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5 hours ago, In Summary said:
No excuse for taunting. Need an angry vet to set the policy if the coaches don't.
Great point the veteran one: maybe someone like Kyle Williams, someone that can get right in the face to other guys when they do stupid things like the one Brown did.
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I’m really wondering what could Allen and our offense do with a great OL: i’m sure we would be a 14-3 or 13-4 team at worst,
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2 minutes ago, DuckyBoys said:
1. Gabe Davis needs more snaps (4 tds in 3 starts)
2. Josh and the offense are better from under center
3. Defense continues to give up yardage to one dimensional offenses
Your number 2 i totally agree, you can set more play action plays that can easy our offense.
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We won and this is obviously the most important thing, but what you liked and what you don’t by the Bills game ? To me:
- DL played a good game- we didn’t cover well the throws in the middle
- Josh’s int and sack could be avoidable
Your three points ?
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How many times Josh get a sack for not throwing the ball away when needed ?!!!!!!
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1 minute ago, KeLLy1278 said:
People on here talk about him like he’s the second coming of Tom Brady. The Bills bias is out of control. People can’t differentiate their fandom from objectivity.
I like Allen but he is NOT the player he was last year and this is supposed to be his prime.
I could agree with you right now, but we should see hime behind a great OL: i’m sure he would be a nightmare for every team we play against, he would be a dagger !
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7 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:
This is true. I've been saying we will win out as well, but now is the time to actually have to do it.
We must perform, starting Sunday.And yes, these are literally "must win" games.
Well, at least if we wan to play playoff games this year.
3 easy wins and a tough one against a good team on the road to reset things and head into the playoffs on the right footing.
We can do that!
I'm with Italian Bills on this.
4-0, mark it down. We can’t keep on playing that bad with so many mistakes, it’s impossible. This team is too good to fail that bad, it’s not possible ! No doubt everybody is feeling mad about their performance and the standing, they know that this have to come to an end, they well know that playing at the level they are capable, they will finish very strong, with all statement wins.
4 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:At least he had the courtesy of not using "we will win out" in the title. But wait doesn't Italian have 7 letters. The same amount of points in td? Wasn't mafia originated in Italy....This thread could be fate?....Now back to the hot Italian chicks.....
Not all italians people belong to mafia stuff… i’ve been there in the us almost 20 times since 1995, my first one right to come to Buffalo to go to the Rich Stadium for Bills - Seahawks that we won going 5-1.
I love this team, i’ll always do and i’m sure something good is close to happen the next few weeks.
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Com’on guys, till now we played like what, 50 to 60% about our real potential ? And about 20 to,30% about our mental approach ? I’m very confident that all of them, McD, Frazier, Daboll and the players know that and they are more than sick about their overall performance, most of all because they very well know the talent of the team.
So NOW, exactly now, they know that every of the next games, will be a in or out, will be a statement if they are “same old Bills” or the new Bills was born last year with the QB at the helm we waited for more than 20 years. -
Hello fellas.. i do not have any fear we won’t win all of the last four games and not because we face three weak Teams at home and just one, the hardest one against the Pats on the road, but because right now, exactly right now, i just feel this way, we’ll play an umbelievable football that we never played this season.
I’m sure that from head to feet, to the coaches to the last player of our so beloved team, they will give something they almost never gave till now: strenght, commitment, desire, sense of urgency, devotion (to us fans also) and all the emotional part that along with their real talent, make them a great great football team !
Believe me or not, we’ll go 4-0 !!!
GOOOO BUFFALO BILLSSSSS !!!
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Didn’t watch the game, but reading what you guys claim, it seem obvious that the refs stole the game again… handling it to Brady and Co.
I can’t say i agree with you or not, cause like i said i didn’t watch the game, but something is obvious too: if you fell down 24 to 3, you can’t blame the refs. I mean… you fell in that situation because you are having a crap of a game, overall, so before talking about the refs, think about what you did wrong. I’m not referring to you, but to the coaches and players.
If you are a SB contender, you don’t fall behind 24 to 3, if not in some rare cases; of course you can anyway lose the game but not falling behind 24 to 3. That said, i ask you:do you think Teams like GB, KC, TENN (with Henry), BALTIMORE, NE, AZ or DALLAS would have been in a 24 to 3 situation against Tampa ? Personally i don’t think so.
