Chaos

I was mocked three months ago when I started a thread about how the teams problems were rooted in its safties coaching. .......... I jest.

Its not worth the energy to do an exhaustive analysis, but I think there is an agreement that Bills rookies did not play as many downs as the rookies on most other teams. This thread is to discuss what the primary reasons for this were.

It was a shame they just tool all the old content away. It would be fun to back and see some of the old threads from many years ago.

Where do they rank on Salary Cap - I doubt the chiefs 8th in spending on defense. So they are over achieving.

I would reduce the Salary Cap committed to defense from the highest in the league to the league average. This probably means letting Edmunds walk among other things that the real Beane won't likely do. I would expect a committment from my Defensive Minded head coach and DC that with an average budget, they can deliver an NFL average defense, like the Chiefs or Bengals do. If they can't deliver that committment I would start a coaching search. I would spend committ all available draft and salary cap growth to the offensive line. 100%. I am not saying I would draft seven offensive linement. I am saying I would use the 7 draft picks to trade to get the best two or three linemen I could possibly get. I would not worry about additional offensive skill players. Diggs, Cook, Hines, (Singletary if affordable), Shakir, Knox and Davis are good enough, if we improve the line to top tier. Josh Allen with time is a brilliant passer, one of the best in the league. Given even an average amount of time in the pocket, Allen would elevate the production of all of the skill players we already have. On a separate track, I would consider what is an odd track for OC. I would tell Dorsey I am opening up the position, and that Dorsey remains a candidate, but he has to provide a plan on why he is the best person to be the OC. And I would interview others to see if I can improve that postion. Presumably Dorsey, will have a better answer than "Obviously I will be better in year 2 than year 1". Every player has to compete for his job every year. I don't think it is that odd to make Dorsey compete for his position.

are you seriously suggesting 13 seconds was just a close lose, and not a choke?

His cards were laid bare in Sunday's drubbing. He told the truth today. KC and Cincy are better, and he doesn't know how to make the Bills good enough to beat them.

I am not a "you win in the trenches" advocate. But I think the reasons the Bills can dominate weaker teams durning the regular season is that most weak teams have a poor pass rush, and Josh Allen combined can overcome our horrible Oline to crush opponents. However the stronger teams generally have good pass rushes, and even Superman can't overcome an oline that looks like it is playing with 3 linemen on most downs. So we end up getting dominated. The teams best move is to stick with skill players, don't waste another nickle on defense to retain anyone, and build the best possible oline.

There are only 3 questions.

Not completely True. John Madden and Ken Stabler won their first Super Bowl after 7 or 8 years together, in the late 70's.

Its no ones fault. Everyone did their best. We are not in a position to make any changes. We are not as good as the competition. Is this a fair summary?

Lets stipulate the Bills "were in the same bracket". HOw do you explain choking or getting stomped in every single end of season game?

Here is my definition of a retread. A coach who had five years or more to build a team and implement a system. Andy Reid is a retread by this definition and a hell of a coach. Sean Payton is a retread. John Gruden was a retread. Josh McDaniel is not. Doug McDermott would be a retread on a different team. If Brian Flores were to get another opportunity, he would not be a retread under my definition. He might not be a good coach, but i would not define him as a retread. Bill Belichek was not a retread when he was hired by this defintion.

What percentage of HCs are retreads based on your criteria. My guess is more than 60 percent which means 60 percent is a fail. And if you remove Belcihek from both sides of the equation you are at 6/14

I would not. Payton’s involvement in bounty gate disqualifies him. I would be more interested in the next Sean Mcvay, whom I never heard of before he was hired. I assume I have never heard of the next star HC. The record for retreads is horrible.

I am in the how do we win a championship crowd. Full stop. If the best answer is 100 percent maintain the status quo after analysis I am good with that. if the answer is gut everything and completely reboot around Josh Allen (Allen should be considered a sacred cow in any analysis) I am ok with that. However any analysis that includes comparisons to past losing Bills teams is invalid from the get go in my opinion.

No idea. But it seems like we really struggle to incorporate players new to the team

Sometimes I get the impression that the sequence of events is like this: McDermott - try to get McCafferty or Hockenstien Beane - here have Hines McDermott - I don't want Hines on offense, does he do special teams? Beane - probably, give him a shot at that.

The real question: Is Beane still a wizard? https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/search/?q=wizard beane&quick=1

Easier to read version of Florio's tweets

Final game of season track record: Watson: 20/25 247 1TD 0INT Mahomes: 29/38 325 3TD 0INT Mahomes: 33/44 378 3TD 0INT Burrow: 23/36 242 2TD 0INT 4 sacks combined in the last 3 playoff exits. 60%+ 3rd down conversion rate for our opponents, with 100+ rushing yards in each of the last 3 exits. We have shown no improvement over the last four seasons in the "big game". It is not clear why we would expect different results with the same coaches in the "big game" in year five.

This is McDermott's defensive scheme, he can't fire Frazier without indicting himself as failing. In McDermot world, scheme and play calling are perfect, and the untalented players let him down.

I would love to know this stat.

We are not going 8 and 9 over and over with Allen as QB. Look at Sean McVay. Look at Zac Taylor. Look at Kyle Shanahan. Lot of coaches getting their team to the Super early in their tenures.

according to the tweet it was "heard from Diggs"