Bills ended up dumping him to Dallas. This game was at Arrowhead and was 29-32. A lot of Bills fans want to point at the TE for this loss and they shouldn't as it was mostly the Buffalo defense to blame. Last years Bills team led the NFL in turnover ratio all season with a +24 only to get only one turnover by the Chiefs. Buffalo had 4 fumbles and recovered all of them. When you look at what the Eagles were able to do on defense compared to what Buffalo did with 2 sacks, 7 QB hits vs unreal pressure on Mahomes all game long with 11 QB hits and 6 sacks. The refs in that Bills/KC game didn't help either by calling two different plays short...and one that looked like it was right on the line and yet the refs called it a full yard short. Tough to beat the Chiefs and the Refs. https://nypost.com/2025/01/27/sports/what-went-wrong-for-bills-on-controversial-play-that-changed-everything/ Buffalo starting cornerback Christian Benford suffered a concussion late in the first quarter and did not return. McDermott noted that losing Benford, who was in concussion protocol this week and cleared to play, affected the defense. Despite the defensive issues in the first half, the Bills stayed in the game. But it wasn't enough. The Buffalo Bills made a lot of good moves this offseason so lets hope it gets them to the SB this year! GO BILLS!

The ONLY NFL head coach with a better win record over the last five seasons has been KC HC Andy Reid. McD has done better than any NFC HC and IMO the biggest reason Reid have done so well is because he is an ...offensive genius...he has Mahomes as his QB. he currently has two ex NFL head coaches as his OC, DC. Reid has 26 years NFL experience as a head coach and his teams have been #1 in their division for 15 of those years and 6x as the #2 team. so, in 21 out of 26 seasons his teams have either been first or second in his teams division. " Sean Payton has the seventh-best career win percentage (.615) in the league. The only coaches above Payton are Jim Harbaugh (.688), Matt LaFleur (.656), Nick Sirianni (.643), Andy Reid (.639), Sean McDermott (.624) and Mike Tomlin (.621). https://broncoswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/broncos/2024/06/06/nfl-head-coaches-active-winning-percentage-rankings/79049540007/ In my view McD is the #2 HC.

I keep reading that QB Josh Allen is a big reason as to why this current team is so good and yet during the 2023 season the Buffalo Bills were 6-6 at one point with Ken Dorsey at OC until McD fired him and replaced him with Joe Brady. (With losses to the NY Jets, Jags, Pats, Bengals, Broncos, Eagles.) the Bills then went on to the playoffs. Josh Allen is great no question...alas, it is a team sport and McD has brought his process, culture into Buffalo and gotten to the playoffs with Tyrod Taylor at QB. The Kansas City Chiefs have mostly kept Buffalo from reaching a SB and Andy Reid has 26 seasons of being an NFL HC. Reid made it to the SB in his stint as the Eagles HC. 14 seasons. The Chiefs currently have an OC and DC that have previously been NFL head coaches in Nagy, Spagnola. Aside from all that in is my belief that injuries to the Buffalo Defense have kept Buffalo from the SB...along with the brain fart of Leslie Frazier calling a prevent defense in 2021 AFC Championship game.

McD is the #2 HC in wins over the last five seasons and only Andy Reid has more. Men like Mike Tomlin made their glory inheriting a QB in big Ben and the guy he replaced made it to the playoffs and SB with QBs like Kordell Stewart, Neil O'Donnell. Lions HC Dan Campbell has yet to even make it to a SB along with Browns HC Kevin Stefanski. https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/most-total-nfl-wins-last-5-years

Some RB dropping a pass in the endzone against Cleveland in an AFC playoff game with .09 seconds left in the 4th quarter. He then blamed the QB... OH BTW. Ronnie Harmon.

Just win Baby!

I'm hoping they pickup that press-man start and drop into zone like the Eagles did to the Chiefs. Get that down to perfection and opponents might have a more difficult time throwing on them. That should help with both coverage and pressure.

