Chaos

The team is illogically built. No MVP level QB in the last 30 years has had a team focus on building a running attack as their primary offense. If they are doing that this season, it is because the OC does not know how to scheme this group of receivers effectively. Is it because the receivers suck or the OC sucks, I don't know. But taking a team that was pitching perfect playoff games and saying "we need to slow this down and make this QB a game manager" is on the list of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen from a football team.

Combined with reseeding its a massive advantage. The only way to make peace with it is to realize it makes every single regular season game incredibly important.

I miss Diggs. I don't think the team has shown the same fire since he left. I think we could do with a dose of drama.

Thier is a cogent argument to fire Andy Reid. Pray tell.

If you are day drinking properly, you don't need it to make sense.

I think the Pats are better team right now. I don't like it.

Everyone needs a first stint before they can have a second stint. Planning for the future.

I love the use of the word eschews.

The Bills schedule is not that much harder this year.

At the 155 vote mark, a majority project 1 loss for the Bills on the remaining schedule. So 13-4 for both. Patriots win the division with a by virtue of having only one loss in the division. Meaning last weeks loss to the Dolphins will be the difference between the #1 seed and the #5 side. This because as I am so often told, the early season games don't really matter.

I think everyone is over complicating this. Its pretty simple. Josh Allen is not as effective this season as in recent seasons. This is not open for debate. Why Allen is not as effective this season is open for debate. The following is my opinion McDermott is a system coach and wants players that conform to the system. The alternative is an adaptive coach who modifies his systems to optimize the talents of the players. Both types can succeed. I do prefer the second type. I believe Bellichek and Reid both are/were both more of the adaptive types. Allen, like most high end athletes perform best when in the proper rythym. In football one of the primary goals of the defense is to get the QB out of their natural rythm. In games where Tom Brady struggled, it was almost always because the defense got him out of his rythym. This season the Bills offensive scheme takes Allen out of his rythym, which saves the defense the trouble. Every year with the Bills it seems like there is a new grand experiment from the coaches. This year's experiment is: can we change Josh Allen's natural rythym to conform to something that is not natural to him, and get equal production. So far the experiment is failing. The problems with the WR corp are real, but they are secondary to to the problems this experiment is creating. The solution from my perspective is that In the first or second series of each game, the defense needs to be reminded that Josh is a running threat on passing downs, when Mr. Cook is having his well deserved third down rests. This will put Josh back in his natural rythym, and it will make the defenses account for that the rest of the game. This one change would have a profound impact.

It does not ignore the offense leaving points on the field. It actually specifically says the offense is broken. Previously it was not broken. A logical person does not thing the defense somehow was fixed, because it played well against an Andy Dalton led defense. And the defense played so great against the Chiefs (who have a lot of other losses. Sidenote - the 2025 Chiefs are not the same as the 2023 Chiefs) that they gave up a 4th and 18, and let the Chiefs stay in the game until the last play.

McDermott is on his 9th 1/32 chance. 8 of those with one of the two top QBs in the NFL. Its just not a good performance.

This is the most rational thought on the situation I have seen. Having said that, someone has to win the Super Bowl this year, and every contender has pretty big flaws. Bills probably still have a 1 in 10 chance.

What #2 seed are the Chiefs getting by to play the Patriots?