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Josh has 4-5 years of prime left. I’m now seriously scared they are going to waste his career. Good but not great surrounding him. That’s not going to get it done. McDermott and Beane built this team to where it is and turned this dead franchise around but not good enough to get us through all the way it seems. I will just add it’s criminal to send him out there with a subpar WR corps. He was better off with Diggs, Beasley, and Brown. He’s back to where he was his rookie year.

How many years of Josh Allen are you willing to waste? 1 more , 2 more , his entire career ?

#onebuffalo

I don’t know. Depends on how Beane compares each draft class. More likely, the deal wasn’t exactly as you describe it, or Beane did an assessment of what improvement he could get right now versus cost and decided no. Firing Beane would be dumb.

Explain how a 2026 1st isn't worth it but a 2027 1st is?

Hey, the US women won yesterday. His presumable rooting interests didn't go entirely 0-fer.

Beane had two possible trades lined up. DT Quinen Williams from Jets. WR Jaylon Waddle from Dolphins. Both teams in our division that we have been beating up for a long time. Both made it hard to close a deal. Beane worked it hard. He didn’t force it and take a bad deal. Realistically, they need more than 1 player to improve this team.

Happy Terry Pegula weekend.

Bills are looking like a middle tier team right now. Right on the heels of a big win over KC they lose in their division to a team that was breaking apart. McDermott and his staff failed to have them ready, similar to the Atlanta game where nothing worked on either side of the ball, both the game plan and the execution was lacking. Offense has become a problem. The Bills passing game has become Josh Allen scrambles and then hope he can find someone. Very few plays are drop back into a clean pocket, and fire to an open receiver 10+ yards deep. The WRs are a below average unit. Shakir is a good #3 slot guy. The rest are all below average players. At TE Kincaid is good, but not at the level of carrying an offense. Cook 3 is good, that’s about all we have in the backfield. Still, mostly because of Allen, the offense has been very good at times, going into this game they led all teams in offensive yards per game. Yet the underlying feel is the OC is holding them back. I think Brady has been figured out and is running out of chess moves. Defense played great against KC but was bad again today. Bad tackling, not enough QB pressure, missed tackles at the LOS that resulted in huge runs. Hairston is showing us what close coverage looks like, he is a bright spot and probably will be the best player on this defense soon. With Benford and Taron Johnson out they are really lacking. Tre White was bad and should retire after the season, DB depth is not good enough. The LBs did not contribute, Milano and Bernard are no longer a factor. The DTs have been ravaged with injury and Miami took advantage, and not having Epenesa at DE hurt. It looked like MCD took over the defensive play calls. This is looking like a wild card team that needs some retooling. Still a lot of football left but they lost another game in the standings to NE today.

So word is out. the Dolphins wanted a 2026 1st rounder for Waddle and Beane would only offer a 2027 poetic that Waddle caught that long TD off our first round pick today #FireBeane. His time has come and gone

And just to add, a big point of pulling the goalie and getting an extra skater is to put extra pressure on the opposing team and to create a sense of urgency when the puck is on an opponent's stick. Pulling the goalie early if you're the Eulers with McDavid and Draisatl out there has a logic to it; they do create an urgency on the opponent. Does anyone see the Sabres create an urgency / pressure on their opponents when THEY pull the goalie with 3 minutes to go? They don't get that urgency until the clock is actually running out. At some point, it would be nice for someone callling the shots to recognize that. Either get to a point where they can manufacture that artificial urgency or stop trying to do so. But just going through the motions is as stupid as dropping the puck back on the PP simply to drop the puck back on the PP.

Disaster of a game.

Well, yes. It ROUTINELY blows up in their faces. Do you really need to see more evidence before coming to that same conclusion?

You have to realize your argument is based on a premise that since they are pathetic at 6 on 5 it's not worth trying early. I mean, that's the Sabres in a nutshell.

When is the last friggin' time they scored in the 1st minute of having pulled the goalie when down by 1 with 3 or so minutes left. The Sabres regularly DON'T score in that situation. The opponent regularly does. Why make the game unwinnable before you get the extra pressure of the final minute or so working against the opponent. Get THEM to grip their stilcks tight too. And, again, realize the analytics say to pull the goalie early. BUT you have to factor in the players YOU actually have and not just look at some generalized thought process. (Heck, even you yourself point out the flaw in the Sabres pulling the goalie early - "you need to win that face off and you need to send that extra man to the front of the net." The Sabres DON'T do either. (Whether it's a matter of philosophy or merely execution doesn't really matter; at the end of the day, they do neither.)) Now, if Norris, Benson, and Zucker were all available, then it MIGHT make sense to pull the goalie so early; but it doesn't make sense to do so with who they actually can send out there.

Allen was sabotaged by the gameplan today. It's obvious that the only plan was to be more physical than the Dolphins. When Miami pushed back, there was nothing in the playcalling, scheme, or personnel to help him.

Josh is trying to carry this team on his shoulders. He is not the problem.

The margins for error are too narrow. The WR room is a joke, and criminally neglected by Beane. Neither coordinator is good. Brady's ceiling is competent. Babich is bad. McDermott's scheme is tired and decoded. If the owner wasn't the sort of chap he is, there would be consequences.

They could use way more misdirection play action, especially with the way they ran the ball last week. They could run the ball out of shotgun formation. That would slow the pass rush down and ease pressure on Allen. The could more middle of the field routes for Shakir. There are things Brady could do with play calls and play design. I get they want to build a physical mindset, but the strategy can't only be that Brady calls the same plays over and over, and the team wins on physicality alone.

They’re being too cute with these heavy formations that don’t breakaway into enough big plays to make them worthwhile we don’t have the receivers to do anything else then turnovers from frustration

Can someone make a reservation at Osteria 166 for Adams and Beane as soon as possible ??

He's shortened the playbook and become predictable. If Allen is under center, it most likely going to be a run. If Allen is in shotgun, it's definitely a pass. The run/pass ratio on 1st down leans heavily to the run. He was never good at scheming WRs open (both Diggs' and Davis' production dractically fell off when he became OC), and shows almost no imagination in freeing up receivers (for example, there are no digs or WR post routes in the playbook). His playcalling is stubborn. Today on 4th and 1, Miami called a timeout and it was obvious Buffalo was planning a pass. Even though the play was tipped, Brady didn't change the call. Miami knew these tendencies and gameplanned against them, and Brady did not adjust. He's gone from a potential HC candidate to a hot seat candidate this season.

Stroud is the biggest head scratcher

Not a popular statement I know .But Josh needs to improve and /or these coordinators gotta leave. Let him have more control .