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54 minutes ago, Dick_Cheney said:
I’m just praying it doesn’t come down to bogus officiating.
I do think that all the media attention this past week about the how skewed the officiating stats are in favor of the Chiefs is good for us.
If the game is decided once again by a controversial call going KC’s way, people are really going to melt down.
Unfortunately, melt down means engagement and eyes on the product. I'm not sure they care. So leave NO DOUBT with a commanding win! GO BILLS! -
In addition to some of the mcdermott comments already made, kudos to McD for identifying Dorsey as a problem in a similar situation and moving quickly, which allowed us to get Brady in there, crush Miami's spirit last year, revamp our offense, and lead to us being where we are now.
He could have waited like the Texans did, and we'll see how that works out for them now. But feels like Brady's experience last season is paying dividends this year.
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Whether the selections are justified or not this is absolutely fuel to be poured all over everything. I hope the team is absolutely frothing and out for blood Sunday. GO BILLS!
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6 hours ago, Nihilarian said:
However, the Rams just showed the world how to destroy that Buffalo defense.
Yep, start with a hall of fame QB, two top ten receivers and a top five running back, and then have one of the brightest offensive minds in the league call the plays. Once you have all that (which most teams do, right?), then play a great game, block well and make every contested catch, and you too could beat the bills by 2 pts!
In all seriousness, didn't the ravens show the world how to destroy us right before we won the next seven in a row? It's a week to week league. Sometimes you get outschemed and take the L. At least we didn't roll over.
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1 hour ago, Ya Digg? said:
Haha you’re funny, thinking some on here are going to enjoy the next 4 games.
funny guy you!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol... one can dream
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8-2, another week of playing a solid B game and winning handily, excited for the next month! Games start to get more intense now, we're playing four good teams, time for the true measuring stick for this team. Enjoy the ride!
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Between winning by too much and beating an NFC team, we are doomed.
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Our Defensive philosophy has always been to come out vanilla, bend and try to not break, and adjust. This is nothing new.
Our offense has a relatively new coordinator and tons of new faces.
We're 5-2, have a strong running game, just added Amari Cooper, have blown out three teams, Josh hasnt thrown a pick and has a passer rating over 100, and are 2-0 in the division on the road. I understand the lack of patience with McDermott, but things do look a bit different this year. Can we show a bit of grace?
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48 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
That was the big win in the jets game…everybody stayed healthy. Shakir got a pretty light day too to ease him back in
Pretty sweet considering the opponent and physicality of that game
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35 minutes ago, SCBills said:
It just seems like every criticism of this team is based on every question we have being an abject failure.
Exactly this. Its exhausting.
Somehow every vet we let go, none of which were all pros or made a single significant play down the stretch or in the playoffs, is vastly superior to who we brought in to replace them.
It's maddening. i cannot understand why you would bother following this team and posting on their message board if you can't be excited about the opportunity to witness the next chapter of JA's career, moving on from a core that had four good shots at it and couldn't get it done.
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1 hour ago, Dan said:
No. We would gave still been a wildcard.
Solid point… if you change all sorts of things and we lose every game we won… yeah. We would have sucked!
And to think… I used to come here for smart football discussion about the Bills.
And the close games we lost? Those DEFINITELY couldn't have went the other way. Only the close wins can be reversed in this fantasy land of negative nonsense
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Diggs has and will always have the stigma of being a crappy teammate exactly for this reason, he just doesn't get it, he's too self absorbed.
A "real pro" would keep his mouth shut and be an exemplary teammate both on AND off the field. Diggs is a great player, but also stirs the pot constantly on social media and never goes out of his way to show up for his team outside of the hashes. He's a mercenary in a position where people look to him as a leader
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We'll see if this moves the needle at all, but kudos to the staff for trying an innovative new approach
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1 hour ago, Nextmanup said:
Maybe you don't watch all the games; he's quite inconsistent and hasn't broken several really bad habits despite being around a while.
