Buffalo03
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Yep. No more of the Bills having a long season and not making a Super Bowl until September. Can't wait
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On 1/31/2025 at 4:05 PM, Charles Romes said:
Yeah Brady was OC Carolina and was fired
As a scapegoat
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6 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
It’s easy to say you don’t care about the salary cap when you aren’t an actual GM of an NFL team.
Does Beane wanna try to win Super Bowls? Or keep treading water?
7 hours ago, jaybeezee said:Facts! But the reality is that the system is the problem. We could have some.of those big names and I still feel like they would underperform in this defense. I got torched on here for saying we had JAGS on our d-line after we beat Denver and im not disputing that we need a Garret/Crosby type,but Beane ain't spending his precious draft capital that he uses on JAGS to get a Garret.
I personally don't think Rousseau is worth extending. If we cut him and bring in Maxx Crosby, I'm perfectly OK with it
6 hours ago, LabattBlue said:While the cap can be manipulated at times, you can’t just say “forgot about the cap”. Take a look at Diggs huge dead cap hit for this past season as a perfect example.
Kind of a different situation
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25 minutes ago, MWK said:
The "we're picking low every year" excuse is pathetic. So you're admitting you don't know how to draft elite players?
I mean, the later the pick in the round, the less of a chance of finding an elite player. Just saying.
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9 minutes ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:
Free agents aren't a roster building strategy.
The right free agents are. What more do we have to lose at this point?
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23 minutes ago, RkFast said:
Broader point...I DETEST the injury excuse. Injuries and players being out...and overcoming that...are literally a foundational part of the game. You would think the GM of an organization that LOST A SUPER BOWL TO A BACKUP QB would realize that.
Beane lost a Super Bowl to a backup QB?
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If I'm McDermott, I'm sending this video to the NFL and asking them for an explanation and exposing this
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We need a pass rush. Until we get one, we have no chance at stopping Mahomes in the playoffs. I don't care about salary cap and I don't care much about draft picks. Do what it takes to get Garrett out of Cleveland or at the very least Crosby out of Vegas. Crosby, I think will cost a little less but we have to take a swing. On top of that, Khalil Mack is a free agent. Again, I don't care about Salary cap and I don't trust finding the right player in the draft. We have already tried this numerous times and it isn't working. I would feel better with a known commodity. I know it's a long shot that we sign both. But if I'm Beane, I'm taking a swing on both. If we give up 2 first round picks for Garrett, I don't care. If there is a player to do that for, he is the guy. Crosby would probably be at least 1 first round pick. Make the moves, get to Mahomes and that's it. We will never get past them if we don't
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You all realize that even the Chiefs don't have the perfect roster, right? You don't to get the championship game by not being talented enough. They are just better in big games
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This should be their pump up song to the crowd next season. They aren't getting me again
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They are also just smarter. Greg Rousseau said they ran a lot of plays that weren't on film and it threw them off. That's stuff we need to start doing. Surprise them
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Where do some people get these ideas from?
You know when I listened to it. I think he confirmed what I always thought, he wants to run for president someday.
Like seriously?
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1 minute ago, uticaclub said:
We don’t have players like Karlaftis, Chris Jones, McDuffie, or Tranquill on our defense. While anything can happen on any given Sunday, the lack of elite difference-makers makes that task harder.
Yes, but we have players like Milano, Bernard, Benford when healthy. We got guys. Again, we lost by 3 points a TD beats them by 4. That's all it took to go the Super Bowl. We can beat anyone we play when we are on our game. Yesterday we weren't
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3 minutes ago, uticaclub said:
We didn’t win, and we haven’t succeeded in these important games. Lamar Jackson is the only quarterback of significant merit that we’ve defeated in the playoffs. Do you think Year 9 will be any different? The sample size is large enough now; Beane will likely miss on the first three rounds of the draft. We’ll win enough games against weaker teams to make the playoffs, but then we’ll find ourselves in the same situation next year. Nothing changes unless something changes. With the Patriots hiring Vrabel and Maye showing promise, the division is no longer guaranteed for us.
I understand we didn't win but that doesn't mean we weren't talented enough to win. You can be just as talented or more talented than a team and lose when you have a bad day. This team is good enough the way it is to beat any team when we play the way we are supposed to. If we would have scored one more TD yesterday, we would be on our way to the Super Bowl next week.
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2 minutes ago, Kelly to Allen said:
I respect your opinion brother but they didn't. And if you want my honest hardcore opinion, I didn't think they were ever winning this game. I didn't think they were winning last years game or against Cincinnati.
