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What in Peterman's game says "competent back-up QB"? He simply does NOT have an NFL caliber arm which is a prerequisite for even a backup QB. There are so many QBs available with good/adequate arms who are lacking in other aspects of QB play (which is why they don't/didn't make good starters) that a QB without at least a decent arm doesn't stand much chance to last very long.

The list of mistakes starts with McDermott's 2017 draft when he traded out of #10, passing on 2 QB prospects who were significantly better than Josh Allen, in order to take a DB. I don't care how great Tre White becomes, passing on a QB to take a DB is a mistake. Trading Watkins when there were no other WRs with speed on the team was another mistake, especially when they have failed to bring in a WR with real speed over both 2 seasons. Trading Darby for Jordan Matthews and a third round pick (Harrison Phillips) because Matthews did nothing for the Bills and wasn't re-signed. Trading Tyrod Taylor and keeping Nathan Peterman, incurring nearly $8 million in dead cap space that could have been used to sign more/better FAs. Giving up so much talent and draft capital to get Allen and Edmunds. The draft is largely a crap-shoot, even with high picks, so giving up so much to get only two players when the team has so many needs isn't smart. Except for the #1 pick, first round QB prospects, are only successful about half the time, and Allen is the kind of prospect who is most likely to fail: a raw project in need of significant coaching. Not bothering to address the offense after drafting Allen until the end of the fifth round despite obvious holes on the OL and among the WRs. Failing to hire a better QB coach than David Culley. Trading for Corey Coleman, incurring $3.5 million in dead cap space, on a team already strapped by an enormous dead cap space. Failing to have a third QB on the PS going into the regular season. Failing to get around to signing a better backup QB than Peterman for a month. Are those enough serious mistakes for you? McDermott/Beane have repeatedly demonstrated their incompetence to build a competitive team.

How the hell can somebody even pretending to be a professional football administrator allow his team to go into the regular NFL season WITHOUT at least 3 QBs under contract, even if only two are on the active roster. That's what the PS is for!!! The QB situation is a testament to McDermott/Beane's incompetence.

I've been saying this all year. As poor as the offense was last season with Taylor, it's way worse this season ... there's not even a running game worth the name.

Agree. They tried to play the same "money ball" style football that Brandon and Whaley practiced, but they're too incompetent at personnel evaluation -- both players and coaches -- to come close to even typical Bills mediocrity when they have to depend upon their own people. Bull manure. The only "plan" in trading away Watkins, Darby, and Glenn was to a) get rid of players that McDermott didn't want or b) cut current salary regardless of the impact on the team. Most of McDermott's and Beane's personnel moves have been serious errors in player evaluations rather than "missteps".

The Bills may not score 51 points the rest of the season ...

I think the score depends upon which QB starts for each team. McKown-Peterman - Jests 35, Bills 3 (you gotta know the Jests get at least 1 pick six, and probably more) McKown-Allen - Jests 17, Bills 9 (Bills miss a 2 pt conversion) Darnold-Peterman - Jests 35, Bills 17 (Bills get 2 TDs off Darnold TOs - 1 pick six, and we know NP will contribute his obligatory pick six) "Pick Six Bowl" Darnold-Allen - Jests 17, Bills 16

The Bills don't have to try. It just comes naturally.

Firing McDermott and Beane and reorganizing the team structure more in line with most other NFL franchises with a GM answerable to the owner and everybody else answerable to the GM.

Yes, the Cleveland Browns are the perfect team for the Bills to emulate. Bills fans aren't the laughing stock of the league. The Bills team is a laughing stock because they suck no matter how you try to spin. No, "the process = incompetence". I think the Pegulas wouldn't have a problem attracting a top flight HC if they do what they should have done when they bought the team: hire an experienced football exec with a strong player personnel background from one of the top notch NFL organizations (like KC, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, etc) to be a real NFL GM/President of Football Ops/Czar with the power to hire and fire everybody below him -- and answerable only to the Pegulas. The new GM would have the final decision on who stays and who goes, from the well-heeled suits on the second floor of OBD to the scouts to the coaching staff to the players, etc. It's time to finally completely break free from the shadow of Ralph Wilson's ghost (especially since they axed his spiritual "son", Russ Brandon, back in May).

Thanks for the good news, Terry. I'm sure your assurances will cement the determination of thousands of Bills season ticket holders to renew their tix for 2019 ASAP.

