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We have a LAMO ("look at me officiating!") game here.

All three units are playing well, but I feel like the players have to overcome McDermott's coaching strategy on top of the Jets.

Unless there is a miraculous turnaround and a run to the Super Bowl, I would say no. I appreciate how McDermott got us out of the playoff drought and turned the franchise around, but he has taken this team as far as he is capable of doing. The in game management will always keep him in the tier of pretty good instead of elite as a coach. He appears to have lost the team and it is time for a change.

This exposes the inconsistency of the NFL. Every year it seems, there is one more thing taken away from the defenses or special teams in the name of "safety". They are now talking about banning a waist tackle next year and a Washington Commanders player got a 15 yard roughing the passer penalty for sacking Mac Jones two weeks ago. Meanwhile on the offensive side, this actual dangerous play that comes from the leather helmet era not only gets overlooked, but gets a cutesy name and a bunch of excited comments from the announcers. There are more injuries now than ever, so these changes made on defense are not about safety, they are about profit and creating the narrative for the juggernaut offenses and who will be the next GOAT at QB.

I am an Orioles fan and this team is a lot like the Orioles were from 2011-2018. The manager Buck Showalter quickly rebuilt the team out of a playoff drought and crated a winning culture. This led to a few years of playoffs where they could never get past the championship. The team had strengths and weaknesses, but the weaknesses were never addressed. As people from the original team left the team or retired, they were replaced with bad free agents and a farm system that was on the bottom. Eventually the bottom fell out fast and you out of nowhere had a 100 loss team again. Showalter was fired and a full rebuild was needed. The Orioles are back now which a core of good young players and a manager of the year, but it took a few years to get back there. I see a very similar path with Buffalo (but we are not quite at the end of that cycle). Bad coaching in the playoffs, the same weakness every year, and unproductive replacements added by free agency and the draft. It might be possible to retool in the off-season and keep this team contending, but we need to move on from McDermott and Beane before the bottom completely falls out.

I would share the sentiment of the OP if this was after one isolated blowout loss or even a two or three game losing streak, but we are looking at six games at 2-4 with poor offensive outputs against bottom half ranked defenses. We are also looking at terrible coaching decisions game to game, a team that is in internal disarray and an incredibly tough schedule. The only two times in history that I can think of a team winning a superbowl after being even close to a similar scenario this far into the season are the 2007 giants and 2020 Buccaneers. The Bucs had a guy named Tom Brady at QB. Buffalo is at a low enough point where one to two more wins for the entire season is more likely than playoffs. Maybe if they beat the Jets and split with the Chiefs and Eagles, we can feel a glimmer of hope, but right now it is not good. There are too many issues from the top down and a mini reboot/rebuild is likely needed after the season.

If the beat the Jets and pull off a huge upset against KC or Philly, then maybe I will hold out hope. Huge if there. The way that they are playing, I could see them either losing out of getting a meaningless win at the very end that knocks them down a few draft spots like they used to do in drought era. Sorry to sound so pessimistic, a demoralizing loss like that is very hard to recover from. How we want Buffalo to respond to the rest of the season How Buffalo will likely respond to the rest of the season

I don't care if it is Joe Brady, Tom Brady, Kyle Brady or Marcia Brady. As long as they can let Josh Allen run the ball, snap under center and play to his strengths, they will be an upgrade over Dorsey.

I am no Dorsey fan and wanted him gone, but Dorsey is not the one who caused 12 men to be on the field for a field goal after two timeouts were called. Looks like we are stuck with McDermott for the year. If we are anything short of a superbowl, he needs to go in the offseason.

There are a couple of teams like the 2007 giants and 2020 Bucs that won the Super bowl after appearing to be dead in the water halfway through the season, but I think that a key difference is that those teams still believed in their coaching system. It is clear after how some of the players reacted after the game that this team is checked out.

Bills winning the super bowl. I guess it's possible. Some quantum mechanics theories believe that anything is possible. For example, an asteroid could hit the earth tomorrow, but the chances are like one in 10 trillion.

Had they won yesterday and then beaten the Jets, I may have had a sliver of hope. Not now. The regime needs to go. They lost a game because of a penalty that a pop warner team should not make. There is no "well they shouldn't have been in the position to begin with" or "It takes more than one play to blow a game" this time. Buffalo literally is walking off the field 6-4 if they execute a special teams play in a manner that any team at any age level no matter how bad they are is capable of doing. Between that and the reaction of the players after the game, it is clear that McDermott has lost the players. We are now the laughing stock of the league again. Enough is enough. I'll take a 5-12 season if it means a mini rebuild and getting someone in that can make the most of out talent.

I might get laughed at for this, but I think that this team currently has 7 or 8 wins instead of 5 with Rex Ryan or Chan Gailey as the coach. I am not singing their praises, I am using them as examples to emphasize just how badly McDermott and his game management has lost the team.

Forget elite coaching. If the coaching is even average or adequate, Buffalo wins the Jets, Patriots and Broncos games. It takes a special level of incompetence to fumble away games in this manner with this level of talent.

All McDermott can say if "we need to practice more." Yeah, lets practice not putting twelve men on the field. Should you be on the field during the field goal block. No? Great! practice over! What a joke. This team goes nowhere until we clean house up top.

McDermott is the Buck Showalter of the NFL. Good at rebuilding a team and turning around a losing culture, bad at game management and getting a playoff team to the next level. I was not for firing him until now. We are 6-4 if the team does not commit a gaffe that a pop warner team should be disciplined enough to do. I am at a loss for words.

Allen despite a horrible game drove them to a lead with less than two minutes. The defense allowed six points off of four turnovers. We still lost because of 12 men on the field. McDermott makes Rex Ryan look like Vince Lombardi with that one. I was not for firing him until today, but that is grounds for dismissal.

I was not for firing mcdermott until that. That is grounds for instant dismissal. I have no words

McDermott would just now be telling the kicker to warm up.

If we were in that situation instead of making the fg, McDermott and Dorsey would still be discussing what to do as we speak.

Update: Sherfield's injury was due to throwing out his back when rushing a heavy container of water to the rest of the offense between plays.

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McDermott's version of complimentary football is one unit collapsing immediately after the other one gets it together.

Time for the defense to check out now.

Dorsey (returning from the bathroom after five minutes). What did I miss guys?