colin

on O, i think we need a TE 2 (no where near an elite need), one of OG/C/RT (brown showed a ton of ability, but still not a finished guy) and perhaps a back w some speed and moves. none of that is really elite, but it wouldn't hurt. on D, we need i think another corner (a talented rookie would do TBH) and some kind of play maker in the front 7, on the edge. that's our one elite guy need. so while i don't disagree w you, the way we have our D roster built is goofy, we have 1st and 2nd round picks (and recent ones too) and high paid guys on the bench on every play, and the fall off from them to the rest of the squad isn't that great. we are better off signing whoever or drafting guys to fill in the roster, and having a couple elite guys in the front who can make game changing plays. I think oliver can be that guy, chandler jones who we might be able to sign could be, and i think groot takes a step next season. i really think letting some guys walk (star, houghs, addison, butler, klien, mattlewitch, sanders, williams our RG) and adding one real stud and just filling in the rest will put us over talent wise, of course i've harped on enough about what we need wrt coaching.

this is it, our d coaches (gotta include the HC in this, not sure how involved he is day to day but it all stops at him) get the guys fired up and running what they build for them, but it comes at the expense of not having anything to fall back on or change up whit the fit hits the shan. we miss a ton of tackles because guys are in position to make a lot of tackles, i can live w that. we rush a generally fresh 4 and don't get a lot of sacks because we try to rush as a team and impact passes more than finish the qb off, to an extent i can live with that. our LBs are out of position sometimes because they have so much to do and it's such a hard job, i can sorta live with that. what i can't live with is being easy to predict and slow to change. the dvoa stats are crap because it's not over a large enough sample set, and the variability is too high (we placed the coprses of back ups padding our stats, and we got trucked like ever fan expected way too often). a couple better play makers would help, but we have a schematic issue where we don't put enough of a challenge up against good Os, and we simply don't adjust at all. im optimistic, i think one new guy in the front 7 who can play at a high level (letting our old wood walk too, they can be replaced by lots of people. remember when zimmer was an upgrade to butler last season?) and either a new DC or McD taking over the D (assuming he can, i'll presume he's got enough more smarts than frazier to fix it) and we have the d we need.

bills at rams to open the season would be electric. a big time show of force to put the taste out of our mouths.

i expect the rams to win a fairly convincing game. cincy has played some outstanding ball, but they don't have the run game nor the super stars up front on d to frustrate the rams like sf does (sf had a huge win streak vs the rams too, just came up short yesterday).

i live in central nj and see some giant games, and have a lot of gman fan friends. i think their d was pretty good all things considered, and they came out to play when hope was slim, so it makes sense to keep their dc. i wish dabol well since even tho i poo poo'd him a lot, he did obviously work really hard for us. i don't think he's gonna have success though, he's an offensive experimentation guy, i don't think he's meticulous enough to be an effective hc and the microscope in NY/NJ is gonna burn him.

Mahomes was off, but kc got production out of their lbs, and out of their Des. Our over paid dl except Oliver did Jack squat, and out lbs were watching the game most of the time. We have too many over paid jags (Addison, Houghs, star, Klein for example) and we need one playmaker in the front 7. All of that said, the end it was coaching. If our coaches were capable of adjusting, or just not calling an idiotic d w 13 seconds left we are talking about how we just boat raced cinci all the way home

Lotta anti clutch football at qb today.

The Bengals opted to be the 4th seed. They snuck wins over tenn and KC, they had an adjustment for the second half. Our coaching staff intentionally doesn't have defensive adjustments. It's pretty clear what we are lacking

we have so many guys on this team who barely play better than 1st and 2nd year players i see all over the place. given that our wins were all 12+ points, and we lost every single close game, i don't think changing these dudes would be a huge problem. our D balled out statistically this season, was pretty awful last season. zero difference in results, we lost to the same team. it was closer this season, but no thanks to our D, it was cuz allen just gets better and our 2nd year wr stepped up, our 3rd year rb stepped up, and a back up LG and a raw rookie RT improved 3 spots on our OL (since williams kicked inside to RG, where he is decidedly average but paid like an all pro)

prolly not, but we can tread water w our jags w some restructurings and letting dead wood walk and make just enough room for a chandler, and basically hope to win in the draft. I think that's how you win the chip next season. we don't pay our guys any less in meaningful terms than KC or the rams do, but they have play makers all over and we simply have allen balling out of control and a bunch of like better jags. i'd rather draft a stud, but that's less likely than moving around money for jones imo

true, we need more positions to be filled by young players drafted in the past and next two drafts to replace guys. the addisons and butlers and williams and houghs and kliens and mattlewitch's and sanders of this team must all be let go. we see rookie cbs come in for injured starters and 3rd string olinemen play at a meh level all over the nfl. they would be worse than the above guys, but not glaringly so, and we just got smoked by the same 3 friggen super stars who nuked us 2 times last year and once this year. in the modern nfl, play makers and jags are what make up a championship team, and we have the biggest play maker in the nfl for a long time. we just have to make sure we have a couple other play makers (really, i think if we come out of the offseason w a legit pass rusher we are golden) and not spend too much on jags.

