HomeskillitMoorman
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3 minutes ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
What we are seeing is Desperation vs being a stud franchise. We can afford to wait.
If we got Ward and Brown thats a huge win
They have to do something to put butts in the seats.
I don't know how we can claim to be a stud franchise when we haven't won anything. We haven't even been to the big game. There were also a lot of people last year ripping on the Eagles for what they gave Saquon but that big swing helped win them a championship.
I'm not saying spend recklessly but what we've been doing considering we have an elite QB has not translated into postseason success either. There's a cost to being too conservative as well.
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3 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
I'm in a vast minority, I actually like Fields. I think he can play. He also make a lot of mistakes. At that price as a 1-2 year bridge isn't a bad move.
Depends on if they can get out of it after 1 year with minimal casualty. If so, it's not a bad move.
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1 hour ago, 4merper4mer said:
I swear I typed rinky dink but funky dink seems like a phrase that should have been used by now.
Right. It starts at Noon. East Noon is before West Noon therefore advantage East.
I agree, it's not fair. But on the flip side, we in California get to watch the Bills at 10am and already know what happens before people in Buffalo get to watch the game in person at 1pm.
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3 minutes ago, TheWeatherMan said:
Agree, but also have to consider the offense failed to score on their last possessions the last two playoff losses, which could/should have sealed a win.
That's a very simplistic way to look at it though. Like this year we put up 29 points in the playoffs vs one of the top defenses in the league and I believe had been the only team to score 30+ on them all season while allowing 32 points to a mediocre offense.
The defense has let us down in the playoffs every single season of this era. That's where the real problem lies.
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10 minutes ago, LEBills said:
Hendrickson had one very good season in NO before cashing in. It was a risk that paid off for the Bengals. I think Greg has shown several good seasons worthy of 7% of the salary cap.
I like the stars and scrubs model too where you have a few superstars. But unless you draft those players, acquiring those top players is costly and I think the Rams are the only team I can remember pulling it off…and even with them their best player was drafted.
I do think Beane gives out some silly contracts. Oliver and Bernard in particular. But I think this is one of his better contracts that can be part of building a good DLine.
I don't agree that the Bernard contract was silly in it of itself. If we have a good d-line, he's a really good playmaker. But that's the catch-22 here with the Rosseau signing IMO. I don't think this helps his cause. We needed a makeover on the d-line.
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2 hours ago, gonzo1105 said:
I think people haven’t come to grips that salaries like this are the norm. It’s not just Bills fans but every fan. It’s not an overpay. It seems like it because it’s a massive amount of cash but this is actually less than he could have gotten a year from now for sure
It's not really the salary for me...it's the player. The guy for the most part is non-existent when it matters most, and got manhandled by our biggest rival.
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Dude that got completely bullied by the team we can’t beat and disappears frequently in big moments…4 more years!
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Not being an impact player would actually make him a solid fit in our WR room.
But I'm still hoping for someone better.
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1 hour ago, DabillsDaBillsDaBills said:
88% of Bills players believe their head coach Sean McDermott is efficient with their time, a rank of 24 out of 32.
The players feel that McDermott is moderately receptive to locker room feedback on the team’s needs, ranking him 27 of 32 head coaches in the league.
I'm surprised that translated into such a low ranking. Most teams really love their coaches I guess
The players have to be aware that McDermott's side of the ball has been awful in 6 straight postseasons. He's a defensive head coach that is a horrific defensive coach. That's not lost on them.
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2 hours ago, appoo said:
He also straight up talks about evolving his defense and being visonary to attack modern offenses
How long does it take? He’s had 8 years here with zero improvement in the playoffs and our biggest rivals-
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3 hours ago, Nihilarian said:
Did we all forget that #17 Josh Allen won MVP? That RB James Cook was a top 5 RB in the NFL? That the Buffalo Bills O line graded as one of the best last season?
Did I recall reading that the 2024 Buffalo Bills were the highest scoring team in franchise history and one of the top scoring teams in the league?
Things should work out okay...have some faith.
It's really weird to see this comment from someone with the name Nihilarian
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12 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:
Back in March the EFFING GOVERNOR of MISSOURI commuted Britt Reid's sentence, and he is supposed to be under house arrest until October of this year. That's as overt as entitlement gets. Big part of why KC is so easy to root against.
