GunnerBill

That is exactly what I'd say.

Firing any of those guys should land you in the dumb bucket.

You know what you do? Nothing. You go back. You try and improve your roster the same way you always do, the players turn up in April and you start install again. Only one team each year wins the Superbowl. Because we have seen two dynasties back to back in New England and Kansas City I think people have got a warped sense of what is reasonable to expect. Baltimore are an excellent team. A Superbowl calibre team. But so are the Bills. At least one of them wasn't going to win it. The same will happen next Sunday. One team capable of winning a Superbowl and in view of the top of the mountain will lose and slide all the way back down to base camp and prepare in April to start again. These games come down to wafer thin margins. It doesn't mean something is wrong because you don't hoist the Lombardi.

I think their initial gameplan was average to be honest. The Bills had a better plan. They made great adjustments, no question, and I wouldn't say Harbaugh was the reason they lost at all. But I felt like they were outcoached in that first half. Even take the turnovers away they had too many negative plays on offense and really invited the Bills to run on defense despite watching them maul the Broncos on the ground. They fixed it up at half time, but in the first half they lost the strategy battle.

You don't fire a coach as good as John Harbaugh. It would be utter lunacy.

Odd job to take. Not a lot of talent and a HC and GM on the hotseat.

No, I wouldn't. But I am not ready to say the window is shut on a team that talented returning all their key players. Is losing two good coordinators a blow? Definitely. But not a knockout punch.

He should have caught the ball. But the throw made it as hard as can be for what should be a walk in touchdown. Simms is 100% right.

Roster wise they are gonna return a ton of guys though.

I'm 2/2 on predictions so far.

One thing for certain, I am FAR more confident than last time we went there in an AFC championship Game in 2020. At that time I still felt we were a level below Kansas City in terms of talent but also in terms of Josh's maturity and the overall experience and mentality of our team. This time this Bills team is battle hardened and experienced. It has been on the field with these guys and gone toe to toe with them, beaten them, lost close games to them, there is no inferiority complex when we take the field on Sunday which there was in 2020. We are going to have to play a great game to win, no question. But the Bills are ready for this. I just hope and pray it's finally out turn to get one. Crikey, no!

He is correct. Exactly what I have been saying. It is late and behind. Makes an easy throw as hard as it can possibly be.

The first line had rushed hard before the great play by Lamar they tried to rotate to get fresh bodies in and got caught in a substitution look that they probably would admit wasn't ideal. But what do you do? Keep guys in who are worn down or go to fresh legs even if they are your backups? The best players weren't out because they were cold they were out because they had rushed their assess off chasing Lamar trying to stop the drive at source.

No I am not saying that. I am saying the throw unnecessarily increased the degree of difficulty. Of course Andrews should catch it. But the ball should have been placed better.

I listen to it in podcast form a day late on my commute to the office on the London underground. So today's show will be tomorrow morning for me. The presenters are meh, the callers are hilariously bad.

He has definitely taken a step back this year. I think Knox has pretty comprehensively outplayed him in 2024.

The reason it will be on the call sheet is they have audibles based on looks. If Josh thinks he is getting an overload blitz up the middle his audible is screen outside. That won't be a choice of plays in the huddle thing that will be a basic install audible.

Add to that in the two "lost drives" in the 3rd they called two downfield play action shots and Josh came off BOTH and threw underneath. Joe Brady can call the plays. He can't go out there and run the routes for them too though. We have a receiver separation problem. Particularly downfield, particularly outside. Where I think you can legitimately ask a coaching question is why they haven't managed to fully embed a package of plays for Amari Cooper. Even if that is an occasional bolt on to your offense. Without it the Ravens just went back to the week 4 plan on defense 2nd half - we'll take the middle you can have outside if you want it.

That play was a foul by White but it was a hold or illegal contact not DPI. But the issue we have talked about ad nauseum with Keon was there again. Downfield he plays to the contact rather than seeking to use the leverage to create separation. That at this point is who he is and who has been throughout college. IT should be coachable and we just have to hope that with a full NFL offseason where he can concentrate on his craft rather than working our for combine drills and prepping interviews that the Bills can make some progress with him there.

This is just not true.

I did not spot it at the time but you are 100% right. Josh clearly kills the play and audibles.

I think we'd have done it because we have Josh freaking Allen and because, actually when you have an elite QB in that situation they have to come through. Forget context, forget supporting case, forget everything else. 1.33, 2 time outs, needing a FG to win it.... if you have an elite QB in that scenario they gotta get it done. No excuses. It was a criticism of Josh that I made back in 2021. We lost a handful of games that year where Josh had the ball last with a chance to take us down for the win and failed to get it done. It always seemed a bit frantic. I think the fact that he did it in the 13 second game (only to be let down by others) was a turning point for him in those scenarios and I've never doubted him since in those situations. He finds a way.

Agree. And it was always swayed by the fact that the only teams who ever went for 2 in non "gotta have it" 4th Quarter situations were the teams with great QBs. Because guess what, when you have Brady or Big Ben (remember the Steelers were an early adopter) your chances of executing a 2 yard play are higher than if you have EJ Manuel or Blaine Gabbert. Once the analytics moved the dial and it basically became the go to play any time you score down 8 or any time you score and have a chance to go up an additional score by getting 8 pretty much at any point in the game and every team whoever then QB began to pivot that way then that was another factor likely to drag the "make it" percentage down and affect the math.

They didn't go into prevent until the last couple of plays actually. Every time a team moves the ball on us fans shout "see we are in prevent." The play where we flushed Lamar out, were chasing him down and he threw back across his body to Wallace on a scramble drill was not prevent defense. It was a pressure look. A great Quarterback made a great play.

He has been great in both playoff games. Reminding us all why he was a 1st team all pro. Boy how we have missed him the last two regular seasons.