Chaos

Sports is a strange business dynamic. Not many of us have jobs where we have 31 competitors and all but one of us is deemed to have failed at the end of the year. It must be stressful. Also most of us don't get paid millions and millions of dollars to help cope with that stress. Retaining management, retaining coaches and retaining players are all decisions equally impactaful as changing management, changing coaches and changing players. People percieve there being different risks by retaining vs changing personnel. In the Bills case one group of fans believes there is a risk of not optimizing Josh Allen's career in Buffalo. A different group of fans believes there is a risk of making mistakes and returning to draught era futility. There are other risks. This poll is asking to identify which of these two particular risks is the bigger risk. The only assumption is that Josh Allen remains a Bill and remains healthy: 1) Not optimizing Josh Allen's career in Buffalo. Not optimizing is different than "wasting". For example, Jim Kelly in a different set of circumstances may have won a super bowl, which is more optimal than only making it to the super bowls. To me, it would be silly though to say Jim Kelly's career was wasted. 2) Returning to draught era futility. This means fielding teams that fans do not expect to be competetive at the beginning of the season, then proven right by the actual season. Please note, both of these risks exist whether we retain or change current coaches, management or players.

Josh gets far more blame than he deserves. He is still the entire reason the Bills are competitive at all.

I agree with this. I don't think T. Pegula does. His opinion matters. Mine does not. I think McDermott will get nine years like Dan Reeves did with John Elway.

Breaking news. Games aren't over at half time. The Bills are last in the NFL in every defensive statistic over the last three games. This includes games against the two worst offensese. You honestly don't understand what you are seeing.

zero chance O'Connell would be that blatant if he was cheating.

thats not what happened though

that was some fancy play

seems every team in the NFL runs better screen plays than the Bills

Viking fans should love me. I bet pretty heavily on the niners.

Kirk Cousins is a pro

They will win Thursday. It will be money well spent.

These bottom dwelling defensive snaps are all on Dorsey and Allen.

Dumb take. No one is suggesting he be a building block for the future. Just a stop gap for the rest of the season.

In this hypothetical, does the defense choke a away a lead with less than two minutes left in the game?

always with some passive aggressive manner of actually shifting blame to some one else.

Sean McDermott said he does not have the answers. Maybe the players are meeting to see if any of them have the answers.

I never said I did. I was just pointing out your mistake in your reply to the other person

Fair point. My point in the original post was that he was was arguably statistically avg. QBR is intended to compensate for the types of issues you raised. By that measure Allen was well above average.

25 points and a lead with two minutes to go is what mattered yesterday.

Regarding item 1. That is a polite way of saying we don’t have the talent to win. If our defense is not capable of holding the NFLs worst offense to less than 29 points in 27 minutes of possession time, we can’t beat good teams. The defense played badly yesterday. If they can’t play better, then the Bills likely miss the playoffs. If they can play better, then the need to own yesterday’s performance, which lost a very winnable game. Regarding item 2, this is all true. In a different thread someone made the observation that Kincaid needs to be TE1 and we need to move back to 11 personnel as the primary package. This solves the single biggest dropped pass problem. If the coaches don’t make this change for th next game, we will know that winning competes with other “process” priorities, or the coaching staff is not competent to adjust.

Just not true. Coming into the game Allen is too 5 in every improvement passing stat this season

I suspect your answer is intentionally over the top. But a slightly toned down version seems like it would be ok. "after seven games, its no secret we have made significant changes to our offensive strategy compared to prior seasons. Some of it has worked as we expected. Some has not. We have a special QB that gives us many options on how to run the offense. All of those options are on the table"

This is not true. Almopst everyone hates everything the are emotionally or physically addicted too.

I think Josh is following coaching orders on the sideline. There is an irrational fear of Josh playing with emotions. He is most likely doing what he is told.