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The more I think about that game, the more I think it's a testament to the roster build, McDermott and staff's ball knowledge, and Josh Allen that this game wasn't a 3 score blowout. You know how in political forecasting we have something called the fundamentals? Which is to say the inherent advantage for one party over the other based on economy, who's in powers, demographics, etc - before you ever get into candidate quality. Well in this game, fundamentals advantages the Dolphins by 3 TDs He never completed the catch. That wouldn't have been ruled a fumble if it happened in midfield

how is this McDermott's fault

IMO Kyle Shannahan is the best coach in the league, but has a very average GM in Lynch. I'd take him

might be time to scour other teams' practice squads as well.

We, as a nation, deserve better football analysis from fans and media. - 0 and 7 in one score games the last two seasons Random statistical noise. Those games include a magical 4th & 1 stop on an Allen sneak that 99:100 he gets. A 55 -75 MPH wind game, the topical weather + injury game where the bills were in position to win TWICE with better execution form players, which includes a blatant miss from Allen that he normally makes 99/100 times, and loss to the freakin Jags where we couldn’t score against Urban Meyere, and I’m sure other random crap. - Challenging a clear Titans catch last week was indefensible Yea that’s on the coaches upstairs - Not challenging a potential Gabe Davis TD this week was indefensible because it wasn’t a catch - Playing shallow coverage on 3rd and 22, allowing TWO seperate receivers to get open deep, is indefensible wasn’t a shallow zone, our inexperienced safeties were baited by a pair of elite speed WRs including Tyreke Hill. That was a perfectly called play - Not having your WR’s ready to go down with enough time to spike the ball You wanted him to go down outside FG range with almost no time left on the clock? - Don’t even get me started on 13 seconds perhaps - Our inability to win short yardage situations for several years is indefensible. Sure it is, we don’t put a bunch of salary cap space into our interior line - we get average to above free agents and deep draft picks and hope they can collectively perform better as a group. We don’t have a si by let first rounder on the OLine or RB. Heck we only just drafted our first 2nd round RB this year under this regime. Instead they put their resources into the DLine, corners, LB, WR and QB. That is going to have consequences, one of which is struggling with NFL DLines on short yardage. But that’s also why you have Josh Allen and a bunch of excellent route running WRs and backs. I’d also bet dollars to donuts thag this offense ranks really high in 3rd down conversations and red zone conversations - We as a team seem to have removed QB sneak from the play book. We never run it. Ever. See this tweet for how I feel about that. Hard to think that’s not a directive from the top, seeing that two separate OC’s refuse to call it. First of all that’s just inaccurate, seeing as one of those close losses came on Allen not getting a sneak and in that very game we were shown statistics at how good Allen is at that. This year we haven’t done it as much because almost every time we’ve been in 3rd and a long 1 or even 2, and that’s not a sneak situation. And finally, Because you don’t need to risk your 40M QB on sneaks.

Allen = Cam is a perhaps the dumbest comp I can think of, other than both of them being large human beings who can throw a football and run. Allen is a better athlete, and has more arm talent. Cam, when healthy, was a much more of a finesse passer than Allen’s howitzer. As for the rest, I mean we have so much data in NFL history that close game wins/losses are statistically random and everything eventually reverts to the mean of the population. There’s almost nothing intrinsically different from what Buffalo does in close games than other teams do. I mean 99% of the time Josh scores on that drive against the Titans last year, and the Bills TWICE had opportunities to win in the end yesterday. Sure Allen was exhausted, but he ran like 5 times. He was exhausted because it was a million freakin degrees and the Phins were bllitzing like their lives were on the line. The whole thing is farcical

To do what? It's pretty easy to layer up and have things like bone broth, heated seats, etc to keep players safe even in the coldest games.

Bills we’re super close to playing a TE as their….RT?

He shouldn’t have been active - but they needed him anyways to eat up snaps

They weren’t running with that OLine in the 2nd half

What’s the problem? Allen’s probably never been that exhausted post game and these NFL players view each other as brothers Don’t think they roll but think they win.

That’s a good football team. Well coached with elite players at WR and in the secondary, and yes a very good QB Thats fine because the Bills have a better QB and can match up to their roster but it’ll be a good game the 2nd time around

He basically tackled someone who was getting near Josh

Their defense was better than the Bills D with 6 1st team players out?

What who’s that? Kumerow? He got injured earlier in the game - 1st half

He played MVP football out there. I mean considered the roster around him on offense I haven’t a clue how he managed to keep his offense moving

I loved the defensive game plan they came up with. He’s a damn good coach

He was puking on the sideline after one of those long drives in the 2nd half

For the record, I’m still dying at Ken Dorsey losing it

And legs giving out from under him

No training wheels here. Game plan probably what was needed