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Your Opinion On This Team Will Change Tonight If: They beat Denver so senselessly that Sean Payton visibly cries on the sideline and Netflix removes that horrible movie about him from their library. Then Kevin James has to come out and publicly apologize for starring in it. And this all needs to occur before half time. That's probably the only scenario where I see my opinion shifting.

Why stop at the sidelines, he should go lower. Is there a basement or something at OBD he could hang out in or something? Preferably something with poor radio signal so he can't call in plays?

My game prediction: Bills will win something like 24-17, and statistically it's going to look like a great game for the offense but it won't pass the eye test. Then the chronically positive Bills fans and radio/podcast personalities will point to the stats and say "LOOK GUYS EVERYTHING IS FINE. CHECK OUT THE EPA, THE PASS OFFENSE IS ACTUALLY COMPLEX, NOT NEEDLESSLY CONFUSING TO THE PLAYERS". A lot of the criticism will calm down (undeservingly). The over/under on showing Josh Allen on the bench staring into the void is 3.5. I would take the over. (I really hope I'm wrong, and that the Bills wow everyone and this is the mid season turning point that we all want. I'm just pessimistic about this coaching staff.)

I don't recall ever seeing McDermott looking like he was having fun. Allen had fun for one play during the Bengals game and got a flag for it.

Well that's the sign of a well adjusted, fully functional team. They can turn it around, but the cracks are widening and I'm not full of faith.

What changed after 2021 I wonder? Maybe the rookie OC who looks like he's calling plays out of a hat with no rhythm except for consistently calling a shotgun run that works 15% of the time? That tracks to me. Dorsey got figured out in the middle of last season and cannot or will not pivot in an effective way.

It's been this way since McD got here. It seems like a scheme/coaching issue. Eric Washington is constantly failing upwards and it is baffling to me.

I'm very down on the team right now but the notion that you could help fix the team by trading Allen might be the dumbest thing I've heard all week, and I listened to McD's press conference. Allen IS the team. There's no Bills of this era without Allen. He's the single greatest asset this team has had in the last 30 years.

Not against it, but realistically that won't happen this year, or next if we're being honest.

No reason to fire him now, and it's probably in the Patriots' best interest to tank anyways. They need a lot of help, particularly on offense. No matter what though I can't see Bill being allowed to coach for another season. The game has passed him and as a GM he's arguably one of the worst.

"Don't expose the defense" is fine if you have the lead. They didn't, and never did, so it's horrific strategy. When start the game down and are playing catch up the entire time, then I say to hell with going slow. Didn't want a track meet? It's the only chance they had of winning.

He was pretty critical, and packaged it in a way that it can air on a Bills propaganda show. Tough line to walk. Fire Dorsey.

Tannehill looked bad. Hopkins has looked good in the two games Levis has played. I bet he'd look awesome if he was on the Bills.

McD's philosophy makes sense when you don't have a good team. You want to take as much time as possible and limit drives. When you have Josh Allen, a top 2 QB, and Diggs, a top 3WR, and Kincaid, a top 10 TE, and Davis, a top96 WR, you need to throw that philosophy out the window and go high powered. The team with the most points win, and as long as the game stays that way offense will always be considerably more important.

Dorsey can't get out of his own way and call plays in a way that take pressure off of Allen. He's so predictable that every opponent seemingly knows exactly what we're trying to do before it happens. When your opponent has a good idea of what you're doing, that's going to to make execution incredibly difficult. It's the same problem with the defense too. Yet time and time again we see Dorsey and McD come to the podium and lament that we need to execute better. It's BS. They need to scheme better and prepare the team better. It's why going fast looks so much better. Dorsey runs out the same plays out of the same formations constantly with the same clogged up routes. Could Allen do more? Maybe. Is it fair to put the blame on his shoulders? Not really, in my opinion.

It just goes to show how dumb the Jets are. They have some of the worst QB play in all of football but have made no attempt to improve whatsoever.

I agree with you, but McD isn't getting the boot this season or likely next season either. Like it or not, but he has a long lease inside the org. Move on from Dorsey and put Shula in the OC spot. I don't see how it can be worse than Dorsey. At least 1. I think the McD's gotta go crowd has a point, I just don't see it happening.

I don't know but it's much more realistic to move on from Dorsey. If you see the same problems then you know it's likely McD. Seems straightforward to me, but I'm oversimplifying it.

I think a lot of the McD "doomers" have a point, but you're definitely right. He's not going anywhere this season, or probably next. Moving on from Dorsey is realistic and in my opinion a change that is needed.

You can find plays every game where a WR is wide open and the QB just never gets to the read, doesn't see it, whatever. It's obtuse to pretend that everyone else is perfect.

You can find plays like this with virtually every quarterback in every game.

It's likely that play is designed to go to Harty unless the safety rolls back into double coverage. You can say "he didn't go through his reads" but not every play is supposed to have built-in progression. Sometimes WRs are out there just to make space for the intended guy. That being said, none of us are there in the room so it's speculation. Plenty of evidence to show Allen go through his reads though.

The Jets have about the best defense you can ask for. Look how far that’s getting them. Maybe some other defensive obsessed head coaches should take note.

It’s reported McDermott went away from a winning culture because he wanted to get to other styles of cultures.