Ralonzo

I don’t wonder.

It was less clearly a fumble than the tackle of Sherfield was PI, the block-in-the-back on the punt return, the PHI RG not being set on the first TD, the horsecollar on Allen being a PF, etc etc etc.

If Allen is being tarred with "not being clutch" how many more times does he need to walk off the field where his last play gives his team the lead, only to have the team lose? The fact he doesn't play defense makes him non-clutch? GTFOH

It could have been: 1) Down by contact which helps the Eagles. But the replay where the ball was away before Josh being down by contact put the kibosh on that. Which left: 2) Fumble by Josh, recovered by Davis who was the receiver in the area. Plausible, but helps the Bills. 3) Incomplete by Josh, picked up by Davis who was the receiver in the area. Probably correct, but also helps the Bills. 4) Intentional grounding, despite being picked up by Davis who was a receiver in the area, and the throw being affected by being horsecollared to the ground. Laughable and totally wrong, but helps the Eagles. So I wasn't remotely surprised by #4, because you can't be a league that's above suspicion with betting app ads all over your stadiums and broadcasts.

There's that and the inexplicable need for a coach that is perhaps the worst game manager in the NFL bringing every possible game down to the final drive where his ineptitude is disproportionately magnified.

We don't even have to be down a LB if someone would realize Son Of Dod is a liability that opposing coaches that don't suck (i.e. Philly) will exploit when he's in.

q: How to win? a: Get away from losers

We were having a pretty fun MST3K of his convo with AJ Brown after the game "Can you believe the idiot coaches i got? I was telling you, now you believe me? Yeah, that's what all that offseason heat was about. You think you guys would be up for trading for me after the season? I'd love to have a chance at winning a Super Bowl without a bunch of ****ing idiot coaches that should be hitting a brunch in Branson MO keep ****ing me over"

Is that you deflecting blame again Sean?

I personally enjoyed the face mask on the Bills punt return called during the commercial break, that was funny. But just on it's own, it would not be as indicative of how "flags for thee but none for me" slanted it was without the flagrant block in the back by the Eagles springing their return guy.

Everyone in the comments thinks that's Shaq Lawson. I guess Philly fans are not just the worst in sports, but also the dumbest.

His team is 7-4. As Bill Parcells says, you are what your record says you are. Their roster is patchwork, their offense is an eminently resistable force, their defense gets pushed around. They finally outgained a hapless opponent in Week 12 for the FIRST time this year, but the refs love them and their record says they are 3 games over .500. McDermott has a top-of-the-league caliber roster with depth that can replace even the devastating injuries the defensive side of the ball sustained (mostly in an ill-advised trip to the land of boiled beef and rotting teeth to face a waiting foe like Falkirk). Sadly he is the sort of coach who can take a roster devoid of talent and challenge for a wildcard spot just as easily as taking an elite roster and challenging for a wildcard spot. He is entropy personified, his staff the claws of the crab bucket pulling the superior achievers from the crest back to the mediocre mass... everybody got to elevate to the norm.

Clappy carried a lot of water for the franchise. I'm not flipping out unreasonably for a botch or two. This is maybe a dozen games now where basically, all the gameday coach has to do is: not ***** everything up. But he keeps doing it, over and over, losing to bums, getting embarrassed by his opposing number. i could see a scenario where the Bills playing like they did today go 4-0 in the next month winning impressively every week, and get themselves to a win-and-in in Miami, beat their asses up and down the field, and somehow this dipstick will find a way to lose in the last minute to end the season. I sound like a broken record saying this for the past couple of years, but I think it's becoming obvious to EVERYONE now that McDermott is a coach that will do exactly what is required to lose the game: no more, and no less. I have no more slack to give him. This is who he is. If you need the Bills to win "one before you die" sooner than later, you need him gone sooner than later.

50. But 75 on the old and grouchy scale.

First thing my Steelers-fan friend said "that's 8 games in a row he throws a pick, he lost that game" We almost came to blows, seriously. He knows jack and ***** about football, that was all about the Eagles coaches recognizing a Bills formation/pattern tendency and running a robber with their boundary corner jumping a slot route. If Allen had saw that instead of throwing the rhythm pass as coached, that's probably a walk-in score since the outside man was completely unmarked. Trying to explain that fact simply escalated the situation and it degenerated from there. We grunted at each other leaving the watch party... and this after me getting him a nice bottle of scotch for a significant milestone birthday.

is a 60-yarder possible in those conditions without having the wind? Would that kick even have been an option in the other direction? Let alone the Hail Murray Jr touchdown? McDermott had had 5 years of his process to get better every day, and he still makes these moron mistakes. Can he not find a 13-year-old Madden champion to run gameday strategy for him, since he's so overmatched using that rasslin brain of his?

