GunnerBill

Drew Brees. By far.

Agree re Bass and Miller. Probably won't but neither would be a total shock to me. Disagree on Gilliam. They will keep Morris anyway. And Gilliam is three players in one. From a special teams perspective it isn't one or the other in Gilliam or Hollins. They play totally separate positions.

Offseason fluff will not change my mind. I'd be delighted to be wrong come September.

A dreadful division doesn't send a second team to the playoffs 3 out of 4 years. If the poster had said the division has been mediocre I'd have no issue with that.

Yea but they are not dreadful. That is the accusation I was responding too.

Really sad. I liked him too. Tragic.

GMs cut players. Of course coaches have a say. But GMs decide on cuts. Brandon Beane has responsibility for the 53. Sean has responsibility for the game day 47.

He will have had a say but that's a GM call.

Pocket time isn't judged as time given in the pocket though. It isn't how long a QB could have stayed there... it is how long they do before they throw or begin to move out. Allen tied Jared Goff who played behind the best Oline in football so some of that is scheme related and amound of quick game which definitely ticked up under Brady.

The 2021 and 2022 lines were horrendous. While I am not arguing that giving up the fewest sacks made out 2023 line the best, because a lot of it IS still Allen (although his tendency to hold the football is also responsible for some pressures so it does cut both ways), it was a lot better. It was an average to slightly above average offensive line. 2021 and 2022 were comfortably bottom third of the league.

I'm hoping for improved mechanics. For whatever reason (injuries, maybe a lighter off-season training regime that other years last summer, etc) they were off last year. Josh has acknowledged it himself and is believed to be working on it in the offseason, so I'm optimistic.

I think going into the season they will and probably should. But they need a plan to cut the chord quickly if he struggles. They should spend the entire pre-season scouting kickers likely to be cut.

I see where you are going with it but I think it is pretty undeniable that Daquan and Ed Oliver are the starters. The other guys are pure rotational pieces. I don't see DeWayne ever being more than that. If I am wrong I will say so, but I thought he was a reach in the 3rd. I didn't have a view on Bernard in 2022 I hadn't watched any of him at all. And I liked the Dorian Williams pick last year (although I didn't love his play as a rookie the game was still happening too fast for him). So you can throw me in with others gnashing teeth if you like but I'm not sure it adds much to this.

The AFCE isn't the AFCN, true, but dreadful overstates in. In the Bills four division winning seasons three times the AFCE has sent two teams to the postseason. I don't think dreadful is fair.

I like Malik as well but he is ANOTHER slot guy. This team needs outside receivers to move the needle. They were pretty much all gone by early round 4 which is why picking a DT who is at best, IMO, a rotational guy in the 3rd made little sense.

FWIW I have done a similar exercise on these board previously and come up with a very similar summation in terms of %s. I think that is an argument for keeping the Head Coach not firing him. EDIT: but I agree with @FireChans on Manning v Brady. To think otherwise focuses too much on what QBs do positively and not enough on what they don't do negatively. Manning's highs were higher than Brady's. But he always made waaaaaaay more mistakes. Brady was the guy whose performance range im 95% of his games was between 75% and 85%. That consistency was part of what made him special. Manning had more games in the 90s. But a lot more games in the 50s and 60s too.

I don't care about winning luckily.

I totally disagree.

I don't think your can. His performance has been pretty even. You can ask questions about why they haven't got further in the postseason but they have been a pretty consistent football team over the past 5 years. 2nd only to KC in wins in that period.

He did a good job but his overall performance has been uneven.

Nope. He has had 4 years. Two playoff season, two misses.

Err... Stefanski has had 4 years....

A good coordinator is nice, and I agree McDermott is in the "very good coordinator" not "brilliant coordinator" bucket, but the number 1 thing you need in a Head Coach is leadership. That individual has to be able to hold a locker room of 70 odd men with their own personalities, perspectives, off-field pressures and egos together from basically the third week of July to the second week of February (in a best case scenario). That is difficult and it doesn't matter how great you are at designing plays, calling plays, getting on a whiteboard.... if you can't do that you will fail. It is a leadership position. Leadership should always be the #1 consideration. Then you get down to what is their vision for a team, how good are they at the Xs and Os, what sort of in game decision maker are they etc.

I think that is totally fair.

I disagree with you on the drought coaches. That is plain wrong IMO. I think the last bit is sematics. I think what is holding the team back on offense is the talent around Allen. Not the Head Coach.