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McD’s lack of offensive knowledge and inability to supervise his OC is killing the team. I see a HC who still believes having an elite defense will win a championship. At some point, Beane needs to make it clear they are an offensive team. Specifically, that they win with Allen and supporting him. Not having a balanced team that invests equally on both sides of the ball. Not confident McClappy can change his spots at this point in his career.

Forgot all about that. Wish I had the personalized season ticket renewal poster where Moorman is punting out of his own EZ against the Browns in that 6-3 loss when Derek Anderson completed 2 of 17 passes.

Jauron did himself no favors personnel-wise going secondary and defense when the NFL was transitioning to a throwing league. He had a strong voice in personnel matters with a (RIP) apathetic Tom Modrak and out of his element Marv Levy. Go review the games from that 2001 season. The bounces Chicago got that year were incredible. See Brown, Mike returning an INT in OT to win one game. And in true DJ fashion, they were 8-1 in one score games. Turk Schonert (RIP) was the only guy DJ could hire when it was clear his tenure as Bills HC was in doubt. Remember, Buffalo went 2-8 to close out the 2008 season and it's pretty clear he was on thin ice. In fact, at the end of 2008, the Bills circle of trust (Ralph, Littman, Brandon, and I think Overdorf) gathered to determine DJ's status. On the day Mike Shanahan was fired as Broncos HC despite going 8-8, the Bills chose to retain DJ. Of course, Schonert wanted to feature an up-tempo offense, while DJ favored a bend but don't break defense. It was a terrible match and spoke to how disorganized offenses were in those years.

Jauron was a symptom of the overall organizational problems plaguing Buffalo in those days. At first I was glad they ended his tenure, but the 2010-2013 seasons revealed nothing had really changed above the HC level. It was still a franchise run by people who were looking out for the owner and reducing costs. Thank goodness those days are over.

McD is the big voice in roster construction...which makes me leery that anyone is minding the store on how to build an offense around Josh. I'll go a step further and say the HC, after 4+ seasons, still doesn't get offense. If anything, he's still abdicating that side of the ball to Daboll. And of course, McD continues to go after defenders at positions which are nice to have, but not essential like WLB and that 8-9 man DL. Which leads to Beane, who didn't come up the personnel ranks. The only one in the room left to assist in identifying the offensive scheme at a high(er) management level is Daboll and I don't see him strategically being a reliable voice. There are too many in-game decisions for me to believe he's suited to this function. Point is...I really don't know out of McD, Beane, and Daboll how they're aligning offensive personnel to scheme. Because McD is still favoring defensive personnel acquisition over offense, Daboll is well, Daboll and Beane just seems to provide the players McD wants. And I don't see McD changing his spots.

The SNL Superfans skits of the early 90s pretty much plays out here on TBD every day now. I thought it was one-sided in the late 2000s during the Marv/DJ/Brandon years, but since the Bills shut down their message board it seems like every Bob Swerski, Pat Arnold, and Todd O'Connor has made it here. They're not far off from believing Buffalo will defeat their next opponent seventy tree to two.

This whole thread is like blaming lower-middle management for lower revenue when the CEO is burning $100 bills in the parking lot. McBeane have largely misfired on OL since day 1, save perhaps Dawkins when he was drafted. Spencer Brown is a TBD at this point, but all the rest - UFA's - have eventually shown to be underwhelming. It's almost as if they see OL like the old RW era days when linemen were an afterthought on draft day. Unless they absolutely needed them, and then they drafted them high (Wood and Levitre). Perhaps the voice from amateur and pro scouting is getting drowned out by McD and the admin-GM type exec in Beane. This isn't a 2021 issue, it's dating back a few years. And it goes without saying that the contracts they've handed out to re-sign someone or ink a new UFA haven't been good either.

Something has to give when the HC is hell bent on having an 8-9 man DL rotation that, in 2021, is costing them 44M and second highest in the NFL. Overall, the Bills are 12th in offensive spending versus 1st in defense. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/positional/defense/ Josh's contract hits in 2023 and there's no way I can see them spending on defense and trying to maintain a top unit that surrounds Josh with the right protection and weapons. The cap goes up, sure, but at some point having a top paid QB and trying to maintain that defense is not possible. We're seeing that with the OL depth/starters.

Knowing Congress, many of them have probably invested in online gambling companies so their reaction to this problem may be slightly delayed.

