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Just now, Roundybout said:
What the heck is wrong with the Eagles?
People have been saying that about the Bills over the past three weeks. Guess any given Sunday.
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How did the Cowboys back in the redzone for another TD so quickly?
ETA - Punt return.
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Touchdown Jets. Lot of boos at Met Life.
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Turnover off a fumble by the Steelers.
And the Cowboys have a safety via blocked punt. The Rams are a mess.
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The Jags getting a soft Roughing the Passer penalty IMO.
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To answer the OP, usually. I find it more relaxing when the Bills aren't playing!
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1 minute ago, 4merper4mer said:
Again with the s.
We’ll disagree I guess. I see so many excuse for Allen and deflection of blame to everyone else on these threads that I can’t count them.
We invented it; it's American English which is the bastardis/zed version. 😉
Some posters are trying to pass it on all blame, yes. Most are seeing something is up and trying to work out the solution. Laziness? Lack of prep? Lack of confidence? Not trusting his eyes? Coaching? I doubt we'll never know the answer for sure.
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3 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:
I don’t hate him at all. Wouldn’t trade him for anyone except maybe Mahomes. Also I don’t worship him and think he is flawless.
Reading comprehension much?
All of the above is correct with the exception of the spelling of the word “realize”.
Why then, is one player exempt for so many posters?
British way of spelling it.
I think the issue is it feels like Josh gets far more criticism than anyone else, and that includes the likes of McDermott, Dorset, Davis and Knox. Even when the former two have been criticised, it's mostly the prism of "what's up with Josh?"
What's up with the Bills O Line? D Line? Why are the players so ill disciplined? Why have all sides of the ball come out slow over the past three weeks? I'd argue it's not being an exempt, but that issues go beyond him as well as with him.
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14 minutes ago, Bob Jones said:
Are you sure about the bolded? There is much speculation saying he's "gone Hollywood." I honestly don't know the real truth, do you?
No one does except inside the franchise. But calling Josh lazy is an easy out for many.
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7 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:
If Josh Allen left practice and crashed his car into a school bus would you blame Ken Dorsey for keeping him 5 minutes late meaning the bus would have never been there?
You do realise the majority of takes on here are Josh is an issue, but isn't the sole problem? Just as Dorsey isn't the sole problem, McDermott isn't a sole problem, receivers dropping the ball isn't the sole problem, other players showing ill-discipline by gifting opponents penalties isn't the sole problem. But put them all together and we are where we are.
If Josh had played better the Bills would have beaten the Pats. If the defense hadn't let the abysmal Pats defense put up 29, the Bills would have beaten the Pats. If Murray hadn't driven into Pats defender on the Knox TD, the Bills would have won. The issue is everything is a mess at the moment - it goes beyond one player or one area.
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3 minutes ago, FrenchConnection said:
They had a beautifully soft schedule to close out the year. Now, they don't.
Think they have to win three of the next four to take them to 7-4. The Bengals can be as bad as the Bills at their worst so might get lucky at Paycor, but have that as a defeat.
Accept defeats at the Eagles and Chiefs (7-6), win the next three then lose at Miami takes the Bills to 10-7. May be enough for a wilcard spot.
But if the Jets can beat the Eagles and the Pats can beat the Bills, then maybe one or more surpise result will go in the Bills favour.
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4 minutes ago, Don Otreply said:
It is both, but primarily our offense is sputtering, jmo
Don't disagree, but 25 points should still be enough against the Pats, no matter how they come.
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1 minute ago, Gregg said:
Usually, I am not one to put much stock into scoring first. But given the past 2 weeks I think it's very important for the offense to start quick. A 7-0 lead early in the first quarter and then go from there. It will help their confidence. If they fall behind again and its looking like the Giants/Pats games, then it could snowball into 4-4. This message board will go nuclear if that happens.
Don't think it will get any worse than this. Most seem prepared for defeat against the Bucs, and the nature of the posting will follow. No one expected the hideous performance (at stages, on all sides of the ball) against the Pats.
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6 minutes ago, Success said:
Maybe I'm reading the board too much - but it just seems like there is a malaise over this team right now. Even in their pressers, they seem a little lost, and kind of frustrated in their inability to identify and fix the problems we have.
I'm starting to worry that it could spiral. Energy can really feed off itself - good, or bad. Right now it's bad.
Such a big game Thursday. Never would have thought the TNF Bucs game would be the one to circle as season-defining, but our backs are truly against the wall right now.
From memory, the 2021 game felt like it was "all or nothing" as well. A miserable first half performance and the season felt over. Even though the game ended in defeat, the second half performance seemed to kickstart something which carried the Bills through to 13 seconds.
It's a week to week league, and I wouldn't be surprised by any result.
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6 minutes ago, Big Turk said:
Yeah but... injuries.
Anyone would think the Bills had grabbed a load of HC defensive players and put them out there. That's not to absolve the offense, they have been poor for too long for first halves of games and that's on coaching and players. But the defense should be more effective than it has been, even with the players lost.
ETA - Obviously I mean against the Pats.
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28 minutes ago, Don Otreply said:
Because if we scored a TD and a field goal in the first half we would have won the game…, just a WAG…,
If the defense had turned up in the final drive we would have won the game. Just like 13 seconds.
