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6 hours ago, Success said:
Maybe a weird post - but I was both excited about this game, and dreading it. I was excited because winning would have been euphoria - but I expected losing to be completely devastating. As it always has been for me.
I'm actually shocked that I'm in decent spirits right now. It's nothing like previous losses in high-stakes games. I usually can't sleep, but I think I'll sleep fine tonight.
Trying to figure it out. Do I just expect this kind of stuff now? Just curious if anyone else has a similar thing going on....
You're not alone, be sure of that.
The samething happen year after year. We dont need a huge instinct to know what will happen again.
We had all the clues we need during the seasons, but we try to hide it behing all those wins in seasons.
Bottom of line: something will happen each year at the same time of the year. JJWATT show and this famous common sense call, 13 seconds, Hamlin, injuries.
Yesterday, i felt like we could have it at the 2 minuts warning, but i was not in shock at all to see them blew it.
It's a kind of battered women syndrome i guess.
Until we understand we have to try another road to take the next step, it will be that, for the better and the worst.
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Allen and the offense were our best Defense yesterday. The only reason the Chiefs didnt score 40points is because the time our offense was on the field.
A lot of QB could score at will against a backup Defense. They gave us all they can, but there's a limit of this -next man up- concept.
A couple of -next man up- is fine. Others starters could talk to them on the field. But so many bakcup at this time of the year in playoff?
The Chiefs should win this game easily. Our Bills stay in the game by eating the clock a lot on offense.
We can talk about every play we missed, but the Chiefs also missed some play and a big one at the goal line when they fumble the ball.
The offense really did a good job to keep that game close.
It's sad because they did almost everthing they had to do to help the defense, stay in the game, and they kinda blew it at the two minuts warning.
Credits to the Chiefs, but they are very lucky this year. They just played their two playoffs game against decimate defense.
They did what they had to do in both game, but they didnt play against an healtly Bills yesterday and it's part of the game.
Bottom of line, we are 5-6 now in playoffs. It is what it is, no matter behing how many wins in season we want to hide that fact.
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Chiefs Defense will be there. They will try something and they will play with some agressiveness for sure.
They will not just wait for a mistake on Defense. We all know that.
This year, i see something different with our defense in some games.Sometimes not.
We all see the difference when they just wait for a mistake or play to win,
If the Bills had learn something about that kind of soft defense who killed us in playoff against the best QB, they will do whathever it takes to be in Mahomes face, to provoke mistakes and not just waiting for. They will do whathever it takes to make Mahomes scratch his head and not just wait for a mistake.
I hope they had learn something about our lost in playoff since two years.
If they really try and we lose, i can deal with it as a fan.
Then, i really thing the Bills could win that game by playing to win and not just wait and triying to not lose.
The gameplan should not only be a chess game. It's football. We need some agressiveness in that gameplan. A lot.For those who will be there: Help that defense like you always did. Make some noise like you never did. It could be a huge part of that game.
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The Bills could be in a real strange scenario on week 18.
-If they beat the Pats
-If the Ravens beat Miami
-If Bengles or Steelers win their 2 games..
In this scenario..if the Bills beat Miami, they get the no2 seed
but if they lose that game, they are out.
It's a lot of -IF- but it's possible.
Just beat the Pats first. We lost some of those kind of games this year.
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2 hours ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:
OP you just don't get it.
It's not just one game. It's a pattern of losing from a HC that is wasting the best QB in franchise history.
Nothing more, nothing less than that.
It's right in front of our eyes. It's so obvious. Each week, we talk about the finger that point to the Moon.
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On 11/14/2023 at 4:16 PM, BillMafia716ix said:
62% career winning percentage, 3 Division titles in 4 years. 4 straight double digit win seasons. Only one losing season and that was a rebuild year with a new QB, Defense has consistently been a top ten 10 unit.
Winning culture will always try to win the last game when they feel their window is open.
If they dont win, it's a failure. For those teams, a 13-3 season with a devastating lost at home in playoff is a failure.
Losing culture franchises are happy to be a good team. They dont want to change anything cause they are afraid: it could be worst.
