Paup 1995MVP

KJ I respect your football acumen. What do you make of this Bills’ team? I am not impressed in the slightest. Josh seems to have lost his juice to a degree. Our receiver group is bottom 5 easily. Maybe bottom 3 w the Saints and some other scrub team like the Raiders and Browns. It’s really appalling w such a great QB and RB that we look overwhelmed in so many games. And the defense is a bunch of parts bought at the junk yard. You know how some people try and steal copper wire to sell for money. That fits Brandon Beane. Buying used players w no upside. I have been a fan since the 70’s when I moved to Buffalo New Years 1976. Haven’t lived there in many years. But all 3 of my kids are huge fans even though they have never lived in Buffalo. (They live in Miami and LA. But watch every game. And live and die w the team like their Dad.) Heck my ex wife is a big fan and she grew up in Texas. And my girlfriend is a big fan even though she is from the D and is a big Lions fan too. My mother is 84 and never misses a game. She used to drive down from Toronto w her boyfriend to every game. I bleed the Bills. And I am hurting. I hate McDermott. Don’t think he has the smarts, the moxie or the toughness to lead us to a Championship. My college team is the Michigan Wolverines. I love Sherrone Moore way better than McDermott. We aren’t great this year. But Sherrone has a presence, a plan and a confidence that we will be great again soon. And we will play Ohio State tough next Saturday if not best their ass. Because we have a pride and a toughness that is Michigan. And it should be the Bills too.

When is Kincaid coming back? I felt the same way watching the games today. Even Jacksonville and Arizona have guys that get open downfield.

What system? He plays D line. Get after the QB and hold your ground and occasionally penetrate against the run. McDermott makes things so difficult. That’s why Reid fired his ass. And hopefully Pegula will too.

That is so prophetic. I just watched Pickens make an amazing catch against Philly. And Hollins is a big cog in the Pats offense. it’s like Beane purposefully wants a trash roster. Is he really this bad in talent evaluation and roster construction? You got the QB. You have a very good RB. Yet you can’t find any impact receivers or defensive players. (The NFL is a league of speed and athleticism. And we draft Keon Coleman) How is that possible? Our D line gets no pass rush year after year. Every team has guys that can rush the passer. We have none. What are we doing? We have no receivers and no studs on defense it is beyond frustrating.

Watching the early games that just ended. The Bills lack of talent at WR and on defense is very apparent. We are also using Shakir completely wrong. He can play on the outside with his twitchiness and speed. He has as much athleticism as someone like Wandele Robinson and many others, and they are running routes all over the field. We have turned him into a gadget guy. And we are ruining Josh Allen with the receivers we have and the complete incompetence and indifference of the O line. That was a ***** show the other night on every level but James Cook, and Kalil Shakir at the end. As for the defense , they are the pride of McDermott and Beane. Slow soft passive injured and old. We had better have our best week of practice coming up for the Steelers game. Whether they play Rudolph or Rodgers, they will be a tough matchup especially in Pittsburgh after their close loss to Chicago. And the Bengals certainly are not mailing it in either. Another thing I noticed is the Bills play with as little passion and fight as any team in the league. You just don’t see such poor effort very often in the NFL as we showed against Atlanta Miami and Houston. That’s on the coaches and the organization as a whole. If it doesn’t turn around over the next 6 games, we need a compete housecleaning. Sean McDermott is not leading us to a Super Bowl victory. He is a marginal X’s and O’s head coach, who refuses to change his scheme, and lacks a killer instinct. When clowns like Dion Dawkins are leading your team, you are in big trouble. I would take a John Fina over a Dion Dawkins every day of the week. The will, drive, passion and desire to win left this team w Stefan Diggs. And it is still missing. No one in the Bills locker room holds players accountable for their ***** performances. Instead we punish Coleman for being late for meetings. How about suspending Dawkins for leading the league in fatness and false starts?!!

