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Olsen is just as boring and just throws out platitudes. Romo has quickly gotten stale. His comedic schtick is just not funny any longer. I mean , is this guy worth millions to listen too? Compare to madden , summeral, Michael’s, Harlan, Gus Johnson , and these athletes turned announcers are novelties for a year or so. Soon their lack of broadcasting skills comes thru and they can only explain so many plays. Is Tom Brady going to be worth 30 mil to hear? He is boring and monotone all the time and they all are afraid to burn bridges with teams or players because they don’t want to burn their gravy train. Brady will kiss a## like usual. Who turns in just to hear an ex player; while plenty turn the sound off to avoid the cliche diatribe. They just come across as intern broadcasters milking their sport when they are already millionaires and don’t have the passion that young, upcoming broadcasters do. Do you think they have more passion to play the sport, or just talk about it!? They have no pressure to excel because they already have FAME and money and they are not hungry. Bring in new talent , not guys we have already heard for years drone on at their pressers. Stick to a few min on pregame or podcasts and bing in fresh voices! . Romo is a sarcastic joke now and he just diesnt seem sincere or passionate! He is more interested in funny quips than being creative and bringing something new to his “ analysis”. . I just can’t fathom how much these has- beens get paid to be bland ! Yeah , I’m tuning in to fox to listen to Brady who I hated as a smart a$$ and whiny B for 20 years already ! Lol. Chris Spielman was a. Athlete who did excel at broadcasting and added to the booth. I do miss him. Brady will be a male Beth Mowins , and I hate insulting her that way! 😀

Augie, my thoughts are with you. Bless you and your mom and family. I can empathize. My 96 year old mom ,:who still lives alone at home and can drive her car , just got out if the hospital ( she and my 76 year old sister who is married, both still live in southeastern Ohio in the Steubenville area, about 30 min from Pittsburgh and where Dean Martin was from, but also is very cold during the winter) For a bad episode of congestive heart failure. Luckily she is doing better , and my sister lives close enough to stop by when roads permit. But my sister just had a large surgery on her leg for recurrent melanoma ( sister was a teacher for 40 years who sunbathed in the summers off and oiled and cooked herself in the 60’s / 70’s before sunscreens we’re widely used ) and can’t go pick up my mom now so thanksgiving my mom will be alone as she lives out in the country. To top it off I just turned 65 in July but a strange Medicare snafu fir this year splits my part b , which covers Drs visits , so it won’t kick in till 1/1;23, even tho part A started on 7/1/2022, my birthday month. Hours on the phone with Medicare / SS didn’t resolve it. After 5 discs collapsed in my neck( no trauma , just aging I guess) my urgent neck surgery was unsuccessful in returning feeling to my arms and hands and my balance is off , so I had to finally give up seeing patients in person after 40 years in medicine. Never thought I would miss working or being on call for Thanksgiving. I live in Jax , fl , and I can’t fly up to see my fam for the holidays as my cervical cord is still impinged and I’m not supposed to lift more than 10 LBs cuz that pressure gets transferred to my neck and when I tried lifting more , I begin losing motor function in my hands and left leg. Was supposed to have more surgery but tragically my neurosurgeon, who is responsible for me at least still being able to walk, rolled his suv crushing him and he is now a quad! I swear you can’t make this tragedy up. So this Thanksgiving is the first I can remember as my 96 year old mom will be spending alone as neither my sister or I can travel to be with her and with her recent CHF, she is not supposed to do much or be out in that bitter cold in Ohio right now. just wishing all you here good health, as it’s no cliche that good heal means everything ! Enjoy Time with your families and loved ones , as you never know when life can suddenly turn. Enjoy Thanksgiving and the Bills together and while we all want the Bills to win , the important thing is creating another memory of being together! Happy Thanksgiving, and go Bills!