I'm not impressed with the organization's ability to draft and develop offensive first contract players...aside from Josh. The last 3 off-seasons they loaded up with UFA OL and did the same at WR. Davis and Knox may improve, but they're in their 2nd or 3rd season respectively. They're just too reliant on UFA types. Beane, as you note, needs to look and the mirror and admit they need help over there. Because, McD now has his DL rotation and it's time to provide Josh everything on offense he could need on days 1 and 2 of the draft. Otherwise, it's gonna be a Packers redux with Rodgers being forced to do it all.

The blame game typically does not fall on only one person's shoulders. Beane put together an OL of UFAs and didn't develop anyone save a guy they traded and someone apparently struggling post-COVID. He spent big on Morse, drafted Ford, and not been strong aside from Allen drafting offense in sum. McD seems to still be uber-DC and still largely abdicates, after 4+ seasons as a NFL HC, the offensive game to Daboll. And there's another dude who's been underwhelming, as has been oft-repeated today. Put it all together and you've got an offense with Josh, some quality veteran skill types and coaching that either A) doesn't really understand offense or B) has offense as their side of the ball and can't manage a game.

I beat any of you guys and I tell Beane to trade you to Jacksonville with that idiot Urban Meyer.

You'd mentioned the mid-season let-down McD always (not blaming him totally) has happen. They had a rough 4 game stretch last year, losing in Tennessee, then in KC, followed by weak Jets and Pats wins last year and then went 8-1. Not worried.

It's a larger issue involving amateur scouting on offense. They made their bones building an offense around UFAs and haven't developed much particularly on the OL. Brown is there, but he's a work in progress. The only other drafted starter, Dawkins, is kinda meh right now. The top WR's - Diggs, Beasley, and Sanders are all veterans acquired. Knox, Singletary, and Moss are all OK, but not anything to write home about. Beane needs to up his game on draft day on offense. Because aside from Josh they've been pedestrian drafting there.

NFL is announcing that there is "nothing to see here" https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32407532/report-nfl-finds-no-other-current-team-personnel-implicated-washington-football-team-email-investigation Amazing to think they went through hundreds of thousands of pages of emails and made a determination so quickly. Do they have the Ef Be Eye on the case? Only 1 guy was apparently saying such egregiously poor things that it warranted leaking. I'm guessing there was plenty more and De Smith was looking to become the hero to and convince the players he should remain NFLPA Executive. What a sham.

Nick Wright is a clown. 🤡

With this latest news, I bet De Smith gets re-elected NFLPA executive. His position was in doubt after this last CBA, but now is much more certain.

Can't remember who said it, maybe someone on NFLN...but the idea is the Chiefs (or Cheaps as referenced by the late, great RL) just had other teams catch up to them. Allen's emergence in Buffalo and their team building, the Chargers with Herbert and similar team improvement, Baltimore with Lamar Jackson et al., even Tennessee. Kansas City is still a solid team, but they've plateaued, and as a graphic I saw on Twitter today noted, Josh has matched Mahomes over their last 21 starts. Both are 17-4, both have passer ratings above 106.0, are completing about 2/3rds of their passes and have practically the same TD-INT ratio. The AFC has changed considerably with the rise of those QBs, demise of Roethlisberger and Brady's departure to the NFC.

De Smith gonna drive the narrative away from himself and onto all the other controversial NFL management types. First Gruden, next up Dan Snyder. Maybe it works and the NFLPA votes to keep him as their executive director. Because that's all this is about.

It was impressive that he and his staff kept that team focused on the task at hand during a 1 hour break. Cannot say anything remotely negative tonight about McD.

I'm interested to know when they'll be charging Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes. One would think the guy who ran that outfit and coordinated certain "activity" on 6 Jan would be indicted given the others awaiting trial.

Who cares? Tua got hurt, he was behind a bad OL, and Buffalo won by a huge margin. Still not clear why people agonize over hypotheticals. There's plenty enough already to be concerned with.

Wonder how Coach McCla...oh wait, Coach McDermott feels about this. The trust the process line is great.

My concern is that McD isn't supervising the OC and, like other defensive type HC's, hasn't grasped that side of the game enough to do so. Reminds me somewhat of Chan Gailey who abdicated responsibility of the defense to Edwards/Wannstedt to focus on the offense where his background was.

Daboll going to the McDermott school of PR. Reminds me of when, questioned about a lack of scoring, McD responded by saying "of course we'd like to score 50 points a game."