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How about our weapons on offense? Where did they go last night?

Obviously the OP cares, at least for one. No one suggested it's a problem, except you.

Your #3 and #5 would be more like my 1 and 2. Priorities need to be the passing game first and foremost, and then stopping the opponents passing game. Running/catching TE; John Brown replacement at WR; improvements on offensive line where can get them. On D: need a real middle linebacker, better talent on the line all up and down it; and if at all possible, a gifted edge rusher. Another cover CB would be great too.

We have a very fast defense as it is; some times it's our weakness. Nah; Oliver is about where Edmunds is; on the "to be replaced" list.

The coaching staff played scared and defensively, after really growing out of that mold during the regular season. Very disheartening. I do think the coaching staff has grown/developed/matured a LOT since it's been here. They keep learning and improving as much as Josh Allen. So hopefully this all funnels into a stronger team and coaching staff in 2021.

All of that is true, but Josh also had a pretty crap performance which can't be overlooked. He most definitely has a "rattled mode" and it's pretty darned obvious when he enters it. He's still entering it even at this stage of his career, which is concerning. Hopefully he naturally grows out of it with age and experience. He took a gigantic leap from 2019 to 2020; if he can even take another small step into 2021 we'll be looking good.

I just finished the 6 part HBO documentary "McMillions" about the McDonald's Monopoly contest scandal that lasted for more than a decade. Really interesting and genuinely FUNNY documentary. The producers of the doc were lucky to get a really interesting, dynamic group of people to help tell the story. The Mob guy, the Mob guy's little brother, the Mob guy's wife, the FBI guy, and a few others. Charismatic people. I think the show is better for the characters we get to know really well, more than the actual scandal itself.

Yeah, as long as Kim Pegula is going to play Sports Organizational Boss and treat the Sabres as the pastime of an amateur, they will be terrible. Sabres are now stuck in the same rut the Bills were for the last long episode of Ralph Wilson's life. "JUST ONE" is my mantra too! I'm a year younger than the Sabres or the Bills (measured by the merger) so I've been waiting a long time too.

Disagree. our passing game struggled in all 3 playoff games going up against solid teams. Diggs and Beasley are fine; Brown is a weakness as is our total lack of an elite running/catching TE. I would funnel top resources into an elite receiver, preferably in the form of a TE. It's the #1 thing I would add to this team.

Much better teams. The offense and the passing game struggled in all 3 of our playoff games. We need to look to those performances to find how to improve. Not beating up on 6 win teams earlier in the year.

Think how much better this team would be if just Edmunds and Oliver were the elite, game breaking talents they were supposed to be! And worth the considerable assets we dumped into them! We have misses all over the place (like all NFL teams) but yes, we need to hit on some draft picks. And our picks next year will be quite low! It shouldn't matter, though, if we get it right. I think Beane will impress more with a trade or 2 and free agency signings.

It's fair to suggest we were outclassed on both sides of the ball. KC was able to handle us the way we handled the LA Chargers earlier in the year. The gap between teams is still pretty big IMO. But it's nice to know the team that did us in is maybe the best team in football and probably about to be a Super Bowl winning Dynasty.

Think of it this way: we have an appearance in the AFC title game as the foundation upon which we will build this off-season. The coaching staff knows what could have been better, what is weak, what is strong, how to improve. If we can improve 2 or 3 areas of real need, we should be a more complete team next year. And we still have Josh on the cheap.

Anyone with an OL before his name on the list needs a very close going over. I feel like the line can be improved up and down it. Not sure about Milano; I wouldn't retain him if the cost is too high.

I thought the coaching in the game was a disappointing back step as well. The field goal attempts in particular were the types of things this coaching staff had improved beyond during this season. They regressed last night and McDermott looked as he did earlier in his HC career, when he was a lot dumber and much more conservative than what he blossomed into this year. But as I like to point out, you don't play 5 win teams in the playoffs! KC is elite; you only play elite teams at this stage of the game. We were only going to win with our best game of the year, and we brought one of our lesser games! Case closed!

Folks here will continue to point the finger at EVERYTHING and EVERYONE in last night's game, EXCEPT FOR JOSH ALLEN and the passing game! We didn't have one against an elite team. You knew they would get their 30+ points and we knew we would have to keep up. We couldn't, and we lost. I mentioned all this several days before the game, as did many others. Not rocket science. As to how that has much to do with our elite shut-down CB, I don't know!

I think it is fair to suggest Josh can get rattled at times, and when he does get rattled, he doesn't perform well and is prone to making really bone headed mistakes. He probably should have been picked 3 times last night. This needs to be worked on and in theory will naturally go away with more age and experience. Does the crowd or lack of it have something to do with all this? Very possibly, yes. If I was on the team and inexperienced, I personally would enjoy the empty stadiums. I don't know how that doesn't calm things down and make it seem more like a routine practice. The crowd isn't the *sole* reason why we lost. It's probably not even in the top 5 reasons why we lost. But the question was did it have an impact at all. I think it did.

We had no passing game all night long! That is what got us to the game and what made us really struggle in ALL THREE of our playoff games. Look no further than our inability to throw the ball if you want to know why we lost. When it worked all year long, we beat and beat up on teams. When it didn't work, we struggled or lost. I would pump all major resources into improving the passing game, along with an edge rusher and another solid cover CB. Brown needs to be upgraded; we need a TE who is a more reliable and consistent threat than Knox. The OL could be improved all up and down it. The good news is we have a solid foundation to build on, and it's not hard to figure out what needs improving.

The story of this season, bar none, is Allen's improvement. He didn't improve incrementally, it was exponential. He may have improved more than any other QB in the history of the game, from one season to the next. He went from being something like the 25th best QB in the league to the 2nd or 3rd, at least on paper. I always considered him a bust waiting to happen and HATED the pick the moment it was made.

I would not say it was just a "bad game." They are quite a bit better than us on both sides of the ball. If we played them next Sunday, and each Sunday after that for a total of 5 games, they would probably win all 5 one way or the other. They're better than us. It will be interesting to see how Beane takes a scalpel to this roster and tweaks here and there. We should be a better team next year.

For what it's worth, it looked a lot like this in the '80s when the Bills were rising to greatness back then. We didn't shoot straight to the top of the AFC. We had setbacks along the way but were gradually getting better all the time, season to season to season. Once we finally put it all together, we pretty much owned the AFC and went to 4 straight Super Bowls, kind of like what Kansas City is doing now. Rome wasn't built in a day!

That is a load of total bull#### and the rationalization of a loser. You don't "learn" from this. You construct a better team that performs on a higher level.

If we had had a passing game tonight and Allen has one of his better games of the season, you wouldn't be thinking about our bad defense at all. You'd be leading the cheers as we prepare for Tampa in the SB.

You are out of your mind!

That's usually how I feel with all the Kool aid drinkers after a big win against a bad team in week 4 or something like that.