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Except, for the most part, they didn't blitz. They were doing all that damage rushing 4.

There are a lot of obvious changes, but here's one I don't see a lot. I want a different offensive scheme with different verbiage. I want Josh Allen to spend the offseason learning a completely new playbook. That will present a challenge for him.

I don't bet on sports. I have nothing against it, but I'm a natural addict and don't need to add other temptations to the list.

I currently see them finishing the season at 8-9 because I don't see a team on the schedule that they can beat besides the Jets. I know that's not rational, but I can't be rational right now.

What I want is someone in the organization to come out and make it known that they understand how much they sucked last night, and that this is a 5-alarm fire. But instead, we'll get the usual trite responses, and the players get a mini-bye to go bowling and play ping-pong. Someone needs to ask Brady why he called 4 straight run plays into the line. Why are you in shotgun running the ball on 4-1 when you could just run the tush push? Answer that one, Joe Brady. If the Bills media is too weak to ask that question, let one of us ask it.

We play them next year anyway, because we play the AFC West.

I enjoy watching other games, but Bills games have been torture since the 2021 season. I think I might stop watching for a few weeks.

If I step back and look at this objectively, what I'm seeing in the AFC is the salary cap working how it's designed. Teams like the Pats, Colts, and Broncos are on the upswing because they went through the rebuilding cycle. On the other side, teams like the Chiefs, Bills, and Ravens are in a downward cycle due to aging rosters, late draft picks, and a lack of cap space. The main reason the Chiefs are struggling is that some of their elite talent (Kelce and Chris Jones) is aging out of the league. But they got KC three rings. The problem for all of us is that we didn't win during our window, which ran from 2020 to 2023. The Ravens are in a similar spot. The logical step for the Bills is to actually tear it ALL down and rebuild from nothing, take their lumps for 2-3 years, and come back with a new GM, HC, and franchise QB. You do that because this group will never win, and by the time they could be ready to actually contend again Josh Allen will be 34 at best. But that is a drastic step that I'm sure no one actually wants to take. I don't see a solution.

Why would Saleh make a parallel move from SF, where he is currently the DC, to Buf? All the proven ones already have DC or HC jobs. The same goes for offensive head coaches. To make this move, you need to hire a current OC with no HC experience as HC and a position coach as DC. You have no idea how they will do in the new roles. Our best hope is that the Browns do something stupid like fire Stefanski.

He has a little more success in Philly that McDermott has had in Bufflao, but It took him missing the playoffs for two straight years and a 4-12 bottoming out for the Eagles to "move on." And they moved on, not to winning the SB with Doug Pederson, but to the Chip Kelly experiment.

For example. Remember the constant cycling between 3-4 and 4-3 defenses. If the new hire wants to run a 3-4, we would need to get all new LBs to run that. We have massive cap resources invested in the ones we have now, so that takes a season of suckling to clear the space to rebuild. Then another season for the new players to gel. We used to go through this cycle every three years, where a new coach would want new schemes and the roster they inherited didn't fit their needs. I could go dredge out old threads to prove my point, but I think we can all remember this process if we think back hard enough.

Of course we care more. To the players, the BIlls are the company that cuts their massive paychecks. They get paid, win or lose. To the owner, it's a massively appreciating asset that his children will be able to sell for billions. To many of us on this message board, it's our final tie to the place we're from and a team that we've been rooting for since childhood. My father's final words to me were "Go Bills!" That's how deep this is for me, and why I'm so upset this morning.

I don't fall into either one of those camps. I just realize that making an organizational change means a multi-year rebuild while a new GM and HC reset the cap and roster to play how they want to play. We might as well completely pull off the band-aid and trade the franchise QB too, because he would be mid-30's before we would be ready to contend again, and that's only if they get all those moves right. And the next few drafts have very few QBs in them, even if you have a top pick. Also, if the Bills trade the QB they immediately go back to being a small market where no one wants to play. So, I think the Bills are screwed. I see no way out. My mood today is, "just move the franchise to Toronto so I can stop caring." I'm actually mad that the lease on the new stadium makes that impossible. I can't believe that WNY invested all that money, just to watch a 4-win team in the cold.

How do you deal with this:

I'm beyond angry, even after sleeping on it. For the second time in three games, what I saw was a team that would rather lose than play hard enough to meet the urgency of the moment. The Texans had their season on time line last night, and we didn't match their effort. If the team doesn't care, maybe I should stop caring, too. This time, there is no in-house candidate to take over mid-season, and it is almost impossible to bring in someone from the outside who doesn't know the plays they are supposed to call. We're stuck, at least for this year.