BritishBill

Some interesting numbers above. Under Brady we've never ranked higher than 16th for passing attempts or 8th for passing yards. With Josh Allen. As people have pointed out - it's a passing league. Of course we want to establish the run - and we want to use Josh's legs too etc - but we've got a generational QB and he's playing very much with the brakes on when it comes to throwing the ball.

Our best chance to win it was while he was still on his rookie deal and we could afford some good weapons around him. Is the issue now that we can't have our cake and eat it? Having this elite qb means we have to pay him elite money and we simply can't afford to surround him with elite offensive weapons unless we draft them well. And we seem to either keep picking the wrong guy (Coleman) or drafting defensive players. I'm not convinced this front office and coach is at an elite enough level to build a roster around a qb on top money. 13 seconds was the one....

Prater's gonna Prate

Got that annual sinking feeling

Just a reminder. The ravens are really good. doesn’t mean that we aren’t. don’t despair (yet)

It’s not the chiefs you need to fear. It’s the chiefs plus the refs

Some good defence here. Getting to Mahomes almost every play. Keep it up!

Not a comment on his overall performance at CB, but I thought Elam's role in the fumble recovery was undervalued. Hustled to the loose ball really quickly and played a key part in it getting into Milano's hands.

Where’s cooper today?

Get in there!!!!

Ruthless punishment of a mistake. And a kicker who can hit XPs Not big differences but enough for them to edge it. We have to get more clinical.

Feels like a Dawson Knox day to me.

Nice start! josh getting the ball out very early - protecting that hand?

A key injury and an absolutely terrible refereeing call against us on the first drive. welcome back, everyone. It’s like we were never away

From a purely footballing perspective, Spurs makes sense. Nearly men, often near the top but never quite getting over the line despite having some sensational individual players. But from a cultural standpoint - and this is the reason I’m a Bills fan - Everton is a great fit. - team based in a “smaller” city away from the biggest media market - city has a reputation for friendliness and distinctive character - blue collar, working class roots - team plays in blue - team has had a golden period followed by decades in decline - large loyal fan base that has put up with absolute crap for a long time but turns up week in week out - team plays in a stadium which has been left behind by others and desperately needs change (with a new stadium actively being built) - stadium nevertheless has an incredible atmosphere and away teams hate visiting it - team has been in the shadow of a huge rival which wins loads of trophies and seems to repeatedly receive preferential treatment from the league - team has one of the largest catalogues of “hard luck” stories and “couldn’t make it up” travesties known to man. Bills and Everton - it’s a match made in heaven…or hell. welcome to my life

Sad end to his time at the Bills. Hoping we fail forward here and come out somehow better for it. When the Vikings moved on from Diggs they ended up with Justin Jefferson. Even someone half as good as him would make it palatable. Not confident it'll be that way though

Makes no business sense to trade him. but is his negatively affecting the culture now to the point he’s doing more harm than good? Happy to put up with his shenanigans when he’s playing lights out. But second half of last season he was no better than Gabe really.

Would that mean Higgins going the other way? Chase, Jefferson, Higgins seems unnecessarily good and surely too expensive

He visited us pre-draft and he's a Panther. Pretty much fits the mould

Possible name to keep an eye on. Yetur Gross-Matos Allegedly we've made him an offer but he has others.

From over the pond, praying for peace that passes all understanding, and comfort as you mourn. God be with you and your family

I can genuinely see this both ways. It does feel like McDermott has hit his glass ceiling and seems unable to get us all the way. And yet there does seem to me to be a fair amount of mitigation this time around. Cast your mind back to pre season, and ask yourself what would your prediction for season be if the following transpired: 1. Tre White would get a season ending injury in week 4 2. Matt Milano would get a season ending injury in London 3. Von Miller would return but not record a single sack all season, looking like a shadow of his old self, and struggling to even make the team. 4. Gabe Davis would have FOUR whole matches without a single catch, and a further 3 where he was held to 21 yards or fewer. 5. Ken Dorsey would get fired half way through the season. 6. We’d go into January with a huge defensive injury crisis, missing 5+ starters each game 7. Our kicker would malfunction in the last month of the season. 8. We’d go into the final 5 weeks needing to win out, including trips to Miami, Kansas and a home game with Dallas When you bear all that in mind, I kind of feel like we got probably as far as we possibly could this season, if not further than we should. Does McDermott get credit for that? Perhaps he’s the root cause of some of the factors above. But it doesn’t to me feel like an abject failure of a season where we had it all in front of us to grasp and we blew it. It feels more like we were hugely up against it for multiple reasons, and did pretty well to overcome a lot of issues and force our way into the equation. To my mind that makes me hesitant to blow everything up and fire the HC. But I might be saying that this next season is his last chance before we hand the keys to Josh Allen for over to someone else

What is it with these injuries??!

Alright. Admit it. Who else shouted “Sliiiide” after he passed the first down marker?!!!