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10 minutes ago, Malazan said:
You can't even get simple facts right. Can we fire you from the board?
I meant outside of Allen and Mahomes (+Watson, but he's not playing). Is that your only contribution to what has been a pretty good debate here? Save it...
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35 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I loathe press questions that start with a speech. I've never seen them be effective either.
Why not just start with the last sentence? "How do you evaluate what happened in the last 2 minutes of the Chiefs game, and what has to be done to maintain the good there, but fix the problems and change the outcome next year?"
Fair enough, perhaps some of that context should be in follow-up if he's trying to swat the question away as McD did yesterday. I really didn't like how it was handled given the context described. I need a more serious answer that shows they get it.
NFL careers are fleeting and they just booted a whole season's effort. If a player had done that it might have cost them on getting re-signed, $$ on their next signing or a decision that "we need to move on and improve at that position". If Allen had choked that way, everyone would be questioning whether he was worth $40m/yr. Look at the reviews on Dak Prescott from the previous week after his screw-up, who is the only other member of $40m club.
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33 minutes ago, HamptonBillsfan said:
Never mentioned coaching in that post. Why would you think that defense which allowed KC to score at will on every drive from the middle of the 4th qtr through OT would set us up to win anything. Our approach never changed, rushing 4 and giving free releases to Hill and Kelce, throughout the game. Our record against good offensive teams(Tampa, Tenn, Indy), was o and 3 with defense giving up 30+. Frazier and Sean are bend don't break proponents, and inflexible when defensive game plans don't work. We don't pressure big time QBs enough with our front four and they carve us up. If Sean doesn't change philosophy,we are counting on Josh to be Superman every game. Not a great formula.
To your point, ditto on Titans and Colts game. We couldn't stop either team once they got rolling
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4 minutes ago, BuffaloRebound said:
I think people are under-estimating the effect the coaching blunders in those 13 seconds are gonna have going forward if no changes to the coaching staff are made. We had the team to win it all. The fact that it was both Special Teams and Defensive coaching blunders means you can’t just get rid of Frazier or the ST coach.
I like McDermott but I really have no idea how that locker room trusts him in big situations going forward.
Its a serious point. Guys like Morse, Hyde, Poyer, Diggs are at the peak of their prime. Not sure if guys like Hughes, Addison, Beasley will be back, but teams only have so many chances....
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1 minute ago, billsfan1959 said:
You are welcome to your opinion and you certainly have the right to express it. You also have the right to be angry. My point was that you don't seem very open. You seem angry, and, like I said, that is fine, but anger doesn't lend itself to openess or well thought out decisions.
The opinion that I expressed was in response to some else posting "there's nothing to "fix"". Just giving a couple examples that jump out at me. I didn't push an opinion in the initial post.
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1 minute ago, billsfan1959 said:
So, you want Bean to give you an explanation of how to evaluate what happened and what has to change so it doesn'r happen again; however you admit to already having done the evaluation in your mind and arrived at the solution is the DC has to be fired?
Give this, do you really feel you are open to anything Beane has to change? Or are you just still angry and needing somebody to pay for making you feel that way?
I'm just giving my opinion. I'm happy to hear his. He knows tons more about football than I do. I'm angry about McD's "execution problems and I'll leave it at that", which simply an unacceptable answer under the circumstances I laid out at the start of this thread.
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2 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:
Here’s the problem…and it’s unfortunately a very challenging one for any GM to fix:
His head coach, while good at so many things, is horrible at late game management.
Everyone wants to know what the players are doing in the offseason? I want to know if McD is spending the spring studying in-game management strategy scenarios.
Is that something that is teachable... by now? Parcels, Reid, Payton, Belichick constantly outfoxed other teams to pull out games like this.
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9 minutes ago, BuffaloRebound said:
Kind of unanimous from the national media that the coaching staff let the team down in those 13 seconds. Is it fair to the players to bring back a coaching staff that now has a label of choking in the biggest moments?
And its not just those 13 seconds. The loss to Jaguars is the reason that last week's game wasn't in Buffalo. Totally unprepared for Colts. They allowed Patriots to manufacture a win on MNF game where one of the issues was strictly sticking to deferring on kick-off instead of focusing on the wind in Q4.
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11 minutes ago, BillsFanSD said:
There is nothing to "fix." If we could somehow bring back the exact same roster next year and alter the rules of time so that nobody gets any older and nobody is any more injured than they were on Sunday, I'd happily take my chances against KC again. They were quite clearly a somewhat better team than us last year. They are not a better team than us now. The Bills and Chiefs are the two best teams in the league. We're not going to bat 1.000 against other elite teams and not realistic to expect us to. Beane has succeeded in building a championship roster.
