DrDawkinstein

Josh Allen, like Mahomes and Brady, is a good enough QB to get you a shot at making the Divisional round every year on his own. The main difference is the other two QBs were also complimented by a Head Coach who can take a team over the next hump from the Divisional round to a Super Bowl victory. The Bills do not have that guy wearing a headset right now.

Diggs has also shown me enough over the previous seasons to believe his core body injury was/is more significant than he let on, and hope he can come back closer to previous form next year before I even think about moving on.

Ha! Floyd is a mercenary tho so I don't expect anything else from him. All fair. Not like he was drafted here and has ties to the team.

Same season he and Shaq smack-talked the Titans OL into a couple of bad penalties, securing us a win in a tight 14-7 game. Good times.

We should absolutely look to see who else is out there and not just hand him the job, but I dont see many better candidates jumping off the screen, and I also don't knock Brady for some of the issues that come with inheriting a flawed system from an incompetent OC. I also agree with Rousseau that McD is a good Defensive Coordinator and would do well working under a true Head Coach.

If all of those WRs go before our pick, and Cooper DeJean is sitting there, then DeJean is absolutely our best pick. And I dont want a DB in the 1st. But reality is reality. Go DeJean and then WRs in the 2nd and 4th.

Look up the drafts on Wikipedia and see the WRs selected recently in rounds 1 and 2. If a WR is taken top 10 (certainly top 5) then they usually produce well right away. But once you get into that #15-#50 range, it's far more hit or miss (with a lot of misses). For every star WR you remember, there are a couple picked right after him that are like "oh yeah, who is that guy again?"

Watch tape of Cooper DeJean to see a player who McD would cream his jeans to get. Unfortunately, now that we've landed at 28, DeJean will likely be long gone by then. And I cant justify a trade up for a Safety. But that kid would completely transform our Defense. He's a Troy Polamalu, doesnt have a real position just let him run wild, type player.

Tom Brady: Round 6 Pick 199 Cmon. We can find ONE guy at almost any draft spot over the history of the NFL.

I believe Rousseau is capable of that. We'll see if it pans out. Folks also have to remember, this is the talent we get picking so late in the 1st. We have to be lucky to strike gold, otherwise the player would already have been picked in the top 10. Rousseau is a good all-around player drafted 30th overall.

I'm not sure how this ties to our WR situation as there werent any WRs we passed on with those picks. The missed pick was Basham over Creed Humphrey. Unless you are saying we could have already moved on from Morse and used that money to sign better WRs. But we didnt have any problem throwing money at WR this year with the Harty and Sherfield signings. So I'm confused on the details here.

He'll do well in FA. Much better than he'd do with the Bills offer. He is this year's Edmunds. Good for him. I hope he goes and gets paid well somewhere else. Moving on.

Because there was no plan. McD himself didnt know whether he wanted to score a TD, get a 1st down, or what. So he did the typical soft, loser thing and played for a tie.

lol. McD and in-game situational strategy. Never gonna happen. McD doesnt even know what to do in those situations. Let alone be able to convince the entire team of it. Let alone be ready for that situation with a set of plays they have practiced and packaged EXACTLY for this situation. That would take someone who is a true student of the game and true Head Coach. We have a Defensive Coordinator getting paid as a HC who fills in as HC on game day.

As a UGA follower I wouldnt even take him in the 2nd, especially given what he brings to this team, which is nothing we dont already have. Not meant as diss on Ladd. I think Legette is our guy at 28. Not sold yet on Franklin or Thomas but combine and workouts could change that.

Yes, even Campbell. Who can at least get his guys fired up and ready to play across all 3 units. And whose team is playing like they "should" be playing. And who is in a Conference championship while we sit home.

This draft is too deep at WR, and we have too many other needs, to make a double WR pick in the 2nd. It would be a re-do of the Boogie Basham mistake all over again. Plus, there arent that many balls to go around to justify that value of taking our 5th receiving option in the 2nd round. We should be able to take a WR in the 1st and another in the 4th-6th and still score some top talent while plugging our other holes with guys who can contribute right away as well.

And even if McD somehow figures it out, who will be listening to his stale-ass message in that locker room next year? I look forward to Diggs' meltdown in OTAs when he figures out it's Groundhog's Day all over again. Heck, make Diggs HC at this point.

Frankly, stumbling out the gates with that absolute debacle against the Jets set the tone for this season. Losing against the Pats and then Milano going down pretty much sealed our fate of an early playoff exit. Leaving 12 men on the field against the Broncos should have been enough to knock us out of the playoffs completely. But we have a Josh. We are an inconsistent, rollercoaster of a team who plays down to bad teams and bad QBs, and sometimes shows up against decent teams. That's all coaching. And isnt surprising since we limped into this season without a HC, and ended up with a DC serving as interim HC and a QB coach serving as OC. I dont see how anything changes next year without a coaching change. McD's message is going to be very stale in that locker room.

The bolded is the most troubling for all of us. This isnt even hindsight. So many of us saw it coming. Surely, the Bills would see it too, and have some sort of scheme up their sleeve to change something up. But no. And at this point, the Chiefs are pretty much a divisional game with familiarity. None of this should surprise our team. Yet we are left looking clueless each time.

I think this season really showed us how important that #1 seed really is. Mostly because of the Bye week. Just think, we beat the Jets, Pats, and Broncos like we should have and we are in that #1 spot. And instead of Bernard, Benford, Spector, Rapp etc all getting injured against the Steelers, all our guys are home and resting and we actually get Davis back with the extra rest as well. Look at the road the Ravens have to go: 1 easy home playoff game against a low-ranked opponent. Then the Conf Champ at home, and you're there.

This. Allen is keeping us in Head Coach Purgatory.

I dont believe that for one second. Even McD isnt that McDumb.

Haha, if the best you got in these "gotcha" scenarios is future HoF coach John Harbaugh, and Kyle Shanahan who has Mr Irrelevent playing at an MVP level, compared to McD who is supposed to be a "defensive genius" yet has never even won a SB in any capacity and whose teams fall apart every time the going gets tough, then you can play this game by yourself. None of the coaches left in the playoffs have warm seats and rightfully so. While some coaches who went out of the playoffs early should rightfully be questioned. McDermott is much closer to Todd Bowles level than Harbaugh, Shanahan, Reid, or even Campbell.

Agreed in general. But there is a pretty well known stat that no Head Coach has won their first Super Bowl outside of the first 5 years with his team. So there is a bit to that "new HC, win it all". Far more so than "7th year Head Coach finally gets his act together".