Saw him live and am old enough to have experienced his peak career time. Was pretty funny and live show was great as long as you didn’t sit close to the stage! Was a family type show as far as I remember , certainly not edgy or vulgar and didn’t attack lifestyles etc. Seemed like a genuinely nice guy This and losing the guy who played lebeau ( French chef guy of hogans hero’s , does makes me sad. Had seen Robin Williams in Vegas not long before his death. It’s like losing parts of your own life as these icons and larger than life people that were legit celebrities move on to something better I can only hope and pray for. They provided moments of relief and laughs and I am thankful they were a part of my memories. Time flies and it really is too short. Bless them , and I pray you all enjoy your own health as long as you can prolong it so you can keep enjoying the Bills, your family and friends, great holidays, and even some more beautiful snowfalls! 😊🍸

Not overreacting! Our dbs are terrible tracking the ball , rarely make PBU’s , drop too far off receivers and give up the first down marker , then are poor tacklers with bad pursuit angles. There’s a reason they currently are all low round draft picks. We miss poyer, hyde , white , and even Elam should be better. Currently we lack a #1 cb or shut down corner so we get exposed on these long distance downs , esp as our line can’t get home to finish sacks either. Bad situation. Frazier can’t keep sitting back until we beat healthy, or this will continue.

He just needs confidence back. This is on dorsey. Diorsey allowed the browns to take Diggs out. That’s unacceptable. The route tree is terrible , too congested , poor spacing. On the all 22 Josh has no open receivers. Dorsey needs to keep running,, get Hines involved as out #2 has a 17% drop rate, and be more creative with formation ( once today he actually did put Diggs in the backfield forcing a time out by the Browns! ) and motion and Josh will have more open guys. Do quick slants so Josh has no reads and csn just drops and throw so he gets confident. This is in Dorsey’s hands and mind!

Well you can’t SELECT which catches you want to consider. 193 yards , career high so far , is not taking him out. Diggs hasn’t had that much yardage in a game , or if he did he surely wouldn’t br complaining on the sideline to Mcd! That is being fair! Lol. If that’s our best d scheme to take him out we are really going no where. He did get taken out by Dallas today tho. That’s he same argument everybody uses about the run D ; well , if you take away the 81 yard td run our run defense was fantastic. Unfortunately there is a thing called a scoreboard and it isn’t selective about what counts. Why not just discount a whole quater, I’m sure our d would look great! Not being argumentative, but teams are scheming to take Diggs away and it’s working more as we go along. I’m just saying dorsey meeds to scheme more with motion , like today he put Diggs in the backfield and the Browns immediately burned a time out because they Chas no scheme for that. So Dorsey needs to be more proactive with formations , motion which are much harder to cover Diggs and then he won’t have to complain to Mcd We have to do more as our other receivers, esp Davis withal 17% drop rate , are so far disappointing and unproductive. How much productivity did we get from the slot or McKenzie today? Zip as far as I know. That’s not a successful offense. Kc is the model of success, winning another from behind, and we better be able to out score them. 😊👍

Great points about Mcd and I agree! But unless he can get Dorsey to step up with more creativity , this roster isn’t Super Bowl bound. 6 fgs won’t keep cutting it and it’s a critical sign the red zone offense is ineffective. Can’t have your #1 reciever almost totally taken out of a game ,; didn’t happen to Jefferson did it from the Vikings? Dorsey did some better with run game today , but he hasn’t gotten creative with Hines at all and route tree is terrible with poor spacing. Receivers aren’t open. Mcd did save the season for the moment , but Thursday is still critical and after watching how Reid is so creative with his offense and use of young players , unless Mcd can bring more out of Dorsey, I fear we won’t win the East or move on in the playoffs as a wildcard. Chiefs are once again holding on to home field and we know how that goes if we have to go there twice in a year. injuries on D are killing this team so it comes down to maximizing our O production. If Mcd can get that across to Dorsey , and there are some signs he did as Dorsey stuck with run game today, we may have a chance. They have to solve these red zone issues tho. But like you pointed out , Mcd was masterful today , saved this game , and we still have a chance. Many analysts are picking fins to win the East now , Bills to be a 4 or lower seed and if that happens despite todays great Mcd performance , it might be a failed, wasted year. Hoping Mcd can have his best year , and not be outperformed by a first year coach Lin Miami. Let’s see how Mcd gets us thru Thanksgiving, as Detroit comes in on a 3 game winning streak. Another huge challenge , let’s go Bills!

