Richard Noggin

100% agree. Gotta draft WR1. The value and need line up perfectly. Need to beef up the pipeline and the depth chart big time.

Team cream cheese here. I like Brady as full-time OC (at minimum). Leaves room to promote him to Assistant Head Coach after next year to squeeze out one more year before he moves on (in best case scenario). Not sure if there is precedent for AHCs on BOTH sides of the ball (if I'm remembering correctly that Washington already got promoted into the AHC void after Frazier's departure)?

Funny how children of OTHER rich people's kids are automatically accepted as qualified to run NFL franchises, but for some reason you are so skeptical of Pegula's children. Also, with respect to the hints of chauvinism in your posts @HIT BY SPIKES, how has Terry's passion project/hockey org done after 10+ years? compared to Kim's Bills (air quotes) after less time?

Was hoping this was a poll. Hypothetically, the Bills should be good enough to go on a late-season run. They've done it before, and coincidently, immediately following an overtime loss in which they were very competitive against a strong NFC team. But this year feels a little different innit? The team has NOT shown any capacity for consistent winning football. Those injuries in London still loom large. And with McDerp not giving them late-half and OT advantages, I just don't see some kind of 5-game run in the works.

Some posters reacting emotionally and irrationally to this developing story with only crumbs to go on. Of course domestic violence against a pregnant partner would be absolutely heinous. But maybe none of us knows $#!& about what really happened, or what happens next.

Ricardo Cranium is my cousin.

Couldn't even finish the fairly short lowlights video. He was such a "looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane" player in years 2-4. And that's with sincere apologies to players named Jane (and women in general). He had some flashes early, and a few physical plays in his fifth season...but what a waste of a specimen overall. Inexcusable the way he saw blockers as a genuine problem. Like he intentionally stopped his momentum to engage with them. Consistently stood up and pushed back. So bizarre when much smaller guys like Milano and now Bernard can look beyond the blockers and continue to attack the play, going right through obstacles at times. It's more about what's between the ears.

Says guy on couch.

I noticed several "business decisions" made by this 2nd year player who has apparently already been crowned as an all-pro.

You include Siran Neal lol And zero o-linemen or DTs With no mention of very real cap constraints that will REQUIRE cuts and restructures just to be able to play ball.

There is a lurking downside to the Bills OC job that counters your bolded claim (that this OC job is as appealing as it's ever been): the Head Coach.

Your use of the word "know" is fascinating.

Paywall for anyone else? This post IS a good test of who actually reads an article/post before replying.

I wonder about (but am reluctant to concretely entertain) the notion that NFL teams should seek to spread their caps more evenly throughout the entirety of the 53-man roster. Injuries are so widespread and impactful. I wonder if there is wisdom to building a deeper depth chart that isn't so traditionally top-heavy, cap-wise. Probably still want to have an elite QB, offensive target, and defender who affects the QB, but it feels like injuries are highlighting the need for more depth. And also, for sure, coaching. Systems and execution of said systems.

I hate exposure to opposing fans in a competitive environment, generally. But this is an elite reply. Good on ya.

For the first time in my life (I'm 45, third year with seasons), I had to be guilted into attending tomorrow. Partially because there will be a lot of Jersey fans in attendance, and they're the worst. If the Bills are self-destructing, I struggle to tolerate opposing fan belligerence. But also because McDermott's Bills, especially since halftime against Green Bay last season, have been a blundering, joyless outfit, beset on all sides by real-world tragedies and inequities and from within by inconsistencies and dysfunction. 2022 was the least satisfying 13-4 season ever. Then 2023 asked us to hold its beer. (Crazy how much the timing of the schism actually points a salacious, circumstantial finger at Josh Allen himself. I have begun to focus my ire at McDermott, however. He and his staff have choked away too many winnable games over the past four years. It's blatantly unacceptable.)

Wish this was satire.

