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The team that will make a really good hire this offseason is going to be the Panthers. David Tepper is going to be a very smart owner......and I think he'll be smart enough to jettison Rivera who's not a good coach, IMO. With Tepper's analytical blbased approach I'd expect the Panthers to be one of those dominant franchises moving forward. It's a shame too because any team can get smart and hire the right people, unfortunately in Buffalo we have owners who dont have a clue. They literally hire people based on them living Jesus and being a wrestler which in their eyes makes that person "tough". I have a different way of defining "tough". To me it means thinking independently, embracing math, and giving your team a strategic advantage on the field by being ultra aggressive......something you will never see out of this franchise as it's currently constructed.

As a Bills fan, I'd embrace the Jets hiring Jim Harbaugh. He is the exact opposite of what I'd want in a head coach. Conservative, run and stop the run mentality, punts too much, relies on his defense too much, bad clock management. Basically he has all the flaws most coaches in the NFL have. Also I dont see him as a guy that develops QBs. Michigan's QBs have stunk. I hope they hire him.

He is no bueno, IMO. Weak arm. Erratic accuracy downfield. Was never impressed with him as a prospect. Come on out! Maybe some team will want to trade up with the Bills! Don't forget trading up for an avg. LT and trading up for a LB that looks very so so, when Dallas appeared to have gotten a much better one a few picks later. Does anyone notice a trend? Trade up, trade up, trade up.....the exact thing smart teams dont do....and the one time we do trade down it's to pass on what looks to be one of the best QBs in the league (Mahomes) or one that looks really good (Watson), yet again showing this franchise has no ability to evaluate QB prospects.

Easiest decision of the offseason. He stinks & hes overpaid.

Today was a classic example of a total mismatch in coaching. Dont get confused.....the Pats personnel is not good. Their defense stinks and the offense was running a pop Warner like offense. It was nothing but runs, WR flank runs and outlet passes to the RBs. The Patriots ran the same WR flank run 6 times and the Bills got burned every single time. The DE that's responsible for setting the edge on that play was lost all 6 times. They had Lorenzo Alexander covering Edelman countless times, which defines stupidity. The offense was lost. Allen was seeing ghosts all game. He looked like a deer in headlights, and was staring down his primary read all game.....this game was just an all around beatdown by a coaching staff that runs circles around the Bills

Once again credit Bill B for attacking our weaknesses he ran at Edmund's all day. Expect other coaches to follow suit.

Exactly what Greg Cosell said he was in the lead up to the draft. Hes awful in the run game. Takes bad angles and is super slow to diagnose. Our other 1st round pick looked like a train wreck out there today too.

Hughes is not close to a premiere pass rusher in the NFL. Only a very subjective Bill's fan would say such a thing. He's a solid player who runs hot and cold. He'll have 2 or 3 games a season where he looks like an unblockable speed demon, but he also will disappear for a month. He's been a great find for the Bill's, but theyd be smart to listen to any and all offers if there are interested teams this offseason. Hughes will be 31 next season, which in the world of DEs isn't over the hill, but it is entering the older stage. He has 1 year left on a reasonable deal that owes him $7.5M in cash next year, which is very cheap and helps his trade value quite a bit. If a team offered a 3rd rounder in the 2019 draft this offseason I'd be tempted, especially if it was a high 3rd, say a top 80 pick. 2nd, 3rd, 4th are gold if they hit. Their rookie deals pay them 1/8th of what they're worth of they become players.

Thurman made mention of his daughter and her depression. Got me thinking.......I hope a young girl like that isn't on anti-depressants. I know every situation is different, but many medical professionals that I listen to and respect warn that those anti-depressants they're handing out like candy now are so bad for you. Make you entirely dependent on them and many times lead to deeper depression. The over prescription of pain killers and anti-depressants is a very real problem in this country and it's mainly because those arguing against them often get shot down as insensitive or not understanding. Not the case......those things are poison, and I wish doctors would exhaust all other options including -diet -exercise -vitamins (fish oil) -meditation/breathing techniques before resorting to chemicals. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case......and the financial incentive for a doctor to fix a problem is a lot less lucrative than prescribing chemicals for years if not decades.

We've had 27 regular season games to assess McDermott and I 100% agree......he's not good on Sundays. Now maybe he's good Monday-Saturday, I wouldn't know, but on Sunday, the day when games are decided he's clueless. Clock management, timeout usage, challenges, agressiveness are all areas where he stinks. 2 weeks in a row he's handled end of the half clock management situations like a coach who just doesn't get it. We lost an opportunity to score vs the Dolphins at the end of the 1st half, because he was too dumb to call TO's when the Phins had the ball inside the 10 and were bleeding clock to prevent us a possession. His explanation after that game for why he wasnt using timeouts to preserve additional time for a Bills offense was pathetic. He said he didnt really like the way his offense was playing and he didnt want to go 3 and out and give the Phins another opportunity to score before half. If your offense had trouble scoring points you should be thinking the exact opposite.....you should attempt to maximize their possessions and opportunities to score points not minimize them. Here you have McDermott fretting "well what if we go 3 and out, the Dolphins could maybe score again". That's such a lame and defeated attitude to have and frankly one that I want no where near my sideline.