That's so wild, I didn't even know about that and just read a little more about it. That little girl that was one of the people he hit in a parked car because he was so drunk has a serious TBI that's going to affect her for the rest of her life and this guy's getting a commuted sentence when the prosecutor didn't even go for the max sentence in the original case.
Those parents must be so furious, I can't even imagine.
3 hours ago, Beast said:I like Mahomes. However he seems to have some strange family members.
"Strange" is being pretty charitable
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1 hour ago, ProcessTruster said:
5 more good seasons would be awesome, just in general. screw the tournament urgency, they'll get a SB one of these years .
I've seen you post a few times about the "tournament" and it's supposed lack of real meaning...I guess I would ask you what you think what a Process that you trust is for then in general if not a championship. Is it for the best record? Because we haven't had that either.I'm just curious honestly. What's your barometer for the apex of success? Or is there not one?
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I like Eric Wood but what a mountain of a leap here. You're still left with quite a bit of ugly baggage of Incognito even if you took away this whole incident.
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57 minutes ago, MJS said:
I think we need better players. But yeah, they need to continue to evolve the scheme. And they have been. They ran a lot more man this year and blitzed more. They ran that odd mirror defense with Milano spying that was extremely effective against Denver and Baltimore in the playoffs. That was a really nice scheme. A good pass rusher would really go a long way...
He's had 8 years to build the defense and scheme that he wants. Why doesn't it take good defensive coaches anywhere close to that long to do that? And you're always going to have some injuries. McDermott has let us down in the biggest games in every single postseason. He and his side of the ball have never pulled their weight.It's fine if you like the guy, but it's the objective truth that his side of the ball has been a big letdown in his time here.
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8 minutes ago, T master said:
Just a foolish thought !! If so name 1 PLEASE ... 🙄
Almost as goofy as saying - well Josh can't win the big game so let's get rid of him, sure he's good in the regular season but he just can't win a big game ...
Were you a Levy hater too ???
But it's not like saying that because Josh has played very well in the postseason, he's done his part. McDermott hasn't, his side of the ball has let us down in SIX straight postseasons.
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I want to beat him though after how many times he's just destroyed us
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On 2/9/2025 at 7:42 PM, zevo said:
is this McD swallowing some pride? takes a lot to do that but I like it. McD is a damn fine head coach.
I think that has to be shown on the field. He hasn't swallowed his pride to change anything to combat the Chiefs after all these years.
I hope he is because we need drastic changes from what we've been doing defensively.
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On 2/9/2025 at 11:42 AM, JohnNord said:
I was really surprised to hear McDermott commit to Smiley at the press conference.
Say what you will about him, but McDermott usually makes good decisions about his staff. When there’s a unit that struggles badly, he almost always moves on from that assistant.
2017 - Rick Dennison
2018 - Danny Crossman/Juan Castillo
2021 - Bobby Johnson
2023 - Ken Dorsey
Didn't the D struggle for years in big games when we had Frazier and he kept him? Also ST were terrible in '23-'24 and he still kept Smiley.
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17 hours ago, Logic said:
How about teams with very good to elite QB play who don't even MAKE the playoffs?
Herbert's Chargers have been subpar until this season and have missed the playoffs several times.
Burrow's Bengals missed the playoffs entirely this year.
Do we get to count those?Because the question that's being begged to be answered is what exactly is it that's a net positive that McDermott is bringing to the table here? If his side of the ball, his proficiency, has let us down tremendously 6 years in a row which it has...and he's not a good in-game manager...we have a major Head Coach problem that's standing in our way.
The Chargers DID make a change, and rightfully so. We've started the see the benefit of that for them and I think that uptrend is going to continue. I'm sure Bengals fans share a lot of concerns over keeping their guy even though they have made it to a Super Bowl.
I mean sure, you can count those if you want to. But why is our standard is to compare ourselves to the 2 absolute worst situations with very good to elite QB play rather than all of the other situations that are winning SB's? Or teams that probably could if their guy played anywhere close to as well as Josh overall has in the playoffs?
McDermott has almost completely flushed the 20's of the best QB we've ever had because he can't put together a defense that can hold Mahomes under ridiculously gaudy numbers like completing 75% of his passes when this isn't happening for him against other top teams.
