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  1. Does anything actually get retired on this team? Mr. Brightside would just get re-signed to the PS, called up to the gameday roster a couple times and then signed back to the active roster when Girls Just Wanna Have Fun gets placed on the IR.

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  2. 21 hours ago, Draconator said:

     

    I said it in another thread and I will state the same here. I do NOT want to hear any excuses from the Bills about our 2 starting OTs being out. Teams across the league have multiple missing lineman and still generate offense. 

     

    We are told how deep our roster is. Let's see the product on the field reflect that 

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  3. 44 minutes ago, Nihilarian said:

    You know you're right to a point, as in 2022 the Buffalo Bills had #2 overall offense with Diggs the leading receiver with 1429 yards, 11 TDs. Then in 2023, after 12 games, the Bills were 6-6 with Josh throwing a ton of INTs. After the bye, McDermott made the change from Dorsey to Brady. Buffalo had losses to the Patriots with Mac Jones at QB, the NY Jets, the Jags, the Bengals, and the Broncos. Meanwhile, 

     

    Ken Dorsey was fired by the Buffalo Bills in 2023 due to the team's struggles with offensive consistency, highlighted by a six-game stretch where they failed to score more than 25 points and had a high number of turnovers. The decision was made after a loss to the Denver Broncos, which dropped the Bills to a 5-5 record and out of the playoff picture.  Meanwhile, Miami was 9-3 at that time.

     

    Only Joe Brady knows what's going on with his offensive scheme. But I can tell you that the eight sacks and lack of protection for the QB while calling mid to deep pass plays in that Houston game was a fireable offense in my view. More so than anything Dorsey did with his offense, again in my view. 

     

    I have no idea what McDermott has up his sleeve or why he is keeping Dorsey as OC. It's been 12 games, and Buffalo is 7-4 and still in the hunt at this point is the only reason I can think of. So what happens if Brady tanks against the Steelers? 

    The first bolded part-

     

    We have not one, not two but THREE games where our offense didn't get more than 14 points. With Josh Allen at QB, James Cook at RB and the same OL. That's more than inconsistent. That's malpractice. 

     

    The second bolded point-

    I know it was a mental error slip up, but isn't it sad what you said fits with either Dorsey or Brady's name? One would have hoped that when Dorsey was fired we would do more than just tread water and not improve. Still having the same discussions about the offense.

  4. After the results from the Thanksgiving game this is what's at stake Sunday:

     

    With a Bills win-

     

    Buffalo stays in 7 seed

    Baltimore holds on to 4 seed and lead in AFCN

    Pittsburgh drops to "in the hunt"

     

    With a Steelers win-

    Steelers take over #4 seed and lead in AFCN

    Baltimore AND Buffalo move to "in the hunt"

    Houston takes over the hold on the 7 seed. 

     

     

    I really think that with the tie breakers being what they are the loser of this game isn't likely making the playoffs. 

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  5. 11 minutes ago, Coach Tuesday said:

    Beane has really stuck his D— in the proverbial toaster wrt the receiver position this year.

    What makes it worse is he was not only standing in the bathtub when he did it, he was also strongly defending why it was a fantastic idea, and that anyone who thought otherwise was a blithering idiot.

     

     

    4 minutes ago, Maynard said:

    I get that, but not with Samuel. Guy has always been fragile and then to sign him to that stupid contract? I called it immediately and was 100% correct. Too bad Beane was again out thinking everyone else. 

    He's from Italy?

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  6. 1 hour ago, BillsVet said:

    Curtis Samuel 2024 and 2025 with Buffalo:

     

    529 offensive snaps

    38 catches

    334 yards

    2 TD

    ~$16 million in cash

     

    Beane admitted WR draft evals are hard.  Looks like the UFA ones are worse given his track record. 

     

     

     

    And I believe when we cut him, he still counts almost $3.5M against our cap next season. 

     

    Curtis Samuel is officially the Jelly of the Month club. He's the gift that keeps on giving.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Nihilarian said:

    Well, to be honest, Joe Brady was a godsend at first with that run game, helping Josh keep his turnovers under control. Fewer INTs, fewer fumbles, and less running so less chance he gets injured running by some late tackler who wants to take him out of the game.

     

    And, Buffalo was the #2 offense in scoring in 2024, and #1 overall, including the playoffs, which is no insignificant feat. We also saw some high-scoring games against Jacksonville, 47-10, against the Titans, 34-10, against Seattle, 31-10, against the 49ers, 35-10, and the really high-scoring games against the Rams, 42-44, and the Lions, 42-48.  Then 40-14 against the NY Jets, and then 31-7 in the playoffs against Denver.

     

    Now this season,  he isn't even attempting to put out a decent game plan for whatever reason. Like against the Falcons, against the Dolphins, and that Houston game in which our beloved QB was sacked EIGHT times. Now this was a complete deviation from what he was doing last season by keeping an extra O linemen in to block, running "max protection schemes"  or even running more against a team where their defense is weaker against the run and stronger against the pass. So he calls for more mid to deep throws?

     

    It is like Joe Brady is attempting to get McDermott fired so he can be the head coach in Buffalo, or he wants to leave and go quickly. Did he get a head coach offer from the NY Giants? He is currently making what 1.5 million, and a head coach might make 5-10 million per year? Something's up?

