colin

that gal 12 claws deep has more clarity and heart than half the team and any of the coaches. the cover 1 podcast that came out last night gave great breakdowns -- on O our blocking and schemes weren't good, on D it's teh same thing every playoff, we go from a bit too simple but competent to way to many checks in coverage and still to simply up front. the bigger issue is we came out flat, tired, dead, and unprepared. same as we have since the hamlin injury. this team, coaching staff, whatever was looking for a reason to run for the bus either prior to the cancelled game or the moment hamlin went down. players being tired and having one less practice the week of a playoff game is quite simply not what any winning team has ever done. as far as i can tell milano, diggs, and maybe josh too were the only players who showed up vs cinci.

cover 1 had a podcast that came out yesterday that i watched today (on youtube, can't link it from this machine). anyhow, they broke down how the coverage checks are too multiple and complicated (even said it was like rex's old D) but the upfront calls are too basic and simple during the playoffs. this is why they would clear out the box and run at our nickle back, and why they picked up all the pass rushers. we simply had no schematic solution. our talent was thin too, obv, and we've missed horribly on too many draft picks, but the fact taht daquan jones being out was such a fall off shows me that there are simple solutions, jones wasn't some rare find or super expensive guy, he's just a quality DT who gets mucky.

von millers was 100x bigger. allens' was big, it seems to ahve changed his confidence, and that hurt the whole team. in all honestly, it was hamlin's. aside from it being a life and death situation, the team hasn't had any heart since. maybe a motivated bills team gets beaten in cinci and then in the playoffs goes back there and wins, or at least doesn't put up the gutless stinker we did. also keep in mind we had bad sloppy gaves vs NE and miami, at home.

i think we have to let edmunds and poyer walk. i think tre white, edmunds, poyer and hyde will all be gone after next season. we can't pay players who aren't difference makers

this team has quite on clappy every year, it's just a question of when, and for how long. this year it was the latest in the year we've had a quit, but it was also for the longest and at the worst possible time. NE they beat on emotion and hines, miami they beat because of skylar, cinci won the game about an hour and a half before kick off. skipping the practice the day before is a white flag and it showed.

the team and the coaches took jan 2nd off because of the damar hamlin injury and will be going to back to work right around the start of mini camps. not practicing, players wanting nap time and a safe space, guys out of position, low energy. diggs and milano are right to be disgusted. i totally over rated this team. at our best we probably weren't gonna be good enough, but coming in TAKING DAYS OFF and moping is such a horrible spot on the coaches im surprised the national media aren't running with it.

fellow south jersey bruv, this is the biggest head scratcher to me in 2018 we slapped together a rag tag d squad while deep in cap jail, and they were 2nd in the nfl on d. trash bags like star and that LB we signed from washington who had no knees left. houghs on his last legs (decent) rook edmunds, young young milano, tre was decent, and we had our safeties, but also levi wallace. it honestly seems to me like the joy of the 1 of 11 mcd/frazier d scheme is it can run well if everyone does their job w not superior talent. it's pretty clear that with more investment we don't get better results (save the obvious impact of a top pass rusher), so that's where we should look to save, if anywhere. of course, that means we dump millions and tons of picks into the line where guys don't paly more than 40% of the snaps in a game, but have scrubs and fat bodies on the OL.

i honestly think the optimal move would be to replace the whole FO with better people right now. i don't think that's in the cards, and probably not even possible. next best would be to keep the non coaching FO, and ditch the coaches. again, i think mcclaps is the boss at one bills drive and no shot they can him. next ideal would be to keep mcclap, fore both OC and DC and bring in someone good (reich, roman?) and either have mcd run the d or bring in a new DC. I don't think a HC stays and fires everyone else. so it kinda leaves us with the perfect scape goat play, mcd fires frazier and keeps dorsey (dorsey might deserve another chance, i dunno). now, the worst possible outcome, because it would be so cowardly, is not standing pat, it is firing the OC and keeping frazier. that's what rex ryan did when he fired roman after we lost to the jets in an absolute shoot out.

we heard from saffold, and it was implied by diggs and millano's comments, that our players skipped a practice day and didn't really want to play. dorsey went to NC was it on saturday to interview? we can see from the formations and plays called that the coaches didn't really want to coach either. i really wasn't thinking we should fire everyone before, but given that motivation preparation and play calls all come from the coaches, i think there must 100% be some dramatic changes in coaching and perhaps a full one (but that i do not expect at all).

our coaches are arrogant in their schemes and arrogant in who gets burn. they platoon linemen, will play star over like phillips back in the day for no good reason, it takes months for our 1st round corner to get burn over absolute scrubs and x rhodes for some reason, cook had to ride the pine because he fumbled his first snap, we were starting friggen peterman over 1st round allen, we did some goofy rotation thing at right tackle w cody ford and that old guy we signed. like, then we brought back 4 cast offs this season, when we were supposed to be in teh super bowl, 2 on DL where we put in so many picks and fa money!!! the other two on wr, for our top flight qb. how is a young guy gonna work his way onto this team? i don't think they are given a chance as much as they should, and it results in us blowing money on jag role players who fit the scheme.

whoever hung that cowboys football pennant thing on the wall gets full marks, barely moved!

