ComradeKayAdams

100% agree. At bare minimum, the Bills need to improve on the following: 1. Upgrade from Gore as the between-the-tackles power RB. 2. Replacement of Alexander at Sam LB. 3. Genuine #1 WR (the "X" WR) with a large catch radius. 4. A young or relatively young DE who can at least share reps with Hughes but eventually replace him. 5. One more good OL (RT or RG, depending on Ford's situation). Incremental improvements on offense will not suffice. The Bills need to go from the #24 offense to somewhere within the top 10 if they want to overtake the Chiefs and Ravens. Josh Allen doesn't need to be as good as Mahomes or Jackson, but he needs to be solidly above average and he needs help in the form of at least one significant upgrade at RB, WR/TE, and OL...as outlined above. I also noticed that Sean McDermott is already among the 15 longest-tenured head coaches in the NFL. 6 of them have already won a Super Bowl, all within the first 5 years of coaching. An additional 2 at least have made it to the Super Bowl. An additional 4 are currently alive in the second round of the playoffs. Finally, the 2 remaining (ironically both former Bills head coaches: Marrone and Lynn) have already won playoff games before but are both likely to be fired next year. So my point is that another one and done playoff appearance should not be acceptable. Neither should be getting swept by the Patriots again when all of the other 4 AFC playoff teams have shown this season that they are capable of beating them. Bills fans need to shake off the legacy of failure from the Drought Era and raise their expectations!

Same. This game gave me menopause.

I have that exact same outfit. But different size, of course.

Oh my...I had a 2-minute drill joke, but it would belie my reputation, so I will remain silent. Watt and Fuller make the Texans a clear favorite on paper, but there are also many ways to neutralize the impact of a single good DE and 2 good WR threats. 95% of the game will be spent talking about how courageous and heroic Watt and Fuller are, so that will be a bummer.

The AFC East denizens are hiring Bills Drought Era head coaches and becoming more competitive. The Jets hired Gregg Williams as DC. The Dolphins just hired Gailey as OC. Your Pats need to immediately fire Belichick, make Rex Ryan head coach, add Jauron as DC, and add Mularkey as OC.

Gailey designed a creative spread offense to maximize the limited talent he had at the moment. Daboll appears to be laying the foundation of a complex Erhardt-Perkins system that will benefit Allen in the long-term, though currently without all the requisite pieces surrounding the QB. Gailey had a 6th/7th/8th year pro with Fitzpatrick. Daboll is still teaching Allen some QB fundamentals that he never learned in high school and college. So two very different situations! This probably reads as if I'm a Daboll apologist. I'm really not, though. I will call for his firing if next season's offense isn't at least comfortably within the top half of the league.

It also seems like Beane looks ahead and takes advantage of the strengths of each particular draft class. 2018 was hyped as an amazing year for QB. Beane selects Allen in the first round. 2019 was hyped as an amazing year for DL. Beane selects Oliver in the first round. Now 2020 is being hyped as an amazing year for WR, with as many as 8 being reported with obvious first round grades. And what a coincidence, but the Bills currently have a big need for a #1 WR! You say that scouting WR's is tough, but is it any tougher than scouting QB's? Beane trusts his scouts. Beane trusts the process. I implore you to trust the process as well. You trust the process, don't you?! If not the process, trust Kay. When it comes to draft predictions, the right way is via Kay. Give Kay the final say! A WR on the first draft day!

This is super entertaining! If I launched my own spin-off show called "Good Morning Baker Mayfield," or GMBM, and focused exclusively on his career meltdown, would y'all turn in? The show's acronym, GMBM, would work on multiple levels. I welcome your feedback.

The Browns are regressing toward Chuck Lester in 2022.

Conklin, RT, Titans Clowney, LDE, Seahawks Klein, SOLB, Saints I'm going to add a 4th free agent just because I'm in love with RB Derrick Henry (Titans), and y'all will too once he tears up the Patriots Saturday night. A 6'3" 240 lb between-the-tackles RB who just won the NFL rushing title? Yes, please ? For those of you adding expensive WR's, remember that the 2020 draft is supposed to be a historically great year for that position! And for those of you adding DE's and OLB's on your free agent wish list, remember that the Bills are only going to choose players who fit their particular 4-3 system!