Those teams will hide their devastating lost at home in playoff behind their 13-3 season.
Expectations. Nothing more, nothing less.
I'm not better than anyone as a long time Bills fan. I'm part of it and i will root for them all Sundays.
Then, let be serious: Between the 13 seconds a couple of years ago and the 12 man last year, we have a lot of that kind of weird mistakes.
It's a clear pattern.
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8 hours ago, PBF81 said:
I know that you're a McD apologist, or at least lean heavily in his favor if you disagree with that, so take these comments in that context.
The Ryan era was an unmitigated disaster, but there was some warning when Ryan said that his next coaching job would be his last. That's not a trait of someone that cares whether or not he does a good job. Not saying he didn't care, just saying that it wasn't a good sign.
Having said, that, Ryan didn't have great talent either. We can do a position-by-position analysis if you want. Might be fun in these dry times.
Here's the thing about "culture," it's somewhat of a nebulous thing. The term gets thrown around, but how is it specifically defined. But that appears to be his greatest achievement here as it's always the very first thing out the the mouths of McD apologists.
Allow me to ask however, what's the "culture" right now, today, at this moment?
I don't think that it can be defined as a "winning culture" as his apologists like to assign it.
As to "winning games, breaking the drought and having a couple of good playoff runs," he was barely above .500 in his first three seasons. 25-23
That Peterman thing hangs over him and have been rehashed now in the questioning of his leadership abilities. As minor as it may be, it's become a black stain.
We made the playoffs twice, but in 2017, two other teams had an identical 9-7 record that did not make it, and were both better teams. We beat only two winning teams that season, both 10-6. Otherwise we beat 7 bottom-dwelling teams. We were embarrassed in the playoffs by a former Bills coach featuring a below-average QB. We also needed help (aka luck) from something that we had absolutely no control over.
In 2019 we made the playoffs, but lost a Wild-Card game, again, with McD once again being outcoached.
So any "playoff run" boils down to 2020 - 2022 where we've only been able to win a Divisional game once, in that ill-fated '21 season where McD did anything but play up to "winning culture" in that 13-Seconds game.
Keep in mind that we got lots of help in doing what you suggest, by Brady leaving New England, essentially leaving us to supplant New England as the only decent team in the division. To wit, McD was 0-6 vs. NE with Brady until Allen's breakout season, and when Brady was no longer with the Pats. So the skids were already greased for him there. Our lackluster playoff outcomes are more indicative.
So I'm not sure how you define playoff runs, but we've won only one divisional playoff game in his 6 seasons with his 7th likely not even making the playoffs.
Again, where's that leave that "winning culture" thing?
I'd suggest that the culture isn't positive right now. Do you think it is?
If Pegula even pulls the trigger, and I have my doubts that he will, where would that leave us from a "culture perspective?" I'm not suggesting anything, seriously asking, but the word tentative comes to mind. We likely won't know until things happen. Pegula risks looking like the biggest incompetent in the mix if he does ditch McD given that he just signed him to four more seasons that haven't even begun yet, rather than waiting, which would have been very wise, to see whether what has happened might happen.
If you recall however, following the 2019 season there were plenty of questionmarks and criticism of McD and his "Process," which to date still hasn't even remotely been defined. It's nothing more than a meaningless buzzword.
It wasn't until 2020, when Allen broke out, not McD, Allen, that our "winning culture" became prominent, and again, that also coincided with the Brady-less Pats. The three other QBs in our division that season were the rookie Tagovailoa, Darnold, and Newton. ... for about half of our wins.
Now, look where we are. Can it be overemphasized where our culture is at the moment? There's a major pall over Bills fandom and the coverage of the team, and clearly somethings' going on in the lockerroom as well, not positively.
The point, the point is that if he, not Allen, actually created it, he's also equally responsible for destroying it now, which raises that chicken/egg aka McD/Allen question.
Anyway, food for thought.
Agree with your statement. As a long time Bills fans, i absolutely know i'm not in a winning culture.
We're a good team and after those 17 years, it seems to be enough.