The season (maybe) is not over, who knows… i still believe we can make a run.. and for the future i’m ok because one thing: we have Josh Allen, a heck of a QB and a fighter and when you have a Franchise QB, you have a shot at the SB every single year. Of course in our current situation, the Pegula, Bean and McD must understand that, before everything, they MUST give Allen the protection he needs to torch every f…… defense.
So guys let’s see what happen one game a time.. i still have hope, don’t ask me why, but i still have hope… maybe because JOSH ALLEN !-
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1 minute ago, Mopreme said:
This team is finished. No heart. No desire. No toughness.
I’m talking about that since few weeks now.
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1 minute ago, Steel City Mafia said:
This team is just not good. Is everyone ready to accept that?
Agree.
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2 minutes ago, BernieBill said:
You can see the fear in Josh's eyes lately ... this offense is sad.
He lost the swagger and confidence … he looks always scared on what is coming to him after the snap. But i’m wondering also why we don’t use slant routes more and more to let Allen let the football fly before he can be under pressure. Daboll and McD are lost !
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16 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:
Non volevo offendere, amico!
You did not at all. Like i said, all the points are valid, mine is the mental aspect first. And maybe everything start with the HC: honestly, with BB and not MCD, what would be our record ? The same ? Worst or better ? I think we have a very good talent team with a couple of weak points, OL and backs, but what team doesn’t have weak points ? It’s up to the coaches to find a way to minimize them .. and one way is the attitude on the field. Sometimes, you can get more from a player than what he really has in talent, just because the level of effort the HC can obtain from him, made him reach better performances.
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3 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:
I don't understand how someone watches a football game or games and concludes the team isn't "mentally and physically tough" enough.
How in the world would an outsider to the team make that conclusion? What are you basing it on?
We were in the red zone a lot on MNF, near the end, and just couldn't score a TD. We were maybe 1 or 2 passes away from winning the game.
But the team (all of them?) isn't mentally tough enough? That's the problem?
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My friend… this is just my opinion, never said it’s the holy truth or the only problem this team have. I just don’t see that “fire” in our guys during the games, not only on last MNF.
I did agree with many points people wrote down here, but i still have the feeling that with more toughnesses we could avoid at least a couple of loss, Jags for sure and maybe Indy, with those two wins we would be 9-3. But again, just my opinion.
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4 hours ago, Big Turk said:
It's so irritating because they HAD that last year.
Yeah right …. maybe all the SB talk and campaign made them too cocky losing the gritty trait ..
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19 minutes ago, Never NEVER Give-up said:
I think the softness argument is overstated. The defense is not soft - they were gashed for 1 run. If that hadn't happened, we win 10-6! Pats ran 46 times for 222 yds or 4.8/carry; take away the TD and it was 3.5 yds/carry. Incidentally, the same goes for Titan's Henry and his long run. The defense allowed 14 pts, 1 TD. If we had said that would happen before the game - everyone of us would have taken that in a heartbeat.
The problem is the sputtering offense:- a finesse O-Line
- Avg running backs (at best)
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An over-insistence to run the ball.
2519 rushes (6 were by Josh) - The coaches (by insisting to run) made it look like we were playing not to lose.
-The Bills need to use short passes as their run game. RB, TE & WR screens; RPO's for Josh; funnel screens.
-If they want to run, let the pass set it up. Trying to establish the run-game when you really don't have one will not work on team with stout D-Lines.
-I felt like every time we ran the ball, we were giving the Pats a play off.
-Josh played well. If he had 9-10 more passes - what would have happened?
-This was a close game and we lost. We need to be more effective in the red zone. Had Bass hit his 33 yarder, he would have had an attempt to win it on our last possession.
We were not trounced. I wouldn't be surprised if we blow the Pats out on the 26th.
Don't get me wrong, I am plenty frustrated, but mostly because we are not playing as we have been designed to play. We are a high-octane offense whose coaches feel the need to play like our 3-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust opponents. Had the Bills come out fast and scored 2-3 TD's, the game would have been over - but, alas, we tried to establish the run and it was not effective. (And that's an understatement.
By the way, Brady threw 51 times last week and around only 10 were for longer that 10 yds. We'll see this week how to use a controlled passing game as a component of the run game.
