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I think the same for Sweetness as he had nothing most of his days with the Chicago Bears. In 1977 the Bears made the playoffs mostly due to Payton and his QB was Bob Avellini...their top WR that year was James Scott. In 1979 they went to the playoffs again with QB Mike Phipps and the top receiver that year was Brian Baschnagel. Defense and Payton were the reasons they managed to do anything until Mike Ditka became head coach. As for Sanders at least he had some other somewhat decent talent around him. In 1991 in his third year the Lions went 12-4 with Erik Kramer, Rodney Pete at QB, Herman Moore, Brett Perriman, Robert Clark at WR. they went to the conference Championship that year. In 1993 they went 10-6. In 1995 they went 10-6. However, I did love watching Barry Sanders as he could juke the cleats off defenders attempting to tackle him with nobody ever like him in that respect.

I sort of disagree as Thurman was great, Barry was great as were many others. But the guy I saw do more with less was Walter Payton as he had no line, no QB, no receivers and could do so much with so little talent around him until his last years.

I don't see the Eagles dominating the Buffalo offense like they did against the Chiefs. I mean in the 3rd quarter of that SB the Eagles were up 34-6...Philly then allowed some garbage yards so it didn't look as lopsided as it was ending in a 22-40 beatdown. However, the Buffalo defense was dealing with injuries while starting a rookie safety and the Chiefs torched Kaiir Elam so badly that the Bills ended up dumping him to Dallas. This game was at Arrowhead and was 29-32. A lot of Bills fans want to point at the TE for this loss and they shouldn't as it was mostly the Buffalo defense to blame. Last years Bills team led the NFL in turnover ratio all season with a +24 only to get only one turnover by the Chiefs. Buffalo had 4 fumbles and recovered all of them. When you look at what the Eagles were able to do on defense compared to what Buffalo did with 2 sacks, 7 QB hits vs unreal pressure on Mahomes all game long with 11 QB hits and 6 sacks. The refs in that Bills/KC game didn't help either by calling two different plays short...and one that looked like it was right on the line and yet the refs called it a full yard short. Tough to beat the Chiefs and the Refs. https://nypost.com/2025/01/27/sports/what-went-wrong-for-bills-on-controversial-play-that-changed-everything/ Buffalo starting cornerback Christian Benford suffered a concussion late in the first quarter and did not return. McDermott noted that losing Benford, who was in concussion protocol this week and cleared to play, affected the defense. Despite the defensive issues in the first half, the Bills stayed in the game. But it wasn't enough. The Buffalo Bills made a lot of good moves this offseason so lets hope it gets them to the SB this year! GO BILLS!

The ONLY NFL head coach with a better win record over the last five seasons has been KC HC Andy Reid. McD has done better than any NFC HC and IMO the biggest reason Reid have done so well is because he is an ...offensive genius...he has Mahomes as his QB. he currently has two ex NFL head coaches as his OC, DC. Reid has 26 years NFL experience as a head coach and his teams have been #1 in their division for 15 of those years and 6x as the #2 team. so, in 21 out of 26 seasons his teams have either been first or second in his teams division. " Sean Payton has the seventh-best career win percentage (.615) in the league. The only coaches above Payton are Jim Harbaugh (.688), Matt LaFleur (.656), Nick Sirianni (.643), Andy Reid (.639), Sean McDermott (.624) and Mike Tomlin (.621). https://broncoswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/broncos/2024/06/06/nfl-head-coaches-active-winning-percentage-rankings/79049540007/ In my view McD is the #2 HC.

I keep reading that QB Josh Allen is a big reason as to why this current team is so good and yet during the 2023 season the Buffalo Bills were 6-6 at one point with Ken Dorsey at OC until McD fired him and replaced him with Joe Brady. (With losses to the NY Jets, Jags, Pats, Bengals, Broncos, Eagles.) the Bills then went on to the playoffs. Josh Allen is great no question...alas, it is a team sport and McD has brought his process, culture into Buffalo and gotten to the playoffs with Tyrod Taylor at QB. The Kansas City Chiefs have mostly kept Buffalo from reaching a SB and Andy Reid has 26 seasons of being an NFL HC. Reid made it to the SB in his stint as the Eagles HC. 14 seasons. The Chiefs currently have an OC and DC that have previously been NFL head coaches in Nagy, Spagnola. Aside from all that in is my belief that injuries to the Buffalo Defense have kept Buffalo from the SB...along with the brain fart of Leslie Frazier calling a prevent defense in 2021 AFC Championship game.