13 seconds was their best team. I truly believed we were winning the Superbowl that year....It was electric and Allen was incredible. It didn't happen
Right. It didn't happen. But that doesn't mean they don't have the talent to make it happen. Again, they were one win away. If they score one more TD yesterday that is all it would have took and then all you have to do is beat the Eagles. We were definitely good enough. We just made the mistakes that the Chiefs didn't
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Just now, uticaclub said:
Top 4 with no chance of winning isn’t good enough
Who said we had no chance of winning. We were in the championship game. We scored 29 points. We only lost by 3. We made some mistakes that if we don't win, we probably would have won. We are good enough to beat any team I. The league when we are on. Unfortunately, yesterday we weren't
6 minutes ago, Kelly to Allen said:This regime will never get to a super bowl.
Maybe if they held on in 13 seconds they win the super bowl and things would be different. It didn't go that way for a reason....
Nothing pisses me off more than the NFL getting rid of the 2 seed bye week.
I mean seriously??!!!
What a cosmic joke
You can make that argument for the 2 seed bye week but again, you didn't answer my question of had we had gotten to the Super Bowl this year which was entirely possible, would you make the same argument because we were one win away. And we lost by 3 points
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2 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:
If we run it back, which we will, the goal is simple. First round bye or bust. This team can't keep facing Lamar, Burrow, or Mahomes in the divisional and then again on the road. They need more of a lay up divisional game and then a home game in the conference champion. That would be a sign to say maybe its different. To do that we can't have any early season lapses, slow starts, sleepy games. We need to be out for blood from the jump.
Only issue with this is, as this year showed. We won 13 games. We could have easily won 14 if we wanted to actually play starters and try against the Patriots the last game of the season. Even with that 14 wins, we still wouldn't have gotten a first round bye because the Chiefs won 15. We have won 13 games 3 times the last 5 seasons and all 3 times we missed out on the number 1 seed because the other teams had 14. It's not simple. Asking a team to win 14 or 15 games a year just to get the 1 seed is too difficult. Even the Chiefs only won 11 games last year in the regular season
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4 minutes ago, Kelly to Allen said:
This regime is the Warren Moon oilers. Awesome team, scored lots of points. Lots of accomplishment
They weren't a championship regime.
Same could be said about the Knicks or Utah jazz but they at least got to the championship.
There is a strong demarcation between the bills level and KC. It goes beyond just this game and the gulf is wider than this singular moment. It's many moments together and they're just not good enough.
Allen is a hof qb tho and isn't even 30 yet so there is tangible substantive hope for a world championship
This team is plenty good enough. They just make the most mistakes when it matters most. They have to fix that. I honestly think this team can beat anyone in the league when they are on their game. Yesterday they weren't. I ask you again, had they have gotten to a Super Bowl and won it this year with this same roster, would you make the same argument?
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4 minutes ago, Kelly to Allen said:
Because in life you have to try. Maybe someone is from a tough background, maybe they got burned in a bad marriage but you've to keep trying.
This chapter is closed in my opinion and I think it's just time to move on and start a new story around Allen.
This is kinda more serious than sports but when I was still drinking, I would keep going to the bar not out of enjoyment but because I didn't want to let go of that part of my life. I knew I had to stop but I didn't want to let go.
Eventually it took severe anxiety from alcohol withdrawal and I finally moved on.
This regime is living under the umbrella of 13 seconds and I just think it's time to move on.
You can't compare life situations to sports. They are 2 totally different things. And also I still think you're wrong when you say we aren't close. You're wrong. We are very close. Let me ask you something. We were win away from a Super Bowl. We scored 30 or more points 13 times and over 40 points 5 times. All we to do had was win this game and it's 50/50 that we win a Super Bowl. Now let me ask you, if we had won the Super Bowl this year with this same roster, would you be making the same argument? Because that is literally how close we were. The other thing to think about here is, football playoffs are only one game. If football was best of 7 like other sports, how many times do you think we could beat the Chiefs? 3? Maybe on another really good day 4? It's all about being better on that day. We were the better team in the regular season game. We didn't play like it in the playoffs. The fact that we can beat them in the regular season tells me in a best of 7, we could get them 3 or maybe 4 times. That's not way off. We also didn't have Benford after early in the game and no Rapp. Every single one of their players was healthy. There's a lot of factors that go into a one game single elimination game. It's not as simple as it sounds
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1 minute ago, Kelly to Allen said:
Ppl can get mad at me dude but if Cincinnati got in they were going to cook our defense.
Sure maybe Allen goes alien mode and wins but what are we really talking about....
