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I agree with the you and post you replied too. Bills fandom causes schizophrenia.

What players on the Bills epitomize the "Culture" we are supposed to be building?

Can you point to another team this century that went from playoffs to getting blown out most games the following season in a rebuilding effort? It seems like a very unusual if not unique strategy.

These are literally three of the most gift athletes in history. If there talent was mostly about leadership then we would be seeing the Pacers vs the Hornets in a lot more NBA championships than we do. I would use those three players as examples of why having the most talented players is the most important aspect of winning. You can surround them with thugs and clowns like Aaron Hernandez or Dennis Rodman and still win championships.

1) McD said culture is more important than strategy. 2) This means something is more important that strategy 3) at no point did i say or suggest McD trivialized strategy. 4) I put forward my understanding of what he meant by "culture" which I stand by. It means something. Feel free to provide your own explanation of what culture means in the context of what the Bills are doing 5) I stated that roster building strategy involves finding complimentary players. I am going to give an expanded definition of roster building strategy. 5a. Adding players whose skills sets complement each other. examples. The Redskins hogs and John Riggins. perfect complement. Tom Brady and Wes Welker/Julian Edelman perfect compliment. Drew Brees and Jimmy Graham. Perfect compliment. 5b. determining what positions should have the biggest investment in salary cap. past mistakes include having your highest paid player be a DT. 5.c. estimating the values of draft picks compared against each other. for example. Is the #4 overall pick more valuable than two later first round picks. This changes from draft to draft. One strategy is focused more on identifying special players. The alternative strategy means having more numbers of players. 5.d Salary distribution strategy. Am I better off with a super high priced Khalil Mack, supplemented with two rookie salaries, or would I be better off with 3 10 million players on defense. Different strategies. Both could work. 6)McD's plain words say that whatever culture means, it is more important than roster building strategy. I personally disagree.

I find this topic to be quite interesting. My personal opinion is that people who are not good at achieving objective results like to find subjective ways to define success. These people also tend to be good at finding excuses on why they can't achieve measurable success. In the NFL objective success is wins and losses. The most important measure of this is the gross numbers of wins and losses. Over time, you can claim some amount of success if the trend line year to year of wins is improving. The Bills current path seems to be a downward trend. The famous , you have to take a step back in order to go forward. This is sometimes true. By the end of the 2019 season, fans should have a pretty good idea if McBeane is taking the Bills forward, or if they are just meandering around grasping at straws. is the Bills go 4-12 this year and 5-11 next year, I personally will not be wanting to hear about how much progress has been made on establishing a culture.

Bolded parts comprise a totally fair point. I stand corrected and withdraw my comment about McD's priorities. At this point of the season I consider the question to be a strange question. Once the question was asked though, I still find the answer more than a little curious. In the context of past statements "Culture" seems to be nearly synonymous with "trust the process". Again, in context of past statements and actions, it seems as though McD really is saying that the players buying in to the process and working hard is more important than the strategy of assembling a roster where players complement each other skill wise. If that is what he believes, I think there is legitimate discussion about whether or not that belief is true.

to express opinions? why are you here?

you obviously were not following the conversation. Or else you don't grasp sarcasm.

But what would you rather have Mahomes, or a great culture?

Are you also critical of "the process"

I agree with you. But McD says a lot that is gibberish, so it is understandable why people are confused.

maybe the bills community can pitch in and send you to all the road games?

The brits are going toe to toe with us to see who is the most messed up place in the world. A friend of mine after reading the jazz hands story said we need a new word to describe those more delicate than a snowflake.

Real question. When is the roster and culture built? year round. During the offseason, or during the season? Personally i think roster building is pretty much done in august, and the personalities that are on your team them collectively define the culture, so I am not sure that sure much of that changes during the season. Since we are in week 4, I am hoping our coaches can come up with some better strategy to develop are QB. And maybe more be competitive. Not seeing it so far. It discourages me that in-season our head coach is focused on "process" and "culture" . I want him to be focused on "coaching"