Tre will not be back Thursday. No medical issues change in 4 days so if he didn’t play today why would he Thursday.? Brown and Wood were critical ON AIR today so fo pr them to say something is huge. It was stated an insider reporting he is not wanting to play on turf ; if this has any truth other than just not wanting his first return to be on turf, it could be career changing regarding the Bills. Some smoke means there is fire somewhere. Even if he returns , he won’t be t6e same immediately. We have no #1 cb and it’s showing with brisett getting ove 300 yards , good QBs will kill this defensive backfield. Poyer still playing hurt, can’t cover everyone. Bills coaches are obviously growing increasingly frustrated with Tre or that stuff doesn’t get to Brown and Wood! 😊

There has been a plethora of simple and high ankle sprains and even one ankle fracture ( crowder) this year. It’ SEEMS unusually high and I am wondering why this is almost a weekly occurrence. Perhaps an athletic certified trainer can comment , but this seems like one type of injury you could better prevent. Better taping techniques, better use of shoe type and even use of ankle splints/supports that fit in shoes and limit lateral and medial movements at the ankle mortise / talar joint area. Just seems like this lauded group of trainers could decrease the numbers of ankle injuries going on. Would be interested in ideas from guys with experience as I don’t think we are seeing this league wide. Going to be tougher week if Morse, groot, epenesa all are out against Lions who are on s three game win streak. We can’t afford losses hanging on to a wildcard spot in the playoffs in a year with a talented roster ( tho now this receiving corp.may have been very overrated).Any thoughts on ankle injury prevention? Thx!

True. Dorsey’s play designs are still an issue. He has to get our #1 receiver the ball. Other teams , like the Vikings , don’t let their top receiver be taken COMPLETELY out of a game.

And taking the ball out of chubbs hands! Thank goodness.

Hmm, what is Highmark stadium turf,,,? If this is actually something, maybe he us just referring to his first game back, as otherwise it’s a career changing issue. Time will tell , but if true this would be very hard to work around as the new stadium is years away. Have to to think it just refers to first game back.

Yep this shocks me.

What would realistically change in 4 days medically for him to suddenly be available?

Yeah I was thinking the exact same thing ,,,,Frazier always being creative! They just said Watson played Allen for the Browns in practice this week. How insulting , couldn’t be two totally divergent guys But yep, all those dbs will really be great nailing Chubb today. This game and Thanksgiving are up in the air now. Cower really nailing Josh on him pressing and throwing all the ints. It’s another reason this game is possibly an L today if we keep the turnovers going on. Josh has 5 of his 10 ints throwing to Gabe. Davis has a 14% drop rate ! Team playing shaky and now all the travel Etc is distracting. Hope we can pull these two out

I’m sensing his reluctance to get back out there ; Starr realized he had lost his passion for the game and his level of play never returned after his long Covid absence. It’s a fact , the longer a worker is out from injury , the less likely they are to return. What’s bad about being financially set and just working out with the team , and not having to get beaten up every week.? Have to admit it is possible Tre is looking at things differently now. I still think he will be back but if Brown/ Eric wood were actually critical on air , that does say something as those guys never are that critical of players and Browns career is at stake if he says the wrong things about the Bills players. Heat is getting turned up !

So much for him being a help stopping the run today. Lol, guess he was not familiar enough with the D after being away for 1/2 a season.. well at least Hines is active so I’m sure he’ll play a big role today😀😂

All really valid points and it’s the reality of a 6-3 team. Throw in the lack of practice this week , a terrible red zone offense, a team unable to adjust enough to score any tds after half for 3 games, a ROOKIE OC whose tendencies are being exposed , Allen in an int slump while also dealing with an elbow issue, WR’s other than Diggs underperforming and Knox also not producing as expected , an inconsistent almost nonexistent run game from the backs who also struggle with ball security issues, our inability to find much use for Hines after trading for him, add in a D line that still struggles to actually get sacks on players like Wilson and Cousins that results in those long distance down conversions you mentioned, and I wouldn’t be shocked if Cleveland makes enough big run plays to pull off an upset. We didn’t get to 6-3, being 3 rd inthe east and 0-2 in the division by being an unbeatable team. This team, as it now stands , is no where near the team that started the season, and a big part of that is missing Hyde and White unexpectedly from the backfield. This d can’t be.counted on to hold leads currently and I expect Frazier to run the same packages as always despite facing Chubb because of the lack of practice time. Cleveland just has to stick with their run game and the Bills have shown they will blow gap coverage at some point as Frazier’s scheme repeatedly ends up with 7 guys responsible for 8 gaps, if you have seen and buy into the good analysis by cover1. The Bills are facing an unexpected challenge and to win they have to correct all the offensive production woes regarding their second half slump and red zone miseries, while also trying to stop the top back in the league with an error prone defensive squad riddled with injuries. It would be a huge confidence builder and spring board for the remainder of the season if they turn all this around and get back to looking like the team that began the season. If anybody can pull this off, I would bet McD could, so it will be interesting to see how he does. IMO, it’s hard to see this as a blowout win a lot of fans are predicting. Any win given all that is going on would be fantastic. Go Bills. 😊