Further two of the three teams that are left made consequential moves before trade deadline to help give themselves and extra push. Rams brought in OBJ and Von Miller. Chiefs brought in Melvin Ingram. All have made a difference in the playoffs
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3 minutes ago, BillsFanSD said:
There is nothing to "fix." If we could somehow bring back the exact same roster next year and alter the rules of time so that nobody gets any older and nobody is any more injured than they were on Sunday, I'd happily take my chances against KC again. They were quite clearly a somewhat better team than us last year. They are not a better team than us now. The Bills and Chiefs are the two best teams in the league. We're not going to bat 1.000 against other elite teams and not realistic to expect us to. Beane has succeeded in building a championship roster.
Of course, we won't be able to bring back the exact same roster. We're probably going to be in the market for at least one and maybe two WRs. We'll probably see some turnover on the D-line. I still think we should add more talent/depth at CB and I would like to take a long hard look at RBs who might be available in FA or the draft.
But we're just talking about tweaking things around the margins, replacing a small number of not-especially-irreplaceable FAs, and maybe upgrading a few spots where we're getting a little old. The core of this team is set.
I think we need a new Defensive Coordinator and own up to the failings of in-game strategy. There's lots of examples all season (and last) related to issues in these two areas
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I hope that reporters are preparing their questions. Do not just ask "What happened in the last 13 seconds". Set the context:
Brandon, the QB that you drafted, that fans have been waiting 25 years for and you signed to a $40m+ per year extension just lived up to everyones imagination and put on an all-world performance. You got knocked from the playoffs for the 2nd straight year to the same team who may be headed to its 3rd straight SB. The manner of the loss will live in infamy in the team's history right there with the worst losses we've absorbed. You would have been the Super Bowl favorite from among the four teams left. How do you evaluate what exactly happened and what has to change to fix it when you start all over again next year?
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This was a really good write-up from The Athletic detailing the feelings of Jim Rikhoff the CBS producer of last nights game and why it was so special
A few select parts:
Drained from a three-hour car ride following a 2.5-hour flight from Kansas City after producing a four-hour broadcast of a classic football game, CBS NFL producer Jim Rikhoff arrived at his Western Connecticut home at 3:30 a.m. on Monday morning and headed to his outdoor deck that overlooks a river. He needed to decompress and clear his mind.
“I just sat out there for five minutes and tried to digest everything that had happened,” Rikhoff said.
What had happened was Rikhoff produced one of the great NFL games in history, an impossibly dramatic 42-36 overtime win by the Chiefs over the Bills that included Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City driving 44 yards in 13 seconds for a game-tying 49-yard field goal. There were 25 points in the final 1:54, a span that included four lead changes.
Rikhoff has been at CBS Sports since 1985. He called Sunday’s game one of the four greatest events he has worked professionally, a list that also includes the AFC Championship Game between the Patriots and Chiefs in January 2019 (New England won 37-31 in overtime) and Tiger Woods winning The Masters in 1997 and 2019. I asked Rikhoff to take me inside the production truck after Josh Allen’s fourth touchdown pass to Gabriel Davis to give Buffalo what looked like the game-winning play.
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On the game-winning play in overtime, Rikhoff said the production truck knew it was a touchdown pretty much immediately.
“As we were cutting around the whole celebration, I did see Andy Reid with two or three other officials and I could tell it was a semi-serious conversation,” Rieckhoff said. “We had four angles of the catch and it looked pretty good to me. But when I saw Andy Reid, I was thinking, ‘Oh God, let’s not have a bizarre finish.’ We had a great shot of Josh Allen in disbelief. It kind of reminded me of when Aaron Rodgers walked off the field in their game. It was almost like the Packers couldn’t believe what happened. Just stunned. Josh Allen played so great and had a look of disbelief. As Ryan and I are looking at replays, (director) Mike Arnold is cutting live to all those sequences. He’s shooting all the primary players in this movie or play. I think he’s the best NFL director I’ve ever worked with.”
After games, members of a production team want to leave the setting as soon as possible. Often, they want a mental break from the experience. But that was not the case for Rikhoff, who spent much of the time after the game answering texts, emails and calls.
