JP51

I think the LBs may look much better with you 1, 4 and 5....

I would like to see a defensive mind hired in here... relegate Babich, fire him dont care... I will tell you why I have this take... I am looking at this past the over all production in defensive rankings etc... the defensive change here was enormous... the players were not talented enough and I get it.... this you cannot blame all on the coach per se... Here are my problems... 1. Player regression under Babich, I thought the majority of the players regressed in play this year.... Oliver, Jones, Elam. Bernard, Douglas, Epenesa, Groot stayed the same in a potential contract year... David Edwards I just wonder what happened there... but in the end when you see players go backwards and young players not improve I start to wonder if the coaching is good. LBs Safeties not shedding blocks... no penetration or real pass rush... I struggle to find a player on that defense that really developed and upped thier game over last year... maybe Rapp? maybe Hamiln? Not sure if that is because they just got more playing time and the body of work was there.... 2. 2nd half improvement - dont get me wrong, I love our ability to adjust at half time... even coming out in the 2nd half like a bit of a different Defense.... what I dont like is the spotting of 30 minutes to the other team... the lack of game plan anticipation that says... Hey these guys have seen us on tape... they are going to do this to exploit that... so we are gonna do this in anticipation... Belicheck Reid heck Parcells were masters at that ... I saw no real anticipation from Babich with regard to what other teams were going to do... I saw him adjusting after they did it... props to him... but Defensive Guru in game planning he is not. Maybe he improves... maybe he is just limited... but I am not gonna complain if they go get a great defensive mind push him to the side and take McD out of the room as a I used to work here guy... my 2... well that was long... my 4 cents...

I am reserving judgement here... the contrary take... Beane for the most part defending his players and coaching staff in front of the media at a very difficult time. He did in a passive aggressive way refer to those he was less than pleased with without calling it out... Every year for the past several all we hear is we are not going to be big players in FA. Every year we sign a surprise player... not this year until he traded for Coop. (that is another story). I simply dont think he wants to send his team and coaching staff away with a message that there is going to be an overhaul of the team and or the coaching staff... at a time when they just got handed another devastating loss... As a manager of people I understand this take... I aint gonna call you out on email... but we will discuss productively what needs to happen. I also dont get a sense that Pegula is saying I am not spending any more... I think if he can find a way to improve he will spend... this is just my take... that being said, I was not overly impressed that he had and relayed an understanding of what really was the issue and then committed to fix it... this may just be his way, maybe he sees a competitive advantage in not playing those cards right now... I do not like his top end drafts, he has not hit on a superstar up top save Allen and Cook... I did not hear anything regarding what he intends to do differently... color me very disappointed... Over all, I am going to reserve judgement on the improving the team via Free Agency piece until we actually get there. The draft piece I am less than excited about if he is not going to bring in some other talent evaluation eyes... he will just have to get lucky. I am not doom and gloom, but I certainly dont feel better after this that is for sure.. I will however wait to see what he does with the team in the off season to judge. I think firing him now would be a mistake... as someone who lived thru the firing Polian years... lastly, even if we removed them both (I think they are a package McD and Beane) do you really trust Terry to be able to hire a duo at this level.... please refer to the Sabres.. JP out... flame away.

I am not disparaging this post.... but I can only imagine what Josh Allen would have done to defenses back in the Mid 60s... when the average DL probably was Josh Allens size lol... and the average WR and RB probably ran about as fast as Josh does... I can imagine a lot of broken fingers on WR and DBs lol....

The funny thing is the official with the actual view of where the ball was marked it a 1st down... the league chose to go with the official that couldnt see where the ball was instead of the official that clearly saw it was a 1st down. I am sorry I dont like to conspiracy theory but this is utterly inexcusable so much so that it leaves you wondering why?....

Thanks Micah be well... enjoy retirement

Maybe they will give us Worthy for him???/ 😆🤣

and that is why it would surprise me and I am not for it.

Surprise moves - not that I agree with these... or at least all of them, but I would be really surprised... I could do with a new set of eyes on the Defense. I would like Beane to also bring in another pro personnel guy. Offense - Kincaid traded (that would be a total surprise) Defense - Babich fired ST - Bass cut FO - Beane hires a new assistant of player personnel to help evaluate More likely moves Offense - Coop, Samuel not resigned, Knox deal re done with a paycut. Defense - DL coach fired ST - Smiley out FO - nothing unless it is to replace Gray or something like that.

