Simon

I agree with this 100% and not just because I don't trust Phillips (which I admittedly do not), but I think the Bills coaches are so slavishly inflexible with their rotation that they're hurting themselves at critical moments. Today was a fine example when the Jets got the ball inside their own 5 with about 7:00 left and who comes trotting on the field but Jordan Phillips. 10 seconds after my wife told me to stop grumbling about it, the Jets were on the move. The reason they run that rotation in the first place is so they can have everybody fresh at crunch time, but when crunch time comes around it's time to get your best players out there. Ed Oliver should have been out there to start that series right next to Settle or Jones, as opposed to Phillips who still spends way too much time trying to slip blocks instead of aggressively engaging OLinemen to stone opposing offenses like he should be. Somebody on that staff needs to sit him down and explain to him that if he continues to go out there and play for himself and hang his teammates out to dry, he's going to end up right back in Arizona or some other place that is looking for a glory hound. Guy's got a ton of talent but until he starts playing more like a fighter than a dancer, he's always going to be a liability at key moments.

If you're disagreeing with that guy, you're even more wrong than you usually are.

Oliver led all DLinemen in tackles. Phillips played very poorly for the second week in a row.

Thanks, Doctor...

By default, that back judge should have called it a pick so that it would automatically activate a review on a turnover.

There was eventually, but do you really trust an official to see it the way you do and overturn his teammate's call? Enough to risk losing one of your second half timeouts, which we ultimately needed to even have a chance to win? That one was close enough that I write it off and move on to the next play.

Yeah, he extended his arm to keep Gardner off him and couldn't get it free in time to secure the catch.

That was one of those plays where the original call on the field was going to stand regardless of what that call was.

Earlier in the year, Mahomes threw at 57% for 260yrds with 1TD and 1 INT in a 20-17 loss against a far worse Colts team. Quit making crap up to add to your already annoying crusade.

Yes, nobody in the NFL had noticed on film that the Bills run a base nickel until last week.

Oliver and Settle came in for a couple plays mid-drive when McD yanked Phillips and Jones off the field, but they weren't out there long at all. I don't care who's due on the DLine rotation; Oliver and Settle should have been out there to start that last drive and they weren't. Thanks for doing that. I don't know if they were tired or what, but there was some half-stepping going on out there late.

If you can't see that he's clearly having the best season of his career by far, that is a "you" problem.

If you watched the game you would know that is a ginormous pile of horseshlt.

wtf are you watching? Edmunds may have had as many tackles today as the entire 8 man DLine rotation combined.

That would be a disaster, imo.

There is nobody on the Bills roster you could replace Taron Johnson with and have a better defense. The problem the last couple weeks hasn't been the nickel, the problem has been Jordan Phillips, Daquon Jones and even Von Miller spending too much time looking to play hero and too little effort playing a complete and physical game.

You're going to take your nickel off the field, who is currently the most effective and impactful player in the Bills secondary. And who are you going to replace him with for a better result?

Phillips and Jones both got yanked right in the middle of the series

Hover over the username and "Ignore" should be an option

Its a three point game. Grow a set

TThey've blitzed far more today than is typical and the Jets have made them pay for it by attacking the safeties

I thought so too but the replay showed him closer to the LOS than I thought

They might hit a Bills fan...

There was a split second when they were going ot the ground when the WR had both hands off the ball while Tremaine had possesion. But I doubt they would have turned it over.

Unless its 100%, you don't piss away 2nd half timeouts.