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No we don't. We don't have any semblance of the zone blocking scheme the niners run, and no coach experienced with it. We don't have kittle and we don't have nearly the RB stable the niners roll with.

You have to win a division and two playoff games to get the super bowl or win three playoff games to get to the super bowl. 12 teams have that chance at the end of the season. 8 teams have chance after the first week of the playoffs. We were part of the twelve, but not part of the eight. So we were not that close. We have advanced to the Marvin Lewis / Jason Garrett tier. We need to advance to the Marty Schottenheimer tier before we can really say "we were so close"

I want to clear this up for people. Doug Whaley was not competent as a GM. Try to remember this. Thank you for your cooperation.

thats pretty funny .

Being poor sucks.

Comparing any current team to any team from the 20th Century is going to yield little fruit. Free agency, rookie contract rules and salary caps have changed the way teams are built. But even more dramatically have changed the way teams are maintained. From 1967 through 1979, only three teams appeared in the Super Bowl only once. Every other team was a bit of a dynasty with multiple super bowl appearances. From 2007 through 2019 10 teams only appeared once. Getting to the Super Bowl is more teams pulling it all together briefly and going all in on a season (usually when multiple rookies contract players are playing starring roles). The days of dynasty building are really behind us. Each season is a new an unique experience.

Any with a soul is rooting for Green Bay in the NFC. Both AFC teams have reasons for support. Mahomes if fun to watch. D. Henry is blowing up the media narrative every week though, which is fun.

But that was against a weak schedule.

Think what you want. The Ravens turned over almost their entire offensive roster, changed QBs from Flacco to Jackson. Let call that a re-tool.

Everyone has it backwards. Clearly Garrett is still on Jones payroll and went to the Giants to sabotage them.

no one can copy what anyone else did. In this case Rivera is a head coach who has been to the super bowl. Much different than a first time HC. So the redskins are already way off course.

It was a rhetorical question.

Ted Marchibroda is looking down and saying hello.

If you can simply copy a model why not the chiefs or ravens instead of the Bills?

12 /32 teams make the playoffs. Simply making the playoffs is only a bit above average.

I think McDermott teams and the Bills games reflect a style of solid, safe and comfortable. He wants to have a certain number of players that help him be in his comfort zone. He has had decent success taking the Bills from being a doormat to being a playoff caliber team. Its not clear if this style of play will take the team to being championship caliber.

Singletary has not shown (some would some simply not given the opportunity) that he can carry a work load of 20+ carries regularly. If you can't do that, you are not an RB1 Generally you are right. Jerome the Bus Bettis, and John Riggins (and the hogs) were a couple of exceptions proving the rule. Henry is playing at a unusual high level currently. No one else is going to play at the level, and even Henry is not likely to sustain it. Its a rare thing.

While I am not sold on Daboll, your take here is entirely reasonable. If I just look at results I think I agree with your conclusion. However my trouble comes from how many games my head was spinning from what appeared to be a large number of inane decisions on offense.

I am guessing the Bills led the league in passing plays with a completely blown blocking assignment of a defender. Pass pro was very good when teams rushed 3. Just awful on picking up blitzes.

They did not help. I am not sure how much they hurt. I am a little fixated on Derrick Henry the last couple of weeks. If you have a line and a player performing at that level, I am not sure if the performance of a WR#3 like jones or a WR4 like foster is really a critical missing pieces though. I don;t now if a QB in his second season and his first full season as a starter is likely to be the best at involving 5 or 6 NFL average playmakers without having single player the Defense needs to key on. Last year Mahomes did very well with guys like this handling most of the production I think Maybe if we had Hill and Kelce, instead of Brown and Croft, no one would worry so much about zay jones or robert foster. Looking at the Bills this season, it seems like maybe the production shortfall is on the top, not the bottom of the WR corp

Being a tiger has worked out well for him so far.

Are you aware of any situations where McDermott seemed to have a blind spot and was months behind in making decisions that were obvious to others?

Ending well, is the key though.

I would have picked Vrabel. Did more with less when it mattered most. Just not as flashy nor part of the national media narrative.

If that is your goal, then you are asking the right question. Personally I don't know the answer to that question.