Straight Hucklebuck

McDermott is 0-5 on the road in the Playoffs. I just think we’re reaching the natural end of his tenure.

Eat that 40-burger Kansas City

I love it man

Josh Sweat is a FA

GADGET Reception Perception studies it for a living and they said the film shows them that he runs a Mickey Mouse route tree.

Amen man.

Because Quinyon Mitchell, Darius Slay, Cooper DeJean are a lot different than Rasul Douglas, Christian Benford and Taron Johnson. Let alone Gardner-Johnson and Blankenship verses Hamlin and Cole Bishop. Bills have beat down a Vic Fangio defense - it’s the quality of the players.

Where are all the Chiefs who invade our message board to educate us all on what good football looks like? BANDWAGON!!!!!!!!!!!

How does that one feel Kansas City?

This is what I thought it would look like, KC finding it hard to go against those three (3) Philadelphia corners. Worthy getting pressed at the line, Cooper DeJean pressing Kelce all the way down the field.

That’s what a real pass rush looks like.

By the way Beane - that’s what a real WR looks like - ya know someone that separates down the field. 👀 Hope you’re watching

BAILED OUT BY THE REFS AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN

But at what cost? Spotrac has his market value at 2-years, $28M. His previous deal was 5-years, $100M. Those days are long gone. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/market-value/_/id/16728/amari-cooper

His whole time in New York was a disaster from orchestrating the FA signings, the offensive coaching staff, his 2023 injury 4-plays in, the DA trade, the constant clips of his appearances on Pat Mcafee, darkness retreats and so forth.

Yeah I just watched that play like it was slow motion. At first I thought he’d just put his head down and bulldoze to the line to gain. Instead the defenders square up and tackle him short. The whole thing as you pointed out was just slow, no power to get through.

Yup this has been coming for awhile.

Yeah I hear you - of course I don’t need Beane to come out and just roast McDermott. But instead of we acknowledge the problems on defense and we will work the offseason to improve the scheme and plan to counter what the best offenses are doing to us it was the same old - well injuries, well there were good plays and plays we want back, and rookies need time to develop. Sean loves to tell you how he’s seen it all, done it all, knows what it supposed to look like so where is the innovation? 2025 season opener, first defensive snap is it the same 4-down lineman, Taron in the slot, Benford and Elam playing 10-yards off, Bernard and Milano at linebacker, two high safety’s 25 yards down the field? Maybe the new Senior consultant from Jacksonville will add a new wrinkle, or became the primary path when McDermott uses Babich as a scapegoat to survive another year.

Allen went to step on the gas in the pass game and we found out that this offense was a one trick pony. If the running game isn’t cooking well then it starts looking like 2018-2023 again with Allen having to make plays from scratch. Allen is in the huddle with pass catchers who can’t raise their game another level. There was a reason that in the Vegas preseason the over/under on Allen’s passing yardage was 3800.

Yeah he got asked one direct question about McDermott’s aptitude for the job and he said it’s not fair to blame one person. And that may be valid if this was Year 1, 2, 3. That was Year 8 for McDermott and he’s 0-5 now on the road in the Playoffs, with a defense that is giving up 32+ points in elimination games. They have an emerging HC candidate in the building. I didn’t hear a hellbent mindset to win a Championship. There was no fire, no anger, nothing different. I heard a lot of look at the Division titles we won and what can you do its the Chiefs? He came to podium and said we’re going to keep doing what we’ve been doing.

If Amari Cooper’s engagement in the offense is what we saw, a veteran minimum player could give you that. And I wouldn’t bank on anything Keon Coleman. I really hope Beane can be honest with himself and make WR moves as if Coleman wasn’t here. We need to hear how all offseason he worked with track sprinters to improve his burst and long speed. He was a useless player by the end of the season because the only route the Bills coaching staff could think of for him was a low percentage fade where Allen had to keep it high and away so it wouldn’t be picked off. And Bishop? Well let’s just say Kincaid telling everyone that he was the guy who locked him up in practice isn’t really worth a whole lot because anybody can lock Dalton Kincaid up.

Both 2025 2nds and Dalton Kincaid for Maxx Crosby and Michael Mayer. 2025 1st Rounders and 2026 1st or 2nd for Garrett? That would take Allen, Von, Oliver, Knox, Milano, Daquan Jones all to restructure their deals.

This is closer to how I see it. Since 2019 this GM drafts like he doesn’t know Josh Allen is on the team. He’s got it in his head that rag-tag, Rudy Reutigger underdogs are good enough for Allen to constantly lift up. Whatever that Kincaid pick was supposed to be - it’s been a giant flop. How could that guy not get 2-yards on 3rd down? Allen just competed his 7th season in Buffalo and he’s never had a real deep threat once in his career. For a QB that is 6’5” and has a rocket arm - not one established, consistent, good deep threat. Cap space is the problem once again. For me it’s less about the Draft capital and more about the Bills are -$11M again (29th) in cap space. So it’s the usual restructuring of contracts that limits the Bills to low end Free Agents. And we all heard Beane, this team is going to extend their own guys first which dwindles that pool even more. With Garrett or Crosby that would be the Bills one move because it will eat every dollar they could manage seemingly.

3.56 catches per game/6.00 targets per game/36.89 yards/game, 10.38 yards/catch in 9-games before the injury. 2.67 catches per game/4.17 targets per game/27.17 yards/game, 10.19 yards/catch in 6-games after the injury throwing out the Colts game including Playoffs. Without Playoffs those numbers are: 3.33 catches per game/5.33 targets per game/30.67 yards/game, 9.20 yards/catch in 3 games post injury. Yeah the numbers went down after the injury, but there wasn’t much going on before anyways. The average Kincaid game is: 5.72 targets/game, 4.03 catches/game, 9.58 yards/catch, 38.66 yards per game. What does “fine” realistically translate to? 4-TDS in 29 games.

That’s exactly the word - complacent. Thats the tone that Beane struck a week ago in his end of year press conference. No - hey this loss is a wake up call, no - we need to dig deep on our processes, no - we’re going to have the hard conversations, no - we have time to dig into the tape and figure out why this is happening. Instead it was “we’re close”, “tip your hat to KC”, “KC is going for a 3-peat”, it’s not like we’re just losing to anybody”, “it’s not fair to pin it on one person”, injuries, development isn’t linear, it’s hard to join midseason, Coleman is only 20. As you said - multiple times Beane referenced the 13-wins and all the regular season success they’ve had. His philosophy is going to stay the same - “keep kicking the door in”, said no need to “blow it up”. Everybody coming back - Damar, Matt Smiley. It was a really disappointing press conference and I’m worried for Allen. McDermott has never recovered in some fans eyes for 13-seconds, and I think when you lose in the Wildcard, AFCCG, Divisional, Divisional, Divisional, AFCCG, it shows you the hard ceiling your roster can’t break through. Beane made excuse after excuse on the podium.