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It's clear that the Bills will never field a Super Bowl caliber defense to win them a championship, though. So, what now? They have no difference makers on defense, but have two on offense. Is the team's best chance to give Allen more weapons and roll the dice or try to load up on defense again and again and try to build a stout defense? Would love to have a stifling defense, but do you really believe that is possible with Mcdermott and Beane at the helm?

The number of idiotic posters coming out of the woodwork is mind boggling. Samuel only appears open because Allen is scrambling to his right (where he is very dangerous), and that shifts the defense to the side the QB is scrambling to. Why? Because defenses know that QB’s don’t throw 60 yards across their body. So they let those WR’s run free. What we have now is a bunch of fat old men in their mother’s basement criticizing everything the greatest QB in Bills history does…. only because we lost. Had we won, the minutea they are nitpicking would never come up. He had a bad game they say? What!? He was 71% passing, had over 300 yards, and 2 TD’s. And he would have had more if Coleman knew how to catch a back shoulder fade, or didn’t fumble the ball in the open field, or if Brady didn’t want to hand the ball off to Dawson freaking Knox. None of these people deserve Allen.

No. He builds mentally soft teams that have occasional flashes of brilliance but it's just not a sustainable model for an 18 week season + playoffs.

Who the heck was eating the glass bottles? I just drank the liquid.

Some believe so, i do believe with better play calling along with no stupid turnovers then we win https://x.com/stoolpresidente/status/1975044092104179995

If the Pats win 12 games I’ll eat my hat. They will lose games to teams you think they “should” win against. It always happens with up and coming teams. They turn the ball over and give up sacks like crazy (which continued vs the Bills, we just turned the ball over more and didn’t recover two 50/50 fumbles).

Oh, I agree. They aren't a Superbowl contender.

I would also like to add that I really dislike the identity this team has, and that's all on the coach. We take what the defense gives us on offense; we react to what the offense does on defense...it's all really passive and designed with an objective of not losing rather than playing to win. It's created this environment where the players are flat for most of the game and then borderline-panicky during big moments. They're soft, and that fact rears it's ugly head every time we play a physical team that is well-coached.

agreed. i tend to accept the human element in bang bang plays, or that refs sometimes have weird angles…. But haven’t really figured how this one went sideways. It wasn’t particularly close.

Josh Allen is good enough to overcome McDermott and win it all, but it’s a very narrow path. His teammates believe in him 100% and that’s invaluable. I don’t think they have the same belief in McD and the coaches. So it’s possible, but unlikely.

I agree with everything you said and to that last point, Josh has looked off the last few weeks. I see what you are seeing, he looks like he’s losing patience with the scheme and wants to make something happen rather than “take what they give you”. Peyton Manning said it best, Josh has all the talent in the world, he has to be ok playing boring football if they are going to win. We know Josh is not stupid, he has to see the flaws of the team. It also looks like he doesn’t trust Samuel for some reason. He seems like a last resort even when he’s open. I could be dead wrong about that, but it looks to me like he’s gone back to forcing the ball to his primary guy, come hell or high water. He wants the ball to Shakir or Kincaid, other times he gets fixated on 0 and tries to push it to him. No offense to Keon, but he looks to be exactly what a lot of people here feared, which is to say, just a jump ball guy. I don’t know anything for sure, but I don’t think Josh trusts Brady as the play caller and at this point, I think that’s justified. Some of these plays have zero shot in hell of working and they always seem to come right when they kill momentum. I know some people think he’s amazing, I personally feel he has zero feel for the game.

Disagree, Allen played a good but not great game. If the Bills can't win games against decent teams, and yes NE is decent, when Allen only plays good then they are not a SB contender.

Yes I think he would help them not be a dumpster fire.

Not a single individual can answer this confidently with a "yes"

I think it's possible, maybe even over 50%, but it won't be because of McDermott's defensive mind.

He would be perfect for the Dolphins or Jets. Teams that need a HC to change the losing culture. They both know him very well being in the AFCE.

Allen would need to throw for 350-400 yards, 4 TD's minimum per game, and zero turnovers. The other team would need to turn it over at least twice.

Yes. Yes he was. He was accurate and mobile. And he outplayed Allen. So, yes, I would say he was THAT good. In fact, he's likely to only get better, while the Bills keep rolling out the same team every year.

Maybe. We'd need more luck than other contenders.

Yeah and I'm not one to complain about 50/50 flags. Like plays where the WR and CB are hand fighting all the way down the field, I'm fine with the officials letting those play out. But this was textbook interference. He is slamming into Shakir's back before the ball gets there which was obvious even on the live broadcast.

A white out in October is pretty dumb

Forget whiteout! Anyone who didn’t want to get blackout after this one wasn’t watching close enough

He missed some reads, threw a pick, fumbled, and at times bailed on the pocket too early. I think that can qualify as a poor game by his standards.

Maybe if the Bills have pristine health going into the playoffs and every opponent loses all of their running backs, their CB1 and their WR1 the week prior to playing the Bills.

I thought Coleman also screwed up to pretty good first half sideline throws where he wasn't the 50/50 jump ball guy the Bills need him to be.