Jrb1979

After reading that I'm starting to understand why you and others are reluctant to change much in regards to regime and team building. A Super Bowl win would be nice but having a winning team each season is better. I'm not saying you don't want a Super Bowl win. If you had your choice you would take a playoff team each season over a team that wins a Super Bowl but then goes back to a middle of the pack team. Basically back to the drought era

Reading through a bunch of these threads I feel the reason for the big difference of opinion is how you view the team. I'm on the side, that yes they have been very good to almost great every season. They are missing that blue chip talent to get them over the hump on both sides of the ball. IMO they need that dominant pass catcher regardless if its a WR or TE. They need a dominant Dline man, and either a true shutdown corner or an elite LB that makes plays. IMO they need to get at least 3-4 of those to win. I'm off the belief that they should go all in to either move up in the draft or trade picks to get that. Where many differ is there is no guarantee that works and that one of these seasons the Bills will make that play or get the call and get to the Super Bowl.

I'm not saying they are going to be bad players. I said they will most likely be very good players. McDermott is a very good coach for developing players. What I am saying is while they may end up really good like Milano and company, I don't see them getting to the level of an AL Brown, Myles Garrett of the world.

IMO the bolded is where the difference of opinion is. Many believe that while they need more high end talent, that making a play here or there will change the outcome. IMO teams that win, win cause high end talent make those plays.

Not really. These guys will most likely be good players for the Bills. Already you can say they won't be elite playmakers that this team desperately needs.

Not quite the extreme is Diggs but in the mold. You do find guys that make an impact day one that low in the draft. Look at Brian Thomas Jr.

That's where I disagree on the first and second round picks. Yes they need to hit on them better, but that's where the culture part comes in. If you have 2 players available to draft, one being elite and will have an impact day 1 but has an attitude. They 2nd player has a high ceiling and will come to work hard everyday and is a team player. They will almost always take that 2nd option as it fits the culture they have built. IMO they should always be taking the better player regardless of ego or attitude.

My answer is it depends on if their philosophy has changed in terms of drafting and signing players. If they continue with the mantra of culture and scheme fit and still don't win in 4 years then I move on. Now if they start taking BPA in the draft and look at talent first and worry about culture second. They don't win I keep giving them a chance. A good example would be, if there is 2 WRs in the draft that the Bills can draft. One is a blue chip can't miss elite but has a bit ego, and the other has a high ceiling, a good team player, they take the high ceiling, IMO it's time to move on. For me I'm take the can't miss guy 10 out of 10 times regardless of ego

I'm of the opinion it's due to both. Yea they needed a game wrecker on defense to win but they also need elite talent on offense too.

Yeah they lost by 3 and the offense was clicking for the majority of the game. It was working til when they needed a big play at the end of the game for a first down. That is when you need a Chase type to make a play. Look at the Eagles, when they needed that big play they went to Barkley or Brown. It also takes playmakers on both sides of the ball to win. The Eagles had that. They had a dominant Dline but also elite talent on offense too.

I'm not against fixing the Dline and getting an elite talent but you need playmakers on both sides of the ball to win the Superbowl.

That's fair. I don't think you should spend every thing on an elite one but I also don't believe that just cause they had the number 1 offense last year it is good enough. My take is that as good as the offense was with the everyone eats thinking does work til it doesn't. I'm off the belief that had they had an elite pass catcher, a TE or WR they make the Superbowl this past season.

You do need a number 1 pass catcher. Almost every team that has won a Super Bowl either had a number 1 WR or a number 1 TE.

It's not a problem for winning in the regular season and it worked for most the playoffs. When you need a big play like they did at the end of the AFC championship game, everyone eats fails more than it succeeds.

The thing that many overlook and it was in the article I linked. Teams that didn't have a true number 1 WR had a dominant TE instead. Either way teams that won had either a TE or WR that was the go to guy