The team overall is much improved. Drake has grown a lot since last season.
That said, there are holes. Fumbling being the most egregious. The team does lack consistency, the LB corps is mid, the secondary is one injury away from being a liability and still lacks a true FS.
Could (or would) Gilmore come in as a Free Safety? He's a vet, has excellent instincts, still has the range.
The team has looked better, no question. It's also got a pretty cake schedule. And the combination of those two things is giving this team a great chance to show significant improvement in w/l. But all of the sudden it's playoffs or bust for the talking clowns on the airwaves. And they should know better, because a crap (or mediocre) team beating the Brady Patriots didn't generally mean that said team was on the come. It usually just meant that Brady & Co. had their (approximately) yearly dud of a game, and the same is true of the Bills of this era.
Let's look at the Bills and some of their recent losses (there were more than one per season, but I'm just trying to make a basic point):
2024 - Lost to the Patriots, who ended up at 4-13
2023 - Lost to the Patriots, who ended up at 4-13
2022 - Lost to the Jets, who ended up at 7-10
2021 - Lost to the Jaguars, who ended up at 3-13