Unfortunately, my friend, softness is a part of this Bills team squad. Not the only problem, but alongside stupid mistakes and poor red zone scoring, is the main one.
Besides those, everything you wrote is correct and in agreement with the quick pass scheme for Allen too. Hit Bees and Knox and wrs on slant and play action and see if we score just 10 points a game. -
2 minutes ago, Billl said:
I think you’re missing the elephant in the room. The team is getting next to nothing out of the past 2 draft classes. If some of these guys don’t start performing then next year could get really ugly. Beane did a great job drafting Allen, trading for Diggs, and signing a few team friendly extensions. He’s really struggled finding value in the draft since the Allen pick, though.
Agree.
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10 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said:
I guarantee you would never call any Bills player or coach soft or tell them they lack balls to their face.Yes, you know me.
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12 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:
I believe Josh Allen is the best Bills quarterback since Jim Kelly. By the end of his career we just might all agree he's the greatest QB to ever don a Bills uni. But we’re fooling ourselves if we deny the current flaws in his game. So let’s talk.
Pretty much anyone who has heard of the Lombardy Trophy knows that QBs under duress are less productive than QBs with clean pockets. Certainly every QB knows this. So every QB has a plan on how to deal with those days when your OL bodyguard is overmatched. These plans tend to fall into one of three categories:
Stand-And-Deliver. The idea of Stand-and-Deliver is to stay in the pocket, keep your eyes downfield, take your lumps, and make plays when you can. While you’ll get hit and sacked sometimes, you hope to make enough positive plays to put points on the board. The stand-and-deliver approach works best when the QB is tough enough to withstand the beating and the D is good enough to keep you in the game.
Quick Strike. I’ve had the displeasure of watching Brady for his entire NFL career. When he finds himself poorly protected, he switches into quick-strike, dink-and-dunk mode. Brady will make his presnap read and then get the ball out so quickly that even the fastest DEs in the league can’t do much about it. In quick-release mode, Brady isn’t scanning for open receivers, he’s throwing to his predetermined guy no matter what, counting on superior precision and execution.
Scramble. Scrambling is how Mahomes, for example, deals with those games when his OL is getting overwhelmed. He’s more athletic than the linemen bearing down on him and can frequently elude them to extend the play.
Last year, Josh played Quick Strike a few games and it worked well. But when dealing with pressure, his default mode is Scan-and-Scramble.When one defender breaks into the pocket, I’m still somewhat confident that Josh will make something good happen. But when two or more defenders beat their blocks – as often happens – Josh will start zig-zagging around. This is when bad things often occur: an incompletion, a pick, a sack.
The obvious solution is to build an impenetrable OL fortress for Josh that can hold back the opponent’s wildest cavalry charges. Maybe next year. Right now, I believe Josh would perform better doing more Quick-Strike then Scramble.
Admittedly, I don’t know what Daboll tells him. Maybe Daboll specifically says, “Set up in the pocket, scan downfield, and scramble if you have to.” What I know for sure is that Josh needs to get the ball out quicker given the porous nature of our OL. That flaw prevents Josh from reaching his true potential as a QB.
I really hate to phrase it like this... but I will: Sometimes Josh needs to be more Brady-like.
Many times in the past I declared that we have to play more slant routes and jet sweep routes, using Bees and Knox for short passes. That because our bad OL that can’t give Allen the time to scan downfield for long gain passes.
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2 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Softness, Schmoftness.
IMO what's soft and squishy is this analysis.
We're not losing because we're "soft".
We're losing because we shoot ourselves in the foot with stupid drive killing penalties and errors of execution - dropped passes and fumbles and sacks are the most visible errors of execution, but there are less-visible, similar errors of technique on defense.
“IMO what's soft and squishy is this analysis.” Thank you for this nice comment. I never pretended to have the holy truth, i just shared my personal opinion respecting, many times agreeing and not judging others. Anyway i already said that stupid mistakes have been another great reason we lost many games, maybe it all start with lack of focus.
4 minutes ago, No_Matter_What said:It is amazing to me how quickly people forgot that this is basically the same team which was 15-4 last year against tougher schedule including two wins in playoffs against teams which are definitely not viewed as "soft".
