HomeskillitMoorman
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6 minutes ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:
Manning didn't win one til he was 30 fwiw.
There was a very key difference there though.
Peyton to that point wasn't playing great in the playoffs as a whole. The games they were losing were his clunkers, like two the Patriots, one to the Jets, and one to the Steelers. They weren't losing games that he played great in. They weren't losing games that he was putting up 27+ points in.
There is no elite player in any sport that I can think of that could not get to the big game in this big of a stretch despite playing great overall in the playoffs. What we've seen happen here with Josh is an unfortunate unique situation.
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27 minutes ago, Gregg said:
More in the media have been calling McDermott out. Maybe it will get to the point where Terry does something about that. Not that I expect it will happen anytime soon.
I don't think that'll be enough. It's going to be up to Josh walking into Terry's office and asking for it. I don't think that's impossible as I do think everyone has their breaking point. But I also don't think that's something that comes naturally to him.
I have previously thought and said that would absolutely never happen...I now think if we go 0-5 vs them in the playoffs and they torch our defense once again...it's happening.
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It's tough. The annoying part is most of these people don't go in-depth into why this has happened when it's all incredibly clear.
But yeah, best player we've ever had and his entire 20's are blown if we don't get there this year.
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On 8/12/2025 at 12:18 PM, Buffalo Boy said:
Examples???
I am on him like stink on a pig for sucky big game coaching. I HATE losing
Why
Because that is the next step.
What I , and others hate, is refusal to acknowledge he has failed in this area with out the plethora of repeated excuses.
I don’t hate him and I literally haven’t seen anyone question his faith and wonder what it has to do with anything.It's a classic deflection, they do that kind of thing in politics.
It's a "you just don't like him so this is slander" defense even when there is so much that is being presented specifically about the failures on his side of the ball, obviously most notably in January and that it's happened EVERY single season.
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On 8/12/2025 at 10:44 AM, billsfan714 said:
The more I think about it, I believe not having elite coaching is going to be a factor in both.
I don't even think its about having elite coaching...I think simply having a Head Coach that's not a liability would have been enough for Josh to have gotten to a SB by now
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17 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:
For whatever it's worth...
Probably not going to get a lot of 3rd down stops that way. Nor have guys in good positions to make plays.
It would explain a lot if McD is at 0-1 with game planning in the postseason as well-
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22 hours ago, Gregg said:
Optimistic - Super Bowl champs
Realistic - McDermott's D gets smoked again in another divisional round/AFCCG loss.
This is the the really unfortunate reality
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1 hour ago, Taro Nimbus said:
He’ll be better off on the Steelers than that dysfunctional jets team. He just has to play average at best and the Steelers will be in the playoffs. From there anything can happen.
There's a solid chance Rodgers makes the Steelers dysfunctional though
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It'll be fun. I don't buy that somehow training camp filming will somehow affect the end result of the pursuit of a championship.
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Love it! I've wanted this for so long!
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2 hours ago, Bob Chandler's Hands said:
The defense being played in the NBA playoffs is ferocious, almost dangerously so. It's been that way for a while now.
Yup, the players put in way more effort on D in the playoffs and the refs swallow the whistle quite a bit
1 hour ago, Gunsgoodtime said:So the best player in the NBA at the most important position never makes it through finals? I'm not a big fan of this strategy
Right. But more than that I just didn't understand the comparison when we are more reliant on Josh to win it all than any other team is on any other one player. The Chiefs, Eagles, whoever don't have a defense that consistently gets destroyed in the biggest games and can never get a late game stop. They also don't have these late game generational meltdowns like 13 seconds after their QB gives them 2 leads inside 2 minutes.
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6 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
i stopped reading here,
John Elway. And probably others.
Marino.
I don't agree with the disparity for them, that they were consistently losing postseason games they were really good in...but even if we met there...isn't that comparison that you're making an admittance that McD's "formula" hasn't worked? Elway didn't win it all with that coach and Marino never did.
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1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said:
I think Nantz is the greatest of all time.
My personal best list is:
1. Nantz
2. Michaels
3. Costas
4. Enberg
5. Madden
I couldn't disagree more about Al Michaels for like the last 10 years, he's so bad now. Enberg was so good, possibly my favorite.
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I would have to completely disagree that anyone left in the NBA is doing anything that resembles McD's "formula".
These coaches have figured out ways to actually support their best players for the postseason, which is a different game. McD's game management and more importantly his side of the ball - his supposed proficiency - his defense has been HISTORICALLY awful in the playoffs and has far and away been the biggest deterrent to us winning a championship.
What we have seen here is completely unprecedented. There has NEVER been an elite QB or player in general who has played this well year after year in the playoffs that has been let down by their coach's supposed expertise literally and consistently year after year, definitely not in football history and I'm not sure in any sport ever.
