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It wouldn't have been an "insane" INT. The ball was thrown right to him. He had two hands on the ball all the way to the ground and Jefferson pulled it away with one hand. If anything, he just helped Jefferson catch the ball. It would have been extremely easy to knock the ball away or pull it away from Jefferson. He didn't do either because he was more focused on the catch than the situation.

"Everywhere he goes"? You mean one other team that had All-Pros at nearly every position and he got to bring his HOF tight end with him? I'm not dismissing Brady's accomplishments but his relationship with Belichick was the reason he won as many Super Bowls as he did. I don't see any reason why Allen & Belichick wouldn't win a few. Let Beane continue handling the GM duties though.

Yeah but he's also playing like that because he's trying too hard to win the game on one play. If the game is already won, he's not going to make a risky throw.

But you don't take the intentional safety on 1st down. You let Josh run around in the end zone then throw it away or take an opportunity if one presents itself. You take the intentional safety on 4th down. Then the Vikings have to get a field goal in less than 10 seconds from their own side of the field with no timeouts.

Did Dean Marlowe even play today? The only reason to trade for him would be for these exact situations where we're missing multiple defensive backs.

Easily would have made it past the 15 but might not have gotten the first down. It still would have been 3rd and short with over a minute left. But yes I agree that two of those receivers should have been running to the sticks instead of flooding the endzone with defenders.

Lewis had two hands on the ball and let Jefferson rip it away with one hand while falling backwards. It was 100% on Lewis.

He's absolutely right. You don't risk a safety on 1st down when you can kill clock for 4 downs then force the other team to get a field goal in less than ten seconds. And if Josh is rolling out he has the option to run if he has a lane or even pass if someone gets open for an easy completion. You just can absolutely not run the ball from your own one inch line on 1st down. At best, you get to the 1 yard line and then you still have to run it again twice and punt from your own endzone. Way too many opportunities for the defense. Just control the ball, control the clock, and end the game.

I believe it was the right decision to go for it. The play call they used in that situation, however, was not the right decision.

Don't ask me to justify anything they're doing right now.

According to the drive chart, Singletary was hurt on one play. Not sure if that contributed to Johnson getting carries but it would make sense. Well, it still wouldn't make sense because we have Cook and Hines but that might be the reason they used Johnson.

Yeah I was watching a replay of that afterwards and there was a RB (not sure if it was Singletary or Cook) wide open after coming off a block but Josh never even looked at him. So Josh deserves some blame there. But all of his receivers were in the endzone and the routes they ran couldn't have possibly gotten them open. It's a recurring theme with Dorsey. The same thing happened on the 4th & 2 where we only needed 2 yards but all of the receivers ran to the endzone where it was picked off.

The last team to win a Super Bowl with an "elite" RB was 8 years ago (Marshawn Lynch). Elite QBs are the only thing you absolutely need to win a Super Bowl. Any other offensive position is just a luxury. Edit: And you need good defense or one that happens to match up well against your playoff opponents.

I'd really like to hear why it's so difficult. It seems like Dorsey just says "everyone go deep" and then Allen runs around until he finds someone to throw to.

Getting into the playoffs is why we should care about two embarrassing losses in November. I know they're capable of doing it, but they sure haven't shown it the past two weeks.

Well you left out the 5TD game he had in the middle of that span and the Chiefs won 4 out of 5 of the games you did mention. This isn't all about Allen though. He's not playing well, but these losses are a complete team effort. No one else, including the coaching staff, is going to step up and win us a game when Allen doesn't play well.

How many people said this same exact quote after last week's loss?

It's certainly within the realm of possibility, but they're playing more like 3rd place in the division than 1st place in the conference right now.

Shakir has 1 catch for 6 yards in the last 3 games. After the loss to the Dolphins I would have agreed with the gist of your post because this team is so incredibly talented they should be able to overcome a lot. But now they've lost 3 games that should have been easy wins because they can't stop making mistakes in every facet of the game. Mistakes should be correctable, but they're not getting corrected despite being embarrassed multiple times (not even to mention past years' embarrassments). So at some point, this is just who they are: a great team when firing on all cylinders but otherwise an undisciplined mess.

That was a horrible play call. There's probably about a 5% chance of a defensive TD or 25% chance of a safety with 40 seconds left to get in field goal range. If you roll out with Allen 4 times you can kill most of the 40 seconds by just throwing the ball away each time and taking an intentional safety on 4th down. The free kick would take the rest of the time if they try to return it or maybe one hail Mary if they down the ball immediately.

As the second half was starting today, the broadcast brought up a stat that was really surprising to me. The Bills had won 52 games in a row when they led by 14+ points by halftime at home, dating back to 1968. Imagine how many awful teams the Bills had over that amount of time and then think about this team managing to break that streak as a "Super Bowl favorite." This team is looking more like Marvin Lewis' Bengals than anything resembling a perennial Super Bowl contender. McDermott has certainly earned a lot of trust with his performance thus far, but if these monumental choke jobs don't stop happening at some point then I hope we're not stuck with Marvin Lewis 2.0 for 15 years.

Everyone except Diggs is playing like trash to be fair.

Should've never gotten to that point for a multitude of reasons. This game was such a farcical choke job it required the Bills to do literally everything wrong to lose. Which they managed in spectacular fashion.

His coordinator thinks he does.

And the QB sneak fumble from the one inch line.