TheCockSportif

Good synopsis as always, @Shaw66. Was wondering if you were going to take the week off after that debacle.

This team has myriad problems, and problems I didn't expect to see after a great season last season. You say that they're soft, but what I saw today was a team that loses personnel, gets into a bind during a game, then quits. Would I call them soft? They certainly looked it today. But it looks like whatever they've been building over the past 3 seasons is not looking good.

I didn't think that you have to run because it's a passing league, as I learned on TBD. </sarcasm>

I'm on board with your line of thinking, but other contenders, who understand what happens when guys go down (and they will), aren't going to trade their talent. So then what do you do? You trade for parity, i.e. talent that's basically equal to the existing lacking backups that you already have. It's a quandary.

Yes, depth would be great. But if a team has OL depth, I remain of the belief that they don't trade it just 'cuz. Look at the Bills now that guys are out. And yes, Ford is terrible 100%.

The only way that he's out of a job is if after the season proof of an insurrection becomes front and center. However, these are the same folks who own the Sabres. Have you seen that team over the past few years? Unless it's egregious with McD, he stays, I strongly suspect. These owners are about to coming knocking at the taxpayers' doors. Do you think that they want to cause churn whilst doing so?

The team was going to replace most of the OL by/at the trade deadline? This is not MLB nor Madden.

Playoff team? Possibly. SB team? If the Orkin man can fumigate the joint after the past month or so, then a distant maybe.

This is the first time I'm saying this in 3 or so years, but good and bad news aside, this doesn't look like a team that wants to win to me. They win and it's kumbaya. They lose, and they fold like a tent.

You think that Frazier can fix this issue though? Did you see his defense today? Unless it becomes clear that McD has lost the team, like it or not, he's probably here for another couple of years.

He doesn't because his name isn't Michael Jackson?

I've gotta say that the dome argument thing delights me. So the Bills get good in a dome then get their butts handed to them in a cold weather playoff game. Then what happens? "Why did we spend all of this money on that dome in the first place? Nobody gives a crap about watching Jon Bon Jovi play a concert there in March." Could happen...

100%. Same dude banned me for taking @jrober38 to task for his QB whispering, i.e. "we need to sign Cutler" -- a thread that went on for like 200 pages.

To his credit, he's not Whaley, but yeah, the gaps in talent evaluation / lack of depth were on full display today.

He doesn't for another year or so, or not unless something comes up about him losing the locker room, or some such. Given the decades of clowns who've coached the Bills, I'm fine with another year or so from McD. I would like to see another OC though, and really... the lines are pretty sucky and need to be addressed. And, yeah, yeah, RB, another TE and so on.

I can only go with what it's looked like up until this point of the season. The offseason had a weird vibe to it, and I don't think that, even with a winning record, the team can make a playoff run. What a sucky game this was, speaking of the game itself; probably one of the worst I've seen from this team in some time. It makes what seemed like a sky-high ceiling in 2019 and 2020 seem like an eternity ago. Groin out

WE'RE TALKING PROUD, BUFFALO. Groin out.

The Bills weren't good enough to score. There, I said it. Enjoy the offseason. I've often wondered if you like the Bills at all. Just saying.

Well, since I've been watching the Bills since the 1970s, I knew that the Bills were going to stand a chance against Houston. The team was too good in that phase of its championship life. Any way you slice it, this team was going to lose, so was it the actual outcome, or would the Bills lose 52-9? Take your pick, because this woeful offense would've most certainly kept KC on the field had they gone for it. You most certainly can't deny it. Again, go for it with what? A team who can't run? A team where you might not be able to convert XPs? A team where the QB, who's been great all year, becomes scattershot?

Be honest for a change. Did you think that the O was going to score a TD at halftime? KC literally curb stomped our team going into the break.

Yes, but the O and the D needed to be simpatico to make this work. And they weren't. The O needed to maximize its possessions in the first half, and they didn't, and that's really end of story. KC has an exceptional team, and I can't think of what the D could've done, short of neutralizing Kelce, to keep this game close. I've been watching the Bills since the 1970s, and I knew that the Bills were dead at halftime. And I say this also as one who watched the comeback game, and who knew that the Bills were gonna win that one. This squad was dead at halftime, because they couldn't execute on O.

BINGO!

Dude, seriously. Would you trust the O to get the job done? This was not the game I was watching. As I said last week, I'm surprised that KC didn't drop 50 or so on us.

But I wasn't talking about D, was I? This was going to be a track meet, and the Bills could not hang on O. End of story.

The game where JA was so hyper that he was overthrowing receivers, getting hit, RBs could not catch simple passes, the game where the Bills could not run, that game?