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    Wildcard round - Steelers Bills post game thread

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    1 hour ago, Andy1 said:

    Glad the Bills got the win and weren’t playing in crazy weather conditions that could have produced a fluke loss. Big thumbs up to all the fans who waded through and stood in the snow for the game.

    The snow was mostly getting thrown. They warned us about every 7 minutes not to throw snow. But with all the touchdowns, they weren't stopping anyone

    What's your confidence level going into the game today?

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    1 hour ago, Xwnyer said:

     am nervous and worry that home field advantage won't exist because of the few seats that will be full.   I have been concerned about Pittsburg from the onset and now with this weather we may become one dimensional.  

    I don't know how full the stadium will be but there are at least 4 bills fans on their way from PA right now

    Meanwhile, over at FinHeaven....

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    1 hour ago, Bills!Win! said:

    I have to say, it is very hard to read their forum. The font and the layout is nauseating. The team here on TBD does a phenomenal job, as they should be, catering to the best fans in the league 😉 

    All of the others teams boards I've been to are the same. I haven't been to anywhere near all of them though, so could be a decent setup somewhere 

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    Bad Preseason Takes

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    On 12/20/2023 at 2:55 PM, LABILLBACKER said:

    See I don't buy that. You don't waste 9M on a player to unleash his abilities on week 17.  He's unfortunately been underwhelming and will be released in the off season.  I was 150% on board in going after Floyd. When the news broke I was ecstatic. Gabe's been a bust for awhile. 

     

    I was 100% wrong on believing the OL would remain mediocre or regress. They've been a pleasant surprise along with Cook.  Shakir's role will be expanded next year but Sherfield is gone too.

    No, you wait til week 18

    The "McDermott Handicap" and hopefully a solution

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    2 hours ago, peterpan said:

    The McDermott Handicap - thats what I call it now.  Its the number of points McDermott will cost the team with about 4 mins left at half and the end of the game.  I really think its -5.5 or-6.5 points!!!!  Its becoming ridiculous how awkward this team plays in those situations.  We tend to leave points on the board before every half, or gift the other team an opportunity to score!  We blow two minute drills constantly, cant ever get a stop etc.

     

    If you were an odds maker what would your McDermott Handicap be?

     

    Against the Eagles we played so conservative, using 2 TOs on defense, then taking a knee with 20 seconds and one (but could have been 3) timeouts left.  All you need is a FG but you chose overtime?!?!?!

     

    Then against the chiefs - completely different situation.  We get a 1st down due to penalty, with 2:13 left in the game on the 25ish yard line.  RUN THE BALL is the obvious choice......  No, 3 straight pass!!  Huh!?!  We have this defensive coach who lost the game being too conservative last week.  He should be wetting his pants for the opportunity to run it 3 times and kick the FG.  But then its all passes!?!?!  And before you say the swing pass is like a long handoff blah blah blah - the chiefs blew that play up 3-4 times that game.  It didn't work once.  and was super awkward, our staff has no feel for the game.  No inclination of whats working, whats not, and no situational awareness of any kind..  

     

    On defense, again no feel.  Its either full out prevent defense, or all out blitz.  Over and over and over again.  Dude, find a happy medium.  Maybe, i don't know, don't call the same all out blitz ON EVERY SINGLE PLAY?!?!?  The show all out bitz and then all out blitz.  Eventually these teams beat the all out blitz and score - We lost the Broncos game with that one.  We could try, maybe, disguising a blitz?  Or Blitzing every other play??  

     

    Which leads me to....

     

    McDermott has no feel for these situations.  He is like that super socially awkward guy, who never knows what to say in a group.  Everyone knows someone like that....and that's the football equivalent to McDermott.  Post game McD said he watched every single 2 minute drill in every nfl game in the last 6 years, trying to find tendencies.  Wow man, love the dedication, but that's sad.  Thats like an awkward guy watching every episode of Friends trying to get less socially awkward.  Just sad.

     

     

    Watching Michigan this year gave me an idea.  Harbaugh is their head coach, but was suspended for a number of games.  Harbaugh was allowed to coach during the week, but couldnt be on the sidelines for gameday.  So one of their assistants was "Acting" head coach for those games.  Thats what we need - we need to hire a "Game Day" coach who would relive McD of Head Coach decisions on gameday.  Someone who has a feel for the game, situational football and what's working that day at that moment.   Someone who wont abandon the run for 2-3 quarters at a time.  Someone who knows when to play conservative and when to be aggressive.  I think McDermott would benefit A LOT from a guy like that. 

    Yeah but like, you're Peter Pan, what do you know about football?

    Around the NFL Week 9

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    12 minutes ago, Dick_Cheney said:

    Other than the Pats which was a foregone conclusion, none of the games today have gone in a way that benefited us at all.

     

    Logically I know all these events are unrelated, but it makes me nervous for the game tonight. Has all the makings of a classic, brutal ***** weekend for the Bills playoff positioning. Usually I do a pretty good job about filtering out that sort of thing but not so much tonight for some reason.

    I was filtering it out all the way until i read your post

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