jrober38

It's crazy how people can excuse this HC. His decision making on offense has been horrific since he was hired. - Rick Dennison was a relic OC who couldn't hack it. No imagination let to a near NFL worst 18 PPG in 2017. - McDermott hand picked Peterman to start over Taylor last year. Complete train wreck with 5 first half picks. - Fires Dennison and replaces him with Brian Daboll, who has no success anywhere he's been. Yet again no imagination, and we're scoring 10.6 PPG in 2018 when the NFL average is around 25 PPG. We need to accept that our HC just doesn't get it on offense. He can't hire good coaches below him, and this regime has not been able to upgrade the WR corps or OL. Bottom line is this; he inherited the 10th ranked scoring offense in the NFL from 2016, and has created the worst offense the league has seen for about 20 years in under two years.

The Bills are years away from being able to compete with either of these teams. They epitomize the modern NFL and we're living in the stone ages of professional football.

Agreed. Our HC is the polar opposite of what you get from the Head Coaches at the NFL's top teams. Sean Payton, Bill Belicick, Sean McVay and Andy Reid run circles around him as head coaches. This team is going nowhere with Dick Jauron 2.0 as their HC. We play to win 14-13. Is anyone watching what's happening in the Saints-Rams game? We're years from competing with teams like that.

Agreed. McDermott values culture over talent. He cares more about how what a guy is like off the field vs how much he can contribute on it. I like McDermott as a DC, but he's completely lost as a HC. You can't be this inept on offense and burn through 2 OCs in 2 years while fielding the worst offense the modern NFL has seen and keep your job. This is Chip Kelly/Josh McDaniels all over again. Inexperienced NFL Head Coaches who were given too much power, who went out of their way to get rid of veteran players so they could bring in their own guys. McDermott like them will wind up on the unemployment line sooner rather than later.

The frustration seen at every level of the team makes it hard for me to think this is a tank. From Beane, to McDermott, to McCoy, to whoever, everyone seems genuinely shocked that this team is so bad. If they were tanking they'd have sold off more pieces and not signed Lotuleilei. They wouldn't have brough Kyle Williams back.

Isn't that how you find diamonds in the rough? Also I'd argue most of the guys we've added on defense outside Star Lotuleilei have been dumpster diving type signings. They primarily targeted guys no one else really wanted.

Why would we let McDermott hire a 3rd OC in 3 years?

You act like we haven't tried on offense. We've added tons of new players to the offense under McDermott. The problem is they've all been awful. Our ability to scout Wide Receivers has been especially awful.

The Process isn't working. You can't field the worst NFL offense from the past 20 years and not fire either your GM or HC.

What game changer? Have you looked at the list of garbage wide receivers who are free agents at the end of the year? The list doesn't include the names of any game changers. Just a bunch of #3 or #4 guys who haven't had much success.

Actually, yes, they do have the same needs. The top 5 teams in cap space are the Colts, Browns, Bills, Raiders and Jets. All of them need Receivers and better Offensive Linemen. Daboll is McDermott's 2nd awful OC hire. At some point you need to blame the guy who keeps hiring incompetent subordinates.

They had a chance. They took over a team that was 10th in the NFL in scoring, and in a little over a year created the worst offense the NFL has seen in 20 years.

Again, cash to burn on who? This free agent class is awful and there are numerous teams across the NFL with boatloads of cap space. Having a bunch of cap room isn't going to miraculously fix the offense.

I'm talking about the offense. McDermott can coach D, but you need to score a lot of points to be successful in today's NFL. Our offenses have been a dumpster fire on his watch.

If the Bills want to get better they need to nail the draft. I don't trust McDermott to make the picks we need.

Totally agree. The Bills are completely unwatchable right now.

People act like we're the only team with cap space. That couldn't be farther from the truth. There are tons of teams with cap space, and all of them offer better opportunities on offense than we do. Signing free agents this summer on offense is going to be a very hard sell unless we grossly overpay (which is exactly how we got into our current cap problems).

This is exactly the approach that got us in our current cap situation. Also none of those guys are good players. Austin is terrible, Cobb hasn't done anything for 3 years and Moncrief is a career underachiever. You're right in saying those guys are probably our best options, but reality is none of them will actually make this team any better.

I agree. The team isn't the worst, but our offense is easily the worst in the past 20 years when you consider how easy it is to score in the NFL right now due to recent rule changes. 10.6 PPG is unfathomable in today's NFL.

Like who? Have you actually looked at what free agents will be available? Have you considered that there are 10 teams with $60+ mil in cap space? Why would anyone want to come join this offense?

A few things: 1. There are a lot of teams with massive amounts of cap space. 2. The free agent class at WR and OL is terrible.

Because what if he wastes all those picks on more offensive players who can't contribute? He's signed numerous wide receivers who have all been crap. The OL he's signed have all been crap. The QB he picked was a guy most pundits said had the highest chance of busting. Oh, our offense scored a laughably bad 10 points a game. The hole can get a lot deeper if we blow the upcoming offseason drafting and signing players based off how they fit our culture vs how well they actually play football.

The point is that McDermott and Beane are in charge of this debacle. Their roster moves, draft picks, and wasted free agent signings are all the things that cooked up this disaster. Having watched the last 26 games with McDermott as HC, I just don't get how anyone can think that this guy and his approach to limiting turnovers and winning one on battles is going to result in us fielding a quality modern NFL offense. We're trying to win games 14-13 while the top teams in the league are trying to outscore their opponents in 40-35 type games. I'm watching the Saints-Rams right now and these teams are just going up and down the field. It's the beginning of the 2nd quarter and it's already 14-14. We are so far away from competing with these type of teams is unbelievable. McDermott's offenses can't score! He coaches like it's 1985 not 2018 where offense and scoring points is what wins games.

Our 2017 offense was awful relative to the rest of the league. Rick Denisson was a terrible hire, and he was fired at the end of the year. The 2018 offense is currently the worst the NFL has seen in at least 20 years. Brian Dabol was hired by McDermott to fix things, and things went from bad to absolutely horrendous. Why would anyone think that McDermott is going to find a better coordinator and give that guy the necessary tools to succeed? We're nowhere close to even being competent on the offensive side of the ball. On McDermott's watch we have the worst offense in modern football.

The problem isn't firing the coach every 3 years, it's constantly hiring the wrong coaches. McDermott has proven to be completely incompetent as a head coach on the offensive side of the ball. That's not going to miraculously change next year...