i still can't decide if i think it was all on mcd, who simply thought kc was out of timeouts, or on frazier, who isn't the sharpest tool in the drawer and thinks having a back up plan is a bad idea, is who is most responsible for this horrible display. i suppose it is possible that jonny details, our head coach, got so lost in the details he couldn't see the full picture and decided to call a guaranteed FG allowing d to stop a potential TD, but even after this abortion of an ending i think that's just too much.

i think we save some money by having fewer DL men on the roster, one of the highest paid positions in the NFL. i think we need to drop some bank on chandler jones tho. Morse maybe retire, williams can be let go and replaced by a rookie (a real OG who can play better year 1 is doable imo). restructures could move some money around and the dead money fall off in 2023 from star and other guys will come back. bottom line, we can let some of our over paid jags walk, and we will have to replace a couple starters kinda cheap in order to poney up for a pass rusher. we pay a lot of guys who don't make much contribution, which lets us move some money around now as we get a bit of a release in 2023

we do need more speed, but perhaps mckenzie can be that speed. a fast back would be nice, but way less important. a TE2 is a bigger need, and we still need at least one interior lineman. an OG who can play C would be perf.

we need some clarity on this, but im nearly convinced the bills "brain" trust thought kc was out of time outs. free releases across the board and no one in real coverage is shocking. we play so much fricken coverage as a d, they just had to do that for two plays. so sad, so very very sad.

chandler jones could have been the difference in a few games this year, including the sadness explosion on sunday. id grab clowney and jones on short contracts, would be huge upgrades on houghs and addison. we could use an OG, TE2, and some kinda speed on O. we need another corner, but i think we can get one kinda late in the draft. the real value tho is one single pass rusher who can get the job done. its what we are missing

this guy is gonna need a magic season to be an upgrade on flores. i read that flores is a prickly type who didn't want to support the owner's golden boy in Tua, and that makes me like him more. also, he smashed up the afc east except for us, im sad to see him gone.

even if this egg is all on McDs face, i agree you can't fire him now (too much disruption). i do think someone has to go tho, most likely frazier (dabol is prolly gone to nyg too). frazier is on record saying he doesn't like having a back up plan, because it makes the team less confident on what they focused on all week. i think this is the crux of it. the bills D is a one note band. they have players who kinda do what they want them to do really well, and they practice the poop out of a few things and do them really well, but against a superior offensive mind, they get jammed up and simply have no answer, both in terms of scheme/execution and the athletes they have assembled to play d (at tremendous cost). so post frazier, mcd will need to bring in a guy, or help out himself, to make our D work w a plan b. IMO, we simply need a couple play makers in the front 7, and not spend so much money and picks on slight upgrades. FYI, i was responding to your initial post, i didn't and won't read the sully article LOL.

look, you make good points, the fact remains, the coaching mistakes on our team cost us a great win. the 13 seconds thing is just too much. fair point about reid too, but people called him a choker and a guy who doesn't run a tight ship, and at the time at least those were very accurate criticisms.

the big issues is our d has the most money, picks, and focus from hc, but they blow when the chips are down our dl, highest paid!! makes zero plays. our secondary is solid, but we lack a top flight corner when tre is out, and our lbs turn into orange cones too often. i think frazier just isn't good enough, and needs to be upgraded. we also have to re shuffle how we've built this paper tiger d

is he a free agent? even if he is, we should just give him our 1st to sign him!

at no traffic 0 dark hundred too!

i want to keep the core or our O the same, but change up play calling/themes in what we do on game day. on D, we have schematic and construction issues. i think we try to limit everything just enough and rely on guys rallying to the ball, outstanding coverage, and pass rush in waves to get it done. a failure in any of those and it falls down. while we put up great stats this year and 2 years ago, it isn't enough to stop modern top flight Os. we need to be able to pressure off the edge to get anything done. sitting back and hoping for mistakes and turnovers isn't getting it done. i think we need to basically take resources out of depth and breadth and put them into a couple play makers, on o and D. speed on O and a real pass rusher and we got a stew cookin.

100% we need a real pass rusher. our d line rotation killed us. the athletic pointed out we had our top line (addison, houghs, oliver and i think star) and held them to some incompletes, then we stuffed in our 2nd line (groot, aj, phillips and obadabadoo) and let up the long hill TD. we have too much money spread too far out, we simply need some playmakers, and our only play maker on D had a torn acl this season. our d scheme and construction needs an overhaul. the good thing is altho we will lsoe our 1st ranking, it's for jack since we get trucked when it matters.

i think we can't fire mcd because it's too much of a disruption, but if the last sequence was all on him, then he deserves it and is getting a second chance. stealing an idea from yards per pass (goat twitter bills guy): a balanced and sound D was what you wanted in 2005, but that's not the case anymore. we just need to get a real pass rusher in, upgrade where we can, and not over pay for barely jags like addison and houghs, edmunds, and back ups like mattlewitch and klien. and of course star. basically, get a couple play makers on D, and then just improve the O to the point where josh is working with a bag of toys like mahomes is. a real OG, a real speed threat at wr, a real big wr, just any kind of upgrade that gives us what we don't have now. the d that dominates awful nfl Os gave up 30 first downs to kc. it's just a dumb place to invest your cap and picks (defensive breadth and depth, specifically).