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I can’t disagree with the logic. Though I will give credit where it’s due, the Bills have won almost all of the games they are “supposed” to win in the regular season for McD’s career. There have definitely been some flat performances and I know exactly what games he’s thinking of that did cost us big time. The thing that sticks out to me is the number of times he’s been directly responsible for losing big games.

Just to clarify, injuries only count for the Bills. 50% of the QBs are on non-playoff teams, so it’s obvious the team around them had nothing to do with their loss. So the Bills win a whopping 2 games against teams that have a starting QB and a playoff hope, awesome. As for the Browns, see line 1 and obviously Watson was rusty AF last year when he came back. Please enlighten us oh Holy one, tell us all how great the skill players on the Bills are. Please oh please show us all the great draft picks and the signings that weren’t made to cover for the lack of talent in all those great draft picks.

Wow, I’m not even going to take up the server space to quote all the homer comments here since my last post. Y’all need to lay off the crack pipe. This team has beaten up on teams with Rookie / Back up QBs and been slapped in the mouth by real teams in big games. Of course we have all the people quick to point out all the guys Beane didn’t draft and give him credit for them. Getting excited about a near retirement Von Miller for premier money and defending trading away a first round pick in a draft class considered the best in memory for WRs for a WR that wanted more money.. yep all brilliant. For the record, I would have targeted Lamb and the picks given up to get Diggs are not far off from what it would have taken to move up for him. Jefferson is obviously a monster, arguably the best in the game, so yeah that makes it even worse we didn’t get him. This has got to be the same group of clowns that told me all off-season that Davis was going to be the superstar player we always needed next to Diggs, might even steal targets from Diggs etc. I said it then, this team has ONE legit NFL starting player at WR and nobody else that’s proven to be worthy of more than a 3rd wr on their best day. Kincaid is a nice hope, but you’ll all be blaming Dorsey when he doesn’t do much as a rookie. The guy played low level ball for a limited time, rookie TEs struggle historically anyway and you expect a difference maker, he’s not going to be it, this year. It’s another off-season gone with the shuffle of pawns and you all expect major improvement. It’s not coming. The only hope is the rest of the league is wrong and Cyrus starts immediately and plays at a high level, giving the RBs some room and JA some time.

I think the point that needs to be looked at, the team has a lot of weakness because of piss poor drafting and strategy on resigning guys. There has not been a single difference maker drafted and resigned aside from JA in this entire regime’s history. They’ve landed a bunch of guys that are replacement level and maybe slightly above, not much else. The FA signings have been equally uninspiring/productive. The reason they had to go sign Miller was the inability to rush the passer after a first round pick and 2 seconds were spent on guys who can’t do it. They had to pay Diggs big money because they traded for a vet instead of drafting a guy in a VERY strong WR class. They spent 3 early picks on RBs and signed multiple others for less than replacement level production. After signing Knox to a massive extension, they draft a TE in the first round. The issue of not having money or picks to go after guys is the result of poor drafting and therefore overspending to compensate for it. This team is WAY behind the curve on talent vs the Chiefs, Eagles, even the Dolphins and Jets. Allen makes up for it, but for how long? It’s turning in to a Packers situation where a HOF QB can lead you to a lot of wins that mean nothing, but can’t finish the deal himself too often.

I hope they get more aggressive, this zero risk philosophy has killed the chances of winning big games for far too long. The O can ball, take some chances on D. If you get burned, let Allen go make up for it, if the D scores some points it wouldn’t be so bad. Continuing to let teams move the ball and eat clock is killing us, the best player is Allen, by a country mile, you don’t play to keep your best weapon off the field.. unless you are McClappy.

They should have the draft class draw the team’s logo every year, fans vote on their favorite, that logo get slapped on a sideline cap for the 2nd pre-season game around the league, make it the official children’s day. Sell the hat, all proceeds to local children’s charities or St. Jude’s.

All good, but Lamar has an MVP and is going to throw for 6000 yards this year because he finally has weapons, so he’s clearly better.

I can’t believe anyone really thought he was coming back.

Let him play out this year, let Oliver walk and replace him with Q, who should have been the pick in the first place.

Cutting/trading Poyer after this year is over 5M in savings, or it’s a $7.5M hit to keep him, I don’t see him back, but maybe that’s just me.

😂 , I suppose you think the Bills are better. If you put the same QB out there with either team the Browns would win more. JA is the only reason the Bills are relevant, Cleveland has a more talented roster than Buffalo.

Yeah, dead cap is 2M next year, he’s gone unless he plays really well this year, which I don’t really expect.

Hyde , Poyer, Oliver, Gabe, Morse, White all gone. Milano extended, Dawkins and Knox will be re-worked or traded. 2025 will see Miller and Diggs re-worked or gone. The draft will have to be fruitful.

You don’t go in the first round without talent. He should come in motivated to try to get a shot in the NFL. Expectations? None. That said, worth a shot to see if you can strike gold.

I think you are wrong, but I’m hoping you are right, that team has the talent to be the class of the AFC if he returns to form.

Look at what happened to all of the QBs for those teams and ask yourself if you think the Bills would even win a single game without JA. I don’t see the Bills winning 13 games this year even playing 17. Competition is better, all three teams up mentioned went extended periods without their starting QB, his argument makes perfect sense. Those teams improved their rosters and the Bills were stagnant, or possibly regressing on talent over all. It’s bound to be the JA show again.

Damn.. Cleveland stands to be very dangerous this year.

Multiple factors at play here. 1) Josh is one of , if not the best QB when blitzed and you don’t want him out of the pocket, he creates chaos. 2) Many of the teams we played have a good interior of their DL and the middle of our line is/was horribly soft, do dumping people in his lap wasn’t a problem. 3) The WRs sucked and ran long routes, he HAD to wait and teams knew they could get to him with that extra time. 4) Like Maholmes, you won’t stop him, but you can slow him, more men in coverage is a better odds of doing so. If the line play picks up, teams will be forced to blitz him to get pressure and he will have time to pick that up and make a team pay for it, if the line is a hot mess again… well.. see reason 2.

Ummm no. He’s washed at this point. Would be fun to throw him and lil bro out there at the same time, but we have too many RBs already.

Yeah… and he kept the job. I don’t love him, but the guy continued to prove people wrong and even when he is not in this system, he’s done just fine. He’s an acceptable starter and a great CB3. He’s essentially a less instinctive Tre White, athletically speaking. The only real issue is awareness when the ball is in the air, not an uncommon problem. He’s not elite, but I would gladly take him back.

Before playing w Allen, McKenzie was cut because he couldn’t handle a punt and wasn’t even viewed as worth keeping as a gadget player for the O with all that speed and shiftiness. So is it that McKenzie is the better player or he got more targets , with a far superior QB in a pass-centric offense, where he was the 3rd WR (4th option) by default?

If he gets used, I think he could well be the biggest value of this FA period for the Bills. He was actually very good w Miami. If Davis can’t step up, he may get pushed out. Shorter couldn’t do jack crap in college as an absolute physical freak, to think he’s going to step up the NFL and be anything more than a ST gunner is a joke.

Bring him back.

I’m surprised the Bills are that high, basically saying they have Diggs over Kupp.

Yeah, all that.