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Sad end to his time at the Bills. Hoping we fail forward here and come out somehow better for it. When the Vikings moved on from Diggs they ended up with Justin Jefferson. Even someone half as good as him would make it palatable. Not confident it'll be that way though

Makes no business sense to trade him. but is his negatively affecting the culture now to the point he’s doing more harm than good? Happy to put up with his shenanigans when he’s playing lights out. But second half of last season he was no better than Gabe really.

Would that mean Higgins going the other way? Chase, Jefferson, Higgins seems unnecessarily good and surely too expensive

He visited us pre-draft and he's a Panther. Pretty much fits the mould

Possible name to keep an eye on. Yetur Gross-Matos Allegedly we've made him an offer but he has others.

From over the pond, praying for peace that passes all understanding, and comfort as you mourn. God be with you and your family

I can genuinely see this both ways. It does feel like McDermott has hit his glass ceiling and seems unable to get us all the way. And yet there does seem to me to be a fair amount of mitigation this time around. Cast your mind back to pre season, and ask yourself what would your prediction for season be if the following transpired: 1. Tre White would get a season ending injury in week 4 2. Matt Milano would get a season ending injury in London 3. Von Miller would return but not record a single sack all season, looking like a shadow of his old self, and struggling to even make the team. 4. Gabe Davis would have FOUR whole matches without a single catch, and a further 3 where he was held to 21 yards or fewer. 5. Ken Dorsey would get fired half way through the season. 6. We’d go into January with a huge defensive injury crisis, missing 5+ starters each game 7. Our kicker would malfunction in the last month of the season. 8. We’d go into the final 5 weeks needing to win out, including trips to Miami, Kansas and a home game with Dallas When you bear all that in mind, I kind of feel like we got probably as far as we possibly could this season, if not further than we should. Does McDermott get credit for that? Perhaps he’s the root cause of some of the factors above. But it doesn’t to me feel like an abject failure of a season where we had it all in front of us to grasp and we blew it. It feels more like we were hugely up against it for multiple reasons, and did pretty well to overcome a lot of issues and force our way into the equation. To my mind that makes me hesitant to blow everything up and fire the HC. But I might be saying that this next season is his last chance before we hand the keys to Josh Allen for over to someone else

All season we’ve struggled against “weaker” opponents and played down to their level. This will be a close game and I’m not not comfortable with us as favourites even though we obviously are

I think it’s possible for both firing Dorsey to be the right move, while also hiring Brady not to be the right one, long term. We’ve obviously been on a good run results wise and the offence has been more balanced in terms of run/pass. But we’ve not blown anyone out really, our stud #1 receiver hasn’t had a 100 yard game in the stretch, and our #2 receiver has had what, 3 or 4 of those games with zero receptions. kincaid overall has also been worse under Brady. on the flip side, Cook has obviously had a huge uptick and Shakir seems to be making his move. his numbers in his previous OC posts suggest that what we’re seeing is his norm. His offences historically have not put up huge points, and it seems even with the weapons he has here, that’s the same again. I’m not sure what the future holds, but I’d like the Bills to at least explore alternatives rather than default hand it to Brady.

If we play the steeler it will be close and ugly. We always seem to play down to the opponents level recently. that’s if we even get in. will be so frustrating if we don’t as we will absolutely be better than some of the teams in the playoffs but will only have ourselves to blame for missing out

The enigma that is Sean McDermott… Key Facts in his favour : Best win % of any bills coach in history, including Levy, Saban. More wins than any Bills coach in history, bar Levy Broke the playoff drought and has had us there continuously in all but one season Key Question marks against him: Gifted a generational QB and is yet to take him beyond the AFCCG. Would another coach have gotten more from Josh Allen? Some inexplicable, avoidable losses in key moments. Surely he has to take responsibility for some of these? Especially 13 seconds… Has he hit his ceiling as a coach? Does he have the balls and the skill to coach this team past it’s level? I don’t have a strong opinion either way. I’d be interested to know from those who followed the Bills in the superbowls era - was everyone united around Marv Levy or did he come in for criticism for not getting the Bills over the line? Perhaps back then the fans didn’t have the same voice as they do now with social media and internet forums! FWIW I appreciate McDermott the man. He has a dignity and calmness about him - he’s not a show pony or crazy egomaniac. But I do wonder sometimes if he’s missing that little bit of x-factor or mystique that the great coaches have. Biggest question for me though is this: if Sean McDermott isn’t the man, then who is? Who will take us to the promised land?

How sure are we at this point that Greg Brady is the answer?

Been a Bills fan for 16 years and I appreciate that makes me still a baby in terms of what people have gone through. This season has felt like the one of the wildest so far in terms of just never being sure of quite what we are. We seem to have gone from Super Bowl contenders to utter deadbeats from week to week. After every disappointing defeat, we’ve gone and won our next game. And each time we get our acts together and look like possibly Super Bowl contenders, we drop our level in the next game and look like a team that don’t even deserve the playoffs. We’ve thrashed some excellent teams and lost to some absolute dirt. We’ve blown teams out and lost (and occasionally won) impossibly close games on key moments. We’ve had massive injuries, a trip to London, beaten the reigning Super Bowl champs in their stadium and been beaten by the worst Patriots team in decades. We’ve had an OC change, our HC splitting the fan base down the middle, our best WR causing disruption, and our awesome QB balancing improbable TD numbers with league-leading turnovers. Is it just recency bias or does this season feel improbably crazy to people?! Would love to hear about other crazy seasons that compare or even beat this one!

Merry Christmas Bills Mafia! feels weird to be starting Christmas morning here in the UK by celebrating a Pats win!

Whenever everyone piles on about how good we are we seem to believe it and just assume we’ll win. so frustrating. Still a long time left to go in this game though. We’re easily good enough to turn this around. But need to get our acts together

Missing tackles and committing penalties. Stuff we didn’t do last week. come on boys. Wake up

Well done Rudolph comet the hour, comet the man

Bengals really should try blitzen…

Chargers feels like a classic banana skin game. Everything about it screams that we should wipe the floor with them. Hope we just get it done!

Great to meet you all and thanks so much to @BritBillfor organising. back at our Airbnb in time to watch Everton on match of the day!

Milano needs to be careful in this game. I reckon EB is going to cook up some stuff to try and negate him as much as possible. Heed the advice, Matt....keep your friends close, but keep Bieniemy even close

Apologies if it's been said already - just waking up here in the UK and getting my head around the highlights and box score. But we had 41 pass attempts and only 22 rush (6 of which were by Josh) but we averaged 4.4 ypc. Josh threw 3 picks. Is it fair to say we might have been better with a more balanced attack? Or am I over-simplfying it? Haven't see the full game. Also, getting a bit tired of us relying on Diggs for 40-50% of our total receiving yards and no-one else getting more than 30-60 each week. It's not sustainable - and it's not really necessary either.

It's a street which is absolutely full of curry houses. Remarkably, pretty much every single one has won an award.

Injured? Knee problem?

Update - staying in Wood Green on the Saturday. Easy reach of Tottenham itself and a fair few pubs around. If anyone is up for a few pints on the Saturday evening it'd be great to say hi!