‘Blows my mind’ – $9bn can’t end Super Bowl curse as Josh Allen and Bills fans suffer from ownership ineptitude

Robert Kraft is rarely heard from and he has six Super Bowl trophies as New England’s owner.

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Bills owner is holding back team

The Buffalo Bills have never won a Super Bowl and have 60 years of championship ineptitude.

Yet there was Terry Pegula all over NFL social media on Wednesday, proving to the world that an estimated $9.3 billion in worth can’t buy anything of real football value.

“How (Bills general Manager) Brandon Beane got elevated (to president of football operations) and Sean McDermott got fired (as head coach), that just blows my mind because they didn’t have any d*** players,” former Super Bowl-winning head coach Bruce Arians told the Pat McAfee Show. 

“I mean the guy’s one of the best coaches in the league and a great leader of men. He’s taken that team as close as you can get, couldn’t beat (Patrick) Mahomes. (McDermott) didn’t throw any damn interceptions. And the referees screwed him bad and he gets fired. 

“C’mon man. And Brandon Beane gets a f****** raise? I don’t get that one. That one blows my mind.”

Josh Allen’s losing tears were proof that change was needed in Buffalo.

Allen is one of the best players in the NFL and the Bills’ undisputed franchise quarterback.

But he’s 29, racks up massive hits, and Buffalo has taken his resilience for granted in recent years.

Allen needs more help, not drama

Something had to be done within the Bills’ organization, which still hasn’t recovered from going 0-4 in the Super Bowl from 1991-94.

Buffalo had plateaued with Sean McDermott, while Allen is too talented to never play in the big game while proudly wearing a Bills uniform.

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But the aftermath of McDermott’s cold firing has done nothing but expose the Bills’ front-office dysfunction.

Beane didn’t deserve a promotion. If anything, the ninth-year general manager should have been pushed out the door with McDermott in a full organizational reset.

Yet Pegula didn’t just promote his GM and allow Beane to fail upwards.

The $9.3bn owner stole the mic during Championship Week and blasted the Bills’ incompetence to NFL fans across the globe.

“The coaching staff pushed to draft Keon (Coleman),” said Pegula, interrupting and taking over a press conference question. 

Promoting GM makes no sense

“I’m not saying Brandon wouldn’t have drafted him, but he wasn’t his next choice.”

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Coleman, a second-round pick by Buffalo in 2024, now knows he wasn’t wanted by the Bills – or the team’s owner relies on biased inside information. 

A simple look at the Bills’ roster shows that Beane, not McDermott, is to blame for a lack of top talent at wide receiver.

Khalil Shakir led Buffalo in receiving this year – with only 719 yards.

No one else topped 600 yards, which left the Bills over reliant on Pro Bowl running back James Cook and Allen.

Buffalo’s defense has also fallen outside of the top 10 in average points allowed the last two years, forcing Allen to constantly overcome limitations that he has no control over.

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Throw in all the hits and dents in a Wild Card win vs the Jacksonville Jaguars, and it’s no wonder that an exhausted MVP was left in tears after another Buffalo playoff heartbreaker.

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Allen has also remained silent since McDermott’s firing, while Pegula teased that his Pro Bowl QB supported the decision.

“The starting quarterback will be part of the team to help select a new coach,” Pegula said. “He’s going to be working with us. And anything else — his feelings — I want to keep that private. I don’t want this in Josh’s head.”

The exact opposite has happened.

Bills players and the passionate Bills Mafia now know that a billionaire owner backed a GM he’s friendly with over a head coach with a 98-50 record and eight playoff wins. 

With Allen at QB, Buffalo should be better than an annual playoff loser.

But finding the right head coach to push Allen where Jim Kelly couldn’t reach only became more difficult — because of a $9.3bn owner who can’t get out of the Bills’ way. 

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