I look at things differently as I see this regime has the best HC and GM this franchise has ever seen considering the talent. Who were the super stars that McD inherited in 2017? Dion Dawkins was drafted in 2017 by McD and is the only player still with the team from that time. How many Hall of Fame players were on those late 80's early 90's Buffalo teams that went to four Super Bowls? QB Jim Kelly, RB Thurman Thomas, WR Andre Reed, WR James Lofton, DE Bruce Smith who still leads the NFL with sacks. How many were "all pro"- pro bowlers like 9 time pro bowler Steve Tasker, Henry Jones, Nate Odomes, Cornelius Bennett. Will Wolford, Jim Ritcher, Howard Ballard. Marv Levy and Bill Polian inherited so much talent and also had so much talent in their scouting staff. John Butler, Norm Pollom and AJ Smith all were amazing. Those 80s-90s Buffalo Bills teams kept Dan Marino out of the SB for a lot of years. They also kept the Chiefs with Joe Montana at QB out, kept John Elway out for awhile. What really stinks for Bills fans is that KC Chiefs team has been plain and simply the better team over the last five seasons. The only NFL team that has won more games in the entire NFL over Buffalo have been the Chiefs. If the Bills played in the NFC I think they would have made it to the SB a few times already. Now, finally this year should be much more difficult for the Chiefs to win their division with new HC Pete Carroll with the Raiders. Sean Payton with Bo Nix in Denver. Harbaugh with the Chargers as both the Chargers, Broncos were in the playoffs last year. I'm just hoping that the new wife doesn't wear out our resident alien unicorn for the season.

The thing is that this team hadn't had a great score in the WR area of the draft or free agency. Beane went and got Kelvin Benjamin and everyone thought he might be that kid who the Panthers drafted in 2014, that 1000 yard WR. Instead they got a bum who didn't care about his craft. This isn't all on Beane because he has his scouts/trainers input too and they let him down. Diggs was a no brainer in the 2019 offseason as Minnesota was moving towards running the ball more and he wanted out! Buffalo gave up their #1 in 2020 and things worked out. Beane got a #2 in trade to remove that cancer from the team and that was brilliant. Looks to me like the 2024 Buffalo Bills did alright without that #1 WR ball hog being the top scoring team in the league.

Will Pats fans remember the... you, you and you go eff yourselves?

Terry was the hockey fan and Kim was the Bills fan...thank the lord that wasn't reversed. Thinking of Tom Golisano, who just retired from Paychex as Terry ought to call him to ask for some insight on how to fix the Sabres.

Agree! My take is he just didn't play with instinct and over thought everything. McD runs one of the more complex secondaries and the kid just couldn't get things right between his ears. We will see how things go in cowboy land.

The NFL had to do it as the current Buffalo Bills are arguably "Americas team" as most NFL fans like/love this team. Heck the QB is dating and will marry a movie star. What the NFL wants is to promote the league and what better way to do just that with a team that most are interested in. To those that don't know much about the Buffalo Bills this might show the world what most Bills fans already know. The Brotherhood, the process, the culture, the love! Be good, do good, god Bless and go Bills!

My take is a lot can be said about the culture and what's that famous line "the process"! Look at the teams Darnold, Mayfield went into those coaches, coaching staffs, players. Now look at both Mayfield and Darnold this past season. Not superstars but decent starters at QB for their teams. I recall that McD went to the playoffs in 2017 with Tyrod Taylor and my thoughts are that if the man can do that with Tyrod, that he could have done well with Darnold or Mayfield too. Not as well as with Josh mind you but with the Patriots imploding and the Jets, Dolphins stinking... I think McD would still be in Buffalo along with Beane. Perhaps even done as well if they had drafted Lamar Jackson. Let's not forget that McD nor Beane have sat on their respective hands at any point. After 2017 OC Rick Denison canned and a lot of other coaches have been fired or replaced since that first season. These men demand excellence from the people that work for them, scouts, coaches, players while looking to improve every season. As for Diggs, my take is Beane and McD took a long hard look at his numbers in the playoffs his last few years in Buffalo. Where the stars are supposed to shine... and not fall on their face. In his last playoff game for the Bills Diggs went 8 targets, 3 receptions for 21 yards. Chiefs DB Sneed was on Diggs in the first half of that game and moved to cover Shakir in the second half. I do believe that L'Jarius Sneed only gave up one TD all season long and that one TD was to Shakir in that playoff game. Moving on from Diggs was a good move and to get a second round pick for him was brilliant!

Josh grew up as a NINERS fan. He is the little one in the middle.

A young Josh Allen with NFL QB Derek Carr!

