JohnNord

It is a cop out to put it all on coaching. For a variety of reasons some player’s games don’t transcend to the professional game. There’s always high draft picks that don’t work with a variety of teams and coaches. I will agree that sometimes the landing spot helps determine the trajectory of a player’s success and that includes coaching. But by your definition, Boogie Basham should have been a star with the Giants. He’s the same player. It’s on Boogie…not coaching.

I never liked the Boogie Basham draft pick and I’ll always say that missing really hurt the team. Not only the players they could have drafted but the fact that his lack of developed made the signing of a Von Miller that much more of a priority. If you want to argue that the Bills have spent higher picks on defensive players and that they’ve missed on hitting home runs that’s fine. But to imply that the bad players were McDermott picks is just scapegoating

I love the positivity Alph 👍🏻

So what’s the difference between a McDermott pick and a Beane pick? it’s obviously that your take is intellectually dishonest and biased. It reminds me when Whaley apologists would says “he only drafted players for Rex Ryan.” Ok…if that’s the case, he drafted players that were completely busts regardless

I love how because McDermott is an unpopular figure around here, everything that’s gone wrong is his fault 🤣🤣😂 How do you know that it was McDermott who insisted on making these picks? How do you know it wasn’t Beane who insisted on defense?

I see a lot of people dismissing your thread, but this is largely spot on. Chris Simms biggest criticism of the Bills offense was that it was Allen to Diggs or nothing. That was certainly the case last season and it’s been the case for most of the year until recently. Throughout the course of the season, it seems like someone always let the team down when the needed a big play. If it wasn’t Allen or Diggs, no one really stepped up.

To be fair, Albright said the HC position would be “evaluated.” Seems like every position is evaluated after the season.

Dawson Know is about the become the highest paid TE2 in the NFL.

It’s a good way to look at it.

Grow up? Maybe try to not use a cringe word like “Billsy.” It’s beyond ridiculous. Don’t do it

Billsy - ugh…such a cringe term Send a “big blitz” on defense

Yeah I feel threatened and will report Mr. Arnold

This is a pretty terrible idea.

And they will… the Bills and the NFL will not rush and will spend time investigating with local authorities in Texas before making a decision.

I mean, clearly you do…. Maybe you’re right…we don’t know for sure. I’m actually going to wait for more details and information before I start judging people.

The problem with the reaction to this case is people have made up their minds with such limited information. First everyone assumed the allegations in the police report were 100% true - this is not always the case. Then when his girlfriend publicly denied the claims in the report, people automatically assumed she changed her story out of fear. None of us has the knowledge or information to make a decision either way, yet so many have made their minds up. A sad commentary on the knee jerk reactions these days Even though the victim denied the documentation? People just will believe anything to suit their narrative

Quentin Jefferson as DL has about as much impact as Justin Jefferson at DL

Different situation… Mario Williams was very good for 2 seasons and played at an All-Pro level in 2014. The Bills did overpay to get him in Buffalo but he played well. Things went downhill after when Rex took over. It wasn’t just the scheme change he fell off a cliff and was out of the league two years later.

I largely agree with what you said but do have to defend the move by Beane. Anytime you sign a player to a big contract, injuries are always a risk - whether young or old. Look at Joe Burrow’s injury this season. Just because he blew an ACL three years prior, doesn’t really mean it would happen again. The way the contract was structured, it was basically a 3-year contract and I feel that was reasonable. They did have an overpay a little, but LAR and DAL were also in the mix to sign him to a similar contract. So it was a deal somewhat close to his market value and was not an egregious contract. Now where I can agree with you is the need for Von in the first place. Beane and McDermott consistently failed to find a difference maker as an edge rusher despite spending a time of money and draft resources. Trent Murphy was an absolute disaster. Mario Addison was just a dude. Quentin Jefferson was invisible. Boogie Basham was a bust AJ Epinesa and Greg Rousseau flashed but not enough as DE1 They failed at everything else, so they had to overpay for name brand and it worked for 10 games. But in this situation, they took a big swing and by happenstance it doesn’t look like it will work out. I can’t really fault them though.

I believe he sacked Mahomes on 3rd down late to get the ball back. He was literally the “closer” they signed him to be…then he got hurt

It’s funny how the narrative is that signing Von was a terrible move. Everyone was so excited when they made the move and into the season it seemed to pay off. Not just from a sack percentage but Von helped the defense get good pressure with rushers. Once he was hurt it was a different story. I’m in the camp that you can’t really forecast injuries. Just because he blew an ACL earlier does not mean it will happen again. Brady blew his ACL once and was fine playing into his mid 40’s. Now since we lost Von Miller and he’s struggled to recover this season, everyone is saying what a bad deal it’s been. And for the most part it has but it’s more of a result of injuries than anything else

Especially when he’s paying McDermott $30M to go away

This is almost guaranteed to happen. I think part of his plan to fix things next season will involve hiring a fresh new DC (I think it will be Bobby Babich) and retaining Brady as OC. He stays as HC but we get new, younger coordinators with connections to the team but different ideas than their predecessors.

I do as well. I am a bit worried over how he’s called defense in the final moments of games this season. Hoping to see the change during the final 5 The problem is that Terry likes Sean as HC and doesn’t want to change We won’t have to fret…there’s a 0% chance of that happening

We know what you mean…and you are correct