RunTheBall

Eh, it’s getting harder and harder to have any optimism in this team this year. What exactly do they do well? Defense : Pass rush is non existent, can’t stop the run at all, don’t get sacks or turnovers. I’d say the only positive is Max/Bernard/Bishop play pretty solid and Poyer hasn’t been a disaster. Offense: We run the ball very well when Brady doesn’t get away from it, James Cook is phenomenal, Josh is still an Alien even when not playing at MVP level. Unfortunately, he’s been neutered by McBrady and I think he’s lost confidence in Brady to call a game right. Our WRs are ASS, even Shakir has been mostly a non factor probably because of Brady. Kincaid is a member of our All Glass team. Knox is Knox, good for a critical drop. Hawes has been great, but when you are pumping up your 3rd string tight end as a revelation, that’s a problem. Maybe Cooks provides a spark? Maybe Coleman redeems himself (hahah sorry, I know I know). Maybe Josh decides to trust the play calls and not hold the ball for 7 seconds, assuming he’s got more than 2 with our starting tackles out. IDK. Steelers aren’t good either so I think the W goes to whatever team sucks less. I’ll take the Bills with Josh being the main reason we win

This team has become way too complacent. Too many guys just glad to be collecting a paycheck and have lost the fire. McD’s message to the team has gotten old and stale. IDK if Cooks is a fiery guy but maybe he can add a little juice and get Josh’s head back in the game. We saw Josh pop out of his shell against TB then he got the sht beat out of him against Houston. Let’s see what Josh show’s up against Pittsburgh. As for McBeane, neither of them are going anywhere so as much as I’d like to clean house, it 100% is not happening. Pegula is not getting rid of these guys no matter what the outcome of this season when we are opening a new stadium next year. I’ve said it before, but I think the best we can do is get rid of the OC/DC and get 2 EXPERIENCED guys in there to radically shake up the offensive and defensive schemes. IDK if McD has the humbleness to hand over the reigns of the D to someone else, but his scheme is old and washed when you don’t have the defensive talent that Houston does to run it.

Dion is a fat tub of goo who’s too high on his own quasi-celebrity and has lost the fire like most of this milk toast team. I’d cut him this offseason and get someone in there who actually has a pulse and doesn’t get his QB killed giving up on every play after 2 seconds. The guy is the poster child for complacency and that’s what this team is - complacent. Good enough for the owner so let’s just cash some checks and yuck it up after a lead leading 9th false start on the 4th and gotta have it down. The Shnowman needs to STFU and start playing better

Watching most of the other games today, it is so obvious how bad our coaching is compared to other teams, and I include McD in that. Brady is god awful and needs to be fired. He had a scheme that worked last year and made no adjustments to it this year. He just ran the exact same scheme back and has no ability to adjust during the game. I can think of 8 OCs that I watched today that Brady isn’t even in the same galaxy as, and that includes some that lost. It’s one thing if the scheme is sound and the players don’t execute. Our problem is that the scheme doesn’t work, teams know EXACTLY what we are doing, and our entire offense is based on Josh making Super Josh off script plays. We need a complete house cleaning from GM to water boy. It won’t happen. Pegula is just happy to be competitive, along with 90% of our team. I’m really sick of fkn Dawkins and his Shnowman crap. Calling out Keon then giving up on play after play and having the most false starts in the league. STFU until you actually start playing well you fat tub of goo.

So there’s what I want - which is to clean house from GM to Waterboy, and what’s realistic - there’s ZERO chance Beane and McD aren’t back next year. Look at the owner guys. Pegula has let Adam’s stay as Sabres GM when any other team in the league would have fired him 3 years ago. Beane and McD are going nowhere. So get used to it, and let’s consider what are options are. 1) I’d fire both coordinators and hire experienced coordinators who were ex head coaches if posssible. McD needs to abandon his scheme, it has never worked and is built to defend one team- KC. It is not built to defend modern offenses which are transitioning to a much more run heavy scheme. 2) Lean into the offense. We obviously need 2 high quality WRs. Idk how to get that done, that’s just what we need, Keep them on the field, no more of this “everybody eats” BS which means we don’t have any really good guys. We’ve got the QB, RB, and TE already. O-line just needs to be average. 3) Cut all the dead weight. White, Poyer, Milano, Phillips, Rapp, Ogun, Bosa, Johnson ( might be stuck with the restructure), Coleman, Moore, Samuels, I’d even jettison that fat fk Dawkins but it won’t happen. 4) Accept that for at least a year we are going to suck and get the new blood valuable reps. Max, Hancock, Sanders, Walker.

This team is mentally and physically weak. We are a soft, soft team. This iteration of our Bills is done. Too old, too slow, too predicatable, too injured, too inept. The team needs to be blown up from top to bottom while Josh still has the second half of his career. Complete house cleaning. It won’t happen. The best we will get is to fire both coordinators and go out and get some experienced coordinators instead of these asses we promote from within. It’s a complete abomination that you have a first ballot HOF QB and you can’t get to the Super Bowl McD and Beane can go rebuild the Panthers, time for a cleaning.

