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I think he gets one by the end if one of three things happen: 1. He takes a big step up in his mental game and passing technique that turns open players into automatic plays like a Brady or Mahomes (least likely) 2. He gets an easy/flukey path to a championship where the top teams like KC/SF whoever else is strong in a given year get upset before they get to us or suffer QB injuries. (most likely) 3. We build a monster team around him that asks him to only make a couple big plays instead of all the plays - similar to what Denver did with Both Elway and Manning (very possible, but not any time soon). He's gotta stay healthy, and if he wants the best possible shot, he needs to play smarter than he does. I don't see the latter as being likely at all as he's a gunslinger at his core. I don't see him becoming a Peyton Manning film-rat or a Tom Brady football lifestyle guy. I think he's gonna try to win on his arms and legs on Sunday and as long as there are other elite teams in the league, it'll be a sad ending for us in the playoffs unless we can get really lucky. I do think we get lucky at least once though, and if we are able to do something silly like draft multiple all-pros on rookie deals, maybe we get a couple.

Top 8-13 Yards, touchdowns, receptions, first downs - everything that matters.

I would love to get Belichick, but it's not happening. Henry is completely washed. I would have traded a late round pick for him to take Murray's role, but his day as a feared #1 are over. Go all-in and get Tee Higgins and Josh Jacobs. Use your draft picks to bolster secondary, LB and WR depth. ------------- However, what they will do is keep everyone under contract (including McDermott), resign Ty Johnson to an overpaid deal, draft a CB/DE in round one, get the 10th best WR of the draft in round 2-4, and run it back. You'll have Diggs-Shakir-Harty as your top 3 with Shorter and some rookies competing for 4+.

Awesome. nothing beats a great primetime matchup.

I want McDermott gone as much as the next guy, but this take is lame. You have to have an "excuse" why you don't win, or else you would have won. 31 teams have an "excuse" every single year. Some of us call it a "reason", but I'm guessing that distinction doesn't matter much.

I posted this in another thread, but you guys know he was still near the top of the league in everything this year, despite having a poor year by his standards, right? He could easily have 2-3 more Top 5-7 years in him with the right gameplan

exactly. This version of the Bills was probably the worst one we've put out there since 2019. There was no chance they were beating the best teams in the league. They just didn't have the horses this year and the offense never looked strong.

This.

Huh? Dude had a massive year despite routinely getting benched for Von Miller and is likely about to make stupid money.

CB or DE - bank on it.

Why do you think the Bills should have won? The strategy seemed pretty sound given our injuries and the opponent to make the game as short as possible. We went into the half with the lead and with less than two minutes on the clock we had a chance to go up 4 and the players didn't execute. I never wanted McDermott hired int he first place and will be glad to see him canned, but what exactly did you want him to do that he didn't do yesterday? Our team was outclassed in every phase and still had a chance to win. I give him credit for that.

lmao

Pretty sure the Pats were on the hook for Aaron Hernandez's cap. Don't see it happening.

hes a disappointment, but far from a bust. unless he takes a step, hes probably a backup quality player during his next contract imo

I do. Expecting a Super Bowl after the way we played this year was lunacy. We struggled against everyone after October and very few players stood out as having a great year.

umm, you know Von has a massive dead cap hit right? We can't get rid of him until after next year.

impossible to keep AJ Epenesa and unlikely to return Floyd.

Mahomes doesn't tyically struggle against merely good defenses. He has too many ways to deal with them and no small part of that is having Travis Kelce. You would need to throw things at him he's never seen and overwhelm his targets in a way no one has ever done to stop him. Maybe the ravens or 49ers can do it, but I wouldn't bet money on it. I acknowledge that our defense was pretty bad today. Douglas really shouldn't have been starting as it was obvious his injury was holding him back despite being in pretty decent position most of the day, and being stuck with Klein at LB #1 was a liability. Most disappointing however was our completely healthy and exorbitantly expensive D-line that was invisible all game. We certainly got bit hard by injuries, but that group was who we needed to show up and they didn't.

In my mind, our best shot will be when Andy Reid retires. As long as he's there, the offense will continue to be an unstoppable machine. Allen played a great game that would have been good enough to beat most teams today, but Mahomes was flawless and their offense was unstoppable. If today didn't put to bed the ridiculous notion around here that Mahomes is in anyway inferior to Josh, than nothing will. I say that to take nothing away from the incredible and elite talent that Allen is, but only to say that your strategy simply can't be to have Allen go out there and outperform Mahomes in the playoffs, because it will never happen. We scored methodically today, but KC scored at will. We're going to need an historically good defense and an offensive scheme to rival theirs. The former may never happen, and I can't see the latter happening as long as Andy Reid is coaching and our personnel talent pool is limited exclusively to people who have worked in North Carolina.

If Bass makes the kick, you're giving Mahomes the balls with 1:45 seconds and pretending that you're going to stop him when you've done so once all game. We lost on 3rd down, not 4th.

If there was ever a time for Dorian Williams to break out, today is that day.

there's no chance any of them are at 100%. they all got wrecked with knees and ankles. You don't just come back from that ina week or two while trying to practice. We just have to hope they aren't liabilities and dont re-injure themselves.

Lol. Even if true, "The board" is where all the work is. McDermott was hired 3 months before the draft as a first time head coach. He had no idea who Dion Dawkins was until he saw Whaley's board.

Fixed.

I think whoever has the ball last wins.