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Adam Schein is another member of the national media who got on the Josh Allen bandwagon very early.

I want both teams to lose but I want the Patriots to lose much more. On the other hand, if the Broncos make it the Super Bowl, I'd want them to do well; I'd want the Patriots to be boat raced.

Shanahan was 8 and 12 with the Raiders. He was much better with the Broncos. Bills exes tend to specialize in revenge games. Diggs and Travis Henry leap to mind.

I don't want McDermott in the AFC. If he does end up there I predict his team will abuse the Bills in a manner similar to the way Mike Shanahan's Broncos teams punished the Raiders who had previously fired Shanahan after less than 1 and a half seasons and refused to pay his back pay. From profootballnetwork: "During Shanahan’s 14 seasons as Broncos head coach (1995-2008), Denver posted a remarkable 21-7 record against the Raiders, reversing years of Oakland dominance. Before Shanahan’s arrival, the Broncos had lost 13 of 15 games against the Raiders from 1988 to 1994."

They should have replaced Walt Corey years before they did. The defence improved considerably when he was replaced by Wade Phillips.

13 seconds Wide right Music City 2025 AFC championship with suspect spot on 4th and 1 and Kincaid drop. After wide right, I was filled with optimism that the team was loaded and would return to the SB the next year and win it. More than two decades later, when the Bills went ahead with 13 seconds left and the road to the Super Bowl seemed wide open, the joy I felt was amplified the frustrations and disappointments of being a Bills fan in the more than two decades since wide right as I now had a fuller realization of how rare and fleeting such moments of triumph can be. This only made the remainder of the game that much more devastating. Music City was similar to 13 seconds in that the Bills seemed to have earned a hard fought and deserved victory but I hadn't yet endured the 17 years of sucking that ensued. Broncos loss wasn't nearly as bad as the above three as I'd never felt the Bills had the game in the bag and I felt that a team that was minus 4 in turnovers didn't really deserve to win.

Joe Marino among many who feels that McDermott was more responsible for Bills successes and Beane more responsible for their failures.

A plausible case can be made that given what he had to work with, McDermott was the best in Bills history. (Marv Levy had many more Pro Bowlers and future Hall of Famers than McDermott.) While I've often thought that McDermott would ultmately be judged as very good but not good enough, I fear that his replacement won't be as good as he was. I wish we'd gone after Belichick two years ago.

It seems to me that this season Beane was a bigger problem than McDermott.

Back to the dark ages

Please, not AJ Brown.

Or put it another way: Bills were -4 in turnovers and only lost by 3 points. This is not on the defense.

Off the top of my head, the four plays that contributed most to the Bills defeat were: JA fumble at end of first half. Gifted DEN 3 points. Cooks non-catch/turnover in OT. If he holds on, Bills have 95% chance of winning. Cook fumble which flipped momentum. JA interception after Walker had intercepted Nix. All these plays were screwups by the offense.

This seems like the most realistic approach. Bills' salary cap is stretched too thin with veteran contracts to address all offensive and defensive needs. Keeping OLine together and adding a #1 receiver might be financially possible. Another strategic objective in addition reducing Josh's playmaking burden should be reducing the amount of physical abuse he takes. Josh had a few critical throws that were a little bit off; I suspect the beating had had taken recently affected his accuracy.

I didn't think he had control when his knee touched so the ball was still live.