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It is absolutely 100% on coaching. We've seen this a lot from McD coached teams - they step up when they absolutely have to and have a tendency to lay eggs against bad teams (like Urban Meyer's Jags). I would hope the Miami game has jolted the team sufficiently to avoid doing this, but I really need to see consistency from week-to-week before I buy the argument that the team has turned the corner.

This is not going to be a popular take, but I agree with you that Dion has regressed this season, especially with respect to penalties. The officials have been calling '73' out a lot more often on false starts and holds than in the past, and they haven't exactly been phantom calls, either.

Exactly - 2 FGs or a TD and a missed PAT. 5 is kind of useless to be up by.

why not go for 2 there?

This season's over. I hate to say it, but they're gonna be going for a wild card at best. Sean has to go. The team just looks so poorly coached at this point.

That penalty right there is textbook for what's wrong with the coaching on this team.

They finally find the RB on third down... long time coming.

There is a time and a place for this. June is a great time and Buffalo is a great place. Smack dab in the middle of the season is a terrible time to do it.

See... you should have gotten Lasik! 😄

Dalton Kincaid is the x-factor - I think he's the guy that steps up in this situation, particularly if the middle of the field is an option and McD hasn't yet burned the timeouts on defense. I also would like to see Cook involved more in the passing game in these situations as a checkdown rather than Allen default to running. I just don't trust Coleman to make a play in these situations. Oddly Dawson Knox, for all the times early in the game that he has hands of stone, often steps up late in the game.

I'm in Kauai this week. Every other time I have been here, if I watch the game at Kalapaki Joe's, they lose. If I watch it in the hotel room, they win. You can be sure I decided to watch it at the hotel room... and it paid dividends!

Crayonz's thread back in 2008 when it was suggested we should lose to the Cardinals because it was an NFC game. That was the game that Trent Edwards got his clock cleaned on a sack and he was never the same afterwards. The "abortion" comment from Alaska Darin in the retata thread was an all time great. For all those of you who miss crayonz, I'm pretty sure 4merper4er (former performer) is his most recent incarnation.

Holy cow this. Why do we play like crap in "meaningless" games that end up biting us at the end of the season for the 1 seed?

Feels odd for sure, especially in the middle of the season with games remaining. Putting on an event like this isn't free and they want to prevent no-shows, so I can understand the cost. That said, $35 feels a bit high to me. $20 seems more appropriate maybe?

I said in another thread that I didn't see the point of firing Babich when the problem was the personnel. I think at this point, given the lack of discipline on defense - you have to fire the guy and let McD run it for the remainder of the season. Just to save face at the very least. Something has to be done.