Nextmanup

We have nearly a 90% shot at making the playoffs with 10 wins. It is totally within our power to come away with 10 wins this year. We could get 11 or even 12. The back door is going to be our path to the playoffs as you say. We just need to "limp" in there with a weak record and then everything is erased and we start over. Each new playoff game is like a new life and you never know what will happen in a given NFL football game. I also still say, given normal weather, we will beat New England in Foxboro.

If we get 10 wins, the NY Times says we have nearly a 90% chance of making the playoffs. It's not over yet! RIGHT NOW we have a 77% chance of making playoffs. But only a 26% chance of winning the division.

He does exist, but he's invisible. To prove my point, notice this photo taken with Josh, Diggs, and AJ:

This may not be a popular opinion in the wake of last night, but I like our odds to win the rematch in Foxboro. I feel like we are the better team, and if the weather is more or less normal but cold, we should be able to throw the ball and that should be enough to win. Of course the Pats will be better able to throw as well, but Mac is not Josh and we have the advantage there. This assumes we have a strong play calling game, which may well not be the case! I don't think we automatically lose that game, though, by any means, despite the loss last night.

Whether or not we build a dome will be decided by a multitude of complicated forces involving politics and finance. It will not be based on what gives the team an advantage (or disadvantage) in cold weather.

I'm not sure I'm buying what God is selling, but it sounds great!

I said as much at the time in the game-day thread. It would have been tough to do something with that final possession, but we might have had a crack at it had we not pissed away timeouts like they were meaningless. Throwing TOs away is a McDermott specialty.

This was clearly an elaborate ruse involving multiple parties designed to handicap the Bills specifically. It happens every game one way or another. I'm joking.

I've said this, more or less word for word, for several years now. McDermott DOES do many of the job functions of Head Coach very well. Game management is not one of them. People aren't really harping on it today, but his decision to kick 1 extra point and not go for 2 is another mistake IMO. It's better to know you didn't get it (if you aren't going to get it!) as early as possible and in a game like that, you need to score your points (2) when you actually are in a position to score points (like trying an extra point attempt). You don't know when you're going to get back there again. He/his staff struggle to get it right across the board.

That statement would seemingly suggest that yes, there is a bit of a run-in between OC and HC. Like we aren't sure what the identity of the team should be. I would love to know if McD and Daboll really do disagree over concepts and play design during the week. I have no idea. I'm not in there. We need a "Hard Knocks: Buffalo" edition.

What more could they have done? Stopped the 64 yard TD run before it became a TD run. BUT YES; New England didn't do a lot all night long. As I said last night, this game was WIDE OPEN for a Bills win, ALL NIGHT LONG. And we simply couldn't do it!

A substantial improvement to our offensive line, especially in pass blocking, would immediately translate to much better QB play; for that reason, it should be the top priority of the off-season, and I think it will be. Josh goes into panic/nervous mode when he is harassed and doesn't have enough time in the pocket. He struggles to find open receivers like this, just as he did last night. It's a consistent problem for him.

And it was never about raw "age" anyway. It was really about "experience," and now he has quite a bit of that. And I do agree; he hasn't really improved. Looks like the same player. Perhaps his hair isn't long enough !?!??!?

The fact that we haven't won 2 games in a row for a while has been widely reported.

I'm "reaching." Could you please state my position here? I didn't state one! LMFAO

I see this a lot all over this board. Why can't he? All the great QBs do it all by themselves, consistently, game to game, for years. Brady has been doing it for 2 decades. If Josh hits the wide open man, a handful of times last night when it mattered, we easily win the game.

And yet I think Beane has done extremely well in other areas, building the team generally speaking. No doubt the drafting has been bad for the most part and it needs to be better. The real value provided by McDermott and Beane was immediately establishing a detailed, multi-year plan to turn a laughing stock of an organization into a pretty solid one. They knew what they were doing, and got a lot done in a few years. I wonder if that is their ceiling. Perhaps they have moved the ball as far as they can, and it is now time to push forward with a new, better, regime. The part that scares me is most of the guys floating around the NFL are idiots. If Beane and McDermott are replaced, we have no guarantee the new regime will be better, and it might well be worse. We would need a proven guy to come available who showed interest in the job IMO.

For those interested, this is one of the best accounts of the Japanese attacks I have seen so far. It's excellent. Explains in detail what happened and why.

They may not have thrown the flag because #75 was seemingly engaged with #58. The key is the player has to be beyond the line of scrimmage, at the time of the pass, and not engaged with a defensive player (so he looks like a receiver trying to catch a pass). I can't tell from the computer simulation thing if he was engaged or not.

If the book isn't coming out until August, 2022, there is no problem with his publicists. The problem is with the OP's comment about "no coverage." When the time is right, we'll hear all about this. Media outlets have 24 hour news cycles they need to fill, every 24 hours. They're desperate for anything most of the time.

I think I'd rather keep Daboll and get rid of McDermott, if there is a rift growing between them. The future is passing, not running, and it has nothing to do with "toughness" whatsoever.

Jerry is close to retirement age and I guess doesn't want to leave the WNY area at this stage of his career after so many years in WNY. Like many other WNYers. If he did, he wouldn't have trouble getting employment. He's a respected writer on a national level, I'm sure much to the chagrin of most Bills fans here who hate him because he was critical of the Bills for a generation! When this franchise was an endless tire fire of incompetence and mediocrity, Jerry said so! And this fanbase hates him for that. Never got that.

He's not suggesting a causality problem between the '80s and now...he's simply offering a comparison between the two time periods, which is interesting from a certain perspective. By the way, Einstein, your equations had time working as a two way street, which is flat out wrong. It only goes one way, forward. So maybe you shouldn't be commenting on time-related matters. LOL

He writes for the Niagara Gazette, I believe.

No one has a comment here? I guess that's a good thing, as I think it means people don't really see a fundamental disagreement between the two. I do think their base philosophies differ, however. I'm curious how much McDermott holds Daboll in check, and if he would be that much more aggressive if he could be.