They're not winning a championship with this coach and regime. You can try to rationalize it however you want. I firmly believe we need to move on
They aren't winning a championship period. But that's just because that's how it goes being a Bills fan. We had a head coach that had 4 straight shots with a HOF QB and still couldn't win a Super Bowl. We had a bunch of other regimes that couldn't win anything. We have McDermott who has gone to the playoffs in 7 out of 8 seasons with another HOF talent QB in Allen. What makes you think the next regime would be different? Hasn't our history alone been enough to make you realize it doesn't matter what we do?
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4 minutes ago, Kelly to Allen said:
Same thing happened against different variations of KC and Cincinnati.... Too much data is in. They're not good enough
Beane and McDermott had 8 Years. 5 with an all time QB. It's not going to happen with this regime
They only lost to Cincy once in the playoffs. KC has ended our season 4 times in the last 5 years. But outside of Burrow one time, no one else is getting past them either. That should tell you right there that it's not just us or as much of a talent thing. Mahomes and the Chiefs literally beat everyone. He is 18-3 in the playoffs with 2 of the losses coming to Brady. We make the playoffs every year. We have gotten to the Championship game twice. You don't do that if you're not good enough. We are a top 4 team every season going into the playoffs
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4 hours ago, Mikie2times said:
This is a bit of my own therapy.....
Regardless of how you break down the game, for two straight years, we’ve had the ball down by three with our number-one-rated offense, our Superman quarterback, and a chance to tie or win the game. In both years, we failed to do so. It’s difficult to place a lot of blame on a guy who’s literally one of the only reasons we even made it to this point. But the question that we have been asking, and that we all want to know, is: why can’t we get past a certain point in the playoffs? To me, the type of quarterback Josh Allen is is at least part of that story—certainly not all of it—and clearly we wouldn’t even be here in the first place without him. Josh is the most talented quarterback in the NFL. He is the most valuable quarterback in the NFL, but he’s more of a sandlot-style player. His greatest strengths aren’t reading defenses, making pre-snap reads, delivering the hot ball quickly, or running a systematic offense. He’s not like Brady, Montana, or Burrow. And when you’re in moments where you have one drive and it needs to be executed perfectly, his style of quarterback play, in my view, is not optimal. In both years he very well could have overcome it as both of these drives we had a wide receiver or tight end drop a critical ball that could’ve changed the outcome of the game. So we this isn’t on Josh so don’t twist my position that way. Not the optimal style of play for those moments from my view. That is all, we lost as a team.
Speaking on which……
We’ve missed on several first-round draft choices for multiple years—Elam, Kincaid—and while I wouldn’t say Coleman's is a straight-up miss, when the opportunity was there to potentially draft Worthy or trade up for Thomas, we chose to go with the most risky option: a player that many people were staying away from because of separation issues. We SHOULD be asking questions about our draft strategy. We’ve done a good job in the mid-to-late rounds finding starting-level talent, but we’ve failed to find elite players, elite difference-makers. Further the roster construction at times has been a bit of a head scratcher. We made a great selection in Shakir. He’s shown to be a great YAC guy and a valuable slot receiver. Then we draft Kincaid, who is not a full-time, run-blocking, pass-catching tight end—he’s a receiving tight end. And guess what? You’re not going to be splitting him out wide very often. He’s almost always going to occupy one of your slot roles. Then what do we do in the offseason? We sign Curtis Samuel, who’s another slot-type guy. If that wasn’t enough, if you review Coleman’s tape and some of his advanced stats from MSU and Florida State, you'd see he performed best out of the big slot role, which negated some of his issues, like trouble getting off the ball and separation issues. There was no cohesion in these decisions. There were no complementary wide receivers. It almost felt like when Dorsey called plays, he was calling each one individually, as if the play before had no impact on the next. It felt like we just decided to take players we thought were good and figured we’d make it work later.
On the defensive side, I’ve been one of the most vocal critics of McDermott, but I’m tired of it. He’s our coach, and it seems likely he’s not going anywhere for a very long time, right or wrong. I’m tired of 80% of my posts crapping on him. We made some stops in yesterday’s game, and we adjusted pretty effectively in the second half. I trust him as a coach who can stabilize a team, even though I don’t like his system. Crap on him or not, at the end of the day, Kansas City has had incredible success against his system—more so than any other team they’ve faced in the playoffs. Those are facts. Kansas City performs exceptionally well against our defense, especially in the playoffs.
We’ve been at this for eight years, and we just don’t have the horses on defense. We lost both of our starting safeties and replaced them with virtually nobody. We have no depth at corner. We had Milano, who we knew wasn’t going to be ready for most of the season, and Bernard, who was a good mid-round pick. We don’t have any players who are top 8 at their positions, outside of Taron Johnson. Maybe Benford, but we just don’t have the horses. So regardless of whether you want to call McDermott’s scheme trash, and it certainly looks that way against Kansas City, he won’t be able to execute it with this talent level.
