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The "Andy Reid didn't win right away" take is embarrassing. He also didn't win a SB with his 1st team but took them to the NFC title game 4 years in a row and the SB. The farthest the Bills have gotten is the AFCCG once and that wasn't a close contest. More importantly on Reid, once the peak happened in Philly, it was mostly all downhill from there. And it ended really badly. There is rarely a "phoenix" moment for coaches staying with the same team. The only one that comes to mind is Sean Payton in NO. I'm not saying they should fire McDermott but if this has peaked it's likely that it won't be turned around by him.

Our 4 wins are against teams with the following ranks defensively(using DVOA): Raiders (23rd), Commanders (22nd), Dolphins (27th), Giants (28th - and the offense looked terrible in this game). 3 losses are against teams with these rankings defensively: Jets (12th), Jaguars (8th), Patriots (14th). We're almost halfway through the season. At this point, objectively, I don't think you can make a realistic argument for them beating a team with a top 15 defense the rest of the season (unless something drastic changes on the offensive side). So that would look like this with the remaining schedule (with D rankings): Tampa (10th) - L @Cincy (20th) - W Denver (32nd) - W NYJ (12th) - L @Philly (13th) - L @KC (9th) - L Dallas (4th) - L @Chargers (26th) - W NE (14th) - L @Miami (27th) - W Thats 4 Ws for the rest of the year and 1 of the games is at Cincy (which I'm not confident they'd win), at the Chargers (who have a top 10 offense which will be a challenge for our D), and at Miami (again - our D is a shell of what it was to start the year). The next 4 games are basically gonna determine our season and are all "winnable" IMO. They "should" win 3/4 based on the talent level and Cincy is playing better but not the team they were last year. But this can go south in a hurry if the offense doesn't find itself fast.

I agree. The offense needs to be a bit more structured and deliberate in its play design and scheming and then adding those 2nd chance creation plays on top of it. Favre played his whole career in a highly structured west coast offense and then his playmaking was an added bonus.

This right here! No one was asking him to stop running altogether! Just stop hurdling people 5 yards from the 1st down marker or lowering your throwing shoulder into LBers on 1st and 2nd down. Just be smart about it. I can definitely buy into some of the work ethic stuff. Working on your throwing motion and training with QB gurus is not the same as studying film and learning the details of your offense. Part of the appeal of the Erhardt-Perkins offense is the dual concepts in one play aspect based on the coverage that you are getting (i.e. simplistically having a man beater on one side and a zone beater on the other although it can get much more complex than that), but it really requires knowing where you are supposed to go with the ball and that means diagnosing coverages needs to be one of the QBs top strengths.

Offense had PLENTY of stinkers in Daboll's time as the OC even in the "holy grail" 2020 season that everyone is pining for. 4 game stretch in 2020 - Titans, Jets, Chiefs, NE where the offense couldn't do anything. Baltimore playoff game where they refused to run at all in the 1st half 1st half of the KC championship game where they couldn't do anything 2021 Game 1 - Steelers - no answer/adjustment to their defense Game 2 - Dolphins - offense was trash in this game Game 9 - Jags 9-6 game - no answer or adjustments to how they were being played. Game 11 - Colts - offense sucked (so did the whole team) Game 15 - Panthers - offense struggled Game 17 - Falcons - offense was terrible Game 18 - Jets - offense wasn't good again. The 2021 playoff run glosses over SO MUCH struggling that this offense went through under Daboll. Even in the KC :13 sec game, the offense had 14 points with 2 minutes left in the 3rd Q. He did a great job with the 2022 Giants but I think a bunch of that was catching people off guard by using designed runs for Daniel Jones. Thats also what he did alot of here when his O started to struggle. Its just not a sustainable way to develop an offense IMO.

I'm pretty sure Daboll was offered the Chargers job after the 2020 season and he didn't take it because he had reservations about Chargers ownership (this wasn't reported but I trust who I heard it from). So I could definitely buy into the idea that McD was ready to move on especially considering how much they seemed to clash in the following season.

