Jimmy Harris 69

I don’t see any team trading for Kupp, helping the Rams, and overpaying for an injury prone player. He only played 12 games last year and wasn’t a huge factor in the playoffs. He has missed six or seven games in each of the last four seasons, including parts of playoffs in prior years. The Super Bowl season was his zenith. It’s a shame because he is a great team guy and I see him becoming a coach. Ironically the Bills could have drafted him in the third round of 2017 ahead of the rams. (69th pick of the draft). They moved up to the 2nd and drafted Zay Jones 37th, another bad miss. All these teams will wait for him to be cut. Somebody might overpay him if it weren’t for the injuries. Tough part of the sport.

Those wasted FA tackle dollars as well as the wasted FA safety dollars for Mike Edwards, and Louis Cine make wonder if Coach McD is so rigid in his scheming and thinking, that a disconnect exists between he and Beane. We saw it with Jefferson during his first stay with the Bills. On offense it was Samuel who was invisible for 17 games (31 for 253-td), while making some playoff impact (6-82-2 td’s). I am very curious about McD’s decision making as it relates to who is active and who starts. I presume he has the final say. The devotion to Hamlin despite on field performance that was middle of the road at best bothered me all year. Dorian Williams lack of playing time. I thought the defense was better when he played earlier in the year. It begs the question whether McDermott will change the defense or the personnel in a real significant way or just hang his bills hat on incremental change, which is slow and difficult to see with the human eye.

Look, there needs to be a better reason than “our football team is five plays worse than Kansas City” this year. We all saw the Refs miss-spot footballs on at least three occasions in this game. The last one was reviewed in New York. Yet, here we sit, while the chiefs nation celebrates. It appears even God is a Chiefs fan for he has smote NO ONE in the league office for this blasphemy. As humans and Bills fans we are asked to accept that maybe 15 plays in the last five years separate us from two or three super bowls. This is causing madness, disbelief, a rejection of all sacred tenets once accepted as fact. Football is real, Aliens are fake, you need a number one receiver. Sure all you point out is true. YET, the nfl’s retort to the waves of criticism generated by the clear failure of those referees is “ we will continue to have our referees miss-spot the ball next season. “ WHAAAAAT? Caught between Sean McDermott and Roger Goodell, the grand pincers of despair; are we left but to weep for the failures to come?

James Cook, you are a man sir.

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So when the defensive and offensive coordinators get outdone we should blame our best player because he didn’t rescue them? Hell no. When OC doesn’t have of second most dynamic offensive player on the the field for the most important drive of the game we blame the mvp for not doing a mid air 180 with three guys bearing down on him to hit the open route? Hell no. Joe Brady failed our QB with his simple ass game plan. It blows my mind how these guys have 500 plays on a card and we see the same seven plays (kc sees them coming) Did Josh have a monster game, no. But where were the planned QB runs? The first drive could have been a td drive with Scripted qb runs rather than those pass plays . Call an another snow plow Joe!

I’m worn to raveling over this loss. I’m going to skip the Super Bowl, just pray to the great spirit that Philly wins. Every new rabbit hole brings up more bad feelings: 13 seconds; Kincaid——Mister not so bright side; McDermott is Schottenheimer but Pegula would hire Jauron in his place; Hamlin will get a huge raise and continue his meteoric rise to the bottom; that d##k hole coach in kc may not retire at the end of the year; now there are even more game highlights of kc players running off the field victorious….Taylor Swift delighted, the referees winking at Travis Kelce and backslapping each other. SIGH.

No way. He is viewed as a mensch of extraordinary power with players. He overachieved as linebackers coach and as safeties coach before that. This was just his first year. He could make his bones by creating a fearsome defense. He needs a few new starters: a safety, a tackle and a def end and a corner. Time to wake up Beane nap time is over.

The saddest true story in bills history. He and Frasier stole the Super Bowl from that team. No one will convince me the kicker didn’t do what he was told. No guts, no true belief in his defense to play aggressively and stop KC for even 9 seconds. Wow. In most respects Sean hasn't changed. He is Mr. Play it safe. He has a great quarterback so it gets him a playoff win or two a year. He will never win a Super Bowl. The Spagnola blitz Sunday on 4th down risked a huge gain, but he was going for the W. McDermott was too scared to play anything but vanilla man coverage against the best team in the league. Hello? So here we are again. If you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

McDermott is fanta and Reid is Coke. Their defense is sprite and ours is not pictured here——flat rc. Mark it dudes.

Rasul Douglas looked slow this year, maybe he was hurt. If his corner speed is lacking, is he a guy who could move to safety? I think we have this talk every off season about some corner who isn’t cutting it. I’m just doing my part.

The last drive was frenetic, not composed. McD should have challenged that spot, if for no other reason to make sure they had the right play for 4th down (if the challenge failed). The plow had been nearly stopped the last time, it was a bad call for this. A QB run to the corner, a jet sweep, or Cook back in the game were ALL better options. Leaving it to those idiots in stripes falls on McDermott who once again failed in the critical moment to take charge. I wanted him fired for 13, not for this. He needs a crisis coach to manage the last two minutes. He doesn’t do a good enough job. The refs surely screwed us on two critical calls, but we created this one out of stupidity or hubris. The bigger issue was our mediocre front six. A season long pathetic kc offense suddenly moved up and down the field. Meanwhile when we needed Josh to run, he didn’t. Imagine that first drive with some planned QB runs after sending receivers deep, or all to one side….you know clever like that. Instead we get nervous, off target passes and no runs. How could these coaches not see Allen was a ball of nerves?

The Bills do a poor job of pressuring the passer. Von did a good job on a limited number of snaps. That said, Von should be replaced with a younger pass rusher. Trade him some where he wants to go. We need two tackles and two ends. AJ gets 3 sacks twice a year. That isn’t the kind of production that helps a defense each week. We need speed on the back end to replace Hamlin. The defense needs to get younger and healthier in general. As it is two of our best players Benford and Bernard are always injured just in time for the playoffs. McDermott’s reliance on old heads and broken down bodies always betrays us in the final game. They have nothing left. We need young gamers. McDermott’s judgement is faulty there. He lets Louis Cine rot on the bench and go to Philly, meanwhile our safeties are beat up against the Chiefs and are constantly a half step or three late. Coach, you are WRONG.

This is the right way to see things. Each successful Bills QB had something the others did not. Actually, Kemp and Allen were very similar. Both run effectively, great arm strength. One has to give the nod to Josh as the better passer. My old man always said Saban brought in Lamonica to bail out Kemp. I don’t know if that tied into his dislike of Republicans or if it happened often enough that he felt it was true. Hindsight surely says that the Bills shouldn’t have traded away Lamonica. Wilson owning a piece of the Raiders blurs the conspiracy lines just right for us chapped ass bills fans. Kemp had the best defense in the AFL. No other Bills QB has had the luxury of a top defense except Doug Flutie\Rob Johnson. Josh Allen in my view is the greatest Bills player period—-in my fandom since 1969.

It won’t happen. This team was picked to go 10-7. Finish 3rd in the division by many reasonable prognosticators. They went to the championship game with a middling defense on the basis of Josh Allen’s historic 96% positive play performance. Terry “white shoes” Pegula already has a hockey team that is trash, playing in a an old arena with no hope of getting better. He will not fire the guy who coached his football team to the championship game twice in five years. Only Josh Allen could force a change.