JP51

Do your job.

I never said that they should cut him... I said they over paid for his production and its not just Rousseau by the way (he is clearly the target of this thread) it goes way beyond him.... I would actually say he may be the least of our Defensive issues... , we need to look at upgrading every position on Defense save maybe Bishop and Hairston potentially..... but to me there are no areas that I would say I am comfortable with on this defense... But there is no way you are cutting Rousseau, now if you can get a guy that totally out plays him and takes time away.. etc... great...

Rousseau is simply not worth what we paid him... IMO there needs to be hard cap choices going forward including potentially eating dead cap space... He is average as a starter maybe and probably a great rotational guy on a team with major players... simply he is not good enough to anchor the edge position... we need to look to upgrade at every position on Defense... except maybe Bishop who has a high ceiling and that goes for Benford as well... I am wondering if he isnt best served in a Taron Johnson role if we can upgrade CB1 or Hairston becomes a bona fide CB1.... just how I see it.

Repeat the performance of the O Line against the Texans and he wont get it down the field....

That is assuming Josh gets more than .03 seconds to throw

Beane is doing whatever he can to improve the roster... he feels like this is the move... I have no idea... should he have made a trade, acknowledge the failures... likely as long as we didnt get raked... But, trade, no trade, sign Cooks, Shaq, Jordan, Jordan, etc.. is just not enough to I get he is trying, but what really changes when your problem is trying to solve for a lack of talent because of poor FA overpay signings and poor drafting, but signing middling players to replace the middling players you already have... wheels on the bus... So, either Beane is replaced by someone who is much better at talent assessment, or Beane brings someone in who is better at talent assessment than him and allows them to do their job... I would prefer he was done... but we know that isnt happening likely, so the best that we can hope for is he self identifies his failure and brings in help.

I am waiting for them to bring in Kaiir Elam for a tryout... just sayin lol

I get I am probably very much in the minority... but in the end to me Beane has tried to fix this flat 5 times by plugging holes with we will call the majority non difference makers... and we at this point have regressed so badly I just dont see another way out than re setting and trying to get the right people in here... I mean we are talking about bringing Shaq back for the 4th time lol... but if he can get it done your way I am all for it... I look at Josh's prime as 27-34 so to me there is still time... and what he is doing is falling woefully short.

Here is mine (mind you my thoughts are we need a reset... we need to get rid of bad contracts that pay A- money to C plus or minus players this means we hurt next year.... take cap hits... etc... because the mediocrity after you get by Allen and Cook is palpable... Offense QB: Josh RB: Cook & Davis WR1: ? EVERY WR Position needs an upgrade... Samuel is a joke, Palmer can go for the money we are paying him as well as Coleman... Slot: Shakir WR2: WR3: WR4: G Davis TE1: Kincaid TE2: Hawes (Knox cut for cap) Offensive Line: Returns in full unless they make moves for cap (may need to look at SVP as a replacement for McGovern.) Defense LDE: Groot (unless we can move him in a trade) too much money here for too little production DT: Oliver DT: Walker RDE: ? (crickets) WB: Bernard can go for the kind of money he is being paid MLB: ? SLB: ? (Maybe Dorian Williams but I think they know they need a lot of a talent added even with him in the fold) CB1: Benford CB2: Hairston NCB: You all may kill me for this... but we need another CB... lets see how Benford does here in place of Johnson who must go. FS: Bishop SS

Betcha the Bills D could leave those ghosts standing there with their mouths open shaking their heads....

You are not going to get me to disagree at all here... they are desperately trying to use these folks and getting them injured worse... I have no idea, but Spencer Brown if taken out is he day to day... and now he is an IR candidate? I dont like making excuses but the Ravens and the Bills definately got the short end of the injury bug... I am not sure I have seen anything like this.... but it was the same last year as well... to the point I am looking at the composition of the team saying are we way small, unconditioned, scheme is bad , or just been flat out unlucky for the last several years.

I think that is exactly my point... the quality of our assistant coaches is not good at all... most other contending teams are getting them poached... ours are so bad they are lucky if they get co ordinator jobs in the NFL after their stints are over here... they will likely go to the college ranks or be a position coach.... this is on McDermott... 100% so unless I am missing your point we agree 100%... and I was not one of those fans worried about Brady leaving... I was worried that McDermott would simply again promote from within as opposed to seeking significant talent and bringing it in here... I am still worried about that.

I would say you are assuming we are going to make the playoffs... I think with Bosa the pass rush is attrocious, I cannot imagine what it would be like if he wasnt there... Rousseau is another A level contract for a C+ player he simply strikes fear into the heats of no one... that said... sit him out... miss the playoffs... something needs to give here... maybe that is exactly what we need... I dont know what to make of this fire drill anymore.

This is the truth... coaching is absolutely horrible... this is on McD not only for his mistakes but for his failure to attract and retain top talented CoOrdinators.. you dont need to look farther than the 90s Bills... CoOrdinators from top contending teams are recruited and hired to the next level... Outside of Daboll that has not happened to any of our co ordinators and based on what I am seeing there is no one on staff currently that will fill that bill outside of college... They are not creative, nor do they seem to prepare for their opponents in the anticipatory ways that they need too... they react at halftime... the other is personnel both paying C level free agents B+ money and failure to draft difference making players in the early Rds save Allen and Cook... Keon is emblematic of this too me... one of the deepest WR drafts I can remember with a team who desperately needs WR and we draft a guy who it seems to me could care less... but it goes past Keon... lots of changes needed here after this season... I fear precious few will come to pass... JMO

I agree, he never really translated... plus I am still pissed he wouldnt even give us an interview when he was the hot NFL Head coaching commodity out of Oregon.