GunnerBill

Why because you have been wrong for 5 years so you are going to claim this bad year as victory?

Yea the downside of the NFC North is there are three very well coached and talented teams infront of you. That division is going to be tought to fight out of every year even if Caleb can turn into a stud. I do think Jacksonville (speaking of AFC South) is a possibility, but the noises out of there seem to be they are after a culture setter rather than an offensive playcaller after the Pederson hire has been a disaster. Of the jobs we know will, or very likely will, come open it is one of those two or back to Detroit one more time for me. And you say he is more likely to stay if they fall short of the Superbowl, I sort of think the opposite. Teams rarely want to wait until mid Feb to hire their new coach, so if Detroit goes all the way it probably reduces his chances anyway.

100% right. The number of times he faked the Bills with the snap count to identify the blitzer then re-set and throw right into the window vacated was way above the average for an NFL game. The rotation isn't the problem. The talent is.

In what world is Calais Campbell a 1 tech?

Wasn't it a late growth spurt?

Unless a job we don't expect becomes available they are the front runners IMO. He isn't going to the Saints or the Jets. He won't go to the Raiders if that comes open. Don't think he would go to the Giants, don't see it being the Bengals because even though they have Burrow the infrastructure is a disaster. So it is basically the Bears or the Jags IMO. Now if the Eagles opens up, or the 9ers opens up or something like that... I could see it. But of the likely jobs I think the Bears is the best job all things considered.

It is not true that they never added more rushers. We blitzed plenty. Just unsuccessfully.

Yea AJE had the one nice tackle for loss 4th quarter. Otherwise he was atrocious Sunday. Yea Taron had his worst game of the year. He got got by one of the best big slots in the league and his kryptonite has always been big slots who still have excellent movement skills. Nacua is a tough matchup for him in that sense. And he got beat. That is fine. He is still an elite nickel corner. The other guys get paid too and some days they will just be better than you. That happens to every player in the NFL.

He did play pretty well against KC. I think elite is a stretch. His best game this year was Seattle IMO. But he played decent vs KC, Tennessee and the first Miami game. The other 7 he has played he has simply not been good enough for a player of his ability.

My take on the pros and cons from Bill's perspective. Pros: - total control - east coast - transfer portal and NIL means its possible to turn a programme around quickly - ACC is weak meaning 12 team playoff is achievable maybe even year 1 - chance to be only the 4th man to win a National Championship and a Superbowl - avoids any risk of failing in a new NFL spot and damaging his legacy. Cons: - he will hate recruiting - his schemes are about smarts and no mental mistakes (not well suited to teenagers?) - limited practice time - won't break Shula's record - doesn't get a chance to prove he can build an NFL winner without Tom.

He is not going to Cincinnati. I know QB wise that is the most attractive but organisationally it is the least coveted job in the entire league - and we are already seeing the result of an owner who can't afford to pony up the big bucks year after year to pay his guys and the adjust contracts to free up cap space.

Klint would be near the top of my list. I wouldn't hire Frank Reich if he was the only option.

We also got away with what looked like a false start, less blatant but a false start, on one of our pivotal plays. I think it was Josh's rocket to Shakir at the 1, but would need to check.

I actually think Hamlin was the better of the two on Sunday. He DEFINITELY tackled better. The touchdown run to the outside was on Rapp who was late to his assignment. And that kind of is the problem. Because Hamlin is just a limited player. I don't think it is hesitancy, it is just physical limitations to get to the spot on time. When Rapp plays pretty well, as he has for a chunk of the season, the safeties look just about passable. Once he has a poor game then you really are struggling. I will say I don't think the entire beatdown was explainable by poor safety play. I know you were not suggesting that necessarily, but just making absolutely clear for those reading this.

It's why I think it is worse than any other end of game situation the Bills have suffered through. Even 13 seconds. This wasn't just a play call mistake. It was a really basic game management mistake. Once you use a timeout there the game is basically over. It isn't like a playcall that doesn't work, but could in theory have worked if executed differently. The moment you call time out you are dead.

Now that the one seed is out of the window the Bills should be as cautious as possible with injuries. The rest of this season getting to the playoffs healthy is the most important thing IMO.

The code was cracked by Matt Patricia about 6 weeks from the end of that season when he was Detroit Head Coach. Bear front, and ignore all the pre-snap motion. Just literally pretend it doesn't exist. The Lions still got smoked because they were under talented, but Vic Fangio (then the Bears DC) saw it and ran the same scheme the next week, shut the Rams down and beat them. For about a year after that it was the way to play the Rams. It took McVay a long time to find a counter. Obviously Belichick and Flores managed it as well as anyone, but it was Patricia who worked it out. I think Patricia is really smart but not a football coach. Wouldn't surprise me if Bill gets back in as a HC if Patricia ends up in an Ernie Adams type backroom role.

They are really poorly coached, their oline still stinks and their defensive backfield is a mess.

Noteboom went down early. He was pencilled in as their LT but ended up being a dud anyway. I honestly think they were just outmatched that night by the Bills. I remember Poyer being absolutely everywhere in coverage. He was terrific. The first 6 or 7 games of that year the Bills were what the Lions have been this year. They looked unquestionably the best team in football they were monstering people. Sadly it didn't last.

I think they'd have tried a pass in there somewhere, but it would have been something relatively safe.

Doesn't play teams and can't play inside. Ingram covers boundary, 2nd string dime and 3rd string nickel as well as playing teams. Elam offers one thing - outside depth, that's it.

I mean Van Jefferson being out, whoopie do, he's crap anyway. The Bills shellacked them that night. But it was probably peak talent in terms of Bills rosters. Agree though the second half of the 2020 game did have parallels to last night.

If yesterday had been a playoff game I might have been at enough. The bungling of the series at the goalline at the end, even if the odds were still against us winning had we scored and kept our time outs, was just inexcusable. More inexcusable as a single moment than 13 seconds. Had that been on an elimination stage I might well be at it's fireable.

Who?

And I haven't seen Sean's presser but didn't he say something to the extent of "I asked for our best play from the 1 yard line"? Which the sneak definitely is.... but not in that game situation! The Head Coach owns that call, whatever Brady thought or called. If you are the HC on the headset and your OC calls a sneak there you kill the call.