beane gets fired and you are the new gm

[TheFunPolice]

I would fire the head coach. Many reasons. 

 

1. He is a defensive head coach, yet his defenses are never great, especially in big moments. All that investment in DL over the years and they consistently get no pressure. This isn't "golly, injuries got us" this is a 9 year problem. 

 

The Bills defense should look like the Houston defense: everyone locked down, constant pressure from all over, physical, nasty. We have just not seen that much, if at all, over the years. So what's the point of having a HC who sees the game through a defensive point of view?

 

2. Once Brady is fired (an inevitability at this point) he will be hiring his 5th OC. All but Daboll were fired, and that is with Josh Allen as the QB. That should be a pipeline to a HC job, not to being fired because the offense is weak. 

 

Why is the offense bad?

 

Because the HC sets the tone for what he wants: low event football. We even worked the clock during our last drive last night. 

 

He didn't like Daboll because Daboll was all about high event football. So what if we turn it over twice? We're till going to score 35-40, so it won't matter. This is the opposite of what McDermott prefers. Yes, he is ok with it when it's "needed" (Tampa Bay game last week) but it isn't a way he wants to play. 

 

3. He has had 7 complete seasons of Allen, and this is #8. This team does not look like its going anywhere. So 8 seasons of an all time great QB, with nothing to show for it. Not even a SB berth, let alone win. Meanwhile I've seen Hurts play in 2, winning one vs KC in a blowout. 

 

4. Here's the kicker: at this point, every single season feels and looks the same:

 

Decent start

midseason slump

constant defensive injuries (partly due to scheme, partly due to having 225 lb LBers and older guys)

consistently having to bring back previous players during the season because new guys are either unable to learn the scheme or just aren't good enough

"Allen looks miserable" stories 

Offensive struggles

loss in the playoffs, usually to KC 

 

So, it stands to reason that having had 8 years of the McDermott Show why would anyone expect year 9, 10, or 11 to be the one where his team breaks through? 

 

Given almost a decade of evidence, it's almost assured that 2026 would be some version of whatever went before. Same with 2027. When is it enough? 

 

Giving McDermott the chance to hire a 5th OC (who will almost definitely be an on staff promotion) is literally insane. We've seen that too! Here's how it goes:

 

Early on: This guy is great! What an upgrade! I hope we don't lose him to a HC job...

Middle:  This offense is too predictable... 

End stages: "Allen looks miserable"... the offense is one dimensional.. not enough weapons... 

 

Enough is enough, but as I type this I realize one terrible truth:

 

There is ZERO and I mean ZERO chance McDermott is let go. Not this year, not next, and not the one after that. Likely the same with Beane, unless the other part owners make enough noise behind the scenes that McDermott feels the need to sperate himself from Beane and throw him under the bus (which Beane also deserves to go, don't get me wrong). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KOKBILLS]

Oh this will be unpopular...

To rebuild around Josh I'm dumping every vet contract I can, unless it would result in catastrophic dead cap, for Draft picks... That would include everything I could for an after June 1st designation if necessary. 

Outside of Josh, Jimbo, Ty, Gilliam, Spencer Brown, Grable, Van Pran-Granger, Shakir, Shavers, Bishop, and what is left of the 2025 Draft class I couldn't care less... Now... I fully realize you're not going to get rid of all those players. You have to field a team and the cap won't allow everything I would want to do in the first year... But not a single one of the others would be untouchable... 

Rebuild the Scouting department...Clear out cap room...Get to work... Draft like crazy... 

[TheFunPolice]

a great reason to draft WR is that they are expensive

[Pecker]

many of the Roster moves are obvious. Cut knox  Samual  Rapp   DQ Jones Bass

 

less obvious cuts could be Bernard  J Palmer or McGovern  Maybe some of them could bring a late round pick?  We need to load up on draft picks. 

 

That’s many millions in savings.  I’m certain you could resign Knox for 3-4 mil a year (maybe it’s better to restructure ? Vs cut and resign?) 

 

Let guys like Millano and T Johnson walk, hopefully we get comp picks in 2027

 

We could trade  Spencer brown and save 15 or Oliver and save 12. Dawkins also saves 12 million and he’ll be 32 next season.  Those are big savings.
 

I’d consider trading one of those three guys. Ideally we could trade one to Jax for BTJ.  But a 2nd round pick for one of those 3 makes sense.

with the Cap savings I’d go for a stud WR like George Pickens, and get bigger/faster everywhere.  FAs like Hollins  make sense.

 

speaking of Hollins - Coleman for Hollins straight up!?

 

 

 

Unfortunately the time to hire a coach was a few years back, when Sean Peyton, Jim Harbaugh, and Ben Johnson were all available.  For that reason I’d consider giving McD a shot, but I get to pick the coordinator’s. 
 

Both my coordinators would be. PROVEN STUDS, preferably former HCs, preferably with Super Bowl experience. OC might be Penderson, Or McDaniels or Stefanski if fired. Daboll is in the mix too.  DC might be Jim Schwartz or Vic Fangio or Brian Flores.  Maybe one of those entrenched DCs wants another shot as HC? I may give them a shot there too.

[Augie]

2 hours ago, Simon said:

Both coordinators are gone on day 1.

That probably solves half the Bills problems in 5 minutes.

 

 

Get a couple legit NFL WR’s and you’ve got most of the other half. 

[Heavy Kevi]

Easy:

 

Fire McDermott

 

Hire new HC after interviews/search

 

Trade/Cut aging players, overpaid players, and underperforming vets. Gather draft picks.