Realistic trade options: LB/S Shaq Thompson CAR - just redid his deal and I'd bet part of the discussion was finding him a good spot if the team tanked the season (which they have so far). Very similar style player to Milano. CB Jaylon Johnson CHI - under the radar guy they will be a FA after this year. Talk of an extension with bears over the summer so they might be trying to keep him but it hasn't happened yet. Highly doubt that DEN trades Surtain. I also question whether this defensive scheme requires a CB making almost $30M/yr which is what it will take to sign him.

I think the insinuation is that he still had sex with her, only the context is way different than her story of being dragged to the side of the house and forced into a sexual situation. She's also 17 (or was at the time), although she was lying about her age at the party (apparently this also is on video), which is problematic as far as PR is concerned. I think if he had had no interaction with this woman then the Bills likely do not cut him as he would have been quickly removed from the criminal investigation. The issue always was that he couldn't remove himself from being investigated and the Bills cut him to be rid of the distraction.

The 1 to 1 comparison isn't there but I can see what you are getting at. I think athletically they might actually be somewhat similar. Kupp ran a 4.6 40 at 6'0 200lbs and while Kincaid didn't run in the draft process most have his 40 at 4.7. Kupp obviously is a shiftier player and a more downfield threat. Kincaid should be able to really target the middle of the field and the seam and he should be a killer on those underneath option routes.

I thought he tore his ACL before the draft too, right? Giants could have done it with Daniel Jones I believe.

I think DT should be included in the possible 1st rounders too.

Drue Tranquill signed anywhere?

This doesn't seem to be that expensive TBH

Cutting McKenzie saves 2.7M. For perspective, Connor McGovern's YR1 cap hit is 3.6M. McKenzie's role is already filled by players on the team so that savings will towards a different position or towards signing a better WR. Just can't see him coming back after they basically signed guys off the couch to replace him last year.

Paul Dehner is the Bengals Athletic reporter. Think this is fake.

LVE had an amazing rookie season. Was voted 2nd team All-Pro. He was never the same after he had that nerve issue in his neck.

Sure but I think the Brown trade is probably the fair value. Bills get Jeudy and 68th pick; Broncos get 27th pick And you could still sign a mid tier WR like Hardman actually. Broncos don't have a 1st or 2nd so I think they are pretty motivated to move up.

I came here to initially disagree with this take but then I looked at some of the recent WR trades that were for 1s and Jeudy actually lines up right in that range TBH. Maybe its more like the Hollywood Brown trade where we do a swap of picks but I could see this being a better way to find that future #1 than some of the guys in this draft. I'd be ok with this. More than ok with it actually.

Definitely respecting what Miami is putting together. At least in the short term.

So after Friday, he's owed 2 yrs/ 18.5M, all not gauranteed YR1: 6.6 YR2: 11.8 He's a really good candidate to get for a mid round pick and possibly give him an additional year and guarantee some yr1 money. 6.6 is also not that much to restructure and give him some void years.

Powers is a good player. The Broncos are paying him 12.6 APY and the Bills just gave McGovern 7.6. I think the Bills will try to do some work on the OL to improve but their cap situation and the $$ resources that they've already put into it suggest that it will likely be a multi-year project. Without moving on from Morse (who I think the plan is that this is his last year here based on his contract), they can't really give someone a high APY on the OL. Depending on what they think about Brown (and we don't really know despite what Beane has said publicly) I would guess they either sign a RT who can compete with Brown and spend a RD3-5 pick on an IOL with upside OR they are going RT with that RD1 pick. My guess is that they sign a vet RT to compete with Brown. McGovern's versatility now allows them to potentially go into next year and comfortably move on from Morse (who is a 10+ cap hit). They can then move either Bates or McGovern to C (both have shown that they can play C - I actually really like Bates C personally) and have space to bring in another high APY OL with Morse now gone.

Only shows his last post or at least that's all I could figure out.

Has he even been online recently? Should be a way to check his activity on the site.

I think the Bills would probably pay that deal too

The Bills have a somewhat complicated passing system. Alot of route options/decisions to be made based on coverage. It's why they like vet WRs and why I think McKenzie had struggles in an increased role. That's not to say that we won't have young WRs but the Bills will always have veteran WRs on the roster IMO especially after what happened last year.