BullBuchanan

I guess if you're going to take the line of "stats don't matter" then you can make up anything you want and act like it's true. Have fun with that and the zero super bowls your team will get.

How about him outcoaching and defeating Sean McDermott and Josh Allen with Zach Wilson? They are the 5th least penalized team in the league compared to the bills whoa re the most penalized Saleh has a 50% challenge success rate compared to McDermott's 25% rate - where McDermott is among the worst in the league Despite having a terrible offense, ball security has been good under Saleh as the Jets turn the ball over less than the Bills have in two of the last three years and less overall since he arrived. Of course the thing that coaches get judged the most on is winning, but it's kind of hard to do that when you don't have a QB, unless your name is Kyle Shanahan.

Both of those statements are untrue. The problem with the first part is that bad coaches get a pass for too long if the QB succeeds, and by succeeds I mean becomes a good/great player or performs well on their own. The team can still lose games and perform poorly as a unit, as tends to happen under a bad coach. Zach Wilson has been playing the best football of his career this year, so I'm not sure how you plan on framing your narrative that he's worse now than he was as a rookie. Now, he still isn't a good player, but maybe he can become a serviceable one.

Bad QB play, poor talent pipeline, and poor hiring decisions at coordinator Except he did it back to back. McDermott went once in 6 years.

He's had Joe Flacco, Zach Wilson and Mike White as his QBs during that time. He's far better than McDermott at team and gameday management.

When the bar is so low that the winningest team has never ever made a championship experience, the team is the problem, not the fans.

McDaniel is a hard yes as is Saleh, I'd also take everyone in your maybe category except Carroll and O'Connell and I'd strongly consider Ryans, though he is a rookie. for me that puts McD as my 15th choice, best case.

I don't know how you can't. You're taking McDermott over Reid, Shanahan, Siriani, McVay or Belichick?

Absolutely insane take. Best case scenario he's near the bottom of the top 15. there are 10 coaches I would take over him without hesitation and a good handful more that have a clear edge. When I look at coaches that are definitively worse than McD, it's a very short short list. There are a lot of first year head coaches that will probably end up better too.

When you have a top QB in what was an extremely weak division for the last few years, numbers will skew in your favor. Mike Smith has a higher career winning percentage than Bill Parcells, Kyle Shanahan, Doug Pederson, Jimmy Johnson, Marv Levy and a bunch of guys with gold jackets. If you ever watched his teams play, I think you'd know that had a lot more to do with Matt Ryan, Roddy White, Julio Jones and others than it did with his football acumen. P.S. He also has 5 more losses than Reid since 2020, and that isn't changing any time soon.

The difference, and the bit of critical importance, is in the why. Teams miss plays or struggle with situational assignments every week, even future Super Bowl champions. No one is disputing that. When teams and players struggle the same way, for the same reasons year over year that's not at all the same thing as KC barely escaping with a win against the Jets or Vikings or SF dropping two games in a row to big underdogs. When we get sent home in January (or earlier), you can pretend to be surprised or think we were just one or two plays away, but the story of what will happen this winter was started years ago and this chapter was written in the offseason both by the Bills' action and inaction.

It's simple: McDermott is in the bottom tier of mediocre coaches. He's a great culture and clubhouse guy, but he's a bad gameday coach and a poor talent evaluator. If he didn't have Josh Allen, he would have been out of a job years ago. I hope Ted Lasso pays him a residual because I'm fairly certain he's the inspiration for the title character.

He's 285. He would not compete at all with AJ. They play entirely different positions. He's basically the player you hope Oliver becomes. There's only a small handful of competent 1T DTs in the league and we already had one on the roster. It's unlikely you're finding another one. Rather, you might be relying on adapting scheme or asking your existing players to fill the gap. He gives you that option with a half year remaining on his deal and still playing at a very high level. He played DT for the Colts in a 4-3 along with DeForest Buckner another traditional 3T, but was able to move to wherever he was needed. JJ Watt and Haloti Ngata are two example of players who did similar things and there are others. If you don't like the player or the deal, that's fine, but at least categorize who he is correctly.

That's your right, but the tape doesn't lie.

Autry is a DT that can and does play all over the line.

The shots he's been taking are directly related to him holding the ball way too long which is caused by not processing the defense correctly or fast enough.

If they're on the phone with the titans, Denico Autry would make way more sense

It's probably to add him to the PS to take Ty Johnson's spot. Bills fans have been talking about 2 running back sets for 20 years and it hasn't been a thing NFL teams have done in a meaningful way since Dunn & Alstott.

Maybe if Allen watched some film he'd learn concepts that other QBs do in high school.

He must be a Josh Allen hater just like the rest of us that saw this is real-time.

There are lots of wild card spots now too. You have to be truly terrible now to miss the playoffs with 7 teams on a 17 game schedule

I don't even care about the regular season at all. As far as I'm concerned, it's a 17 game pre-season. The bigger issue is that this isn't a championship team. Not even remotely close. Does anyone want another division championship with a guaranteed 1st or 2nd round bounce?

I'm starting to reach the point where I just don't think he has the football IQ and brain processing power to play this game at a level that matches his physical gifts, and that lack of mental ability is hampering his physical game. We see it all the time. He almost never throws at the top of his drop, except in 2 minute drills, where he looks unstoppable. Instead, he takes a snap, locks in on the #1 read(Diggs) the whole way through, panics when they aren't immediately open, panics and breaks the pocket, and then throws an ill-advised or poor quality pass on the run. In the 3 good games he played this season he did a lot less of that, and in the 3 terrible games he played this season, he did a ton of it. Unfortunately for him, none of this is new, but rather goes back to his college days and maybe even before. If he's ever going to overcome this, he needs A LOT more time in the classroom and maybe therapist of some sort or even a shaman that helps him clear his mind and figure out how to process information.

They never have been.

That version of Allen wasn't good enough to win. We tried it for 5 years. Maybe this version won't be good enough either, but it makes more sense than trying to Hollywood your way to a Super Bowl which we know doesn't work.