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Nothing shocking here. Since Josh's rookie year the Bills have spent more on defense 6 straight years.

Starting this season I can see Dorsey opening up a can of TE whoop ass. And if I'm Josh, I'm using Knox & Kincaid as my number 2 & 3 targets. Whatever we get from Davis, Harty & Sherfield will just be gravy.

Milano is the top 58

I found Dion to be incredibly articulate. It was a great interview, even with Cow continuing to stir the Diggs pot.

Great heartfelt post Jersey. Ignore Airseven. He brings nothing to this board except whining and negatively. He's a caricature.

Yup, if Ray Guy can go then come on NFL. Get this done and elect your first ST player. Long overdue!

First of all if it's not life and death, why are you on here so often? Secondly how massive is your "participation trophy" collection?

I'm sorry....your right, all that matters is our regular season performance. We're top 5 in offense and defense every year. What's not to like. Who needs a championship. Just entertain me......playoff results are irelavant. The true message is unfortunately too many fans are perfectly content with this narrative. And that's frightening.

Yup....as long as McDermott runs this team, he will always emphasize the defense over the offense. No matter how generational Josh is. KC has proven twice you don't need a top 10 defense to win a SB.

Whoever plays the Bills in the playoffs and wins, usually doesn't fair well the next week. The Bills do need to become a little less Allen-centric. And yes the turnovers need to decrease.

Yes, Boogie will be the first one shown the door. They'll likely keep AJE one more season cause he's a cheap rotational guy who can get ya 5-6 sacks. Groot absolutely must take that next step because Miller/Floyd won't be around long term.

Spencer improving this season is absolutely mandatory to our success. Josh cannot get hammered from the right side like he did last year. I'm rooting for Damar to at least make the 53. Even if he's the last safety off the bench.

Agree...Basham and AJ aren't long for this team. You keep Hines as your KR and RB depth. This will probably be Morse's final season. Not sure what's happening with Murray or Marlowe but I think they'll be casualties too.

I agree wholeheartedly. It's like the expression " you can buy the groceries but can you cook the meal"? I love that they both finally identified that the OL desperately needed upgrades. And they also made offensive upgrades to players like Singletary, McKenzie and Kumerow/Crowder that should help. As much as I critique Sean's post season record, I'm optimistic he does well this season.

It's great to be able to set up the chess pieces. But at some point you gotta be able to play. Sean's strategic abilities in big games are lacking. Houston and 13 seconds are 2 classic examples of probably winning if we had a better tactician. That will always be my argument. As an administrator of process, character and culture he will always be the greatest coach in Bills history. But there's more to coaching than just " human resources".

No it's called common sense.

McB definitely should get credit for selecting Josh. There's no denying that. But 100% of his development was because of Dabol. McDermott doesn't know jack squat about offense and he wasn't the guy in there telling Josh area's to work on. We're now at the point in Josh's career where 80% or more of our wins are because of Josh, not any amazing tactical strategy drawn out by McD. You remove Josh from the equation and immediately the Bills become a 6-7 win team.

My story exactly with the addition of driving by the crime scene that morning before the news even broke. What are the odds. Always awkward answering why an LA guy religiously follows the Bills.

Yup, if he wants 9-10M he's going to have settle for a sh ity qb.

Both Mahomes & Burrow suffer season ending injuries. 😉

Yeah I just don't give a rats ass anymore about random media scrubs stirring the clickbait pot. Just get camp going and let us move on from the choreographed drama.

Unfortunately this is very true. We still struggle with YAC on shorter high % routes.

At this rate Mahomes will be -1.2 by 2024. Seriously, this just validates the benefits of checkdowns. Brady with smart route designs made a career of it and so has Mahomes. Take note Ken & Josh.

McD is a very polarizing HC. There's a ton to like about him but also obvious coaching flaws that might continue to keep us "coming up short". I'll just throw out last season as a cluster F of drama, emotional stress and injuries the team couldn't recover from. The previous playoff exits had their own story. I think the team will miss Daboll more than they let on. Hopefully KD can create an offensive "identity" that we lacked last season. I was impressed that McB finally put more emphasis on the O. It's probably the only way we're winning a SB. I'm going to try and take a subatical on sparing with hard core McD supporters. They'll have to evaluate him as will Terry if divisional loses continue. I'm still rooting he proves me wrong.

And there lies the answer to this thread. Up until this FA season, McB have neglected upgrading the OL for 5 years. This causes Josh to become more hero ball (risk intrinsic) in his style. The DL on the other hand seems to handle things against regular season opponents, then fades once the high leverage games (qbs) begin. Obviously all the defensive injuries last season were absolutely brutal. We've had both top 10 offenses & defenses during this Allen era. But once the playoffs begin we drift into poor execution/motivation/coaching etc. I don't have the answer to why this happens? It's super frustrating to see us go 10-13 wins every year then struggle in the divisional round. I would hope McB continue to realize Josh and the offense is the key! Majority assets must be directed there in the upcoming years. I can live with an opportunistic D not ranked top 10. And many a SB winner has not had a dominant D.