Austin Gayle

Is it Chris Shula with the Los Angeles Rams?

Maybe you do get a on-paper upgrade in schemer, but there's no guarantee.

That that person also coming in is the leader of men that I think Sean McDermott has been since he's gotten there.

And I think he, in my opinion, if he isn't that schemer that is like changing the game like Mike McDonald is and with Seattle, what he has done for me is he's constantly gotten the best out of his players, if not gotten more than what people expected in terms of on paper, the players that they brought in like Christian Benford, DeMar Hamlin, Taron Johnson.

Micah Hyde, Jordan Poyer, you go back to some of these early defenses.

He, in my opinion, has constantly made the players that the Bills have had on defense better than where they would be if they went elsewhere.

And are you going to find that in this crop of candidates?

I don't know.

No, definitely.

I think that it's hard to say whether or not he had win that McDermott could let go.

It sounds like there was rumors going into the playoffs that he was one of the coaches that if they didn't go on a run, could be let go.

I mean, and I think a lot of that too, whether Harbaugh would have been the fit, like him coming in as the CO coach, like it really does depend on who they're going to bring in it.

Because then if you bring in Harbaugh, now you're going to have to bring in whatever defensive coordinator he's going to find, right?

Or it sounds like he's committing to his guys.

And then he's going to probably bring in Todd Monk.

And like, I don't even know if Harbaugh would have been the right fit for Buffalo.

I think what they're looking for is...

a defensive schemer that gives them an edge on that side or an offensive schemer that thinks they can take the top off with Josh Allen.

But I think if I'm the Buffalo Bills, I'm much more thinking I have an easy button with Josh Allen.

And it's worked with Ken Dorsey at times.