I remember it differently. They had a Super Bowl-winning offense in the playoffs (and even so, against the Chiefs, had a signature 3rd quarter stagnation when they suddenly started running the ball unimaginatively, and ineffectively, for two straight drives -- who does that sound like?). Those two games , however, really effed with offensive expectations moving forward, and seemingly revised the real history of that 2021 regular season offense. The Bills offense was NOT "absolutely unbelievable for most of that year." You don't have any non-circumstantial/conjectured evidence for any of what you've typed above. Diggs himself has directly, and I'd argue, convincingly, addressed this narrative on several occasions, including as recently as this week. If anything, Diggs' issues are understandably with coaching. Remember "Don't listen to him!"? (Also, I'm just not super concerned about social media s#!tposting from a noisy and bored guy who has publicly wanted his big brother as a teammate for a while now.) I'm with you here, for sure. McDermott is the consistent fixture through all these insane collapses. And he seems to operate with impunity. (One could convincingly argue that recent blunders wouldn't have been possible if the offense had only "held serve" or played up to a modicum of its potential, but that in no way absolves the head coach of his (and his staff's) situational choke jobs.)

Care to share your main takeaways from this vid? Would love to know the gist.

You can see how all the evidence you're presenting actually suggests Pittsburgh will regress to the mean, right? That they've been incredibly fortunate so far in 2023, and that's unlikely to continue? (I guess Minnesota last season was this way for the entire REGULAR SEASON, winning close games despite being outplayed. But it's not the likely outcome.)

Is anyone talking about the new WR coach? (Who IS the new WR coach lol.) Davis has ALWAYS had issues being consistently on the same page as Allen in this option-heavy concept passing attack. But I'd argue this known layer of complexity and variability (so much evidence of guys declaring this the most complicated and difficult to learn passing playbook...plus the much maligned inability or unwillingness to assimilate new guys more rapidly into the offense) is a major cause of the rest of the receivers in 2023 having issues, too: ending up in each other's space, not adjusting to coverages the way their QB expects them to, etc. And maybe this is a bigger issue in 2023 because the new WR position coach isn't having success teaching these demanding concepts to his guys? Just a thought.

They're not marrying the run and the pass, schematically AND sequentially. Do they ever throw when Gabe Davis reduces down pre-snap inside the TE or OT? I know they did have some success throwing on 1st down play-action earlier in the season (after so many ineffective 1st down runs), but has that disappeared? It's about sequencing, getting the defense off-balance, and leveraging advantages where you find them.

Didn't he only blitz on like 5-8 plays total on MNF? Bernard got some pressure on one for sure. The first zero-blitz at the end was perfect. It was that second consecutive, telegraphed zero-blitz that was inexcusable.

Why would Fitz EVER consider coaching in the NFL? As the maxim goes: "Playing is a job. Coaching is a lifestyle." Rich former players who transition into media careers have no need for the insane grind of coaching. If they wanted to coach, they'd coach. But they can make a lot of money working only part-time, part of the year, having fun and increasing their marketability.

Didn't vote, as the logistics of what's being traded aren't crystal clear. If I vote yes, am I saying Buffalo swaps its entire org out with Houston's, essentially brining that whole operation to WNY to replace ours? If that's the case, which I think you intended, then I'd have to seriously consider it. Mostly due to coaching and cap realities for the next 4 years. DeMeco Ryans is pretty awesome. And seeing this kind of production out of a blue chip rookie QB means the org can go ALL IN everywhere else on its roster for the next two seasons, at least, to win it all before the QB gobbles up 20-25% of the cap. It's an enviable position to be in. I have finally cracked on McDermott. His situational coaching is dreadful, especially at the end of close games. His public messaging is flat and insincere. I don't believe the players respect him. (I DO think he is a pretty solid DC, though, minus that 2nd consecutive zero-blitz last week. That was embarrassingly obvious and easy to adjust to.) And our cap situation seems so much tighter than it should be moving forward.