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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.

Patience is a virtue. That is not in dispute. So it is arguable that the more patience one has the more virtuous one is being. This poll is a test of your virtue. More undisputed facts: Sean McDermott Bills head coach since 2017 The Bills have made the playoffs 6 of those 7 years The Bill have not made it to the super bowl in any of those 7 years. Only three NFL head coaches (Reid, Tomlin, Harbaugh) have been with their teams longer (all have coached Super Bowl champions in their career) Two other coaches have the same number of years (McVay, Shanahan) Both have been to the Super Bowl twice. One has won a Super Bowl (weaker NFC) Generally speaking teams in the NFL do not seem to be patient with coaches. Teams have fired relatively recent super bowl winners (Pederson, Bellichek, Riveria for example). Teams have fired other coaches that made the playoffs numerous times. Some teams have been more patient (Shottenheimer, Marvin Lewis, Dan Reeves spring to mind) This poll is intended to record your level of virtue. The bigger the number you pick, the more virtuous you are.

Kyle Shanahan Nick Siriani Zach Taylor Andy Reid Sean McVay Bill Bellichek Doug Pederson This is the list of coaches who have coached in a Super Bowl during the Sean McDermott Era. The whole "lost by a field goal" conecept is just a stupid argument. Nothing in McDermotts track record to suggest the Bills would of course gone on the win the next game. Or the one after that.

Does this mean we also have to dump Allen, because he is actually the primary difference.

I hope the Bills win it all next year. In my heart of hearts I don't think there is a Josh Allen window until there is a new head coach that understands how to optimize Allen.

In realty he means Harbaugh/Hebert rather than McDermott/Allen percentage wise I rank Allen’s chances above all of the others. But against the field of all the other AFC teams the Bills probably are not greater than 50% likely to be the breakthrough team.

Burning down the house.

Wow it reminds of the time a team lost a game because they had 12 on the field on defense and responded by firing the offensive coordinator.

I think the fourth quarter in the playoffs should be continuous play. The first team to have a lead after 15 minutes wins.

Over 332 million Americans have never shot anyone. So there is that bit of good news.

You stop Mahomes by scoring more points that his team. The strategy of holding him to fewer points in the playoffs seems to be a fail. Lets build the offense that scores 35 against Mahomes, and hope and pray the defense doesn't give up 36. WR is a priority over Dline.

Bills are a perennial top 8 team. Beane and McDermott are both well on the path to be in the Hall of Very Good. There is no dramatic shortage of talent on the Bills. Condemning the individual selections seems foolish. I do think its a mistake to try to build the mythical "complimentary football team", with no holes, and resources committed to huge rotations on the dline and resources purposely limited to special teams. I think the Bills would be better served to focus on building an offensive juggernaut around Allen. They are actually at a pretty good starting point. Good line. Great TE1 in Kincaid. If the WR room can be built into something a bit better than it is now, it should be good. One more element of being an offensive Juggernaut : Its not clear McDermott/Dabol, McDermott/Dorsey or McDermott/Brady are the right leaders to for this effort. A change here would like be more impactful, than any personnel changes. (impactful does not mean better)

Shrinkflation from Bass and Miller. Same price, smaller performance.

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this creates a small possibility of that person developing into a tradeable asset for some reason. Kyle Allen and Mitch Trubisky never will be that.

just not true true. Bills were far bigger favorites going into the season every year for the last five years than the Ravens.

I made a mistake in the original post regarding super bowl turnovers. but the fact that the chiefs have won 13 in a row where the lost the turnover battle means they are better than anyone at overcoming adversity, or the turnover battle is over rated as mattering.

Thank you. change the numbers in your head in my previous post to 13.

The Chiefs lost the turnover battle in yesterday's super bowl. That was the 14th game in a row, where the chiefs lost the turnover battle, and the chiefs still won the game. The Bills head coach leans on "its hard to win when you lose the turnover battle", as a reason for losing games. McDermott's statement is probably true. Here's the rub: It would appear the Chiefs have won 14 games in a row, "where it was hard to win". I think there is a mental toughness exhibited by winning games that are hard to win, that the Chiefs have and the Bills do not seem too.

If your team sucks and doesn't make the playoffs , you can't disappoint in the playoffs. Name one team with a more disappointing playoff record than the Bills the last five years.

Just starting quarter five handing the transition exactly the same as the transition form quarter 3 to quarter 4, continuous play would also be my pick,

he gets to super bowls and does not win super bowls. This is not as good as coaches who win super bowls. It is better than coaches who don’t get to super bowls

The college rules keep alternating possessions. It never converts to sudden death. College rules are irrelevant due to that difference.

Chiefs scored 19 points on offense, and lost the turnover battle. Is that really "firing on all cylinders'. I think the chiefs chiefs got to overtime only because of two phases of the game.