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McDermott is a good coach and his scheme is designed to work against 85% of the NFL, but when you reach the upper echelon of teams it all falls apart. I don't know how many times we need this to happen before we call a spade a spade here. Without an elite of the elite D-Line talent ala TJ Watt, I don't see how you can fix this with the way McDermott wants to play. The whole thing seems to be predicated on generating consistent pressure with 4-guys. If you can't do that, then the QB just finds the guy with no one near him.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills seeing people trying to blame our only All-Pro talent with the loss yesterday. Did you all not see it hit Kincaid in the hands? If the argument is "he didn't completely dominate the game and play perfect, so it's his fault because we had the ball..." then you don't have much of a leg to stand on. It's excusing the play calling, it's excusing the receivers, it's excusing that absolutely atrocious excuse for a defense we had yesterday. A scapegoat is convenient, not reality. We almost won in spite of how badly the rest of the team played, and yall want to complain about Allen? The only reason why the team is relevant? Really?

McD's scheme just isn't up to snuff, or at least it isn't when it comes to competent teams. Bend don't break only works when the other guy makes a mistake or if you get a big turnover. We consistently have no pressure. We consistently have WRs wide open in our backfield. We consistently are bad against the run. This is consistent the past 7+ years, regardless of personnel. Unless we get some superstar talent in the DL, like a TJ Watt or Chris Jones type, I don't see the scheme ever working against Mahomes and Reid.

That sounds like pretty awful logic to me, since we have no idea what the game would have looked like by that point if things in the first quarter were dramatically different. Ultimately, Allen put the team in the position to convert the 4th (despite ridiculous and immediate pressure) and they let him down. Then the defense had a shot to get the ball back so we would have a chance and they let him down. I'll never blame the only player on my team that I know I could never part with in a re-draft. Especially when he drags us to wins we have no business getting.

Mahomes had guys open without any resistance from the Bills all night. Mahomes' runs were the most impressive part of his day. Allen put the ball into the hands of Kincaid that final. He needs to make that catch. Seems pretty asinine to blame a QB who hit his target in the hands under duress

Yeah, I'm about to lose it here: "no IDEA why Josh did not throw the orbit to Shakir." I know why. He was backpedaling for his life as soon as the ball's snapped. He had no time to evaluate and he STILL THREW IT TO AN OPEN MAN AND HIT HIM IN THE HANDS.

Look, we can complain about the refs and I'm right there with you. The Chiefs seem to get crucial calls in their favor when it matters consistently. But I don't think that's all of it. How many years in a row do we need to watch the guys around Allen let him down? Kincaid should have that ball. No, it's not an easy catch, but in the moment it's what he needed to do. I'm tired of watching Allen play with 2nd rate coaching coupled with 2nd and 3rd rate talents. He's the reason we're even a team worth talking about. Something's got to give here. I'm absolutely gutted.

Rapp's best quality is that he's a homing missile. I think Cole Bishop can adequately fill that role, just needs to not get beaten deep. It makes Worthy slightly more dangerous. The Chiefs haven't been beating folks with explosive plays though.

I mean sexuality really is a spectrum and there have been reports of Diggs out with women as well. I don't know why any of it matters. I don't care about any of it so long as everyone involved is a consenting adult. The weird fan fiction speculation of a Diggs/Allen fallout because of homosexual tension is really weird.

True. It's too bad I've been cursed with a love of beer, pizza, video games and naps. Hard to making a living doing those things.

I'm gonna work till I die too, just not by choice. I'll never understand this mindset. Go enjoy the time you have left. Stressing out and ignoring your family, friends, and the world outside of football hardly seems worth it to me.

31-20 Bills The only way the Chiefs have a shot is if Noah Gray / Kelce can pick apart the Bills. I'm not really worried about much else offensively.

Yeah, that's totally understandable, but it's hard for me to not be on the "let's maximize Allen" mindset.

~800 is what I spend to get from NY back to Hawaii. I would never spend that much to go Missouri in the winter...

I'd draft someone earlier. Good WRs on rookie deals are the 3rd best value proposition in the NFL (QB and DE being 1 and 2). As much as Josh is elevating the WR Core, I think the passing game is showing some minor limitations compared to some other high powered offenses.

Has he ever done well without Tom Brady? It doesn't seem like it. Just to be clear, that's the point I was making. There are coaches who had elite talents who are seemingly good coordinators with the elite talent, but then go on to do nothing. That's Adam Gase in a nutshell, and I think it can apply to McDaniels to some degree as well. Either way, I'm not going to go and worry about the Patriots until they prove they're worth thinking about again.

Gase was an awful coordinator too though.

Definitely agree with that, but I think that offense is significantly easier to stall out than the Ravens, so we won't need to rely on turnovers as much. The Bills have all the tools on offense to sustain drives and put points up every time they have the ball. I'm not so sure the Chiefs can say the same about their offense today.

Overwhelming evidence to support your claim: Adam Gase. A guy who coasted off being Manning's coach for nearly a decade while being objectively awful at his job.

What KC have you been watching all season? They are not a score fast team in any regard now. All you need to do is play mistake free football and you'll probably win. It's significantly easier than beating the Ravens. The Chiefs have won so many games this season on technicalities, teams beating themselves, and referee interference. It's a miracle (or a conspiracy) that they're in the position they're in now. I'm not trying to be overly confident here, but I see the Bills coming out with a win on Sunday, and I think it looks a lot cleaner than the win against the Ravens.

I agree about Sal. I don't find him objective at all anymore, he's way too close with the team and it makes biased. Like you said, it makes sense and it's hard to blame him for it. The afternoon show is two guys who just don't want to be there anymore. Mike Schopp obviously has a lot of contempt for Buffalo in general and thinks he's too good for the market. Bulldog just needs to retire but for whatever reason can't. I don't hold it against him, I actually like his takes when he bothers to throw one out there.

Jeremy and Joe are the best show on WGR. All the shows that Joe has touched got way worse after he left. The extra point show is basically unlistenable. Does the Nightcap even still exist? The afternoon show was way better when he produced it. The callers are awful, but they don't choose those. They mostly skew on the homebound retiree or habitual drunk spectrum regardless. I still like the morning show as much as any Bills podcast. Podcasters often take themselves way too seriously and conflate subjective opinion with fact.

Sometimes things just go right. That's what happened to the Bills today. What a freakin' game, man. Stressful, exciting, enraging, it was just all the things. Go Bills, let's keep this going baby!

Usually putting that many egos in the same room is counterproductive, in my experience anyways.

It's amazing how some people find their dream jobs, because that is definitely a face for Radio...