Our window are -was- open and we all know we're not that far.
But, for us, it seems to be an accomplishment. Even this year, we're not playing good football but we're still in the hunt.
For a team in a winning culture,it's not enough and it's a failure to not win the last game when that window is open.
One thing is sure: A winining culture just cant even tolerate a mistake like the 13 seconds when the window is open.
I'm not better than any fan: i'm the first one who wanted to give a chance after that mistake.
At least, we're a good team now i guess.
They turned it around. Finally. Then, this program is clearly - play to not lose- year after year, week after week, except for some games.
It's so conservative.
We'll have some good seasons by playing like that but we'll not win our last game if we tolerate so easily the same mistakes week after week, year after year.
I'm just a fan. It's just how i see it and I really hope i'm wrong.
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On 11/14/2023 at 12:27 AM, Comebackkid said:
surround him with an imcompetent staff.
Exaclty. He could hire Coordinators who can challenge him...It could help his program a lot!
He clearly prefers good soldiers.
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6 hours ago, The Jokeman said:
If the Bills win the coin flip and we win in OT are you still hating McDermott?
I dont think any fan is hating Mcdermott. Not at all.
He's a pro and he is well paid to do his job. It's a real competitve job and we just have to think about Dorsey today to remember that.
We just talk about football. We're fans and we also pay because we love that game, we love our Bills.
whorlnut just point some facts. Mcdermott could hired and fired whoever he wants. It's his job.
Then, it begins to be a lot of coachs who were fired under his program. A lot.
It say something at whoever wants to listen.
Hire and fire coachs until he finds the perfect one is a kind of management but i really think we're near the limit.
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20 minutes ago, Back2Buff said:
One line I can't take anymore, "We are WASTING someone as talented as Josh Allen." Allen has elite physical traits, but he does not think the game or have the preparation of an elite QB. Allen's early success was much about the schedule we played and the league playing "prove it" with Allen. Now teams know how to mentally confuse him, and he isn't capable of fixing that. Allen is part of the problem, stop acting like he isn't.
I understand and it's fair enough. But, at the end, i really think it's coaching.
Most of the teams in the NFL dream about having a QB like Allen.
When you have that kind of QB, you have to know how to coach him.
He is confused? He isnt capable of fixing that? Where's the coach???
I really think we are wasting someone as talented as Josh Allen. I really think we have an incredible horse in our stable...but nobody seems to know how to ride him in this staff. We cant be in the head of our players, but it is written in the face of our best players they dont really know what's happen there.
So many high picks and cap space on defense...If you need an average game manager as your QB for your gameplan and the way you want to play, you really waist someone as talented as Josh Allen.
Maybe i'm wrong, maybe you're right...but one thing is sure: If we change nothing, we'll never know and we will stay right where we are.
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5 hours ago, Buffalo Barbarian said:
Said he has confidence in him but things could have been better, then brings up scoring too fast when we got down to the endzone.
That tells me he is not happy with Dorsey.
I agree with Mcdermott. We should scored that TD with less than 13 seconds on the clock...
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How can he win so many yards by running the ball without being in shotgun formation?
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Two years ago, it was our ST coach...Last year, it was our DC...This year it is our OC.
Those coaches have one thing in common.
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4 minutes ago, RkFast said:
NOT wanting to fire the HC and burn the whole program to the ground right now is a "coward mentality?"
FOH. Have fun when a Rex Ryan or Chip Kelly type is the next HC here when your "big balls bravado" gets to pick the next HC.
It's all about expectations.
We'll not climb the mountain higher than that with this whole program.Some fans feel good with it and i have no problem about that.
Some others talk about taking the next step, trying to be the best.Maybee we could fell off the mountain if we try. Maybee not. Who knows?
It could be a Rex Ryan ou Chip Kelly type...and it could be the HC we need to take the next step.
One thing is sure: if we not try, we'll stay right where we are.Like i said, it's all about expectations.