Everything you say is true.. but i feel like if one of those things are reversed... we are coached better or the officials dont blatently cheat... we win.. and thats without the team playing its A game... I think if that happens we win as well...

are you counting their 2pt conversion... cause I feel like you need too... red zone play for points... Defense is a disaster.

Dont forget the obvious neutral zone infraction on the 4th and 1 and the fact they let the Chiefs take the 2 minute warning despite it being delay of game.

For way too long this is the case... and If we go into next year with a cobbled Defense that has no game wrecker and passive schemes we will see the same result.

Well they didnt lose cause they were lazy and didnt work hard.. personell issues and coaching let them down...

I think this was a frustration of mine all year... neither had an adequate initial game plan and played into what other teams prepared for. I was happy to see them make adjustments at half time... as our 2nd half generally improved... but the lack of 4 quarters and anticipation in our game plans especially with Babich was very concerning.

Not a huge Worthy fan, I do see him as a bit more gadget than starter... but lack of deep speed was a thing this year for us... so yes I do believe it would have looked a bit different.. Like literally Mack Hollins was your deep threat.. unless you throw a 50/50 ball to Coleman.

as it should be... In some ways if he was back too soon I am glad he got out of the game with that glancing blow... I cant imagine what a serious hit to the head would have done.

I personally would not

Literally every position on Defense needs to be upgraded... Even LB as I have zero faith Milano reinvents his old form. But I am going DE and DL first because I believe a pass rush and bigs DLs that keep OLs off our LBs could have the biggest impact... after that Safety and CB... I have no idea where you go here... I suppose if you keep Douglas (who was not overly impressive to me) you may go Safety... if he doesnt... I have no clue which you prioritize.... probably Corner because you can at least hope Bishop improves... But I would love to see Rapp relegated to back up status... he is a friendly fire missle that routinely knocks out our players... For you old timer hockey fans... anyone remember Eddie Shack and Brian Spinner Spencer.... fair hockey players... but caused utter devastation to anyone near them as well as themselves... thats kinda like Rapp to me...

I agree

Amen... losing Benford was really bad... not only because he is one of our best Defensive players but he was replaced by someone who really doesnt belong in the league... then to make up for it by an anemic pass rush... thats disaster... When you combine that with Rapp being out... who is not the greatest safety of all time but still our best... and you have Damar (who is a marginal NFLer as a starter) leading the 2ndary it gets really bad... last thing... our DB injuries are the majority of the time self inflicted... Johnson, Rapp (multiple times) Douglas, Hamiln... even Bernard as a LB were all the result of out of position DBs... running around like Keystone Cop missiles maiming each other... that has got to stop... Yes

Guess people will have different definitions... Disaster to me is 30th in the league in getting off the field on 3rd down, 29th in the league in most first downs given up despite the fact we have an offense that controls the ball like very few others. I agree and did mention personel deficits the lack of a game wrecker killed this team as it made the personel ineffectiveness much more obvious. Quite honestly the lack of over all aggressiveness is concerning unless you are talking about the fact his players were out of position running around like chickens and mostly knocking each other out like keystone cops. The majority of our injuries to DBs were friendly fire... Maybe it is all the players and he is the next coming of Bill Parcells...who knows and not that you are saying that... but i see it as a mess that needs to be fixed. By way I think there is plenty of blame to go around including him and Beane for the drafting and construction of that unit. That being said it's fixable and I am hopeful they show improvement next year with or without him . But i am not colored impressed by him at all

He could be he won't ever let on i just don't see the seeds of discontent being sown

Well I was encapsulating all of the takes I read on the board that were speculating why he might be upset or have the right to be angry... and simply saying that maybe if he was mad he was probably mad he had a chance to get it done but didnt... if you are asking me how that works I feel like its pretty simple... he is a competitive player... he wants to win ... he didnt get it done... so he is mad... and I think that is better than him being happy... If you are asking me about every other posters take on why he might be mad, I have no idea... I told you why I thought he was upset. He is not the type to blame others and demand changes he tends to look at himself.

I agree here, you gotta know that on fourth and game that you have to have contingencies... we were badly out coached and Brady was pretty bad imo.