Main reason why are we not 10-2 (or even 11-1) is that we don't execute in RZ. And that is on McD, Daboll, Josh, OL, RBs, TEs and WRs, and I think that all deserve some fair share of blame.
And again, that is also the main reason I think we can still turn season around - it can be fixed within season.
I hope i’m wrong and you right bro.
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2 minutes ago, NewEra said:
I don’t equate making lots of mistakes with softness.
Imo, that’s why we’re are where we are. Making stupid mistakes. Timely penalties. Timely missed blocks. Timely drops. Timely 2 offensive lineman getting bulldozed in a millisecond on 4th and 1 while the QB slips. Return man falls on his face while running untouched and gives give the ball away. Timely punts blocked for a TD.
I think we’ve been our worst enemy in most of our losses. Steelers, Jags, pats and titans. The colts game was on the coaches imo.
On a greater scale- I feel the biggest issue is our offense. More specifically, our lack of a run game. It was our downfall last season. It was discussed ad nauseam in the offseason. Beane and mcdermott admitted that we needed to improve the run. I order to fix it, they decided to bring back the same guys that couldn’t run block last year. Spencer Brown (who most of us saw as a redshirt in 2021 until Williams turned out to be Bobby Hart clone after getting paid) and sign a Rb that would be inactive for over half the season.
that’s MY rationale anyway.
i don’t think we are losing because we’re soft.
And I respect your opinion at all… agreeing with you about our embarrassing mistakes during many games we played, also in the ones we won.
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5 minutes ago, SCBills said:
It all starts on the lines. You look soft if your line play is soft.
Doesn't matter how tough and determined the QB is, doesn't matter how much dog is in the WR's...none of that matters if you can't control the LOS.
This coaching staff needs to accept that this probably won't change until the offseason. We are built to pass, and defend the pass. We struggle to run, and defend the run.
Logical conclusion is to play to your strengths and not let the opponent or the weather dictate what we do. We were reactive on Monday Night, and that's soft coaching. Hopefully Allen's 4th Quarter makes it click for them that, no matter what, this is a passing team.
Agree that the core of a team, DL and OL, can influence the success of a team, and correct too that if you have a mvp caliber qb you have to protect him at first and if if you get destroyed by heavy running teams, you have to focus on strengthen that weak part of the team.
But in order to do that, you have to look for and add “killer type” players, before looking for talent, because on the lines you must have killer type players.
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1 minute ago, Gordio said:
You make a lot of good points. I will state this though, the NFL is so competitive now. Most games are decided by a bounce or two. Even this NE game, yeah I get they rushed for 200 + yards but if any of 4 or 5 things go the other way we win that game.
- the good 2 point conversion
- diggs dropping the td pass
- bass missing that 30 yard fg.
- not getting the holding call on knox in the endzone at the end of the game
Last year it seemed like we won all the close games. 1st NE game, seatle, rams, even the colts and Baltimore playoff game. This year it seems like we are losing all the close games - Titans, Jags, NE,.
It truly is a game of inches and the biggest reason our record isnt the same as last year is we are not winning the one possession games this year
Your point is good, so you are saying that the difference between last year and this one is bad luck on few plays during the games we lost ? It could be… but if you play HARD all the entire game, with the talent we have, you won’t be almost never in a luck-bad luck situation.
All of us must totally support the guys, this is THE WEEK, this is THE GAME !
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Hello my beloved Bills fellas... i'm from Italy ok, but i'm so sick in love with this holy Franchise, with this colors, since 1989... my first time there was exactly because i wanted to be in OP, inside the Rich Stadium, kissed the ground outside the gates. I cound't believe i was there, it was a dream.
This week will be way loooong ... and day after day the fever will heat up very quickly. I can't wait anymore... and it's only tusday. I've been hard with the team, with the coaches, with the players many times this season... after our losses... i've been mad at them like many of you... weeks after every loss passed in pain.
But now i made a promise: whatever will happen sunday, i won't stop to support them, i won't be cursing, i'll wear my colors with proud, i will have their back.
The love i feel for this Team is too high... and i'm asking you to do the same, during the game don't write anything negative on the Team and the Coaches-Players, even though they will make mistakes.
They are "our" guys... THIS IS OUR TEAM TO ROOT FOR ! NO MATTER WHAT !!!