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5 hours ago, HappyDays said:
McDermott was actually hired to do a different job than the one he has now. Seriously. He was hired to turn around a moribund franchise, and he succeeded with flying colors. I'll never lose my gratitude to him for moving mountains to pull us out of the drought years. Whatever consulting firm recommended him for that job, I'd happily take their recommendation again for the next one.
But now his job is to turn a very good team into a Super Bowl winner. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that the two jobs require different skill sets. Even in the corporate world there are guys that specialize in turning a flailing company around, before handing it off to a steady management team to take it the rest of the way. I think that's the stage we are at now.
Also I think this hiring process would be relatively easy. One of the richest owners in the league offering the opportunity to coach the back half of Josh Allen's career, with a couple years still left of Diggs in his prime, a budding star in Kincaid, and a defense full of older players that can easily be switched out with preferred players for the new DC's scheme. It would be the most attractive head coach opening since Denver in 2015.
The public pressure would be high to hire an offensive coach and Pegula would have his pick of the litter. I'd be shocked if it ended up a total disaster. To me the obvious answer would be Ben Johnson and I suspect that Pegula would eventually land on him as well.
If nothing else, getting some new voices in the building next year might do wonders for the malaise that everyone on the team is clearly feeling. The new regime takes Diggs in a room to vent for an hour and promises to make changes. They sit Allen down and design a system around his strengths, remind him how much fun he used to have playing QB, and he enters the offseason feeling like a man on a mission. Just totally hit the reset button with all of the drama and BS that's bubbled up over the past few years and I bet it ignites a spark in the team.
You don't think that possible outcome is worth a little risk?
Cannot be more agree.
At the end, it's all about expectations.
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I really feel we have too many -If- now.
I want to be optimist, but i dont know how it could change. We made the same mistakes week after week and everywhere i watch, i just dont know how it could change suddenly.
Those players seems to be flat...and it is written in their face they dont believe in the game plan. I really think they lost them. They are pro and they saw what we saw.
This challenge on a 9 yards gain when a TO had a huge value say something.
The hurry up offense seems to work pretty well for us? Let stop it to help the defense...
This -play to not lose- culture begin to be really boring...and nothing to help, those injuries are huge for our defense.
I hope i'm wrong. I will be there, i will root...but there's a lot of -If-, like i said. A lot!
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1 hour ago, Repulsif said:
Jags game : offense seemed completely lost
last week : offense seemed completely lost
this week : defense looked completely lost
they don't train these situations ? looked unprepared, no clue about what to do
I don't get it
It seems to be our identity: playing to not lose.
In some games every year under Mcdermott, we played to win. We didnt let the others teams came back in the game. we didnt let them breath.
But, most of the time, we played to not loose. We just stopped playing, just waiting for the clock or something like that, on defense and on offense.
This identity, bend but dont break...dont take any chance...let's hope for a mistake... clearly affect even the offense.
An average team could really have a good season with this kind of indentity.
But, there's no way a Team can take the next step by playing to not lose like that.
We will always be in most of the game. We will always be tough to beat, no doupt about it.
Then, I dont think we could win 3 or 4 games in a row against playoffs teams and real contender by playing like that, with this kind of indentity.
13 seconds and the OT in that game told us all we have to know about this identity, play to not lose.
They have to change that mind set. They have to learn to play to win. It's all on Mcdermott.
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14 minutes ago, transplantbillsfan said:
Anyone feel like Josh Allen and AJ Epenesa are the only 2 players to get on the plane along with the refs?
Devastating drops. Phantom penalties & injuries galore. Horrible play calling for the 1st handful of drives--definitely a trend for Dorsey.
Regroup and petition the NFL to never force the Bills to play the Jags in London again.
Still... 5 games down:
73.1% completion percentage
305 yards per game
105.6 Passer Rating
14 TDs
6 Turnovers
8 YPA
Not sure on this one. We have 2 entire drives against prevent defense. I'm a big fan of Allen and we're lucky to have a top QB like him. But, our offense before those drives against Prevent had only one good drive and some good plays only here and there. Our offense had the ball a lot of times with only one score behing. They didnt score.
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Somewhere around the league, a Team will need him (and pay him).