Wow, what a rough period for this team. The o is performing badly after halftime and they needed work on the red zone and offense in general. Injuries , illness, ,now missing practices and losing a home game followed by a short week. I have to admit my confidence in this situation for the team has taken a big hit. You can only tolerate so much and the obstacles get to be too much , like a straw that breaks the camels back situation. This is a huge distraction and they are playing a team whose offense is built to go against one of this D’S weaknesses. The season could be on the edge here if they happen to drop one or two close games. Wishing for the best but odds are really stacking against the team. Bad time for a slumping team to lose a home game , have extra traveling and the distractions around this terrible storm. Having been thru two hurricanes coming close to my home recently , and being from Ohio and faced snow storms growing up , my thoughts and prayers are with all you on the board being affected. Watching the Erie county warnings on YouTube and things look really tough there. Two people have already died with MI ‘s ( heart attacks) shoveling snow up there according to the Sheriff’s office and county health officials at their 3 pm briefing. If you have any cardiac issues , please stay away from shoveling as the cold and exercise really increase the risk of sudden cardiac death. Be careful with generators because of carbon monoxide poisoning. Stay safe off the roads and stay snuggled in safe with your families. Nothing is worth going out and losing your life over, so be wise and stay inside ! Best wishes, thoughts and prayers with you guys as you go thru this dangerous storm. Hopefully , things will ease off by game time so you can at least watch it safely in your homes up there. This is really turning out to be a season of challenges and if they somehow make it out with two wins , it really could help propel them to big things. It unfortunately could just as easily go the other way, and we could see a promising start crash to a halt. . Mcd is pretty good at crunch time with holding the team together thru adversity, so hopefully things go well, but it’s becoming a difficult lift. Go Bills, stay safe ! 😊👍

Fumble was 100% on Allen , it’s obvious as the ball hit him I the hands as he was trying to go to the right. My issue is lack of awareness by gabe about the fumble and as you mentioned , it’s obvious with the motion when the snap is coming. Dorsey is not adjusting to his own tendencies. The pass play just didn’t need to even be called at that point. We were driving the ball and we had time. Dorsey giving up on the run is to common and he is interested in “ balance” of playcalling, not really staying focused or sticking with what has been working or going on in the game. If Dorsey’s play calling was good , we wouldn’t have gone 3 games without a td in the second half. Those route are concepts , if you watched Eric’s video, have not been perfect. They look terrible, predictable, unimaginative, and the spacing between players is repeatedly so poor that they are dragging defensive players into the plays! It’s gone on for at least 3 games now. Allen gies thru the progressions , most of the time no one is open and they are not good enough scrambling to make up for covered routes and Allen is getting hung out to dry. We won’t beat quality teams with the offense being called and executed like it is now. Other than Diggs , no one is making plays in the red zone and Dorsey keeps refusing to run consistently. This looks like a hot mess right now. Mcd better realize this as well in the red zone and quit giving up fgs and take the points when available. Being up 13 in this game would have sealed things. People focused on it still only being two possessions for the vikes to tie , forget we could have been under less pressure and added a second fg perhaps , either keeping or retaking the lead unless the vikes got 2 tds with 2, 2 point conversions. The coaching decisions are losing games. Unless they suddenly reverse these offensive failures in the second half , this team is in trouble regarding the playoffs. Even if they make it they have will most likely have lost home field advantage once more and that’s a shame. I don’t see them running the table or the rest of their afc east schedule unless Dorsey improves , Davis improves his consistency, they run better , and both White & Poyer return and stay healthy. There is just too much talent in the division and the Chiefs and Titans are coming on again and we likely would end up playing them once again away from Buffalo. injuries and Dorsey’s inexperience as an OC I think have probably derailed this teams SB run without all those changes I mentioned happening. It could be another “ learning “ season under Mcd , but it didn’t have to go that way if Dorsey was more creative. Hope They turn it around , but I’m not counting on it unless they prove they can control the next two winnable games.

