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Well that's no surprise, McDermott can't have his OC scoring too much, too fast and keep putting his precious defense on the field.

In the eye test, the Dolphins dominated the Bills (particularly in the trenches) to roughly the same degree the Bills dominated the Chiefs a week earlier. The end results: The Dolphins smoked the Bills by 17, while the Bills needed to survive a Hail Mary (which they occasionally don't - see Arizona) Under Daboll, every play was designed to pick up a first down. McDermott hated that, since it scores too quickly. Brady is running exactly the smallball offense McDermott wants, where it's more important to grind first downs and protect the defense and not put them out there where they get gashed on the regular by anyone who just friggin runs the ball against their zones full of undersized poor tacklers. The Bills coaching staff minimizes the advantages they have on offense, just to protect an obviously incapable defense that is more directly attributable to the head coach. Is it just to protect his reputation? It's maddening. No wonder Allen looks like "***** this *****" after half these series of no-margin-for-error playcalls.

I misread the title as "Puking At Hard Rocks Stadium"

Just win the damn division and make KC play a road playoff game for the first time in a decade

Is that his problem, he lets his Kuato throw the ball?

League should step in and award both teams a loss.

It's the old Mahomes ploy of limping around so when you ***** up you blame it on an injury. Might want to at least try blocking 15 a couple of plays

The receivers don't know who Nix is throwing to. Possibly Nix doesn't know who he's throwing to.

That face by Geno is all of us still watching this mess.

Elite passer yes, not elite arm talent. It's the head talent that makes him a great passer, processing and recognition.

That's what I saw on a plurality of snaps too, Walker getting pushed downfield while the rest of the DL was collapsing things. I'm not gonna kill a 21 year old rookie 4th rounder too much for it, they've put a ton on his plate with 91 and 92 out and he's exceeded all reasonable expectation.

Ex-Bills return to OBD as predictably as Jason Voorhees to Crystal Lake this time of year.

After what happened against the Steelers I think they're trying to hold on. The got one of the best guys in the league for doing that, haha

Right, I was saying that most of the defensive timeouts, the ones in the first half, worked out because the Bills were all fubar trying to line up. That's a different thing than the 4th-and-17 which was the more "classic" McD defensive TO variety where he wanted to see the formation and then adjust the defense, which mostly just lets the offense get on their best play and on the same page and it's usually not the thing they were gonna run the first time, so it gives a bigger advantage to the offense than the defense. As it was a late timeout we saw enough of the original 4th down play in motion to show enough that it would have been a dead desperation heave.

Ok. But the eye-test matched the stat-test which says the Bills were easily the better team, but neither lined up with the scoreboard which said the Bills were only just the better team (1-score game). My perception is that for once it wasn't the refs throwing the lifeline to the Chiefs to keep them in it (well, a little bit early) as much as the Bills game management, which is on the head coach. On the whole most of the infamous defensive timeouts worked out, but I simply LOATHE giving an opponent's offense time to settle themselves and come up with their best play - and when it's the Chiefs it's egregious. Time pressure leads to poorer decisions, and Reid doesn't need any unnecessary advantages.

More specifically the game-day head coaching game management decisions, which to be fair McDermott has gotten better at but yesterday's effort was poor. Game Management involves making decisions which help maximize your team's chance of winning. For instance the failed 4th down at midfield was one where the risk far outweighed the reward even if it had succeeded. It seemed to be a nod toward the trend of "go for it YEAH i got cojones!!!@" lately in the league; that pendulum may have overswung. The timeout on 4th and 17 speaks to "I don't trust my game week coaching without micromanaging this down." This wasn't an obvious fustercluck like those 1st half TO's were. The play that was aborted by the timeout, Mahomes was under instant pressure because his line was gassed and discombobulated and he had to chuck n' duck, that play was DOA. But thanks to the timeout they get into a much better play, the Bills inexplicably put on a eunuch pass rush on the down and they convert. The FG attempt as well, a punt even through the end zone leaves them at best < :20 and a 20-ball needing a TD. That's a whole lot less threatening than the Chiefs 42. There has to be charts, stats, analytics showing this stuff. You don't need to be a legendary HOF gameday coach but jeez, just be average or get someone who understands this stuff into your headset.

I was thinking more along the line of lipids

He spent some time in the offseason transforming his body from a sinker to a floater...

Seattle sees that and throws Drew Lock in the game. Smort.

Auuuughhhh Daniels just Skatteboed his arm

Me watching Tory Horton in the SNF game