you come across as spiteful and somewhat unhinged at times, but you are 100% bang on with this one Arthur. the team is soft from the head down. we are too emotional as a team, and it takes a toll that we can't cover. last year when indy was blowing us out the building in a light rain at home, i thought they must have a solid DL and a great OL, as they brought us near defeat in allen's first home playoff game the year before, and they do have some talent, but the got ground down last season and this season by teams we beat. what it was is they played hard and fast and targeted the weakness of our team and it got no response from our coaches and our guys could see that and basically quit. it happened the season prior vs Tenn, and KC. it happened the year before that against philly in a windy playoff game, and now it just happened w the bengals. from what i can see, diggs and milano were the only players (i'll except allen as he's our whole freaking team) to like call out that the team was not playing w energy. this team didn't want to be in the playoffs last night, and it showed, and our coaches have to wear that as much as the 13 second debacle last season.

well, i did type that we need OL talent, and fast, but i honestly think our scheme and planning is the biggest issue. cinci didn't have better OL talent than us yesterday w the scrubs lining up, but they beat us because they were confident, prepared, and had a plan to attack us. our team was emotionally spent, didn't practice enough during the week, and had a foolish dumb plan that didn't adjust at all for what cinci was doing nor for the weather. line talent is needed big time, but our scheme upfront has to change on both sides of the ball or we will get a similar exit next year.

it was 100% a bad call. if not just specifically that incident, the way the whole thing was handled by our team and coaching staff had the squad drained and dead, saffold is on tape admitting as much. the over social media coverage, the strange kyle brandt josh allen/buffalo love affair, they national outpouring. all of it ended up being a distraction and the team and the coaches were fully unprepared (didn't they practice less for this game?). low energy at a home divisional game is totally unacceptable.

I agree with the bit about our O getting schemed and us not doing jack about it. i disagree on the D side tho. i think that has been known for ever. since McD got here we have been trucked in a game by a physical team every year, where they basically had the game won on the first drive and no coaches made any changes to adjust against it. the only way we've been able to beat that is to play rock paper scissors early to stop them in their tracks (we did that vs tenn this season) and then go out and get a lead to put pressure to stop the run. to me it's arrogant and lazy as a coaching staff, because they want to be able to just sit on one stupid package on D, yet they constantly sub out D line and even CBs, but they never come up w an answer up front. my only like hopeful suspicion: we know mcclap has taken over calling defensive plays for frazier in the past, i think he did it last year vs NE when the D got a bit more aggressive in that windy game. im hoping he's seen enough and actually has some talent as a DC for us.

agree, the fact that our guys are platooned, we've put so much money and so many picks into it, and they get figured out snap 1 and never adjust tells me they are not put in a position to win vs good teams. we need more size and power obv, but getting ultra trucked every year w different lineups is not a pure player issue.

IMO it's more coaching and scheme than talent, because cinci had a not great line and it got hurt and they put out a trash heap and dominated our trash DL. we obv do need talent, lots of it and fast, but the coaching and the scheme is a bigger and more fixable thing IMO

our defensive coach is a corpse of a turtle of a man.

yes, we lose the chip game after sneaking one over jaxonville instead of miami.

diggs wasn't, he was fired up when guys had their heads down. so, buffalo was a hot item this offseason, we saw on tape miller talk to his dad about joining in order to chase a ring on a 3rd team. i think miller figured, ok this is my best shot at more glory. once the going got tough, the team started to lose focus and energy, all the emotional crap w hamlin, the neutral site stuff, our team lost focus. thats on the coaches as much as anyone else. our team has a toughness problem.

step one, either mcd should be fired or at least frazier. after that, they skeleton crew the D (which won't make too much go wrong, given lawson and phillips and jackson and that 4th string safety were playing our playoff game) and just do enough to get the O into a cohesive unit. step two is the wane them selves off of tre white, hyde, poyer, edmunds, dawkins, guys who we pay a ton too but don't help us win games (or at least won't anymore).

aside from a lack of elite guys (to your point) there is a fundamental issue on the team, what we do as a front office and what we do as a coaching staff do not align. letting wyat walk but signing saffold, the quinten spain debacle and that williams RT we paid and the flipped to RG, trying to sing that RB from washington who blew us off, and then drafting cook high and then trading for hines, the rotating and sitting of DBs and DL, like exactly what is the goal here? do we want to run screens, do we not? do we want to run the ball? brining in phillips and lawson and bease and brown is the biggest alarm bell to me. like, did we not have anyone better, are street free agents really better than who we brought in? or is it just that they knew the scheme? if we had any idea of what we really wanted to do this off season and put some work towards that as a team, we'd have been better. instead, we rely on allen and diggs and a few others to make magic happen and just shotgun plays and players.

to me this points out the only positive im clinging to right now. a couple pure scrubs out of football/street free agents/mid tier FA pick ups added real value to our team (bease and brown, settle and jones, phillips and lawson). so like, i just HAVE to assume the FO knows the guys they drafted and paid and such kinda blow, and you think if you do well in the draft and FA you can turn the ship around (we signed hyde and poyer on teh cheap a while back). great players make players around them better. we have so few of those that every time we have some people out we just seem to suck.

im so sick of hearing this. its just so true tho, it seems like we build a house of cards on D, and wonder why physical play kills us. i will say, we can get equal produciton that we got the last 4 playoff losses out of a D that has milano, von, groot, and like whoever else we scrub together while we'd do much better with 2 more sick OL and another WR. we have coaching and allocation issues, issues that allen has glossed over

the upside of that is jones and phillips and lawson were cheaper street free agents, and they outplayed our picks and our prior expensive guys. we just have to get smart (less stupid really) with where we allocate our money on the lower level guys on the team. schematic issues on D are obv a more immediate issue, but that can also be fixed IMO. our O just totally lacks talent. cinci's back up OL is better than our starters.