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I think this is how you have to approach this year - try and pack in the hurt in 2024. Get lots of youth, try to develop some guys, but eat some dead cap on anyone you don't see in future plans. If it means we decline a bit this year, so be it, we have Allen who should cover a multitude of sins. If he's on a Mahomes level like so many of us want to believe, he's gotta start showing that huge salary is justified with less around him.

I'm not sure he would. I truly think coaches realize their jobs depend upon ownership's ideals & perceptions. You go for that 4th and fail, the owner can say "Why didn't you take the points???" And in their minds, that gives the owner a chance to consider that fireable. Even if the owner isn't really like that, conventional wisdom rarely offends the "grrrr me football player" crowd. It's only the ones with a brain who start wondering if there are greater layers of strategy necessary than the 3 yards and a cloud of dust.

He completely bungled OT. I think it shows a low IQ guy. These guys are gifted so much talent on their team, and then they don't have the intellectual capacity to conceptualize the strategic differences between the old OT rules and the new playoff OT rules. Also, you have to know your opponent and the time of the game. Both defenses are gassed, your goal has to be score at least 7 (I'd argue if you get the ball first, you should be trying to get 8 and force your opponent to match). You have to make sure Mahomes isn't getting the ball in a walk-off situation. Because he's shown most of the time to be able to convert it.

Always fun to figure out which reporters are sourced by McDermott.

OK, this is purely speculative on my part, but let's give Brady, Allen, & McDermott a little credit here. I suspect they put their heads together and decided 3/4 of Dorsey's playbook was utter tripe. It never had a shot. Total novice-level bunk. So they gutted it, took the portions that would actually be usable, tried to add a few things on the fly, but mostly just went from a severely stunted playbook, because you can't just hand everyone a brand new lexicon and expect perfection in 5 days. I think the situation is 100% up in the air what this offense looks like come August & September. I'd bet they want to find ways to incorporate the things that worked in 2020 & 2021 before Daboll left, but with whatever stamp Brady wants (if he's even there).

Shame that Allen didn't drift a tad to his right on the dropback. Honestly if his read the entire time is Shakir on the post, shading to your right opens the angle even more for the throw - especially if Allen recognized their most dangerous rusher was lined up to that side... Types of things I worry Dorsey and Brady don't emphasize in practice that maybe Daboll did.

Should be a priority to move on from whatever high-priced defensive liabilities you have right now. Feel bad for that group, but that's the way it goes when you are a part of 13 seconds, last year's debacle vs Cincy, and this year's inability to stop the most neutered KC offense to date. Continue your OL rejuvenation project. Invest in WR. They might still get the 1 seed if they get an MVP season from Allen and train up some new blood on defense.

I highly doubt they fire McDermott. But Terry Pegula should look into his crystal ball and see where things are headed in the next two years. If you had any misgivings on McDermott's decisionmaking in the crucial moments, now would be the time to start building to the next run. You cannot let McDermott usurp even one more season of draft picks for his vanishing DL. So that's what a smart man would do, go get your offensive-minded HC, let him draft replacements for Davis & Dawkins, clean up this salary cap a bit for 2024, probably still squeak into the playoffs with your generational talent at QB, and be ready to get back into elite talk for 2025 and beyond.

Dorsey. You can't install a whole new playbook midseason. That's your problem, you trusted a nincompoop to run your offense and doubled down after the 2022 season crumbled. Now you're left trying to decide if you want to give Brady a chance to implement the offense he sees fit, or go and bring in someone else. Whoever is hired needs more of a firewall between themselves and McDermott. And honestly, that's why they should move away from Brady, he has way too many ties to McDermott's history.

I think we're OK taking a 4 point lead with just under 2 minutes. The bar is a lot higher for KC to get the TD, and it's really risking it to try to score that TD as time expires. So you may end up with a chance to get that FG to tie after all. Maybe your Pro Bowl LT needed to figure that s*** out.

Townsend did punt. The defense did force a turnover. Yes if you run the %'s for 8 or 9 drives the rate sucks...but if you were to consider that maybe KC would be 50% success rate on the night against the defense, it may have been the drive where Hochuli pulled his head out of his a** and called Humphrey or Thuney for their incessant holding.

