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McDermott is in love with guys that know his system.

Milano's instincts are top tier. After these next three games, if he's healthy and playing, I'd expect to see him ready for the playoffs where instinctual cerebral players thrive. Not worried in the slightest.

It's the reason there should always be touch up or makeup on set. Nothing should distract you from what they're trying to convey, even if it's just sports talk. Nothing is cheaper than the Buffalo media though.

Screens work best when defenses are committing to the pass rush. Historically, it was a bad idea to blitz Josh, so they haven't been a big part of our game. On top of that, teams used to spy Allen a lot more, which was another deterrent to the halfback screen pass. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets slowly incorporated more and more as Allen gets older and becomes less of a threat to take off.

Rex Ryan was in vacation mode when he coached the Bills, so I doubt it would have worked out for the better. The real question is -- how different would the last couple years have gone if the Bills replaced McDermott with Daboll after 13 seconds?

Fred Taylor in the hall of fame? What am I missing here...

80% of the perfect wing is the blue cheese. Many well meaning people have devoted plenty of time making a good wing, but have fallen short by not understanding this one simple thing.

I think both are true. I think McDermott deserves the backlash he is getting. I also think that Dunne sounded... questionable on the radio.

I don't understand this mentality. He admitted to some of this stuff. He's very clearly lost the good will of a lot of people in that building. Blaming the journalist is wild to me.

Are there actually lunatics here that don't think Josh Allen is the best QB in franchise history? I'll just add this to the list of reasons why I only browse this site every few years. It's just inmates running wild and free with scissors in their hands.

If Dorsey was the actual problem — then the Miami game and similar beatdowns last year sure seems like a strange outlier. While we are rampantly speculating, I think McDermott put the leash on Josh running this season and lifted it in desperation. It’s too convenient to point to Dorsey when the catalyst is our game choking HC. Two of the dumb losses this year with Dorsey were with Josh trotting off the field with the lead.

The irony of you talking about things that are simple.

Allen was incredible on the road against the 9-1 super bowl favorites under the lights with the rain. Basically no one is playing better than how he played in that situation. Either you're just being difficult, have an axe to grind, or simply are not watching other NFL football. Every team except one or two would kill to have Allen, and the Eagles are possibly one of them.

I agree completely. McDermott's scheme works well against bad QB and dysfunctional offenses, but it's the lack of adjustments that is the real concern. Complain about his scheme all you want, but it did in fact fluster Hurts. The issue is that after listening to his OC scream in his ear for 3 quarters about finding the soft zones, it was clear Hurts figured out the mission. Everyone without McDermott's ego could tell that they had that figured out. Logically you would think we would pivot into either a press man D or shake it up in any way, but we didn't. We sat back again. We left the flat open in OT. We essentially forced Hurts to beat us and he did.

He's done it twice to the Ravens and once to Mahomes. Other than that his defense has essentially rolled the red carpet out when the game is on the line.