Yobogoya!

Yeah like others my chief concern is that this defense is playing the game exactly as McD wants it to be played. Even if Frazier is let go this offseason, does McD turn over the defense to an experienced coordinator with a different philosophy? It would be like the situation when we hired Rex and had Schwartz — two different types of defensive minds just aren’t going to co exist. I don’t see that happening. If he hires someone else they’re still gonna run the scheme as McD wants it to be run.

Dorsey could easily be mistaken for Nate Hackett or Rico Dennison but for having JA at quarterback.

I mean did you see Chad Henne step in for Mahomes and go 98 yards for a TD yesterday? Mahomes has the benefit of an all time great offensive play caller with literally decades of experience. This team is nothing without JA.

Assuming 5 wins by this team without Allen is rather generous of you 😅

It’s been that way for several years now…

McD has some admirable qualities, but is he cut out to win a championship? I don’t think so at this point. He’d be better suited to helping another floundering franchise rebuild. We’ve got an elite, generational QB being wasted on a soft culture and routinely poor in game management. I don’t see how he gets fired this year, but I honestly don’t think a coordinator swap changes the problem at the top right now.

Poyer has value in this scheme but we need to rebuild this defense. It is not in any way “championship caliber” and it’s time to stop pretending that it is.

It amazes me how much better other teams’ depth defense backs manage to play compared to our (rotation of) starters.

Our ability to evaluate talent needs to come under some serious scrutiny this offseason.

Year late on the Miller acquisition.

Too much McD in his head.

Not much of a scheme then, innit?

Defense so soft 😴

Multiple bodies in the backfield instantly on that run.

If we’re being honest, Josh’s football IQ has really devolved this year. We need to get an experienced coordinator who can continue to develop him, not just be his buddy and assume he’s a finished product.

Yeah and the investment to D to return we’ve gotten out of it just makes it so, so much worse.

Hard to believe the guy who broke the drought and has the best winning % in franchise history could have so much poor perception among the fan base, but alas here we are. Nothing about this year has looked like anything but Josh Allen willing us to victory…

I miss when we were the team that defenses couldn’t force a punt on 🤕

It’s not about whether our boom or bust offense is working or not— certainly this year it’s worked more often than it has not. But this thread is about the taking heads on ESPN picking the Bengals over the Bills. I’m just sayin I can’t fault anybody for going with a team that’s been taking care of the football and scoring with efficiency, even if their ceiling may not be as high as ours has been with the aggressive philosophy. I don’t think it’s any disrespect, they’re two good teams.

I meant to say Higgins not Boyd. Back to back 1000 yard seasons seems pretty elite to me for a no 2 receiver.

The Bengals have played more mistake-free football than the Bills by a wide margin, and if the game becomes a shootout the Bengals have two elite weapons (Chase, Higgins) compared to our one (Diggs). Can’t hate on anyone on the outside who picks them in this game, there’s enough objective reasons to justify it. 🤷‍♂️

This^ As pointed out, the Bills are statistically pretty good on third downs. But it feels like at least once a game we give up a third and 10 or more that just feels deflating. I'd be curious to know what percentage of our third downs surrendered are third and ten or more. I think as fans it's just cumulative fatigue from seeing that a lot this year.

Lol, Marcus Peters always been overrated as hell. He sells outs for ints but if he ain’t picking off the pass he’s getting lit up.

Lol what a joke call. This ref crew been trash all year how’d they get a playoff game?

Hodgins is killin it!