Richard Noggin

I have finally turned on McDermott after being fairly resolute in my support of him. And therefore, many of the more general, personal criticisms contained in the portion I could read ring true to me now. Lacks accountability and tightens up in the biggest moments, being most notable to me. BUT...Dunne is suspect, at best, with respect to journalistic integrity. He started this whole independent venture by leaning exclusively on disgruntled former employees who had obvious agendas (whether they were right or wrong). He gets a salacious scoop or two and really runs with it. Not much effort to cross-examine or challenge. So it becomes a polemic, selective and one-sided. Doesn't mean it's all wrong, but it does mean it's subjective and still hearsay. Like I said, I've come to my own harsh conclusions about the head coach, and would love to see him fired ASAP. But I take Tyler Dunne's work with a giant grain of salt.

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Johnson is a legendarily bad owner. That guy is brutal. Such a clown.

Won my survivor pool based on Colts (my week 13 pick) pulling it out in OT and Cardinals (my last opponent's pick - we started with 25 entrants) winning a weird one. Was agonizing having my game go deep into OT and my opponent's game taking forever based on two very prolonged weather delays. Got the juices flowing, to be honest. (I'm not a gambler otherwise.)

Couldn't happen to a more whiny, wimpy, weasel. Love to see it. He's had enough bizarre occurrences on the field that look like attempts to injure the opposition, and enough laughable still shots of his wildly dramatic, panicked expressions to know this dude doesn't belong out there. He's a danger to himself and others. I'm glad he's miserable, because hopefully that accelerates his retirement.

I have tossed Ben Johnson's name out there a BUNCH this season. To be honest, right now, I'd be absolutely fine just canning McD and elevating Brady. Hopefully he'd be able to keep Washington and/or Babich (or find someone else from outside the org) on the defensive side moving forward. Gotta make a move to empower the offense/Allen and let someone other than McD run the defense. It projects that Allen has another 4-6 solid seasons left, and we need a young offensive coach to maximize those years. McD ain't it. Edit: I NEED a head coach who can openly admit that Josh Allen is the best QB in the league (when effectively unleashed). McD's systematic, years-long campaign of shackling Allen (sideline tapping his temple after like every run that resulted in contact, or every public statement about "being smarter" or god knows what all behind the scenes) then sudden 2023 declaration that he longs to see "the old Josh Allen" again is simply TOO FUGGING HYPOCRITICAL to go unhated and unfired.

Somehow actually...fitting?

100% agree. Gotta draft WR1. The value and need line up perfectly. Need to beef up the pipeline and the depth chart big time.

Team cream cheese here. I like Brady as full-time OC (at minimum). Leaves room to promote him to Assistant Head Coach after next year to squeeze out one more year before he moves on (in best case scenario). Not sure if there is precedent for AHCs on BOTH sides of the ball (if I'm remembering correctly that Washington already got promoted into the AHC void after Frazier's departure)?

Funny how children of OTHER rich people's kids are automatically accepted as qualified to run NFL franchises, but for some reason you are so skeptical of Pegula's children. Also, with respect to the hints of chauvinism in your posts @HIT BY SPIKES, how has Terry's passion project/hockey org done after 10+ years? compared to Kim's Bills (air quotes) after less time?

Was hoping this was a poll. Hypothetically, the Bills should be good enough to go on a late-season run. They've done it before, and coincidently, immediately following an overtime loss in which they were very competitive against a strong NFC team. But this year feels a little different innit? The team has NOT shown any capacity for consistent winning football. Those injuries in London still loom large. And with McDerp not giving them late-half and OT advantages, I just don't see some kind of 5-game run in the works.

Some posters reacting emotionally and irrationally to this developing story with only crumbs to go on. Of course domestic violence against a pregnant partner would be absolutely heinous. But maybe none of us knows $#!& about what really happened, or what happens next.

Ricardo Cranium is my cousin.

Couldn't even finish the fairly short lowlights video. He was such a "looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane" player in years 2-4. And that's with sincere apologies to players named Jane (and women in general). He had some flashes early, and a few physical plays in his fifth season...but what a waste of a specimen overall. Inexcusable the way he saw blockers as a genuine problem. Like he intentionally stopped his momentum to engage with them. Consistently stood up and pushed back. So bizarre when much smaller guys like Milano and now Bernard can look beyond the blockers and continue to attack the play, going right through obstacles at times. It's more about what's between the ears.

Says guy on couch.

I noticed several "business decisions" made by this 2nd year player who has apparently already been crowned as an all-pro.

You include Siran Neal lol And zero o-linemen or DTs With no mention of very real cap constraints that will REQUIRE cuts and restructures just to be able to play ball.

There is a lurking downside to the Bills OC job that counters your bolded claim (that this OC job is as appealing as it's ever been): the Head Coach.

Your use of the word "know" is fascinating.

Paywall for anyone else? This post IS a good test of who actually reads an article/post before replying.

I wonder about (but am reluctant to concretely entertain) the notion that NFL teams should seek to spread their caps more evenly throughout the entirety of the 53-man roster. Injuries are so widespread and impactful. I wonder if there is wisdom to building a deeper depth chart that isn't so traditionally top-heavy, cap-wise. Probably still want to have an elite QB, offensive target, and defender who affects the QB, but it feels like injuries are highlighting the need for more depth. And also, for sure, coaching. Systems and execution of said systems.

I hate exposure to opposing fans in a competitive environment, generally. But this is an elite reply. Good on ya.

For the first time in my life (I'm 45, third year with seasons), I had to be guilted into attending tomorrow. Partially because there will be a lot of Jersey fans in attendance, and they're the worst. If the Bills are self-destructing, I struggle to tolerate opposing fan belligerence. But also because McDermott's Bills, especially since halftime against Green Bay last season, have been a blundering, joyless outfit, beset on all sides by real-world tragedies and inequities and from within by inconsistencies and dysfunction. 2022 was the least satisfying 13-4 season ever. Then 2023 asked us to hold its beer. (Crazy how much the timing of the schism actually points a salacious, circumstantial finger at Josh Allen himself. I have begun to focus my ire at McDermott, however. He and his staff have choked away too many winnable games over the past four years. It's blatantly unacceptable.)

Wish this was satire.

I remember it differently. They had a Super Bowl-winning offense in the playoffs (and even so, against the Chiefs, had a signature 3rd quarter stagnation when they suddenly started running the ball unimaginatively, and ineffectively, for two straight drives -- who does that sound like?). Those two games , however, really effed with offensive expectations moving forward, and seemingly revised the real history of that 2021 regular season offense. The Bills offense was NOT "absolutely unbelievable for most of that year." You don't have any non-circumstantial/conjectured evidence for any of what you've typed above. Diggs himself has directly, and I'd argue, convincingly, addressed this narrative on several occasions, including as recently as this week. If anything, Diggs' issues are understandably with coaching. Remember "Don't listen to him!"? (Also, I'm just not super concerned about social media s#!tposting from a noisy and bored guy who has publicly wanted his big brother as a teammate for a while now.) I'm with you here, for sure. McDermott is the consistent fixture through all these insane collapses. And he seems to operate with impunity. (One could convincingly argue that recent blunders wouldn't have been possible if the offense had only "held serve" or played up to a modicum of its potential, but that in no way absolves the head coach of his (and his staff's) situational choke jobs.)