Are you serious??? Watkins had 982 yards (6 TDs) as a rookie, 1047 yards (9 TDs) in 2015, and 430 yards (2 TDs) in only 8 games in 2016. So far in 2018, his 530 yards (3 TDs) in 9 games is almost as many yards as he had in 15 games (593 yards, 8 TDs) in 2017 which suggests he'll be around 1000 yards and 6 TDs once again. Claiming that the Bills don't miss him is just more of the typical BS you spew in defense of McDermott and Beane. The Bills passing offense stunk last year without Watkins and with both Wood and Incognito playing all season but Glenn missing most of the season. Watkins has as many TDs as the entire Bills passing offense has this whole season. As for the Bills not being able to "afford" Watkins, that's more bull manure. With the lowest current salary level in the league, they certainly could have despite the self-inflicted dead cap money by creating a cap friendly new contract/extension like other teams do. They simply didn't want to because McDermott and Beane have repeatedly demonstrated how much they value the passing game. As for the lame claim that "but they used that 2nd rounder to get Josh Allen", that's plain stupid. Watkins was traded after the first preseason game, which was long before there was any kind of clear picture of how good or bad the Bills would be and long before the collegiate football season. If McDermott/Beane decided that they were going to draft a QB in 2018 in July without knowing the candidates and made trades to do that, that's simply either being too clueless to believe or it's "money ball" as its most sinister.

The "it's not really our fault" bull manure is exactly that, bull manure. That's simply disingenous excuse making on your part. McDermott has had control of personnel decisions since the 2017 draft, no matter how much you want to deny that, so it's on him. As for McDermott and Beane's claims about recognizing the importance of having a good passing game, they talk the talk but they sure don't walk the walk. If they truly believed this, the Bills OL and WRs wouldn't be so bad, and they wouldn't have a WR coach "mentoring" their first round QB prospect.

My guess is that the Bills WRs are too slow to run too far downfield unless the QBs have 10 seconds or so to throw the ball.

Then why is he still the Bills HC? His team is as bad and as uncompetitive as any of the previous dog crap teams the Bills ever fielded back in the 1970s and 1980s. I said before the season, and since, and I'll repeat it. Allen is being set up to fail by having absolutely no support around him, not a real QB coach, not protection, not targets,and not even a running game to take the pressure off of him. That's on both McDermott and Beane, and they both need to go ASAP. The currrent Bills don't even do that well. McDermott is a bad coach, too. He's a bad coach because he refuses to adapt to the reality that he's coaching in 2018 not 1968 or 1978 or 1988.

Losing by 20+ points, apparently.

Apparently fighting for a contested ball isn't part of "the process".

Count me among the Jauron haters. I loathed Jauron and his play-not-to-lose-by-too-much style, but I have to admit, play-not-to-lose-by-too-much beats the crap out of McDermott's "process" by a few light years at least.

Totally agree. Contrary to what the McDermott/Beane defenders keeping claiming, it's NOT the losing itself that's the problem. It's how the Bills are losing: getting blown out because the offense cannot score and continually turns over the ball, and that's because McDermott/Beane have totally mismanaged the entire offensive situation, beginning with the 2017 draft when they wasted a fifth round pick on Nathan Peterman.

McDermott isn't a young guy who's in his thirties like Sean McVay who acknowledged from the get-go that he needed a defensive master to help him or an open minded guy like Doug Pederson who welcomes input and ideas from assistants, players, etc. He's not an "old dog" like Andy Reid who can and does "learn new tricks". He's not even smart enough to realize that he should stick to what he does decently -- coaching -- and leave roster building to more knowledgeable guys like Doug Marrone. Instead, McDermott is an arrogant, narrow-minded relic from a by-gone era who is intent on proving his vision of winning football through defensive coupled with good "character" and lots of stupid cliches is superior to the "sissyfied" offensive football that's in style now. Bad wine doesn't get better with age, and neither do bad HCs. Giving Dick Jauron an extension did not make him one iota better, and McDermott shares the same faulty "vision" as Jauron. Giving him more time to screw up the offense isn't going to put a significantly better product on the field, not when his fundamental philosophy is so out-of-date. If you watched any football other than the Bills yesterday, especially the Chargers-Seahawks, Rams-Saints and/or Packers-Pats, then you know how wrong-headed and how anachronistic McDermott's philosophy is. This isn't 1950 or even 1985 or 2000.

Maybe Rodgers or Wilson or Luck or Roethlisberger would. Maybe Rivers, too. I'm not sure about Brees. Brady wouldn't. IOW, I think it would take a great QB to look decent behind this OL since he would also not have a running game or receivers.

