Chaos

Or intead of a puppet, you could insert the word scapegoat.

There were a lot of people on this board who were convinced Doug Whaley would be snapped up if the Bills released him. I think McDermott would get another HC job eventually. Not sure about "tomorrow". But mostly not sure the future is predictable on these sort of things.

Joe Flacco got it right.

Josh needs to stop scoring so fast. For example if he hadn't scored so fast against the Bronco's the Bills would not have had the opportunity to get 12 men on the field to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory.

Entire dline disappeared against the Chiefs. No need to worry about who stays and goes from the current group.

No, at the two minute warning I wanted the Bills to have a 14 point lead. I think we all know the outcome of Reid vs. McDermott close games.

The roster is not stacked, outside of Josh. Von Miller is washed. Tre White is washed. Every NFL roster has a handful of guys at the Diggs/Kincaid/Oliver level, albeit at different postitons from team to team. The Bills super bowl teams were "stacked" with future hall of famers. In the free agency era, its not clear any NFL teams are "stacked". Maybe the niners because of the cap advantage of a cheap but good QB.

The Dline disappeared entirely against the Chiefs in the season ending lost. I think every last one of them is replaceable.

Allen Mahomes Jackson Stroud Purdy Burrow (would be higher if he was not a part time player) A bunch of decent guys A few bums. Overall QB play is at pretty high level in NFL currently.

Tua vs. Dak , who gets the bigger new contract this offseason? Will either become the NFL's top paid QB?

It would have been a one day rest advantage to the #3 seed over the #2 seed. This makes no sense.

I guess this is another way of saying "every team that beat the Bills in the playoffs was clearly beatable"

I am sure Bass feels badly. But the truth is missing that kick, is like Bill Buckner letting the ball go between his legs. It was a routine situation.

Did Manning win before or after head coaching change? Asking for a friend.

The Dline are the true villians of this loss against the Chiefs. Statistically I am not sure there was even theoretical room to be less productive.

I did not mean to suggest you can find a 1500 yard reciever in the fifth round. That certainly is an outlier. My point, was probably not clear, but it was more related to the guys in the middle of the list. It was more about the fact that the Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Quentin Johnson type of first round draft picks did not pan out (For year 1) any better than the Michael Wilson or Jonathan Mingo type picks, in terms of actual production. I think for the most part Rookie Wr's come with a cap.

I don't think it is misleading. The point is that a mediocre defense can probably hold the Chiefs to one punt in the playoffs. And a good defense will also only hold them to one punt in the playoffs. In three playoff games against the chiefs, the McDermott defenses forced exactly four punts total. This includes fully healthy defenses).

Oline became a strength this year. However, Morse is ancient, and Brown can be improved upon. I would not be opposed to the Bills further solidifying or upgrading these posisitons with early draft picks. Its possible to get immediate impact from a rookie WR, but in real life without a top draft pick, its more of a crapshoot, and you can find these players in middle rounds. Its not clear that pick 28 would guarantee success vs pick 56 or 84.

I understand this sentiment. I don't think it is likely though. I also think it is a separate question from roster building though. But we have another season of experience with Sean McDermott. While it is popular to credit all of Belichek's success to Brady, the only thing we know for sure is that he was 1 for 1 in being successful with an elite QB. It seemed to me that over his career arc witht the Patriots, his vision on what it would take to win the super bowl changed from year to year and adapted to the personnel on hand. My personal impression is that Coach McDermott has "A vision" on how to win a championship, and that he is on a constant quest to get the personnel to implement that vision. It feels a bit like a Don Quixote quest to prove that his "complimentary football vision" can in fact win a championship and that the organization must pull together to prove this. Stylewise I would prefer a coach who adapts to his teams personnel and optimizes that situation. McDermott knows football. He is a good football coach. I would be happy to see him abandon his quest and pivot in this direction equally as much I would like to see a new coach. I

My observation of the Bills - Chiefs game was that neither defense was effective in the game. Bills forced one punt. Chiefs only forced punts after Bills self-inflicted wound's of dropping passes. Chiefs came to the game with a highly respected offense. Bills came to the game with a broken and aged defense. Against two of the top offenses in the NFL both were equally ineffective. Its not clear to me that a defense can be built to stop these top offenses. Personally I feel like filling in the defensive hole with premium draft picks won't move the dial in the playoffs. I don't think we need a major rebuild on defense to hold the Chiefs to only 1 punt in a playoff game. I think we can patch together a defense capable of doing that. On the other hand, it seems like the much improved 2023 oline and the addition of Dalton Kindcaid put us one step closer to being an unstoppable force. If we could use draft capital to add another sure handed WR, the we might have scored 35 against the Chiefs. Another way of saying it is , fix the defense with the defensive equivalents of Sherfield and Harty level players, and shift to building the NFL's best offense. Having the best NFL offense is in reach. I am open minded to learning about how we can retool the defense to stop the Chiefs in the playoffs, but we have never yet done that, healthy or injured.

How many championship games did Reid lose after he got his first generational talent at QB? Since Mahomes is in his 6th straight championship game, this should not be hard to figure out.

Very good point.

Chiefs scored on every drive until late in the game. The scrubs on D played like scrubs.

Punter / Kicker rounds 1 and 2. Would have made a big difference yesterday