Casey D

On the bright side, lots more free time at the holidays. No need to watch anymore.

Tonight was an outrage. Utterly inept. I have a very long fuse, but I'm out with this year.

The hope tank is on empty...

This is just so sad. There is something profoundly wrong with this team. I don't know what, but it does not matter for this year I am afraid.

Just Norman

Do you wake up in the morning and say to yourself "now what can I post on TBD that will make folks just a little bit more unhappy ?" Geez, try a little kindness to someone or something today.

https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/voice-of-the-fan-have-the-bills-reached-a-season-on-the-brink/article_8f8f793e-815d-11ee-9f8d-4fc8d9f3e96e.html I thought Kelly the Dog's excellent article in the BN should be added to this discussion.

To each his own.

DeVito stinks

There will not be 4 10 win teams in AFC that do not win a division. Book it. 10 wins and you are in.

Cute. 🙃

Wrong. Assuming you believe the NYT projections, wins over broncos jests pats and chargers-- bills have 77% chance to make playoffs. Those are games a playoff caliber team should win.

Weenies galore on this thread.

Nah.

Winning is fun. Losing sucks even worse. They play better, they will get confidence and the fun will be overflowing. If they seemed happy now, I'd be concerned.

Geez, what a hot take. Drivel from a simpleton. I wonder if he makes minimum wage for writing this s***.

Here's hoping: Bills 38 Broncos 10

Great read, thanks. And it confirms what I see, a defense that cannot get off the field and an offense under duress to perform with fewer drive starts and bad field position. Poor complementary football. Unless McDermott can scheme up a way to cover for an injury riddled defense so it is at least average, it will be hard for the offense to be superlative.

Agree. Good observations.

Agree-- but it is a combination of things that is contributing to the problems. I don't know if they can clean them all up, but if Dorsey would go up temp and simplify, make calls that are easier for the OL to block, and Josh would play within himself, it would go a long way to giving improvement IMO.

Jim Kubiak: This Bills’ offense doesn't know what it wants to be (buffalonews.com) Really good stuff here. In brief, Kubiak explains that a number of factors went into the Bills loss and offensive woes. Number 1, the Bengals did a great job of limiting the Bills possessions by draining the clock. The Bills only had 9 possessions, and that was knocked down to 7 by the two turnovers. Bills only had ball on O for 23 minutes, largely because defense could not get off the field quickly. The offense has an identity crisis. Dorsey seems to be trying to do too many different things and the Bills are not doing any of them well. Need to settle on what they do well and execute. Allen continues to make poor decisions in key situations, always in the vein of trying to do too much. He has open receivers underneath but he does not take them in hope of making a big play which can turn into disaster. Bills offensive line struggled in run blocking. Often left Bills behind the chains. Bills do better when up tempo. There is much more, so definitely worth the read.

Fair enough. But we have no say and McD is not going anywhere after one down year after taking a laughing-stock franchise and turning it into a primetime team. So I am not going to contemplate something that won't happen until 2025 at the earliest.

Like Josh McDaniels? Finding "that" coach is almost as hard as finding the right QB

Well the Chiefs were in the wilderness for 15 years, and Lewis had a much worse record than McDermott. You better have a sure-fire candidate in mind before you fire a guy with McDermott's record. Chances are you will most likely go backwards.

Elam could be a fine safety