Avisan

This has nothing to do with calling the timeouts, either a coach or a player screwed up inexcusably with respect to the field goal defense unit in a way that simply should not happen at the professional level. Ultimate accountability falls on the head coach, but the timeouts themselves were objectively correct and nobody is questioning them if we have any number fewer than 12 on the field for the FG attempt. We were looking to score at the end of the first, the clock management was perfect to attempt that. Clock management didn't throw an interception.

Their kicker narrowly missed a 41-yarder wide right, with a kick that might have been good from 36. The idea made perfect sense and was clear as we were doing it. There is a statistical link between distance and make % that is more significant than icing, for example. It was the objectively correct call, AND it worked! If you need a timeout to make sure that the right number of folks make it on the field for a special teams formation, something has gone terribly wrong Which obviously it did, but it doesn't change the timeouts there being the statistically correct decision

Yeah, every knee moved the kick back a yard or two, which statistically increases the miss chance. It also took wiggle room away from the kicking team in setup time. It worked. It worked perfectly, actually. But we tried to play football with 12 fellas instead of 11.

The timeouts forced the kick distance back several yards and forced the Broncos to take a kick in a rushed fashion. It worked. The kick narrowly missed. These are professionals. It absolutely SHOULD be expected for them to execute basic assignments on game day after multiple practice run-throughs that week. Coaches will likely be fired at the end of the season, and also players need to execute the basics of their jobs.

It's important to keep in mind that our drives without Cook stalled not because of schematic issues or inability to move the ball on the Broncos D, but due to two drops on extremely catchable balls and a ?????? play from Josh Allen on a 4th and 2. The Bills offense was schematically effective the entire game, gross errors in player execution ended literally every drive that didn't end in a touchdown.

The timeouts pushed the kick distance back. It worked. The first kick narrowly missed. Unfortunately, we had 12 on the field.

Timeouts are pushing the kick distance back, for those wondering

It worked. Execution error by Taron Johnson.

Okay that offensive play design was really, really good on the TD, Gabe's action on the edge forced the DB into a no-win position

I mean Josh straight up dropped the handoff on one of the drives where that likely would have happened

The D has been playing out of their minds tonight, dude

Bro this is the NFL, guys aren't wide open every play. They were open, and needed to catch the ball, too.

The players? What, is Ken Dorsey coaching players to let the ball go through their hands now?

Honestly... players are generally in a position to succeed so far this game. Execution errors are killing us so far.

Sure, just pointing out that we are currently 5-3, not 3-5. Far worse teams than ours make it to the playoffs pretty much every year.

If we go 1-3 it's not over, we'd be 6-6 at that point. Definitely not great, but very much still alive in the playoff hunt.

Morse/Allen thought that the Bucs were offside, which is why the ball was snapped.

The Jets didn't clown on our O-Line, though. Allen just played like a clown that game.

Wait do we still care who wants to have consensual sex with whom these days? Cause I can think of at least a thousand better things to care about Like belly button lint elimination, that's at least one of them Or what I might have for dinner in 50 days, also a good one Or what shade of brown the dirt in my back yard is, also better

Lions are just dominating in the trenches right now, run game is firing and Packers are under siege in the backfield

Kincaid has been pretty good for us so far this year, had a down game as a rookie against a good defense. It happens.

There is literally no evidence to support this and substantial evidence to the contrary.

There's also NO evidence that McDermott is a "soft, player's coach" that doesn't discipline players, and frankly a lot of evidence to the contrary. The narratives people cling to despite making up every piece of evidence in their own heads are fascinating.

Cars often only are stopping to merge from a standstill because drivers in the other lane refuse to let them merge at speed. There is only a "crowd to beat" and room to advance relative to the crowd because of the aversion to proper zippering that utilizes the full lane space available. This is reinforced by the drivers that refuse to make room for other drivers to merge. So instead of there being a quarter mile of slow but steady two-lane traffic with cars slotting in with each other at the end, there's a half-mile (or likely longer) backup of single-file line with no consistent flow, no mutually agreed upon mesh point, and vindictive drivers who refuse to let people merge ahead of them which in turn forces people to shove their cars awkwardly into the lane when they feel like they can. This then causes the dramatic slowdowns and stoppages. Zippering is very effective and is the standard practice in most regions. I thought exactly the same way you did (since I did all of my driving in WNY norms) until I moved outside of the area for a bit and realized that we do merges the complete opposite of how they're supposed to work.

This is a classic example. Merging at speed when possible is the recommended course of action when entering the highway. Once on the highway, forcing cars into a single lane a mile or two ahead of the lane merge instead of maintaining two lanes of traffic that slot in at the end is what causes the slowdowns and backups instead of a natural, steady flow. WNY follows the wrong "instructions" for these things. It is only viewed as "riding the lane as long as possible" here because the bulk of drivers refuse to zipper appropriately by using both lanes and are instead shoving themselves into a long, jerky, single-file mass with no clear mesh point and drivers who don't like when a car dares to merge in front of them while attempting to conform with this insanity.