The irony of how McDermott harped ALL SEASON about Josh's turnovers and "complementary football," and then he basically walks up to the roulette wheel and puts it all on 00. So hypocritical for a guy to criticize poor decisionmaking, then watch your QB make just about every right decision for weeks on end, and then you pull that. But hey, at least he knows how to clap before shaking Andy Reid's hand while wishing him luck in the Championship Game.

I actually feel calmer about this one, only because I thought the chances of Buffalo looking past Pittsburgh were fairly decent. As long as there hasn't been any overconfidence that's grown into their approach from winning the last couple of meetings, they should be focused and in the right state of mind. That being said, KC is much more dangerous than the Steelers. I know they've underperformed compared to previous seasons, but they looked primed against the Dolphins and it's not going to be easy. But I think with KC you should already know what you're getting.

If he wasn't doing McDermott a favor yesterday, then there's no excuse. End of the 1st half, they had the Bills on the ropes and he let them off the hook not forcing Buffalo to get the 1st down with time outs. He could have forced a 4th down dilemma with a banged up punter or go for it. They also botched any chance of possibly pressuring Buffalo by not trying for quicker strikes on that final drive. Another coach that will have a bust in Canton on the back of a HOF QB.

I could see McBeane looking to salvage something via trade from a 1st Rounder that seems to not fit their mold after given a couple of seasons.

Officials seem to put targets on certain guy's backs, and Elam may be one of them. There's a lot of contact in the defensive backfield every game that gets ignored. It's really difficult to take anything to do with officiating seriously. To me the situation seems like a 1st rounder who thought he should be gifted opening day, got in McDermott's doghouse, then injuries & solid play from Benford pushed him off the depth chart. Has a real chance to show he can contribute and/or rehabilitate value to find another opportunity elsewhere in 2024.

Weren't you one to start a thread bashing the OL and DL yesterday?

Waxing poetic about resiliency is best done at a parade in mid-to-late February. There's a lot to be done.

The NitWit whose remarks are only outstupided by his "mom's basement-meets-keyboard jockey" hair style shouldn't even be dignified by inclusion in a troll meme by the Bills. That guy's whole schtick is based on getting morons triggered. His opinion is so invalid he belongs in the Fahey Wing of the HOD. And yeah I get the engagement with the fan base and yadda yadda. Allen said it last night, nothing has been won. If this win streak doesn't run to 9 games, I don't think there needs to be a whole lot of PR back-patting.

I hear Kraft is looking for a tough guy who is good at policing the fanboards for armchair OC's.

Yeah FG is even more risky than the push. I think a struggle for the Bills is that they only seemed to go to the tush push when it was a 100% crucial moment in every game, and then Allen is biasing towards the left of the line. They really needed to introduce some counters to that to keep the defense more honest.

The stupid part is that they have gotten to this point in Gabe Davis's career without him and Allen being able to make a sight adjust on an all out blitz. This shouldn't be happening. You would have thought the solution would come after it reared its head in the Iggles loss. It wouldn't surprise me if Fangio shaded coverage to the side opposite Davis knowing that this kind of thing could result. I'm much more likely to fault Allen for the 2nd one for that reason alone. The first one he either unloads or he eats it for the sack, the line was bunk. That one, he had a read and he seemed to ignore it. But that's his game, you get some astonishingly brilliant plays on the extension, and occasionally you'll get the moment where he has to chuck and duck.

If Josh could have the next month and a half where his mistake-to-amazing play ratio drops to damned near zero, they win the title. Way too much has already been said, have to take the bad with the good. Just seems like most or all of his mistakes this year have led to turnovers, while in other years maybe there have been more dropped INT's.

This could likely play out as Lamar did, they'll end up signing him, and then we'll hear how wonderful it was that the Dolphins built the best defense in the league while Tua basically plays Dilfer-ball to win 14 games.

Sarcasm. He's far from a turd. But Brainswell ***** on anything Buffalo most of the time.