All_Pro_Bills

I might argue on the exact number of good and great players but I agree with your conclusion that the biggest problem with the Bills is personnel, specifically poor draft and free agency decisions. After these failures in the playoffs my unemotional assessment is that the only difference between this team and the drought teams before it is Josh Allen. The Bills have always had a good player or three and most seasons an above average defense but not a QB. You plug Josh into the Jets, Dolphins, or Patriots offense and that team wins the division. Excluding the QB position, I'll argue that the other teams in our division have better overall talent and personnel. The finger points squarely at the front office and Beane. Sure he gets credit for maneuvering up the draft to pick Allen in the 7th spot but what has he done lately. And yeah, McDermott's game management skills are subpar and Frazier's scheme is soft and predictable but the personnel decisions have been the worst thing of all things.

I'll suggest without Josh Allen and his Superman impersonation this Bills team is a 6 or 7 win roster and organization. While McDermott the person seems like a good guy Sean the coach has some shortcomings that experience isn't eliminating. A bold move from ownership is needed. But unlikely to happen.

They just found more classified documents this afternoon at George Washington's former Revolutionary War headquarters. Activists are demanding a full inquiry and the elimination of President's Day. The threat to democracy is clear! One basic question here might be who doesn't have classified documents? And Garland, the DOJ, and the FBI are looking like first class a-holes for that raid on Trump. The idea he's doing something unique or unusual is out the window. Total clown fest.

I don't want McDermott fired. What I want to see is some demonstration of a learning curve where he evolves his thinking and decision making based on experience and learning from similar situations. Not a HC that keeps making blunders over and over along with being unaware or unwilling to see it and become a better decision maker.

Three part series: Part One: Classified documents with information and communications the government doesn't want our enemies to know about. Part Two: Classified documents with information and communications the government doesn't want the American public to know about. Part Three: Discussion and analysis of which pile of documents is larger, part one or part two?

The guy who hastily arranged an unscheduled visit to Zelensky last April and delivered the message the West would not allow him to agree to a negotiated peace deal between Ukraine and Russia brokered by France and Germany implores the allies to send more weapons. What a phony.

Most frustrating about these schemes is both predictability and inflexibility. During the regular season, you had the 49ers and Chargers show you how to slow down Miami's offense in consecutive weeks. In last weeks wild card game the Ravens provided some clues on how to address Cincinnati's offense and dealing with Burrows. But Frazier ignored both of these examples. And on the offensive side defenses have had the Bills number for most of the 2nd half of the season. Dorsey has no answers. And by watching the Bills all season you can become pretty efficient in predicting the Bills plays just off the basis of personal packages and formations. If I can do that then the professionals employed by other NFL teams can do it too. Now why isn't the HC questioning the coordinators and demanding some creativity, surprise, and flexibility in their game plans along with designing them for the specific opponent? My guess is Zac Taylor just dusted off the mostly unused regular season game plan they devised against the Bills and took most of the week off before the game. He knew exactly what to expect and got exactly that on Sunday.

Another poster mentioned this today. This is a blatant example of "soft". Score 14-7, Bengals, the ball at the Bills 14 with 2:48 left in the 2nd quarter, 3rd and 4. 4 receiver set with Chase wide to the left and 3 receivers on the right. Bills blitz with 7 rushing against 6 blockers. CB's White on the left, Jackson on the right both 7 yard off the line. 2 other defenders at the 5 yard line. Burrows gets the snap and stares down Chase then makes quick throw he catches at the 12, he cuts inside as White misses the tackle and Edmunds tracks him down after the blitz attempt failed and brings him down at the 7. First and goal. You want to argue Frazier didn't want to give up the big play which in this case would be a 14 yard TD. So instead you concede the first down unless 1) the blitz gets to Burrows, which it didn't, or the receiver drops the ball or fumbles or something else which didn't happen. Frazier's/McDermott's scheme is based on the idea that the offense is not going to execute 10 or 12 plays in a row and will make a mistake but good and great teams in the playoffs don't make a lot of mistakes. You need to make a play against them. Not wait for them to mess up.

The real problem is the government has chain of custody issues when in comes to keeping track of documents. Stuff disappears for 6 years and nobody misses it. Then it surfaces and becomes a big deal. The local library has a better system in place. My take is if you didn't miss it for 6 years then really how important is it? How about reviewing processes and procedures for keeping keeping track of this stuff and fix it? Because one thing seems clear, they're not doing a good job of keeping track of classified documents. I'm guessing Chinese, Russian, Israeli, and lots of other intelligence services around the world have their own copies of 1000's of US government confidential and secret documents.

Allen's comments are an honest assessment. There's no trophy for 5th place. And the Bills game plan on both sides of the ball was about as predictable as they come. The Bengals certainly knew it. And most importantly the Bills players knew it too. I wonder if knowing they were destined to be out coached, out prepared, and out game planned left the team with no confidence stepping out onto the field?

Can we get Jim Schwarz to come back as DC and install his "wide 9" scheme? My memory isn't that clear about that era but I believe he took most of the same personal that played mediocre and transformed the group into a sack and pass rush machine. No we can't as I believe the Browns hired him!

A trade won't happen but absent any incentive or pressure we all know with close to 100% certainty ownership and management won't make any significant and necessary changes.