He doesn't need a friend as his coach; he needs someone who will improve his game.
You'll recall the Bills aren't playing on Sunday...there's room for improvement everywhere.
Oh cool, I can't wait for the only person to ever have 40+ TDs in four straight years, while leading a top 5 offense, while averaging 12 wins a year, to stop being "quite inconsistent." As soon as we get that meanie QB coach in here to rough him up a bit he'll surely go for 6000 yards and 60 TDs every year!
Are there some real world examples of this whole hard-nosed yeller vs. friend thing that you all seem so fixated on? Are you referring to Daboll? Josh didn't have any more success under Daboll than we did this or last year, going by your metric of "who's playing next Sunday."
We're not playing next Sunday because our D-Line is underwhelming, the middle of our defense was gutted by injuries, and our safeties aren't impact players anymore. So we gave up 9 yards a play to the best quarterback/play caller in the league and lost. Of course there's room for improvement everywhere, but this thread is about the (silly and reductive) notion that our QB coach's personality is a serious concern, and that Josh doesn't work or improve because he doesn't have someone in his ear screaming "DON'T THROW AN INTERCEPTION MAN!!!!!!!!!!"Maybe it's time to just accept and be happy that he's always going to be a 45 TD/17 Turnover guy, and he'll never reach this pinnacle of perfection that everyone wants. And you know what? That's plus his current rate of playoff production is plenty to help win a title.
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Just now, Gunsgoodtime said:
Since McDermott arrived different coaches has made the SB, how is he more successful than 98% of coaches in the NFL, much less sports? To this point, with Josh Allen as QB he has underachieved.
Well, I figure 5-7 coaches get fired every year, plus 31 other currently employed coaches. McDermott has more wins, playoff appearances, playoff wins, and divisions titles than any of them except Andy Reid since 2017. And if not for Reid, he'd probably have a Super Bowl appearance or two. So, to me that's successful, there's more to success than winning the Super Bowl. But, agree to disagree I guess.-
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24 minutes ago, Logic said:
As someone who found a lot of what was in the Dunne piece to be illuminating and probably truthful...
Two things that have happened since have been kind of damning to that report:
The first was the Wink Martindale/Brian Daboll fallout. Whereas it looked like the rather public breakup of McDermott and Daboll was more on McDermott, seeing Daboll be unable to make it work with a second consecutive defensive mind makes one wonder.
The second was the fact that, as the OP mentioned, two coveted young coordinators chose to stick around in Buffalo rather than go elsewhere, even though both garnered significant interest. Babich, in particular, was surprising, choosing to stick around under a defensive-minded head coach who may still continue to call plays rather than potentially spread his wings under an offensive minded guy.
Lastly, the way the team rallied around McDermott after the piece came out also sort of poked a bit of a hole in the "no one likes playing for this control freak" narrative.
The more that time has gone on and the more that's happened, the less accurate Dunne's piece has looked.
With all of that said, the Bills still lost in heartbreaking fashion in the Divisional round to the Kansas City Chiefs, and the major thesis of Dunne's piece was that McDermott tenses up in big moments and that the Bills need to move on from him to ever reach the Super Bowl, so.....he hasn't entirely been proven wrong thus far.It's almost as if a bunch of fans were judging and thinking they could read a person off a bunch of intentionally bland press conferences, rather than his body of work, which is more successful than 98 percent of the coaches in the past seven years with a locker room that constantly raves about how together they are year in and year out.
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Why? Is there something wrong with our quarterback that needs tough love? I thought he played pretty damn well after he got out from under whatever Dorsey was coaching him to do.
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No idea what the answer is but I agree. I was watching a YouTube video the other day of the JA's first 200 touchdowns, and it was striking how easy we used to make the red zone look under Daboll in a way we don't really seem to see anymore
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4 hours ago, Warcodered said:
But I also kind of loved it, go a ***** head and call Buffalo soft and pour gasoline on the fire for this team that ***** lived there through a blizzard that killed almost 50 ***** people and see what it ***** gets you.