Then there’s the play-calling on offense. We’ve become so dependent on the tush push that we didn’t develop any other short-yardage plays. The only other short-yardage play we had was basically a speed option with Josh and Cook, which worked for a touchdown, one of the most amazing runs I’ve seen from a Bills player in years. But that’s about it. Look at how Kansas City schemed their bootlegs and short-yardage plays against us. When you’re dealing with a heavily compacted defense, if the end is not disciplined (and ours wasn’t), it’s game over. We had no short-yardage plays outside of the one we saw. When you’re going to scheme plays offensively to essentially put yourself in short-yardage situations, you should have a full arsenal of 1- to 2-yard plays at your disposal. But we just said, "Well, screw it, because we’re good at this." Some could argue that Philadelphia is similar, but I’ve never seen Jalen Hurts get stuffed on his own 1-yard line, fumble the ball, and nearly cost his team the game. The second Josh got stuffed on the first sneak for the 2-point conversion, that should’ve been a wake-up call. The push from Kansas City, in addition to Josh’s tentativeness, showed it was a mistake to keep running that play. I don’t care if he got the first down or not—time has told us that you cannot leave it in the hands of the refs.
We have a long season ahead and a lot of thinking to do. It sucks, and I don’t know what the answer is. We have some good players, but part of the issue when you re-sign a player whose good but not great is that they occupy that role for a significant time, and you don’t get the chance to get another great player in that spot because you think you’re good enough. It really feels like this team needs a reset, and I don’t know if that’s McDermott or not. As I said, I’m not going to continue talking about him after this post. It’s too much negativity. But this team is starting to feel like it needs the plug pulled. Not because it hasn't been very successful or McD sucks or bla bla, but more because it needs a violent shake-up to go further than it has. If that costs us a year to rebuild, I don’t care. This regime and these players have failed to get it done. Eventually, we need to figure out how to stop that from happening. You can’t just keep saying, "Well, Kansas City is the best, and we lost to the best, so that’s how it is." No. We were inches away from beating the best multiple times. A little better scheme, a little better execution, and a little better roster would’ve made the difference. It was that close, but we failed again. Perhaps we just keep running it back, I just don't know how that is the answer. But when I say blow it up it's not out of hate for these guys. I just don't know what the path forward can be.
Love you all and I wish we didn’t have to go thru this.
What makes you think Allen isn't all that great at reading defenses or presnap reads? He explains what he saw and the types of defensive looks he get in press conferences all the time
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We can't get over the hump because of the Chiefs. Plain and simple. But look at it this way, who else is getting past them besides Burrow one time? If the Chiefs were any other playoff team or had any other QB, then we would have been to at least 2 Super Bowls by now
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3 hours ago, Mikie2times said:
This is a bit of my own therapy.....
Regardless of how you break down the game, for two straight years, we’ve had the ball down by three with our number-one-rated offense, our Superman quarterback, and a chance to tie or win the game. In both years, we failed to do so. It’s difficult to place a lot of blame on a guy who’s literally one of the only reasons we even made it to this point. But the question that we have been asking, and that we all want to know, is: why can’t we get past a certain point in the playoffs? To me, the type of quarterback Josh Allen is is at least part of that story—certainly not all of it—and clearly we wouldn’t even be here in the first place without him. Josh is the most talented quarterback in the NFL. He is the most valuable quarterback in the NFL, but he’s more of a sandlot-style player. His greatest strengths aren’t reading defenses, making pre-snap reads, delivering the hot ball quickly, or running a systematic offense. He’s not like Brady, Montana, or Burrow. And when you’re in moments where you have one drive and it needs to be executed perfectly, his style of quarterback play, in my view, is not optimal. In both years he very well could have overcome it as both of these drives we had a wide receiver or tight end drop a critical ball that could’ve changed the outcome of the game. So we this isn’t on Josh so don’t twist my position that way. Not the optimal style of play for those moments from my view. That is all, we lost as a team.