Pete Carroll needs to have a meeting with The Bobs.

No, you don't want to do that, because then it guarantees that Josh Allen suffers a serious injury next season.

They will regret it when half of their stadium is overtaken with Bills fans.

Was it reasonable to expect that much more from Allen in his second year? Were you expecting Mahomes/Watson/Jackson production from him? Josh entered the league as one of the most raw 1st round QB prospects in a long time. Many other coaches would have sat Josh Allen for an entire year (or even two...Brady sat for 1, Rodgers sat for 3, Brees took 5 years to figure things out, etc...). You wanted McDermott and Daboll to unleash Allen and not force him to be a game manager. But do you remember the first Pats game in September, for example, when Josh was allowed to just be Josh and throw the ball around? Maybe the game manager role is exactly what Allen needs in his second year? He left college with major question marks on his decision-making. Maybe he needs to spend some time learning what he can and can't get away with in the NFL and learning how the best decision is sometimes just taking what the defense is giving. You call me gullible and accepting of whatever McDermott/Daboll/Beane tells me. Fine. Not true, actually (just like you, I expect a top-10 or so offense next fall or else there are reasons for concern), but fine. I think you're an impatient, irrational, and also very strange person for seemingly caring more about statistical metrics like 300 yards passing than your favorite team putting together a series of wins that we haven't seen from them since 1999.

What's crazy is that there is a small but real possibility that the #3 Texans play the #6 Titans for the third time in four weeks. That situation would require the Texans beating the same team three times in four weeks, which is a difficult task for any NFL team to do to another.

I don't think the Buffalo Bills fan base is the problem. I think your complete lack of patience is the problem. The offense was always expected to be the focus this coming off-season. The team has $90 million in cap space and 9 picks. I'm pretty sure that the 24th rated offense and the 30th rated passing game wasn't the end goal to Coach McDermott's "process." You haven't been happy with the overly conservative play calling on offense. No one has, really. But there are also real limitations to what these coaches can do, given the current personnel on offense. You have to factor that into the play calling problems first before demanding various coaches be fired. You wanted the offense to be built first before the defense. McDermott disagreed and decided to support his young QB with a strong defense and a good running game first. It is what it is. In the meantime, why not enjoy the playoff run for a bit and push your offense anxieties into February? If you genuinely can't see yourself enjoying consistent Bills winning at low scores, maybe you should consider following other teams. Maybe teams that play in domes or in good weather? Or try your luck with the NBA? That's a league with a lot of scoring and negligible defense. You are correct to an extent, in that the Buffalo Bills have a very long history of prioritizing a strong defense and a solid running game over a dynamic/innovative passing offense, and the fan base is much more accepting of this style of play than other fan bases. Some say it's because of the weather in Buffalo. Others say it's because that's all Bills fan have ever known, minus the K-gun years, the first half of 2002, and maybe also the Fitzmagic years. Others (like me) argue that Bills fans are among the most knowledgeable in the NFL, and they know their history. They saw Saban's traditional-minded teams dismantle Gillman's innovative passing teams twice on the big stage. They saw smaller finesse Bills teams dominated by smashmouth NFC East dynasties for 4 straight Super Bowls. Bills fans seem to be aware that - regardless of the rule changes over the years in an effort to make the sport more like flag football and seemingly more palatable to a larger audience - the fundamental principles of football remain the same: control the line of scrimmage, control the clock, have a favorable turnover differential, and just generally have your 'roided out guys out-'roid out the opposing team's 'roided out guys. The combo of strong defense + strong running game will always have value in the sport of American football, so long as football remains football. One last comment: Josh Allen is less than 100 yards away from having the 11th highest season passing yards in franchise history. Brown and Beasley are likely going to both finish top-15 or so in franchise history for season receptions. Brown will likely finish top-10 in franchise history for season receiving yards. This is very noteworthy, considering that Allen is only in his second year in a bad offense and neither Brown nor Beasley are true #1 WR's. Conclusion: the Bills, under Daboll, are in fact entering the modern era of NFL passing. We're seeing the early signs of it.

