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Aaron Glenn picked the wrong QB by a mile. Justin Fields is quite possibly the most horrific passer of the football I have ever seen with this many starts in my entire life. He’s a physical specimen and makes like one great play a game, enough to sucker in the next NFL team to give him a chance. Matt Eberflus deserves a retroactive coach of the year nod for winning 7 games with this dude under center. I would rather start Deshone Kizer off the couch next week than Fields. @Kirby Jackson I know he’s your boy, but he’s a trash can. He is quite literally getting Aaron Glenn fired by like week 7. Give me my flowers!

Nah. Doug Martin was only called Muscle Hamster by a small contingent of fans, he caught wind of it and famously said he hated the nickname, and boom. It stuck. RIP, far too young.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Maybe the next coach rattles off 4 straight Superbowls and becomes the greatest coach in history. i don’t think there’s a coach alive who could only manage 4 wins with Josh at QB. I really don’t. So when we are talking downside, I see it more as if we hire a demonstrably worse HC/GM than our current ones, we will likely be similar to the Bengals the last two years. A .500 ish team that is in the hunt all years and is still exciting. Is that much different than an 11 win team that we all know is dead in the water when the Chiefs come to town? to me, it’s not. I am basically okay with the small potential risk of barely making the playoffs as a WC or just missing in pursuit of the large potential upside of finally being able to beat KC and get to the big game. Some folks may not be. But I’m there and I’ve been there.

A cascading, compounding problem that was like watching a car crash in slow motion. Why did we feel obligated to give Diggs whatever he wanted in 2022 and thus eat an entire contract in 2024 when the relationship became untenable? Because we didn’t have enough of a talent pipeline at WR. There was no plan for Diggs’ eventual decline. There was no plan to replace Gabe Davis when he priced himself out of Buffalo. The plan to replace Cole Beasley was to promote JAG gadget guy Isaiah McKenzie who predictably was so bad that we had to call a retired Cole Beasley to come back. We relied on FA bandaids at a position that quickly became the second highest in the NFL. An unsound strategy when the delta between what a rookie deal WR and a FA WR makes has never been higher, and the stars at the position basically never hit FA. It’s drought level QB mismanagement bad. And it’s even worse because we have the Super Bowl caliber QB, so the opportunity cost is ENORMOUS. It has cost us the chance to play in multiple Superbowls thus far imo and may cost us ever getting to the dance at all. Does anyone think we are outscoring the Chiefs in January, even in Buffalo? Does Josh Allen think he can?

Very funny that we all have different opinions on the why and how to fix it, but 99% of folks agree these WRs ain’t good enough. That’s close enough for universal truth on here imo.

If we don’t trade for a massive talent infusion at WR, I fear this year is DOA

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.

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.

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

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

I’m firing the coach who falls to 0-5 to a KC team that isn’t going anywhere. I don’t care what playoff game it is.

we’ve lost in AFCCG’s before. It’s not enough