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2 minutes ago, schoolhouserock said:
You claim there is more nuance than W’s and L’s but then continue to simply use phrases like, “we are a flawed team.”
There has never been a truly perfect team. All teams have flaws. Is there not nuance there as well?Your assertion (in a separate comment) that this team is poorly coached is reactionary at best. Just one short week ago, many lauded the impressive win over Miami; pointing out that coaching played a significant role in achieving such a victory.
The odds may have worsened, but this team still has a reasonable chance to win it all this season.
The problem is the Bills are horrifically inconsistent. Yes, they looked great against the Dolphins but the performance against the Jaguars was horrific, particularly on offense. And, considering the talent they have on offense, they should be consistently better than they are.
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I have no faith in the Bills at the moment, and won’t until they beat a decent team. Josh’s performance against the Jets was an embarrassment and the offense (Josh and maybe Diggs aside) was horrible versus rage Jags. How can they be trusted to turn up when they’ve proven time and again that the don’t?
Every side loses, every side puts in lesser performances, but the best get over the line when not putting in their strongest performance. The Bills rarely do that.
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Just now, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
Then you’re screwing with your recovery schedule from the game you just played…idk why this point is getting ignored. You’ve gotta pick what the best of two kind of bad options is for your team. It’s unquestionably a strategic advantage for the other team by definition. They are already there and don’t have to make that choice
I doubt the nfl ever puts a team in that position again.
Better to get over to the UK and recover here IMO. Monday and Tuesday still being used for the usual recovery protocol then fly out and do the rest in London.
I agree on the second paragraph. Good old Bills being the "experiment".
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1 minute ago, Man with No Name said:
Maybe if the NFL scheduled the game for 3 to 6 hours later, the late arrival would workout better?
Bills arrive Friday but can keep on pretending they are on normal eastern standard time. as it is, they are waking up several hours earlier than they are used to, with only a couple days to adjust. A later game would make it almost adjustment free in many ways.
The Bills should have flown out earlier - Tuesday evening at the latest. Yes, they were copying other teams that had already flown to Europe but why? When they were the first franchise to be at a disadvantage over their opponent, who had five days on them even if they had flown out Tuesday night. As it is, the Bills sports scientists decided to give them another three days.
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Just now, billsfanmiamioh said:
It’s a BS excuse that’s all I’m saying
ETIENNE said he felt so much better ten days in compared to how he felt for the Falcons game. Every Jag had that advantage. Every Bill didn't.
Is the only reason the Bills lost? No. Play calling, execution, some bad officiating. But is it a reason? Even a victorious NFL player is saying, in a round about way, that yes it is.
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2 minutes ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:
They act like they had to travel to Australia.
It’s 5 hours.
Which might be fine if the Bills played a team in the same position, rather than one which had been on British Summer Time for a fortnight.
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Just now, BillsFan130 said:
Can’t get much worse of an NFL day lol.
Bills lose. Tons of injuries.
Dolphins win. Probable chiefs and bengals wins
I didn't expect anything else, to be fair, so not too fussed about the Dolphins, Chiefs, Bengals or Jets this week.
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4 minutes ago, PBF81 said:
Well, then McD had better figure something out then.
He's far from the only one with injuries in the league. I'm pretty sure that lesser talented teams won't give up 500 yards and 25 points and 29 1st-Downs today.
The amount of time the Jags had in possession didn't help. If it was just 60/40 to the Jags, the Bills would have probably won.
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4 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:
He's clearly washed and definitely looks so slow. But with all these guys hurt we're stuck.
Yeah, you can't absorb these 3 loses and expect to win. Dane played well but Elam is done.
You can - if the offense played properly.
Feels like Poyer's time may be up, sadly.
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9 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:
Bingo.
But when your goal is to take back door swipes at Allen you start a thread like this one claiming you don't want to turn it into a hate Allen fest. For me this crap gets old. The two long throws Allen made to Diggs were exactly how you want him to do it. As I said before Diggs makes that catch 9 times out of 10. On that particular throw the DB made an awesome play to steal the ball away.
Personally thought Diggs could have done better with the second one. Was basically wrestled away from him.
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29 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
Ok, ok, I’ll admit it. I actually love your country.
I just gotta blame something/someone for what happened today …Money chasing NFL execs, Goodell, the zebras, Dorsey, receivers who can't catch?
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Just now, Beast said:
The Bills defense didn’t look jet lagged for 3 quarters. Did they have a different travel itinerary than the offense?How many 3rd Down's did they let through their grasp after looking decent on that score in preceding weeks, including against the much better Dolphins offense? Blown coverage, basic errors. The defense did well, but a lot of plays slipped by.
But, yes, bad play calling and executing played a part on offense.
