Nihilarian

I think what we are seeing is an effort to bolster the run game by having the safeties cheat up against the run and this leaves the corners in man coverage. Once Dareus gets back in there 100% healthy to help stop the run the team might be able to play more zone and give the CB's a hand. Clearly, the defense has moved away from a constant two-gap scheme and moved towards a one-gap this year and thus the improvement in sacks. While this year the team is leading the NFL in sacks the Bills are not quite getting the pass pressure on the QB as they are 11th in defensive hurries. Current total defense in yards 21st, pass defense19th, run defense 23rd. Currently #4 in turnover differential +7.

Replace him with someone who can win more than 8 games in a season. The starting CB's had less talent in 2014 and yet played better. Last year these same two CB's played better because they weren't in man coverage so often. The GM was forced to use the first two picks on defense because of the different scheme and now they will probably need to draft some new DB's. Even if the Bills had won against Seattle and went into the bye week 5-4 it's still not a given the team finishes with a winning record considering the defense is only average and was supposed to be great. With the talent on last years roster the team should have been in the playoffs and this year it's no different as the defense that was supposed to be elite under Ryan is again only mediocre. I for one am not afraid of change because if this new owner hires the right people to run the football side of the team they just might be able to hire the right HC! Someone who could have the team contending for the division. I've seen it before when the team hired a winning HC in Chuck Knox. I've seen it before when a brilliant young man was hired as GM and the team was built to contend for a super bowl in three short years. This team has far too much talent to keep going nowhere every year.

Strange, because I read it was the best game all year. Perhaps everyone was so caught up in the election

This is just one big excuse. Good NFL coaches should know what they have in training camp and plan accordingly. It shouldn't take a year and a half to see what they "have" or what the players are capable of doing. Man coverage puts Gilmore and Darby on an island and that is why most teams don't run it unless they have a Revis or two. As it is, that Rex Ryan defense in NY was really only great and #1 for two years and then fell off in points allowed to 20th! Ryan still had Cromartie and Revis in that third year. Gilmore and Darby aren't those guys and clearly play better in a different scheme. That is 100% coaching. So now the team will need to spend more draft / FA resources on DB's to fit Ryan's defensive scheme even though another coach came in and made use of the players on the roster (with McKelvin at CB) and that defense was #4 overall, points, yards! The man had six seasons in NY and never got back to that lofty #1 overall he attained in his first year. It's looking a lot like 8-8 or worse this year. Let's just face facts here. Rex Ryan is not a very good head coach and perhaps not a very good defensive coordinator anymore.

Did you ever stop to think that either Woods gave up on his route or it was a miscommunication between the WR-QB and that is usually the WR's fault! We don't know what the call was but I'd siding with the QB on this one as he threw to a spot and the WR wasn't there.

It really is odd that the two years previous (2014 & 2015) the defensive secondary wasn't a problem at all and in particular last season in which the CB's looked like the some of the very best in the league! Yes, folks, it is the coaching and therefore the scheme in which the players are put into that make the difference in their play. Leaving Darby and Gilmore all alone in man coverage sure as hell didn't work in the Jets game, the Patriots game or even against Miami and now in Seattle. You would think that the added run support by the safeties would have a major impact and it did to a degree in some games. A defense loaded with talent and the best this team can be is below average? Kinda strange that Philly is #6 in points, yards in the league with less talent.

It really is ridiculous that some fans can't unfocus from the QB position long enough to think there might be other issues with the team. Robert Woods had a great game but it also looks like he is the one that caused that INT by not finishing his route or by miscommunication with the play. Taylor threw it to a spot and woods wasn't there and Richard Sherman was. That INT took away a possibleTD and at the least a FG. The error there looked to be on Woods. The last play of the game Tyrod was again throwing to a spot and Woods was bumped by Earl Thomas while attempting to get to the ball. Stuff happens! Seattle rushed only three and had 6 in the backfield and saying some other QB could have made that play is baloney because nobody was open in the end zone. Thomas doesn't bump him and it's probably a catch. TE Jimmy Graham regains his Saints form and catches two TD's with one hand on separate instances. Like I said, I have more problems with that supposed elite Bills secondary giving up big plays than I do with the Bills QB! Tyrod Taylor didn't embarrass me as a Bills fan and that supposed Rex Ryan defense was an embarrassment.

Robert Woods, 10 rec for 162 yards. Still, was it Woods that ran the wrong route or stopped running his route that caused that INT? The Bills 12 of 17 on 3rd down. ToP Bills 40:17- Sea 19:43

Not only this but the scheme that Ryan runs puts these players in man coverage a lot so they are on an island a lot. So, the question is, what happened between this year and last year when the Bills had arguably the best CB duo in the league and this year they look like the worst? My take is this man coverage is killing these guys and they are really missing Baccari Rambo.

I think half the teams in the NFL wish they had him as their starting QB to play like he did with no elite receiver at one of most difficult stadiums in the NFL to play in. NVM that Woods broke his leg and someone by the name of Groy was snapping the ball. Again, I'm more upset with all that talent on that defense and it plays that poorly.

Oh no!!

the dreaded cart GDI

54 yarder, NG jeez screwed many ways Refs stand over the ball until 5 sec left on the play clock

OH WTF, delay of game...

I'll say. should have been a 15 yard roughing

Shady almost got it!

The thing is those two are very close and Thompson may just want to leave if McCarthy is fired or choose to leave rather than fire him. Either way, McCarthy is a super bowl winning head coach who knows how to win and if he is fired he won't be unemployed for very long.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/if-packers-miss-playoffs-could-major-changes-be-coming-013224354.html The Packers are now .500. They’re a third-place team. They might be a game out of first place, but it doesn’t feel like that right now. The NFL is a results-based business, and unless the Packers turn things around in the second half of the season, head coach Mike McCarthy could be in some trouble.

Eagles D just intercepted Manning to give them a chance to win the game 23-28 and now Manning has 2 INT's Wentz had a bad game

Only because they were forced to start the 4th string rookie QB Kellen Moore. I can see Dallas in the SB this year!

This game for Buffalo will depend on how much LeSean McCoy can play and if he is 100%. When healthy he is a game changer and when not the Bills don't do well on offense

My lord Big Ben is stinking up this game...

HAHA Flacco looking like the mad stork on a QB run just hurt himself sliding...what a putz This might change momentum

Too bad the Bills probably won't see this version of Ben

Nice game between Miami and Jets and both offenses are looking good early. Spiller on the field for the Jets as a receiver