BernieBill

It would be too easy to say that playoffs are slightly more important than regular season ... but so many of the regular season one-score losses should actually be wins, in my humble opinion, and are losses becasue of poor coaching. Those one-score regular season losses allow the Chiefs to get the #1 seed every single year. The Bills cannot go to London and put up 7 points in 3 quarters on a day when their defense is decimated and you know it's going to take points to win. Dorsey wastes plays. So many 1st and 10s become 2nd and 10s or 2nd and 11s because Ken Dorsey couldn't figure out that running yesterday was not working and the best chance Buffalo had was to throw the ball down the field (kinda like they did too little, too late in the 4th quarter). Add in the fact that Knox-Kincaid should be a nightmare for defenses but isn't because of Buffalo's inept offensive coaching. Did you see George Kittle last night? That should be Knox-Kincaid ... instead we are treated to virtually no production from the tight end position every game. Now you're speaking for "most people"? That's quite a claim. I would venture to guess that many Bills fans choose to remember the history and try to learn from it. But it's cool, like I said, there are legions of deluded pro-McDermott Bills fans. When McDermott chokes away another playoff game this year, we'll have the same conversation. I'll be saying he shoulda been fired years ago, you'll be shining his shoes.

You think it's absurd to mention the fact that Sean McDermott pissed away a chance at a home AFC championship game and the best chance this team has had at a championship after his QB led a heroic shoulda-been GW drive in Kansas City? Yeah, I'm going to remember that and keep mentioning it forever and ever given the fact that my goal is Super Bowls, not division titles and playoff appearances resulting in losses.

Oh really? That's interesting, I seem to remember a 27-10 ass-kicking in Buffalo at the hands of the Bengals on January 22, 2023 ... must be a figment of my imagination.

You know which teams play the same every week, at the same elite level? The 49ers, the Chiefs, the Eagles ... if they happen to lose, they lose tough and they don't lose playing like utter garbage ... the Bills, by contrast, have wild fluctuations, games in which they are obviously outcoached and poorly prepared ... let's see how many McDermott acolytes will vomit or red X this post ... I'll say it again: Sean McDermott should have been fired 5 minutes after the 13 seconds game in Kansas City and should not be coaching a team with Josh Allen as the quarterback ... he'd be a fine defensive coordinator, not a head coach, not in today's NFL ... did you see the 49ers offensive execution last night against Dalls? That's a well-coached, well-oiled offense primed to win a championship ... the Bills? They blow teams out in the regular season, lose games they should win, and underperform in the playoffs against elite coaches and organizations. Cue the vomit, let's go!

He should have been fired after 13 seconds, his game management remains poor, the variance in Buffalo's offense remains way too volatile, he makes idiotic challenges over and over year after year, he blows myriad winnable games every single year (including today), and he's a religious fanatic who embarrasses himself and the team with all the "God" talk ... but people here seem to think he deserves a lifetime position despite appearing in zero Super Bowls and obviously riding the coattails of a supremely talented quarterback whose talent will never be maximized so long as he remains head coach. I say fire him and get an offensive guru to lead the team through Josh Allen's prime. But most are content with playoff appearances and playoff losses rather than championships.

Are you a member of the Pegula family? Yes I agree, sports owners often retain the wrong coaches for way too long with horrible consequences. I'm totally at peace with it ... but I have every right to express my disgust for such an obviously asinine choice by the oligarch owners.

Daboll is beside the point ... the point is having a defensive head coach in an offensive age when your MVP-level talent quarterback is going to ultimately be the one to either lead you to Super Bowls or not. But go ahead and do another Daboll-centered response while making excuses for the lack of offensive consistency in the here and now. And yes, 27-year-old athletes are typically entering/in their prime while 25-year-old athletes are not quite there yet. Elbow-shmelbow, Josh was playing, no excuses. Was his elbow the reason Buffalo had 7 points today entering the 4th quarter? I tend to blame the bad playcalls, the bad game plan, and the inability to properly integrate not one but two pass-catching tight ends into what should be a much more consistently potent offense (all coaching issues).

And again, like the articulate guy calling himself "Beast," you fail to recognize that Daboll was coordinating a younger and more inexperienced Josh Allen ... we are now in Josh Allen's prime and we are experimenting with Ken Dorsey and the same religious-fanatic defensive head coach who manages games about as well as the Blue Jays' John Schneider. Forget I said "Brian Daboll," I know it's tough ... the team should have an offensive mastermind at head coach or at the very least at OC ... the Bills have neither.

Again, the Daboll element is not the point, the fact that the McDermott-Dorsey regime is not constructed to maximize offense is. Daboll was OC when Josh Allen was 13 seconds from a home AFC-title game ... how did the Bills offense do against the Bengals last year, at home, in the same round of the playoffs? It's unnecessary to post such crude remarks about other Bills fans. You like the offense with this coaching crew, more power to ya.

Well, Daniel Jones is the quarterback ... Josh was at his best with Daboll ... and no, I don't want to bring Daboll back specifically ... I want an offensive guru to run the team when your best chance of winning is maximizing Josh Allen's best years. McDermott isn't it. Dorsey isn't it. Maybe the team can overcome but performances like today, which happen way too often, don't inspire confidence.

See like, the team just isn't constructed in a way that will maximize the offense ... you have a defensive head coach and an inexperienced, unproven offensive coordinator trying to maximize an MVP-level talent in Josh Allen ... it just seems destined to fail. Imagine Josh with a Shanahan, an Andy Reid, hell even Brian Daboll ... these sorts of garbage offensive games just wouldn't happen. And that's ultimately on ownership. Do you want to ***** win, or not?

So, despite late game theatrics, the loss is on the offense. One glaring issue with the team so far is the inability to utilize what is supposed to be a major strength: tight end offensive production ... Kincaid and Knox are virtually invisible game in and game out ... Knox can't catch or get open, apparently ... Kincaid is a 1st round pick the Bills are choosing to marginalize, as they seem to do with every new acquisition.

When the offense plays with urgency, good things happen ... When Ken Dorsey plays with his food and wastes so many plays, Buffalo loses.

Defense has done what they can, good performance given the injuries ... Bills inability to sustain drives and score is the story of this game.

Literally losing a game in which the other team has 11 points in the 4th quarter

Elam again ... If bills don't sack or hit Lawrence its an automatic completion

Just an ugly ugly ugly offensive performance ... no excuses for this ... bad play calls, bad preparation, bad execution

And Elam is just so unbelievably bad

The loss will be on Ken Dorsey. Defense obviously undermanned, playing tough, no Jax points since 1st quarter ... Bills offense? One of the best units in the NFL ... 7 points through 3 quarters ... Can't have that.

And the waste play to Cook leads to a punt ... Awesome way to capitalize Dorsey (granted Gabe drop was horrible) ... But the 1st down nothing to Cook sets it all in motion ...

Same pattern, big play to Diggs, automatic waste play to Cook on next play ...

My point is that the Bills running the same -1 yard play on 1st down over and over doesn't help Buffalo score points. Let's see what Dorsey does on this upcoming 1st down ...

Ridiculous game-changing call ... garbage

Yep, my bad ... same difference ultimately ... A 1st and 10 run that failed and set team up for failure on the drive

Halftime: 10 rushes, 23 yds 1st play of second half: a rush for -1 yard ... STOP!!!