JohnNord

Oliver and Floyd are the best defenders on the team.

I know and you mean but think Brady has done a much better job of scheming players open than Dorsey ever did. KC game was tough but the previous 2 weeks looked better. Every pass in the Dorsey offense looked so freaking hard. As far as the WR screens, Tony Romo said exactly that. They were setting the defense up for that play all day long but Josh just missed Gabe. That’s on our QB

This reminds me when Zay Jones’s old man would threaten to fight fans on Twitter. He often apologize the next day 🤣 but TBH I feel for parents of pro athletes. It has to be hard knowing how hard your son works and watching them overcome obstacles to live their dream, only to be trashed by strangers on the internet saying he sucks. It does come with the territory though and if that was me, I’d stay away from social media like the plague. Nothing good will come out of it. Her point is correct, Josh missed Gabe on two open touchdowns. But fans also aren’t incorrect by mentioning that Gabe needs to be more of a factor in the offense on big games. Tough situation.

The WR’s last season weren’t that much better of a unit either. Actually you might argue Rice is better than JuJu. They are dropping more balls but also not getting separation is a big problem. MVS and Watson are basically deep threats that never catch a long ball. I think Kelce is either hurt or he’s slowing down a little. He’s still good and putting up good number but doesn’t seem as dominate as he has been the past few years. I think that’s made it easier on defenses. If Pacheco can get healthy it might make sense to give him more carries. He is a beast

Start respecting your teams , then. Most of us don’t use or care for the term “Billsy”

Speaking of “knuckleheads” what self-respecting individual uses the word “Billsy?” Ugh

I think he’s better as a safety or slot CB than a traditional boundary corner.

TBH I thought Vrabel did a really good tonight. The Titans roster is mostly crappy and they found just about every way to blow it but when they showed him on the sidelines he was calm and calculated. Levis also turned it up at the end against Vic Fangio who was supposed to be this “god” of defense. This game felt a lot like a Bills collapse. Miami’s numbers on offense look decent but they only scored TD’s when they were given a ridiculously short field by defense/ST’s. The defense also scored a TD. So the defense was the reason Miami had a 2 TD. But in crunch time they absolutely wilted

You’re one of the few. Just about everyone on the Bills and in the media said that it was personal

I have to disagree with you. If you read those article, your takeaway is that McDermott is a controlling, narcissistic jerk, and you’d think everyone is miserable. How is this not a reflection of McDermott’s character?

9/11 story culprit

I would be my entire paycheque that Spain was 1 of the 25. Likely the one who told him the story about the Jordans. Maybe the 9/11 culprit

From Tim Graham…his character was 100% put in question: Independent sportswriter Tyler Dunne, a former Bills beat reporter based in Western New York, published a three-part series called “The McDermott Problem.” Dunne’s analysis, heavily leaning on anonymous sources, called McDermott’s tenure “seven years of torture” and stated Buffalo’s coach is an incompetent fraud with pitiful communication skills, a choke artist who must be fired if Buffalo wants to maximize Josh Allen and win a Super Bowl. Doesn't sound like “seven years of torture” is a shot at his character eh?

When was the last game you marched and said “Wow, Ken Dorsey was impressive?” I can think of the Miami game this season but that’s it. It was downhill from there. Before that we have to go back to 2022 season…Maybe the Rams and Titans in week 1 or wee 2???? Brady has 2.5 games like that already - 2nd half not withstanding

LOL uh yeah…if McDermott was in his ear, he’d want more runs to kill time. There’s no way the sequence before the go-ahead FG happens if McDermott was “in his ear.” This fan base…

There’s going to be a few other big games this season, starting Sunday….maybe playoffs too. It will give the team a lot of time to evaluate him as OC. One thing is pretty clear - Brady appears to be a better and more creative play caller than Dorsey. Many have said play calling is more based on “feel” than an exact science. This is where Dorsey failed IMO. The offense seemed so disjoined and never “passed the eye test.” It was Josh to Diggs or nothing. I feel Brady has done a better job of taking advantage of week-to-week matchups and getting other players involved. Ironically Diggs has yet to have a really good game since he took over. That’s brings up back to talent. I still think the Bills talent at WR is very average outside of Diggs. When Diggs is coveted like last night, the Bills need someone to step up and make a play. Harty helped on one catch but we need more from this season’s WR group

If you read the Dunne article it said nothing about a struggle. Just that Josh was very confrontational and that one of the anonymous sources which he spoke up against McDermott more often You guys are reading into this way too much. The issue with the Dunne article was that the Bills felt his character was questioned. They never took issue with Dunne thinking he was a lousy coach. This is Josh’s way of defending him.

I honestly don’t believe that the Bills regard him anywhere as high as fans do. The only way I see this happening is if Hyde can’t go and you replace him with Cam Lewis at S. Freeing up a spot for Elam to replace him at CB.

The odd thing I saw online was that Wolfson and another reporter claimed they saw Toney check with the official before the ball was snapped to make sure he was onside. They both later deleted that with zero explanation.

To everyone complaining that Dunne’s article was not a character attack, this is what his good friend and former BN co-worker Tim Graham had to write in his column Sunday: Independent sportswriter Tyler Dunne, a former Bills beat reporter based in Western New York, published a three-part series called “The McDermott Problem.” Dunne’s analysis, heavily leaning on anonymous sources, called McDermott’s tenure “seven years of torture” and stated Buffalo’s coach is an incompetent fraud with pitiful communication skills, a choke artist who must be fired if Buffalo wants to maximize Josh Allen and win a Super Bowl. You can understand why McDermott and the Bills took this personal. It was clearly an attack on his character. Also, note how Graham referenced “heavy leaning on anonymous sources?”

He referred to him as “dad” and had this to say: “With Sean, it’s ‘Come to my office. Talk to me. Let’s sit down, let’s talk about this. You need a day off? OK, cool,’” McKenzie said. “With Sean, the person-to-person is so good that even though you may not like the way certain things are, you still want to play for him because he cares about you off the field.”

I can get this, but Dunne makes his voice and opinion clear in these articles. So it’s not like we’re reading a completely objective news story. It almost reminded me of reading a Jerry Sullivan column in the Buffalo News years ago. But I understand why you are saying. It seemed like Dunne was approaching the article from the opinion that Sean McDermott was the wrong coach in Buffalo and he used some quotes to support his take. I didn’t mind his viewpoint. He brought up some points that I felt were fair. I just questioned the need to include some of those stories which I felt served no other purpose than to embarrass him.

He’s right and this is a societal problem, made worse by the angry mobs on social media. Another example are the comments Josh made in jest on Twitter as a teenager. People still hold that against him this day

“Billsy” moment. Who talks like that? So ridiculous. Besides there would have been 1:15 and 3 timeouts left to win the game. Far from over

I disagree here. There’s valid room to be critical of Dunne’s writing in this article. I question the inclusion of several stories he included in his piece as well as some of the sources he used - all of which were former Bills employees and many who were unhappy. The one argument I don’t buy is the whole thing about the story being his revenge for not getting credentials. I also don’t buy his motivation is to make McDermott look bad because he has a relationship with Whaley and Monos. I personally don’t think it was character assassination. I do feel that Dunne wrote this article with a preconceived idea that McDermott was not the right coach in Buffalo and sought out sources who would could give him “dirt” to help solidly the argument. I’m not sure including the petty comments were necessary to his central argument…but that’s just me. For now… I think Terry’s outlook might change if we have another season like this one.