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Alex Smith was a solid QB. Who had developed a rep of being a safe QB after his first rough couple years. His INT totals in his last 2 years in SF were 5 and 5. His career low in INT% was in SF in 2011. Does Reid get credit for winning football games with a relatively limited QB? For sure, but it’s not like Smith didn’t accomplish similar things with Harbaugh. Alex Smith was criminally underrated on this board. He would’ve been the second best QB in Bills history at the time had we gotten him in 2013.

Yeah they are doing like Giants off-season to start. It kinda rules

Not sure if anyone’s watching. There was a scene where Daboll was picking DC and clearly citing his PFR stats on his phone. Coaches, they are just like us

Oh no no no no. You folks said that what McD is doing is baseline what every HC could do with Allen as QB. Now it’s Beane keeping the roster stocked with talent to keep us competitive? Hard to be consistent on the “team success is all Allen, not coaching” train I suppose. Fair enough with the rest, I do think he’s a good frontman and the Bills are a professional operation now finally. But with that rebuild kinda over, I feel like it’s easier to take over and maintain that rep, personally.

Mahomes FO was so great, they fired the GM right after they drafted him.

No why is Beane an afterthought? He’s McD’s guy?

One of things I liked about McD and Beane as a package was that they had a previous working relationship and appeared on the same page. It worked, to a point. The last thing I would want if you all got your wish of Ben Johnson in 2025 would be to saddle him with a dude that may be diametrically opposed to his team building philosophy. Think Whaley vs Marrone or Rex. If you’re gonna change gears, change gears all the way. Let two new guys in who are on the same page.

Why?

No idea what Beane has done to warrant such defense. If he’s just McD’s patsty and doing whatever he wants, what is his value? If he, more likely imo, was hired because he agrees with the same team-building strategy, then he’s gotta go too. Beane is not some brainwashed Stockholm syndrome DL hoarder. He has agency. It would be hysterical to watch the Bills fire McD, keep Beane and then go DL in the first for a few more years lol.

This post counts as evidence in favor of keeping McDermott @GoBills808

That’s because Brady and BB ended up 30-11 in the postseason. There will be more Chiefs playoff losses with Reid/Mahomes. But lots of teams that play them lots of times are gonna lose more often than they win. Like us. If you don’t think we can ever beat any other good team in playoffs, I disagree but I understand why you’d be done with McD. I don’t agree with that. I think it’s going to be really hard to get past the Chiefs. As evidenced by 3/4 last seasons. I think we have better odds of winning the SB if someone else knocked out the Chiefs in the playoffs. I am on record that if McD and co lose to any other team in the playoffs that aren’t the Chiefs, I’m ready to pull the plug

Fire them both then?

If there was a “fire McD and hire BB” option, I’d take it imo.

Mahomes would be better. Not sure about 3 rings. More rings than Allen tho.

No but in your silly blind reveal, why don’t you include Josh Allen’s playoff stats in his losses only. Guarantee our beautiful boy is at the bottom of those other numbers.

The one who wins.

I don’t even know who you are lol. My overarching is point is that Reid >>>> McD and Mahomes > Allen. And I would feel much worse about McD if anyone else had demonstrated the ability to outcoach Reid/Mahomes in the postseason, but they haven’t except for one game out of the Bengals. The earlier posts were directed to other posters (not you) in a different conversation and pertained to their immense frustration with McD stemming from their belief that if we had a better coach, WE would be the dynasty because WE have the best QB in the NFL. Which I don’t agree with.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/202101240kan.htm

The reason we don’t have an SB? yeah, it’s absolutely partially Allen. He was trash in 2019 in the second half vs Houston. Trash in AFC title game in 2020. Trash in the 2022 Bengals game. He’s also seemingly had the bad luck to slump just enough in the middle of the season to cost us the one seed a couple times. Kinda wild that he’s NEVER been the one seed before Tannehill or Lamar Jackson.

Lol if that’s what you think those posts say, that I am attributing 100% of the blame to the QB for playoff losses, we are speaking different languages.

Feel free to do your own work and share with the class

I think Allen needs better weapons to outperform Mahomes because he is a worse QB. No contradiction here lol

Compare Allen’s numbers with Daboll. He was a pretty good OC that got an HC job. Outside of that outlier 2021 season, it’s not all that different. 94.3 passer rating in 2020 playoffs. Like I have said in the past, the 2021 playoff run is really the only reason that anyone think Josh is on Mahomes level. And it was an awesome run, that Josh has never been able to replicate again.

Show me. Should be easy. Im not talking about a tweet with 3 likes. If Mahomes and Allen swapped spots, Mahomes would be more successful. Because he’s the better QB.