Ralph Wilson wanted Wade Phillips to fire his special team coach, Ronnie Jones, because the 2000 Bills had one of the worst special teams units in NFL history. Wade refused, partly out of loyalty, and maybe partly out of getting tired of Ralph meddling as an owner (Ralph had also forced Wade to start Rob Johnson instead of Doug Flutie for the Music CIty Miracle playoff game in 1999). Ralph didn't like this, so he fired Wade. In retrospect, Wade Phillips was probably doomed anyway beyond 2000. The team had no franchise QB in sight, no OL, a gigantic salary cap crisis about to explode in 2001, and of course the impending rise of the Brady/Belichick nightmare in 2001. Wade Phillips himself has admitted that he never had the personality to be a quality NFL head coach (as opposed to a coordinator). I think 1999 was always meant to be the franchise's last serious attempt at a Super Bowl for a while, and they BLEW IT.

I just looked this up: there are only 7 players on offense that returned from 2018: 2 starters (Allen, Dawkins) and 5 role players/backups (Barkley, DiMarco, McKenzie, Foster, Boettger). That's remarkable. This was essentially an entirely new offense for Daboll. You have to expect growing pains from that alone. I vote for sticking with Daboll (and I'm highly certain this is what's going to happen anyway), but the team badly needs a tall X receiver and a power north-south RB before even entertaining notions of being a top-10 offense.

Many thanks to Wade Phillips, one of the best DC's ever and the biggest reason for the Bills staying as competitive as they were from 1995-2000. As an amateur Buffalo Bills historian, I look at 1994 as a watershed season for the franchise because it marked the end of a team whose identity was its dominating offense and the beginning of a team whose identity was its strong defense. If you were to magically insert Wade's 1999 defense in place of Walt Corey's defenses of the early 90's, the Bills win all 4 Super Bowls. Too bad Butler couldn't have done a better job constructing that OL in the salary cap era, because that 1999 team was special...

That's not what Sabres fans are saying. They have completely destroyed that franchise.

And unlike the Mario Williams contract, this one will be worth it. If Beane extends White this off-season, they can front-load the contract in the years before Allen's contract comes up.

People who know football had respect for what Greg Roman was building with Taylor, McCoy, and Williams/Gillislee. Taylor's passing limitations may have ultimately doomed them, but those teams could have done some damage in the AFC if Rex Ryan had put in the proper effort with all that defensive talent. Interestingly enough, the Buffalo Bills have almost always been focused primarily on a strong running game and a strong defense. When were the exceptions? The early 90's? 2002 Bledsoe? Fitzmagic years? Any other years I missed? I prefer the strong defense + strong running game first model for multiple reasons: 1. It's (subjectively) more exciting to watch. Every play has proportionally more importance when you get into field position battles. 2. It diminishes the value of any singular position (i.e., the QB). One bad injury to your QB shouldn't send all the effort and all the hopes you had for the season down the drain. 3. Works better on the road and in bad weather.

I, too, am on the Derrick Henry bandwagon! Henry, Singletary, and Allen in the backfield would be amazing. Possibly #1 in the league, ahead of Baltimore.

I can help! I can wire up multiple IED's in a daisy chain and installed underneath the cars of Cris Collinsworth, Dan Le Batard, and Nick Wright by Monday afternoon. If they so much as pass gas in New Era Field's general direction, then it's game over for them. I like to help! I like feeling useful ?

Why are y'all turning on Marc Miller?! He is a Buffalo Bills fan base hero and an all-purpose American hero. He is MY personal hero. He has taught me how to confront my fears in life and shout really loudly at them. And he has a perfectly valid legal case. City of Good Neighbors?! Yeah right. Who's next in your line of fire? Billy Buffalo? Bills Elvis guy? Pinto Ron?