I really think a team could even try him as a WR1 if he has a good season.
For us, it will be too expensive for a WR2. No doupt about it.
It's a win-win for Davis and the Bills if he has a good season.Do we have a compensatory draft pick if another team sigh him?
The best thing for us is to find the best WR in the draft sooner than later.
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5 hours ago, Drew21PA said:
Got a French dude and Italian in the middle
(don’t know if Bernard is French j just always think French when I hear that name)
It is. Bernard is a common French First name here in Québec.
Older fans will remember Bernard Parent, the goalie of the 70's (Flyers).
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11 hours ago, bmur66 said:
I didn’t mean to give the impression that I understand or agree with “the process” but I do think that it is has been successful at putting a competitive team on the field. As I type this I am now questioning everything.
Totally agree.
We -play to not lose-. It is a good philosophy to be competitve.
Even an average team could find a way to handle a long season by playing like that.
Mcbeane did it with a real average team when we were in the playoffs for the first time since 17 years.
We willl handle that season again, i'm pretty sure. We have a good team, there's no doupt about it.
But, i just dont see now how we could beat a reel contender in playoffs by playing like that.
Even with a great 13-3 season, we were not that surprise by the way we lost our last game.
Even if we can read the stats about our defense, we were not that surprise each time they collapse when it counts the most.
At the end, the process bring us that high, being a competitive team. It's not nothing.
Then i really feel like we just cant climb higher than that.
As a long time Bills fan, i will be there, root for them week after week but i feel like i already know the end of the movie.
I really hope i am wrong about this.
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If our expectations are low, we clearly could say if Allen played just a little better than that, one less mistake, we could win that game.
It's his worst game as a Bills, we all know that.
But...it's clearly more than that. Every little thing doesnt seem to be a big deal, but the addition of them is huge.
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4 hours ago, gobills404 said:
And he allowed a lower passer rating than Dane and Benford. And he had a much lower missed tackle rate than them. And he was arguably our best defender in the playoffs. But hey at least Dane and Benford are better at playing with huge cushions!!
Agree and i'm confused. There's something we dont know i guess.
I feel like Bendford and Jackson are the safe options and they choose that.
Elam isnt built for our bend but dont break defense. He's not built for a soft defense. I understant that.
But, i really think they should let him on the field, let him make mistakes, coach him, talk to him. He isnt the safe option but he can make play.
He's the most physical CB we have by far and AFC east will run in our face, we all know that.
More he was on the field last year, better he played.
I lost faith in our soft defense. We're too fast for those Justin Field kind of QB but the best seems to score at will against us.
Letting a CB like Elam on the bench with all the attributes he has is for me an exemple of a safe and soft option.
But, hey, i'm just a fan. Like i said, there's something we dont know i guess...
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16 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:
Okay. Shakir made key plays to get us the win in BAL.
He had a great performance against PIT, including high pointing a contested catch amongst 3 defenders.
He's looked slick with the ball in his hands.
So what is going on here......why is he not being utilized more?
Did he do something to get in the doghouse? Are his practice habits not up to standard?
Thoughts?
(P.S. last time I made a thread like this about McKenzie, he followed it up with 2 very good games😁, hoping that works here too)
On one interception a couple of weeks ago, Allen threw the ball but Shakir made another route. They need more reps in practice to be on the same page. It's the problem when you have some players in this position. Beasly, at his best, just stole some first down by going exactly where the hole is. It's not easy to be at slot receiver. You have to read defense exactly like your QB read it.
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The Million-Dollar Question Sticking in My Mind
in The Stadium Wall
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Without the Offense, the Chiefs could score 40 points easily yesterday.
It wasnt perfect, they also blew it at the 2 minuts warning, but our best defense was our offense on the field and by far.
The defense did the most they can do, but a lot of offense in the NFL could score at will against them.
Thumps up to our offense to eat the clock and find a way to put some points on the board.
It wasnt not enough, but we played a playoff game against the Chiefs with too many -next man up- on defense.
It's sad because i'm pretty sure we win that game with an healty defense.