Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and fantasy analyst Matt Harmon look ahead to what the Buffalo Bills need to address in the offseason after their playoff loss to Denver. Check out the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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You see, it’s very frustrating, I think, on the outside, to watch all this.
And then to see the names that are getting thrown out there.
Joe Brady, Brian Daboll?
Are you kidding me?
Yeah.
Um, and it just, it’s… And then also, it’s like, well, they have a good relationship with Josh Allen.
And it’s making me sound like Mike Martz when Sean McVay hired Jared Goff.
Are you hiring a quarterback, a buddy, or are you hiring him a coach?
And Martz was wrong about McVay, but what I’m saying with this, That’s kind of how I feel.
It’s like, “Okay, I get it.”
You want Josh Allen to have a good relationship with your head coach.
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But that’s not…
But I mean, there’s more to this.
There’s way more to this.
And Tim Graham from The Athletic did a great Reporting today, and basically what you said, it’s just like Brandon Beane.
The owner trusts people, and he just has a hard way of kind of going Like, he kind of trusts everyone.
It’s almost like, I don’t want to say gullible, but kind of.
A little naive.
I think, with a little bit of this, if you just read Tim Graham’s reporting, You kind of get what I mean, talking about old Bills players or execs.
They hired a guy with the Sabres, the hockey team.
He had no idea he was previously a GM for the same team.
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Like, stuff like that.
But you can tell Beane sits with them during games.
So, any issues they had, he goes, “Ah,” Yeah, they’re just not coaching them right.
Nah, they’re just not coaching…
This is a tale as old as time.
Uh, in, in football.
Bill Walsh had jokes about this in his book.
From the ’80s, so it’s just a frustrating Game of Thrones-ian type moment.
I think, for the Bills and everything that we got here, But yeah.
Any final thoughts?
What do they need?
They need trenches.
They need receivers.
It’s… yeah.
Obviously, you’ve got Josh Allen, but are there any names that come to mind?
Like, “Oh, that would be an interesting hire,” but I, I’m kind of scared of who they end up going with.
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Yeah, trenches and pass catchers, that’s what I meant.
Like, you really have to be serious about the pass-catcher thing.
And, you know, the Keon Coleman thing is so tough because I, You know, I talked a lot about that I thought he might be a good candidate More of a big slot than an X receiver.
Yeah, and you know, They draft him to this team where your best receiver has to play in the slot.
And Beane… ‘Cause I was going back and looking through, like, some of the old stuff about this.
Beane, at the press conference, said, like, “Oh, he’s our X receiver,” so…
He definitely did not watch my YouTube.
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Breakdown about this stuff.
But that’s just fine.
Brandon, I’m here to consult, brother.
I’m here for… to…
If you want to pay me six figures to come in for a week, I’ll… And just give you some stuff.
I’m happy to do it, but I doubt that he’s gonna call me after some stuff.
I just said, but, um, he might…
But no, I mean, he listens to everything.
Apparently.
He got his start in PR, so he might.
There we go.
But yeah, no, I just think that was immediately, like, “Ah, dude, no way.
That’s not gonna work out,” and it, It’s worked out, I think, even worse than it probably should have.
Just, yeah… To me, like, especially I, I, I’ve watched so much of not just McDermott’s defenses, but also Brady’s offense in Carolina.
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Where, yeah…
They got the most out of three receivers.
That team.
DJ Moore, Robbie Anderson, Curtis Samuel had over 1,000 yards from scrimmage on that team, and, Like, now it’s, “Oh, it’s the, it’s the offense.”
It’s the coaching?
I don’t think so, because these guys are just like…
It’s the players.
They’re not that talented.