A common refrain among Bills Mafia during the 2023 NFL season and continuing now is the sentiment that Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott should be replaced. By whom? Many don’t seem to care — with the idea that Josh Allen is a generational talent who creates an “easy button” for a head coach.
That got me thinking. What if we plugged Josh Allen into the underachieving Bills teams of the past? For these editions we do rapid fire of all the years that didn’t get a full article
This season is a great case study for how much impact one player can have. The seemingly easiest path to the playoffs in 2006 was to chase Kansas City and the six seed. Just two games ahead of the 7-9 Bills, that doesn’t seem like a heavy lift. Could Josh Allen have improved the team by three games? That would allow us to dream about catching the five-seed New York Jets. Let’s check out which games might have been flippable.