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10-7. 7th seed against the Patriots or Broncos.

What I witnessed was Allen trying to win the game by himself with no WR support and certainly zero defensive support. In years past, when things were going poorly, Allen would just play football. Some of the other elements would step up and make big plays. We have none of that now and it’s making Allen play worse. The team and coaching staff is killing him. In previous seasons, the Bills would finish strong at the end and we would see a sudden death in the playoffs. This year, it’d death by a thousand cuts. By the time the playoffs start, the Bills will have bled out.

The biggest hole on this team is at WR. Last year the NFL hadn't figure out had bad we were at the position. The negative impacts are: Josh is holding the ball too long sometimes and forcing things to make a play. We never chip with a back a great edge rusher like Anderson because we need people out on routes. The OL has to hold up. The running game would be even better if we didn't have to run into 8-9 man boxes. The defense needs to play with a lead. That's the script. We are devoid of talent and can't stop the run unless teams have to play catch up against us. We have to be perfect most games. The games we lost think NE, Atl, Mia, Hou 20 pts, 14 pts, 13 garbage pts, 19 pts and at least 3 TOs in all those games. Far from perfect.

Surprised so many think Cincinnati is an L. I know they can score but at home Bills should put up 37-40 points on them. Sadly, I think we go 1-1 vs Cinci and Cleveland but I chose CLE as the loss because it's a road game. The weather could suck for passing, maybe their D-line stuffs the run like they did to Green Bay earlier in the season and the Browns win like 16-13.

sadly I'm only optimistic vs the jets. team is a mash unit

Just an NHL team and an NFL team come with infinitely different external pressures. If you were to tally how many times in a year the word Sabres is mentioned on national TV vs. Bills, the delta will be well into the thousands. Terry can screw up the Sabres and no one notices. The entire world sees and talks on the Bills regression. He can’t hide in plain sight with this. There is no denying that he has done a bad job with the Sabres. That’s like saying though that his $200k house is in rough shape. The focus will always be on the $1M home. When the $1M home in the nicest neighborhood starts to fall apart, people notice.

As well as NE is playing, it’ll be difficult for them to sweep the Bills (or at least should be).

Thursday Night Football Game Balls 🤔 Thursday Night Football Game. Balls! 😠 At the owners' meetings this year, maybe Pegula proposes that defensive team players aggregate weight constitutes players on field. With the Bills' affinity for small and light, they might be able to field 12 or 13 players. 🤔🤨

Do you understand sarcasm?

Unpopular opinion, but they should offer Josh, after what this coaching staff and front office (all of them deserve to be fired, btw) have done to him, a chance to go play for his childhood team, the 49ers. Flame away!

The book on Brady is out there. DCs are coaching up their defenders to the point where they are running the Bills routes. It is aggravating to see not change in route trees.

11-6 and either the 6th or 7th seed in the playoffs

That may be true but we have a much worse coach and defense. This team also didn't already get over the psychological hurdle of winning a championship. They still haven't gotten over the hump and the cycle has already passed They need to pivot to a shanahan archetype. McDermott is not evolving bro

McDermott calls the defense. IMO I think he’s doing a good job holding the defense together and keeping it afloat despite all the injures they have especially up front. Joe Brady and Josh run the show on offense.

I think I read that Bernard is pretty easy to get out of after next year. So we’re stuck with him in 26 but I think can get out somewhat cleanly after.

That is coaching right there. Position coach and OC have to drill it until they get it to be second nature.

I see that I'm in the super minority via the poll but I don't want to miss the playoffs and I don't want Beane gone. I think McDermott is the burnout... It's his defense that has let us down repeatedly. He's had the luxury of passing the blame to whichever coordinator he assigned to run this supposedly complex scheme that isn't effective at all. He should've been taken over the play calling on that side of the ball if nobody else has run it correctly. It's literally what has held us back from championship contention. A boatload of resources have been invested into it and it has yet to yield any significant results in which one can even remotely say it's a solid unit. We've passed on numerous offensive resources to address it and we just dedicated an entire draft to it. We need a different scheme period. As for Beane, I don't see him as the terrible GM that others seem to think he is. We had that during the drought years. He has had the luxury of 3 picks within the top 20 his entire tenure, while overhauling a roster that was fresh off of years (close to 2 decades) of terrible management. He got us Allen. He got us Diggs. He invested and rebuilt the OL to a top unit. He misses on some picks just like any other GM and he has some bad contracts like any other GM. I think he's tried to appease his HC to a fault over the years and that has skewed the perception of him. I'd be good with Beane working in tandem with another HC.

Man, if you didn't put that in parentheses, I never would have known what you meant

This post got me thinking. It's not Allen's problem if he isn't wired to be an a-hole and yell at his team mates. The fact that Brady & Rogers did it is irrelevant as they are different people with very different personalities. Just check out Mahommes who IMO is more like Allen then Brady/Rogers temperament wise. There isn't a lot of footage showing him yelling at his teammates and after the game he takes almost all the blame and doesn't throw teammates under the bus. Matt Stafford also won a recent SB with the Allen temperament. So while I agree that for some guys this works there are also plenty of examples where SB winning QB's don't have to become someone they're not in order to hold teammates accountable. In those situations like KC & LA: * the coaches play the bad cop holding players accountable. * the GM's bring in guys who are self motivated and don't need the QB yelling at them to do their job. Remember the bickering Bills? t hit it's dysfunctional peak when Kelly started throwing teammates under the bus (remember Howard Ballard) and Thomas publicly called him out on it. This supremely talented team went 9 - 7 and lost in the first round of the playoffs. But Kelly got the message and stopped yelling at his team mates and Thomas STHU and the rest was history. So rather then demand that Allen change his basic personality how about the Bills change the coach & GM and make accountability their responsibility.