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Is McD interjecting on the O? This wreaks of over conservative O cause of over confidence in D.

Not certain if I’m cherry-picking here, but seems he knows how to get out of the shadow of the Bills’ own end zone and score TDs in the red zone quite well. But, between their own 35 and opponent’s 20 his play calling is quite inept. Maybe JA bails him out scrambling in the first two situations (and on 3rd down) to make him look better than he actually is?

How many plays per game are blown up due to bad timing? Seems his plays require perfect timing to be executed properly, and if any obstruction arises the play is dead. Doesn’t he engineer alternate options if the first option is not there? It also seems as though these young players can’t follow his plays. At least twice yesterday JA was looking to throw to a guy who was blocking downfield vs looking for the ball. Not sure if Allen or the receiver is to blame there. So, I think his plays are essentially too complex (to be executed by this squad) and over designed (not able to be executed in the real world). He’s trying too hard to be the smartest guy out there, when he should just be tailoring his plays to his player’s strengths.

Packers @ Bills, Dec 2014!!! I was blacked out drunk (hazy) most of the game watching from Northstar Cafe in San Francisco.

Hazy memory but I seem to recall they play well historically blue-on-blue. Maybe it only happened once though.

Good video. Shows more space between Tre and the holder than the CBS angle. Makes it more impressive to me.

I was surprised they were surprised by the fake as well. You’re right they all should have been prepared for that. Fact is Tre made a solo tackle on a play where 8-10 defenders usually crowd the LOS. He saved the game there. Right. I was talking about the rushing TD Fitz had to get to 20 pts. He plowed over Philips there and Philips ran to the sideline and called for a sub cause he was hurt. That’s the play I meant, after he sat on the ball in your pics.

I find this to be disingenuous. White is lined up 3 ft from the end to block the punt from the outside. Instead he stays home and identifies the fake and comes from the end to tackle the holder (too late, yes). In my view he *saved* a TD there and was one of the only players to ID the fake quickly. He subsequently *saved* the game two plays later, and again by forcing the fumble. Three monumental and individual efforts by my count. Phillips getting plowed over and hurt by Fitz (a QB) after he sat on a forced fumble while celebrating a sack are my nods to poor efforts.

I concur!!!

Kolby Linstenbee. Has he even put pads on yet?

Moulds, Winfield, or T Henry/M Lynch.

He was always a standup guy and hard worker. What other WR with his build is known as a great blocker? He has all the tools, great route runner too. Watkins, big stuff, all those guys that came and went I don’t miss at all ... but Bob Woods, man, he’d be a great vet presence for us now. Wish him the best.

Q Williams, G Williams, J Williams ... with Kyle gone we must maintain Williams homeostasis.

I hope the first half of the Phins game was the ghost of Bills’ Past; and the second half, the ghost of Bills’ Future. No taking the foot off the opponents’ throats, “kick the puppy when it’s down”, etc.

After a momentum changing penalty too. He stops and let’s their O get a breather.

Firing in the first half on all cylinders, then castrate the O the second and try to rev them back up with 50 seconds left ... predictable outcome. Idiot HC and OC can’t understand how to maintain momentum.

I saw this in real time and was happy as hell to see it.

I think you’re right and that it could be a leg issue. I see him biting harder on nice WR cuts and getting out of position more than usual, like he’s worried about getting burned so he overcommits. He seems to be giving larger cushions too. Might explain his lack of ups during contested throws the past couple weeks too. Maybe all his time at the goalie academy is wearing on his ankles???

There are too many moving parts in the sport and too many rules to the game. You can’t change the number of parts (actually you could make it 10 v 10 or 9 v 9), so eliminate more rules. Start with the ones, like PI, where the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. They treat every PI as if it would result in a TD, like a penalty shot in hockey. Just give em 15 yards and make them earn it. If you don’t want to elimate rules, get rid of a ref or two so the chances of catching a penalty in action decreases, resulting in fewer penalties. Addition by subtraction. Removing replay, as mentioned before, would help too. Refs are fallible, so it’s engineered into the game, like strikes/balls in baseball.

If true, it’s an excellent strategy. Being comfortable in those situations make the rest of the game easier to execute mentally. Hell, teams should only practice end-of-game situations the entire practice!

I don’t care that they lost this game, due to my low expectations. But specifically speaking about McD and not the players; the guy gets out-coached and -schemed quite a bit. It’s a point of concern going forward for me because a trend may be appearing. They could flip the talent level next year and have weapons everywhere, but still lose games due to coaching. For continual success, we need both. The second to last FG drive, where we get to the 30 and basically sit on it to kick the FG (because our HC is so confident in his D), was a page out of Rex’s playbook. Then executed identically.

I don’t care what Vegas says, the Bills team I watched the last two weeks (sans ST) were better than their opponents on that given day. Yet, they took L’s in both cases. That’s worrisome. I’m def not saying this team is talented, don’t get me wrong. But a better, more experienced coach doesn’t allow his team to lose games like these. I hope McD can become that guy. The others in the line didn’t.

The hallmark of every bad team the Bills fielded during the drought (which was all of them) was losing to inferior teams. I know it’s “any given Sunday”, but last two weeks looks like more of the same. They weren’t talentless all those years, but did have bad coaches.

That go-ahead TD last week vs the Jags, on JA’s scramble ... go look at the TEAM celebrate, then look at KB’s reaction. Looked more like an opposing player reaction than a teammates.

Josh Allen is our best QB, RB, and if Daboll can reinvent the forward pass, could be our best WR too.