They could easily do exactly that except coach mcvanity wants his defense to be the reason they win and scoring in 90 seconds and putting the defense back out is just too much physical exertion for his golden boys and kills their stats

One other thing. it looked like there was a breeze from right to left on your TV screen all game. Eagles defer, that's fine. Seemed like Bills were against the wind in the second quarter, whatever. They got the ball, Eagles pick which end to defend. Similar for overtime, Bills took the ball, Eagles chose to drive right-to-left with the wind. In the second half though... how in the world are the Bills not driving from right-to-left in the fourth quarter given the choice of which end to defend, which they HAD to have had in the second half post-deferral? What I saw from the rain in that stadium was definitely slanting right-to-left. Why did the Eagles have the wind in the second quarter, fourth quarter, AND overtime????

I'm ok with Brady so far, but right now it's not scheme that's moving the offense, it's the generational talent under center. The offense is still fundamentally broken in the pass game until the scramble drill, where it's the most dangerous offense in history. The way they can currently run the ball and the man they have at the trigger, it should be an upset when they do get stopped, like it was in 2020 when the punter was basically baking muffins all game.

That INT was 100% schemed up by the Eagles coaches. Brilliant call. Josh did exactly what he was coached to do. Brady's play calling is SIGNIFICANTLY better than Dorsey, but overall it's still the same offense with the same sight-adjustments that get screwed up and which keeps putting 2 and 3 receivers where you can throw a Harbor Freight free-with-coupon tarpaulin over them. I did like that the Bills dialed up a couple of those deep-overs they murdered the league with in 2019 and 2020. Of course it reminded Philly that they could do that too especially running them into Ras al-Ghul's zone where he doesn't expect anyone coming over from the middle of the field, and they hit that twice for big chunks.

Every game McDermott has lost this year he has been the single biggest factor. Hell, he tried to lose the Giants game with his awesome amazing defense and probably would have with Homonculi's crew, they sure woulda threw that flag. I think Mac Jones has been pulled from every game he's played since McDummy let him march a game winning drive.

That's ok, I got plenty. That second half was the Bills coaching staff getting pantsed by the Eagles coaching staff who can actually adapt and craft plays to attack the Bills strategy of "we do what we do" The Bills gameplan for the week was excellent I thought, save for the remnant 3rd-and-short shotgun draws. They kicked the crap out out Philly the entire first half and somehow (mainly refs) led by only 10. But the second half... oh the second half. There's at least a half dozen plays that were 100% scheme success by the Eagles coaches - mainly on offense but including the robber gamble on the INT probably dictated by the Bills tendencies and throttling of Josh to take the short throws. The outside corner completely abandoned his coverage based on the the formation and patterns, because as was said last season they "knew where the ball was going." That said, a lot of what the Bills did, the Eagles - a 9-1 Super Bowl team - had no answer for. When the Bills needed to throw, they threw. When they needed to run, they ran. If by some miracle they get into the playoffs and literally anyone makes gameday coaching decisions besides McDumdum they could easily go 7-seed-to-SB, but methinks they'll be tanked by the brass somewhere on the way. It takes an unbelievably bad head coach with a pathological need for his special unit - the defense - to be the star of the show even when he's getting killed by 2nd half adjustments. The concept of EV (expected value) or expected points per play, whatever - it's not a surprise the Bills are near the top in this category on Offense and Defense. if you look at the straight up numbers, they should be anywhere from 11-1 to 8-4 at the VERY worst. It's amazing they're top 5 in every stat that matters except win, where they're 10th... in the CONFERENCE. The problem is coaching, and coaching decisions. Almost everything McDummy on game day does puts his thumb on the scale the wrong way. A game that plays out like today's game, the Bills win probably 8 out of 10 times. But McDummy takes away a couple percent here, a couple percent there with game time decisions every game, and continues running his scheme out like an invincible idiot once it's solved. Everyone knows McDummy is going to dial up pressure in key situation so have your blitz beaters ready, and the got beat over and over on the most critical, game-altering downs in the 2nd half. It's unconscionable at this point that a franchise with a cheat code at the most critical position in sports can lose the games they've lost, in the way they've lost them, for 3 ***** years now. This is not an aberration; this is who McDummy is. He'd rather lose on the last play than win by 30 because "muh complementary football." It's time for him to go after he bumbles and mucks his way to an 8-9 season in the absolute prime of an unprecedented talent at QB, which is nigh impossible except for an arch-fool at the helm. Pass the strawberries.

***** off to the unemployment line McDummy with your 0 bli5zes that I’m sure nobody saw coming