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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.

No it’s the contract. $23M for him and Knox this year. Woof

Dak gets flak because he, just like Jared Goff, have wilted in the postseason. But he’s a very good QB.

Their OL is suspect but so is our DL. It’s not like the Texans or Dolphins have some world beater OLs. What makes you think that’s strength on weakness? Our teams biggest strengths are our QB, our RB and our OL, maybe in that order. and a banged up OL affects all of them, especially against the teeth of what makes that Pittsburgh D go. Is one handed Rodgers and the Steelers O any worse than the Texans backup QB or the 1-5 Dolphins?

Fortune favors the bold

At a certain point, keeping in extra blockers benefits the defense more than the offense imo

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You know we are down bad when we are bringing up Pats teams with a different coach and QB from a decade ago before McD or Allen were even here. Beane and McD created the Chiefs dynasty, probably more than any team has ever created any other dynasty in NFL history. Josh is probably in the most commercials in the NFL this year and was the MVP last year, but the reason we can’t get over the hump is because the league is “playing favorites” lol.

This board’s love? Beane gave Moore 2.5M guaranteed when he was sitting on his couch after the draft and FA. also, to answer your question, no.

They did. they also won because he was throwing to Gronk, Evans, Godwin and AB.

The distinction is that we intentionally favor the defense in terms of investment strategy in spite of the offense, then run an offensive strategy to specifically benefit the defense. If the Bills had drafted a bunch of good weapons around Josh the last 4 years, the performance against Houston would be unacceptable. But they didn’t. Tom Brady actually left the Pats and won a Super Bowl elsewhere when they surrounded him with garbage and they had an inglorious playoff exit.

Beane can’t let McD go imo. That’s not the power dynamic. I do think Beane is not above selling McD down the river to Terry to save himself. He has a self-serving streak in him. Even back in 2023 when the season was shaky, I felt like some of the things Beane said had the air of subtly blaming McD for the team’s shortcomings. Ultimately, I think both will end up being a package firing. And I hope they would be. I think their track record here is too intertwined to fairly parse out who is “more” at fault. It would be a mistake to keep one at the expense of the other imo.

He was traded for a first by the Pats FWIW. Brandin Cooks was drafted in the first round, traded for a first to the Pats, traded for a first to the Rams, traded to the Saints for a second.