Brandon

It's the right McGovern, with proof in the twitter thread.

He's gotta be better than Saffold.

Probably not. Although they play the same position, they don't fill the same role. I assume they're going to try to rework Hines' contract regardless of whatever else they do at RB.

At a reasonable price, I'd be all for it. I've been a proponent of adding a good short yardage RB for a couple of years. The Bills can't keep relying on Josh Allen to fill the role.

I have no issue at all with Knox making it as an alternate and in fact I think he deserves it, though Dawkins seems like a little bit of a stretch. But Saffold!? Really?

Nice work 58.

At the end of R1, he won't be. That's the problem with drafting DEs where the Bills have. Elite pass rushers are the hardest thing to find with the exception of QBs. If they are, they go top 5. They got damn lucky getting Greg Rousseau where they did, and he's just 'good'.

Interestingly, the Chiefs, Bengals and Bills are the top three teams in the league for cap allocation to DL in 2023. The difference is that they don't have nearly as much tied up in DBs; they're at the bottom of the league. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/positional/breakdown/

I think I'd rather just bring back Poyer on a one or two year deal if possible and try to kick the can down the road one more year. Sign Marlowe for at or around the minimum and draft one in R4 or 5. If the draft pick looks like a flop, address it next year with a higher investment.

This. Exactly this. I made this argument repeatedly going into the last offseason. With the relative levels of experience they had in the defensive coaching staff vs that of the offense, you'd think it would make more sense to rely on the defensive coaching staff's experience to be able to coach their way around a deficiency or two and give the rookie OC all the tools he needed to succeed. The 2022 Bills largely did the opposite, pouring resources into the D (again) and handing Dorsey a team with a makeshift OL, inconsistent running game and unproven players at WR2&3. Honestly, it was kind of predictable that it bit them in the ass.

I've seen enough of Frazier's defenses at this point, although I know it won't really change anything. It's also McDermott's defense. Speaking of which, I like McDermott, but at some point, making the playoffs isn't enough. We're not quite there yet, but this can't continue much longer, and admittedly, I think it's preferable to have a HC who specializes on offense. As for Dorsey, I expected he'd struggle at times as a first year OC. He needs to show improvement next year and his offense needs to have something resembling an identity, but for now, I think I'd give him another chance.

I can mostly give Morse a pass because he's having to help a group of OGs that can't help themselves, plus it was plainly evident that they were far worse as a team when he wasn't in the lineup. The rest of them? No more excuses and half-measures. This front office needs to make multiple major upgrades on the OL this offseason.

I mean, sure, they've had a rough go of it this year, but this is a divisional playoff game and at this time of the year, everyone is tired and beat up...including the Bengals. They were down three starting OL on the road against a higher playoff seed. They didn't pack it in and roll over.

Both of them are 100% correct about this whole situation, from the coaching staff to the players they're putting around Allen and the need for more playmakers on both sides of the ball.

Agreed. They've been doing the same crap for at least that long. They get their QB in place, give him a couple of good supporting pieces, fill in the rest with low picks, castoffs and assorted trash, and then expect the QB to hold the whole mess together. When it inevitably fails, the front office and coaches all stand around like morons wondering WTF happened and why it didn't work. They've been doing it for 25 years.

It's not a true rebuild, but there definitely needs to be some major changes, starting with the front office shifting its roster building priorities much more heavily toward the offense.

The 'guy running the show' is either McDermott or Beane. If you want to go there, yeah, I agree, there's plenty of blame to go around, particularly in terms of their roster priorities. I've been watching this sh**show for a long damn time now. It's frustrating, because they make the same mistakes on offense over and over and over. They bring in a QB, give him one or two good supporting pieces, slap bandaids on the rest and then expect the QB to hold the mess they've created together. It never works. Ever. Then, when it inevitably underperforms, they stand around wondering what the hell happened, not understanding that they didn't properly invest in their offense.

There were a lot of us who were of the same line of thinking over the last couple of seasons. The level of priority the Bills have placed on defense just isn't in tune with the reality of how the game is played anymore. At this stage, I feel like we're becoming the reincarnation of the 80s Broncos, who wasted a decade of John Elway's career with defensive minded coach who didn't surround him with the talent or scheme that he needed.

Yeah, well, Allen is the main reason this team went 13-3 during the regular season, despite also playing behind a garbage OL and having an injured throwing elbow for 10 games.

I'm not surprised. They went into the season having lost Emmanuel Sanders, Cole Beasley and John Brown compared to that two-year stretch. The replacements didn't step up, and the Bills had to go out and sign Beasley and Brown in November, both of whom were effectively out of the league.

Maybe if he could block for himself, I'd agree, but the Bills just got absolutely annihilated at the LOS on both sides of the ball. That's why they lost this game.

There wasn't much Allen could do. Both lines got their butts handed to them today. On the offensive side, Allen was under siege the entire game and played about as well as you could expect under the circumstances. This loss is squarely on coaching for not having the team prepared to play, especially in the first quarter, as well as the front office for their failures to adequately address the talent around Allen as well as their failed DL additions.

As poorly as they played on D, I take the same stance as I did a year ago. They're going to win or lose depending on Josh Allen, but he needs help. This OL needs a major overhaul and now that the season is over, it's also very clear that they need help at WR2 and WR3 as well. At this point, I think I'd use every single pick on offense.

They've gotten destroyed on both lines.

Here comes the Frazier prevent D.