Kwon Alexander is a player that I think McDermort targets this offseason. I specifically remember McDermott heaping praise his way after we played them during the '17 season. The Panthers drafted a player with a very similar skill set to Kwon Alexander in Shaq Thompson during McDermotts DC days there.....and they drafted him in the 1st round, so you know McDermott coveted that skill set. A smaller rangier LB. Now he did tear his ACL this year.....but that was in October so he might be ready to go fir the start of '19. He's just a guy I think the Bills would love to have to really fill out their LB core.

On a team that emphasizes availability I'd be surprised if Sean Lee was signed by the Bills. One LB I do expect them to take a look at is Kwon Alexander. I recall McDermott gushing over him after we played the Bucs last year.

No that was me that called WGR. The poster is right. McDermott cost the Bills a scoring chance by not using his timeouts. Totally unacceptable. The thing that bugs me the most is he won't learn from it, he might not even realize he botched it. He'll pour through the film and analyze all the x's and o's, but will totally overlook the fact he declined the opportunity to score at the end of the half solely through his inept clock management. Not 1 question about it from the media after the game either. Sean you guys had 5 seconds left from the +42 to end the half and attempted a hailmary? Do you wish you had used timeouts when the Phins had the ball on the previous drive and given your team an extra minute or so to possibly score? Seems like a ? He should be asked at the very least. I'm not sure he would even understand the ?, which would be pretty telling in and of itself.

Both. The ball was a duck. It came out funny, was wobbly and was probably a good 10 to 15 feet underthrown. There was no one close to guarding lay and a ball that was a few feet higher and you have yourself an easy TD. That said, Clay could've and probably should've come up with the ball. It looked to me like he almost started tripping as he was going down low to get underneath the ball.

No, but what they do contribute to is my ability to assess the competency of our HC.....and today was an utter FAILURE. His situational coaching and clock management were next level bad.......and unacceptable.

Sean McDermott not taking timeouts at the end of the 1st half when the Dolphins were inside the 10 about to score is a tape that should be studied by all HC's as what NOT to do. He lost us a possession there. We ended up getting the ball back with 40 seconds when it should have been 1 minute and 40 seconds if we had a coach who understood situational football. If we end up getting a FG at the end of the half because our coaching was competent than we would've only needed a FG at the end of the game. Those type of mistakes, the ones that cost your team opportunities to score points are entirely unacceptable.

He was fading hard last season. Marcus Murphy when given the opportunity (which has been few and far in between) has consistently outproduced McCoy. The kid runs hard and explodes through the hole, which is exactly where McCoy has been deficient. It's not that McCoy looks slow, he's just not accelerating through the hole, he almost slows down or sometimes comes to a dead stop upon taking the hand off, which baffles me. He has way too many negative rushes and I'm of the opinion that Muphy, Ivory and McCoy should be splitting carries (5-10 touches a piece).

No chance hes on the roster next year. Hes the definition of replacement level and he gets paid like hes a top 5 TE in the league. Add on his injuries and his age and hes a sure fire offseason cut.

Wish they had followed advice to save us from a bad hire. If you believe in a high powered offense coupled with smart and aggressive situational coaching than McDermott has been a total whiff.

The OP is spot on. They are 100% responsible as they are the ones that set the vision for where this org. is going and who is at the helm to lead it. The hiring of McDermott a coach who has the totally wrong vision for what it takes to succeed in 2018 was a horrendous mistake. Unfortunately for us the fans, the Pegulas will compound their mistake with McDermott by not admitting their mistake and allowing him to continue as HC heading into the 2019 season.

Fire Sean McDermott. The man has shown he has no semblance of identifying or developing offensive talent. His firing would be step 1 in any serious effort to get this team back on the rails.

No, but they are utterly clueless in the hiring process. Rex Ryan - FAIL Sean McDermott - FAIL They need to hire smarter people, that understand what wins in the modern NFL. It's called a passing game, an offense, something Buffalo hasn't had in 20 years.

How about Brandon Beane over Brett Veach. Now the GM of the Chiefs and the guy who fell in love with Mahomes and convinced Andy Reid he was their guy. Veach was also the guy Shady McCoy was pushing the Bill's to interview with when we had our GM vacancy. Oh well.....should a, would a, could a.....the Pegulas whiffed again. They've had a brutal go of it this far, little reason for optimism we these guys heading the ship.

I see more Blaine Gabbert, who like Allen, drops his eyes and stares at the pass rush when under pressure. A fatal QB'ing flaw IMO.