 

Eat dead cap for a year or 2.

 

Draft WR, WR, WR, WR, WR

[MJS]

2 hours ago, RedandBlue said:

The crazy part about this is, if they followed more than a few posters on here as far as draft advice goes, we would be in a much better situation right now. I’m not saying that for myself, but quite a few posters. That’s really sad truthfully. So kudos to you guys.

But we'd have Josh Rosen, so that would be a big gut punch 🙁

[KOKBILLS]

2 minutes ago, MJS said:

But we'd have Josh Rosen, so that would be a big gut punch 🙁

 

Not with me you wouldn't... I hated him... 

[Preds]

Step 1  Hire a highly qualified forward thinking GM with the balls to say he won't take the job unless Pegula agrees to stay completely away from any football decision making.  Preferably a GM with either proven past success or a really good resume building up to the position.  Also give the GM full power to hire/fire the coach,  Pegula's job is to write the checks and STFU.  Otherwise, no deal on accepting a job.

Step 2 Immediately fire McDummy and the entire staff save maybe Kromer

Step 3 Bring in a progressive offensive minded HC/OC, and a strong highly productive DC

Step 4 Purge the roster of all of the crappy contracts by trades and cuts and build up 2027 draft capital.  Take the cap hits as much as possible in 2026

Step 5 Fire the entire training and nutritional staff (AGAIN), I'd go so far as to purge the doctors on staff as well.  

Step 6 Give Allen a year off to get his head straight, seriously, place him on IR in 2026 for mental reasons and throw the season with a roster full of JAGS to reset the cap. Give Mitch a season to showcase how much he sucks.  They likely ain't doing crap in 2026 anyhow with the roster issues we have.  Take the lumps and rebuild with youth in the 2027 draft and key UFA and trade acquisitions.

Step 7 Rebuild with legit talent and speed and let Josh be Josh and stop f'n neutering him.   Rebuild the defense with the size, grit, toughness, nastiness and speed required to compete in todays NFL.  No more tweeners, undersized, injury prone slugs.  We don't need a team full of McClappy choirboys.

Extreme measures are necessary or Josh will likely never sniff a Super Bowl in Buffalo, much less win one.  His clock is ticking.  

Edited 42 minutes ago by Preds

[The Jokeman]

38 minutes ago, ***** said:

many of the Roster moves are obvious. Cut knox  Samual  Rapp   DQ Jones Bass

 

less obvious cuts could be Bernard  J Palmer or McGovern  Maybe some of them could bring a late round pick?  We need to load up on draft picks. 

 

That’s many millions in savings.  I’m certain you could resign Knox for 3-4 mil a year (maybe it’s better to restructure ? Vs cut and resign?) 

 

Let guys like Millano and T Johnson walk, hopefully we get comp picks in 2027

 

We could trade  Spencer brown and save 15 or Oliver and save 12. Dawkins also saves 12 million and he’ll be 32 next season.  Those are big savings.
 

I’d consider trading one of those three guys. Ideally we could trade one to Jax for BTJ.  But a 2nd round pick for one of those 3 makes sense.

with the Cap savings I’d go for a stud WR like George Pickens, and get bigger/faster everywhere.  FAs like Hollins  make sense.

 

speaking of Hollins - Coleman for Hollins straight up!?

 

 

 

Unfortunately the time to hire a coach was a few years back, when Sean Peyton, Jim Harbaugh, and Ben Johnson were all available.  For that reason I’d consider giving McD a shot, but I get to pick the coordinator’s. 
 

Both my coordinators would be. PROVEN STUDS, preferably former HCs, preferably with Super Bowl experience. OC might be Penderson, Or McDaniels or Stefanski if fired. Daboll is in the mix too.  DC might be Jim Schwartz or Vic Fangio or Brian Flores.  Maybe one of those entrenched DCs wants another shot as HC? I may give them a shot there too.

Why would any of the aforementioned DC leave their current teams to join us? If you haven't watch the 49ers or Dolphins they run timed based passing games which lately Josh has sucked at cuz he not doing 3-5 steps drop and pass. Instead he's looking at one read and looking to extend the play but rarely staying in pocket. 

[<bills4life>]

2 hours ago, MPL said:

IDK about you, but first thing I'm doing as GM is coming to TwoBillsDrive and getting very sound advice on personnel and player decisions. 

It might not be that much worse. 

[Pecker]

28 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

Why would any of the aforementioned DC leave their current teams to join us? If you haven't watch the 49ers or Dolphins they run timed based passing games which lately Josh has sucked at cuz he not doing 3-5 steps drop and pass. Instead he's looking at one read and looking to extend the play but rarely staying in pocket. 

Well the Browns staff may get fired.  The others may want to hitch their wagon to JA17.  They may also want to be head coaches again.
 

Only McDaniels is the timing kinda guy. Penderson won a SB with Nick Foles are read option pass routes which I think both Allen and Cook would do well with, and Daboll was already here.

[716to540]

If i was the next GM of the Bills I'd quit. I've been a fan since the the late 70's but that doesn't make me qualified to be their GM.

Edited 6 minutes ago by 716to540

[Mr. WEO]

2 hours ago, Simon said:

 

If I kept him, McD would never make another coordinator hire again.

how many HCs are/have been prohibited from choosing their coordinators. I don’t see how that would work. 
 

McD is a problem. Keeping him doesn’t solve that problem.  

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

3 hours ago, Simon said:

Both coordinators are gone on day 1.

That probably solves half the Bills problems in 5 minutes.

 

 

No, because McDermott would be doing the coordinator hiring