GunnerBill

No it didn't.

I think he got better as the year went on. Early on he was way too aggressive in bad spots IMO.

That is certainly possible. I don't believe it is yet proven.

I get it. Just one of the things I appreciated most about Leslie was his patience. There were games last year - Denver and New England stand out - where we needed a bit more of that.

Definitely more cover 3/cover 1 on defense but I also wish Sean had Leslie's patience at times. Too many ill timed blitzes when I felt like he just got frustrated and so blitzed out of anger / frustration. I tend to think that is the worst time to blitz. Whether Sean or Bobby call the D this year I'd like to see some of the coverage evolution from last year continue but with greater patience in the playcalling.

Teams noticed he struggled against speed and started moving ends inside on obvious pass downs and speed rushing Cyrus's inside shoulder. Hopefully Kromer works on his counter to that this offseason.

There is a lot of read across between his tape and Keon's I agree. Agree. He is the body type I think where he has to battle with it a bit.

Totally disagree. McDermott makes the playoffs with at least 4 of the drought rosters IMO. There are at least 4 rosters that were better than the 2017 team. Now we might have been 0 for in the playoffs. That is fair. But he would have broken the drought way sooner.

I don't think you are an idiot. Just wrong.

High level special teams play. The British guy isn't even a rugby player. Not really. He is an amateur rugby player and boxer. The chances of him being anything at all are very remote.

You don't get a roster exemption for the 53. You do for the 90 and he doesn't count for the PS. If he makes the roster he makes it as one of 53.

I do think Bishop will start if not day 1 then by week 4 or 5. But on the edge point that was about who was there. There were four edge guys taken in rounds 3 but they were all 3-4 OLB types (and the teams who drafted them reflect that - Atlanta, Denver, Baltimore and Philadelphia). Could you have drafted one and then brought them along and converted them in time to more traditional defensive end role? Yea, but not while getting much production early. Zero edge were taken in the entirity of round 4. The next tier of guys were more 4-3 ends - Thomas, Booker and Solomon - and all went in round 5 including one to the Bills. It was not a good edge class beyond the top few guys if you are a 4-3 team.

Rex wouldn't have been interesting with anything. He was a mailing it in has been by the time he got here. More interesting in his brand than his team.

Yea me too. My comp is Roger Federer at the French Open. All he needed to win one was someone else to beat Nadal because while he had beat him on clay at other tournaments he couldn't get past him at the French. Then the year Soderling beat Nadal, Roger got his title.

Could have had Belichick and Landry coordinating the D that night. Wouldn't have mattered.

I think he could yes. The defeat to the Bengals two years ago was on the players. Josh included. He sucked.

Or when he doesn't have to get past that same Patrick Mahomes.

And Levy wasn't doing anything. He was GM in name only. He literally fell asleep in draft meetings. It was the Levy/Modrak/Jauron trio.

They actually drafted pretty well until about 2015. After that it was a disaster zone. I don't know whether the league changed and Bill was still drafting for a league that no longer existed or if there were other influences in senior personnel positions that changed. It was about the time Bob Quinn moved on but he was more pro side anyway from memory.

So this year I am not sure we would be favoured to beat the Ravens or the Bengals in the playoffs. My expectations are somewhat lower so I'd probably give him a pass on that unless it is a no contest type of defeat. If he misses the playoffs he has to go. If he loses to a team we are clearly better than in the playoffs I'd consider moving on. Not sure whether I have Houston in that bracket or not but losing to a Miami, or the Chargers or Jacksonville, or Indy in the playoffs would definitely give me pause.

Agree. That is pathetic.

He is not an idiot. He was a coach trying to deal with cluster injuries to the exact part of the defense that KC were built to exploit.

And better GMs (our GMing was arguably even worse than our coaching in the drought). Although over 15 years it is really hard not to have 2 or 3 down years roster wise. If a franchise QB has a 3 contract career that is about 15 years you likely have 3 teams around them in that period. So some of it avoidable, some not.

Certainly better than last year. I think last year was Josh's worst since he broke out. And I am not talking about the offense. I am talking about Josh. He was less consistent with his fundamentals and his decision making was more erratic. Not that he was terrible compared to his peers. He still played like a top half dozen QB. I don't think he was top 2 or 3 in 2023 though. I am not saying he will have a career year but I don't discount it. If the weapons around him step up I could see a big bounce back.

Yep. It might not be popular with some but we don't just have a better QB than all of those years we have a better Head Coach too. Josh is a bigger and more important upgrade than Sean is. But they are both definitively better than what went before.