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Just now, Beast said:
The jet lag theory is nothing more than a bull#### excuse.The Jags had a clear advantage, being able to acclimatise for such a longer period compared to the Bills. I think that played a part today. Does that excuse everything which went wrong? No.
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4 minutes ago, CodeMonkey said:
Yeah I have heard that and for general road games in the US that probably makes a lot of sense. However when players cannot focus you get what the Bills had today in abundance, bad penalties, drops, and overall lackluster play. Anyway, on to the next game and maybe the team acts differently next time if they believe they made a mistake this time.
The only thing is, we've seen "stupid games" from the Bills when they've played in America so, whilst I think jet lag is a valid issue, it's not a get out of jail free card.
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1 minute ago, Meatloaf63 said:
Didn’t hurt the Jaguars being away from home for almost 3 weeks
In fairness, being over here for a long period of time means they get set up a proper base and acclimatise. There is no way the NFL should have allowed such an inbalance to start with. The Jags should have got one game in London, then told to return home.
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5 minutes ago, Bob Jones said:
C'mon man. You come off as a Bills homer with red & blue blinders on. I'm not saying that the Jags D is the 2nd coming of the Steel Curtain, but any unbiased observer can see that they held in check an offense that just last week was "unstoppable", and a QB that many are saying is an MVP caliber guy.
Today's result is on the lack of execution and some poor playcalls on offense plus the Jags defense being allowed to play fast and loose with the rules. It was not down to class play on their part.
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2 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:
Right ? Not too many undefeated seasons put up in NFL history. If you’re expecting perfection over 18 games you’re bound to be disappointed.
I think the biggest annoyance is every issue which the Bills offense has had which, perhaps naively, many thought had been sorted out, has clearly not been. After making steps forward from week one (as that was on Josh, not playcalling), today feels like a massive step back.
ETA - Forgot to mention the horrendous injuries building up on defense.
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3 minutes ago, KeLLy1278 said:
I’m tired of this team losing.. your should be too. Or maybe you love it and are content with it. Either way, I feel that a Buffalo deserves better. Maybe you are perfectly fine rooting for a loser. I’m not.
The fact you have only 669 posts shows how many times the Bills have lost of late, considering you only appear after a defeat.
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2 minutes ago, boyst said:
I want Dorsey as a HC. Not an OC.
Your original post said Daboll as HC, Dorsey as OC?
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1 minute ago, BernieBill said:
And again, like the articulate guy calling himself "Beast," you fail to recognize that Daboll was coordinating a younger and more inexperienced Josh Allen ... we are now in Josh Allen's prime and we are experimenting with Ken Dorsey and the same religious-fanatic defensive head coach who manages games about as well as the Blue Jays' John Schneider. Forget I said "Brian Daboll," I know it's tough ... the team should have an offensive mastermind at head coach or at the very least at OC ... the Bills have neither.
Yes, I accept the argument the Bills should have an offensive geared head coach or someone with more experience at OC.
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4 minutes ago, boyst said:
When was the offense a mess with daboll?
2020 was nifty. 2021 was our year and the window closed after 2021.
We have a new window.
Like when we only put up 16 at the Titans? 17 at the Chiefs? 16 at the Steelers? SIX against the Jags? 15 in a miserable performance at home to the Colts? 10 against the Pats (albeit that was the wind game). Overall, the offense played fine under Daboll but then it has since for the most part. Yes, the Bills have nightmare games under Dorsey but they had them under Daboll too.
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Just now, Billsfan1972 said:
Why is everyone so excited about the defence? Jags controlled the ball, top, and too many open receivers.
Not sure if you missed the number of injuries there were in defense? White, Milano, Jones, Miller only just coming back, Floyd limping at the half, Johnson off for a spell - goodness knows if he was completely fit on his return. And then it's a case of the offense not being able to dominate TOP meaning they kept returning to the field.
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6 minutes ago, BillsSbSoon said:
There’s usually a common denominator in the bad losses we take is that everybody on offense goes invisible when we need them besides diggs. That gabe drop was a critical backbreaker
Diggs was completely out-wrestled by a 5ft 9 CB at one point.
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1 minute ago, boyst said:
Daboll HC, Dorsey as OC, and ? As DC.
Id take that all day.
No. Offensively the Bills were as much, if not more of, a mess under Daboll as they are sometimes under Dorsey. And he's hardly lighting it up with the Giants, after inexplicably going all in on Jones. Is that the kind of judgement call they need at Orchard Park?
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Our next opponent….The NY Football Giants
in The Stadium Wall
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Dare I say it but, after last week, Sunday is not about the Bills winning - it's how they win. If they limp home in a one score game, the record will look better but the prospects will not.