“I got more texts, emails and more calls than for anything I’ve ever done professionally in my life,” Rikhoff said. “It took me at least two hours to get through them, and I know (Nantz) went through the same thing. People were just so excited about what a great football game it was. When I was on my deck in the middle of the night, it was the first time I could really soak it in and savor what had happened. I just thought for a while in the silence about how it was a really cool thing to be part of. I think it’s arguably the greatest weekend of NFL football ever.”
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9 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:
what do you like about Basham. He did nothing this year, and was picked instead of players like Creed Humphry (all pro OL). Forgot about Epenesea also, horrid pick.
1. we can afford it.
2. we said the same thing about AJ last year. Let's see what he does. Did nothing. Hope is not a strategy for winning.
Honestly... let players develop. What were we saying about Singletary, Knox and Taron Johnson not long ago? People were ready to cut Singletary just 6 games ago and Knox at the end of last year. Everyone spent the whole offseason screaming for Ertz.
There's no good reason to be that dismissive of players based just on their rookie year. Maybe we have firm conclusions about Cody Ford at this point, but let some of these others develop and grow.
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38 minutes ago, Not at the table Karlos said:
Your scenario would have gave the chefs the ball at our 45 with no clock or timeouts used.
Let's do one that doesn't make us look like dummies now.
1. Kick ball high and just short of goal line forcing a return. You know like we've done all year long.
2. Play the cover two defense you've played all game long except only rush one or two or just have them spy the QB.
3. Double hill and Kelce.
4. Celebrate good times come on
Good clarification. Wasn't aware of that rule as I had thought of the exact same strategy. I guess I should get some sleep....
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1 hour ago, Wayne Cubed said:
While I think it's a Vic Fangio is a very good DC, I just don't see it happening. McD doesn't run the same type of defense as Fangio and I'm not sure there's a coaching connection there.
I guess then that's the test on how great of a head coach McD can be? A great leader can also make bold decisions on change that is clearly needed. I definitely agree w/ this thread on going after Fangio and launching the next level of growth for this team
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2 minutes ago, Rampage said:
Wanted a pass first quarterback and not a running back pretending to be QB. You can't win in the playoffs with a guy like that. You'd think people would have learned after almost a decade of Mike Vick.
Well the starter for the previous few years had been Tyrod. If you don't believe in that type of QB as "the Man" then it makes sense to cross off LJ.
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13 minutes ago, Dablitzkrieg said:
Sweet, where did you get your numbers? I hope it's not made up from your head 😕
This... plus the percentages only calculate to 18%
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This feels like the poll about when Tribusky will enter the game against the Jaguars.... moderators, please shut this down
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50 minutes ago, LyndonvilleBill said:
I'm good with it as long as Mayock comes back to the NFL network. I like him for the draft. 😉
Though his drafting w/ Raiders was marginal at best
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Wow, I was just reacting to what I thought was a flippant tweet when I started this thread. But then......
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I think Belichick may be calling him the Angel of Death today. I think it was about to come out during his post game press conference....
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1 hour ago, 716er said:
Hoodie said Josh pitched the ball to Knox for extra yards @ 2:47. It was actually to stop the clock as Knox had a clear path out of bounds and Josh did not.
What kind of football guru is this guy?
You're correct on the context, which actually makes it an even more impressive play. Though that detail doesn't call into question whether he's football guru. Like him or not, he clearly is.
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2 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:
Sounds cool but I don't really see the correlation with Josh specifically.
He's more like the leaping condor--guy is so tall and gangly the way he holds the ball out there in 1 hand...and he LOVES to jump over anything in his way.
I think the connection is that he's so deadly out of structure and can still destroy defenses despite some poor play calling
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Not a bad nickname for Allen.....
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Brandon Beane Season Ending Presser Weds 1/27
in The Stadium Wall
Posted · Edited by cage
Every team in the NFL once their eliminated assess their roster, particularly the QB position. In light of the Bills / Chiefs game especially, probably every team is considering whether they will ever be able to compete with either of those QBs with the one they have.... is Tannehill, Carr, Prescott, Tua, Mac Jones good enough? Can they just be above average, very good, or MUST we have an elite QB in order to have any chance to win??
I want to know that the same evaluation is being given to coaching in light of the mistakes. McD has done great things for the Bills, particularly from where he started. He may be better than above average, he may be very good. But is he good enough to win championships? Not just get lucky once, maybe?? Is he Derek Carr or Ryan Tannehill? Beane has to figure that out. He did it this past season in a much lesser way when he made a move to upgrade backup QB with Tribusky, letting Barclay go.