Coaching is the key!

[KOKBILLS]

Coaching is certainly a huge part of why the Bills are where they are...

 

The game plans in all 4 losses were flat out awful... And this team has become a poor 1st half team dating back to 2024, and that points straight to coaching...

But I think Bills fans are going to have to come to the realization that it's not coaching or the front office...it's a combination of the two... The philosophy of what players are provided, and the development of those players has combined to create a roster that is full of average talent playing uninspired and all to often far too predictable schemes waiting around for their all world QB to bail them out of trouble. And that has been further complicated by a massive amount of injuries, especially on Defense. 

[Ayjent]

It’s both coaching and talent.  The team has incessantly invested in Defense over the McD Beane era and it has never been a D that can dominate a meaningful game or stretch of games in the clutch part of any season.  It has been on the back of their QB that they’ve won.  So when a team invests so heavily in some aspect of its team and the results don’t change much there is a severe flaw in the organization and that’s not even getting into the offensive regression, which is more concerning, because we know the talent they have at QB1 and RB1.

 

McD talks about growing and learning all the time but they have not learned that the D they play is never going to be dominant.  They haven’t learned that small, undersized LBs are how you stop quick teams but also how you get pummeled by physical ones.  This has been an issue since the Bills hired McD - see Titans under Vrabel.  The complexity in the backend doesn’t allow the players to be aggressive and the results of people who know the system well enough to start doesn’t lead to some amazing result.  So for what use is the complexity?  To give up 3rd and longs on the regular?  This team has never gotten after the QB on the regular no matter what they invest in it and certainly not with hand picked, home grown guys.  It’s pretty clear that this is going to come in better and worse variations as we’ve seen over the years but at its core it’s still the same flaws.  
 

I don’t have faith in the Pegulas to hire another regime but the limitations of this one are very clear.  I’ve been hesitant to be too critical but this is the worst version of the Bills we’ve seen in quite a while, and the team unraveled against a physical opponent in a way that signals bigger issues.  Also, the absolute stubbornness to not give the tackles help last game was dumbfounding. But look - we can point the finger at Brady and he deserves some blame but the D is an absolute disaster given the investments.  Injuries you say?  Sure but injuries happen to all teams - this is about the D they run and how it sucks no matter what talent they amass.  Just bc there was a 2 game run with Hoecht where it looked good doesn’t mean that would have been the result with him all year and if one guy makes that much of a difference why wasn’t he the most coveted FA in football?  I refuse to think that was the key to this Defense being good. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Ayjent