The line between tactics and strategy maybe be blurred. But in football, most people would say the game plan is strategy, while play calling and tackling techniques or qb spin to the blindside are tactics. The 2018 Bills team is "built". The roster is complete, the coaching staff is complete. Where the Bills stand today is 1)strategy and 2) execution of that strategy. That really is it. We know Mcd is saying 1)strategy is not the main problem. So we can conclude that the players execution of that strategy is not up to snuff. And by saying "culture" he is providing further insight that the execution is bad because the players are not trying, or not buying into the strategy. I am not trying to be combative, but what can be built by losing in blow outs? Some weird concept of sticking together through adversity until the inevitable winning that results from trusting the process occurs? I am pretty sure "Winning culture" is a consequence of winning, not a reason losing teams begin winning. Darth Vader became the head coach of the Patriots in 2000. They won the conference championships in 2001, 2003 and 2004. Did the "winning culture happen in one year" or did the Patriots have better coaching strategy and talent in 2001 than their opponents?

Personally, I hear "Culture Trumps Strategy" as being opposite of that.

It seems like a big part of establishing a "winning" culture actually requires winning games, which the team had a good start on last year. Nothing in McDs comments or actions suggests that a "winning" culture is the short term goal. I sincerely think his priority are players buying into a culture of "trusting the process" Players primary goal is to earn personal success and wealth, and they have a precious few short years to achieve this goal. Many players are year to year. It seems to me that if players are not put into a position to succeed personally pretty quickly, they may lose interest in the culture pretty quickly. Maybe this makes these players bad people, I think it just makes them human people that want personal success. I think a good coach needs to make each player feel like they are being put in a good position.

You should use your websters to look up the word "if". If you learn that word, the other post will come to fruition for you today. Because of the salary cap, and because of the advantages of rookie contracts most teams have just as many rookie contract players as the bills. The age distribution in the NFL is very narrow. Because of the cap and rookie contracts no teams are old and no teams are young. Because of dead cap, the Bills roster is cheap, not young. Silly but simple example. The bears could fit in Khalil Mack. the Bills could fit in Star L. Dawkins is pretty unproven as the long term answer at LT, as is Allen at QB. There is a real possibility that Edmunds and White are the only current players on the roster four seasons from now. Read the bolded part. You have hit on the concept, almost. The point of McDermotts comment is to say his and his staffs coaching (strategy) are just fine. And that the problem lies elsewhere. There is nothing in his press conference to suggest any failures of the current culture are actually his fault (after two full off-seasons to establish said culture). This is all about shifting blame.

we are cornering the markets on space eaters.

says the guy who thinks anyone gives two cents if he "quits the bills" LOL

He did not say "coaching trumps talent" which would seem to relate to players Strategy is a coaching function. When he says "culture trumps strategy" , the only logical assumption is there is something so important "culture" that we just have to live with occasional or more than occasional crappy game plans (strategy) Strategy is a coaching function. When he says "culture trumps strategy", he is saying the coaching is good. The problems lie elsewhere. I am not saying he is wrong or right. But that is what he pretty clearly saying. This is depressingly accurate. Real question. Why does anyone thing "strategy" means "talent"? Am I the only one who thinks strategy refers to coaching? And that whatever culture means, it is more important than game planning ?

I do. Never is always an exaggeration. But Allen completes quite a few passes when the WR's are open , before the line collapses. I think his percentage of good passes (can't do much about drops) when the WR's are open (reasonable NFL window) and the line Oline protects, is up to snuff by NFL standards.

It is entirely possible to review the mistakes of the new regime, and find many that a similar mistakes of past regimes. So the 20 years is entirely relevant in that particular context. I am not sure many fans coming off the first playoff season in 17 years necessarily thought the game plan going forward was to liquidate the personnel on roster the and start from scratch with the cheapest roster in the league (dead cap making up the difference). The Bills are pretty much a classic expansion. A rookie QB capable of generating some excitement. Several decent looking first and second year guys (which all teams have) several fan popular older vets that are not part of the long term plans (Kyle, Shady) with the rest of the veterans being guys whose talent levels reflect there low cost or massively underperforms their high cost (Clay) Mixed in are a couple of questionable FA decisions. Its not clear that the best way to help your rookie QB (or second year guy) is to make pay 10 million for a "space eating" defensive lineman , rather than add a quality linemen or WR.

imagine half of the other drivers were attempting to force you to crash or at least run off the road. Now you have a better analogy.