colin

he cares and tries crazy hard on game day. im not sure what his off season and week to week stuff looks like, but ill bet he is not as dialed in as brady was, for exmpale. he keeps making the same friggen mistakes, and in the same situations. he makes terrible decisions leading to turnovers at least once a game. and i'm not talking about forcing the ball to win, i mean another guy was open and he just forces it out of frustration. at the end of the day, i blame coaches for that, but it isn't possible that josh is doing absolutely everything he can to prepare and these things keep happening.

this is all coaching. if you want a player to make better pre snap reads, you coach him on that and call plays that support that. for some reason, our offense thinks we should throw deep balls. short, not fast, not strong handed guys running around with little separation is not a great recipe for low % throws. what really makes me want to run the front office out of town on rails is how just stupid this is. we spend money on harty, hines, sherf, a full back, knox, and aging vets on D, but we insist on running this o that has our qb dropping low % bombs on 3rd and long while trailing. if we are gonna do that, why did we not put some of the harty/hines/whatever money for players we might actually use? hopkins coulda been signed for some of these losers' salary, and him streaking outside the numbers is a scary sight for opponents. instead it's pizza finger davis and harty, the fastest kid in 4th grade, streaking while covered getting the bombs. there is no organization or reasoning to how this team is constructed, now how the plays are called or how the players are coached.

We went heavy jumbo in the first half in 2nd and 2, cook took the ball quickly (no delay) to the left side and converted easily and honestly had a shot at gainer if he broke another tackle. Our runs after that were delays vs zone so the entire d had their eyes on the ball. Our problem is we are a stupid team

Now we are laughing at that prediction because it sounds Pollyanna. Sad

Coming into this game, they showed Allen lead the NFL in TDS, had the highest completion percentage, and top 5 passing yards and rating. After the game, we lead the NFL in epa per offensive drive, and point differential. The bad results and our barely 500 record points to coaching and coaching alone. This team lacks confidence, has no consistency, and makes the same predictable mistakes over and over. 3rd and 10 option routes outside the numbers to midget wrs is insane. We see our d get smoked by tempo and quick passing vs our zone, so we attack another team playing soft zone with delayed handoffs out of shotgun and slow developing plays. If we miss the playoffs, the whole front office has to go. If we are one and done in the playoffs, they whole front office has to go, Frankly, walking papers should have been mass printed after 13 seconds.

This organization is just packed full of losers

The holes on this team and the coaching is cheeks. Time for a new front office

We are a soft and stupid team. Might go down 14 points with our o stinking again. If we lose this, the tv said we are more likely than not to miss the post season. Tbh, I'll take that over another sad bounce out in the post season. It might get our trash front office out

That cascade of idiocy simply took time off and maybe banged up burrow. If Allen can get his head out and score a TD on this drive I'll consider it a gift from the gods of the game

We can be such a stupid frustrating team

Bad rouging call to start this, but mcd needs to get his thumb out from deep in his bussy and make some moves on d

Sick drive, tie game Allen is super. If they call that, they better call cinci for their dirt. Time for mcd to earn that extension

Bad start. Mcd better adjust

Bills take this 41-24.

if jones and milano come back for the playoffs, i think our d will get a supercharge like when sanders came back for the colts the year they won it all.

that's a very interesting post and quite against the narrative (which i felt was true) that aje was a bad pick. for value purposes, he was a really good pick, but didn't come on as early as we'd like, and who knows if we can resign him?

we need to win in the trenches. on D we are vulnerable, but if something clever gets schemed up we have a shot. on o, we can and should run lots of direct stuff, under center runs, and set up play action. if we hammer them w the run and extend drives they will fold.

our coaching staff really fails on game day stuff, and that sucks because it's what we see. the results are obviously overall good, and allen is clearly the team, but the philosophical elements we have, stopping the big play and forcing the d to defend the entire field are pretty clearly done well. the situational stuff, time outs, red flag stuff, and the just obvious and dumb play calls (redzone stuff sometimes, shotgun runs on 2nd down, slow developing stuff that doesn't go for a lot of yards) and kinda regularly what we do on 3rd and long is very frustrating. mcd and dorsey put together a gem vs miami, let's see if they can do teh same vs cinci.

our biggest issue is when cinci is on, you have to single cover 3 legit weapons, and they can power run on your nickle and dime d too. just a bad match up for us. the only way to win is to disguise and read them. at some point, rapp is gonna pick up someone coming through the zone and we just have to pray for a bad throw and no flags. i suspect we will have to score 4 TDs to have a shot.

i think this might be it. a guy who has the hardscrable story mccoach loves, along w strong play when the game is on the line, it means he doesn't shrink in the moment, which our D has specialized in for some time.

never heard of him, but im gonna call him Raz Agul Douglas.

i think that's right. if cap grows you want to add top quality players when you can. if we added wrs and OL and a young pass rusher prior to allen, they'd be here and be balling out and might have put us over the top. there is so much randomness, injuries, etc, you just can't plan the whole thing to a t. imo, the super star model is stronger than ever. get transcendent players where you can, a get value free agents and rookies who can contribute. i think our team, on d in particular, is a bit stuck in that we have such a specific idea of who has to do what and how, that we aren't as flexible as we need to be in drafting and free agency on D. we spent a 2nd on boogie, a 3rd on williams, and a 1st on elam over 3 years, one's off teh team and the other two are riding the pine when there are injuries to starters at their positions. that just doesn't make sense to me.

i said the exact same thing. how do we let a guy walk and trade for him TWICE! lol

ya, that's a good point. our d doesn't miss a ton of tackles which has been documented for years now, and they don't rally like mad men to the ball.

this game feels like a huge inflection point for us. we win and go 6-3 having dropped sloppy losses and won against some better teams, and i think we are in the drivers seat both from record and from confidence/momentum. we lose, we are 5-4 and have an upwards climb to just make the playoffs. if we get blow out or look horrible, then an implosion is possible.