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The final score made that game look closer than it was. Sabres pretty much dominated from start to finish. Jets get a late PP goal and a desperation goal to make it look close after we whiffed on the empty net. Hellebuyck played well to keep Buffalo from putting up 4 or 5. That effort every night will have this team back in the post season as the 8th seed no one wants to face.

I think any team that signs Tremaine for a different role than the one hes in will be cutting him a year or two later with a ton of dead cap space and he will be back in red, white, and blue at a much discounted rate. Basically like every single big time FA who leaves new england.

A lot of national guys are starting to say that McD's defensive coaching is a lot more wabi sabi than it is the kaizen hes been preaching.

Looked at it. Whats your problem?

I guess its a good thing that we haven't lost 10 games in the last two regular seasons combined.

What about them? I'm not convinced Epenesa and Boogie are legit NFL talents. Many people had similar concerns when they were drafted. Rousseau had a decent season when healthy. Is it Washington's fault they aren't pro bowlers by now and Ed O isn't Aaron Donald yet, did Beane draft some irredeemable bums, or is the truth somewhere in between? I don't have the answer here and I, like many of you, ingest an unhealthy amount of Bills media. I won't give it a second thought if Washington gets canned. I am just trying to understand how so many people here are convinced that one or more positional coaches is the real problem. What information do they have that I don't? Haven't seen anything new. Just demands of a blood sacrifice to ease the pain of falling short of the prize again.

Must be a function of Jaquan, Lewis, and to a lesser extent, Hamlin struggling when put into action such that they're scrambling to bring back guys like Marlowe. As much as the fans have extremely strong opinions about position coaches, we have almost no visibility into what they do to inform an opinion on their performance. But that is hardly an obstacle to some.

I ask you for one example of him being a yes man and any rationale as to why he should be fired and posing that question means that I must believe he did a great job? Making up *****, getting defensive about it, and making up more ***** is a poor way to have a conversation. I did watch the Bengals game. Phillips is headed for surgery today. DaQuan Jones didn't play. Oliver's pec injury had him playing with half his torso in a brace. Miller was on IR. Line play looked pretty amazing when everyone was healthy early in the year. I guess success is a function of talent and lack of success lands only on coaching?

I think carving out a 20+ year coaching career out of being a McD yes man is less likely than maybe he has done something right. Von Miller has nothing but praise for him. If making up narratives on "a hunch" is your thing then don't let me get in the way.

Any examples of him being a yes man? Just one will suffice.

Is that personnel decisions or coaching?

Why should Eric Washington be fired?

Let Zach cook! Run him till he pukes!

Make sure you sign up here and try not to touch the walls. Everything you BBMBers touch gets all sticky.

If you're listening to WGR all day (even though you hate it) then we will hard pressed to find anything that is NOT worth your time. The contrast may be one team has been a super bowl contender by a consensus of critics and the other team has the league's longest active playoff drought streak.

After a little reflection I think injuries played a much bigger role on defense than we want to admit. Losing DaQuan was huge. DaQuan was our run defense. Phillips hasn't been right since about week 3. Oliver was playing with a pec injury and was invisible since his injury. Obviously losing Von was a huge blow. Poyer was playing hurt all year. Hyde to IR. Tre did not look like he was fully confident in his knee. Hamlin going down and putting Marlowe into the game plan. Marlowe going down and putting Jaquan and Cam Lewis out there. Benford to IR. People who know the game far better than me have posted about what you can reasonably do with coverage when you are playing 3rd string safeties. The answer is go vanilla. When your three best interior lineman are hurt or out and your line is getting blown off the line of scrimmage I don't know what defensive calls a coordinator can make. Frazier tried a lot of different looks. Nothing worked. Bungles backup Oline picked up the blitz and pass protected better than our starters.

You know Steve Tasker and Chris Brown don't make coaching or personnel decisions, right?

So you're saying coaching matters?

No lead is safe when the Sabres are playing.

This is who Jack P is. This tweet is 100% on brand for him.

Jost has been very good in Buffalo. Great pickup.

Vikings fans are probably even more bummed than we are as there is no doubt that Kirk Cousins will never get them farther than the Wild Card round.

Great thread.

Maybe we can trade Diggs to UT for Bijan Robinson and their 2024 recruiting class?

All this stuff went down in the Bengals Bills game thread pinned at the top of main page.