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I mean Mike McCarthy was a very good head coach for a solid stretch in there, he fell off hard after the 2016 season with 4 out of 7 seasons below .500 and poor postseason showings as head coach of the Cowboys. I think McDermott is more adaptable than McCarthy and more likely to make changes when not getting desired results. McCarthy failed to adjust as the game evolved and does not come across as a particularly strong leader of men. The Bills under McDermott are resilient and players vocally like playing for the team, even after having left the Bills. If McDermott's Bills start posting sub-.500 regular season records and/or start getting regularly bounced out of the Wild Card round with prime Allen playing, I'll be fully on board with him getting fired and a new regime getting brought in.

We're a consistent contender with Allen, but we're still a perennial playoff team with a top 10 QB and a #1 WR, and frankly it's ridiculous how much some of you insist on pretending otherwise

Yes? That's literally every media personality's job, if you don't make hyperbolic, attention-grabbing statements then you don't get views, and if you don't get views you lose your job I think it's fair to say that Allen is the main reason why we make the playoffs every single year, but not the main reason we make the playoffs generally. He has the second-highest contract AAV, so he's going to get "less help" than ~30 other QBs by default. Them's the breaks. The fact that he's better than his peers in that price range helps the team, significantly. Players like Burrow are better pure passers. Players like Lamar are more dangerous dual-threats. Allen being the complete package is extraordinarily helpful to the team. This is still a playoff roster with Sam Darnold and a 30 million dollar receiver instead of Allen and Josh Palmer, though. The defense, OL, and RBs are good enough to regularly make the playoffs with merely "good" QB play and a true #1 wideout.

Talking heads that are paid to stir the pot stir the pot, news at 11

Coaches of 9-4 teams are of course notorious for requiring fall guys

If we win out, just Jets or Dolphins over the Pats is needed. We would win on Conference record tiebreaker.

No.

Why do you ignore that we're missing 3 out of our 4 top pass-rushers to injury when evaluating the DL's pass-rushing output? When other teams lose as many defensive players to injury as we have, their defenses look like absolute trainwrecks. Ours is still pretty reasonable despite major personnel losses.

12-5 is guaranteed into the playoffs and 11-6 is 99+% guaranteed, with 10-7 giving us a really solid shot of making it in as well. Y'all are aware our record is 8-4, right?

Groot is a very good player who is appropriately paid for his contributions. The player you want him to be would have been extended for literally double the contract value. I feel like a broken record in these threads, but it doesn't change reality.

Yeah, it was absurd then and is absurd to bring up now

Those are a pretty big 3 games in difference, though, and with anyone other than Hochuli reffing we very probably win that first matchup even with the turnovers

Guess I wasn't referring to you then, no?

Wait what Do tell

I didn't, and it's telling that you assumed you were being referred to And we don't get to choose 100% of the people we exist around

Sure, sure. I know many people who will say that when they're calm in in "polite company" Those same folks sing a very different tune both IRL and on this board during games, after losses, or during any other Bills-related distress When people tell me who they are, I believe them

Genuinely most of the people that most vocally want him gone seem to be upset that he's a decent human being It's why they have to make up absurd character attacks or call him spineless or gutless or other things that are demonstrably untrue They want an ***hole at head coach because they themselves are miserable ***holes and they can't stand the idea of success from somebody that's actually a decent human being so he MUST be a coward and/or incompetent Shoutout to the couple of folks on here who seem to be level-headed about it but goodness you are few and far between

Our defense is fine, it's been ~average all year despite losing a ton of man hours to injury

Because sometimes opposing teams have successful drives?

I don't disagree but the Bills have a much better chance of not having a freak injury occur than getting better value than JJ out of three bottom-of-the-round picks imo

I am generally pretty risk-averse but prime JJ is absolutely worth having to have a reset year or two

Certain Bills fans are literally the only people who think that the Bills aren't a way better team than Cinci

Dang, what would it take to land him? Our draft picks our so late they're seriously devalued. I would absolutely give up the next three first-rounders, though.

Our defense is solid The run defense is rough, but overall ranks are pretty average

It's literally injuries We aren't in this position because we cut a bunch of players that couldn't hack it, we're running out of bodies due to injury I don't know why this is so hard for folks to process