SI Article on Bills Successful Re-load

[DrMaxPower]

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills-bond-on-and-off-the-field-paying-dividends-afc-east

 

Good article on the foundations that have allowed the Bills to reload instead of rebuild.

 

I think sometimes we are too close to the situation to fully appreciate what we have. For as much as people want to crap on McD, he's one of the best in the league and we'd be hard pressed to replace him with somebody equal, let alone an improvement.

[Draconator]

1 minute ago, DrMaxPower said:

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills-bond-on-and-off-the-field-paying-dividends-afc-east

 

Good article on the foundations that have allowed the Bills to reload instead of rebuild.

 

I think sometimes we are too close to the situation to fully appreciate what we have. For as much as people want to crap on McD, he's one of the best in the league and we'd be hard pressed to replace him with somebody equal, let alone an improvement.

Now you did it

[K-9]

As long as we have Josh, it's always gonna be reload vs rebuild.

[DrMaxPower]

4 minutes ago, Draconator said:

Now you did it

Some people have trouble with the truth. Especially these days.

[Mikie2times]

14 minutes ago, DrMaxPower said:

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills-bond-on-and-off-the-field-paying-dividends-afc-east

 

Good article on the foundations that have allowed the Bills to reload instead of rebuild.

 

I think sometimes we are too close to the situation to fully appreciate what we have. For as much as people want to crap on McD, he's one of the best in the league and we'd be hard pressed to replace him with somebody equal, let alone an improvement.

 

QB records the last 3 years with a 65 or better QBR (excluding Allen)

 

119-43  73.5%

 

Allen's record the last 3 years (all 3 at 65 or better)

 

35-15    70%

 

Lets not overcomplicate things 

 

 

 

Edited November 4 by Mikie2times

[ColoradoBills]

Not just McDermott, let's not forget Beane.

[Comebackkid]

1 minute ago, ColoradoBills said:

Not just McDermott, let's not forget Beane.

as much as i love/ have loved Beane from the beginning...his pendulam swings far to the ups and the downs.

[DrMaxPower]

13 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:

 

QB records the last 3 years with a 65 or better QBR (excluding Allen)

 

119-43  73.5%

 

Allen's record the last 3 years (all 3 at 65 or better)

 

35-15    70%

 

Lets not overcomplicate things 

 

 

 

Allen is discussed plenty in the article.

 

I personally believe this prevailing attitude that only the QB matters and everything else just falls into place is nonsense. It takes a village, even when you have a QB.

 

Plenty of good quarterbacks have crappy years on bad teams. Chicken or the egg scenario.

Edited November 4 by DrMaxPower

[julian]

12 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:

 

QB records the last 3 years with a 65 or better QBR (excluding Allen)

 

119-43  73.5%

 

Allen's record the last 3 years (all 3 at 65 or better)

 

35-15    70%

 

Lets not overcomplicate things 

 

 

 

What is this telling me ? Im old and learnings and thinkings along with graduating grade 10 have me stumped lol.

 

that was an actual question, not being a smartass just wondered what you think it says.

[Saxum]

31 minutes ago, DrMaxPower said:

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills-bond-on-and-off-the-field-paying-dividends-afc-east

 

Good article on the foundations that have allowed the Bills to reload instead of rebuild.

 

I think sometimes we are too close to the situation to fully appreciate what we have. For as much as people want to crap on McD, he's one of the best in the league and we'd be hard pressed to replace him with somebody equal, let alone an improvement.

 

Clearly the crappers will disagree but they are obvious in almost every thread they are saying he should be replaced.

[Big Blitz]

37 minutes ago, DrMaxPower said:

https://www.si.com/nfl/bills-bond-on-and-off-the-field-paying-dividends-afc-east

 

Good article on the foundations that have allowed the Bills to reload instead of rebuild.

 

I think sometimes we are too close to the situation to fully appreciate what we have. For as much as people want to crap on McD, he's one of the best in the league and we'd be hard pressed to replace him with somebody equal, let alone an improvement.

 

 

There is so much bad defense around the league.  It’s just never here.  And we currently have another quasi skeleton crew.  That performance in week 2 at Miami was just a master class.  
 

I know we all hate the OC juggling and we all want to maximize Josh.  

 

But the man can motivate his team and coach defense.  If we are going to have a top D every year with him - at some point a championship has to happen. 
 

 

 

[ColoradoBills]

20 minutes ago, Comebackkid said:

as much as i love/ have loved Beane from the beginning...his pendulam swings far to the ups and the downs.

 

My pendulum swings side to side, and I'll stick with Beane and McDermott instead of some unknown replacement.

But that is just my opinion.

[Einstein]

4 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

My pendulum swings side to side, and I'll stick with Beane and McDermott instead of some unknown replacement.

But that is just my opinion.

 

This is where I am at.

 

McD infuriates me at times, but realistically… we have it pretty good. 

[balln]

Until we actually do it in playoffs. The coaches from Cincy and kc are better than McD in playoffs.

[FireChans]

Just now, balln said:

Until we actually do it in playoffs. The coaches from Cincy and kc are better than McD in playoffs.

Are we sure Cincinnati is gonna make the playoffs?

 

I’m kinda over this regime. But McD doesn’t let the team sleepwalk to third in their division like every year.

[Shaw66]

The point that this article misses and that McDermott was too modest to admit is that McDermott built his team with the expectation that this is exactly what would happen as players leave. When he came to Buffalo, he said the objective was to get better every season. He and Beane were very clear that they intended NEVER to rebuild, just to get better. 

[That's No Moon]

Is Sports Illustrated even an actual publication anymore or is it basically a badge that almost anyone car write under, sort of like Forbes.

 

IIRC, they're one of the content generators that has been frequently accused of having AI write stuff.

Edited November 4 by That's No Moon

[BullBuchanan]

Who says it was "successful"? Before the Cardinals won yesterday, we hadn't beaten a team that has a winning record. If we can't beat Baltimore or KC in January, then it wasn't successful.

The fact that our division has become the worst in football isn't our win.

[Ethan in Cleveland]

9 minutes ago, FireChans said:

Are we sure Cincinnati is gonna make the playoffs?

 

I’m kinda over this regime. But McD doesn’t let the team sleepwalk to third in their division like every year.

They are 4-5 and still play Steelers twice so a bit of their destiny is in their hands. They have winnable games against Browns, Dallas, and Titans as well. 

They play Chargers soon which that head to head game might determine who gets last WC spot. 

Right now they are on outside looking in, but still have a decent chance to make it.

[FireChans]

1 minute ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:

They are 4-5 and still play Steelers twice so a bit of their destiny is in their hands. They have winnable games against Browns, Dallas, and Titans as well. 

They play Chargers soon which that head to head game might determine who gets last WC spot. 

Right now they are on outside looking in, but still have a decent chance to make it.

But that’s not a unique situation. They constantly start the year underperformed and behind the 8 ball.

 

Not defending McD here, but Burrow and Zac Taylor are running a LOT of mileage out of that single SB run 4 years ago.