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In 2021, the OT loss to the Bucs was our final regular season loss after a 3-5 lull. This year the Philly OT loss also put us at 3-5 over the 8 game span and we haven't lost since. Some things I've taken notice of the last 2 weeks as opposed to earlier in the season which give me hope: 1) Way more physical on both sides of the ball. I felt like we got pushed around by Cinci in last year's playoff loss, and similarly against Jacksonville and others this year. We're getting downright nasty out there now. 2) As was discussed here and everywhere, I've seen improvement from McDermott. Defense is way more aggressive. And we seem to have turned a corner as far as making halftime adjustments for us and reacting to halftime adjustments from our opponents. Also, I see a better use of timeouts. 3) Our new offensive coordinator does not seem to have tendencies yet. Dorsey was a run on first, throw on 2nd and long and 3rd and long guy. He'd use the run to set up the pass and once the pass was established, not much more running. Brady is not set in anything, and obviously is willing to commit to the run. 🤞

Looks like a clapper to me.

I hear @R. Rich is coming up for this one

Earlier this week I did get tix for Foo Fighters in Raleigh for May, so that was cool

Miles Goodwyn, front man with April Wine, passed away last week

Let's not say retired. Let's say on hiatus. Bring 'em back!

Houston v Houston. Nasty.

Another lost opportunity for the best throwbacks ever

With baked beans

I turned it back on with about 5 minutes left. It was GLORIOUS! Looks like McDaniel went to the McDermott School of Lead Preservation (aka Loser U) Glad McDermott took the Advanced Aggression class on Sunday.

This I agree with.

Somewhat smaller audience, but true. Also only references that he's a good guy, not that he's a good coach.

Given a chance to back his coach on national TV when Tracy Wolfson teed up the "what did this team show after the tumultuous week you guys had to deal with?" question, Josh instead was all about how the players "rallied behind each other, played for each other". Probably reading too much into it, but still...

Yep from all I see and hear from him he's a good guy. But he's gotta walk his talk. Always going on about accountability, self-motivation, improving every day, learning from mistakes. I would hope that someone is pointing out his mistakes. If so, he's not learning from them. If he had a player like that, that player would be benched/released. If not, that's an organizational shortcoming but not an excuse for maintaining an ultimately unsatisfactory status quo if he practiced what he's been preaching. Whatever catchphrase it is - Playoff Caliber or Respect the Process - he's gotta show me that his coaching is meeting this standard.

Several factors for me: I sat in that stadium and watched this team give up when they were 60 minutes from probably hosting the AFC Championship game last year Recent move out of the area. Less of a constant bombardment Related to above, distance will mean fewer games attended. Skipped the Broncos game because I didn't wanna do the 16-hour, 1,000 mile round trip drive twice in 6 days. Preparing for more of those next season Loss of Kim Pegula in day-to-day operation - she was the engagement piece of the management team, for alums and fans alike. WIth her out of the mix I feel like this has taken an even further back seat to the bottom line Impending stadium move - PSL's will probably mean the end of my time as a season ticket member (currently in year 37) although we may band together as a shared group and keep a couple of seats for rotating attendance. Personal realization that we probably have already passed the peak of our current coaching staff and doubt it'll change until it's too late

So it was pretty accurate then...

Let's give the Chiefs something they haven't seen before to react to. Eat up some clock, keep their O off the field, impose our will. All that stuff.

So to Brady's quote "we knew this was coming". This would have actually been a VERY GOOD use of a time out to ensure everyone was on the same page for this HUGE situation. Seems like so many of our time outs are reactionary ("let's look at how they're gonna line up first"), silly ("Let's try to draw them Offside to get a first down") or wasted ("I'm gonna ice their kicker. That's definitely gonna work"). But on a 3rd & 6 from their 22 in overtime where we potentially have 2 plays to get 6 yards, and we're sure what defense we're gonna see and which requires all pieces know how to react...

I’ll go one further. McDermott will ALWAYS waste a time out when our opponent faces a big play after they break the huddle and line up. He seems to think this gives him a clue what they’re thinking and that they will have to either change to their 2nd choice play or run the original against a D that knows what’s coming. If I was playing the Bills I’d line up in some other formation just to waste the time out then do what I wanted to do the whole time.

I was looking at some statistical analysis of this today. Seems there is a slightly larger chance of a miss when you ice a kicker but there are too many variables for any of it to be a general statement. Experience level of the kicker, distance of the kick, indoor/outdoor, home or away etc. One said “it doesn’t hurt and you can’t carry time outs forward so why not?”. But having that time out if any time remains is a BIG DEAL.

Or 70...

Rookie mistake. Are you new here?

And not for nuthin, but having the Bills app play the shout song on my phone with updates as we go to yet another heart-ripping defeat sure doesn't help.

And to go on to the next logical step... if we repeat our support of this over and over expecting a different outcome, are WE not also insane? 😵