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He also did less with Taylor than his predecessor did. An easy schedule broke the playoff curse along with Dalton/Boyd. If you're going to be honest, we scored fewer points that season, notably so, than in the six prior seasons and than in all but 7 of the drought era teams. Our point differential was -57, worse than all but 6 of the drought era teams. Either way, if you want to defend his postseason performances, more power to you. That's a minority position that quite frankly isn't very defensible. That's the core of the debate.

We've also never had a generational talent at QB either. Perhaps the statue should be of Allen instead. It's pretty obvious that if you polled people, what the choice would be.

Well, it really has to do with matching talent with strategy. We all know that McD is good with defenses, but the clear and unarguable strength of our team is not on the defensive side. His solution is to get more and more junior and inexperienced people to handle that part of the team. Does that make sense to you? IDK, maybe it does. As to Beane, consider, we draft Kincaid in round 1 last year. His snap counts are in the 60s. LaPorta's are 79% this year and 83% last year. Kelce's snap count %s have been over 80% in 9 of the last 10 seasons, over 90 in four. Brock Bowers 79%. George Kittle pretty evenly around 90% since he's been in the league. McBride, not even a 1st-round draft pick, 89% this year. It stands to reason that your 1st round draft picks get up there in snap count %. Otherwise what's the point of drafting them in the 1st, trade the 1st for more 2nds and/or 3rds. We'll turn it into a dinner party then. We'll make one of those old Miller Lite commercials with it. No argument on the rest. No one's going to care that we dust NE twice, the Jets again, the Colts, and Rams, none of whom can score more points than they allow. That's fully expected. It's going to come down to the three games vs. KC, the Niners, and Detroit.

If only ... I'll join Mikie2times at his dinner table if that happens. Here's the thing, you say that as if it's been close when it hasn't even gotten a sniff, and the primary reason why it hasn't is for the thing you're defending. That makes no sense.

First of all, I love your choice of words. "Blow things up." So firing a coach that has obviously held us back is "blowing things up" despite keeping most else, particularly a generational talented QB, in place then? Otherwise that's simply not true. Those that simply want entertaining football in general and for whom winning a Championship isn't as important, yes, "not wanting to blow things up" does in fact mean that they don't care if we win in the playoffs. Pick your words better. Every Bills fan wants the team to win. We all want an extra million dollars too. But there's a huge difference between caring whether or not we do and wanting to. Does that really need an explanation? LOL No, it stems from the theory that the #1 thing holding us back come playoff time is McDermott. Allen covers a wealth of issues that closes that gap and is the only part of our team that shines with any regularity whatsoever come the postseason. This season we're 0-2 against teams that appear to be headed for the playoffs, with one of those losses entirely on coaching, and clearly the other, the shellacking at the hands of the Ravens also having a good bit to do with coaching and preparation. For those that care about beating the Fins, whom we own, twice, the Jets, LOL, the Jags, Titans, Seahawks, and Cards, good for them. I think all of us are happy we won those games. No one has argued that. How many people were claiming that the Ravens or Houston loss wasn't that bad? ... with 10 and 20 point offensive performances against the 22nd and 14th ranked scoring defenses. It's ridiculous not to see significant coaching issues come playoff time with this team. In that regard, again, if a regular season record is more important than not underachieving in the playoffs, that's in the eyes of the beholder. Many think that it's a real shame that there aren't more fans that care as much about winning in the postseason as they do in the regular season, but more importantly, reconciling why the winningest team in the regular season over the past x number of years doesn't have a postseason record to match. That is something that clearly you won't be convinced of. The games of importance on the schedule yet to be played are the Niners, KC, and @ Detroit. The rest is garbage. Hopefully we can do better than we did vs. Baltimore and Houston. Bills fans were leaving the Ravens game in droves in the 3rd Q. If not, then any criticism is fair.

Seems that ToGoGo did, implied in unmistakably. Take it up with him. And when you say "we all want to win," if you mean a championship, then wanting to win and caring whether or not we do win won are two different things. There are fans here that have posted that they don't care whether we win a championship, all they care about is entertaining football. That's a fact. So again, you'd have to talk to them as to why they take that tack. But getting back to the premise of your statement, for anyone caring about winning in the postseason, given the glaring underachievement therein, and considering that it's primarily coaching related, I'm not sure how that's a defense for the people criticizing those that criticize McDermott. It can't be both ways.

