DrDawkinstein

This is the modern day NFL. You have to expect shoot outs and your D to hold on where they can. After the first 2 drives, the D shut them down pretty well. But our O could not respond. The Defense is helping the Offense. The Offense is hurting the Defense.

Yep. The Defense has been doing all it can to keep the team in games, and has been getting no help from the Offense. Josh throws a bad pick in our own territory, the defense holds tight and forces a loss of position and punt. The Offense gets the ball back and immediately goes 3 and out in about 1 minute.

Sean McDermott isnt Dick Jauron. He's Marvin Lewis.

If you go by the classic ranking of Defenses by "yards allowed', then sure. But that Defense carried him to his first SB, and likely the 2nd as well. In 2004, the Pats were 2nd in Points Allowed with just 260. The first 3 he had help from the D and the team was balanced. The last 3 were all Brady.

This team really misses Milano.

I'm mostly surprised that this is surprising to any Bills fan who has been watching since 2018.

It's currently #7. I agree it isnt too crazy, but I'll feel better after another round of FA when it is out of the top 10.

While it isnt the best possible value, looking at the entire list of TE contracts shows that Knox is pretty accurately paid. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/contracts/sort-value/tight-end/limit-100/ The guys ahead of him are all much better. And the 4-5 guys right after him are making about as much but aren't nearly as good. Hardly our worst contract.

I chose the obvious "Dorsey sucks" but McDermott owns a good portion of the blame too. If for nothing else, not being a complete HC.

But his hit is over $16M so it makes sense to cut him.

Marry: Tre White Bang: Dawnson Knox Kill: Von Miller oh wait, what game are we playing?

Yes, exactly. The decision to fire is all Terry. And then up to him on how much he involves the survivors in the new HC hire. He could change the org structure at the time of a new hire, but I doubt he will. He likes it like this.

In the Pegula hierarchy, both McDermott and Beane have their own direct line to Terry. Beane does not work for McD. And the HC does not work for the GM. I'm not a fan of that flat org style, but it's what we have and will likely have as long as Terry owns the team.

Both separately answer directly to Pegula. Terry can absolutely fire one but not the other. Neither can fire each other. But Terry should keep Beane and fire McD.

If McD and Beane are truly a package deal in Pegula's mind then we are absolutely screwed as a franchise. Pegula needs to fire the coaching staff and work with Beane and the FO on finding a new HC. No need to throw the Beaner out with the bath water.

Oh, I am in no way relieving Josh of any responsibility. He needs to do better as well. Especially in not getting baited into bad decisions because he wants to play hero ball when all we need to do is move the chains with 6 yard chunks.

Allen is doing all that. Watch the JT O'Sullivan and/or Cover1 break down videos from the Tampa game. He is capable, at times, of making all those pre-snap reads, changing things around, and then finding the right guy in the progression. They arent just lining up and running a set play that is being thrown to Kincaid no matter what. I think Allen's "running the plays that are called" statement is more alluding to the fact that Dorsey isnt scheming anyone open, like Reid does with Kelce in KC. Even if Allen makes ALL the reads and calls and changes, the opposing Defense is ready for the dumb play and scheme Dorsey just called.

We have no "get right" games because we cant/dont ever actually get right. We already won a couple of "get right" games and then lay an egg the next week regardless. Fire the coaches. On to the Draft.

It's nothing new. He's always had these ups and downs. One week he slings it on his first read up and down the field, the next week he's double and triple clutching. What he is missing is someone capable of helping him figure it out.

I dont think this specific decision is fireable in itself. But McD and Dorsey should definitely be on the hotseat and accountable for their work. To me, it wasnt that Dabol "fired him up", but rather the opposite. When Josh started spinning, Dabol would get him under control and focused. Dorsey is unable to do that because Dorsey himself is spinning and unfocused.

A head coach is supposed to admin ALL phases of the team. It's that simple. That's like asking why you'd want your CEO with a Finance background being involved in Operations decisions. Of course they are. They are the CEO now. If McD can't handle that, then he shouldn't be a HC.

I was never in on this whole "Window" conversation, because I believe that as long as we have Josh under contract, our window is open. But the window with this coaching staff has closed. They drew the curtains with 13 seconds. The rest has been the pane slowly sliding down. Time to move on before we waste our talent.

Even worse and even more fireable for someone who is supposed to be HC.

We need this term now more than ever

Everything starts at the top.