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Hes been really good. Has gotten some help on plays and is also the biggest reason KC is still only 6 down though.

Ah yes, the guy that wants Frazier fired and Oliver traded for a bag of donuts is a homer… KC has a better OL … Cook is a better player. That said … it’s gross that we keep spending high picks on RB’s when Pacheco’s are available in the 7th.

Yes, really… I would 100% take Cook over Pacheco.

Awww Mahomes didn’t get his 158th three yard TD pass of the year there.

He doesn’t.

Eh, it was fine … only time I was interested was when I though Kanye might come out

Im pretty vocal about our shortcomings and frustrations with the roster right now, but I don’t think it’s outlandish to think we could be playing today with the 1 seed path of Bye, Jax, KC. We match up with KC much better than CIN this year.

He has an elite OL protecting him and elite weapons getting open and/or bailing him out on 50/50 balls. Allen would be an absolute freak show on that offense.

I mean…

McDuffie would be done for the day if he was a Bill.

Absolute freak .. wow

That commercial was horrible. Reciting one of the great movie speeches with the enthusiasm of a monotone narcoleptic.

I will never understand how Kelce is literally unguardable… Is he the best non-QB offensive weapon in football?

Bye Week. Jax. KC. I think there’s a decent shot we’re playing right now.

Starts with getting the 1 seed. Fwiw, I think we can beat the Chiefs. The Bengals were a horrible matchup at a horrible time… and it happened because we didn’t get the 1.

I’m genuinely torn on this question. Best OL players are Dawkins and Morse. Best WR is Diggs. Best TE is Knox. Best RB is Hall. Best EDGE is Von. Best DT is Quinnen. Best LB is Milano. Best CB is Sauce. Best S is Hyde. Add in the supporting cast guys which are pretty equal … I don’t know… as down as I am on the Bills re: KC/CIN, I still think our team - outside QB - is more talented than the Jets. The difference is Salah actually has his defense playing at a top tier level, whereas ours, to date, shows random flaws throughout the season and then falls apart in the playoffs. White & Elam’s play next year would start to mimic why the Jets Defense is so good, but we still don’t have a game wrecker at DT … which I’m convinced is becoming more impactful than elite EDGE rushers.

I agree that Josh just stopped looking for underneath gains, but im willing to give him an excuse that the season compounded on him, leading to his vision/play style changing. If it happens again next year, it’s a problem.

If there’s a guy within range that has WR1 potential, just go get him. I say this no matter what we do in FA. Find a way to get Meyers, OBJ etc.. ok, great, still get that guy at our pick or with a small trade up. Jordan Addison just seems absolutely perfect on this team. If he’s still there at, say, 20… I’m making the call.

That, to me, is really so frustrating .. and I blame myself a bit for it .. but I just can’t really enjoy the regular season right now. It’s all about the playoffs and we have a coaching staff that I don’t trust - AT ALL - in the post-season. So what.. our Defense plays well against KC again next year in the regular season?… Cool! Apparently it doesn’t matter because A) It doesn’t translate to the playoffs and B) We keep failing at getting the 1 seed. I want to enjoy the ride, but without the post-season success, it just feels like a grind … and the inevitable “wait and see” when we get there. I was desperately hoping for real change so that we could watch the evolution of this team under any type of new scheme/leadership, but it’s the same ish.. run it back. Maybe FA/Draft changes my perception. Some big shake ups like trading guys and/or surprising signings/not-signings could do that for me. But as to where we stand… I’m just exhausted with this current iteration of the Bills. I’ve flown to LA, driven to Jax, flown to Miami, made my way to any game that’s local(ish) to Atlanta over the past 3 years. And I’m just spent..

We have an ultra passionate fanbase. A lot of our fans consume a ton of content and legitimately know what they’re talking about. Of course, some don’t.. as is the case with every fanbase. As someone pointed out, this is the delayed reaction to 13 seconds. Many were gutted, but willing to accept we were close.. we were taking the steps needed. Then this year happened and we got demolished, without even getting back to the AFC CG (again). Couple that with a fanbase that has been openly questioning things like having a Defensive-minded HC, the level of investment into the Defense and many of the draft picks Beane has been making lately. When fans are furious in consecutive years with Day 2 picks (Bernard & Basham) and both times they seem to be very much justified in their questioning … it’s going to enhance the level of frustration. We needed OL & WR help, yet here we are with a useless rotation DE and a guy who can’t even see the field with injuries. The Daboll leaves, and has a ton of success, taking Hodgins with him.. who, to a lesser extent, pulls another Wyatt Teller. It’s all starting to add up. Fans are starting to feel like they know more and/or care more than a handful of people in the organization. That’s never a good place to be in. As someone pointed out the Knicks… unbelievably dedicated fanbase for what they’ve been dealt… but eventually, with repeated expectations, it reaches a boiling point and either something changes, or fans walk away. It’s better than apathy, but it’s what changes in the org/fanbase when you have expectations.

Agree completely with the OP. Even more frustrating hearing how “it’s tough to win” or “the playoffs are a crapshoot”. Ok… New England lived in the Super Bowl with Brady. KC has been there 3 of the last 4 years. The Bengals, relative newcomers, 2 years in a row in the AFC Championship Game. McDermott should get one more year to get us, at least, back to the AFC Championship Game. If not, and even depending on how that game goes - should we not advance to the SB, discussions of moving on from him need to be had.

Thankful for Diggs. If we had more like him, I’d be much more confident in this team. Diggs is very self aware. He knows he has 2-3 more prime years left in him. He’s not Josh Allen, who will have, potentially, a decade more of chances as a top dog. Some here mentioning Allen didn’t give off the confidence vibes we were hoping to see in the playoffs … and that’s valid. However, I can’t get past the fact he has far less to work with than Mahomes or Burrow. His OL, when healthy, was worse than KC/CIN, and his WR2 is incapable of running a quick passing game. Add in the lack of a reliable slot, and we start to see why he reverted to trying to constantly push the ball down the field. That all came to a head against the Bengals.

“We can’t afford him” (Whispers) Trade Oliver and let Edmunds walk Im not saying we should do this .. I’m just saying we can Epenesa is the guy I worry could be the defensive Wyatt Teller. Not a pro-bowler at EDGE, but a legit pass rusher. He’s got some ability and is still figuring it out after our staff put him through a failed body transformation.

I voted option 2 … wanting some real change. For me, that constitutes two things I doubt will happen: -Let Frazier go -Trade Ed Oliver We need new blood leading this defense, if for nothing else, a coordinator that is playoff capable. Ed Oliver is likely not in our future plans. He’s eating 11.5M in cap space. He’s good enough that someone will give us a pick for him .. Day 2 pick?.. eh, I don’t know.. Day 3 pick?.. fine by me, just get his cap hit off the team so we can spend it on offense.

Agree, about 90%. I'm starting to think pass rush from the interior is more important than from off the edge. Age aside, would you rather have a Chris Jones or a Von Miller? With these quick passing offenses, it's more about disruption in the lap of the QB and the quickest route to the QB is up the middle. It's another reason why the Ed Oliver pick was such a big miss. Imagine Jeffrey Simmons next to Daquan Jones? We could be fine with Epenesa & Basham types off the edge because the interior would be collapsed with regularity. As much as I loathe the obsessive Defensive investment.... I think Beane SERIOUSLY needs to look at getting small, undersized Oliver, with his big cap hit, off this roster and replaced with another Daquan Jones.... and tbh, if he trades Oliver, I'd be ok with a high pick DT investment.