Mango

I was in the Caribbean the other day. On the way to the airport a guy pulls up next to my cab after I get in and asks to open the door. He looks at me and my Bills hat and says Go Eagles then drove away.

We have one of the oldest rosters in the league with little supporting cast around Allen and no space to do it. It makes some sense to let this regime get through that lull and give somebody else the keys with some more room to operate.

It’s not so much the contract that’s killing us with Von. It’s his restructure. We should have an out this year and we don’t because of it. For all the talk of our record with “this roster”, we have one of the oldest teams in the league. We’ve been screaming towards this cliff for some time.

Cutting Taron would be dumb. He’ll get an extension to help alleviate his cap number.

I don’t think he’s failing miserably as a DC. The defense has played well with a bit of a skeleton crew in the back 7. He has certainly sucked with his 4th quarter and late game calls. The 5-6 man rushes and off coverage is killing us. I would think given how disjointed this season has been, that going back to being CEO rather than “Director of (insert business unit) is low hanging fruit for any leader of an org whose paying attention to its performance. I am not advocating for or against firing McD with the above. You asked a pointed question “would he hire a DC” and the answer is a resounding “of course he would”

I mean he had a DC for 6 of 7 years. But if you ignore that, sure, maybe McD is totally opposed to the idea.

I don’t know man, I’m pretty critical of Josh. I have some thoughts about him this game for sure, but he wasn’t in my top 5, maybe top 10 criticisms against the Eagles. Josh played well. There has to be some level-headed-ness around criticizing players.

I think we have to cut Morse just to make the cap work.

Good one…

I think we go OT, OG, and WR in no particular order. We lose a ton of pass rushers this year. I wouldn’t be shocked at DE sneaking ahead of OL somewhere depending on how the draft falls in front of them.

It’s not just the squishy defense. It’s that he also tends to blitz with soft coverage behind. It just gets picked apart and the 5-6 man rush never makes it home.

Just playing around with the NYT, this one is an uphill climb. Watson and Burrow being out are super helpful. CJ Strouds ascension sucks. But going through the ESPN machine it looks like with a win against the Eagles we would officially have a wild card spot. At least for the week.

I 100% agree here. It feels like we sleep walk through games when we’re hyped. Even when we win. Sometimes it feels like we struggle to flip the switch come the playoffs. Sort of reminds me of the 2007 Sabres who won the Presidents Trophy. This season I was sorta hoping for us to play quality balanced football, maybe come in as the 3-4 seed, but come in as we start to get hot. Similar to Eli’s Giants or Brady’s Bucs. That said, I didn’t want it to look like this.

So I actually thought different. I’ve seen this play before in the A22 and we just haven’t thrown the ball the the wheel route much. This wasn’t a new addition. It was just taking the throw that was there. I don’t mean to take away from Brady. Getting players to execute is part of the job. But this isn’t a new wrinkle.

I wouldn’t say I’m rooting for injury. And definitely not a dirty play. But if these two teams kick the shirt out of each other tonight it wouldn’t be the worst thing for the Bills.

Also, it was more or less universally accepted that the Jets game was a bad day at the office for the QB. He was toasted in almost every A22 review and Dorsey was given a lot of credit for calling a very good game. I think Saleh was pretty insightful yesterday, they were basically waiting for Josh to self destruct. He didn’t, he had a great game. That said, getting Josh to do that is also part of the job of OC. So credit to Brady for sure. But like you, I am slow to call this “a new offense”. EDIT: Hoping for Joe Brady to be the truth. We need it down the stretch.

He also lead the team in targets. Diggs wasn’t invisible. He had opportunities and made nothing of them. He had a bad day at the office. It happens.

I agree with you to an extent. He had a really lazy route in the 3rd, I got pretty frustrated by it. But at the same time he was the most targeted receiver on the roster. One thing to note for Diggs, he had Surtain and Sauce back to back. That’s not a get out of jail free card. He actually disappeared against top flight coverage. That’s a fairly new occurrence for him. I am a big spread the ball around guy who thinks 10-12 targets per game is enough. Not that it’s a pitch count. But the more you spread the ball out the more I think Diggs will actually feast long term.

I tend to agree here. A lot of people going off on Saleh for his hero ball comment. I get it. Wasn’t great wording. I think they came in with the same exact game plan and waited for this offense to self destruct. To Joe Brady’s credit it didn’t happen. Part of a coaches job is getting players to execute as much as it is a players job to actually get it done as well. But I vividly remember how rock hard I was after the Dolphins and Raiders games too. Good game this week. I won’t spend much time complaining about what coulda been bad. I’ll take this one. I don’t disagree. He has had one good game here. But if this board wants a young OC to take over there is a path for it in house. But you would have to give him at least one full year as OC first.

It starts with “has McD lost the locker room”. If the answer is no, he is probably still here one more year. If the answer is yes, he has to go. There isn’t another choice. I do think the responsible way to move on from McD is to hold on to him one more year maybe two. We have a million UFA’s next year, and no cap. Load up on offense in the draft. Cut some aging contracts for 2024. This team won’t be great next season. Set the next guy up for success with a clean slate rather than come in year one with the team taking a step back. At that point, if Brady is the truth like some people think, barring somebody like McVay getting fired, you hand the reigns over and maybe even make a guy like Babich the DC. To me this is the kind of move that keeps the train on the tracks at full speed.

I know I sound crazy, but I don’t get the Eagles hype. Let me rephrase that, the Eagles are a very good team, I don’t get the Jalen Hurts hype. I think his roster and his max squat carry that team.

A lot better flow to tonight’s game. I think more than any actual X’s and O’s, that’s something we’ve struggled with the last 4-6 weeks. Hopefully he can keep it up.

I think Dawkins legit thought he drew an unsportsmanlike with his flop and then ran a victory lap. I was curious in real time if Dawkins did draw the penalty and then when he took that victory lap the refs were like …. Actually, eat a *****.

I would give that crown to Jordan Philips. He’s always chirping. He also seems to always be knocking somebody down after the whistle. I think the refs made a point to tell Dawkins to STFU tonight after that flop and and dumb celebration like he drew a call. He was called for holding just a play or two later.

Not including tonight Shakir has gotten 40+ the last three weeks and 25+ the two weeks before. He should be starting in the slot.