This. If the boys can use it and come out as the more physical team, then the game is going to be a lot of fun for us
The chiefs part is most annoying to me though....as if we didn't put up the "perfect game" two years ago when it was like zero degrees in the playoffs
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2 minutes ago, Rockinon said:
KC's 2 extra day advantage is more like 1 when you consider travel. Only real advantage is time to rest. I'm sure as far as preparing for KC they can step up their timetable with meetings and practices. Hopefully we come out of the Steelers game healthy.
Agree. Plus I'm sure we have staff prepping for KC already, while KC has to keep two teams on their radar
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All the crybabies would have had us throwing in the towel at 6-6 and firing everyone. And they would have missed out on one of the great division titles in our franchise history
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This is great post, this is what message boards (and pub sports talk) are all about
You play him. If the wild card matchup was more favorable, maybe it's a thought. But the path as the 2 seed is SO much easier...Pitt/ind/hou at home round one, plus one of KC and MIA goes out immediately (they both know us better than anyone), that's massive.
Then another home game, avoiding the ravens in round two
Then if the ravens lose, we stay home for the CG. Come on now.
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53 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
Yeah I pointed out in another thread the Chargers scored 4 FGs on drives that started at or before the 50, and we allowed a TD instead of a FG after Harty's fumble. That is 16 points legitimately given up by the defense against a UDFA QB throwing to his #3 and #4 WRs and down to his 3rd center. Inexcusable performance against that crew IMO.
I hope McDermott learned something after the first Patriots debacle. That was probably the worst defensive performance of any team this season. I am begging him not to call a bunch of stupid and predictable blitzes that Zappe simply dumps off for chunk yardage. I want him to call more man than usual - against this group of weapons, I would much rather trust our guys to stick to their man than give Zappe easy holes in zone coverage to exploit.
On offense this is one of those weeks where I want Allen to play reserved. No need to push the envelope with cross body deep throws and the like, not with Bailey Zappe on the other side. Smart conservative football and just wear the Pats down slowly. I would lean heavily into throws to the RBs and TEs in this one. I don't expect Diggs and Davis to suddenly become separation machines this week.
Take every point available in this one. 4th and goal from the 2, kick the FG. Don't make the same mistake Denver made. Again it is Bailey Zappe on the other side. Any score is a huge positive.
Like, I respect what you guys are saying and that these close games against lesser teams don't feel great. But what specifically do you feel our defense did wrong? The other poster said to hold them to 170 yards. That would be 2.61 yards per play. Seems a bit unreasonable to me. This is still an NFL offense with a system that has been super productive over the years.
Do other teams look at our banged up defense and say "They're missing three all pros, two other pro bowlers, their best linebacker is running around with a banged up ankle, and their 100 million dollar pass rusher is useless. Why didn't we score 50 pts!!!!" Perhaps their backups and young players aren't god awful? What do you actually know about their third string center?
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4 hours ago, dave mcbride said:
The Chargers did it last week and did OK with virtually no talent
Did they? They had 273 yards on 65 plays, took five sacks, and kicked a bunch of field goals thanks in part to great drive starts after turnovers. That yards per play would rank at the bottom of the league, looking at season long averages
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In some ways, this is worse than the drought in my opinion
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I thoroughly enjoyed storming back to beat the Dolphins out for the division last year. I really enjoyed taking down the Chiefs, Lions, and Niners (in the snow!) this year. I loved rushing for like 200+ yards against the Cowboys last season and just kicking their ass physically. I'll never ever forget the thrill and jumping up and down like a madman with my 65 year old Father when Taron had the 101 yard pick six.
Heck, my family still talks about Josh's first win all the time, storming into Minnesota and putting on a show as 17 point dogs.
You're really missing the point of it all by choosing to not enjoy the journey. Sucks for you.