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Another defensive timeout yesterday that was immediately followed up by a big offensive play (first down). I hope someone compiles some stats on our timeout usage at some point.

Why? The entire point of a season is to Win the Super Bowl. If you don't win it, the only thing you accomplished is lowering your draft choice.

1) We didn't lose due to the snow. We lost because we got dominated in the trenches. 2) It was embarrassing hearing the loud "who dey" chants.

I mentioned this in a thread about a month ago. Something seems "off". No idea what it is, but its not JUST bad play. There is a "feeling" (for lack of better word) that this team lost.

Saffold was a bad signing from the start. Beane needs to stop building a line from the scrap heap.

I'll repeat the last sentence in that post you quoted: "Could the coaches have made better decisions to make it a bit closer? Sure. But the reason we lost is the Bengals are better."

Ouch. “Guys were exhausted during the week and our coaches did the best they could try to modify the week . . . but there was just uncharacteristic things that were kind of happening . . . I have to kind of put that into effect and not as an excuse just this team has been fighting for so long and fighting through all of this adversity you almost run out of gas at some point,” Saffold said https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/23/rodger-saffold-on-bills-loss-you-almost-run-out-of-gas-at-some-point/

Yesterdays game was not about the coaches. We were simply outmatched. Physically. The talent discrepancy was glaring. Could the coaches have made better decisions to make it a bit closer? Sure. But the reason we lost is the Bengals are better.

The SF coach is just beyond excellent. His decision making bad play calling is top notch.

Perhaps someone lacking eyesight. More likely, it was a ranking based on statistically measurable outcomes like 4th down awareness (when to go for it etc) which is about .001% of overall situational awareness.

I don’t care who made that ranking but it certainly can’t be game awareness.

great point

And linemen.

I mentioned this another thread too, but Beane has done a solid job of stocking the team with “good” players. But very very very few “elite” players. We have no Bosa’s, or Watts, or Chris Jones etc. And he doesn’t seem to want to give up draft assets to acquire an elite asset like McAffrey.

I’ve long said that Beane has done a good job at picking “good” players but he lacks “elite” players.

Signing ancient players like Emmanuel Sanders and John Brown are not playmakers type moves either.

A few games doesn’t make a season. Those are called outliers.

In the 2022 offseason, the Bengals signed 3 offensive linemen that range between “good” and “stud” level in Collins, Kappa and Karras. All under 29 years old. The Bills signed 2 retread offensive linemen in Quessenberry (32) and Saffold (34). In the 2020 and 2021 drafts combined, the Bengals drafted stud WR Jamar Chase (1st round), good WR Tee Higgins (2nd round), and three offensive linemen. Our highest pick at offensive playmaker in that time was Gabe Davis in the 4th round. Benglas value playmakers and linemen. And they have signed/drafted with that value in mind. I hope we follow suit.

This isn’t a one game issue. Allen hasn’t looked like 2020 or 2021 Allen all season.

I don’t care about the sideline frustration. That’s gonna happen. But this ^^^ pisses me off. Youre gonna hightail it out of the stadium instead of being with your teammates? That’s BS.

UCL injury, Dorsey, call it whatever you want… Allen is not the same as last year.

I’ve resisted this idea for a long time. I’ve ignored these “fire frazier” posts for a long time. But I’m now on board. WAY too many miscommunications, wide open guys, timeouts needing to be taken on defense, methodical drives, etc.

I’ve been fighting that fight for two years on this forum. There are many people here who downvote ANY post that is critical, even when it is factual. And they attack you. And report your posts. It’s frustrating.

Diggs was more open than Davis there.

Allen of previous years spins away from the streaking blitzer and runs to the right. I don’t know why he doesn’t do that anymore.