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I was going to say that I think McDermott is good enough, but after seeing this, I've changed my mind: Top 5 takeaways from Bills HC Sean McDermott's season-ending press conference (buffalobills.com). I don't see any self-reflection that leads me to believe he is going to make significant changes. Sounds like more of the same old excuses. 1. How the Bengals loss forces the Bills to look in the mirror "Unfortunately, we didn't we didn't play a very good game yesterday and a good team beat us," McDermott said. Poor Execution "It starts and ends at the line of scrimmage, and so we've got to look at that," McDermott acknowledged. We need more Defensive Linemen "We won't stop until we get there," McDermott said. "And that's the vision moving forward, and we're all frustrated on a day after loss in the division round, that's for sure. Extremely proud of how far this organization has come, but not satisfied." Do more of the same 3. Evaluating Ken Dorsey's first season as Bills OC Statistically, the Bills offensive ranked atop several important categories this season. They finished second in points per game (28.4), second in total yards per game (397.6), fourth in first down percentage (36.9) and ninth in red zone TD scoring (60%). "There's a first year for everyone. And I thought Dorsey really did some good things, and there's some things that he can learn from as well. And I know this: when you're committed to a cause, and you work hard at things, and you put the team first, that you learn from experiences. And so, like all of us, we have to learn from the experience," he said. Offense is good, just need to tweak it and learn from mistakes 4. McDermott praises Tremaine Edmunds' season "I thought he had his best year," McDermott said. "I really believe that I think you saw him grow from a leadership standpoint. You saw him grow from a performance standpoint. And I know he's just got that attitude that he wants to continue to improve." We need to keep him at any cost 5. New season, new potential positions for players With a handful of available options to slot in at different positions throughout the secondary, the head coach was asked about possibly moving CB Christian Benford to safety next year. McDermott said that will be talked about in the evaluation process starting on Tuesday. "That's been talked about way back when we first picked up Christian and we'll just see where it goes," McDermott said. No intention of keeping Poyer Another name that was mentioned surrounding the question of moving positions was OT Spencer Brown. After assessing Brown's performance this season, McDermott was asked if the OT could be moved inside and he responded with, "we'll see." "I don't think anything's off the table at this point," McDermott said. "He's a young player and he's very athletic. That being said, you would like to get a young player in one position and let them go and let them grow. You know, in terms of development." Forget getting better players, we'll just reshuffle what we have

If you have the cap room and have a need at DT, there is enough there with him for an organization to think that they could get more out of him. As a GM, I would offer a 3rd round pick, but go as high as a 2.

Ful disclosure ... I once did believe some of those conspiracy. But then again ... I once believed in Santa Claus and our current coaching staff .... so yeah ...

Correct. Fully guaranteed. We need to find a trade partner

All I know is ...

You mean the "Trust the Plan" crowd

I'm having a hard enough time with some of the stupidity I'm seeing here already. Please, don't let us get as bad as Twitter!!!

Good post and I agree. I would add Crowder if the money is right, if not, go to Beasley for one more year while we restock WR through the draft.

Oh FFS!!

All Beane has to do is come to TBD for advice. He'll have a ton of cap space after he moves Allen, Diggs, White, Oliver, Dawkins, Milano.

Hello, the 80s called. They want their offense back. Maybe we can get Barry Sanders to come out of retirement, he probably still has tread on the tires. It's a passing league now and we have ONE WR who can get open and catch the ball. Please, let's CONTINUE to ignore WR ...

You mean like Gabe, McKenzie, Shakir who were so good we had to bring back Brown and Beas?!? We don't want just anyone at WR ... we need WRs who can ... oh, I don't know ... call me crazy ... but consistently get open and catch a freaking ball.

I think we take a step back ... 11 wins, maybe 12.

We can save $2.7 mil by cutting Siran Neal after 6/1. $3.3 mil for a ST who can't play on D is a luxury we can't afford any more I like Hines, but $4.5 mil is alot if we're not going to use him on offense.

Wrong. Oliver is $10.8 mil. Move on, he's not worth it

Hello. The 80s called. They want their offense back. We DO need to develop an effective, consistent running game, but we ALSO need more than one WR who can consistently get open and make a damn catch.

Frazier's defense works optimally when 4 players are all healthy. Poyer, Hyde, Edmunds & Taron Johnson. Take 1 out and it doesn't work. Even with all 4 playing, you're at a risk of 13 seconds failure. They try to keep everything in front of them and not get beat deep. They'll give up short/intermediate passes all day and rely on eventually a play being made on 3rd down or the other offense making a mistake. Great QBs make the plays and expose this defense.

It is scary. There are some real morons on this board. The world is safer with them here on TBD proving what football geniuses they are and not out in public

Great thinking. Get rid of our only consistent and productive WR. Let's not stop there... Trade Knox and Allen and we can run the Wildcat 100% of the time

Good point, and I realized that as I was typing, but didn't want to get into the weeds. I should have said KC with Tyreek Hill. KC has done a good job adjusting their passing attack to the players they have. Despite lack of outside threats and an inconsistent Gabe Davis, we went to a deep passing attack and ignored short passing

Agreed. The problem is that the way this team is built to beat KC, not Cincinnati. They're built to stop downfield passing attacks, not QBs like Burrows who use a quick passing game. Yes, this was probably the worst out of 100 hypothetical matchups ... but the Bengals probably come out on top 85 times out of 100

Leslie Frazier: Has been given four high draft picks (two 1st, 2 2nds), and 4 significant free agents this year and the line could not consistently get pressure. Ken Dorsey: The Bills invested in slot (McKenzie, Crowder, Shakir) and pass catching RB (Tried for McKissick, drafted Cook, traded for Hines) and never used them. Who the hell is making personnel decisions? Frazier's soft zone and weak pass rush gets exposed by QBs who get the ball out quick. He has to go.

Thanks. It helped to read up more on what exactly Cinncinnati chili is and how it's different than Con Carne which I'm used to

Looking for inspiration for this week's menu. I usually like to do something based off the opponent's local culinary delights ... but pickings are woefully thin for Cinncinnati. What's on your menu for this week?