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Ethan in Cleveland

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  1. Beane is doing a solid job getting low price one year rentals to play behind Oliver and Jones. None of these guys will make a difference other than logging some snaps.

    However, Beane is now free to trade down and draft WR, Edge, and Safety with first three picks. 

    Another solid off-season by Beane with the notable exception of bringing Epenesa back. 

  2. I'm convinced Wilson is a locker room cancer. 

    I liked Fields coming out of college and I think the Bears should have kept him, traded down, and taken Harrison.

    Fields in Pittsburgh is a good place to land. 

    Both Wilson and Fields are better than any QB on the Pittsburgh roster last year and they still made the playoffs.  They should still be competitive in the AFC North with either of them starting. 

  3. Have to assume they meant the play clock.

    Ugh this is going to be interesting to see how often some replay booth guy stops a play. It will be very difficult to stop the play before it is over. These are usually less than a second decision and by the time the replay official can notify anyone the play will be over. That means a possible referral of a TD, a sack, or a turnover. 

    It's the right thing to do and my guess is QBs will just adjust and snap with 1 sec instead of zero. 

  4. 3 hours ago, mjt328 said:

    Bills fans need to step back, and get some perspective of what it takes to win in the NFL.

     

    Super Bowl is the goal.  

    But a Super Bowl cannot be the ONLY measure of success.

     

    It's OK to be frustrated, upset and even angry that our team hasn't reached the ultimate goal.  It's OK not to be satisfied with just winning Division Championships and Wild Card games.  I would imagine that every Buffalo Bills fan will not be happy until we take home a Lombardi Trophy.  But that doesn't mean we need to constantly tear-down the leaders of this organization (whether it be Brandon Beane, Sean McDermott or Josh Allen) and classify them as failures for coming up short.

     

    The NFL postseason is a SINGLE-GAME elimination series.  Once you get into the middle rounds of the playoffs, those teams are usually very evenly matched.  60 minute games are often decided by a play or two, one fateful decision or even a coinflip in overtime.  There could be a dozen reasons for why a game turned out the way it did.  But once a team/coach/player ends up on the losing end 2-3 times... a narrative starts to emerge that they CAN'T do it, and the fans or media start turning on them.  History should tell us this is completely untrue.

    • Bill Belichick was a head coach for 6 mostly losing seasons before winning his first Super Bowl.  Now he has more than anybody.
    • Andy Reid coached 21 years before getting a title.  Constantly falling short in the Conference Championship

    Then you have coaches like Mike Tomlin, John Harbaugh, Mike McCarthy, Sean Payton, Doug Pederson and Sean McVay who all managed a single Super Bowl win early, but now continually fall short year after year.  Did these legends somehow lose the magic aura?  Or is winning a Super Bowl something that is just really really hard and requires a significant amount of luck?

     

    It's pretty obvious the Kansas City Chiefs are the measuring stick in the NFL.  Here are the facts:

    Over the last four seasons, the Bills have a 3-4 record against them.  The last four contests were all decided by less than a touchdown. 

    Brandon Beane has built a team capable of beating the Chiefs.  Sean McDermott has coached his team to victory over Andy Reid multiple times now.  And Josh Allen has proven the ability to defeat Mahomes.  The fact that our wins keep coming in the regular season and theirs keep coming in the postseason is just stupid dumb luck.  

     

     

    I'm sorry but a SuperBowl win with a HOF QB for a franchise that has never won a SuperBowl is the only thing I am interested in.  There is no other measure of success. 

    Now enjoyment or entertainment is different. I can enjoy the wins and making the playoffs but without a Lombardi it is not successful. 

    And you can't have it both ways. Did Marino and the Dolphins have successful seasons losing in the playoffs all those years? Im sure no Dolphin fan would say they were successful. 

    I would trade one SuperBowl win for a decade of not making the playoffs 

     

    18 minutes ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

    McDermott feels no pressure.  After surviving this last season and 13 seconds he knows he's Terry's boy.

     

    Fans need to finally wake up,Terry had a gold mine getting paid millions in profit each year from the TV contracts, and he knows the fans will come no matter what.

     

    They will pay the PSL's and say " thank you may I have another" and he knows it.  He knows he has a national draw in Josh Allen and McBeane keeps getting us in the playoffs.

     

    Terry isn't changing a damn thing.  Better get used to it. 

    You may be correct. Hope McD proves me wrong or your are wrong about Pegula.

  5. 1 hour ago, section122 said:

     

    No he didn't. First you are way overestimating how many coaches have won the sb and are still coaching.  Here is what mcd said.

