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I don't think this is a conservative estimation at all. Your RB numbers are way off. 3000 career receiving yards? Do you know how many running backs don't hit that number? Everyone not named Kamara or CMC.

Not to mention Dean Marlowe playing safety and the ghost of Tre White watching Burrow drop bombs over his head while playing 7 yards off the line coverage. Man, hard to believe the Bills had no answers for Burrow, Chase, and Higgins with such a talented defensive group. Spags would've had Marlowe playing like Ronnie Lott out there.

Oh no. The irony.

AFAIK, there's zero NFL interest in signing me. I'm probably the best FA target of them all this season.

Hire Spags to coach our defense? All for it. Send a letter to One Bills Drive.

Explain to me how. That's what I want.

Obviously. That was my point.

This just demonstrates you have the reading comprehension of an ant. Lol.

He clearly didn't show he learned otherwise in his first 7 seasons here. Why should we believe year 8 is gonna be different? You are far too hyperfixated on McD over Beane, IMO.

The playoffs lights weren't too bright that game for McD, I guess. You'd think, with your thesis of "its not that the players not being that good, its actually the coach being good in the regular season and then inexplicably BAD in the postseason and has nothing to do with the caliber of opponent" the defense would've been terrible that game. Maybe he still thought it was week 18. Forgot to tell Ed to pretend to play. He remembered the next week, I suppose. I'm on record that if they go DL in round one, I'm starting the Fire Beane billboard GoFundMe. I'm not joking.

They run their team like they used to in Carolina. They are hyper-focused on trench play on both sides, usually to the detriment of skill position players, namely WR. In the 4 years prior to coming to Buffalo, Carolina spent a 1, a 2, a 2, and a 1 on DL (and almost all of them have been Bills at some point lol). They drafted a running back in the top 8. They drafted 1 WR in the first round with Cam in his prime.

FWIW, I would absolutely agree that McD is a good coach and not an upper echelon elite coach. The difference is elite coaches aren't easy to find and there's only so much elite coaches can do to put their inferior players in a position to succeed. Did Brock Purdy struggle in the postseason compared to the regular season because Shanny just sucks in the postseason? Or is it because it was much harder to hide him against better competition? I want your better half to answer this question. @GoBills808

You know they sacked Skylar Thompson 7 times in the postseason, right? Did McD just forget to call all the bad plays that he usually does in the postseason? Saved them all for the next week?

Oliver getting pancaked into oblivion by the Chiefs OL isn't because of anything McD does or doesn't do.

Lmao, well now I'm in a pickle. Re-signing AJE for top-tier JAG money at least signaled they weren't going DE no matter what in round 1. Still means his market was JAG money. Someone should tell the NFL they made a mistake, he had 6.5 sacks!

Kincaid is gonna be 25 this year. Shakir is 24. Cook will be 25. That's how many more years total playing? Shakir and Kincaid probably play into their early 30's, but I doubt Shakir has more than 1 1000 yard season in his career. If Cook's brother is any indication, he may be out of the league at 28. If MHJ doesn't miss a couple seasons with injury, he will easily surpass them. He may even surpass them in like 4-5 years. Yes.

AJE is so talented, he crawled back here for $6M a year. 39th DE in salary. Making a few mil more than Clelin Ferrel and Deatrich Wise. I bet KC is sweating now.

No more. They wasted enough capital as it is. Pray Rousseau is more than potential and Epenesa takes steroids. Offense x 1000 going forward. Let's try to win 38-35 over trying to win 21-17. We may still lose, but I'm 100% on board with pivoting strategy. We don't have the horses and beating our heads into the wall trying to get them picking #28 and later every year ain't gonna work. Serious question, what are you gonna do if @GoBills808 isn't around to make cogent points for you?

If you aren't happy to be a top 3-4 team every year with a top 2 QB, you can watch the Panthers next year to scratch that itch of how fun it was to be in the bottom of the basement.

I do because that's when he's paid to show up. I would annihilate Allen if he was having no-show efforts in playoff losses. You can nitpick tiny things about him, you cannot deny he earns that gigantic paycheck (and cap hit) in the last game of the season every season. Unfortunately, he's basically the only one. Yeah, they are basically bullies. It's why when we had 3 AllPros on the backend in 2020, we still got smoked by KC. McD can coach up dudes like Levi Wallce to hang in the NFL and not be terrible vs the Nick Sirianni's of the world. But Levi Wallace is gonna lose to Travis Kelce/Tyreek Hill and Andy every time, even if he got possessed by the Night Train.

DL was above average last year. Plays well against bad teams with bad OL/bad QB/a team that can't beat our coverages, sometimes very well (9 sacks vs Sam Howell). Gets routinely beat against teams with good OL. Gets whipped by team with great OL. The Bills haven't had an SB caliber DL since 2014, and I firmly believe that.

No no @GunnerBill is on the record, a green check doesn't mean he agrees with you about EVERYTHING in your post. He is probably still much higher on Eddy than me. I think Ed Oliver had the greatest season of his career last year. I thought, at points, he was utterly dominant. Unfortunately, none of those points came in the postseason, so here we are again. Maybe he will show up someday.

.....are you making our point for us

I meant over the course of his career vs theirs.

Great beats "good." Ask Gabe. fixed it, that was weird.