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Who picks the coordinators and position coaches? McDermott's choices of assistants makes him at least as bad as any HC in the NFL, including Hue Jackson.

Too little, too late. The time to fix the OL was back in the off season during FA and the draft. Furthermore, if McDermott's just realized that the OL is a cesspool, then that raises of serious questions about his fitness to be a HC.

Teams throw away from him because the pickings are so much easier against whatever dud CB plays the other side.

Are you serious? Did you watch MNF last night? A great QB without a decent team around him is no more successful than a journeyman QB, and McDermott/Beane have shown no ability to evaluate talent or "figure out" ANYTHING when it comes to building a team. Furthermore, the clock is already ticking on the evaluation of Allen. The Bills have less than 5 years to determine if Allen is a keeper or not because they'll have to decide whether to pick up his option year or to re-sign him past his rookie contract. A crappy OL, equally crappy WR corps, and a questionable OC calling plays will never allow Allen to be as good as he might be, which means that the evaluation of Allen may never be accurate. It's possible that the Bills could give up on Allen and he goes on to flourish for another team as so many former Bills players have done or the Bills could try to make allowances for the bad personnel around Allen, and wind up signing a journeyman QB to a franchise QB contract that dooms the team to continued mediocrity or worse. That's why it's so important to give QBs with good protection and numerous good targets. That $55 million in dead cap money mostly came from McDermott/Beane's decisions to replace quality players for whatever specious reasons they came up with. They got into cap hell because they didn't pay attention to the cap implicatons of their moves, and they signed trash because of their poor player evaluation. It's called incompetence.

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I'll believe it when I see it happen.

How many kept a player that they always intended to get rid of past March 1, incurring a major dead cap hit in the process, just so they could trade him away before the draft? That's the real problem here. McDermott/Beane seem oblivious to the consequences of shedding players without regard to the cap. Dareus, Glenn, Coleman, and McCarron are more examples. Too.Stupid.To.Be.True.

When you have huge immediate needs on the OL, you can use that $7.6 million in dead cap space to sign a better FA than Russell Bodine or Marshall Newhouse. They could have tried to sign Mike Pouncey, former Pro Bowl center, for $5 million. Too.Stupid.To.Be.True.

Well, the Bills could have had Mahomes AND Sammy if they'd had their crap together in 2017 ... and don't pretend that the trade down to take a DB, however good, over a QB was on Whaley. He didn't run the 2017 draft because he was fired right after the draft.

If IIRC, the Bills could have released Taylor before March 1 without a cap penalty -- or at least a much smaller cap hit. In fact, I think most Bills fans expected him to be released. Instead, the geniuses McDermott/Beane kept a QB that they didn't want just so they could trade him for a third round pick before the draft and take a $7.6 million cap hit. What kind of stupid **** is that???? Then they compound their stupidity by signing AJ McCarron for $5 million and trading him away a couple of months later and incurring $2.6 million in dead cap money. That's $9.6 million in dead cap space for 2 QBs who aren't on the roster ... but at least they got a third rounder and a fifth rounder for all that money they don't have to pay to mediocre QBs. Instead, they're paying about $600k for Nate Peterman to impersonate an NFL QB. Too.Stupid.To.Be.True.

Why would I believe the Bills will get better this season or next or as long as McDermott and Beane are running the show? McDermott has missed on his first OC, on his DC, on his OL coach so far. Had Beane even heard of the NFL salary cap before he was hired as Bills GM because he is obviously clueless about how it limits personnel decisions and vice versa. The scouts McDermott/Beane hired to replaced the Bills scouts they fired are as crappy as the HC and GM who hired them. The lack of talent on this current Bills team, the huge dead cap amount, and the embarrassing effort on the field says it all: this regime is Joel Collier/Harvey Johnson/John Rauch/Jim Ringo/Kay Stephenson/Hank Bullough bad.

We've already seen results, just not the ones any sane person would want to see.

When will that be? 2050????

Don't confuse the Bills faithful with reality.

The Bills were not "competitive" in the second half. The Chargers eased up. I don't know their roster much beyond their starters, but my guess is that a lot of LA's backups got considerable playing time during the second half. There is absolutely no hope with this combo of HC and FO because they're going to make sure that Josh Allen, apparently the best -- and maybe only good -- acquisition they've made will never have a real opportunity to succeed as long as they're in charge due to their incompetence. Actually, if that statement isn't true, then what does that say about McDermott and Beane if they can't even accurately evaluate the performance of the players they've had on their team all preseason? Suggesting a conspiracy theory seems better than simply accusing them of incompetence because Williams and Alexander have stunk it up in both games.

I'm not sure that you got my point. I'm not knocking Allen at all. I like Allen, although I didn't like the pick originally. I think he's played really well given his inexperience and the putrid team around him. My point is that I don't think that Allen can be successful with the talent level around him, and I don't believe that McDermott and Beane will bring in the talent to help him. They suck at talent evaluation on both sides of the ball. They suck at just about every aspect of personnel management. They apparently don't understand offensive football, and haven't shown much interest in improving the offense as evidenced by drafting only 1 OLer (late in the 5th round) and replacing Wood and Incognito with bottom feeder FAs who wouldn't be starters on any other NFL team if either even made another NFL roster. Their attitude seems to be that Allen sinks or swims with whatever trash they put around him, and that's setting up Allen -- or any QB -- to struggle with no protection and no targets.

Marrone by a mile if for nothing else but that he was smart enough to realize he's not Bill Belichick or Andy Reid to be both HC and defacto GM at the same time.

I think it's irrelevant whether Allen has the goods or not. I think he's been set up to fail because McDermott and Beane are going to "fill holes next offseason" with the same kind of trash they've filled them with this past off season because they can't evaluate talent, are clueless when it comes to cap management, and are philosophically stuck in the 1970s.

One of the guys on one of the pre-game shows said that the three QBs who threw for 400 yards last week would repeat that feat this week. Fitzy and Rivers are looking good for it. Brees not so much ... only 132 yards in the first half.

They're playing for other teams ... Philly, Jax, KC, Cinci ...

Might? You obviously don't rush to judgement.

At least the Bills appear to be giving some effort under Allen, especially on offense.

And he just put the Chargers up by 14.

Mahomes just threw his second TD to Travis Kelce to go up 14-0 over Pitt in Pittsburgh after Sammy Watkins caught a nice pass to get them to the Steelers 20.

It'll be 5 years AFTER McDermott and Beane are shown the door.