Beane tried to move up more, but nobody would budge. Cleveland, with the #1 overall, was dead certain about QB Baker Mayfield. They passed on Allen 2x as they drafted Denzel Ward at #4. The entire Buffalo fan base was urging Beane to trade up to the NY Giants spot at #2 for Josh Rosen, even if he had to give up the farm to do it. The NY Giants, however, stated NOPE, they wanted an RB named Barkley. The NY Jets did a Jetsy thing and drafted QB Sam Darnold. The Bills did have a deal with Denver at #5 unless the guy they wanted was there, and he was... DE Bradley Chubb. The Colts were next and dead set on an OG named Quinton Nelson. (Denver GM John Elway has stated that missing on Allen was his worst mistake as a GM.) Finally, at #7, Buffalo made a trade with Tampa Bay, and they didn't need to give up that other extra #1 pick, whom they drafted Tremaine Edmunds at #16 (which was also a trade with Baltimore) Clearly, nobody else saw what Brandon Beane saw in a super smart kid who would do anything to play in the NFL. A kid who grew up on a farm and was no stranger to hard work. A kid who emailed 2000 schools to attempt to get a scholarship, and he ended up going to a junior college because nobody wanted him. At that time, 6'3'' 198 pounds with a rocket for an arm. Eventually, he found two schools to take him, and the one rescinded their offer when they found out that Wyoming offered him a scholarship. Allen showed that he had improved his throwing and accuracy at the Senior Bowl and talked about how jacked his footwork was in College at the Combine. He knew what he needed to do to improve, and he did just that! Still learning and improving!

Buffalo was so lucky last season with their poor defense and unreal turnover ratio, which led the league at +24. The next best was Pittsburgh at +18. The Bills were 28th in allowing 3rd downs which is very crappy. It was like at the end of the season, watching the defense not getting pressure on the opposing QB, and it was like they had all day to throw. That Baltimore game with Lamar Jackson doing whatever he wanted, and what saved Buffalo were the 3 turnovers by the Ravens. The turnovers failed them against the Chiefs, where they got one, but it wasn't enough. Mahomes just picked on Elam and the Buffalo secondary all game. Lady luck is a big part of getting to the Super Bowl, along with injuries, and so many other intangibles come into play. Will the refs screw Buffalo in another big game? The weather, the odd bounce of the oblong spheroid? At this point, with the draft and new players like Landon Jackson, Joey Bosa, along with some better talent in the defensive backfield, the defense should be much improved. As should the offense with some better receivers. But then, the Patriots got a whole lot better, and the NY Jets got better, Miami lost some players and perhaps the locker room over their HC. The Chiefs should have a much tougher time winning that division. The two worrisome roadblocks might be Baltimore and Cincinnati in my view. Buffalo should field the best team in the NFL in 2025. Winning home home-field advantage is the key.

My take is that something happened with Allen in that Baltimore game ( he was sacked 3x), week four, and went on to week five with the Texans. Both losses. In that Houston game, Allen had the worst game of his career in going 9 of 30 for 131 yards, very un-Allen-like. I suspect some sort of injury to his hand or arm at that point. Buffalo was so off target in that Houston game, with Kincade seeing the most targets at six, with two catches for 34 yards, and 26 the longest. For some reason, Allen never did get it together with Kincade last season, as "Joe Marino" stated that for passes over 12 yards, he had something like 37% catchable. Kincade was reaching for an off-target pass when he was injured later that year. I suspect that this season, things will improve as Allen gets more time with his receivers this offseason to gain more continuity. Last season, the only returning wideout from 2023 was Shakir.

"The host of the Locked on Bills podcast, Joe Marino, posted a list of the pass-catchers who had the "lowest catchable target rate" in the league last season and Moore finished at No. 5 on the list. Former Bills wide receiver Amari Cooper made the cut at No. 2, but he was also on the Browns last season. Marino revealed that after Cooper went to Buffalo, his catchable passes rate went from 62.3% to 75% with Allen." Good points

Awesome stuff!

I meant better than what they had previously and not better than McD!

All I know is that the Patriots and the New York Jets have better head coaches and improved rosters. It's going to be tougher to win the AC East! But then, the Chargers with Harbaugh, the Raiders with Pete Carroll and Denver with Sean Payton...the Chiefs might not even make it to win their division this year. Maybe not even make the playoffs if team start playing them like the Eagles did in the SB!

I've read that some had him rated as a high first-round grade, and yet he fell to the third for Buffalo. Perhaps it was his love for his micro golden Doodle named Honey.

Buffalo was 28th in defensive third-down stops last season, which is crazy bad. Seemed like little or no pass rush and a defective/injured secondary are the reasons, in my view. Wrist injuries, anyone? It seems like so many Buffalo players suffered from wrist injuries last season. It might be the reason why they changed trainers. What saved the 2024 Buffalo defense was their #1 turnover ratio at 24th. Pittsburgh was #2 at 18th. Let's also not forget that Bobby Babich was a rookie DC last season. Who called a lot more man coverages last season, too? That was probably the death knell for Kaiir Elam, as he was supposed to be a man-coverage guy. I think that the Eagles' defensive performance in that Super Bowl had a huge effect on the NFL world, in that every team now wants an Eagles defense.