GunnerBill

Walker and Jones start at DT.

Let's gooooo Bufffffaaaaalllloooooo!

It isn't just PR and I wouldn't want to suggest that. He has been a decent GM for the Bills, but he has always wanted to control the narrative and you have to sift through it. I never bought the inevitable trades narrative all that time ago. It was a choice. A choice I agreed with as it happens. But he didn't sell it like that.

He is a good special teamer. The Bills are so thin on defense but I think we have seen Spector's limitations in that phase plenty.

Well by necessity you can't win a Superbowl without winning some other games. So they are not all meaningless and if you traded all of them you can't win a Superbowl.

Yea. If we had lost every regular season game we'd be much more likely to win a superbowl.

He is, without doubt a bit of a PR master. And in fairness PR is part of a GM's job. So I don't hold it against him (and he is much better at the create a narrative stuff than he is at the poker face pre-draft stuff anyway). He started the narrative spinning basically as soon as he got here. He managed to convince everyone that the Sammy and Darby trades were inevitable because of the cap and not part of a concerted effort to start afresh with new players and a new culture.

I tried to date Claudia Schiffer. Asking people who are definitely going to say no isn't much of a strategy. Ha. But at the same time glad he made the calls. Just they were really low percentage hail marys. 2025.

Pantheon of "greatest ever" I think it would take more than 1 Superbowl. I agree with a Superbowl he will be among the best of his era, but given the comparison was guys like Paul Brown I don't think one Superbowl gets McD into that territory.

There are some legitimate criticisms to make of McDermott. Some of which you allude to in your first para. But your contention in the OP is still completely wrong. Nobody is trying to cement him in a pantheon of great coaches.

It isn't skewed. Because all Head Coaches who are coaches for a long time play against bad teams plenty. Tampa were mainly incompetent during Payton's run with the Saints for example. The article isn't doing what you claim it is and the rest is just digs at McDermott because you don't like him.

If it was trying to do that it would indeed be a dumb article. But it isn't.

They didnt actually stop Cook. New England did a bit. In the Falcons game Brady just got away from him. On the OC.

My prediction is he isn't signing anywhere for at least another month. He isn't healthy.

That is true. But I am worried about the interior rush moving forward.

This doesn't only apply to Buffalo though. Normally when you look at the top teams and players in sack production there are a few in there who just fatten up against bad teams. I remember the year the Tampa fella (Barrett?) led the league.... I think he got 19 sacks. Six came vs Dallas's turnstile of a backup LT. It's also worth saying the Bills are 3rd in the NFL in pressure rate this season, again while the two games you mention help that as well it suggests the sack production is not a fluke. I think rush the passer is one thing the Bills D has actually done at a reasonable level this year. If the coverage can hold up as it did v KC maybe we can be in business. Hoecht joining Ed on the sidelines does not help though. I reckon if I had a couple of good dinners and turned up in Miami tomorrow there is half a chance Id get snaps at defensive tackle 😆

Hard to do that if he lines up in the A gap.

You could still end up with a home game in the AFCCG as the #5 imo if the 1-4 are Indy, New England, Denver and Pittsburgh. I could see #6 Chargers @ #5 Bills for instance.

I honestly think the #5 with the Chiefs and Ravens out. That guarantees the Bills a clear QB advantage in every match up (I suppose possibly Herbert if he is on a good day and Josh is a bit off)

I am open to the idea. Dorian's issue at linebacker is his play recognition, lane discipline and positioning. Get him lined up on or close to the line of scrimmage on passing downs and just use his physical gifts going forward. That is kind of how we used Lorax under Sean in 2017 and 2018.

Sure but he would be a complimentary piece here not a piece that changes the offense dramatically. He isn't the guy that can just flat out win outside against press coverage. Was that worth what it took to get him? I'd probably have been willing to offer a 4th this year and a 5th next year. But that isn't as good as the Seahawks offer. And that is about as high I'd have gone.

Very sad.

The information I have is at the point the Bills made the trade (which was FA time wasn't it so like 6 weeks out from the draft) the comparison they front office was using to decide whether trading away a first for Diggs made sense to them was Tee Higgins. That leads me to believe that at that point Tee was likely their WR4 because the consensus was Jeudy, Ruggs and Lamb would be gone. It doesn't have to mean that. Maybe the Bills felt Jefferson would almost definitely be gone too and so they thought WR5 was likely the best that would be left for them. Or maybe Higgins was WR4 for them at that point but they could have flipped to Jefferson by draft day - that's also possible. But the player who was their counterfactual in the Diggs decision at the time it was made was Tee Higgins.

There is genuinely a bit of a point about whether you really want to use a first on a WR in 2026 when the 2027 class looks at this stage potentially epic. I know you were talking half in jest but it isn't a great CB crop (and there is zero chance Beane spends a high pick on a corner this year anyway) but it IS a strong defensive line group. And take it from the man himself - he will "never apologise" for prioritising the defensive line. If I had to put money on the position of the Bills 2026 first round pick right now I'd put it on a defensive lineman. Probably EDGE over DT, but one or the other.

If it is long term wear and tear you are worried about then the Bills have guarded against that. This is year 4. They are pretty much committed through year 5. But it would cost $5.4m in dead cap if they wanted to move on in 2027. That isn't a justification anyone can use to still hold onto a wrong opinion about extending him.