Nextmanup

Speculation? About what? I've done nothing but describe the weirdest episode in S&B history! You think it was random chance that McDermott did the segments with different hosts after that incident? You didn't hear the segment! McDermott HATES Schopp...and even moreso vice versa. That's quite obvious for any routine listeners. I do love how various posters now will RUSH to the "defense" of Sean McDermott. LOL

Don't forget the Schopp & Bulldog end of all that too. In McDermott's first year as HC, he did a live segment with them every Monday during the season. In one episode, Schopp said something like "What do you see in the starting QB, b/c no one else does." This totally pissed off McDermott, and the rest of the conversation was stressed. It ended with McDermott hanging up (LOL!) on the guys without saying "goodbye" or "thanks" or any fake response. He just hung up on them. The guys were stunned and made a joke about it, kind of, then went to commercial break. When they came back, Bulldog was running a 1 man show; he did all the talking and Mike was just mysteriously gone. He remained gone for over 1/2 hour, then finally rejoined Bulldog. When he finally said something again after like a 40 minute absence, he just made a quick comment/joke like "well, that was interesting" or something and it was left there. Neither of them has ever discussed this episode to my knowledge. McDermott did finish out his segments with the that season, but never came back the following year, and that's when he moved to talking weekly with Howard. There was speculation at the time about what happened to Mike. I feel like he personally called McDermott on his cell phone and they got into it. OR, there was the theory that Mike's boss called him into his office and yelled at him for 1/2 hour. I would GUARANTEE McDermott, after that day, said "I will not do that show with these guys again." McDermott is an extremely intense, weird, religious zealot. People like that are not in control of their own minds.

I appreciate you taking a stab at offering a substantive comment, rather than the bulk of the crap in this thread. (Unfortunately, the Kool Aid Kontingent has emerged from their cracks and hiding places and seem to be back today). I am not sure I agree with your idea here, but something involving Allen and Dorsey could make sense. What is the biggest problem with the team right now? I would say it's Josh reverting to Year 1 Josh, which in turn has impacted the offense overall, especially with our second half production of pretty much zero in last 3 games. It makes sense to go looking in that direction for what Wawrow is talking about. If by "light years" you mean potentially less than half a season, I agree with you.

ALL of these points could possibly be what's behind this story from Wawrow. Of course, we don't know, but the "problem" might be rooted in something like what you have spelled out here. My guess is that your first comment is the answer--there is a growing mutinous group within the team that has decided McDermott is not going to get it done, and they want to see change. We HAVE to assume some emotional/psychological scarring on this roster from "13 seconds" and what happened yesterday, which in many ways, is a bigger cockup than 13 Seconds.

Please tell me you aren't suggesting this is deliberately planted disinformation, emanating from the Bills administration itself! That would be WAY too smart for McDermott and his staff of football coaches. In what possible position would you be in to see "internal problems?" They may not exist; they may exist in huge numbers and be a real problem. Either way, you wouldn't know about any of it. None of us would! Also, is it not possible for the team to have played poorly, tight, and Josh to have been careless with the ball, at the same time as this inner problem is going on with the team? Why does one situation preclude the other?

He has to answer to his journalistic integrity long before he has to answer to the Bills.

This is a dramatic post, but it may be warranted. The funny thing is, I have always assumed McDermott out-ranks Beane in the organizational structure, such that "firing" McDermott is not an option for Beane. I DO think that McDermott could fire Beane though! I also agree that Beane is the special one here; we need to keep him forever. McDermott? As I've said for years, he's expendable. If they want to upgrade him THIS OFFSEASON and go for an offensive genius, I'm all in. We have the talent and structure in place to functionally transition to the new regime. John Wawrow is a beat reporter who knows the team really well. And he's usually pretty fair too. This comment coming from him does NOT qualify as "wild speculation." Comments about what exactly is going on might be wild speculation, but Wawrow has said something is going on over there. That's good enough for me to assume it's true. To what degree? Over what? We don't know.

The season won't be over if we lose to the Browns, but if we do, things are worse than I thought. That would not be a good sign. I do believe we will win, though, and maybe by a ton.

This is true, but TEAM execution has been incredibly sloppy all year long too! It's often been masked b/c we had a comfortable lead against bad teams. But it does matter and it WILL bite you come playoff time, when only solid teams are playing.

You mean that ridiculous one hand stab? Way up over his head? I think that is his best catch as a Buffalo Bill. I said as much in the game thread the moment it happened.

No one knows! I'm a huge fan of our starting D backfield, but I'm also a huge fan of Jefferson. He's as good a WR as there is in the league right now. He may WELL have had a big day with our 1s in the game.

How about "the game of 4 errors" ???

His usual TO strategy is to piss one, if not 2, away....early in the half. Often on defense.

This is not a mistake of play calling, but rather, execution. You just CAN'T play like that at critical moments and expect to win. We have been SLOPPY all year long. That is not championship winning football.

I don't think a lot of Bills fans are suggesting we should have deliberately taken a safety. That is certainly not my position. My position is that we have to execute basic plays, like a center/QB exchange, more trouble free if we are going to go ANYWHERE in the post season. This team has been SLOPPY all season long. When you are beating the snot out of a bad team early in the season, it doesn't matter. It can and eventually WILL catch up to you, though.

Try to relax; this is a game we are talking about.

Holy *****! Looks like a P-51 cutting a B-17 in half! Looks like something from the War itself. Edit: It's a P-63 King Cobra slicing that B-17 in half. Holy cow; there goes millions of dollars in priceless war birds.

Bills Mafia is a term used to describe Bills fans, by people other than Bills fans. Which is why I have always hated it. That's not my term! Don't use it to describe me!

FFS, it's spelled KARAOKE, you heathens.

Is a player who never plays better than Moss? 🤔

And yet half this fanbase tells the BILLS to run more...every damned week.

Leave it to a Bills fan to turn this type of ***** show performance today in which we literally #### up a WIN, for the second time in consecutive seasons, into some definitive statement of our competence.

HERBERT is lucky he didn't get his head knocked off on that one. Really quirky, bad piece of timing there.

For real? If that comes to pass, someone needs to be fired.