Speaking on which……
We’ve missed on several first-round draft choices for multiple years—Elam, Kincaid—and while I wouldn’t say Coleman's is a straight-up miss, when the opportunity was there to potentially draft Worthy or trade up for Thomas, we chose to go with the most risky option: a player that many people were staying away from because of separation issues. We SHOULD be asking questions about our draft strategy. We’ve done a good job in the mid-to-late rounds finding starting-level talent, but we’ve failed to find elite players, elite difference-makers. Further the roster construction at times has been a bit of a head scratcher. We made a great selection in Shakir. He’s shown to be a great YAC guy and a valuable slot receiver. Then we draft Kincaid, who is not a full-time, run-blocking, pass-catching tight end—he’s a receiving tight end. And guess what? You’re not going to be splitting him out wide very often. He’s almost always going to occupy one of your slot roles. Then what do we do in the offseason? We sign Curtis Samuel, who’s another slot-type guy. If that wasn’t enough, if you review Coleman’s tape and some of his advanced stats from MSU and Florida State, you'd see he performed best out of the big slot role, which negated some of his issues, like trouble getting off the ball and separation issues. There was no cohesion in these decisions. There were no complementary wide receivers. It almost felt like when Dorsey called plays, he was calling each one individually, as if the play before had no impact on the next. It felt like we just decided to take players we thought were good and figured we’d make it work later.
On the defensive side, I’ve been one of the most vocal critics of McDermott, but I’m tired of it. He’s our coach, and it seems likely he’s not going anywhere for a very long time, right or wrong. I’m tired of 80% of my posts crapping on him. We made some stops in yesterday’s game, and we adjusted pretty effectively in the second half. I trust him as a coach who can stabilize a team, even though I don’t like his system. Crap on him or not, at the end of the day, Kansas City has had incredible success against his system—more so than any other team they’ve faced in the playoffs. Those are facts. Kansas City performs exceptionally well against our defense, especially in the playoffs.
We’ve been at this for eight years, and we just don’t have the horses on defense. We lost both of our starting safeties and replaced them with virtually nobody. We have no depth at corner. We had Milano, who we knew wasn’t going to be ready for most of the season, and Bernard, who was a good mid-round pick. We don’t have any players who are top 8 at their positions, outside of Taron Johnson. Maybe Benford, but we just don’t have the horses. So regardless of whether you want to call McDermott’s scheme trash, and it certainly looks that way against Kansas City, he won’t be able to execute it with this talent level.
Then there’s the play-calling on offense. We’ve become so dependent on the tush push that we didn’t develop any other short-yardage plays. The only other short-yardage play we had was basically a speed option with Josh and Cook, which worked for a touchdown, one of the most amazing runs I’ve seen from a Bills player in years. But that’s about it. Look at how Kansas City schemed their bootlegs and short-yardage plays against us. When you’re dealing with a heavily compacted defense, if the end is not disciplined (and ours wasn’t), it’s game over. We had no short-yardage plays outside of the one we saw. When you’re going to scheme plays offensively to essentially put yourself in short-yardage situations, you should have a full arsenal of 1- to 2-yard plays at your disposal. But we just said, "Well, screw it, because we’re good at this." Some could argue that Philadelphia is similar, but I’ve never seen Jalen Hurts get stuffed on his own 1-yard line, fumble the ball, and nearly cost his team the game. The second Josh got stuffed on the first sneak for the 2-point conversion, that should’ve been a wake-up call. The push from Kansas City, in addition to Josh’s tentativeness, showed it was a mistake to keep running that play. I don’t care if he got the first down or not—time has told us that you cannot leave it in the hands of the refs.
We have a long season ahead and a lot of thinking to do. It sucks, and I don’t know what the answer is. We have some good players, but part of the issue when you re-sign a player whose good but not great is that they occupy that role for a significant time, and you don’t get the chance to get another great player in that spot because you think you’re good enough. It really feels like this team needs a reset, and I don’t know if that’s McDermott or not. As I said, I’m not going to continue talking about him after this post. It’s too much negativity. But this team is starting to feel like it needs the plug pulled. Not because it hasn't been very successful or McD sucks or bla bla, but more because it needs a violent shake-up to go further than it has. If that costs us a year to rebuild, I don’t care. This regime and these players have failed to get it done. Eventually, we need to figure out how to stop that from happening. You can’t just keep saying, "Well, Kansas City is the best, and we lost to the best, so that’s how it is." No. We were inches away from beating the best multiple times. A little better scheme, a little better execution, and a little better roster would’ve made the difference. It was that close, but we failed again. Perhaps we just keep running it back, I just don't know how that is the answer. But when I say blow it up it's not out of hate for these guys. I just don't know what the path forward can be.
Love you all and I wish we didn’t have to go thru this.
Are you gonna get this novel published?
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Four elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2025 under new rules - smallest number since 2005
in The Stadium Wall
Posted · Edited by Buffalo03
He was so good defensively that he got offensive rookie of year to? That's a hell of an accomplishment and definitely first ballot HOF worthy.