Sweats

I agree with you to a point, they will learn from it, however, you can't learn or teach talent. Our D is talentless and got outmatched, outplayed and steamrolled by the Ravens. Baltimore opened up the play sheet on how to beat the Bills and honestly, it really wasn't that difficult or progressive.......win the trenches on both sides, pressure JA, RB's straight up the gut. The Bills have usually always had a problem over the years stopping the run. The team can have all of the motivation it wants......if they haven't got the skills or the talent, participation trophies for everybody.

I think this is the year to make a SB run......i know our roster may not be the best or functioning 100% with the growing pains of all the new added pieces, however, the AFC looks wide open right now, with our only true tests being Baltimore and KC IMO. I think we have 7 picks in the first 4 rounds of the draft for next year, so that will help build a little more reliable foundation for the roster for a few more years yet, but i don't really see too many stand-out AFC teams to threaten us this year.

It's good to see the Bills future looks great.......mine on the other hand, looks a little flat and uninspiring.

I'm not going to say they are slow, but the new names i have for the pair of them are Molasses and Quicksand.......read into it what you will.

I'm with you. It's like this coaching staff will live and die by the nickel......even when it's not working or doesn't make sense, they won't adjust. It's maddening and frustrating as a fan watching it all unfold.

That dude had one hell of a life.......RIP

Wow.....best of luck, brother.

I never thought he ever got the respect that he deserved.......RIP

I said kicker.......Bass is getting a little stinky and its time to throw him back into the river.

You bring up some good points and that's what i love about these boards......a forum to bounce ideas and concepts around and people pointing out that we may not be necessarily right or wrong, just need to see the point from a different view. We all see the games differently and from different points of view, so it's good to see differing opinions on the games, strategies, etc. and brining up points that i never even thought of or considered. Case in point......you saw the game that our O had to score more points and i agree with that, however i am of the opinion that our D had to stop the Ravens from scoring points. Both opinions i believe are right, just in how we saw the game i suppose.

Is that right? Marv Levy, great HC, couldn't win a SB when he had 4 tries.......what is he remembered for outside of Buffalo?.......couldn't win a SB out of 4 tries. Sorry brother, i don't make the rules of the legacy game. People remember what they remember, and society has a short memory unless it's something worth remembering.......like a SB.

I can see that no one wants to talk about the elephant in the room here..... We want to keep our O on the field as long as possible to come away with points and chew up the clock, i get it, but i'm seeing that we want to keep our O on the field as much as possible to keep our D off the field.......and why is that? Our D is compromised and a liability. Well, let's consider that last night they looked lost, confused and unsure of assignments. Is that on coaching or is that on the Ravens spectacular play schemes? Baltimore has no hidden agenda with their play calling, run, heavy run and run some more......own the trenches and use the run to set up the pass. It's very basic schemes all around. It all starts in the trenches and builds from there. So, it's safe to say it's not the Ravens spectacular play calling. I would say it's execution and you know what limits a teams execution?......coaching. So, why was our D ill prepared for play calling that most of us knew was coming?.........why was the D completely confused on assignments? Obviously, poor tackling is on the players, but our D schemes blow. Injuries perhaps, but every team has injuries, so that is no longer an excuse in my eyes. Could it be limited talent?.......yeah, probably a major factor in execution. What about coaching?.......i am probably the hardest guy on our coaching staff, bar none. I don't understand how a running team can run through our D with very little effort untouched, mind you and our coaching staff either has no answers or clueless to change their game plan on the fly to correct. Coaching 101.....when something is working for a team, you shut it down and limit its progression, forcing that team to change its strategy on the fly and do something else. You know, exactly what the Ravens did to us. They took away everything, they understood the assignment, they did their homework, they read the memo. We had no answers for any of it. I see some of you guys are okay with a loss and for the most part so am i, however, the Ravens basically came in with one plan.......run the ball and even when we knew it was coming, we did nothing, however, we tried every trick in the book to keep our compromised D off the field as much as possible. Not a rant, just an observation.

A primetime game against an AFC opponent which may or may not dictate homefield advantage come the playoffs is fairly big i would consider.

But his "feel good" story should warm every fans heart and he should remain as a roster staple.................................................................................(rolls eyes)

I actually wouldn't even see an issue with this if Carolina was a dynasty or a juggernaut, however, we shouldn't be looking at another man's garbage......we have enough of our own.

When i'm by myself at the grocery store, i usually just send the cart sailing down the roadway and then jump in my truck real quick before i even see where the cart ended up, which usually ends up in some form of argument (sometimes even a fist fight) because no one really knows where the cart came from, so people just start blaming each other........when my wife is with me, i make the effort to actually take the cart back to the designated cart spot because that's the "decent" thing to do. Yes, i am a bit of an ***hole.......no need to point it out.

I certainly wouldn't be opposed to this.

As much as i don't like the guy, he got so much out of so little with his rosters. Well, the primetime spotlight for one.......an AFC opponent that will see the playoffs for sure and a generally overall good team. That's how i see it as a big game.

beer......and lots of it

I'd say the game was a write-off when the King ran for 87 yards on the very first play to score a TD.......everyone knew the King was going to run hard and heavy, but our coaching staff didn't see it coming. Like, no idea that Henry could run the ball......completely clueless. That spelled the beginning of the end right there.......3 minutes in and we lost the game cause our coaching staff were caught off guard that a RB might actually run the ball. It was all i needed to see.

I need to know........why can McD not win big games? It seems our D always falls apart at big moments, but why is this? Why are they never prepared for the big games and why do they always look like they've never coached a game before? It's like they are lost, confused, ill prepared. Anyone?

The sad part is the Ravens could have definitely scored more points throughout that game......the only bright spot is they didn't completely and utterly shellac us. This game could have been so much more worse for us.

Well, you're not going to hear that in the rah, rah speech.

Can we just win the big ones regardless?

I'm of the belief that you keep using the plays that are working in a game. The same way a team runs up the gut continuously until you show that you can stop it and then they are forced to try something else to compensate. You could clearly see that the Ravens were blanketing Kincaid, so we should have been targeting Knox and get him more involved. It's like our coaching staff doesn't see what's going on out there or refuse to change a gameplan that clearly isn't working. #confused