    Ken Dorsey had a cluster of games where the Bills scored high points. When he was fired, he had a top RATED offense. But, stats don't tell the whole story. They never do and quite frequently, whatever stats show one thing is good...we can find stats that say the opposite. There are too many stats these days. 

     

    All you have to do is watch the games. That's what tells the story. 

  8. 46 minutes ago, GolfandBills said:

    He can’t even do that well.  Plenty of data that shows he struggles there too 

    Can you provide some data that shows that? I searched and came up empty. What are you seeing that suggests this?

     

    In any event, I would be shocked if "plenty of data shows" he can't do it well as it's something they haven't really asked him to do much if at all 

  9. 17 minutes ago, Sammy Watkins' Rib said:

    Bills were in this position (6-6) a couple years ago. Bills won out and took the division. There is no division winning option for the Chiefs unless the Broncos should collapse harder than the Dolphins did that year. With the three wild card teams having four losses, even winning out doesn't guarantee them a spot. They lose head-to-head tie breakers with the Jags and Bills and I'm not sure how tiebreakers would look with the Chargers should the two teams end tied at 11-6. 

     

    I'll be rooting for a Texans victory over the Chiefs next week but if that doesn't happen, a Texans loss will at least go a long way in helping secure the Bills a wild card spot.

    I'm at a point where I fully think the division will be out of play for us. Sure things can change fast...but I just don't see it 

     

    I'm actually rooting for the Chiefs next week. Houston has the head to head with us and are only 1 game behind. That could be an issue. We need some distance between us and them. 

     

    If, and yes it's a big if, we win this week we are two full games over KC and hold the tiebreaker. 

     

    It's about us getting in at this point, which isn't a guarantee.

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  10. 9 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:

    I've always been an "optimistic realist" but here are the posts that most closely express my expectations for the season (some of them are contradictory):

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    As has been pointed out, the Bills have a recent history of going on late season runs and there are other teams have come from the depths of the wild card race to win the Super Bowl. There is much to be said about peaking at the right time.

     

    BUT, the last post above by @Puckman5 resonates most loudly for me.

     

    How can a team with a TE Coach AND a OL Coach who were both NFL Offensive Coordinators not get the offense straightened out???

     

    The finger points to McDermott, IMO. Either he has more negative influence on the offense than we care to admit AND/OR his systems and culture do not allow for positive collaboration and honest self-scouting. It's unfathomable to me that Kromer and/or Boras don't have some good ideas on how to improve Brady's shyt show and yet even after the bye, we've seen little to no evidence that the offense is progressing in a good direction. Are Kromer/Boras allowed to provide constructive input into the offense? If not, why not? Are their voices welcomed in the room? Are they biting their tongues? Are their ideas dismissed?

     

    And why do players like Samuel and Moore, who've put up good numbers elsewhere while never having played with good QBs come to the Bills and promptly disappear from the face of the earth even though they're now playing with an all-time great QB?

     

    Mike Sando's "The Athletic" article about the failings of Raiders' OC Chip Kelly seem to apply verbatim to Joe Brady... that he's a college play caller who had short term success, but who can't raise his game now that the NFL has solved his offense. Brady has no answers and neither do those around him for whatever mysterious reasons.

     

    The dysfunctional offense and the injury-riddled defense make me highly doubt that the Bills will be the team catching lightning in a bottle this season.

     

    I hope I'm wrong.

     

    The bolded parts are why I always struggle with promoting from within for the OC spot. 

     

    Now, I fully admit we don't know what we don't know. But to me, Kromer, Boras, Curry, Mangas..all of em along with Brady are part of the same offensive room. Now, like you said, if these guys are coming up with ideas and being dismissed, we have no way of knowing. But if they are collectively collaborating and coming up with nothing, how can it be justified that any of them should get the promotion? Again, we don't know if Brady is being arrogant and dismissive of any ideas or if they are a room full of bumbling idiots. 

     

    It's the same reason I didn't like Brady being promoted without a real OC search in the first place. He was part of Dorsey's "support staff" and couldn't help fix the issues we saw when Kenny was here tossing tablets. Why did anybody think he would be so much better?

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  11. 12 minutes ago, Charles Romes said:

    The last 15 well-travelled wr vets that have shown up at 1 Bills drive have said the exact same thing about working with Allen, but nothing has clicked unfortunately. 

    Absolutely correct. What's he going to say? "Man this Allen guy, I walked into the locker room and he tried to get me with a 'deez nuts' joke. What an immature moron".

    3 minutes ago, Billsfanatic8989 said:

    Cooks has now played with Brees, Brady, and Allen. 

     

    Not many guys can say that they were a receiver for three tp 10 QB's of all time (Yes I believe in the end J.A. will get there). 

    He's also caught passes from Spencer Rattler. How you left him off that list is mind boggling. 

  12. 1 hour ago, aristocrat said:

    I take Spencer brown not on ir as a good thing 

    More times than not, the Bills have been making the roster moves on Saturdays before the game when someone hits IR. So, not totally out of the woods yet 

     

    Also, in the last couple years they have had someone miss 4+ games and NOT have them on IR. He's still likely to miss a chunk of time IMO.

  13. 3 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:

     

    The Patriots or the Bills?

     

    Bc I think he's done in this town. It would look *pretty* dumb to have a "mutual parting of the ways", after he approached the team looking for more snaps - only to come back on the Practice Squad.

    Could simply be a case of him not finding somewhere else and coming back. 

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