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Meh, Monos can make fair (and obvious) points and still be an axe to grind loser desperately hanging onto relevancy. It’s kind of a common theme of Ty Dunne’s network.

I very much like Tre. He was just as bad as Elam this season. He’s toast. Sucks. But it’s over.

From a development standpoint, sure maybe McD and BB were helpful. the distinction is irrelevant now because Josh is that dude NOW. Just like Brady was that dude at 30. They don’t need the developing. They are superstars.

Corollary to that is that even BB was basically mediocre to bad in NE with the best culture in the NFL without his QB. It’s 90% Josh. Just like it was 90% Brady.

McDermott traded or moved off a bunch of them in the 2017 season. It was a big thing. the point was that an entire draft class being on the team/stashed on the PS/stashed on IR the same year they were drafted is no feather in the cap of any GM. It’s usually how it goes lol. I’m keeping him. We will have folks who will say it was just injuries and bad luck that held them back. Next question

I would say he probably gets 3 cracks at it at least. I mean, McD is going on 7 lol

This was a big reason why folks thought the Spencer Brown extension was early. Beane needed a W on the roster. I’m okay with not rushing to get Benford extended or not. Okay with Bernard. agree moving on from Cook/Shakir makes the most sense.

No. Nabers is legit. Slayton and Wandale are pretty good. I think their DL is loads better. I think I would swap our entire DL for theirs. Their OL is kinda stinky but Josh makes bad OL look good.

Drought brain is incurable my man. These folks think McD is all that stands between us and 20 more years of darkness. They probably were afraid to trade Tyrod and draft Josh. “what if it sets us back from scoring 3 points in the WC round?” they cried.

Didn’t Tom go and win in Tampa immediately? Are we still doing this? BB is a great coach. Probably the GOAT. He had a great record with Brady and Brady left and won more SB’s and the wheels fell off in New England. QB’s matter more than coaches. They always have.

Um the entire 2015 draft was with the Bills in 2015. The entire 2014 draft was with the Bills in 2014. The entire 2013 draft was with the Bills in 2013, except for the kicker who got beat out in camp. what

TBH, I think the 2024 Giants roster with Josh have a decent shot of having a better record than the 2024 Bills roster with Josh A DROY candidate in the first round? Man, that would not be like Beane at all. He needs guys to shed 30 pounds then put 20 back on while they are a healthy scratch

If you had your way, we’d probably still be winning 6 games a year with Rex afraid to do worse and never have McD or Beane at all.

Drought brain. ”Give Chan/Rex/Jauron/Greggggg more time! At least we are winning 7 or 6 games instead of 2-3. What if the next coach is worse?” That’s because fans still don’t realize that what ended the Pats dynasty was not them losing Belichick, but losing Brady. Really bizarre stuff.

One game because McD coached us to 6-6 at the midpoint. or was that not his fault too

why? isn’t McD kind of at fault for starting out 6-6?

So wait, you don’t even think McDermott is the biggest reason we make the playoffs every year but somehow losing him means we wouldn’t make the playoffs anymore? Um

Okay fair enough. Are you of the opinion that without McD, the Bills would’ve lost the division to the Dolphins this year?

Peter is still a Rex > McD guy deep down. Bless his heart.

Elam is lucky he’s a late first. If he was top 15, he would in the argument for sure

The defense wasn’t even that good this year. Outside the top 10, and their efficiency numbers were legit terrible. Was there a game this season we won only because of masterful McD defensive coaching? What if McD says no, I’m not hiring a top defensive coordinator.

I know you wrote all of this and it was hard work. the obvious point to “there’s no guarantee that they could do it here” is that there’s also no guarantee McDermott can get his defense right against the Chiefs. Maybe less so because he’s already tried and failed multiple times. Not only that, but to say “there’s no guarantee Fangio could do it here” then somehow use McDermott’s stats from Carolina/Philly while holding Fangio’s record against him in Denver when he had no QB seems inherently unfair. There was no guarantee that Fangio would turn around the Eagles defense when they hired him. He now has a Super Bowl ring. No guarantee though. There was no guarantee firing John Fox and hiring Gary Kubiak would get the Broncos a ring. Of course, they won one. But no guarantee. That’s all fine. If you think McDermott is all that holds us back from being terrible again, I get not wanting to move on. Personally if McD retired tomorrow, I doubt our SB chances take all that much of a hit. I would bet we still win 11 or more games, still cruise to an AFCE title and guaranteed top 4 seed. That’s me. Which is why I don’t think keeping him to fail against the Chiefs and get to 0-9 in the playoffs before we give up makes a whole lot of sense.

Its why Marrone cut Tashard Choice's ass @Gugny

So do you think McD vs (insert coach here) is the difference between being back in the drought, 6 wins every year and winning 11-13 games?

Um, I don't think losing 1 or 2 games is going to cost us the AFCE. We clinched it like week 11 this year.