colin

We haven't gotten a shadow of pressure today. When we play a team who can block our d just hopes they make a mistake

We can't run or stop it, just a sad sad first half

If we give up 30 points in the half vs the rams I think the discussion on our d is done

Dts and linebackers are the start of the problems. They just can't win their match ups. Huge gaping avenue in thengut regularly

This d really sucks

Bad

Some luck, and Josh is magic, but our run d and Dts have been pure cheeks,

Bills 41 Rams 27 (10-14 of it after the game is all but over, our back ups get more burn) Cook breaks a couple, bills add with long drives in the first half and the rams d gasses out.

ive grown to accept our scheme will allow runs in the middle of the pitch. the hill i will die on is that mcd/our dc's have choked in the playoffs. being conservative to a fault and then panicking by being aggressive past the point of reason by making desperate measures (remember the hamlin fake punt? i don't think that even worked in practice). running what we run but making the adjustments and adding the wrinkles that mcd has done in the past at times is what he needs to do in the playoffs. even if we are banged up again on d, making it hard and forcing a couple punts or turnovers is the minimum standard that i'll accept on the d no matter who it is facing. if smoot, carter, and milano are 100% G2G and we aren't a mash unit anywhere else that will be my expectation.

It's just this simple. He's a defensive guy, that's his claim to fame, and 100% of the reason why he was ever in the running as a HC. He never won as a DC. philly got rolled by the pats in the super bowl (was he even the dc then, or just on the staff?) and Carolina lost to denver, but TBH his d was pretty awesome and cam newton imploded. either way, the offense, outside of the 2020 game when our offensive line roster was: 71 Ryan Bates T 65 Ike Boettger G 73 Dion Dawkins T 68 Jordan Devey G 76 Jon Feliciano G 60 Mitch Morse C 77 Ty Nsekhe T 75 Daryl Williams T 66 Brian Winters G our D has been consistently bad vs the run, our O has balled out (cinci perhaps being the exception). the biggest thing, as mikie made clear so many times, is that we went from a statistically very good or great d to just getting trucked, our d having been essentially solved and not even threatening teams to punt. 13 seconds in particular was clearly a coaching loss. last year hosting kc the punted one single time when dorian saw the pitch instead of a man that no other nfl team even bothered to employ all season. the evidence shows that our d underperforms in the playoffs, and while the os are better and the injuries count, the differences in measurable performance are too great for it to be just that (particularly when we bet kc 3 years in a row in kc in the regs). mcd has been chocking in the playoffs as a coach. all of that can totally change if he just does his best work this season and wins a championship. our d is not as great in the regular season as it has been, but ok linebacker play, really good corner play, and solid DL play (pass much more so than run) is enough for them to maybe force kc to punt about as many times as they did when they visited us a couple weeks back. on O, we have what is a legit top 10 or even top 5 OL, two TEs who can start, some actual NFL WRs, a three headed monster at rb, and the greatest qb to ever lace em up for the buffalo bills organization. someone made a point somewhere about tom coughlin. coughlin had wonder teams with the jags, went 14-2 and lost to the titans in the playoffs at home after a bye week (the only team they lost to that season, imagine that!), and then was up and down at the giants. he flipped a switch and basically played god father coach to team with literal maniacs at OC and DC, playing aggressive green light football and never being intimidated. the bills have a team that can do their own version of that this season, and if mcd jumps over that hurdle he will legit be in the conversation for being an all time great coach. if he returns to poor postseason form, then he's just the modern shottenheimer, who never had a qb who could sniff allen's jock.

the rams play fast and aggressive on both sides of the ball. i could see them jumping gaps hard with a lot of bodies near the line, and cook breaking one or two for massive gains. i don't know what the stats are, but it seems like when we have an ideal CJ spiller type of game from cook, like 15 touches 120ish yards and a score, we just either have penalties and and drops and stuff or we walk into the end zone on each drive. the 49er game felt like that. the moment cook broke the big one, you could see the air go out of the sf d, because they knew their scheme was just not going to work vs a hot bills O. allen had like 22 total plays or something, and still produced. it has got to be demoralizing to spend all week keyed on not letting allen role right, simulating pressure, putting in a spy one some plays, disrupting routes to impact timing, and planning to run down allen all the time just to see some heavy jumbo formation lead to a casual home run off of an inside zone run. it's like losing the jab game to mike tyson in his prime, and you know power punches are still gonna be coming.

lol, thanks! TBH, when being analytical I think i have a reasonable take on the team, but I black pill like a psycho during games when we make the same errors we've made before. and I think i wrote that post mainly to type "barely licked the stamp on his mailed in performance" about saffold. I have honestly never seen a top NFL field an OG who played with less effort than he did in my life.

I've got a toe in option 2, and 9 others in option 4. if we go far in the playoffs, and don't just have defensive blunders and poor preparation, then I'll prolly fall fully into camp 2. If we win a chip, then my theory (that he doesn't have the chops to beat the best in the playoffs) will be disproven by the evidence (a Lombardi trophy and history naming bills as the champion of 2024/2025 for all to see forever) and I will say it would take massive and consistent failure for me to want him removed, if ever.

these women are skilled professionals (i define that as a person who shows a high level of ability to do something that gets them paid) at roping these guys in. I get why and how they do it. what makes me chortle is how the guys keep falling for it. it's like seeing a guy with a fold out card table on the street playing 3 card monte. if you've ever played it or have seen a video on someone who's good at it, they will absolutely take your money and you will lose. at best you have a 1/3 shot, but they are skilled at tricking your eye, and they can move the card where they want tricking you into thinking it is in another place, or they can use slight of hand and just basically cheat you and you'll never see it. the way to not lose is to not play.

lol, it always makes me laugh how these rich famous guys get roped up w the same women. she's got kids from a few different pro athletes, tyrod bought her a house? makes me think of bezos, he blew up his marriage, cost him like 40bln or some such, and he did it to get with his neighbors wife. it's all like spider's catching flies.

I agree, but counterpart is Baltimore is a solid run d and awful pass d, and they are our lunch by being big and so so dirty on d. On paper Philly and Detroit can run on us, and can frustrate us up front on d. I think we beat Philly because hurts is just not that sharp IMO, Detroit I think can roll on is like McCaffery was doing last night for a bit, or they can implode and we walk the game away from them (just like SF last night after our second possession and there out).

milano didn't look good, but no one really did on D for either team, it was a ridiculous drunk game. Warner is the best LB in the NFL by many accounts, and he wasn't able to do jack on the josh allen TD run. there was no footing for anyone besides james cook.

it would be absolutely hilarious if we won the chip but hamlin was the only pro bowler on the team!

I think detroit is better on O, but their d is really risk taking. they were stomping chicago but almost let them come back to win it. they kinda remind me of the rams teams for like 7 or so years ago. tons of stars, look great when they execute, but when things go off script, they seem to fall apart a bit. losing their best defensive player hurts as well. Philly is playing great right now, but I think Hurts kinda limits them offensively. he just looks really slow to process for me. I'd be much more confident playing philly in the super bowl than KC or baltimore in the playoffs.

It was a drunken mess of a game, the bills prepared by pounding bowling ball shots and slamming genny creams, SF prepped with effete cocktail parties sipping nerd sauce like Soylent.

Now they throw the flags on kicks? Jerk offs

That was close, I honestly thought they were gonna punt there

The football gods are punishing me for saying we are basically a dome team. I'll allow it

Honestly, JA17 is a guy I watch and say bull SH like used to say watching Barry Sanders. It just shouldn't happen, but it always does

7 didn't see the snap on that 4th diwn