Coach Tuesday

12 men on the field Coach!

This is probably the most shameful performance of the McDermott era. Love the guy, but he didn’t have them ready today.

They have zero answers. Zero.

Wasn’t the first down run - it was the first down run snapped with two seconds left on the play clock after Josh had to move the receivers to the other side of the formation. Signaled it would be a run to that side. Receivers know where to line up on passing downs. Offense is just not well organized.

The Bills need a new left tackle.

Folks here love to complain about media bias - Mike Brown and Zac Taylor have been media laughingstocks for awhile now, but they’ve been running circles around the Bills’ highly-touted front office and coaching staff.

Neither of these coordinators is getting fired don’t waste the bandwidth asking for it.

TURTLE

No answer for anything they’re doing.

Pretty much game over. Not gonna block upfront and not gonna defend anything.

Just not gonna defend this offense.

Brutal showing

Looking like Bengals gonna do whatever they want today.

Saffold missed his block, shocking. 2.5 drives this year and I have yet to see Frazier’s D put up ANY resistance to what the Bengals want to do on offense. Zero.

With Cincy having an injured oline that would be epically dumb.

Disappointing pregame thread, 70 pages of you guys chasing a rooster around a pen. STAY FOCUSED PEOPLE!

Perfect time to visit my buddy in London.

Yup that was a monster play that didn’t happen. You want Allen to start to feel those outlets. Teams basically give those throws to the Bills because they know Allen will likely ignore them. There HAS to be a balance between easy first downs and keeping the threat of the long ball.

Nitpicking but Williams is not athletic, he had an RAS of like 2.5 I believe. Another human door hinge. SOMEONE is targeting these guys. It’s so odd. Teller was an athletic pulling guard and they got rid of him for more plodders. If McD is trying to run outside zone, who the hell is writing these grocery lists?

I do not understand how Brown logged that RAS score during the predraft process. I mean, I don't dispute that he achieved it, but when you watch him play his feet are heavy and slow. He is an enigma to me - he does not play his position like a high-level athlete.

They lack athletic linemen to execute those plays. Morse is the only one who can move around in space well. The rest of the o-line are plodders and maulers. It's a symptom of competing goals - McD wants to be able to power-run and they've brought on bigger linemen throughout Beane's tenure. But that's not a scheme that meshes well with what Josh is able to do.

So apparently the play was designed to go to Knox, with some good underneath options if Knox wasn't available. That's all per the Twitterverse so who knows but it sounds right. Brown apparently was running a clearout route, which would explain why he did not expect the ball. If that's all true, I'm not sure what Dorsey is supposed to do. He can't keep all the routes short because that will crowd the backfield. Allen simply refuses to play within the structure of the offense despite it hurting the team multiple times this season. He gives the obligatory "I made some bad decisions and I'll learn from it" quip at the end of the game but the words ring hollow at this point - he's just not yet a grownup. I love the guy, he's my favorite athlete to root for, ever, but he is not a grownup. As I said elsewhere, it may take him having to stew an entire offseason about throwing away a playoff game for him to change his ways. Last year's AFCCG was the opposite - the hero ball worked, the post-season narrative was all about how if Josh got the ball back, he would've scored again - the NFL even changed the rules to make sure Josh will get the ball back next time. If anything it added kerosene to the fire. At this point I just don't know what will get him to change. Whatever it is, Dorsey isn't up to it - he treats Dorsey like a substitute teacher.

Yes - he and Oliver limited the Dolphins' running backs to like 1.5 YPC while they were in there.

Beasley’s TD was a blatant illegal pick by Diggs.

Sometimes I think weird officiating sets the tone in games like this - the intensity is high to begin with, and when you’ve got no law and order (or arbitrary/inconsistent law and order) it can become chaotic quickly and that might be what happened. Not blaming officials for the outcome but I think the weird officiating made everything else weird. It was like a 4-hour unsupervised kids’ birthday party in a trampoline park.