Dick_Cheney

So weird seeing so many people talk about "feelings" and our ownership/front office being "mean" or whatever. I literally don't care if we have Emperor Palpatine and Lord Vader or any other Sith running this organization. If we make some solid off season moves and start the year hot, all is forgiven, as if there was even anything to forgive in the first place. I've said before, I really think that people were underestimating the psychological impact of keeping McDermott around after so many failures, regardless of whether or not they were his fault. There's just a baggage there even the strongest of psyches would be impacted by, and I think that's a big part of why Josh has been inconsistent, as well as why he was the most emotional we'd ever, ever seen him after the Denver game. Personally, I'm very excited and optimistic for this upcoming season and will be until there's additional reason to not feel that way.

Yeah, I mean. It's kind of difficult to argue that our problem is our lack of top tier WRs. I've gone back and forth on it but when you truly take a step back and just look at the numbers and how close we were to winning these days, I can't subscribe to the idea that the offense was the problem. Yeah, it could've always been better. Yeah, mistakes were made. But essentially allowing 30+ points in every one of our playoff losses is absurd. It's unrealistic and unfair to expect Josh and the offense to HAVE to come up with 30-45 points every single one of these games just to hope it doesn't fall apart at the end, which most of them did I know injuries have played part, and I know most of those losses are against the Chiefs, but I'm not sure the fine print matters at this point, after this long., It all kind of feels like an excuse after after so many failed attempts to even make the Super Bowl. To even make the Championship Game most of those years. It's sexy to criticize Josh and the offense and our lack of WRs but man. Imagine if any of those teams had had a suffocating defense that was almost certain to hold the opposing team to maybe 20 points give or take. What approach Beane and whoever he brings in decides to take from this point, I legitimately have no idea. Maybe Beane has truly been playing the long game. Maybe he hasn't sold out at the trade deadline because as much as we don't want to admit, it just hasn't been time to do so yet. Maybe this is the year. Maybe we'll have a Vrabel like situation and we'll all go "aha, of course! it all makes sense now!" Until then, all I know is I hate how this season ended and this only muddies the water.

No, it isn't meaningless at all. Comments like yours are dangerous. Respectfully, you need to familiarize yourself with the basic workings of reporting and journalism.

I mean. Not always/immediately knowing the physical status of the team you're responsible for is just, ***** bizarre to me. Difficult to even think of an analogy to compare it to in a realm outside of football.

Might have already been posted but uh. This is pretty weird, is it not?

Objectively hilarious.

Glad we built a datacenter somewhere to know things like this!!!

This is the only thing that makes sense, as weird as the intial news has seemed, so I really, really hope it's the case.

lol oh my god i do not even know what to say

Completely disagree. Yes, I do think Beane would and essentially has overruled him. This has been hinted at in Buffalo media for months. It’s been hinted at by McDermott himself with the repeated comments since the trade deadline of mentioning specific players other teams traded for and how big of difference makers they are. He’s openly commented on the impressiveness of multiple other teams rosters repeatedly over the last month or two. It has come across almost petty at times but it’s totally understandable and frankly, it’s completely accurate. Other than not taking a knee to end the first half, I don’t think McDermott did much that lost us this game at all. I think it’s a lot easier to argue the opposite. To be that close, in that messy of a game, with such a mediocre roster around Allen, speaks volumes.

Yep. I’m in awe of how many posts and articles there are online in general about this basically all saying the same thing. Never seen anything like it after our other losses. I keep reading things as if I’m searching for something to make sense or to somehow feel okay with all of it. A loss based solely upon our own failings would be so much easier to accept. But between the Cooks catch and the PI, it actually feels not just like we lost or we weren’t good enough, but that we’re being punished.

Yeah that doesn’t make sense to me. Everyone is watching the Super Bowl anyways. Boston would watch it prayin to see us suffer again as they’d probably enjoy a Super Bowl loss for us more than they’d enjoy winning another themselves. Bills regular season and playoff games are always record setting. Whenever it finally happens it’ll be the most watched Super Bowl of all time by a significant margin so yeah, I really don’t get the conspiracy takes from people who don’t offer any reasoning or critical thinking.

I don't really get this line of thinking, and I haven't for numerous years. What is the argument that basically any other Super Bowl matchup would draw more viewers than people finally getting to see the Bills with Allen in the Super Bowl for the first time in over 3 decades? What's the actual argument that people are trying to push here?

I wonder if we get this news tomorrow, possibly Tuesday on account of the holiday.

I'm usually of the opinion that Gene does a pretty good job, but his statements during the game and afterwards have been straight up 1984 vibes.