Just an honest question...do you think McD's defense has not been the primary problem of why we haven't gotten to the Super Bowl yet?
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12 hours ago, Cash said:
What part of what I wrote came across as hyperbole? Just curious - I thought it was a pretty measured take TBH.Because it's not true that the high majority of people that want McD gone are holding him to some kind of perennial "Super Bowl or bust" standard for every individual season...they're talking about what's happened over and over again for the last 6 seasons. McDermott's a defensive coach whose defense has destroyed us in the playoffs for 6 seasons in a row. That's not even mentioning his below par game management.
We're seeing just about every other team be able to contain the Chiefs offense in the playoffs, especially the ones who have faced them multiple times. McD's defense is the only one that consistently gets ran roughshod over by them. The Eagles in this game forced 6 punts and 3 turnovers...we probably have something like 6 punts TOTAL over FOUR playoff games against them and I believe just one or two turnovers. I think someone in an earlier post said we've never gotten them to punt more than 2 times in ANY of those games.
Our QB in the playoffs has 33 TD's and 4 int's and it's a huge struggle for us just to get out of the Divisional Round. QB's that are doing much less are getting to and winning SB's.
McDermott has had 8 years here to install a defense that can literally contribute at all in the playoffs and he still hasn't bothered to do it. We're going on a decade....how long does he need? 15 years? 20?
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10 minutes ago, Cash said:
Thanks for this. I just don't think "Super Bowl or bust" is a fair standard to hold anyone to. MAYBE in the days before free agency and the salary cap, when it was a lot more feasible to assemble and keep a superior team. I don't know if we'll win a Super Bowl under McDermott and Beane, but I think most external candidates would make our chances get a lot worse. If someone could guarantee me that their replacements would be upgrades, I'd absolutely call for their heads. But you can't, and I don't like those odds - at least not right now.
And for the record, I think the Bills *did* show improvement this year. The talent level took a step back due to cap reasons, but the wins and offensive stats did not. We went to the AFC Championship game, which isn't the goal, but is still an accomplishment. [Side note: if making the NFL's Final Four doesn't count for anything, why even bother watching games? Just show up for the Super Bowl, since that's the only thing that matters.] Our QB won the MVP award, which a Bill hasn't done since Thurman in 1991. It took everything the Chiefs had to narrowly beat us by 3 in their house. And both of our coordinators should get better next season, if only just due to having more experience.
That's a really hyperbolic way to look at what argument is being made though because this is all a composite of the last 6 years. McDermott's side of the ball has let us down in 6 straight seasons. This year was just yet another in a long line.
Let me ask you this...do you think any other team is having this same issue where an elite QB is playing very well in the playoffs and we still can't even get to a SB? Or even have this hard of a time getting past the Divisional? The Ravens haven't been to the big dance but they don't lose when Lamar plays really well in the playoffs...he just hasn't played very well in quite a few of them. There's no other team that is consistently losing with a top QB or really any QB in the playoffs that plays this well consistently.
This has been a unique Buffalo Bills problem...what reason would you say is the cause of this?
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17 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:
and Brian Billick was an offensive minded head coach with a horrible offense but won with an elite defense.
Sure but he was able to keep his offense out of the way when they won, they weren't a massive liability preventing them from winning. McD's defense is letting Mahomes complete like 75% of his passes in the playoffs against him when he's not doing that against the rest of the league. It's not a Chiefs problem we have....it's a McDermott problem that we have.
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10 minutes ago, Augie said:
I believe calling it “a stretch” is putting it very politely.
There are some seriously miserable people around here.
I think it's more because if you look at the last 4 years, we've massively underperformed in the playoffs given what our elite QB has given us. Other top QB's aren't consistently losing these games they're playing very well in like we are.
Our coach's side of the ball, defense, has let us down in the biggest games in 6 straight postseasons now. And yes this year it was to a team that pretty much had just a mediocre offense.
It is a big problem when your defensive Head Coach is horrendous at coaching defense.
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Bills Sign WR Josh Palmer 3-$36M
in The Stadium Wall
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He's fine...but I have the same concerns that a lot of people do about the lack of elite talent we have.