As I have said in other posts regarding another Mcd historical loss, this seems systematic of the “ process” having not solved some basic communication errors over the Mcd tenure. Every year we see a spectacular situational football error, this time the fumble, not drilling into Josh we had a tie with the ability to be patient ( receivers were open underneath or he could have run) in OT, and now this with 12 men on the field. Other teams don’t seem to experience so many losses with blown leads or by committing huge gaffs during the game ; eg yesterdays multiple gaffs , hail Murray, 13 seconds etc., inability to run the ball ,calling all passes on 2 nd and 2. It just keeps mounting. These are embarrassing I would think if you are a professional organization ; you don’t think of the Pats doing this type of thing during their period with talented rosters. All teams have rebuilding times but these memorable mistakes are going on during a period with the most talent in 20 years and supposedly during our SB “ window”. I don’t have the answers , and I’m paid like I don’t! Lol ! But there are guys being paid who should have the ability to have learned and fixed these issues. We always get Monday morning qb answers From this staff after each crazy loss; “ we obviously want that back “ etc. Is that still acceptable 6 years in ; shouldn’t they have faced most situations you might run into as they ascended the coaching tree? I really like Mcd and his culture , Beane as well. Frazier has great stat D’S , but many times they don’t play to their statistical dominant level at critical times. Dorsey , looked good early, but may be having issues adjusting with no 2 nd half tds since KC ! I hope they can correct course , learn as they keep telling us from these situations. But I’m starting to see cracks in how this team is situationally prepared and performing that just keep recurring. The big question is do you believe this staff can win when it counts, in the SB , where errors are magnified ? The injury bug has played a large role , but Mcd is losing to staffs with much less experience and that’s concerning. They can turn this around; they should have the talent to do so , but they have run out of excuses for memorable mistakes. I think this is a critical time for this year, and maybe for some or a majority of this staff. I am losing faith with each bungle that they have the coaching talent to win a SB and this leagues longevity is result dependent. Last half of the season may be a fair judge about this staff.

Every year some new situation happens with this staff. Situational communication continues to be the one issue these historical ways of losing have in common. Mcd and dorsey made several errors like refusing to take the fg or passing 3 straight downs on second and two. This is something Mcd has happened yearly ; some spectacular , unexplainable loss each year. Historical ways of losing and the process is still flawed. Concerning for the future practically. They have to be in Joshs ear when at the twenty ,,,,hey worse is we tie , plenty of time. But they miscommunicate or don’t at all and Josh gets impatient. This is groundhogs day!

Good points. Hey, you can’t lead the league in ints, and think that’s good and Josh has no role in losing. He didn’t get to leading the league in ints by just todays results, it’s a pattern of poor communication from coaches at critical times , and Josh being unwilling to situationally stay patient. Early in games with no pressure, where communication errors are less likely , we build leads. But we keep making mental errors and our inability of our rookie OC to develop a reasonable run scheme and commit to it throughout 4 quarters leads to blowing leads etc. It’s 4 -5 years of this., every year this team blows some very winnable game and they can’t come out on top in these heartbreakers. It’s something wrong with the process of communication.and decision making. Josh is PART of that process; he is a great player but at 5 years these mental breakdowns ( ints, fumbles) are resulting from something in the process. Mcd needs to get this corrected or he will limit his coaching future. Allen must improve in late game situations. We are still losing most close games and that’s something most thought of as highly successful Qbs do become proficient at. He has the raw talent, , can’t excuse all these ints. Not unfair to be critical of his decision making 5 years in. Dorsey is complicating his development some this year. It’s the elephant in the room.

Plus Allen can’t to stay patient. No need to score a td from the 20, with 1:30 left. Poor playcalling before ,with no commitment to sticking to successful run game they had. Allen plus rookie Dorsey have to change, but Mcd has to get across to dorsey they have to run more. It’s what they have missed for 3-4 years and they can’t finish or hold leads this way. When you throw 30 plus times , it’s a set up for ints. Results speak as Allen leads the league in ints. This team refuses to learn from history. . Daboll is 7-2 as a rookie head coach as he has adapted with running. SB teams have a dependable run game, watch the remainder of the year. And they don’t play terrible situational football repeatedly. You are right about dorsey. Mcd has to help him adapt.and they have to score after half time! It’s incredible.