We don’t miss Coleman at all. He sucks. Doesn’t mean he will always suck, but after Game 1 he’s been a complete liability on the field. Opposing defenses laugh at him. They see Keon 1-1 they immediately drop the safety into the box because there is ZERO concern about getting beat deep. The offense was completely different against TB without that bumb taking 75% of the snaps. McD saw it, the players saw it. I think after Houston they will put him on the active roster with a much deserved and decreased snap count. Right now he’s a complete bust.

Some of the takes in this thread are wild. Bring up Gore? Seriously? Coleman isn’t playing. He’s in the doghouse big time. Houston has the best pair of DE’s in the league, and guys on here are saying they are just ok. Wild. Houston has penetrating DT’s, great DE’s, plays zone coverage most of the time, and has great CBs. Their slot guy is out. So what does that mean? We need an efficient Josh Allen, not Super Josh. Houston gives up nothing over the top, everything is underneath. So that means establishing the running game, and hope to god Josh can play patient because that’s all that’s going to be available. It’s going to be dink and dunk with a couple of targetted shots downfield but if they try and play like they did against TB we will lose.

It’s pretty obvious to me the problem is our D-line when it comes to run defense. They are atrocious. Our DT’s get blown off the ball backwards on almost every play. Our slow undersized LBs are getting pummeled by Olineman. Bosa crashes inside on every single play, doesn’t matter. Groot can set the edge unless it’s against Mahomes in the playoffs. This isn’t changing. Our only hope is for Josh Alien Allen to be unleashed and get an early lead so teams get away from the run game. It’s that bad. I don’t think we have the defense to make it far at all int he playoffs. We’ve already seen Josh in God Mode during playoffs and the D lets him down. This defense sucks.

We have to find a happy medium between McClappy’s desire to have 15 plays drives and unleashing the Mustang. Josh is not a game manager. He’s at his best when he’s running, lowering his shoulder, and improvising. We need a little of both Josh playing within structure and going off script. Brady schemed guys open last week, hopefully he does the same this week and Josh actually takes the easy stuff then unloads with the Alien Power.

The defense is not playoff caliber Poyer needs to be replaced by Hancock Milano needs to be replaced by Shaq Bernard needs to get healthy, until then put in Williams Cam Lewis is playing better than Johnson White needs to be replaced by Max McDefense’s loyalty to old, aging, slow vets is going to crush us in the playoffs if we don’t get some younger and faster talent on the field.

The best part of this W is that Josh woke up halfway through the 3rd quarter and played lights out. Let’s hope it carries over. In the first 2.5 quarters, he was hesitant, double and triple clutching, had happy feet, indecisive and made horrible decisions, and his accuracy was ass except for the deep shot to Shavers. Just look at the 4th down play Ty Johnson was WIDE open for 20 yards and he forced it to Knox He was a completely different player starting halfway through the 3rd. Saw the field better, made better decisions, zipped in passes, and ran like the alien he is. Brady called a better game, guys were open all day, Josh wasn’t seeing them or taking them at first. If we have Alien Allen at the helm, we are still a force to be reckoned with.

Yikes

It’s easy to see in retrospect that this move was foreshadowed last year after Keon got hurt. Up until then, he seemed to be coming along nicely for a rookie. After that injury, he’s been complete ass. We also had both McD and Beane make comments about his effort and professionalism coming back from that injury. To me it seems like an immaturity issue for Keon. I think he has the skills to play in the NFL but when you combine that with a lack of effort and a lack of professionalism, he’s a bust. You could also add in that Brady sucks at scheming receivers open and that isn’t doing Keon any favors, but the guy is velcroed to every DB that covers him yet doesn’t use his body to box out DBs and make catches. I think he’s off the team next year, but I could see a scenario where he sits for a few games, wakes the F up and starts producing with another chance. That would take a complete 180 in his mental make up though. IDK if he has it in him. I think it’s the right move. We needed to do something drastic because what we had wasn’t working and was only getting worse. It will be interesting to see if the presence of Gabe is able to open up the middle of the field for Josh and keep that over the top safety from coming down into the intermediate area like they do every time Keon is 1 on 1 on the outside.

Too old, too stale, too predictable, too injured. This is the last gasp of this iteration of our Bills. Make the Super Bowl or clean house (which won’t happen, but it should). Since Terry will not get rid of McBeane, I’d like to see experienced coordinators on both offense and defense replace Brady/Babich. Enough with the first time coordinators. Hurray, Sanders is back. The guy was well outplayed by Walker even before the knee injury. My expectations are low. We’ve got our Bernard excuse now - he’s been playing on a bum ankle. I actually believe that one because I don’t believe he just forgot how to play football. I hope we see Gabe and bench Coleman. I think that’s the only answer we have at X that may help open up the middle of the field and help Josh get rid of the yips he has. Josh doesn’t need to be Super Josh but he needs to start playing like a Top 3 QB again and making better decisions. My expectations went from another AFC East division win with potential one seed to probably making a Wild Card. Even if we do, I don’t see this team having the internal fortitude to turn it around and make a deep playoff run. I hope I’m wrong.