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And yet in the second to last possession the offense did what it needed to and put the game squarely on the back of our defensive head coach cap it off. He failed. He failed so bad he actually had to fail twice just to lose.

Sounds like McDermott isn't bringing anything to the table then. You hear all the time about players who check out after their big payday. McD got his and he's coaching like he actively wants to be fired and cash out.

Without Kim I doubt there's anyone in the captain's seat. I'm not sure I'd trust Terry with my lunch, much less an NFL team.

Josh and most of the team did not look ready to play out there. You can say "he can't control that" but it's his job to prepare them to play and have the team in the right headspace.

I've been shaking my head at the people who kept saying we should have promoted Daboll and walked away from McD, but this loss cements it, frankly. I'm still in disbelief even though I called it as soon as we scored with ~2 minutes left.

McDermott choking on the final drive is a constant, like gravity. He was literally gifted a win and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. I wasn't 100% behind the fire McDermott train, but this is the end of an era. Get him the hell out of here, what a joke.

It sounds like it is super complex because every receiver has a ton of option routes. So nobody knows where anybody is going.

To me, it would not insignificant amount of the game where the offense just goes dormant again.

Your Opinion On This Team Will Change Tonight If: They beat Denver so senselessly that Sean Payton visibly cries on the sideline and Netflix removes that horrible movie about him from their library. Then Kevin James has to come out and publicly apologize for starring in it. And this all needs to occur before half time. That's probably the only scenario where I see my opinion shifting.

Why stop at the sidelines, he should go lower. Is there a basement or something at OBD he could hang out in or something? Preferably something with poor radio signal so he can't call in plays?

My game prediction: Bills will win something like 24-17, and statistically it's going to look like a great game for the offense but it won't pass the eye test. Then the chronically positive Bills fans and radio/podcast personalities will point to the stats and say "LOOK GUYS EVERYTHING IS FINE. CHECK OUT THE EPA, THE PASS OFFENSE IS ACTUALLY COMPLEX, NOT NEEDLESSLY CONFUSING TO THE PLAYERS". A lot of the criticism will calm down (undeservingly). The over/under on showing Josh Allen on the bench staring into the void is 3.5. I would take the over. (I really hope I'm wrong, and that the Bills wow everyone and this is the mid season turning point that we all want. I'm just pessimistic about this coaching staff.)

I don't recall ever seeing McDermott looking like he was having fun. Allen had fun for one play during the Bengals game and got a flag for it.

Well that's the sign of a well adjusted, fully functional team. They can turn it around, but the cracks are widening and I'm not full of faith.

What changed after 2021 I wonder? Maybe the rookie OC who looks like he's calling plays out of a hat with no rhythm except for consistently calling a shotgun run that works 15% of the time? That tracks to me. Dorsey got figured out in the middle of last season and cannot or will not pivot in an effective way.

It's been this way since McD got here. It seems like a scheme/coaching issue. Eric Washington is constantly failing upwards and it is baffling to me.

I'm very down on the team right now but the notion that you could help fix the team by trading Allen might be the dumbest thing I've heard all week, and I listened to McD's press conference. Allen IS the team. There's no Bills of this era without Allen. He's the single greatest asset this team has had in the last 30 years.

Not against it, but realistically that won't happen this year, or next if we're being honest.

No reason to fire him now, and it's probably in the Patriots' best interest to tank anyways. They need a lot of help, particularly on offense. No matter what though I can't see Bill being allowed to coach for another season. The game has passed him and as a GM he's arguably one of the worst.

"Don't expose the defense" is fine if you have the lead. They didn't, and never did, so it's horrific strategy. When start the game down and are playing catch up the entire time, then I say to hell with going slow. Didn't want a track meet? It's the only chance they had of winning.

He was pretty critical, and packaged it in a way that it can air on a Bills propaganda show. Tough line to walk. Fire Dorsey.

Tannehill looked bad. Hopkins has looked good in the two games Levis has played. I bet he'd look awesome if he was on the Bills.

McD's philosophy makes sense when you don't have a good team. You want to take as much time as possible and limit drives. When you have Josh Allen, a top 2 QB, and Diggs, a top 3WR, and Kincaid, a top 10 TE, and Davis, a top96 WR, you need to throw that philosophy out the window and go high powered. The team with the most points win, and as long as the game stays that way offense will always be considerably more important.

Dorsey can't get out of his own way and call plays in a way that take pressure off of Allen. He's so predictable that every opponent seemingly knows exactly what we're trying to do before it happens. When your opponent has a good idea of what you're doing, that's going to to make execution incredibly difficult. It's the same problem with the defense too. Yet time and time again we see Dorsey and McD come to the podium and lament that we need to execute better. It's BS. They need to scheme better and prepare the team better. It's why going fast looks so much better. Dorsey runs out the same plays out of the same formations constantly with the same clogged up routes. Could Allen do more? Maybe. Is it fair to put the blame on his shoulders? Not really, in my opinion.

It just goes to show how dumb the Jets are. They have some of the worst QB play in all of football but have made no attempt to improve whatsoever.