dgrochester55
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18 minutes ago, appoo said:
He took Tyrod Taylor to 9 wins and the playoffs man
It is possible to both acknowledge and appreciate what he did in it past and at the same time realize that what he is doing in not working anymore. It is time to move on from him.
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It did not end up directly costing us the game, but we cannot forget what happened with the refs. Buffalo played undisciplined in the first half, but there is no way that the Eagles only got one penalty for five yards in the first half. The inconsistency is bad enough, but ignoring the horse collar and calling Allen for grounding is egregious enough on it's own to warrant discipline.
A quick google search on Sean Hochuli shows a history of problems, he is even more corrupt and incompetent than his father was. He is the poster example of the problems with officiating in the NFL. We need to reach out to whoever we can find and complain about this. The NFL needs a serious overhaul on their officiating in the off-season.
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This game individually was not a bad effort, but the team desperately needed this win to offset what Happened in the new England and Denver games. Something is not right with how the team responds to clutch situations. The Eagles found a way to win, we found a way to lose. That is the difference between a pretty good and a top tier team. I appreciate what McDermott did to get us out of the drought era, but we need to move on to take that next step.
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1 minute ago, Dan in Owego said:
Hocculih and McD canid suck a bag of you know what
I know i misspelled who cares doesn't deserve it
If you spelled what the ref should be called correctly, you would get a violation for language. That ref needs to be disciplined.
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The two minute defense finally did everything right at the end of the 4th, and we still caught a bad break with a 60 yd fg in the rain that is missed 99 times out of 100. It just isn't meant to be this year.
I appreciate the effort over the last two weeks, and I am encourage that Allen is turning it around, but we still need to move on from McDermott next year so that we can get out of this losing the big game culture and get to the next level.
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My suggestion for Josh Allen's first play in the second half.
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For the first two offensive plays, Josh Allen needs to go the path of Adam Sandler in the longest yard remake, whip the first two passes into the refs crotch, then walk up to him and say "how about calling a fair game now?
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I am more comfortable saying this because we are winning. This is a blatant hatchet jobs by the refs and this needs to be looked into. People need to be filing complaints. This is unacceptable and a disgrace to the game.
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28 minutes ago, MikePJ76 said:
Saleh and Douglas should be fired 30 minutes after this game. I know it wont happen but they are a disaster.
Spend all their resources on Defense and then they get these two games. Same thing in washington with rivera....Spend all your top picks on defense and then they cant play a lick of defense.
Defense wasn't the problem. They held the Dolphins offense to 13 in the first three quarters and put six on the board themselves. There is only so much that a defensive unit can do when offense does not even cross the 50 until the 4th quarter.
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When are NFL coaches going to learn that hailmarys at the end of the first half are stupid. It cost the Jets just now and came very close to costing Buffalo last Sunday.
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We have a LAMO ("look at me officiating!") game here.
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All three units are playing well, but I feel like the players have to overcome McDermott's coaching strategy on top of the Jets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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1 minute ago, MAJBobby said:
Well Joe Brady has a 7 game audition for the OC job next year, he should call a fun offense at least trying to secure the long term job.
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.
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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.
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1 minute ago, JerseyBills said:
Lol
Or Megan Fox being in my bedroom this weekend
I'm just saying, we're not a bad team. If we stop shooting ourselves in the foot, they could get hot. Tough schedule but every team is beatable. They're beating themselves and it's fixable, unlikely but truly possible
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.
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4 minutes ago, JerseyBills said:
I'm in right now.
We haven't had a loss where we didn't beat ourselves imo. This is fixable. Not saying it'll get fixed but it's possible.
With Bills having so many primetime gms and watching red zone, it's remarkable the parity in the league. Every team, excluding the Giants and Panthers can beat any team on any given Sunday
This will make for an amazing documentary when we hoist the Lombardi
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bills took the best team in the NFL to OT…
in The Stadium Wall
Posted · Edited by dgrochester55
This team despite the injuries on defense took the Eagles to the limit on the road, so Yes. Yesterday on its own, would be forgivable, but bad coaching has reared its ugly head in many games this year. If the team simply lines 11 on the field in the Denver game and stop Mac Jones on a TD drive, they are 8-4, talking about fighting for the top seed and this loss is not as big of a deal.
There are at least seven games over the past three years off the top of my head that I can think of where Josh Allen drove the team near the end of the game, with under two minutes(even after bad days in some cases) to the lead, only to result in a loss because of bad decisions. Holding on to a lead after a two minute drive touchdown is an exception instead of expected, that is not normal. McDermott is not just below average in that, the ratio of failure on that is an off the chart outlier that is inept on a record level. That comes down to bad coaching and in game decisions.