DC Greg

Yet another game where both sides of the ball come out slow and outcoached.

This. Allen is a top 2 QB. Look, McD is a good to very good defensive coordinator for the most part. He has consistently schemed up a good defensive plan that works most of the time, except in the most critical, high pressure situations like end of game and especially in the playoffs. We could do worse for a head coach for sure, but it’s his tendency to crumble in the biggest moments that does it for me. I hope this year turns out different come playoff time of course, but there is a laundry list history of in game coaching failures that we have to look back on when games are close at the end vs good teams. This team should have at least been to a Super Bowl already with JA as QB or at the very least made another AFC championship game. I really hope they can overcome it this year and get over the hump.

Good call. I voted Benford but it is absolutely TB when he is on the field.

This is a wild comparison. Shady was one of one the way he ran and carried the ball. I can’t think of another back to compare to his crazy, shifty, amazing style. Maybe Barry Sanders? I’m not saying shady was at Barry’s level at all, just maybe that they both had very unique foot and upper body work they could muster to make guys miss. Ray Davis would be the last one I would compare. He makes one cut and hits the hole so fast and hard, looking to run right through first and second contact. Dude is a tank. Shady was a ninja.

Need to get him the ball somehow to get him going. Maybe a fake punt.

Not gunna happen unfortunately. I think the only way he gets canned is if they miss the playoffs entirely. Pegula is a space cadet. He has no idea what’s going on.

Interesting that he said definitively that Cooper will play Sunday when McD is still trying to play coy about whether or not he gets in the game.

It was quite spectacular how bad he was last night and has been all year. I mean he’s an incredible story and a great guy, but enough is enough. He is just out of place in a starting NFL defense. There has to be a better option than someone who is just out of position constantly and never a threat to make a play.

Not only that, but they went into immediate prevent on the two plays before that allowed them to get in range for it. Then McD called one of his patented defensive timeouts that actually helps the offense. Gave them time to coordinate for the shot. Then he rushed two. It really was the full Sean McDermott end of half experience there. Push all the wrong buttons at exactly the same time, play after play, decision after decision.

Oh it will for sure be “the refs did it”. And yeah they sucked, but when there is this much colossal f up from top to bottom, it’s the coaching guys. The team is just poorly coached. That’s all there is to it. They don’t execute, they take careless penalties, they have a bad pass game scheme, and we don’t even need to get into the egregious game management from McD. The guy has no control of this team and craps his pants in big moments.

Don’t worry guys. I think we’ll see some of that patented Sean McDermott leadership where he gets his guys together on the sideline and calms everybody down. He’ll pull the team together and exude confidence that will get them to settle down.

I can’t believe there are people who think this is a well coached team lol

Excellent block. Doing what every o line coach ever has been teaching. Unbelievable.

the amount of coaching malpractice across the board is wild. Hamlin shouldn’t be on the roster, yet McD just keeps trotting him out there. Then all of the absolute worst game management decisions almost weekly. It’s hard to be this bad as a head coach.

Life, death, and Sean McDermott mismanaging the end of halves. When will enough be enough? This guy is JV.

And here comes Dion Dawkins to weigh in on Twitter

Unfortunately not. Pegula is a space cadet and will be content to watch McD spin his wheels and never sniff a championship.

The D figured it out today? If not for some incredible hero plays from TB and a bunch of mistakes from Stroud and the Texans in the second half, they would have boat raced the Bills just like the Ravens did. Those safeties back there are an unbelievable liability in both run support and the pass game. I don’t know how they can keep trotting Hamlin out there after today. I understand it was Bishop’s first game but holy hell… that may have been the worst safety play I’ve ever seen in the NFL. Just standing around not coming up to try to make a tackle, missing badly the few times they did, and they STILL got beat over the top. If you’re just going to stand 25 yards deep presnap, how do you still get it thrown over your head? Wild. They are going to get exposed all season long unless something changes. The book is out on them. I’m sure TJ coming back will help mask it but there are going to be more rough games with them ahead.

I used to feel like “anything can happen”, and yes there’s still the chance that Josh can go on an absolute tear while the other teams make critical mistakes and a bunch of lucky bounces go the Bills way, but I feel like that’s such a long shot. Even when Josh has played some of the best football games ever from the QB position, McDermott still found a way to bungle it. The guy is just outclassed SO badly by the better coaches, I can’t really see him getting lucky enough not to F it up vs disciplined, prepared, confident teams/coaches. It feels like a pipe dream with such a boob at the helm.

I’m confident they’ll win the division again. And yeah, it’s nice making it to the playoffs and being generally competitive. Unfortunately that’s where the ceiling seems to be with McDermott at the helm. Even when Josh plays superhuman, there is no way to run the playoff gauntlet vs. good teams without winning close games with smart game plans and in-game coaching. And McDermott has proved beyond any doubt at this point of his career that he will freeze and fail in those critical moments both in getting his team ready and to make smart game management decisions. It’s who he is, and he is not changing. In addition to that, the Bills have trotted out a parade of coordinators who have also failed because they are working under his system, culture, and leadership. The problem is the guy at the top. So yeah, it’s nice to have a world class quarterback, but it’s hard knowing in your gut that another divisional round loss is most likely the peak.

Add this to the mix to all the other aforementioned incompetence and coaching failures

Fire Sean McDermott immediately. This cannot continue. He cannot handle game management whatsoever.

Brady having an absolutely awful game

Just pointing out that there are different narratives out there around his conservatism vs. aggression in different situations. He’s definitely aggressive in going for it on 4th, I agree with that. And I love it. I am personally highly critical of a different aspect of his offensive game management late in games though when the Bills have a lead, which is a different thing. He had a tendency to try to sit on small leads and run clock with run plays rather than allowing the normal offense to run, putting it in Josh’s hands and letting him throw for the dagger to ice games. Saw it again vs AZ, so I don’t think he’s going to change on that particular game management philosophy unfortunately.

I think he made a good effort on it. But again, I’ve seen NFL refs throw that flag many, many times at the end of games in that exact situation. His hands were on the receiver before the ball got there and he never turned around. Flag easily could have been thrown. the point was, just keep running the normal offense on the final drive to not be in a situation where it can come down to some flag happy ref. Give josh a chance ice the game himself instead of calling 8 runs in a row or however many it was. Yeah some worked on that last drive, but you can also pass and keep trying to play aggressive. They’ve been burned so many times with that “let’s just run” offense when they have a lead and less than 5 min left. Would really like to see McD just trust josh to keep playing offense to go for the two score lead in those situations.