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Okay, so this sounds more like a complaint about the defense's postseason performances, which is valid. Plenty of Top 10 offenses have won a championship. Incidentally, the Chiefs had an offense well outside the Top 10 despite a HoF TE and Reid running the show last season and still pulled it off. Frankly our offensive performance doesn't matter as much for postseason results as our defense, so I don't see why Top 3 vs. Top 10 matters that much. The offense has been good enough to get past the Chiefs in the postseason.

Based on..?

Not good enough for what?

Yawn. The Bills' wide receiver group consists of a productive WR3 from last year, multiple second-round picks, and proven spot contributors. It lacks a top end elite talent, which isn't ideal, but Shakir, Samuel, MVS, and Mack Hollins all belong on a professional football field. Claypool and Coleman are question marks for different reasons, but both have high-end physical traits and Claypool started his career with two solid seasons. It's a middling group that will be solid if either Coleman or Claypool play close to their potential and straight-up good if they both do. I think it's likely that Claypool fizzles and Coleman has a ~500 yard season, so I'm expecting a Top 20 group at wideout with good TE and RB performances to complement it. Y'all are acting like we're trotting out Stevie Johnson, Donald Jones, David Nelson, and Naaman Roosevelt as our top 4 again. It's absurd. Mack Hollins would have been a starter on that squad, not the 5th or 6th option. Barring injury to Allen, the Bills are going to be a Top 10 overall offense, per usual, with a few rough games against good defenses. Best start prepping your very, very impressive intellect for that impending reality.

I am aware of the nuance. The nuance is why I said what I said. Being able to assume good QB play and help from the other side of the ball reduces the heroics required from our WR unit and should lead to strong production numbers if our players have NFL-caliber talent, which they do.

There is a significant difference between the drought years and now in terms of who is throwing the ball and the quality of the defensive unit to fall back on if needed.

Genuine question-- what has Daboll shown as an offensive coordinator/offensive mind outside of his years working with Josh Allen? I have not seen anything compelling to suggest that Daboll was a particularly good offensive coordinator. Chan Gailey, for example, can hang his hat on getting medium-to-good production out of talent that was definitely bottom half, if not bottom third, of the league. Not the most prestigious of accomplishments, but he could put together functional systems that squeezed the most possible juice out of mediocre talents. Open to having my mind changed. That said, I have never really understood the pining for Daboll or the small-but-vocal faction of fandom that would have preferred keeping him over McDermott. I just don't see it.

Is it gaslighting ourselves to think that the team we are a fan of, that has been inarguably a top 5 team in the NFL for three straight seasons, will probably continue to be very good? Why should we believe otherwise?

With your current concern about the talent, where do you expect the Bills' offensive outputs to rank?

This implies that the Bills have not been top offensive units the last several seasons. They have. And if it doesn't drop?

I honestly don't get it, Diggs and Davis were clearly no longer particularly crucial players to our offensive success by the end of last season. We have players that can fill that same role on the roster, that will likely have comparable per-target production. We had a very good offense last season. And somehow we're doomed??? The offense is going to be fine. The lack of top-end talent will I'm sure contribute to some frustration, but I would be genuinely shocked if we were not a top 5 offense this season.

We had an effective offense last year, despite a brutal second half Diggs decline and a Davis being wholly unable to occupy the same page as Allen. Take some deep breaths, y'all. Our receiving corps will be fine.

There was also bad luck involved-- Watson dead-to-rights on a sack but two Bills got there at the same time and it actually kept him upright is a moment that sticks out in my memory.

TBH the internet was probably a mistake

Would you, though? Or would you be in here complaining about the new regime and wondering why the team can't just snap our fingers and win a Superbowl? Sometimes the other team wins, welcome to sports. We win more than anyone that isn't the Chiefs.

Have the Bills been "falling short"? How are we measuring that? Did the Eagles win the SB six years later because they moved on from Reid? That seems like a stretch. Is that what we're hoping for? Fire McDermott so we can maybe win a Superbowl in 2030?

Is being a perennial contender a problem?

Really enjoying the folks who would rather the Bills lose so they can be right about McDermott than continue to be a good team year in and year out with McDermott at the helm.

I think that it is much easier to post good QB performances when you split field time with a top-5 defense and play for a competent, well-run football organization. Compare and contrast with, say, Justin Herbert.

Are we going to pretend here that QBR has zero correlation with quality of team coaching?

The constant expectation of a market reset by these dudes and their agents is going to cripple so many teams. Tua "should" get $25-30 mil per. Still multigenerational wealth and reflects that he needs substantial roster help to produce at a high level (and importantly leaves cap room for that help). But he's probably going to end up at $50 mil+.

And also CB injuries (Douglas). We could barely field an NFL-caliber defense, it's a miracle they got the key stop that they did.

For what it's worth, "I have spoken" is basically 1B to "This is the way"'s 1A. As in, it's just kinda goofy and he's likely having a giggle while you are working yourself up over a Star Wars quote. He didn't attack anybody on a personal level, just dropped a Mandolorian quote. I think you can probably ease off, here.

Remind us again why you consider this elaborate fan fiction of yours to be a probable scenario? What evidence do you have to support any of these ideas?

Right? I know some folks get grumpy when a certain card is mentioned, but come on now people