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2 minutes ago, Big Turk said:
Maybe he should be able to recognize where he should be looking to throw the ball on a blitz like he would have been taught in HS football more? You know...start your progression on the proper side of the field and throw it to the open guy instead of always starting the progression with the side of the field where Diggs is lined up?
If the answer is he knows it has to do with film study and he doesn't want to do more film study then perhaps it is because he knows the issue but is unwilling to do anything to fix it?
Then it's down to the coaching. Because if they feel the answer is Josh needing to watch more film then they need to tell him to do it or else they'll bench him for Kyle.
Perhaps they don't. Perhaps they feel the reason behind it is more complex than Josh supposedly being lazy and/or distracted.
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45 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
Well that's an interesting comment.
My biggest concern is Josh saying "Who knows?" A bit like McDermott's comment after Pats, where he didn't know where things are going wrong. Doesn't fill me with confidence they're going to sort the issue out.
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Just now, Freak-O said:
What is said to the press and what is said behind closed doors are not the same thing. Frazier wasn’t fired, really? Just one example. Why single people out when speaking to the press? What good does that do? Nothing.
The issue for me is him saying he doesn’t know why it’s happening. It may be true but don’t admit that to all and sundry. It just shows he’s not up to the job of fixing it. -
1 hour ago, Dr.Sack said:
This a good point. I think if Bass had made that one FG and you were a FG wins, then you do burn clock. Being that you were down 18-22 you a zero margin for error, and scoring a TD was the right decision, regardless of clock. And you prefer a 2nd and goal from the 1’ line.
The Offense needs to score more than 25 to win if the D and ST get rolled.
Yesterday was the first time the Pats had scored over 20 all season. If the D had kept them to the mean, the Bills would have won. The Eagles would have won scoring 21, the Dolphins 18, the Jets 16, the Cowboys 4(!), the Saints 1(!!), the Raiders 18. In reality, the Eagles scored the same number of points as the Bills did yesterday, the Dolphins one less and the Raiders four less. Even with a weakened defense, 25 on offense should have been enough. -
5 hours ago, Special K said:
His head does not seem to be in the game at all......maybe before he started dating Hollywood actresses he should have won a Super Bowl first.
At least Kelce has two Championships in his back pocket before dating Taylor Swift. Brady won Super Bowls before getting involved with Giselle.....just sayin’.
Win a Super Bowl, then you can date whoever the hell you want. Josh didn’t play with this attitude until Miss Hollywood entered the picture.
No one should be able to dictate to anyone else who they date, or use it to sneer at someone who has done so much for the Bills. And Josh played like this with Britney as well - remember the Jags and Colts in 2021, for example? Indeed, against both the Giants and Pats, Josh and the offense clicked into gear in the fourth quarter which raises questions what was the issue before? Did he break up with Haille after the third quarter of both games? Or perhaps there’s an issue within Orchard Park which needs sorting out. -
5 hours ago, Freddie's Dead said:
Diggs, Cook, Kincaid, in that order for me. I'll give Po an honorable mention.
Diggs? He did one decent thing all day. It’s a miracle they got YAC from him, he barely wins contested balls and has had key drops in successive weeks (but everyone goes in on Knox). Plus he ran the wrong route against the Jags. He’s hardly at the top of the list to blame but he didn’t have a great game yesterday, and has struggled over this run, as have most.Cook and Kincaid - definitely. Third? Um…
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1 minute ago, FrenchConnection said:
Last year, we all complained that dorsey would call long passing plays when the game situation didn’t call for it. He was a lunatic! Now we complain about how Dorsey is stifling Josh. That’s not Dorsey. That’s McDermott, who got all the ammunition he needed after that week 1 game. It was also McD’s conflict with Daboll. McD wants to win with ball control O and D.
I can’t believe that I’m agreeing with you, but this is all McDermott. Dorsey, if he had his way, would call 15 deep shots a game.
I do wonder how much of that is down to McDermott trying to protect the defense
because of the lack of manpower. The Dolphins game seemed to be the peak but White went down. Then Milano and Jones were lost in London followed by Oliver this week. So the idea is the offense build up the TOP to protect the defense. But the problem is that approach neuters the offense. Let the offense play naturally and trust them to win a shootout if need be.
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37 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:
He was okay in the 1st half. The D created only one 3 & out and allowed the Pats to flip the field with a non scoring but time consuming 2nd quarter drive.
But the point is that EVERY elite QB and their offense will have an off half. The truly elite like Allen followup a lackluster 1st half with a phenomenal 2nd half and Allen did exactly that.
Twice in the 2nd half the D was beyond inept:
* After the Bills scored a TD in the 3rd quarter to cut the NE lead to 3 the Bills D should have risen up and snuffed the Pats offense out. Instead they allowed them to go on a 6 minute plus FG drive. Then when the Bills finally took a 3 point lead at the 2 minute mark the D didn't just allow NE to go on a drive to tie the game and force OT they allowed them to score the winning TD. That is unacceptable given how Bean/McD have structured the Bills.
Every elite QB and offense will have an off half? Maybe once every so often. The offense has been dire for all but two or three quarters out of the last three games.
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Week 8 - Around the NFL (i.e. NOT a Bills thread please)
in The Stadium Wall
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Appointing a defensive HC, no matter how good, would be interesting in the current era. Unless the team has a great OC already but concedes too many.
Lawrence INT with an awful throw. One which would get Josh pilloried by all and sundry if he did it.