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Man that's a pretty tough sell given who he's hired. In your mind the pool of "best possible coordinators" happened to be the resident Bills QB coaches from 2019-2023? Yes this is one of the known downsides of having a defensive minded coach as your HC. You can't say "I'd trade Brady for McDaniels but not McDermott for Vrabel." Putting aside the head coach comparison which I just fundamentally disagree with you on, you either get both or you get neither. You can't have McDermott and also McDaniels. FWIW I think that may finally change next year if McDermott is still here. He will be forced to leave his comfort zone, by Pegula if not by his own self-awareness. I expect Mike McDaniel or Kevin Stefanski to be our next OC because we've reached a tipping point in Allen's career.

What if I told you that McDermott is the reason we don't have a Josh McDaniels caliber OC?

So have we though. Practically the entire AFC has a cupcake schedule... It's just a very weak conference. There's no reason we shouldn't be 10-2 at worst right now and in the driver's seat for the #1 seed. That's despite some pretty stark talent deficiencies at several positions on the roster. The reality is that every team in the conference has major deficiencies somewhere, the Pats included.

If the Bills had Vrabel and McDaniels we'd be Super Bowl favorites... That's my point. Of course Maye wouldn't be doing here what he's doing in New England. But I 100% believe if we had their coaching staff and no other changes, we'd be the ones with the 11-2 record right now. They are just a really well coached fundamentally sound team. That plus a QB who is playing great and just about any team in the NFL is talented enough to be where they are right now.

It does not have the look of a championship roster. Then again none of the AFC teams do, so who knows. Usually a championship roster has a difference maker on the DL and a difference maker in the WR room. I don't think New England has either of those. It's a good WR room. It's a good OL (when healthy). Excellent CBs but that's their only position group I would put in the upper echelon of the NFL. The rest of their roster I would put in an average or lower tier. Maye's play and elite level coaching is why they've ripped off 10 wins in a row. With that win streak Vrabel did in year one what McDermott hasn't done in his entire tenure. It is not a 10 win in a row type of roster, I'm confident saying we've had multiple better rosters than that since 2020. The coaching is the biggest difference from last year to this year.

Stroud's rookie year is the only one of those that is remotely comparable to Maye this year, and there were a lot of analytics that showed Stroud was getting away with a good amount of turnover luck and that sort of thing. I don't know what to tell people that are still trying to dismiss what Maye has done this year. He and Vrabel/McDaniels are going to be a problem for the next decade. The scary thing is they have a ton of cap space next year so what we're seeing this season is the floor. Don't be surprised if they add AJ Brown or a similar talent. They are probably overachieving this year relative to their talent, but that's what great coaching gets you and the talent is only going to get better.

He's been great. His downfield throws in particular have excellent. I expect his GM to slowly remove all of his WRs, surround with him physically limited cast offs, and ask him to be a game manager in a boring run heavy offense. Maybe if Josh McDaniels gets a head coaching job they can just hire whatever offensive coach who happens to already be in the building to be his replacement.

We tried him on two slants against Pittsburgh. One clean drop, one poor route that led to a drop on a tougher than needed to be catch. Allen has thrown 2 INTs in his direction downfield this year. Shakir has had a few opportunities to make routine sideline catches and couldn't finish. I don't know why so many Bills fans still think that we under utilize him. He isn't a traditional slot WR that you can feed normal targets to. Every time we've tried to give him a bigger role it's turned out poorly.

Giants are permanently living in 2nd and 9 because they refuse to give up on these hopeless 1st down runs

I think Bosa might have to spend the rest of his career on 1 year deals like Clowney. Teams aren't going to trust him to stay healthy enough to warrant anything more than that. Within that context yeah I'd bring him back on a 1 year deal since he costs $7.2M against the cap even if we don't bring him back. But if we bring him back we have to give him less snaps and save him for critical pass rush situations.

The official NFL Twitter account still hasn't posted a replay of that fumble, which tells you everything you need to know. I'm shocked they didn't call a penalty there. Even if it wasn't intentional they are always calling that.

His 2nd foot was down first

Wow that is not an easy catch. Nice play from the rookie

Theo Johnson isn't an NFL player, they can stop trying to make him one any day now.

I don't know if anybody mentioned this yet but Vrabel didn't make that trade, Jon Robinson did. Just wanted to make sure someone mentioned it.