BillsVet

I just like that your screen name currently shows you have 180 posts, or the year Marcus Aurelius died. If anything, their 1st round picks indicate that their board is weighted toward defense with 5 1sts out of 7 used there. That strikes me more as a McD influence than the GM. I'll go back to being stoic now.

Have to ask...have you ever been in a real two-way live fire exercise?

I still remembering being in quarterback purgatory under the previous GM. You mean to tell me there's a head coach one too?

In neither of those wins did Buffalo dominate another top offense. The Colts game was 27-24 with 6 minutes left and a Lamar was hurt in the 2nd half...for a Ravens team that held Buffalo to 1 offensive TD. Regular season ended a few weeks ago. The regression is from losing the AFC CG 2 years ago, to losing a divisional game last season in the waning minutes, to getting the snot kicked out of you this season. If that's not regression I don't know what is No contending team falls back on regular season success in the wake of a playoff blowout.

Stubbornness can be an excellent character trait...or it can be the enemy of progress and growth.

No. The worst thing is seeing the Cincinnati Bengals lap your organization 2 years running.

Your mind-reading skills are truly underestimated.

Completely missed the point. Doesn't matter who the coordinators are if the HC who drives personnel decisions, determines scheme and game-plans continues doing what he does. I am not advocating for firing McD...but he needs to overhaul everything: the schemes he plays, the players he tells Beane to acquire to staff them, and how he game-plans. Then we can talk about coordinators.

The windows on the house aren't the problem and replacing them not the solution right now. The roof has a major leak and the furnace is on the fritz. Start there.

I have my doubts he'll abandon a defense-first mentality that's been present since he began. One that largely cheaps out on offense to staff a defense that fails in the post-season every year.

So...we're not signing 4 new DL not named Von Miller in Week 1-2 of UFA?

Scheme on offense and defense driving personnel acquisition needs a complete overhaul. Meaning...McD needs his authority checked by the GM. Probably won't happen, but neither will Buffalo advance to play in the SB until it does.

Was not my point. The guy was covered by a 2nd Team All Pro on that okay and managed to beat him. Defending against Kelce is more than chipping at the LOS or putting a DB on him.

Especially when Knox is needed to block and not running routes. You want to maximize the passing game? Stop nickel and diming the OL with poor pass blockers who need TE help. James could not keep up with Kelce at the end of the Chargers game in LA Week 11. Matched up against James 1:1, Kelce ran a short crossing route and scored from 17 yards out...and James was a 2nd Team All Pro this season.

Teams don't draft QB's high to indefinitely be running types in run-based offenses. Perhaps at the outset this is understood, but those teams need their guy to develop into a passing QB who runs less. Fields is entering year 3 and the top QBs had demonstrated an ability to play from the pocket. Roman takes a run first offense and makes it better...sure. But run-first offenses need to eventually move into, driven by QB play, a solid passing team. That's the way it's done in the NFL now. Over an off-season teams learn how to stop guys like Kaepernick and Jackson if they don't become better passers.

Regular season statistical analysis projected for use in the playoffs is asinine because the majority of Buffalo's games (11) contributing to +/- came against non-playoff teams. Sure, you can beat up on bad to mediocre teams turning the ball over a few times because Josh can make up for that against those defenses. No sane mind believes that turnovers aren't as big a deal in the playoffs where number of possessions matter against better competition. And that is especially the case going up against strong offenses that score quickly. A team like CIN or KC having one less possession and Buffalo getting another increases a favorable result.

I see people determining that Josh not running has something to do with his football intelligence increasing. Perhaps in the game-plan process that was reinforced more, but I'll contend that, versus Miami, the Dolphins using 8 in the box in the first half was more a factor than anything else. Then, when they transitioned to more zone in the second half Josh saw what he thought were passing opportunities and attacked that way. Josh running is what defenses want: they get a chance to put a hit on him and it means downfield they've mitigated his receiving options. Because if I'm defending against Buffalo's offense, I'd rather get beat on a 10 yard scramble than a 20 yard pass completion. There is never 1 cause for something changing. Typically there is a root cause with other contributing reasons for why something happens.

Yep. Send him to the re-education camp so he can renounce his playing history. Are you volunteering to be the TBD commissar?

Mike Florio is a clown.

Wide 9 inbound.

This isn't a one game issue...they've had issues pass blocking particularly in the back half of the season. It's interesting to me that Miami's plan was to put pressure because it indicates they saw a weakness there. And of course...because the pass blocking was mediocre to bad, but made to look better because Josh is mobile and has a good sense of the rush. Something is amiss between the people who run personnel and the people who coordinate the offense. That's not good and it'd be best for this franchise that it get aligned this off-season.

That sort of strategic mis-alignment just never gets addressed in the off-season and they've had 2 since Josh's breakout 2020 season to do it. I'd really like to know who during off-season reviews stands up for and pounds the table for offense. If the GM is focused on acquiring pieces and managing the cap, then the HC is setting their strategic priorities and those rate offense behind his beloved defense. Ironically, the first thing McD did as Buffalo's HC was rebuild the secondary. I guess he understands the passing offense is predominantly featured by other teams, but wants his to be balanced. Makes you wonder.

I'm not limiting the issue to one game...this has been a season long problem. Their UFA signings last off-season were underwhelming and draft picks on OL have not performed to expectations. It's not a priority for them.

Skimping offensively on OL and WR takes even an excellent QB and hinders production. That is one of the contributing causes to the quality of play from that unit.

Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain. It's entertainment at the end of the day.