BigDingus

1. 90s Bills 2. 2000s - 2010's Mavs 3. Current Bills 4. Kobe & Shaq Lakers 5. 2013 & 2014 Bills ("Cold Front" D) To be clear, the Bills were still my primary & favorite team above all no matter the era, but these are the teams I enjoyed the most of their eras & where I'd rank my happiness with them during those times. Number 1 is mainly because the 90s Bills are what got me into football & sports in general. I was child, but I became obsessed. Great moments with my dad, even if he was a Redskins fans 😅

It better have the 2007 MNF home loss to the Cowboys. Still one of the biggest regular season heart breakers I've ever experienced.

Thursday Night Football is on a damn streaming service though... and it's not a premiere slot. Historically, MNF & SNF are the big ones, while TNF is the "well, nothing better is on" show. Kinda disappointed it's not getting a bigger moment.

I think Diggs can still be a great player, and I'm not really mad at him for leaving, but I think bringing him back could mess with Josh from a mental standpoint. No need to risk rehashing that baggage. Diggs was an alpha & vocal leader for the offense when he was here, which worked out fine while Josh & him were getting along. But now that they've had time apart, this has fully become Allen's team. New players defer to him. Even if he's not the most vocal or loud person in the room, he's still what everything orbits around. Don't need Josh being too nice & accommodating, trying to let Diggs slip back into his old role again. That said, doubt Diggs would ever want to return anyway... even if offered a lot of money. If he played against the Bills every week, he'd finish the season with 2,000 yards & 18 TDs, just because he thinks he was treated poorly by the team & fans on his way out.

Josh was not great against Denver last year. And the defense looks like a sieve when the offense has FIVE turnovers, four of them from Josh... Even if the defense was just average, they would've easily won the game had the offense not turned the ball over so often. The defense was put in a terrible position, yet we're going to blame them... despite the fact they got a stop in OT & gave the ball back to the offense, game on the line, with just needing a FG to win the game? How can you expect to win against the 1 seed on the road when you're turning the ball over FIVE TIMES? Even if you want to hand-wave away the final INT, Josh still had 3 turnovers... one right before half that was very much a turnover a veteran/best QB in the league should never make. Without that one, they would've won.

I get it. We all want to defend Josh. But he had FOUR TURNOVERS that game. Sorry, but I've seen nobody but Bills fans claim that wasn't an interception, and again, it was the 3rd straight year Josh has had the ball in his hands at the end of the game & failed to come away with the win. I'm done making excuses for it. Josh threw an interception. Doesn't matter what should've, could've, would've happened, it was the FOURTH turnover. But yeah, let's blame McDermott's defense for that.

But see, the issues you're talking about are from AFTER the offense "blew it." The Bills D got the stop. They gave the ball back to our MVP QB, best player on our team, and player who much of this board claims is the best player in the NFL, and said "go win this game." He threw an interception... and now we're mad the defense didn't get ANOTHER OT stop? And at that point, all Denver needed was a FG... no way our D was going to hold them to another punt. The D can definitely be blamed for past failures, but even in some of those games, Josh & the offense had an opportunity to score at the end of the game to win it... and they didn't. As good or bad as a coach can be, it's still up to the players to execute on the field. There's a reason Josh was actually crying after this loss unlike the others - he knew his play was to fall back on his coach, friend & mentor, and that would likely lead to him being fired. I really wish they got rid of McDermott earlier, if only to spare Josh that kind of guilt & potential pressure. As good as he is, he's still only human, so going 0-4 against the Chiefs & feeling responsible for your coach getting fired has to take a toll on a person's mental health, especially in future clutch time situations. Maybe he's mentally strong & doesn't let this stuff get stuck in his head, but it must be difficult.

I'm hopeful but also nervous. If we had fired McDermott after the 4th Chiefs playoff loss, I would've been all on board with changing everything. But after last season, things became more muddied. He was more willing to send pressure, play man, not always be in nickel, etc. and got a lot more out of players than I thought he would. Tre White went from being a huge liability to being really darn good for us after he settled in. Even Cole Bishop, who was starting to look like another bust, finally saw some life... something I think was in large part due to resigning & playing Poyer. Injuries derailed some of the young guys, key players like Ed & acquisitions, but come playoff time, they did step up. The Jags were one of the hottest teams in the league, and we went to their place & won. We then had to go play the 1 seed on the road (in Mile High of all places), and the D actually performed very well given the circumstances. 4 turnovers by the offense, putting the D in a tough position, and still they managed to keep things within reach. Then in OT, they do the one thing that I never thought they'd do - force a punt! It was everything we could ask for - ball in the offense's hands, next score wins, and.... the offense blew it. This was the 3rd straight year the offense got the ball back with a chance to win the game & failed, but at least in the other 2 games the D wasn't much help through most of it. So to fire McDermott the year after he seemed to be doing more with less, actually making good adjustments & doing it with very little impact from draft picks or free agents makes him look more like a scapegoat than anything else. He definitely did enough in the past to warrant making a change, but his 2025 defense didn't seem like the thing holding this team back from making the SB. I only hope Leonhard's D is more like last year's Denver D than Rex Ryan's D. If so, then maybe our D will actually be a unit that can win games for us rather than simply not lose them.

Doubt he'll make a SB, but he's not lasting less than 3 years & no playoff game. The miracle he pulled off turning this Bills team around is no joke. He changed the entire culture of an organization that went an entire generation without making the playoffs. I was 13 the last time the Bills had made the playoffs pre-McDermott, and I was 31 when we finally made it again. He's made the playoffs every season outside Josh's rookie year, so I just can't see him flopping that hard in the future.

1) They were prospective head coaches... Of course they were going to tell the GM responsible for hiring them that he made the right move. 2) I'm sure these guys were all let go by their teams & looking for a new job because they were so amazing at diagnosing defenses. Brian Daboll, Anthony Lynn, Lou Anarumo, etc. had McDermott all figured out. 3) It's one thing to know what an opposing coach wants to do, and it's another thing actually taking advantage of that. The article I read showed the top 11 QBs averaged a 99.4 passer rating over the past 3 seasons, but when playing McDermott's D, they dropped down to 93.4. That's the difference between the 10th best & 16th best QBR. Is it at HUGE dropoff in results? No, but it's also not the easy gimmie game that Dunne makes it out to be.

Given that nearly 1/3 of our picks are in the 7th round, that still matters.

They did say not a day 2 receiver & that they both have him as a 4th round guy. And that's exactly where the Bills took him, so maybe they're thinking the same thing. They also brought up a good point about how he's going to be another in a line of 24 year old rookies who played lower competition, so that NFL adjustment might be pretty difficult. It's ok though. If he doesn't pan out, it'll hurt a lot less than trading back multiple times, then drafting Keon Coleman with your first pick of the draft.

BINGO! I've been saying this for a couple years now - aside from Allen, the best 1st round pick we've ever used in the Beane era was spent acquiring Stefon Diggs. No other player we've drafted has had a bigger impact than he did, though maybe James Cook will eventually get there.

You trust Steve Smith, but do you trust Skyler "I model myself after Stefon Diggs" Bell?! We'll see how you feel in a couple years after he's got 6 kids with 6 women, falling out with Cardi B & throwing tantrums on the sideline... Would you trust him with your sister? 9 out of 10 players in lockers rooms would not.

1:50 in the video, he says his favorite WRs are: JSN, Ja'Marr Chase and........... STEFON DIGGS?! 😱 Cut him.