You said you watched OKC...that team has been crafted and coached brilliantly. SGA is a top 3 player in the NBA, they have guys for him to drive and dish to either at the 3 pt line or lobs to keep defenses honest or make them pay...and they supplant all of that with a tough, physical defense that can get stops and doesn't make their success completely reliant on SGA being Superman offensively in every big game.
For a McD-led team...our biggest rival can have a mediocre offense all year and hang 30+ no problem on his D in the postseason...and asks our QB to put up 30+ against an elite D.
I not only don't see the similarity here....I think it's actually the exact opposite of what you're saying, and what you think teams should get away from but we're actually still stuck in. McD has created a situation where we DO need our star player to bring it home himself by probably needing at least 2 if not 3 Superman type games against elite defenses in the playoffs to win it all AND not have the defense on the field for the final moments of the game. It's an incredibly tough task and it's why we haven't won a SB yet with 17.
I honestly can not think of a head coach in any sport, given what his supposed expertise is in, who has been more destructive and a bigger deterrent to an elite player winning a championship than Sean McDermott has been to Josh Allen.
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On 5/14/2025 at 7:32 PM, H2o said:
Nice breakdown.
Beane/McDermott, though we get frustrated and talk a lot of crap at times, when you stack them up against the other top end teams in the league, we look just as good. I really believe this year's draft is the one that is going to put us over the top. I really loved this draft class.
I don't know how it can be said that we look just as good when we haven't won anything. Before this past season we had 3 Divisional exits in a row.
We really haven't even been close to winning it all if you examine where we've been in the postseason during this era, that to me has become such a misnomer.
The McBeane regime has been good but not great, those are just facts.
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On 5/14/2025 at 7:33 PM, Chandler#81 said:
Mike North, VP of League scheduling chimes in on our schedule
Bills Mobile: Instant Reaction: Bills 2025 Regular Season Schedule Announced
Haha I used to live in Chicago and I thought when I saw Mike North I thought it was that clown that was one of the biggest sports radio guys back then and I couldn't believe the NFL gave someone like him that gig. But it's not him.
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On 4/25/2025 at 7:01 PM, astb41 said:
city connect for NFL.
That's exactly what it is. Although they didn't botch the Mets one as much as I thought they would. I actually got one of the hats cuz it was pretty cool. But I would say quite a bit of it overall in MLB was lame. They must have done well with the merch though.
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On 5/10/2025 at 3:11 PM, BillsFanForever19 said:
The Saints have said that they plan to do a competition between Hough, Rattler, and Haener - https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/kellen-moore-declares-open-qb-competition-among-tyler-shough-jake-haener-spencer-rattler
That might be lip service for now. But it might be true. One thing to keep in mind is Arch Manning is coming out in 2026. So teams may be bypassing on getting a QB that would win them some games this year in hopes that they can land him next offseason.
The Giants signing Winston, then signing Wilson, then Drafting Dart is kind of an odd situation. As was the Browns trading for Kenny Pickett, signing Joe Flacco, and then Drafting both Gabriel and Sanders. Both seem like situations where the QB situation is nowhere and they're just grabbing up everything they can to throw against a wall and see what sticks this year.
Daboll/Schoen need to win this year. And if they don't, they at least have to show some big potential from Dart in the 2nd half of the season. That's why they loaded up, they basically get those 2 shots to keep their jobs - either win or show a very promising future. They were lucky to even get this after the way the last 2 seasons went.
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It feels like the Ravens know that the evidence doesn't look good for Tucker. This guy has been a huge part of their franchise, if they felt even decently at all about his innocence I think they'd have his back much more than this.
On 5/7/2025 at 10:20 PM, ChronicAndKnuckles said:Never understood why athletes who can get anyone they want still decide to do this weird ****
Me neither. Even the whole Trevor Bauer thing where he may be "innocent"...he basically still gets off on hitting women and sent all those texts from his own phone and social media. It's so bizarre to me why they put themselves in those positions. Even just at baseline if we're taking him at his word...using your own Instagram and "playing rough" with a woman you barely know when you're a famous athlete is just stupid.
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12 minutes ago, Jukester said:
Yeah, you'd login on their account but one major caveat: Access limited to one device at a time. Family sharing not included.
That is one hell of a discount though, basically 75% off
Just now, shane nelson said:I was a Sunday ticket loyalist for years, however, there are so many Bills games now in prime time spots that it really is no longer worth it. Games that are not on local TV are available at a few local bars.
That's the really annoying part for me is to help my Dad with all that from a different state. I get him Sunday Ticket every year but then I also have to help him with downloading all the other 5987094874 apps the games are on outside of that if he can't go to a bar that day.
They've jacked the prices up and made it ridiculously complicated at the same time.
