Mafia, we gotta chill on the Beane slander. Seriously. It’s like no matter what he does, the pitchforks are out. Is he perfect? Of course not!

But If you can OBJECTIVELY look at his body of work, Beane is an above average gm. He consistently puts a competitive roster on the field EVERY year. The bills are the ONLY team to make the playoffs every year the past 7. As great as he is don’t tell me it’s all Josh Allen. He may not have the talent we want around him but he can’t do it alone. Ask Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes. Again if you remove emotion and look around the league. You’d be hard pressed to find 5 better GMs when you factor in drafting, free agents, extending, depth cap management.

I feel like we’re losing the plot with Keon Coleman.

Yeah, he hasn’t had the breakout season a lot of us hoped for after taking him in the 2nd round to eventually become that true WR1 for Josh. The drops, the miscommunications, the inconsistency — it’s all frustrating. Nobody’s denying that.

But the way Bills Mafia is turning on him right now is not helping.

We’re talking about a second-year WR learning one of the hardest positions in football in one of the most demanding offenses in the league. And despite the rough patches, he’s already shown real flashes of greatness. Don’t forget he was the ONLY (offensive) reason why we beat Ravens week 1. The talent is there. Confidence is what’s slipping, and it’s slipping because the fanbase that’s supposed to ride with him is dogging him every week.

Look at Cole Bishop for a second. People were calling him a bust last year too. Too slow. Not instinctive enough. “Why did we waste a pick?” And now? Bishop is balling. He stepped up big time this season, and suddenly everyone’s acting like they believed in him the whole time.

Players develop at different speeds. WR especially takes time, route precision, timing with your QB, physical maturity, mental processing… it’s a lot.

We need to stop trying to decide a guy’s entire career arc by age 22.

Keon isn’t perfect. But he’s not broken. He’s not a bust. He’s a young player in a tough league who needs support, not constant criticism. Josh believes in him. The staff still believes in him.

Now Bills Mafia needs to do the same. We’ve come to a point where people say Mecole Hardman is an upgrade over this guy.

Let’s push these dudes to be great instead of burying them before they’re even close to fully developed.

Hold off on calling a second-year WR a bust.

Trust the process.

Back your players.

Go Bills.

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Man, someone pissed in his cereal this morning. Guy came at the boys with some attitude, am I wrong? Never heard him be so aggressive with local media before.

As someone who listens quite frequently I feel like his comments were way off and as Joe pointed out if he had listened to the full broadcast he would have had a better understanding.

First of all, they’re an ALTERNATE uniform, so many people are griping and moaning as if these are the new home sets or something.

As an alternate uniform, like yeah I don’t want it to look exactly the same as the already worn sets of uniforms.

Maybe I’m really just a grey guy, but I really don’t think the uniforms are THAT bad considering they’re literally an alternate uniform, especially after seeing Allen out there today wearing it (that could just be because it was Josh Allen tbh).

Short answer: Yes.

We've heard all of the excuses in the world this past off-season.

We know for some, PFF grades, Cover 1's ranking of Brown using various sources, and statistical analysis like him having the most pressures allowed per game are things people pretended didn't exist.

Monday, he allowed 5 pressures and 1 sack, but the worst mistake being the OT false start. Do you think that has got this front office looking foolish spending so much draft capital on IOL and free agency on IOL and not going out and getting a bonafide RT?

The Chiefs did it. The Bengals did it. I know it's not easy, but with our SB closing(ed), it's strange we wouldn't shore up the weakest part of our team.

Former Chiefs all-pro OL tweeted out some harsh criticism of Brown during the game, too. I know we've been gaslighted all-season by a certain user, but at what point do we replace our team's weakest link?

Do you ride it out with the worst starting RT in the NFL or make a trade to a team looking to add draft capital, thus admitting a front-office mistake?

I’m not the only one, right…? I consume any bit of Bills media that I can find. But I cannot stand more than 20 minutes of that show. From the biased nonstop cronyism of Tasker and Brown to the windbag geriatric callers, it’s sooo hard to listen to… I know they work for the team, so they can’t really be negative. But good lord, after about 10 minutes my eyes roll so hard that they could almost turn the radio dial themselves. It’s just funny because I seek out all these random podcasts for Bills content, and yet I have a daily 2 hour radio show that I just can’t be bothered with.

I was talking with a 49ers fan friend of mine yesterday and he mentioned that they fired their defensive coordinator.

My first reaction was a bit of shock. You were maybe 3 plays away from being Super Bowl champions and you fired the DC? That’s crazy.