This might be a reasonable tactic if the problems on offense were simply the result of poor QBing, but they are not. The OL cannot block for the running game and it cannot protect the passer, ergo no QB is going to look very good. In 2016, the Bills had a good run blocking OL that wasn't so good at pass blocking. McDermott's wisdom turned it into a mediocre run blocking OL that was lousy at pass blocking in 2017, and this year it's simply a crappy OL since the entire left side of the line, from the center outward (C, LG, LT) were replaced with bottom feeders who, at best, might be serviceable in the right situations. That includes the vaunted Dion Dawkins who may very well be better suited to play inside rather than outside at OT. The WRs are not NFL caliber. They weren't NFL caliber WRs in 2017, either, and all of them were McDermott's "guys" not Whaley's. Imagine how much better the Bills QB's might look if they had WRs who could get some separation and could actually catch the ball when it hits them in the hands ala Robert Woods or Sammy Watkins. Imagine how much better the running game might be if the CBs and Ss were back pedaling at the snap because the Bills actually had a speedy WR who might take it to the house if he got loose, ala Marquise Goodwin. The Bills WRs are so bad because McDermott was stupid enough to keep not one of these guys because he thinks that new-fangled forward pass is a fad ... like raccoon coats and swallowing live goldfish. The TEs, except for Clay, are not NFL caliber either, and the Bills don't use Clay correctly. He's a decent pass catching TE who can block. He should be getting 10 targets a game because next to a good running game, a sure-handed TE is a young QB's best friend ... and around the league, young QBs from Dak Prescott to Patrick Mahomes prove and re-prove that every damn game. The running game sucks mostly because of the OL but why are the Bills relying on 2 thirty year old RBs and a waiver wire refugee who's more of a ST player than a potential replacement for the older RBs? Teams are finding RBs not only all through the draft, but among UDFAs as well. Denver has a nice looking kid in Lindley that they got as an UDFA. The QB coach of the Bills, David Culley, is a former WR coach who only coached QBs for a couple of years at a small collegiate program thirty years ago. THIS is the guy McDermott thinks is a suitable coach for a rookie QB for whom the Bills gave up so much talent and draft capital, especially when that rookie QB is in need of so much improvement in key fundamentals like his footwork???? Plain and simple, I think that there's little hope for Josh Allen to succeed under McDermott/Beane. He's been set up to fail by the Neanderthal offensive philosophy, the total incompetence in evaluating offensive talent, and the poor choice of position coaching personnel. Drafting a first round QB and giving him absolutely no support in terms of protection and targets should get any NFL HC/GM fired, the sooner the better IMO. McDermott and his henchman Beane are what they are -- incompetent -- and they aren't going to miraculously improve between now and January. As the analysts pointed out last week, firing Jackson and Haley in mid-season gives the Browns an opportunity to start identifying potential candidates earlier than other teams. The Bills should do the same, particularly since they should be looking for both a GM and HC.

Exactly. Note to Terry and Kim: Anthony Lynn, who wasn't good enough for you, took the mediocre/can't win the big ones Chargers and got them to 9-7 years last season. This season, they are 6-2 and have only lost to the Rams and Chiefs ... and Lynn's crew are 2-0 against McDermott and his sorry-assed offense. He did that by building on what he had inherited on both sides of the ball, not tearing everything down to bring in "his guys".

These posts together make a horrendous list of offensive personnel (players and coaches) "misses" and "blunders" that seems to surpass even a compilation of the worst Bills personnel moves since the merger. I'm not kidding. Collect all the stupid moves the Bills have done between 1970 and 2016, and I doubt it would include as many bad moves, including trading away All Pro LT Jason Peters because of a contract dispute at a fire sale price and trading away future All Pro RB Marshawn Lynch for a fourth round pick. I think the fact that the Bills went into the season with only 2 QBs on the active roster and no QB on the practice squad, necessitating the team signing street FAs whenever the starter goes down, is a reason to fire both McDermott and Beane. At least a PS QB would know the playbook. That it took the Bills a month after Peterman cemented his claim to QB incompetence to get around to bringing in a street FA QB as a backup, especially one who was out of football for 2 years, is even more of a reason to can these two. What is there to be positive about with the 2018 Bills? Defensive stats are for losers, and the Bills are not only losers, they are likely to remain losers because of the crappy offensive position coaches McDermott has brought in. A team can't win consistently in the NFL without having a viable offense, and the Bills don't have that. They wouldn't have a viable offense in 2003 or 2000 or even 1990. Maybe in 1920, this offensive offense might have been viable. I have. I gave up my seasons when the Bills renewed Jauron after 2008. I haven't attended a Bills game in the last two seasons ... and I won't attend another as long as McDermott is coaching this team. That's doesn't mean that I forfeit my right to express my opinion.

McDermott can't succeed in "Goodell's era of video game football" because he thinks he can win without an offense.