FireChans

I appreciate the thought exercise but Philly isn’t the reason the Bills weren’t Super Bowl champs last year. Neither were the Rams in 2021. The Chiefs were in every season, except 2022. And the Chiefs have absolutely had their fair share of injuries and despite them have knocked us out anyway. The Bengals in 2022 were playing with a backup OL and knocked us out anyway. So despite all the merits of “just stay healthy” as a plan (which it isn’t, really), I reject the notion entirely. Our best chance of making a Super Bowl at all (and thus winning one) is dodging KC.

A 6th OL means one less dude to barely get open when passing the ball lol. why don’t we just do 7 OL and have nobody to run routes?

Most head coaches fail because their QB sucks. having a good QB is 90% of the battle. having a great QB is nearly 100% of the battle. The Bengals and/or Ravens and/or will have their pick of the litter when it comes to coaching candidates. The rest of the team is irrelevant at that point. Ben Johnson if he came to Buffalo would’ve been an effective guarantee the Bills make the playoffs and thus, an effective guarantee he is successful. Also @BringBackFergy’s Ben Johnson crash out because Josh Allen beat Jared Goff in November is going to go down into TBD lore forever.

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I think you’re missing the point. luck is relative. if the bills made a splash move this year, despite our rash of injuries, we would all be feeling SUPER LUCKY that KC and Baltimore and Cincy are on the precipice of missing the playoffs entirely. That’s likely the most favorable thing possible to ensure our chances of winning the AFC and going to our first Super Bowl with Josh. Instead, we appear to be approaching their same boat of being a wounded animal come the postseason. Because we DIDN’T MAKE OUR OWN LUCK.

Could you imagine the Bills perhaps overpaying for a player by a little bit? Good thing that’s never happened.

The Bills have the QB. Which is why we went from a bottom 3 embarrassing team in the NFL to a marquee franchise with that QB. And when that QB hangs them up, we will be back to picking top 6-10.

Bro Von Miller was 3 years ago lol. That was bad luck, sure. Should we never try again? Maybe take our next shot when Josh Allen is 37, just in case it doesn’t work out? And that legitimately is the second best thing Brandon Beane has ever done.

Andy was 1-4 in the playoffs in KC pre-Mahomes. its the QBs guys. It always has been.

Look how great the Hunt family is as owners. Right at the same time they drafted Mahomes. Uncanny!

Yes but their DL ain’t as good as the Steelers. I see this game being very similar to the Texans game. Josh gets beat around all day and we get into a fight in the mud that we don’t want to be in.

Do you ever think about what a coincidence it is that the Bills got a great owner, a great HC, a great GM and a great QB all basically at the same time? LA will look mighty fine when Stafford hangs it up.

We weren’t bold in 2024 or 2025. We were very content to just run it back. If we had done something bold like trading for DK or Pickens or Waddle, I think we feel like a VERY lucky team right about now.

I mean, it happens, but Beane is paid to be right, not do things the fans like. just like all of his big time extensions that a majority of folks felt were reasonably deals overall; if they all bust out, it’s on Beane’s head. my two offseason targets that year were Darnell Mooney and Curtis Samuel. They signed for similar money. One was right and one was wrong, and Beane got it wrong.

Lots of folks are of the opinion that if you don’t have a surefire HoF QB, you shouldn’t pay a very good one.