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Meh I completely disagree. 2024 felt that way because Josh was basically playing at a transcendent level from the Houston game on. He was still needing to scramble out of the pocket to hit long shots to Shakir or Mack Hollins to get the offense going. He just was playing as perfect as an NFL QB can play. The difference between 2024 and 2025 is that teams respect us deep even less and have done their darnedest to take away Josh’s explosive plays made by his legs. Combine that with Josh not being able to maintain playing basically perfect, and you get a laborious offense despite being captained by a superstar. go back and watch 2020 Bills film. It was pitch and catch for Josh. He still did incredible things and made incredible plays, but his life was so much easier down to down.

Folks just don’t follow the NFL. NBA is different because imo HCing in that league is like 95% managing personalities. They think this regime is uniquely discriminated against with expectations. Like there hasn’t been unrest behind Harbaugh for the last 5 seasons for the Ravens not breaking through. They don’t think that’s the case because they don’t pay attention and exclusively follow the Bills. When you have a top tier elite QB, the expectation is more than “we won the division.”

I think you failed to see the parallel. Mike McCarthy + Aaron Rodgers for their first 10 seasons missed the playoffs only one time. The first year Rodgers was starting. Does that sound familiar? McCarthy is fine. Good coach, sure. He’s nothing special. Neither is McDermott. Rodgers was special. Josh is special. A lot of these McD fans are whistling past the graveyard imo. 10 years from now, no one will admit to being a McD or Beane fan. Just like no one admits to being a big Marrone fan, or Rex Ryan fan or Tyrod Taylor fan. McD and Beane are going to go down in history as our Pagano/Grigson. The shine of backing into the playoffs that one time with Tyrod and Kyle Williams will wear off eventually.

Here’s an @HappyDays timeline. 2021: “The Bills can’t rely on guys like Manny Sanders come January, they will recognize they need to shore up the WR position” 2022: “The Bills realized that cast offs like Harty and Sherfield aren’t enough, they will invest more in WRs around Josh” 2023: “the bills have realized that Diggs + Gabe isn’t enough. They will add more WRs” 2024: “The Bills got this far with Mack Hollins leading the snap count. There’s NO WAY they will run back a similar group again.” 2025: ????????

lol what evidence do you have that McD is any better than a Mike McCarthy

You say this every year lol. It ain’t gonna happen.

They are legitimately talking about letting LaFleur and the GM go and neither got extensions pending this season. Follow the league one time for me. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/packers-wont-extend-contracts-of-brian-gutekunst-matt-lafleur-before-this-season ”That means LaFleur and Gutekunst are expected to either have contract extensions this time next year or the Packers will fire them after the 2025 season”

That’s not the way it actually went though. Kelvin was a notorious bad attitude guy. He had 1900 yards in 2 seasons and was shipped off the Panthers. He had weight problems. He came to Bills and refused to learn the playbook or where to line up. He was a bit better than Coleman but he was still a big slow from FSU with attitude problems. Like I said, Beano has a type.

A Kelvin Benjamin clone in more ways than one. Cant say Beano doesn’t have a type

Between Knox’s and Hawes’ performances, I have no complaints on not using Kincaid more. With soft tissue stuff, you have to be careful

Their OL is a COMPLETE mess. its no coincidence the last time the Chiefs offense was lethal is when they had Orlando Brown who, while not an All-Pro, is at least an NFL caliber quality OT. Season after season, Mahomes has gotten beat up and as a result, has gotten happy feet and gotten sloppy. We take it for granted with Josh (who also can sometimes fall victim to getting beat up and it affecting his play) but it’s clearly worn on Mahomes. Veach isn’t a bad GM, but his decision to prioritize IOL over OT while Kelce rapidly aged out of being a quality safety outlet is backfiring. couldnt happen to a nicer group of guys. What a shame.

Great company for our coach

It was the throw to the old TE3. Quinton Morris

And vs the Ravens and played both games lol

How is Shakir still getting an automatic game ball? How much is he paying you?

At least folks that follow the NBA understand that it’s not coaching when LeBron or MJ put up 50.

With an embarrassing cast of characters. good luck Josh!

The McDefense rules

I would probably just not sign him until post 2026 anyway. I don’t see us trading him at that point, and I don’t want to be on the hook for 2027 injury guarantees. Pass on the option, if he explodes in 2026, pay him. If he continues to be an injury prone old TE, he can walk.

Decline a fifth year option is not the same as letting a player walk. Also, that’s pretty doubtful in terms of his market.

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Josh is also probably not ever gonna get us a Super Bowl win and he’s worth every penny.

What is a proverbial purgatory team? Dak was drafted in 2016. He has gotten tagged and 2 massive extensions. He is 82-52 as starter in Dallas. They have made the playoffs 5 seasons. How many talented teams have we seen held back from even making the playoffs because of just awful QB play? It doesn’t compute to me imo. If you don’t have a top 10 QB, you should be selling off talent to find one. Not praying Kenny Pickett is good enough to back into a WC spot 1 year out of 5.

I don’t think it is that interesting. If you have a guy who is in the top 10 conversation year after year, you pay him. You don’t dump them shooting for a perennial top 3 guy. Those guys are usually Hall of Famers. How many HoF or HoF trajectory QBs have been drafted since Aaron Rodgers in 2005? Wilson, Mahomes, Allen, Lamar is the entirety of the list. Maybe one more that we don’t know yet, but Wilson wasn’t more than a top 10 guy for a lot of his career. So hoping you can find 1 of 4 give or take QBs over 20 years is not a good strategy.