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Well said and I think we're on the same page.

I probably should have been more clear. I meant this last off season to the trade season, with DK Metcalf and Pickens moving for reasonable prices. If you asked me at the deadline would I rather trade for Shaheed or get Cooks for free I'm still going Shaheed.

It’s something, I guess. He used to be very good. It’s hard for me to be excited about this after we watched actual difference makers get traded for pennies, but maybe it’ll help.

That assumes you trust the organization to make changes, or at least make them effectively. I don't see Beane or McD going anywhere realistically. It wouldn't surprise me at all if we miss the playoffs, end up with a pick in the upper teens, and we take a will linebacker.

Oh I'm with you, I think it's much more likely we don't make the playoffs than we make a deep run. I was just trying to say this: I want us fans to be wrong, I want McD/Beane/Brady to be right and hold up the trophy and for me to eat crow. I'll happily do that.

Yeah, for better or worse they doubled down on this offensive philosophy, that was magnified when they decided to not make any moves at the trade deadline. I hope they win the Super Bowl, but I bet it will end up biting them in the butt. I expect we'll see more of the bipolarity of the offense for the remainder of the season. They'll probably have just as many hot games as they have duds. Whether or not there will be consequences for this (particularly Beane/McD) remains to be seen I guess. I'm not optimistic.

I don't really think he's the problem in that team filled to the brim with problems. I wonder if Brady had any say in it.

It's a lot more believable when you factor in that the offense looks identical to last years. You need to evolve and change as more and more film on your tendencies are discovered, Brady didn't do that. They're too safe with it, there's no variation to the plays that they run out of the same packages (over and over again). How many times have you heard an announcer call the Bills predictable? Practically every game this season? I don't know if it's Brady's unwillingness to change things up or McDermott demanding a certain style of play. Whatever it is it's an abject failure of a strategy.

The Rams are probably the most fun team to watch this season as a non-fan. Incredible that a defense that is mostly comprised of young, athletic guys given an opportunity is so successful compared to defenses filled with "proven" folks.

Oh boy. Was Lorenzo Alexander busy? Is AJ Klein on another RV trip? Go get somebody young, hungry, and athletic. I don't really care if they're unproven. The obsession with retreads who didn't have enough in their prime, let alone now, is baffling.

I just said we should move on but this is a crazy take. He would get hired in a second, and rightfully so. He's just not the right coach for the Bills anymore.

Exciting end to these afternoon games. Love to see stuff like this when you're not a fan of either teams.

Thanks, you're making a really good point there as well. It takes a certain level of ego and arrogance to be a coach at that level, you have to believe that your scheme and installment of that scheme is the right decision. There's no room for doubt in high pressure situations. The likelihood that they will make a 180 and be introspective on their decision tree is hard for me to believe, and that's okay. Maybe with a slightly different personnel and a slightly different opponent you would have gotten the job done and won a SB. That's not the way the chips fell though. I'm not even mad. Frustrated, sure, but I appreciate what they've done for the Bills. No hard feelings, but let's make a change.

The coaching staff and the GM have run out of steam in Buffalo. It happens. It's likely time to move on, if only for philosophical reasons. I've said for years that I'm fine with moving on with McDermott because it doesn't make sense to having a revolving door at OC with a generational QB. He's a good coach, but they've made their run and come up short. Time to move on. I feel similarly about Beane now. He made a lot of very arrogant comments about the WR room and it has absolutely come back to bite him in the butt. He doubled down not making a trade to salvage the season, and now we've got a bipolar offense that relies almost entirely on Allen to bail them out of bad playcalling and poor talent. I hate to sound defeatist. They could still make a run, I just don't expect it. A change is needed.

Ouch. Too close to home. (I'm actually more active than a lot of other elder millennials, I love playing sports)

It seems cruel to dangle this out there.

I played O line in high school and have two bad rotator cuffs, put me in coach

He and Joe are the best content on WGR. They both had some really good, level headed takes this morning that I think are questions worth asking.

Can’t wait to see them start holding tryouts because our backups backups backup is on IR

I meant more intellectually lazy, I agree with what you're saying.

I think the Brady (and the rest of the Bills coaching staff to a lesser degree) have a real hubris problem. They think that no matter what they can out-execute the other team, even when being painfully shown that it isn't working. The Bills line up and do what they're going to do and it doesn't ever seem to adapt with what the opposing defense has been showing. Every content creator and analyst who watches football professionally talk about how predictable the Bills are. The 4th and 27 play was the only playcall the entire game I thought to myself "Wow, didn't expect that". On third downs where they pass and it's less than 8-10 yards, it's always a mesh concept. The Bills have obvious tells with who is on the field, and in spite of that they never break tendency and do something different. They just line up and do what they're gonna do because we have Allen and they don't. It's lazy and points to an ego issue in the coaching room, in my opinion anyways.

I can't help but think that if all the guys we sign are underperforming, that's on the coaching staff. Either the scheme fit isn't right or it's too complicated for them to process quickly. Either way this is becoming ridiculous. Poona Ford and Tim Settle leave Buffalo and became major contributors almost overnight to their respective teams. It's time to seriously look inward at the organization and figure out why guys are so hot and cold in this system.

Yeah I can’t agree there. Look back at those sacks and you can see that there’s almost never anyone even remotely open. It looked like Allen got through 3 reads before getting sacked on a couple of those. This is on coaching and utilization of the WRs. There were almost zero answers for the pressure all night long. That’s coaching and just getting outclassed.

Thank you, I almost screamed at that play call.

They threw at Johnson, tactical error on the Texans part.