DC Greg

Those rapid liberals are the worst. They move far too briskly for my taste.

Every single thing about this post is terrible. Turrible, turrible, turrible.

Peter, man!

The number of days you had to rest prior to a game doesn't really change the fatigue that happens in game from having to go back in series after series when your offense goes 3 and out over and over again. There's certainly plenty of blame to go around for a loss like this, and the D does not get off the hook for playing like crap just because Tyrod and the offense put them in a bad spot. But the OP's point is correct. It's fatiguing and also demoralizing for a defense to have to go in over and over again after 3 and outs. When I played in college, we had a great defense and a mediocre (at best) offense. It definitely wears on you physically and mentally when the offense can't move the ball. You don't even need them to score all the time, but you do need some drives to get a break and not have your backs against the wall with field position every time you go out there.

Peters out for Peterman

Taylor also had several drives in garbage time, and couldn't do anything more than check it down helplessly.

8-8 best case scenario, worst case 6-10. Right where the Bills like to be.

I said before the season that if we lost 3 in a row at any point, that would likely be the end of tyrod. Still think that's true. He gets another shot next week. If we lose that, he should be benched. If he wins, he gets 2 more.

We still have a chance at the playoffs!! Lol

Some people’s feelings will get hurt.

Defense can be horrible and Tyrod can be horrible at the same time. Both of these things can both coexist in the same universe. Tyrod Taylor is trash.

They’ll latch onto the defense’s poor performance and try to allocate all blame there. “Tyrod would have done fine if not for the D blowing it.”

Another nice 3rd and long surrender check down by tyrod. Offensive scheme still trying to get as creative as possible to work around his inability to just throw to routes downfield.

Gotta just heave it up there and trust him to go up and get it with his great size and hands. Tyrod is going to have to throw to him even when he's covered, which he really does not like to do. I hope they're coaching him up on that.

Honestly I'm surprised a torn labrum has been this tough for him. That injury is only bad because they have to cut through the rotator cuff to fix the labrum, so that has to heal too. That surgery, especially with the doctors available to NFL stars, is not like a knee or something that could give a lot of lingering problems down the road. I would expect luck to bounce back fine from it. Surprised it's take this long, but it shouldn't be a problem next year.

Losing games we should win. Something like this: dominating a whole game vs the pats, missing repeated chances on offense to put the foot on their throat and go up two scores, only being up 6, and letting in that go ahead TD (to chris hogan) with 3 min left. Offense comes back out to get sacked twice and peter away a win.

Bills fans in December

If this season finishes strong, hopefully with playoffs, I don't see why Kyle would hang it up after this year. He can still play. Sure, he's not quite the force he once was, but he is still a very good D tackle and very serviceable in there. You need to build the D line for sure, but if he takes a pay cut for another 1-2 year contract, I don't see why he can't keep going.

This is an excellent and really well written piece.

What super hero do you think Shady will imitate in his first end zone dance?

Apparently it makes you a little sissy. Get with the groupthink and drink light beer, like a man.

Not sure where this narrative got started that Hyde was not good or just average in Green Bay. He was excellent. Ask Green Bay fans. They were very sorry to see him go.

Lol

I was extremely excited when we got Hyde, and he has not disappointed. All this guy does is make plays. His leadership in the secondary is undervalued. I attribute most of their cohesion as a unit to Hyde.