This is the key right here. In the 5 seasons since the 2018 draft in which the Bills were sitting on a pile of draft capital due to the Mahomes trade, who are the 5 best players Beane has picked? You're looking at names like Oliver, Rousseau, Dane Jackson (?), Kincaid (?), Bass...
If anything, McDermott deserves credit for keeping it together as well as he has. That is an abysmal record, and if he hadn't taken Josh 6 years ago he'd have been sent packing by now. The lack of young talent and athleticism last night compared to the Bengals was striking.