CincyBillsFan

This is delusional.

I agree but my concern is that the defensive coordinators of the better defenses have an answer for the methodical, run/short pass heavy offense and we're going to struggle against those teams going forward.

I'm not criticizing. My point was that a more aggressive offense attacking a stacked box should result in some big plays and 2 or 3 play TD drives. And from what I can tell McD wants to stretch offensive drives out, not shorten them.

And the other problem with depending entirely on long, 8+ play drives is that as we saw Sunday night you increase the chances for TO's and penalty's.

This is IMO a strategic and not a tactical choice. Reading between the lines McD became increasingly frustrated with Daboll & Dorsey for not sticking with the run. Combine this with the need to protect his defense McD's game strategy appears to be run clock and keep the opposing O off the field and score. That's nice in theory but hard to pull off on a regular basis. And I'm not sure McD would be thrilled with a 2 play 70 yard TD drive taking 45 seconds. The problem with this strategy is that it's asking way to much of an offense that hasn't exactly been showered with the lions share of resources over the years. Back during the SB seasons the Bills would put their D in tough spots by scoring to quickly. But this always seemed like a good tradeoff as the high powered Kelly O put a lot of pressure on opponents. McD clearly does not want to go down this path.

Good point. The ONLY time the Bills made a bold move on offense was signing Diggs back in 2020. Over the last 5 seasons, including this one, the Bills have not made a statement move on offense. By this I mean they haven't signed a top offensive FA or moved up into the top half of the draft to grab a blue chip prospect. If the Bills fail to make/win a SB this will be looked back on in hindsight as the reason they came up short with a unicorn at QB.

I see a variation on the Detroit Lions uniform.

Worth 14 points.

Judas Priest, the NFL is irredeemably corrupt. How do they miss that call?

A Jaguar player was flattened as he crossed into the spot Lawrence was throwing the ball. I hope they show a replay because both that player and Lawrence were screaming at the refs. I think heads are going to explode.

What the hell was that? Are they going to show us the replay?

Question - why wasn't a flag thrown on #80 who ran out of bounds for about 30 yards and almost caught the interceptor at the 10?

So do the Bills when anybody not named Hercules is reffing - which was the point of an excellent statistical analysis earlier in this thread.

Sort of like Tannehill in his prime.

Okay he's at the half yard line - still a penalty. At the 50 yard line it might be okay to let that slide but at the goal line you must call pass interference.

Will it ever end! Seriously, at what point do we all look at each other and say that the games are rigged? That was a TWO YARD TD throw, check out the stats. The pick was on the goal line the LOS was the 2 yard line. They threw the flag then picked it up after a bunch of Chiefs complained. What the hell?

I agree. At most Coleman was just a part of a death by a thousand strokes type of loss. To many Bills players brought their C game yesterday and the cumulative effect was a close loss. But to pin the loss on Coleman is silly.

Wait are you talking about the last play of the game? I thought you were talking about the possible throw to Samuel after Allen bailed from the pocket to soon? The score was 20 - 17 NE and a TD there puts the Bills up 24 - 20 with a couple of minutes left. Am I missing something?

I am being objective here. My dad was fine with me getting an occasional B in Calculus or Organic Chemistry. IMO QB is the toughest position to play in team sports and expecting Allen to get an A in every game is unrealistic. In fact it's evidence of a lack of objectivity and grossly distorted expectations. But that's just my opinion. When I watch a game where Kincaid gets an A, Allen earns a B and a lot of the other players get a C or D I don't have a lot of patience with those that call out Allen after the game. Even if they're factually correct in saying that if only Allen had done this instead of that on a couple of plays the Bills would have won I can't help but think of that old Biblical verse: "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" Sealed the game? With more then 2 minutes left, NE with 3 TO's and against the Bills defense? The Pats had scored TD's on 2 of their 3 2nd half drives so the odds they would have been in the Bills red zone with a minute or more to play were pretty good.

I don't know but I've seen multiple posters say that Allen "played like crap" or that he "played bad" or that he "played poorly". And for the record there are posts blaming Allen for the loss. Not sure why you're getting so upset here? I wasn't aiming this at your posts but at a collection of posts in this and other threads. And why is it that some of you get upset at those of us who push back at what we see as unfair criticism of Allen? After all this is a Bills message forum and we're all Bills fans who "love Josh" right?

I'll address your accusation that some of us fans view Allen through rose colored glasses. But first other then your and others strange dislike of Allen there is no objective criteria that would support Allen having a poor game yesterday. He was good but not great. As others have said we saw Allen's B game against the Pats. Now onto your point. I have been a passionate Bills fan for over 60 years. And it's been my privilege to have been able to root for only 2 HOF QB's in all that time - Jim Kelly & Josh Allen. Allen is the reason the Bills have been legit SB contenders over the last 6 seasons. He is the reason Buffalo escaped 20 years of miserable football purgatory. On top of all that Allen is fun to watch and his effort has never flagged. For these reasons alone I deeply appreciate what Allen has meant to the Bills franchise & fan base. If ever a Bills player deserved the benefit of doubt Allen is that player. So I will never apologize for defending the greatest QB in Bills history from nit picking & snide remarks. There have been a couple of bad games by Allen over the years but last night was not one of them and it's not viewing his performance through rose colored glasses to say that.

And the ball landed well behind the LOS and Maye was between the tackles. I know some have said that the penalties in the 2nd half evened things out but I call BS on that. Most of the penalties against the Bills were judgement calls while the 3 big penalty's against the Pats were safety related infractions visible to everyone in the stadium and on TV. * The nasty head shot Allen took in the pocket. * The obvious time the NE WR grabbed the Bills DB's face mask. * The criminal assault on Cook as he was on the ground. BTW, why wasn't that guy ejected?

I hate to admit it but you maybe right. Damn once he gets healthy they should at least give him every opportunity to get on the field.

On the one hand your post is tin foil hat material, but then again a lot of tin foil hat material in all walks of life is coming true now a days. One thing for sure though is that the NFL wants an AFC East fight between the Bills, and their national audience, and the Pats with their shrinking but still large national audience. A competitive race between the two benefits the NFL far more then a run away Bills division title. Beating NE last night would have come close to locking up the AFC East after only 5 weeks - a terrible look by a league that worships at the altar of PARITY. And talking about non calls, in what Universe was that not grounding on Maye in the 1st half? You know the play and it was amazing that it wasn't called.

I can agree with this. As another poster noted last night was Allen's B game and he made some mistakes but also had several wow plays that kept drives alive and the Bills in the game. I would be more comfortable with the FO not giving Allen the tools he needs to consistently play his A game if they were not forcing the offense to play a certain way to protect the Defense and if the tools being lavished on the D had a better track record of success.