The Comeback against the Oilers is one of the NFL's greatest games period. Wow was their talent on that team. Was Marchibroda our OC back then? He was excellent. It is an honor to have been a huge fan back then. I was 27 then. Thought we would have won a Super Bowl by now. But the drought came like an Oklahoma dust storm from the 1930's and leveled the team as far as being an NFL contender. Now I am 60 and am still hoping praying and watching every game. And I still have my Bryce Paup jersey that I bought at the beginning of the 1996 season. He would have been the best player on this defense, hands down. The Josh Allen era has been very very good. But not good enough. Our biggest weakness has been coaching and roster construction. The defense is too small in the front seven, and not enough speed throughout it. (Our guy are ALWAYS getting injured) and our Wide Receivers are not NFL caliber other than Shakir. We are not winning anything with this team. Unless we get healthy real quick. The key is getting Kincaid back, and him staying healthy the rest of the way. He is the only potential mismatch catching the football down the field that we have. That Beane thought this group of WR's was good enough to compete should get him fired, no questions asked.

Taron Johnson!!! (Always dinged up) Terell Bernard. (Same) Dalton Kincaid. (Will he play against Pittsburgh?) At least Sam Franklin (who plays harder than anyone on the team) hasn’t gotten hurt. An interesting fact and hypothesis. He was signed right before the season started. He did not have time to be indoctrinated into the Bills lackadaisical training camp and culture all offseason. Instead he just came in and balled out. McDermott has taken the McNasty out of our team!! A little more each and every year. And this is what we are left with.

That’s a Kyle Williams/Marcel Darrius Stat line combined from their best years. 👏👏

The team got one offensive TD last night. (And that was on the long run by Cook) Out of how many times did we have the ball deep in Houston territory? I believe 4. 2 FG’s, Cook being stopped on 4th and 1. And Josh’s red zone pick late. We have no one to throw to inside the 15 yard line. Our receivers can’t get open. And the playcalling is lousy. We are not a good team this year. Have too many injuries. And not a lot of guys who don’t accept losing. McDermott is soft. And has created a soft culture on the team. Josh Allen lost to Davis Mills last night. That should never happen. The lackadaisical attitude of the team has filtered down even to our star QB. Sure the O line is lousy. But Stafford or Mahomes wasn’t losing that game last night. I don’t think Baker does either. This is a bad year for us. Good teams don’t lose like we did to Atlanta and Miami. And they would have made Houston pay for starting Davis Mills. We certainly aren’t that. We need our best game of the year next week in Pittsburgh. Need to be super physical. We win that anything can happen. We lose it and we could fall into the abyss. And McDermott and Beane will need to go.

That’s a great summary of who Rousseau is. He is strong against the run. He just can’t get to the QB very much because he isn’t twitchy or a physical freak. The problem is that Epenesa or Bosa are pretty much the same guy as Rousseau at this points in their careers. But not as good against the run. Salomon is good on special teams. And I don’t know if Landon Jackson is good at anything on a football field. (We won’t know until next year) Our DE situation is terrible for rushing the passer. We so needed Hoecht. That and Kincaid’s injury are the losses that really hurt.

I have never been a big Dion Dawkins fan. At best he was a little above good. But never close to great. And now is a fat mediocre player at best. I would cut his ass after the season if the salary cap ramifications are not too punitive. He is the perfect example of just enjoying being along for the joy ride. Some people say he is a “fan favorite”. Why? Because he is big fat and happy. And doesn’t walk around like a mean SOB. We need some mean SOB’s. This is football not the Big Brother program. The core group has been around too long. Other than Josh Cook Bishop and Hairston, no other player should feel secure w their job. (Heck I would put Sam Franklin on the list too. He plays light out on Special Teams) And neither should the coaches or Beane.

Allen was marginal tonite. The receivers aren’t good. The playcalling is always shaky and predictable. But Josh wasn’t playing well either. In all 4 losses he was not close to being at the top of his game. He looked uncomfortable and not overly confident. We aren’t winning when he is playing like this. However, the roster isn’t anywhere near good enough to compete for a Super Bowl. That’s in Beane. The coaching is marginal and gives us no Advantages. I would fire Brady. His play calling cost us the AFCCG last year. And is only getting worse.

The stadium is a dump. And for whatever reason they don’t seem like a real NFL team. Or a real NFL city. The biggest thing going there every year is the Georgia-Florida game. And their uniform colors are horrible. I think I am still bitter from the playoff loss in 96. Can’t get that image of Jimbo being carted off the field w a concussion. 🥲🙄

That was Jared Goff having an all time awful game. 14 for 37. Get someone w a little mobility and accuracy back there and that was Detroit’s game. The Rams and Seahawks are better overall.