Chaos

Its all relative. Main competetion, Chiefs, Bengals, Ravens are all in better cap shape.

How do you measure a drafts success without hindsight? Seems most people insist you need wait five years to see how a draft actually went.

This sums things up in three words. If your happy with pretty darn good, you are happy. If pretty darn good is not what you are looking for from coaching staff then you are not happy. The McDermott quote reminded me of this guy:

Not only unpopular by also ridiculous.

This falls more into the category of prediction than opinion ( I suppose predictions by thier nature are opinions). And I am sure it will be unpopular. The Bills offense will excel in 2024 The defense will struggle. Bills fans will apologize for the struggles by pointing out the problems which are obvious today White, Milano and Miller will all play like former stars attempting to recover from major injuries, but not returning close to form The safety position will struggle, because the combined ages of this years two starts is approaching 70. The edge rusher position will be NFL average The interior defense will be NFL average linebackers will be below NFL average Cornerbacks will be NFL average Defensive struggles will be blamed on the new DC Babich. Defensive struggles will be apologized for by fans due to cap limitations special teams will be as as bad as 2023 Due to Josh Allen and the offense, the team will make the playoffs Some players will be injured Some games will be impacted by bad calls Bills will go out in the divisional round of the playoffs. Fans will generally conclude, the Bills did not advance further because of things beyond the Bills control. After the season TBD posters will argue about whether significant changes should be made No significant changes will be made. I will be happy to be wrong and watch the Bills hoist the Lombardi If the Bills hoist the Lombardi, someone will revive this thread and poop on this post. This will also make me happy.

Do you think Knox is going to simply take less money without getting cut and becoming a free agent? Or do you think the bills will restructure and guarantee the rest of his contract.

Why do you think the Bills would want to restructure?

So nine seasons with a coach (Reeves) who could not get it done, replaced by a coach (Shanahan) who gets it done in year 2?

Cap hit is all is all that matters from a fan perspective.

The tre white and Von miller contracts were unlucky. The Knox contract was arguably bad judgment on Beanes part.

Hopefully someone on the committee will explain to him when to throw challenge flags

if the standard is guaranteeing a Super Bowl, are you saying McDermott is a failure, or are you saying he guarantees us a Super Bowl or are all other coaches held to a higher standard than McDermott?

We have a QB who gets us to the playoffs every year. That is clear. It is less clear who else is contributing, holding us back or simply along for the ride.

This is the reason for the end of the fail. Full stop. Everything is else is the reason we have leveled off at current levels. It is reasonable to be happy with current levels. It is reasonable to think that maybe the breaks will fall the Bills way and they will break out of current levels. It is also reasonable to think that there is not going to be a breakout from the current level without making some major change. Its part of what makes sports interesting.

Drafting a QB and signing mayfield are not mutually exclusive concepts.

I meant riveria being moved on from by the panthers. But the panthers did not actually win the Super Bowl so a mistake. Carrol fits.

We can all agree that your level of patience is of no relevance. Others like to share their opinions with each other.

There really is no right or wrong answers here. Different people have different risk/reward profiles. Personally, I think the past lack of success for coach/QB after a certain point exists for a reason. Extremely few coaches seem to be able to adapt and modify what they are doing to the point of winning multiple championships. In my best estimation, this is due to familiarity of the systems. I think McDermott has become too familar (which can happen without actually winnning a championship). He seems like a truly stubborn person for better or worse. I don't see him ever being less familar. Maybe the familiar system gets some injuries, or poor seasons from key opponents, but I think McDermott will need a lot of help from other teams failing, in order to get further than he has. I will give a similiar current example, which will be less emotional for Bills fans. The McDaniels and Tua combo. This past season was likely their best opportunity to take the league by storm and play through to a championship. They started out with pretty interesting and different offensive attack. Even put up 70 points. But it got more figured out as the season progressed, and if they run back the same stuff next year, its hard to see it doing any better. Given Tua's limitations and the quality assets he had around him this year, I don't think McDaniels/Tua has anywhere to go. The difference is if I was the Dolphin's and I wanted to win championships, I would look to move on from Tua (maybe McDaniels too, but I think McDaniels got the most of Tua anyone ever will).

maybe could be a slogan?

its possible the original contained a mild amount of sarcasm. possibly.

Unless Terry is a member of this forum, none of us get to make a change. We can be upset, indifferent or any other emotion we want about the situation. question specifically asks about NOT going to the Super Bowl. Whole different kettle of fish if we start playing in and winning conference championships.

The general rule is that fans on this forum consider anything they don't understand "useless". Which from the sole perspective of those that don't understand things is perfectly true.

Fair question, since none of us are Pegula. I guess my intention was how far yout patience goes before you would be upset as a fan to keep the HC.

The tough part of this is that, Allen is at such a high level, if he dropped down to being a "top 10" qb, the team would likely fall off a cliff.

I think Zack Taylor’s record against Reid in the playoffs is better I fully expected this crowd was more vice than virtue driven 😀 the numbers don’t lie.