I'd be totally fine with the price if they just made it easy for an old man like my pops to watch all the games all in one place.
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19 minutes ago, Mat68 said:
He was not good. After the trade the offense was. Palmer is an upgrade over Cooper and Hollins. My point Beane has no problem being aggressive. He didnt trade up for Thomas. Philly, Miami, LAR and Pittsburgh all got value at positions of need. You cant just trade up because you want to. Need someone who wants to move back. Pretty obvious they missed on their top players and why they moved backed. This year everyone expected DE, DT,CB in some order. Complaining about a 4th rd wr not drafted is asinine. Royals or Horton would have a tough time cracking the top 4 barring injury. Moore or another similar wr offers the 25 Bills the same value maybe more. Whats the issue? Poor wr draft. Deep dline draft. Turns out Buffalo best value picks were db on day 3. Day 3 get your highest rated guys and guys who could make the team. I see no problem with what happened.
I don't actually have a problem with him not drafting a WR if the right guy wasn't on the board. I was disagreeing more with the idea that he fixed the situation last year with the Cooper trade or that they've earned some kind of trust with putting the right support around the QB or their defensive drafting when the incompetence around all of those things is why we've underperformed so much in the playoffs.
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8 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:
I completely agree with you. It's kind of like the MVP conversation in that Allen did more with less than Lamar but Lamar was phenomenal also with slightly better stats. When two QB's are that close the only thing you can really go by is head to head matchups when the pressure is the highest in the playoffs. I think if we beat the Chiefs in the playoffs next year and win the Super Bowl I'd give the nod to Allen as the best QB in the league. Also, with the 13 second game. I don't care how soft are coverage was. Mahomes had to execute two perfect plays to get them into field goal range and he did.
I agree overall.
On the last part though...yes Mahomes had to execute those plays but I would still say it's highly unlikely that if Josh was put in that situation that the coverage would have been that soft and vanilla in that same scenario with 13 seconds. I'm not taking away from Mahomes when I say that because you don't control who you're going up against, and as I still think he should carry the mantle of best QB in the league right now...but rather that Josh doesn't get to go up against that...he actually most of the time in those big games has to go up against formidable defenses, coaching and scheme.
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1 minute ago, Mat68 said:
So he has demonstrated he will make a move to fix the position if it needs it? He did it in October. They did not like the wr class. Many did not. The big needs at dline and db were filled. Why is this still be discussed. If the team has a need Beane has shown he will go to great lengths to fix them.
He didn't fix it though. Cooper sucked. And if you don't think he sucked, obviously he and Josh weren't able to create a chemistry on the field for him to be more impactful during the season...which would illustrate that it's a tough fix mid-season. I don't see how he fixed it in October.
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14 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
The same defense the Eagles scored 40 on. I kid. I realize that but I have a hard time declaring Allen as the best QB in the game until he finishes that drive down 3 in the 4th quarter that will pry inevitably happen again. If you ever look at their head to head stats in the playoffs they're both astoundingly good in those four games.
But you do know that's different right? Their defenses have been much better, especially in the playoffs. Even if you watch just that game last year, our guy had to make much tougher plays and it was a grind to get every yard and he was still possibly a bad call from winning it. Our defenses have largely been a sieve every single postseason. Also, he finished two of those drives in the 13 seconds game in the final 2 minutes and that still wasn't enough for this team to close it out for him.
I get the part at the end. We had a shot to win it this past postseason and it was disappointing that it didn't happen. But the ask of him is to put up 30+ points vs a top level defense and the ask of Mahomes is to put up 30+ against a trash one. And this isn't even me throwing shade at Mahomes, I would agree with someone that he still gets the mantle of best QB in the game.
It is true though that his organization and team have made it possible for him to get to and win SB's even if he isn't great all postseason long. And that's how it should be. We can't even get there when our guy is great. If he's having a down game, we have no shot. The second SB the Chiefs won vs the 49ers I think they punted like 3 times and had a turnover or two in the first half and scored 3 points I believe and their D kept them in the game....we would've been blown out if Josh had that type of half against a top team in January.
I know what you're saying but I don't think it's as simple as that.
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The Best to Never Get There
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Who chooses the OC's and DC's? McD has had 8 years to get that right. Other teams have also won and beat the Chiefs without having Reid/Spags. Also, the Chiefs have not been an offensive juggernaut for the last couple years - only against us in January. If McD had put up one game where his side of the ball wasn't flat out horrific against the Chiefs in the playoffs...we'd have a win against them. Just one. While other teams in the league have been able to do that. The Bills offense has actually done a pretty good job of putting up points against what's been a top defense in the NFL the last couple years while the D can't contain what's been a mediocre offense.
The problem of not being able to do this ever with this many shots is a unique one that we have. I'm not sure how much more evidence people like yourself need of this.