colin

Their d will look strong vs our silly o, but will make plays, their o is a dumpster fire and they commit so many penalties that we might win a close one

I've often thought and prolly commented that the bills play down to their competition. That's really not been true for like 3 years. They obliterate cream puffs, and rest starters late in those games, or at least one phase turns into a pumpkin vs tough teams. When we look at just this season, the d was cheeks vs zona and so we're the special teams, but Josh Allen became magic and we beat a bad team. Miami was a story of our d lighting them up because similar to us they are a one trick pony, and we played efficiently on O. The jags are a dumpster fire and that showed when we played them. Baltimore is exactly the kind of team we lose to and look weak doing so, even when the game is close like it was in the playoffs last yr vs KC. Physical and dirty on d, talent on O. We take away the deep pass always, even vs teams that won't even try them, and hope our small slow zero talent lb and safety squad can slow down the run. We also love getting misdirected. On o, we don't have anything on the outside and like to just not involve cook and kinkaid, our only talented weapons, and nothing excites is more than having no answer for blitzes and stunts. How did we not have any screens or quick outs to tes and rbs all night? Why did cook come off the field on running downs? Our coaches think they are smarter than the rest of the NFL, and they are not, they just do great smashing the trash

I actually think he's more like the fat guy in Dallas when he was in GB w Rogers. A QB who shoulda won 4 only got 1. That team was better built than ours tho. They never had Hamlin and Lewis as starters in games in multiple years. Also, even that fat slug would have kept running cook when it was working

We gave up what to KC in the playoffs, 7.7? Exact same thing. Lack of talent in the gut and a scheme that gives good teams and ez mode win. There is never a question of what will the bills do on d, its always the same and the blueprint is etched in stone.

It really is coaching. We are built small, so a bully like Baltimore is gonna beat us more often than not. Our coaches really make sure we cant win by being just so easy to read. If the bills don't dial up the right exact call on d (playing rock paper scissors) then schematically what will beat us is just too obvious. Misdirection, power runs, and anything that finds the hole in the zone is always gonna be there. On top of that our zero talent middle of the d is very welcoming of big runs and yards after catching. On the other side, our wrs don't match up, so they need longer to get sched open vs talented and physical ds, and our oline (and QB, josh is pretty awful at reading where the pressure is coming from pre snap vs aggressive ds) just simply cannot pick up blitzes or handle stunts. This game looked just like the cinci playoff game. They knew what they were gonna do, back up linemen on o were just gonna blast forward and they used quick misdirection to bait the dl up the field and have our tiny back 7 get out of position early and it was a wrap. The whole MO of a mcd team is to have the d frustrate the opponent who will then make mistakes and just give the o enough possessions for super josh to invent points out of thin air on broken plays. He's so bull headed that he can't dial up a different way to slow down and opponent. It works great vs crappy qbs and coaches, but as soon as a team has some ability to scheme (coaches and players alike) he has no answers. If we didn't allow the big run to start the game and had better execution on O then this loss would have looked like our KC playoffs loss last year -- we get steamrolled constantly and Josh has enough magic to make it interesting leading to the awful play of our kicker losing the game instead of just being sad. We are a poor man's version of the packers of the 2010s -- HOF QB who can do it all and an unconfident team built to dominate bad teams but simply cannot deliver vs a talented and well coached opponent.

The bad to me is our front office. We have bad players who are a scheme fit on D, and mcclap simply can it adapt. He'll play Hamlin or AJ klien over people they started high because he thinks his scheme is rocketry and should never be changed. Baltimore is a well coached team and they saw what we tend to do and prepared a way to beat it and of course our brain trust has no answers. We were gonna lose this game w our trash guys on d and smoke a d mirror o not working vs actual talent, but mclap and go made extra certain we'd never have a chance. The trick play was just the exclamation point.

The ravens identified what works vs us and did it, our coaches decided "I'm much smarter than the rest of the NFL, I'll just do what I do instead of what might actually work and have rapp and possibly worst safety in the NFL Hamlin play a nice shell and bite on misdirection". And the offensive play calling was worse!

Even if he's not ready for the exact scheme mcclap is sexually stimulated by (guy has a nickel fetish), why not make adjustments to get your best players on the field in a position to win? Like Williams not playing over AJ flipping Kline vs kc. Literally taking a husk of a slow guy to lose the way he wants rather than chance winning w some differences. Reid was right to fire his azz

He had a good rook year but he's a few more games like this from being a bust right now. Sloppy fat body and a weak mind aren't a great combo

Coaching sucks, blocking sucks, and we start more familiar players and run our idiot scheme instead of trying to win. How is it this staff just can have the d do anything different ever? All those picks and all that money and they decided Hamlin is an NFL player, and our deep safety Nicole was gonna stop Baltimore

Ya, agree. I see these insane calls as a strange form of cowardice. Same as having rapp Lewis and Hamlin start. Instead of taking the risk of changing from the familiar, mcclap puts in trash players so he doesn't have to change his fragile scheme. On o, instead of adapting to what hurts the ravens, they run the trash we saw in the first half, and when it gets better they make this idiotic call. It shows a lack of confidence and ability to adapt, instead just throwing it up against the wall and seeing if it sticks. Low IQ front office.

I 100% agree, but the fact that we can all tell that confirms to me this team is just smoke and mirrors and too precious. Personnel and coaching decisions just remove the resilience from the team. There is no reason for us coming out with soft front vs Baltimore, or not having any solutions on o. Baltimore sucks protecting the edges on passing and can't cover tight ends, they maul up front Their o won't pass outside, they use misdirection every other play So we come out doing "what we do" like a one note band. Billicheck would never just set his guys up to fail like that, having rapp and Hamlin fail miserably while executing this trash. The trick play was the icing on the s h eye t cake they baked for us.

Terrible coaching and the oline took the night off. I just can't get over that trick play and how mcclap has Hamlin and rapp in with bishop and other dude on the bench (Ingram?). Reminds me of Peterman over josh, cook not getting burn, Milano taking a while to start, and Williams being benched in favor of flipping AJ klien's corpse rotting in the divisional round. He has this mentality that consistently leads to slow small and weak guys playing over better players.

This is not a good football team in the traditional sense. This is the goat QB with a total rag tag set of weapons, a decent RB and te, two good tackles and 3 interior barely jags. On d Hamlin, Lewis, rapp, Spector, and our Dt not named Ed are liabilities, and the rest arent too far above average.

Called w then at goal to go as well, down 18. Clown clapper

Garbage heap front office and coaching man. This team is way too precious. McDermott runs this my way or the highway d, any mistakes or rookies or injuries and it's a boat race. No different looks, no change up, nothing. They only way we win is if Allen just catches lightning like rogers did under his moron coach in green bay.

Bass stinks.

Too little too late. Our talent is not where it needs to be, but our coaching has shown so much more weakness. Josh Allen is a super nova of ability being wasted by a cowardly front office. Sad

Honestly, that feels like a 14 points swing. I know we weren't close to the ez, but an all time awful call

Down two scores and finally showing life and they come off a first s that trash

I'm so mad at our coaches. Flipping idiots

Gadget bs and we lose the ball and Allen is down

Not out the woods by a long shot but lfg

FavrElway,which is what I called him when we drafted him. Never seen anything like it

Love the confidence!