FireChans

Trevor Lawrence is not a serious person lmao

Beano won’t trade for a WR. It’s a tacit admission he was a complete moron in the offseason going on WGR and he’s gotta save face for Terry.

I legitimately do not believe the cover1 boys for a second

Coleman gets all the criticism because he’s being benched for poor behavior

Well, see, we couldn't afford Metcalf, but Palmer, Moore and Samuel all cost more than Metcalf. Go figure.

Do we see Shakir slowing up considerably here with bracketed coverage? I'm no WR coach, but when running a crosser like that, wouldn't the correct move to try to...out run the guy trailing you? Honest question because I don't know.

When we trade for a WR, does Beane go back on WGR for round 2?

There's not much to change. Our defense is reliant on guys who were in their prime 5 years ago to be stars. And some of them are hurt. We are reliant on rookies who are basically all looking...well like rookies and young players. Our talent pipeline from 2018 to 2024 was very poor. 2022 was a good year, but the rest not so much. We don't have a ton of experienced good guys to replace the old guys who are aging out. Here are players on the active roster drafted from 2018 to now that are contributing. Josh, Taron, Ed, Knox, AJE, Rousseau, Brown, Hamlin, Cook, Benford, Bernard, Shakir, Kincaid, Dorian, OCT, Coleman, Bishop, Ray Davis. That's not a real murderer's row of talent. Taron was excellent but has fallen off a cliff.

As I said at the time, I pegged his ceiling as a Mike Williams type. High variance TD and 800-1000 yards average per year. He's just not a 1. And he's not a guy you really want to pay as a 2.

I'm sure he's super smart guy and a heckuva coach. I'm also sure he tries to break every other coach's hand in the handshake line.

It's honestly the fault of the org that they basically set him up to the be the WR savior. He will get unnecessary flak if he only turns out to be a good role player WR.

Vrabel IS a meathead AND a great coach.

It was obviously predictable. We decided to run it back and give long-term extensions to basically 4 core players who are good but not great. Fill some holes with JAGs and draft near exclusively defense. The only way the strategy was going to work is if they drafted 2 Pro Bowlers. Otherwise, we now have a very expensive group of good but not great players.

I don’t think you watch enough NFL if you think Josh’s performance was “poor.” Poor by his standards, sure. But not poor. that kinda speaks to the larger part that we can’t beat the Pats without our QB playing like the best QB in football, which bodes ill.

The meme that McD has no input on extensions or targeted FAs has to end. Sure, he isn’t breaking down tape of fifth round targets. But you are telling me he has no influence on whether or not to pay Rousseau? That’s is unbelievable. This is McD and Beane’s roster and vision and should it prove to be a bust, send them both packing.

There’s something so funny to me about calling a fanbase impatient because McD and Beane haven’t won a conference championship in ALMOST A DECADE. We have lifelong fans on this board who were single, got married, and have had multiple children SINCE MCBEANE GOT HERE

We are executing McBeane’s ultimate vision, castrate our offense and make Josh Allen diminish himself to prop up a defense determined to make other QBs look like Josh Allen. Who has faith this team can win a shoot out vs KC in the playoffs? Who has faith this team can win a defensive battle vs KC in the playoffs? McD can lose to a superior coach when he has a MASSIVE QB advantage. How is he gonna fare against Mahomes? I am despondent. The worst realities have been realized. Fire McBeane into the sun.

lol it’s not Brady. Brady’s boss requires an offense designed to help the defense. They don’t want to score too fast.

0-5 and its billboard time

I fear it may be Gabe time. The WRs are largely ass. Curtis Samuel is gadgety, and Shakir is still great with a hair of space, but nobody and I mean nobody can separate or give some fear deep. I’m not sure what Tyrell Shavers does outside of wearing Diggs’ number and getting a significant amount of cardio. The Pats pressed all night. This was basically the 2024 Ravens defensive gameplan. They dared us to throw all over them. We could not. Some folks say we need to trade for a WR. That would be nice. But the answer may be on our bench right now. We need some guy to run a go or skinny post and be a bit dangerous. Can Gabe still do that?

Somehow the Pats corners looked pretty good covering for 10+ seconds

Devin Funchess

You act like McD wasn’t in love with the feel good story of bringing Tre White home. There’s no chance he wasn’t 100% on board with that decision. McDermott has never won anything WITH Josh Allen. We don’t need a coach who can win without Josh. We have Josh. We do need a coach who can win with a great QB. We don’t have that.

Vrabel is McD except Vrabel gets to the AFCCG with Ryan Tannehill and McD gets there with Josh.

Do we think Dewayne Carter can pull it off this year?