This Year Is All About The Process

If there’s one thing we know by now about Sean McDermott, it’s that he likes to talk about “the process.

” A lot. The phrase comes up at pretty much every McDermott press conference, usually more than once. 

Fans and analysts may eventually tire of the phrase — unless you’re Joel Embiid, I guess — but there’s another word that is even more appropriate for the 2017 Buffalo Bills: Patience.

For obvious reasons, McDermott isn’t going to use that word anytime soon. But I will. And if you want to enjoy what could very well be a difficult season for the Bills, you probably should too.

Most of you are surely exhausted of being told to be patient after 17 years without the postseason. I don’t blame you. But the sooner you acknowledge exactly where the Bills are at this point in time, it should make everything to come that much easier to swallow — for better or worse.

The Bills have gone through several head-coaching changes throughout the drought; I’ll spare you the list. But this is the first time in a long time that the Bills have had wholesale change from top to bottom in an effort to right their many wrongs. There’s a new head coach in McDermott. There’s a new general manager in Brandon Beane. There are new scouting and player personnel departments with very few holdovers, which may end up being the most important changes of them all.