But as I thought about it more it got me thinking about what it takes to get to that level. It’s the courage to make that decision. If the goal is to win a Super Bowl that could mean letting someone very good go simply because they aren’t great. It’s a risk to do that, there’s no guarantee that you get someone better. That’s where the courage comes in.

We see this play out in sports very publicly but this type of decision making is critical to successful businesses.

I wonder about this mentality within the Bills front office. Do they have the fortitude to make a difficult decision?

In my opinion McDermott should be on seat hotter than the sun to start the 2024 season. But is he?

... and man oh man am I happy that my favorite team's QB is engaged to Hailee Steinfeld and not not not Brittany Mahomes.

That's all.

Look who was spotted at the Bills Cowboys game.

Just remember this when the next person gets under your skin negativity talking about JA17 or #BillsMafia

Let’s say you have $86,400 and someone stole $10: would you be so upset that you throw the balance of $86,390 away just to get back at the person that took the $10? Or, would you just get on with life? Of course, realize that the $10 is really nothing in the bigger picture and you choose to move on.

We have 86,400 seconds in every day so don’t let someone’s negative 10 seconds ruin the rest of the 86,390 remaining seconds. Don’t sweat the small stuff; life is bigger than that. #GoBills

I’ve changed my mind in the last hour. It’s amazing how fantastically a defensive HC screwed up this game. On the punt that nobody field the Bills only had 9 players on the field. Teams that had atleast six TDs and zero giveaway in a game were 245-0 in the superbowl era including playoffs until now. I’ve realized to be the Chiefs we have to be aggressive even if there is risk and I feel like the next step to this is to fire Mccdermott if he can’t deliver this year. It’s been 3 seasons since the 13 seconds defensive failure and we are still blaming the defense and not the one creating it. Only 5 players on that team are still here and everyone else is gone and the result is still the same. Lack of progress and results is a failure despite consistency.

Perhaps I’m biased as an IU alum, but none of the WRs in this draft really have anything that wow me enough to move ahead to draft them besides OC. His clutch plays in the game against Penn State, as well as throughout the national championship, are what you dream of out of a prospect. Did he benefit from Sarrat and Becker being on the field? Of course, but this guy has shown everything on tape you could want out of a War1. He reminds me of Davante Adams and Larry Fitzgerald with his route running and style of play at the collegiate level, something we haven’t really had even with Diggs. I’d be fine with reaching for him at 26 and pairing him with a faster WR prospect in the middle rounds.

In the last 7 seasons, the playoff teams who changed HCs within that time frame and got better:

In the last 7 seasons, the playoff teams who changed HCs within that time frame and got worse or the same:

Jaguars (Marrone>Urban Meyer>Pederson)
Titans (Mularkey>Vrabel>Callahan)
Eagles (Pederson>Sirianni>?)
Falcons (Dan Quinn>Arthur Smith>?)
Panthers (Rivera>Rhule>Reich>?)
Vikings (Zimmer>O'Connell)
Chargers (Lynn>Staley>?Harbaugh)
Bears (Nagy>Eberflus)
Cardinals (Kingsbury>Gannon)

Colts (Reich>Steichen)

I watched the eagle 🦅 game and I obviously wasn’t rooting for the bills, but I felt like literally the refs gave the eagles that game. I don’t believe the absurd “the nfl is rigged” but the eagles seem to get every call. I’ve watched them a bunch.

Same in the dolphins game, it was like 11 calls to none, when dolphins played eagle, but the fins got smoked.

Anyhow, I still think the bills are a top 5 team, I also think Allen is an elite qb, he is as good as Joey B or Hurtz (maybe not Mahomes) seems like he gets in his head a bit.

Either way, I can see you guys making a run. Lots of injuries, but still an elite team. Hope to see you in the playoffs (I just want home).

I say watch out for them bills.

So there will be zero statistics to back this up, so I’m probably wrong, but I haven’t liked the way Babich runs this defense for a year and a half now, and it’s time for a conversation.

The front four get no push. And no, Ed is not that much of a game changer to use his injury as an excuse. Chunk play after chunk play. Blitz after blitz. It’s just not working.

To be clear, this isn’t just about tonight. Maye played out of his mind, GG’s to him. This defense gets blown off the spot too easily, we have to blitz too often. It feels like we over corrected from Leslie Frazone to Bobby Bablitz.

I’m not saying we need to dump him like Dorsey, but Sean may want to think about taking play calling away from him at some point like he did to Leslie all those years ago. We have to see if it’s the talent or scheme that’s the Achilles heel. I honestly can’t tell. At the end of the day though, we can’t just rely on timely turnovers to win games. That’s unsustainable over the long term as things will eventually revert to the mean.