     

    “I think like anything, when you talk about the Bills, whether it’s Josh (Allen), myself, our team, we’ve had so much success,” he said. “What’s left for Josh and for all of us is to take that one more step that we need to take.”

     

    Saying he isn't as good of a coach as Reid is silly.  Reid might go down as one of the top 10 coaches of all time.  Is that really the bar?  

     

    You have reid and mcvay who have won a super bowl in the last 5 years.  So by the bar set by many every single coach in the nfl should be fired.  I posted elsewhere but Harbaugh has a 2 time mvp qb and hasnt had anywhere near the success since he won a sb 10+ years ago.

     

    McDermott is a top 5 coach in the nfl right now period. 5 playoff wins since 2018 is tied for 2nd best in the afc and 5th in the nfl.  If you go to 2020 when Josh became Josh it is tied for 3rd.  

    Only a handful of coaches have HOF QBs.

    Shanahan is making the SuperBowl with a 7th round draft pick.

    McDermott can't win a division round playoff game at home two years in a row with a top 3 QB. 

    You must see the difference. 

    To put it another way, any of those 31 other coaches wins 9 games with Allen at QB. Many of them win the division.  Some make the SuperBowl. But our HC can't beat KC at home. 

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  6. 2 hours ago, Logic said:

    I'm not entirely sure of the intent of the OP.

    Is it your intent to indicate that Sean McDermott feels pressure to win a championship in Buffalo? If so, I agree. I'd also say that's a no-brainer. All NFL head coaches -- particularly those who last longer than 3 or 4 seasons without winning a championship -- feel pressure to win a championship. Failure to do so inevitably leads to their dismissal from their job, so of course they feel pressure.

    Is it your intent to indicate that the way Sean McDermott has been answering questions this offseason suggests that he feels he's on the hot seat? If so, I'm not sure I agree. Aside from the aforementioned pressure he feels as an NFL head coach, I view the way he's been answering questions this offseason more as a response to the recent spate of coverage of him and the Bills, starting with the Tyler Dunne piece last season and continuing through the "Bills' window is closed", "Bills haven't accomplished anything" talk that seems to gain strength more with these Bills than it does with any other non-title-winning team in the league. I actually LIKE the increase in "punch" to his responses and interviews since the Dunne piece came out. I feel he's stuck up for himself and his team more and been less milquetoast. I like that.

    I made it very clear half way through last season that I wanted to see the Bills move on from McDermott. Since that time, the way he has responded as a man and as a coach, the way he's improved at various aspects of his job, the way the team and GM and owner have all rallied around him, and the way the Bills responded on the field after the piece's publication have all combined to make me feel that it doesn't make sense to move on from McDermott at this point in time. I'm still not 100% convinced that he's the man to lead the Bills to the promised land, but the good that he brings outweighs the bad to a significant enough degree that I think he's currently the best man for the job, and certainly deserves another season at the helm.

     

    Very fair take.

    I would have fired McDermott after the home Cincinnati loss. His players weren't ready to play. I understand he was a remarkable human being during the Hamlin crisis. But that was a month in the past at that point. And that was a season after 13 secs and still White was playing 10 yards off the LOS on a 3rd and short. 

    I would have fired McD this year for Harbaugh or Belichick. I dont care about the injuries. His defense choked multiple games away. Josh was bad at times last year but McD defense and Special Teams lost multiple games after Josh had them won.

    And I will go on record, no matter what happens he has to make the SuperBowl or they need to move on from him this year. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, Nihilarian said:

    Bills fans who dislike the current HC because he hasn't won an SB need to get a grip on reality. So many teams have had elite great QBs and don't always get to the big dance.

     

    Jim Kelly got there 4 times and didn't win one. Dan Marino got there once and never got back because Buffalo was in his way. How many did Drew Brees win, Aaron Rodgers win, and Brett Favre win? McNabb, Fouts, Matt Ryan, Phillip Rivers, and Warren Moon never won one either. 

     

    It is a "team" game and it takes a good offense, good defense, and a healthy team along with some good luck to even get to an SB.

     

    Andrew Luck was a generational QB and the best record he ever got his team to was 11-5.

     

    This franchise has taken a huge leap from what it was under the last owner and the last Buffalo HC in Rex Ryan. Think of all those bums of head coaches we Bills fans had to endure since 2000! This HC got to the playoffs with Tyrod Tylor at QB!

     

    What sucks isn't the current Buffalo HC or FO, what does suck is the Kansas City Chiefs and their HC Andy Reid in the Buffalo Bills way. Otherwise, Buffalo might have been in the SB already. That and the team being plagued by defensive injuries. Exactly how many players have had an actual heart attack on the field during a game and not only survived but returned to the team? 

