Do You Still "TRUST THE PROCESS"?

[HIT BY SPIKES]

I always attempt to show some restraint not to over react to just one game negatively or positively however the pattern is pretty obvious now.

 

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Bengals Play-offs' earlier this year

 

Last night (name to follow)

 

We find ways to lose.

 

I appreciate to the fans who have lived through the dark ages post-Jimbo have an admiration for this current Bills regime for getting us back into the play-offs on a regular basis, securing a true franchise QB and bringing Buffalo Proud back to the Buffalo Bills fandom.

 

I get that.

 

"Saviours" may be too highly a label to bestow upon this regime given Terry Pegula already took that title for first buying the Buffalo Sabres and then the Buffalo Bills and securing their futures in Buffalo.

 

I also get that.

 

However:

 

(1) Does Sean McDermott have what it takes to win the biggest games?  

 

(2) Sean McDermott is said to be a defensive minded coach and has been there for a number of years banging the table for an one sided investment of high draft picks, salary cap and free agency pursuits into the defensive side of the ball yet our defence and special teams continue to collapse in pivotal times of key games.  Why?

 

(3) Is Beane's inability to build an average NFL OL to give our franchise QB an extra 1/4 second to scan the field before making a decision to pass, run or throw the ball away or to allow us to run the ball successfully when we have a 10 point lead a fundamental obstacle to this regimes ability to finally deliver us a Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Championship?

 

(4) Do you still TRUST THE PROCESSTM?

[SCBills]

Honestly, no.

 

If Allen grows up, I do think we're talented enough to win a Super Bowl despite McDermott/Dorsey, but having a Defensive HC was always going to be an issue in terms of long term stability in a passing league where every other top QB has a year in/year out stable Offensive mind leading the team. 

[MAJBobby]

I think we have a very good FO.

 

I am unsure about the HC

 

I have no issues with the Ownership

 

 

[Airseven]

This regime is on the fade out. The roster will need an overhaul after this season and hopefully Beane and McDermott won’t be making those decisions.

[ngbills]

It feels more and more like the process means - take care of my guys, be good enough to keep our jobs, create a family / faith filled environment and less about winning and not accepting anything less. 

[BullBuchanan]

I haven't "trusted the process" since I first heard it. It was the most opaque, catch-all blanket for anything and everything that was wrong at the time. It may have been the dumbest thing I ever heard a coach say. It's become clear now that "The Process" isn't the solution, it's the problem.

[jethro_tull]

yes

[CountDorkula]

1 minute ago, MAJBobby said:

I think we have a very good FO.

 

I am unsure about the HC

 

I have no issues with the Ownership

 

 

I think you need to go read the trotted thread about your 3rd point. 
 

it’s kind of concerning if true. 

[Airseven]

Just now, ngbills said:

It feels more and more like the process means - take care of my guys,

Good point. This regime absolutely prioritizes trust and familiarity to a fault.

[MAJBobby]

Now can someone Finally define "The Process" seeing we want to keep talking about it

[zevo]

2 minutes ago, Airseven said:

This regime is on the fade out. The roster will need an overhaul after this season and hopefully Beane and McDermott won’t be making those decisions.

If the season goes bad this needs to happen but I don’t think it does 

[Bubba Gump]

Hated that quote from the first time I heard it. 

[dorquemada]

Yeah this team isn't going to win because of McD, but rather despite him.

 

The league has figured out Allen. 

 

The league has figured out that the Bills statistically dominant D can be run against and always gets soft in crunch time

 

Beane has largely refused to address the OL (maybe a little better this year?  wouldnt know from last night) but keeps spending high draft picks on gimmick players and stockpiling middling D linemen

 

McD is an old skool defensive minded coach playing checkers and everyone else is creating 4D chess offenses.

 

Long story short, yeah they might backdoor into the playoffs this year but unless Allen gets his head strait 8-9 wins is probably the ceiling, and we're right back to the middle draft slot trap

[MAJBobby]

Just now, CountDorkula said:

I think you need to go read the trotted thread about your 3rd point. 
 

it’s kind of concerning if true. 

Yeah I read it.  And yeah if true it is a bad quote.  When I look at ownership I look at four things.

 

Will they spend for players 

Will they spend for coaches and staff

will they spend on facilities

Are they liquid to manipulate the cap, but stay out of the football decisions

 

I think this ownership group does all that.

 

Now the out of that area, and you know being a good Human, yeah if that quote is legit Terry is a POS with that quote and thought process.

[Success]

No reason not to at this point.

 

We lost 3 games last year by a total of 8 points.  We fizzled in the postseason - but there were some extraordinary circumstances at play that didn't relate to the process.

 

I'm not going to overreact to 1 game, the 1st game of the 2023 season.  

 

[BillsPride12]

To be fair I don't even think McDermott uses that quote anymore

[Einstein]

I'm not really certain what the "process" is anymore.

 

We have gone through 5 different coordinators (3 OC, 1 DC, 1 ST) and the high point is still getting blown out in the AFC Championship Game 3 years ago.

[Bubba Gump]

Just now, zevo said:

If the season goes bad this needs to happen but I don’t think it does 

 

Well, if that quote from Terry is true, there will be big big changes. Although, Jerry Jones has been a known scumbag for years, and he is still the owner of one of the most storied sports franchises. Unfortunately, money runs the world. 

[SCBills]

6 minutes ago, Airseven said:

This regime is on the fade out. The roster will need an overhaul after this season and hopefully Beane and McDermott won’t be making those decisions.

 

What would Veach/Reid do after this season, given our cap situation, regardless of how it ends?

 

I'd guess that they would cut Morse, Tre and Poyer, while letting Hyde and Davis walk.  Sign a RT and then draft a WR2 early and go young on Defense.  

 

What will we do?

[dorquemada]

1 minute ago, Einstein said:

I'm not really certain what the "process" is anymore.

 

We have gone through 5 different coordinators (3 OC, 1 DC, 1 ST) and the high point is still getting blown out in the AFC Championship Game 3 years ago.

 

The process is McD blaming the coordinators for his own stupidity

Just now, SCBills said:

 

What would Veach/Reid do after this season, given our cap situation, regardless of how it ends?

 

I'd guess that they would cut Morse, Tre and Poyer, while letting Hyde and Davis walk.  Sign a RT and then draft a WR2 early and go young on Defense.  

 

What will we do?

 

resign the oldest players to the biggest contracts

 

then draft 4 high motor undersized DEs

 

rest of draft is for defensive backfield