mannc

Sorry, but when your franchise has one of the three true franchise quarterbacks in football, standards are a little higher than in the Trent Edwards/JP Losman years...

And is there any question that the Monday Night Bengals game would have ended the same way (or even worse) if the game had been played to its conclusion?

Ok

Brady wasn’t traded; the Bucs got him for “free”, so that’s obviously not what I was talking about. And of course the Wilson and Watson trades have been nothing short of a catastrophe for their teams. And the Rams look like they might be the worst team in the league next year, and for years to come.

These sorts of trades haven’t worked out too well recently for the teams acquiring the big name QB…

I don't know if any of that is true; I never heard about it pre-draft, but of course Simmons had an ACL injury that hurt his draft status. What I do know is that both are now game-wreckers and the next game lil' Ed changes will be his first.

A dome team

I just don’t know how you take an undersized, small conference guy like Oliver over a monster like Dexter Lawrence, who was the centerpiece of a championship defense at Clemson. It points to a serious flaw in the Bills’ scouting process and evaluation…

The Bills have the rarest and most precious asset in today’s NFL: A certified franchise quarterback, a guy who can win you games when everything else is going wrong. Beane of course deserves credit for drafting Josh Allen (and he probably would have been fired by now if he had not) but from that day forward, he and McDermott should be judged by one standard: How well have they leveraged this most precious asset? Unfortunately, the answer is “poorly”. Instead of loading up the offense to take advantage of JA, they have used most of their premium picks (and FA $) on a defense that still can’t slow down good offenses. The real bottom line is this: With Mahomes, the Chiefs have won a Super Bowl and reached the AFCC every year. The Bengals with two years of prime Burrow have reached the Super Bowl and at least the AFCC game this year. With three years of prime JA, we’ve reached one AFCC in which we were blown out. That represents a huge failure by the FO and the HC. How are these same guys going to turn that around? I have no idea…

I couldn’t care less. Oliver is a prime example of Beane drafting a JAG when difference-makers were available. We’ll have no problem replacing his “production”.

This team is not progressing. Other teams in the AFCE and the conference are. Poor drafting is catching up with the Bills; they are drafting replacement level guys, while our competition is drafting studs. Without Josh Allen, this team is a bottom feeder, battling it out with Houston. Of course, without Josh, Beane and McDermott are unemployed…

Chase is an OJ Simpson-level athlete. No CB in the league is going to make that tackle, in that much space.

He had zero chance to make that tackle on Chase in the open field.

I remember the play. White remained at least 8 yards off of Chase until the ball was snapped. Easiest 3rd and 5 pickup I’ve ever seen.

No, as opposed to annual AFCC games and Super Bowls, which is what the few franchises lucky enough to have QBs as talented as (or nearly as talented as) Josh Allen regularly achieve. Even the worst coaches in the history of this franchise couldn’t win less than 8 games with Josh Allen.

So you're good with 13 wins and a quick playoff exit?

We’re at three, and counting. And going backwards. I think the McDermott regime is about out of chances.

Wow, that’s one of the most myopic takes I’ve ever seen. Allen played badly today. Period. We can talk about the reasons for it, and context, etc., but he played badly and Burrow was damn near flawless. Sorry, but those are just facts.

I look at it differently: We might have won if we didn’t build a dome team. The way this team is constructed makes zero sense. A mini-rebuild is needed if we don’t want to feel like this every January.

Then you should prepare yourself for another early playoff exit. Without serious changes, we’ll be lucky to win the AFCE next year.

I don’t know what the answer is, but I know that if major changes are not made, we can expect a similar result.

Well, the Eagles won their first and only Super Bowl after sacking Reid, so…

I said he was outplayed today by Burrow.

How many years of Josh Allen’s prime are we willing to waste?

I’m not so sure about that