     

    The DC that was responsible for the 13 seconds is gone and that was the year Buffalo should have gone.

     

    All I can say is ...keep enjoying this QB, this HC, this GM, and what the future brings as all want to win a Super Bowl just as much as any of us. 

    Half those QBs you listed played in the SuperBowl and two won SuperBowls so I fail to see the point.

    Fair point regarding Fouts and Coryell who was ahead of his time but could not win the big game.

     

    I think if you are going to argue continuity you should argue for Cowher who lost multiple AFC Championships and SuperBowls before winning a Lombardi. He's probably the exception that proves the rule.

    1 minute ago, schoolhouserock said:


    This is a bad argument.
     

    It WAS a terribly talent deficient offense. That is a HUGE reason one should hold off starting their rookie QB for as long as is prudent.

    Not an argument. Those were facts.

  8. 2 hours ago, Shaw66 said:

    I think you're wrong.  

     

    Your evidence that he's feeling the pressure is based on you evaluation of his performance in a press conference.  He's ALWAYS been bad in press conferences.  He's uncomfortable, he doesn't like it, and he isn't good at figuring out how to give useful answers to questions without saying too much.  

     

    It's ridiculous, meaning it's fair to subject you to ridicule, for you to compare McDermott to Dick Jauron.  McDermott has built a perennial top-five favorite to win the Super Bowl, and Jauron went 7-9 three years in a row before the team fell apart.  There is NO meaningful comparison.  

     

    You're free to not like McDermott, but you're not going to convince anyone who knows football.  The 49ers aren't firing Shanahan and the Bills aren't replacing McDermott.  

    Fair points. All.

    What is your breaking point? Philadelphia had theirs with Reid. Tampa did with Dungy. Do you ever give up on him and go with someone else? 

    Shanahan is closer to Levy with two SuperBowl appearances.  McDermott should be so lucky to be in the same sentence as Shanahan at this point. 

  9. 3 minutes ago, JohnNord said:


    True… but they also deserve a lot of credit for taking a chance of Josh who many analysts predicted would be the next Christian Hackenberg or Paxton Lynch.    
     

    They also did an outstanding job creating a plan to develop Josh as a QB

    Cmon man!  Plan? They threw him to the wolves after Peterman sucked. He literally sat for one half of one game. There was no plan. He had no WRs and a crap o-line that was so bad he got his elbow smashed. 

    If you are going to defend McDermott you have to do better than that. 

  10. My bias against McDermott is well documented. 

    Wondering how others view his post-season PC and recent interview calling critics narrow minded. He also stated its hard to win in the NFL. I recall a prior HC pilloried on this site for saying the exact same words. 

    My take on the PC was that he was very defensive. Without even being asked. He launched into a defense of his tenure as coach even dating back to prior seasons. 

    And now he calls critics narrow minded for wondering if the Bills will win a SB with him as HC. You have to belive at this point the thought has crossed Beane and Pegula's mind. He's trying to defend at best status quo to perhaps taking a step or two back from 13 seconds. 

    Then the most ridiculous statement of all. 

    "We're looking for Josh to really be that face of the franchise, like he's been, and continue to evolve." 

    I mean WTF. What team has he been coaching? Does he think Hyde and Poyer were the face of the franchise?? Is he trying to lay blame on Allen? Without Allen McDermott might be coaching DBs in Kansas City.  Was Allen on the field when the defense crumbled multiple times against Denver,Philadelphia, and others. KC only stopped themselves in the playoff game. If not for a goal line fumble the Bills are not even close in that game. 

     

    It may not seem that I'm open minded but I really try. I've gave McDermott praise many times last year.

     

    So what does the board think? 

    For those that crucified Jauron how do you take the It’s hard to win in the NFL line?

    For those that defend McDermott, what do you all think?

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  11. 2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

     

    Personally unless he is awesome in 2024 I think it is his last year as a Bill.

    Define awesome?

    My guess is he has 95 catches for 1050-1100 yards. That would be his worst as a Bill and still one of the top WR seasons in Bills history.  

    Would be sad to see him run out of town. Don't care what others think. He is the best most complete WR in franchise history.  

  12. 6 minutes ago, Success said:

    I always love Beane's strategy here.  Go into the draft w/ few holes to fill, even w/ depth - and then you can be flexible w/ who you pick, and focus a little more on BPA.

     

    Beane never drafts BPA. WR and edge top two picks guaranteed 

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