McD is the #2 HC in wins over the last five seasons and only Andy Reid has more. Men like Mike Tomlin made their glory inheriting a QB in big Ben and the guy he replaced made it to the playoffs and SB with QBs like Kordell Stewart, Neil O'Donnell. Lions HC Dan Campbell has yet to even make it to a SB along with Browns HC Kevin Stefanski. https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/most-total-nfl-wins-last-5-years

Some RB dropping a pass in the endzone against Cleveland in an AFC playoff game with .09 seconds left in the 4th quarter. He then blamed the QB... OH BTW. Ronnie Harmon.

Just win Baby!

I'm hoping they pickup that press-man start and drop into zone like the Eagles did to the Chiefs. Get that down to perfection and opponents might have a more difficult time throwing on them. That should help with both coverage and pressure.

I look at things differently as I see this regime has the best HC and GM this franchise has ever seen considering the talent. Who were the super stars that McD inherited in 2017? Dion Dawkins was drafted in 2017 by McD and is the only player still with the team from that time. How many Hall of Fame players were on those late 80's early 90's Buffalo teams that went to four Super Bowls? QB Jim Kelly, RB Thurman Thomas, WR Andre Reed, WR James Lofton, DE Bruce Smith who still leads the NFL with sacks. How many were "all pro"- pro bowlers like 9 time pro bowler Steve Tasker, Henry Jones, Nate Odomes, Cornelius Bennett. Will Wolford, Jim Ritcher, Howard Ballard. Marv Levy and Bill Polian inherited so much talent and also had so much talent in their scouting staff. John Butler, Norm Pollom and AJ Smith all were amazing. Those 80s-90s Buffalo Bills teams kept Dan Marino out of the SB for a lot of years. They also kept the Chiefs with Joe Montana at QB out, kept John Elway out for awhile. What really stinks for Bills fans is that KC Chiefs team has been plain and simply the better team over the last five seasons. The only NFL team that has won more games in the entire NFL over Buffalo have been the Chiefs. If the Bills played in the NFC I think they would have made it to the SB a few times already. Now, finally this year should be much more difficult for the Chiefs to win their division with new HC Pete Carroll with the Raiders. Sean Payton with Bo Nix in Denver. Harbaugh with the Chargers as both the Chargers, Broncos were in the playoffs last year. I'm just hoping that the new wife doesn't wear out our resident alien unicorn for the season.

The thing is that this team hadn't had a great score in the WR area of the draft or free agency. Beane went and got Kelvin Benjamin and everyone thought he might be that kid who the Panthers drafted in 2014, that 1000 yard WR. Instead they got a bum who didn't care about his craft. This isn't all on Beane because he has his scouts/trainers input too and they let him down. Diggs was a no brainer in the 2019 offseason as Minnesota was moving towards running the ball more and he wanted out! Buffalo gave up their #1 in 2020 and things worked out. Beane got a #2 in trade to remove that cancer from the team and that was brilliant. Looks to me like the 2024 Buffalo Bills did alright without that #1 WR ball hog being the top scoring team in the league.

Will Pats fans remember the... you, you and you go eff yourselves?

Terry was the hockey fan and Kim was the Bills fan...thank the lord that wasn't reversed. Thinking of Tom Golisano, who just retired from Paychex as Terry ought to call him to ask for some insight on how to fix the Sabres.

Agree! My take is he just didn't play with instinct and over thought everything. McD runs one of the more complex secondaries and the kid just couldn't get things right between his ears. We will see how things go in cowboy land.

The NFL had to do it as the current Buffalo Bills are arguably "Americas team" as most NFL fans like/love this team. Heck the QB is dating and will marry a movie star. What the NFL wants is to promote the league and what better way to do just that with a team that most are interested in. To those that don't know much about the Buffalo Bills this might show the world what most Bills fans already know. The Brotherhood, the process, the culture, the love! Be good, do good, god Bless and go Bills!