The four best teams are in the conference finals with an honorable mention going to the Cowboys. After yesterday, the Bills just look like they're on the second tier. My expectations for major changes are dim. These guys are just going to make marginal moves that won't do much because I think they incorrectly believe they are "this close" to it. After watching the NFC game last night and the Chiefs they're not. The Bills are no closer than the Giants were against the Eagles. Which is depressing. I think there's only one person that has any leverage to approach ownership and demand changes be made and that's Josh Allen. I suspect he's not quite there yet but if I'm his agent I would entertain having a discussion with ownership suggesting I'm not going sit idly and allow my client to take another 17 game beating like he did this season and expose himself to injury or long term health issues. So unless Pegula makes some major moves I'm going to demand a trade where Josh can go to a team committed to providing an offensive line and the weapons he needs to succeed and the Bills can get a decent return of around 3 first rounders for their trouble. At the very least such a demand would enrage the fan base to a point and level that Pegula could not ignore.

I don't disagree with the OP I think the Bills main problem is a very big lack of self-awareness and avoiding an honest assessment of reality. And a resistance to making bold moves when bold moves are required. That time is again now. The Bills have a serous problem and it starts with management. They've been peddling the idea of sustainability as a reason for not going "all in" but can anyone explain how this is sustainable? They're up against the salary cap, but have lots of holes in the roster, along with having a lot of UFA's they won't be able to sign. The last 4 drafts have been mediocre at best. They've made questionable picks when you look at who else was on the board that lots of posters hear were screaming for them to pick instead. Other players that have turning into good contributors for their teams. How many times have they traded up and then picked the wrong guy? Beane can't sell me on the idea that his approach to success is to prioritize the draft as a way to continually replenish and fill the roster with good players and then go out and draft poorly year after year. Then react to these failures by signing lots of marginal veteran free agents to fill the gaps and blowing out the salary cap. Explain to me again how that's a sustainable? Management is batting around .180 here. They have the best athlete and QB in the league but have failed to build an adequate offensive line for protection or surround him with enough weapons. Absent Von Miller, they cannot generate a pass rush, the defensive scheme is unfit for playing the better teams, the secondary can't cover a pot of boiling water, and yesterday's performance looked like week one of preseason. The big story was the Bengals had 3 starters on the offensive line hurt when the big story turned out to be that didn't make any difference. At a minimum Frazier has to go and McDermott needs to be willing to bring in another coordinator that's given some freedom to run their own system. Others have suggested enticing Frank Reich to come in to take over the OC job. I could get on board for that too. But until I see them do some top down obvious changes needed and stop tweaking things at the lowest level on the roster, its an exercise in futility to think they're going to do anything differently.

At the end of the day, does anyone that's watched how this team operates truthfully expect them to make both or either of these changes? That's the most depressing thing today for me. More depressing than the game itself. What I expect to hear over and over is how the team failed to "execute" what they'll say was a good game plan. Ugh..

I took a quick look at the last 4 drafts. The front office and the scouts have done a bad job at the draft. Misses on both sides of the ball that need to be covered over by signing lower-tier free agents that are just good enough for the regular season but abysmal in the playoffs. Not to mention playing second-guessing by looking at their draft picks and then looking at who was available. I really believe that without Josh Allen playing super hero this team is a 6 or 7 win roster at best. In the division Jets and Dolphins have gotten better the past two drafts and the Bills are running in place recycling marginal free agents into the OL and DL.

This defense with Frazier's scheme and the players on the roster can't line up toe-to-toe and hold their own with the league's top QBs and defenses that make few if any mistakes or turnovers. Watching the 49ers/Cowboys game and seeing two good defenses at work makes me realize how much of an illusion the Bills defense was this season. The GM and front office need to act with a sense of urgency this offseason. They can't ignore this problem if they're serious about winning it all

The way this roster is constructed and the lack of recent productive drafts, without Allen this is a 6 or 7 win team. Build the lines on both sides of the ball and move on from Frazier.

30+ 1st downs 150+ rushing with 3 OL backups. Bad.

One big thing is Bengals defense first guy makes the tackle and Bills first guy misses.

By a defender leaving his feet and launching himself at the QB. Ruled incomplete.

A lot doesn't"t add up here for me. Call me skeptical. Biden left office about 5 years and 9 months ago. Nobody knew he took documents, nobody was looking for them, and nobody knew he had them, or where they were. Then somebody decided to do some Fall cleaning in the garage and ran across some files. Then contacted authorities. You can play the honesty angle, but given the circumstances the easiest thing would have been shred them and avoid any commotion. As I believe nothing is a coincidence I'm left wondering if Joe's handlers behind the scenes decided it's time for him to go and put all this in motion. If it's me and I find something of great value or confidential from my previous job of 6 years ago and nobody else in the world knows about it I just forget about or dispose of it and and avoid any potential problem for myself. There's more to the story here.

Anyone remember how many NV and VC killed the US reported daily during the Vietnam war?

So, like most wars our government has backed recently where things are said to be going great and then all the sudden. presto, not so great, if the unthinkable happens and the Russian's ultimately prevail then the people running the show in Washington and NATO need to explain why they blew smoke up everybody's backside with all the good news stories to the contrary.

Putin's secret attack plan! Or not so secret attack plan it would appear. The Russian's will mount an offense from positions they currently hold. Brilliant tactical assessment that must have taken about 15 seconds of very hard thinking to conclude.