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Christian Watson is the answer here IMO. That isn't hindsight either, he had plenty of fans on here that wanted him in the 1st round. It remains to be seen if he can consistently stay healthy but the talent pops off the screen.

Yeah that is the obvious "should have" move that may have sunk our season. The more you think about it the more frustrating it is. His contract was not so restrictive that we couldn't have pried him away from the Titans. Let go of Hines, Poyer, Harty, Settle, and be willing to kick the can down the road a bit further. That's all it would have taken. And his skill set is so perfect for Allen's play style and as a complement to Diggs. Just a no brainer signing that Beane inexplicably didn't make... I like Beane overall but coming into the season with Davis still as the #2, when an immediate substantial improvement was available and willing to come here, is probably a fireable offense.

It really is annoying. There are so many bad personnel decisions that you could point to, many of which combine to become a bad trend. But a lot of fans choose to focus on a single bad pick where the lost opportunity cost was just a center? The Chiefs themselves had an unquestionably worse and less forgivable pick taking CEH in the 1st round over Tee Higgins. One awful pick didn't stop them from winning a Super Bowl. Overall I don't have a lot of complaints about Beane's drafting. He has found as many starting caliber players in the draft as any other GM in the league. My issue with him is he has consistently failed to even try and surround his franchise QB with an above average supporting cast. That speaks more to his poor work in free agency than in the draft IMO.

Yeah, that screen was brought to you by one of McDermott's patented final drive stupid blitzes. The same concept lost us close games against the Broncos and the Eagles too. Taking into context the talent of the defense and the talent of the opposing offense, our loss to the Pats was the worst Bills defensive performance of the millennium. Don't try and excuse away that coaching abomination.

Man we are a 6-6 team. I appreciate the optimism but it's too late in the season for the team to fix its myriad of problems. Dorsey WAS a big problem and I'm happy to see him gone but the other issues are not fixable at this point in the season. Just going off of pure math, it's incredibly unlikely we'll run the table. Here's how I see the odds of us winning each remaining game (you can bicker on the individual percentages, but I think most will find this fairly accurate): Chiefs 50% Cowboys 40% Chargers 70% Patriots 95% Dolphins 50% Statistically that means we are 6.65% likely to run the table... Even 4 wins against only our AFC opponents is just 16.625% likely. I'll keep the hope alive until they're mathematically eliminated but realistically this is not our year.

No. It's because Josh is not replaceable. He's our QB for the next decade. If his poor play single handedly loses us just one game a year that is a really really good outcome. McDermott on the other hand is easily replaceable. And he was the biggest reason for several of our losses this year. Trying to blame Josh for this disappointing season isn't problem solving, it's just whining. He totally sucked in that Jets game, it happens. I don't just whine about McDermott for fun. I want him replaced.

Nothing about Mac Jones can be described as salacious.

I 100% agree that Brady is a revelation and we would probably be coasting into the playoffs if Dorsey was fired after the Giants game. BUT even with our offense performing very well against the Eagles, and Allen having one of the best performances of his career, that still wasn't enough for our head coach and our talent to beat a true championship contender. We even caught them napping in the 1st half so the circumstances in that game were about as favorable as possible for us, and that still wasn't enough. So have we just accepted that under this regime the best we can do is lose a close game to a championship contender? We now have the great OC (at least based on early returns). If that doesn't get us over the hump, changes have to come elsewhere.

This is bad for our playoff chances at 10-7 IMO. Unless the Jaguars lose 4 of their 5 remaining games they're ahead of us in that scenario. They have a game against the Browns this weekend and we really need the Browns to get 3 more losses.

The Bengals backup QB beating the Jaguars, in a result that further hurts our playoff chances, pushed me over the edge. I hate that the Bills are likely to miss the playoffs but one silver lining would have been McDermott getting fired as a result. Without that, what is the point of this season? The most disappointing season of the millennium, with the Bills likely missing a shot to participate in the most wide open AFC playoffs maybe ever, and we're just gonna run it back with the same guy in charge next year? It's just hard to feel any glimmer of hope in that scenario.

Great news @DrDawkinstein. Based on tonight's result, we may not have to worry about the Bengals picking ahead of us.

Kind of gutless to not let Browning have a chance with the ball in his hands. He's played lights out in an impossible situation, and you just leave it up to your middling kicker. Of course the middling kicker made it as I typed this because every team other than the Bills can just have everything go right for them.

Fun fact: my fantasy opponent has Josh Allen as his QB so he started Jake Browning in relief.

Sure the 49ers model can work, just also have two elite WRs, an elite TE, an elite RB, an elite OL with the best LT in football, and the best play caller in football.

For real? The freaking Jake Browning led Bengals are going to hang around in the playoff conversation?

I'm good on DT and CB in the 1st round. But edge rusher is certainly a big need. It's the 3rd most important position on the team and we have just one above average player - Rousseau - on the 2024 roster. Arguably that makes it an even bigger need than WR. Re-signing Floyd is a no brainer but other than that we have a massive hole at that position heading into next year.

Mahomes still has the better OL, the better RB1, the better play caller, the better defense supporting him, the better FG kicker turning his successful drives into points. His pass catching weapons are also not that much worse than what the Bills are putting on the field this year. As I've said before MVS=Davis and Juston Watson=Shakir. On the whole the supporting cast that Mahomes has from top to bottom, coaching staff to roster, is MUCH better than what Allen has had to deal with. The longer the season goes on, the more confident I feel saying if you put Mahomes on our team this year we would have the exact same record.

We've all seen Mahomes fake going out of bounds and then continue upfield... so what is a defender supposed to do?

I do find it interesting that coaches always go for 2 when down by 2 early in the game. I mean I get it, but you never know how the game is going to go from there.

It's gotta be tough being a QB with very little talent around you. You feel like to have put the team on your back and that requires a willingness to make risky throws which will inevitably lead to turnovers. This is the first game in a while where Mahomes' defense didn't win the game for him so he had to keep pushing the envelope... eventually there are going to be mistakes.

Watson looks like a superstar at times, he just can't consistently stay healthy.

Yeah even their defense isn't especially talented IMO. Only one true difference maker in Chris Jones. Elite coaching has had them punching above their weight class.

That was the most 2023 Bills drive I've seen yet. Chiefs offense finally puts a good drive together for a TD. The defense then immediately looks like soft butter before losing a player to a gruesome looking injury. Then the opposing offense has two improbable completions to put them up by two scores again.

Rushing 3 wasn't the problem. The player who had underneath leverage on Kelce got undisciplined ans creeped way up which created that hole.