BillsVet

Few posters go full hyperbole so quickly when someone disagrees with them like you do. Dude, remove the bunched panties from your fourth point of contact and don't take it this personally.

It's amazing that people are quick to credit McBeane for the Cooper trade and practically ignore the lead-up to that, namely the costs involved. They spent an entire off-season preaching their "everybody eats" strategery only to change course after 5 games when Josh had been battered and they were blown out once and lost a winnable game at Houston. Yeah, they corrected themselves but only after it was abundantly obvious their plan failed miserably. The expectation of good management is to anticipate problems before they arrive...and it shouldn't have been hard to anticipate in the post-Diggs Bills last April that WR was a huge weakness. That insistence on stupid is why they're 2 games back of the #1 seed when they should be 1. Also meant the guy who is keeping you from being a 6 win team took some huge hits. Still amazes me that, after 8 off-seasons the Bills have not drafted a 1,000 yard receiver, WR or TE. Perhaps that changes next year, but it's further indictment that they don't value pass-catchers or know how to scout them.

You former military? My battalion commander said that all the time in Iraq.

Bad things man! That's what happens when people don't vote for Bruce LOL. He was DPOY in 1990 and 1996 an 8x 1st team All-Pro and 3x 2nd teamer. I could see Allen down the road, even though they played in different eras where passing is vastly different. But Bruce remains given the career length and dominance. Out of his own end zone no less where you could have, as a ST holder, your name on the Jumbotron. If memory serves, it was from the 2009 Cleveland game Buffalo lost 6-3 where Derek Anderson completed 2 passes for the Browns. Ughh. What marketing genius thought up that angle?

McD has talked about this now during the tenure of the last 3 OC's he hired. This loss, isolated to one week of the regular season isn't impossible to stomach. Playing on the left coast has always been an issue for east coast teams. But as you've alluded to, there are matters which aren't addressed which appear against above average teams which portend what we inevitably witness in the post-season. HC is married to his philosophy and will never change. And, he has failed to raise his coaching acumen to a level which parallels the abilities of his QB.

Inconsistent play against quality opponents and still...an over-reliance on Josh to do it all. Overall doctrine McBeane adhere to must change this off-season.

Obviously this move was timed by Pegula and the Machiavellian McDermott to deflect from the Sabres' historic loss last night.

Part of the oddity this season comes down to competition in the AFC. KC is still good, but seem off. They'll make their playoff run I expect. BAL will be there and is concerning because their run game is problematic for Buffalo's run defense. None of PIT, HOU, LAC, DEN concern me at this point. Ironically, I remember that 1990 season and Buffalo playing at NYG (which was 12/15 also) and winning. Ended up being the SB preview. Bills play Lions on 12/15...that would be a heck of a SB.

It's not surprising Goodell and the owners want this. It's amazing to watch how, since Gene Upshaw died, the NFLPA and commissioner/owners are basically on the same team now. There's no labor strife because they're united by making more money. No one talks about how an 18-game schedule shortens careers or that the quality of the product will decrease. We saw a glimpse of that this season when, with pre-season reduced to a few big scrimmages, the quality of play declined markedly at the beginning because starters don't get pre-season PT. I'm sure players even with another bye thrown in also aren't keen on the international games to Europe and South America. Which makes one wonder whether there'll be some division within the NFLPA about just acquiescing to this. Wouldn't be the first union where leadership and rank and file aren't agreeing lately.

Conflating the subject doesn't make your argument any more valid. Josh takes too many hits. Happened especially at the beginning of the season as receivers didn't get open. It's more him taking off on scrambles now, designed or not, but it's placing him in the line of fire too often. If your offense features/requires Josh carrying the ball, be it short yardage or otherwise, upwards of 8x or more times a game...the offense has issues that he's masking. Too late to resolve this season...but better be a point of issue this off-season. As in, leaning toward offense more in UFA and the draft than they've done before.

Stop being obtuse. This isn't a statistical debate as you insist on framing it as. It's how many unnecessary hits Josh takes because the offense needs him to run the ball. As to @Simon's point, he's been getting beat up each year. Perhaps a couple years ago that could be, in part, attributed to his style of play. Not anymore.

Less hits? Come on dude. The human body cannot take the head impacts Josh has taken (1 is too much) without some kind of lingering issues eventually. Even when it's him shaking his hand after a run like versus Arizona or in the Chiefs game it's disconcerting. And that's because they didn't resource the offense appropriately, which became apparent after Week 5's loss in Houston. Point is, the HC and OC all too often use their quarter-billion dollar asset sometimes like he's just another player when in fact he's the difference between being a top-2 seed and picking in the top-5.

Saw this as well and that ownership wouldn't necessarily fire Daboll and Schoen as a result. I am not so sure on the latter...owners know they need to win and HC's and to a lesser extent GM's are blamed first. And, owners don't fire themselves for weighing in on personnel decisions. Gotta have good ownership in professional sports now to be successful. To know whom to hire, when to get involved and when to stay out of football decisions.

Daboll is who he is. What he's not is the guy defining their overall football philosophy and establishing their correlating roster priorities. The cost of not having a top receiver group is that your QB is asked to do more and in Buffalo that's Josh running. He becomes the default option to make up for personnel deficiencies which, as we learned in the Baltimore and Houston games, isn't himself enough. Maybe retaining Cooper, seeing Coleman improve combined with a healthy Shakir and Kincaid are that group. But if Josh is carrying the ball more, that's largely because their receivers aren't good enough.

One would think this is enough for McBeane to recognize sub-par receiving talent leads to this outcome every season.