Sargent Hulka

We are beyond three loss seasons as a metric for success. They mean nothing if you can't win the big one, especially given the Bills ignominious playoff exit the last two seasons, Thurm!

As playoff bow-outs pile up, the Beane hype withers, whether it's his drafting or pro player personnel signings. You take away drafting Allen, trading for Diggs, and going into cap purgatory to sign Miller, and he appears all hat and no cattle. He had no answers, or accountability at his last presser. He and McDermott seem unwilling to make the hard, necessary changes, andI think the loveliest for them is over.

Always thought this guy was one of our best scouts: https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/former-bills-chief-scout-norm-pollom-93-dies-in-california/article_9499fbac-8a08-59fc-a463-f8c78fa7ef74.html

I like to Bernard given a tryout at safety.

There was one?

Seeing incessant ads for this movie, with Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Tom Brady. Make it stop!

Don't they have to hire a new safeties coach first?

Say what you want, but Ralph Wilson would not have tolerated this. Frazier would already be gone, and if McDermott refused, he'd be gone too.

I wonder if Terrel Bernard could get a look at safety? Light for a LB, I think with the mobility to close and size, at safety, as well as put a good lick on a receiver, and he's big enough to cover a TE.

No playing well...https://www.yahoo.com/sports/bills-gm-brandon-beane-takes-shot-at-bengals-dont-want-to-have-to-suck-bad-enough-to-have-to-get-jamarr-chase-234537689.html

Another damn Brendan Beane Carolina connection. That, in and of itself, says this regime cannot think outside the box.

He was a liability Sunday, especially with his tackling.

Was there a worst defense all year in giving up a 1st down on third and long?

Conflict of interest is an omnipresent risk when a GM and HC come as a package, and that is precisely what you have with Beane and McDermott. It corrupts autonomy, objectivity and accountability.

I want to love this metaphor (possibly for future use), but at the risk of seeming slow on the uptake, could you expound? Do you mean, too vanilla, unimaginative, anal retentive?

No, that O-line sucked all year. Allen's impressive running skills hid it. That was taken away in the playoffs.

I don't see the "everything that was going on" as a reason to for him to be COTY, but rather as the sole mitigating factor as to why he should't be fired. Then, of course, I'm viewing it from the lens of last season's disappointment added on, which has no bearing on this year's COTY. I don't see the "everything that was going on" as a reason to for him to be COTY, but rather as the sole mitigating factor as to why he should't be fired. Then, of course, I'm viewing it from the lens of last season's disappointment added on, which has no bearing on this year's COTY.

Shanahan! McDermott without the benefit of Allen is mediocre.

That's the problem with McDermott: his loyalty (which is a liability) will not allow him to acknowledge those deficiencies.

Grounds for dismissal!

He's good in the building, but he's also a terrible in-game manager; whether it's adjustments, timeouts, 4th down decisions, challenges. Five years on, and that has remained constant.

I think he gets next year, and at minimum a trip to the AFC Championship, or he's gone.

"...but not as good as the Saban and Levy years"

Cowherd hits the nail on the head: Buffalo's O-Line was the weakest unit on the field.

Listened to them this morning. Cappacio is exasperating. His words are measured, and he sounds more like a company man. I think he's too fond of being on the sidelines and flying with the team.