One week after clobbering the best player in the sport, the Buffalo Bills were smacked themselves by a team fresh off firing their general manager.

Huh?

Here on “Real Football,” we’ve got to pan a magnifying glass over Sean McDermott, Brandon Beane, Josh Allen and the Bills with a man who once ran this team himself from May ‘13 through May ‘17: former director of personnel Jim Monos. You won’t want to miss Jim’s fresh take on the team. We examine what’s going wrong and where these Bills go from here… with some major news breaking mid-pod: the firing of New York Giants coach Brian Daboll.

That fourth-down kick in Chicago was a bad omen.

John Mara made the surprising midseason move.

Since recording, McDermott dismissed the idea of bringing Daboll back on his staff. As we’ve covered extensively, these two didn’t exactly see eye-to-eye at One Bills Drive. Could time perhaps heal those wounds? Let’s not forget the relationships that Daboll had with both Allen and owner Terry Pegula. Those matter, too. Several players on those Bills teams believed this team would’ve won multiple Super Bowls if Allen and Daboll were united beyond 2021.

We discuss in full with reporting from our three-part series a couple years back.

Either way, this Bills defense needs work and the offense must rediscover its rhythm against Tampa Bay this week.

As always, we spend the first chunk of the show analyzing the week’s games. (Holy, New England.)

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Bob McGinn will also return this week to talk NFC North. Keep an eye out for that Tuesday PM.

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