A number of posters have said in the past that they're perfectly content with us playing well in the regular season regardless of what happens in the postseason. So the expectations of fans such as yourself, myself, and many others are different. I can see if that if all they're looking for is some fun during Sept thru December, all is well. It really is a matter of perspective. But it's also incredibly disappointing when you have a football gift like Allen to fail to do more than we've done in the playoffs if you have the Championship perspective. Some people obviously don't have that and don't care about it, that doesn't make them wrong, again, it's all a matter of perspective

So you think that it's an unreasonable expectation to be able to at least appear in one, but moreover actually win a Super Bowl with a QB like Allen then?

I'm tellin' ya. It's definitely not something to be crowin' about.

As to that, if that's OK with everyone, LOL, let's wait until the playoffs. The teams we've beaten in 7 wins are 20-40 and not a one is headed to the playoffs. We haven't beaten a single team with a positive Point Differential, we're 0-2 against them. This division besides us is historically bad, it's tracking for the worst other three teams besides the division leader, ever. Even the Pats w/ Brady never had it so easy. We always win the Regular Season with Allen at QB, let's see if we can do anything in the postseason this year. For that too it's appearing to be the easiest postseason ever for us in franchise history. There's not a single AFC team that's looking great. We currently have the third easiest schedule in the league. Beating all the bottom feeders isn't what makes a team great. And one Divisional Round playoff win. Don't forget that.

Your post that I quoted mentioned absolutely nothing about that.

So your in essence implying that Cook's consistency is on par with Mahomey's consistency. If you think so.

Taking the strongest-armed QB in the league and a QB that can make any throw, and putting him into a short-yardage game-managing passing game with an emphasis on running the ball particularly when your RBs are averaging a pathetic 4.0 yards-per-carry average, and with the help of a 49-yard run, the longest of Cook's career, 3.6 otherwise, is pure genius. (extreme sarcasm) Exhibit A On a side note that's what Cook averaged last season under Brady in 6 games apart from the Dallas game, 3.6 YPC, and everyone rants about how great our running game was under Brady. SMFH

As long as he wasn't light in the loafers afterwards.

It would be nice to evaluate Beane w/o McD's involvement, whatever that is, although we know that it's significant.

False narrative as it relates to this season. People are questioning whether he's even capable of winning a championship or playing well in the most important playoff games. Most are conceding the division won in this galactically inept division. Brady's doing pretty much what he did last season except that people aren't recognizing it bc our D stepped up then. The info's all out there, just gotta not be afraid to look at it.

Maybe, but that's not what lots of other people are seeing. His long TD yesterday was almost entirely YAC. From most accounts, he's had trouble separating. We shall see. All I know is that the loud rant here was that losing Diggs & Davis was addition by subtraction, but that's obviously not the case. No one, absolutely no one is defending or WR corps. He's also got a 56% catch rate so far, which is horrific for a short-medium type WR.

Everything goes according to the law-of-averages to a certain extent. As a team over the first four games or starting field position was at the 40, tops in the league and 8 yards better than what the season leader typically is. So it's an odd on bet that it would come down drastically. Conversely, that's also what for games against crappy defenses will do to an average(s).

Overall, his passing yards, complete. %, and passing TDs are pretty closely mirroring his 2019 starts, they're on pace for being only marginally better.

Terry's first priority is the Pegula Family values, and at the top of that list is money.

Who else would have final say over who his OC is. Think about that though, why do you think that he hasn't hired a competent OC? Consider that he and Daboll butted heads, why was that? Do you really think that Brady's going to lock horns with him? It's on record that McD tells his OCs what he wants. Some simply don't want to believe that he exercises that degree of control, when it's obvious that he does. Again, people can believe whatever they want to, but it's obvious what's going on, ... in the name of Complimentary Football and McD's definition of it. Our first five games of this season have produced the same record as our first five games of last season, against worse teams and with notably worse offensive metrics. On a side note, how many times do we need to have notoriously poor clock management, in rookie error form, to cost us the biggest of games, before we start asking the tough question. Some now say just make the playoffs then it's a new season, but what in the name of Complimentary Football does anyone think will change in the postseason.

Getting to the postseason isn't all that matters, it's winning in it. The way we playing there no way we even win a wildcard game this time. We're in the same exact position that we were in last season at this time except that our offense hasn't played nearly as well through five games.

He was actually an OC for a season and a half, he was fired midway through his second season there.

Now now! It's Complimentary Football by McD. Otherwise known as trying to shove a square peg into a round hole. He'll figure out out sooner or later. They typically do. Might take him another for our five seasons though. Let The Process play out.

... and only five playoff wins, four of which were in the wild card round.