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The Ravens forced 6 punts from the Chiefs today. The Bills DEF has forced 4 punts from the Chiefs. In THREE playoff games COMBINED. The defense isn't just "next level awful" we're at historical levels of choking in the playoffs.

Has a top ranked regular season defense ever disappeared this many years in a row in the playoffs ?

I didn't mention it but I do agree McD is a good coach. I just think he's not good enough to win a SB. I don't like the idea of praising him for pulling the team out of the fire when he was the primary reason we were in the fire to begin with. The losses to the Patriots, Broncos, and Eagles were overwhelmingly due to poor defense and coaching.

During the preseason if I told you we'd have a healthy Josh Allen for the whole season and that we finished 11-6 with a home divisional round loss would you be happy with those results ? I know I wouldn't. What if I told you that a coaching blunder would directly cost us a game (Broncos) and that poor defense would cost us multiple games (Patriots, Eagles) ? That our defense would force only 1 punt in yet another playoff loss meltdown? We've hit the ceiling with McDivisional. It's time to move on

I hope he gets his bag and we get a 3rd round comp pick out of it. I don't want to re-sign him at any amount. Too many miscommunications with Allen this year and way to inconsistent overall.

What dropped interception? I remember McDuffie getting 1 hand on a throw, but he wasn't close to catching it

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I'd consider the fake punt a major coaching blunder. Not necessarily a coaching blunder, but out defense (McD's speciality) didn't have a stop until the 4th Q. We allowed 27 points to a mediocre (this season) Chiefs offense on a night where our offense dominated TOP.

There's plenty of blame to go around, but T Bass deserves a pretty big share. Not to mention he's been complete garbage since the Giants game. He missed THREE field goals in the playoffs this year. Every other kicker in the playoffs COMBINED has 3 misses. Unless he's dealing with an injury I think we have to move on from him this offseason (even with the deadcap).

The boxscore was obviously a lot more impressive in the 13 second game, but I agree he was actually better tonight. The passing yardage is hurt by how often we ran the ball and the multiple drops. It gets overlooked, but we had 4 punts in the 13 second game. We only had 3 tonight (including the fake punt). No offensive turnovers in either game. The Defense forced 2 punts and no turnovers in the 13 second game. 1 forced punt and 1 turnover tonight.

I don't care about the injuries on defense. You can't allow 27 points to an average Chiefs offense when your own offense crushed TOP. It's time to fire McD into the sun. He can take Bass with him. He's been shaky AF since the Giants game.

The refs being consistent and calling it a penalty makes you question if the league is fixed ? You do you I guess FWIW the roughing the passer called on Ed Oliver later in the game was 'weaker' than this one and also an easy call.

7.5 out of 10 Steelers are 1-10 in games without TJ Watt.

So John Wawrow was incorrect when he reported that Frazier was just taking the year off and was definitely under contract with the Bills this season? Whoops

We only put up 3 points in that playoff game 🙃

I wanted Martin cut earlier this year. Kudos to him for playing better the last 4 games, but I still want him gone in the offseason. His inside the 20 numbers are more a result of how many drives we have stall near midfield than they are from him being a good punter.

The team that committed the penalty got more of a benefit than the team accepting the penalty. That should never be the case. Why don't they have the clock start on ready to play after a penalty like that ? Or at least give the Bills the option to decline and have the clock start from there

Can't tell you how annoyed I was at that McD comment. You're the head coach. You can't call a play with multiple guys running routes short of the EZ and then blame the QB when he throws it to one of them. Par for the course for our HC that never accepts personal responsibility on mistakes.

I'd like to think that we would've learned our lesson with Tre White and been patient with Von Miller. He was medically cleared to return from his ACL injury, but sat out an extra few weeks. There were posts on here about him not caring about the team, only in it for the paycheck, etc. When he did come back he was clearly struggling to get back to game speed. Maybe he would've benefited from more recovery time. Ahhh who am I kidding. We would've tarred and feathered Von Miller if he was on IR this whole season. 😂

Von Miller isn't close to playing at even replacement level. I'm sure there's guys sitting on couches that could've filled in and done more than him. I still have no idea why McBeane activated him so quickly off IR. Could not have been based on anything they saw in practice.

The 2nd INT was on 4th down.... I'm glad our QB tried to make a play rather than just throw it away to preserve his personal stats.

This is a Patriots offense that managed 13 points COMBINED over a 3 game stretch against the Colts, Giants, and Chargers (all 3 teams are in the bottom 10 for defense). Accounting for quality of opponent, allowing 29 points and a game winning 2 minute drill to Mac Jones is probably the worst defensive game in McD's tenure.

Lamar was worse in the Steelers loss than JA was in week 1 against the Jets. Lamar lost a fumble, got sacked for a safety, and threw an INT (on a drive that started on the PIT 7 yard line after a Steelers turnover) while leading his team to 10 total points. His DEF allowed 15 points. He was pretty bad in the Colts game as well. After taking a 17-16 lead with 7:33 left in the 4th Lamar's offense had 3 punts, a missed 61 yard FG, and a turnover on downs. The Ravens defense had 2 stops in OT (that's 2 more stops than the Bills DEF had in our 2 OT games combined) and only allowed 22 points total. Their loss to the Browns was a rollercoaster. Ravens DEF allowed 26 points and scored on a pick-6. Lamar and the offense put up 24 points, and he threw 2 INTs (one of which was returned for a TD). Ravens last 2 possessions in the 4th quarter with a chance to ice the game were the pick-6 and a punt. I'd say Lamar blew those games more than the DEF did.

I agree he's going to win, but does he deserve it? I think this'll be an all-time weak résumé for an MVP. Leave Lamar's stats exactly the same, but pretend his defense choked away multiple games like the Bills DEF did. If the Ravens are 11-5 at this point is Lamar even in the top 5 for MVP ?

Great analysis. Let's ignore Josh's rushing yards/TDs and exclude playoff games where he's been a beast (outside of Ravens game that we still won).