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At the expense of finding another elite offensive player to ride shotgun with the All-Universe QB. How about trading for AJ Brown instead of Von Miller? How would that have looked?

You mean the team with multiple Super Bowl rings… multiple Super Bowl appearances… and multiple future first-ballot Hall of Famers… and one of the greatest Head Coaches to ever walk an NFL sideline? The McDermott-and-Beane-era Bills have exactly NONE of those things.

They are favored because of Josh Allen. End of story. The guy is a supernova at the position. Outside of QB, this is a 5 win roster — at best.

Josh Allen turns 30 in May. With the way he plays, it’s possible that he only has three “prime” seasons left. Beane continues to whiff on the first two rounds in the draft. For years, he has poured money and resources into a defensive line that is among the league’s worst, and he has yet to add any true elite, gamebreaking talent to the roster. McDermott is supposed to be a “defensive genius”. However, the defense was historically bad last season. His defenses have failed over and over again in “big boy” games. Unless Uncle Terry makes a change, these two are going to have been gifted the entire career of arguably the most talented QB to ever take an NFL snap — with zero Super Bowl appearances to show for it. Would that be a bigger failure than four straight Super Bowl losses?

Superman turns 30 in May. McDermott and Beane have 3 seasons or so left with this kid in his prime.

Um, realistically Josh Allen has three “prime” seasons left after this year. Without Allen at QB, Beane would be back as the Director of Pro Scouting in Carolina and McDermott would be the DC in Jacksonville. McDermott has been a tire fire in the playoffs and Beane’s drafting - especially in the first two rounds - has been abysmal.

"Better" is a relative term. Those games could have gone either way, especially today since the Bills went in with an already-decimated roster.

I would agree, but those losses include ridiculous weather involvement for some of those games. There's only so much we could reasonably expect from this decimated team today. It's a tough loss, but I'm ok letting Miami enjoy their Super Bowl here in Week 2 on their way to irrelevance come December.

Nevermind that all of the other games over the course of that stretch have been won by double digits. 20-0 is pretty good in those games if you ask me.

The guy has won 20 straight games by double digits. I'm pretty sure he's learned how to be a savage and put teams away. The Patriots and the Dolphins can credit both of their narrow victories primarily to Mother Nature, not to anything they did on the field.

This year. Then again next year. Then again the year after that. Keep drafting QBs pretty much every year until you find a guy that can consistently operate a modern NFL passing attack at a competent level.

The problem is that Ol' School McD is looking to build an offense that scores 17 points a game and a defense that allows the opponent to score 13. That is a recipe for many, many blowout losses and 3-4 win seasons. Where the league is going, the offense will need to score at least 30 every week. Pair that with a defense that can weather the storm and hold the opposition to between 24-28.

Winner!

The "Get Off My Lawn/Field Position" crowd around here are unable to see that the train has already left the station.

No.

No you don't. Tyrod vs the Saints was about as bad of a game as any starting QB can have in the NFL. He just avoids INTs by not throwing the ball. He also avoids points and yards as well -- that's why we had to move on. TT was the exact same QB in Cleveland and it lasted all of three games. That's not exactly a high bar to cross. He was one of our better QBs of the past 20 years -- but not as good as Bledsoe, Fitz, Orton, or Flutie. Better than JP, Trent, Brian, EJ, Cardale, Thad, or Jeff. Congratulations on being better than "absolute garbage".

Can't do it. He has too much experience on the active roster. NP is ineligible for the PS.

Hate to tell you, but one nice game against a struggling team that gave up on their head coach doesn't suddenly make the Bills a contender. The Bills are still a bottom 3 team, depending on the week. But I'll enjoy this one -- it was great to watch a competent QB run the offense for a change.

I still think he should be fired no matter who he starts against JAX.

Wrong. It was the passing game that opened up things for the running backs. Barkley hitting Foster on the 1st play changed everything. Had the Jets on their heels from that point forward. When will people realize that running the football is the most ineffective way to move an offense?

For who exactly? There really isn't a "can't miss" offensive star at the top of the next draft. If they're tanking for another defensive player, then they should be fired immediately for having absolutely no grasp on the modern NFL. While I'd like to agree with you, stubbornness & arrogance have sunk many a man throughout human history. It appears McD & BB have an overabundance of both.

Exactly. People are upset because this coach & GM set off on a backwards plan to build around a defense & outdated running game first, rather than use all of their assets and capital to assemble a cutting-edge, high-octane offense that can make a team an actual contender. That should have been the priority from day 1. Passing yards & lots of points are what consistently wins in the modern NFL. Speed kills. Yet, these two clowns continue to talk about "field position" & "the weather" & "establish the run".

a 1/2 Mahomes is still better than the "Full Peterman".

Again, this is so incredibly false. It's bordering on comical how vehemently you are defending this incompetent coach & GM. You deserve a medal for the mental gymnastics you are performing in order to arrive at these ridiculous points.

See below. What he said.