colin

we need some clarity on this, but im nearly convinced the bills "brain" trust thought kc was out of time outs. free releases across the board and no one in real coverage is shocking. we play so much fricken coverage as a d, they just had to do that for two plays. so sad, so very very sad.

chandler jones could have been the difference in a few games this year, including the sadness explosion on sunday. id grab clowney and jones on short contracts, would be huge upgrades on houghs and addison. we could use an OG, TE2, and some kinda speed on O. we need another corner, but i think we can get one kinda late in the draft. the real value tho is one single pass rusher who can get the job done. its what we are missing

this guy is gonna need a magic season to be an upgrade on flores. i read that flores is a prickly type who didn't want to support the owner's golden boy in Tua, and that makes me like him more. also, he smashed up the afc east except for us, im sad to see him gone.

even if this egg is all on McDs face, i agree you can't fire him now (too much disruption). i do think someone has to go tho, most likely frazier (dabol is prolly gone to nyg too). frazier is on record saying he doesn't like having a back up plan, because it makes the team less confident on what they focused on all week. i think this is the crux of it. the bills D is a one note band. they have players who kinda do what they want them to do really well, and they practice the poop out of a few things and do them really well, but against a superior offensive mind, they get jammed up and simply have no answer, both in terms of scheme/execution and the athletes they have assembled to play d (at tremendous cost). so post frazier, mcd will need to bring in a guy, or help out himself, to make our D work w a plan b. IMO, we simply need a couple play makers in the front 7, and not spend so much money and picks on slight upgrades. FYI, i was responding to your initial post, i didn't and won't read the sully article LOL.

look, you make good points, the fact remains, the coaching mistakes on our team cost us a great win. the 13 seconds thing is just too much. fair point about reid too, but people called him a choker and a guy who doesn't run a tight ship, and at the time at least those were very accurate criticisms.

the big issues is our d has the most money, picks, and focus from hc, but they blow when the chips are down our dl, highest paid!! makes zero plays. our secondary is solid, but we lack a top flight corner when tre is out, and our lbs turn into orange cones too often. i think frazier just isn't good enough, and needs to be upgraded. we also have to re shuffle how we've built this paper tiger d

is he a free agent? even if he is, we should just give him our 1st to sign him!

at no traffic 0 dark hundred too!

i want to keep the core or our O the same, but change up play calling/themes in what we do on game day. on D, we have schematic and construction issues. i think we try to limit everything just enough and rely on guys rallying to the ball, outstanding coverage, and pass rush in waves to get it done. a failure in any of those and it falls down. while we put up great stats this year and 2 years ago, it isn't enough to stop modern top flight Os. we need to be able to pressure off the edge to get anything done. sitting back and hoping for mistakes and turnovers isn't getting it done. i think we need to basically take resources out of depth and breadth and put them into a couple play makers, on o and D. speed on O and a real pass rusher and we got a stew cookin.

100% we need a real pass rusher. our d line rotation killed us. the athletic pointed out we had our top line (addison, houghs, oliver and i think star) and held them to some incompletes, then we stuffed in our 2nd line (groot, aj, phillips and obadabadoo) and let up the long hill TD. we have too much money spread too far out, we simply need some playmakers, and our only play maker on D had a torn acl this season. our d scheme and construction needs an overhaul. the good thing is altho we will lsoe our 1st ranking, it's for jack since we get trucked when it matters.

i think we can't fire mcd because it's too much of a disruption, but if the last sequence was all on him, then he deserves it and is getting a second chance. stealing an idea from yards per pass (goat twitter bills guy): a balanced and sound D was what you wanted in 2005, but that's not the case anymore. we just need to get a real pass rusher in, upgrade where we can, and not over pay for barely jags like addison and houghs, edmunds, and back ups like mattlewitch and klien. and of course star. basically, get a couple play makers on D, and then just improve the O to the point where josh is working with a bag of toys like mahomes is. a real OG, a real speed threat at wr, a real big wr, just any kind of upgrade that gives us what we don't have now. the d that dominates awful nfl Os gave up 30 first downs to kc. it's just a dumb place to invest your cap and picks (defensive breadth and depth, specifically).

if you are gonna coach conservative and sometimes gutless, you HAVE TO take care of the details. the whole idea of being conservative as a coach is to avoid mistakes, number one to avoid is idiot decisions and minimizing mistakes. our d schematically has a weakness where any small error along the way can provide the opportunity for a positive play by the opponent, but we accept that in exchange for making big deep passes super super difficult. we hope for pass rush from a vanilla mix of 4 down linemen, at great monetary expense buy keeping a lot of depth. so w 13 seconds left, they walk away from what they do, they don't cover and instead they play sidelines. and they rush 4, which is fewer guys back in coverage. i honestly think our coaches just didn't know how many time outs the cheifs had. this is a shocking inexcusable failure in leadership and management. if it's on McD, he needs to get someone under him who will do this kind of thinking for him. if it's on frazier, he's gotta go. frankly, frazier has gotta go anyhow. my hot take is someone somewhere along the chain in our coaching staff simply didn't know the shot in the biggest game of the season, and needs to walk.

long kick was really bad, rushing 4 was worse. the worst thing to was the sidelines prevent when kc has all 3 timeouts. we allowed 4 free runners with no defenders around them for 15 yards. that's shockingly bad. rush 2 drop 9, cover and have a delayed rush w the 2 linemen. it forces the qb to move at least a little, survey the field, and chew up clock. if they complete the pass, then we have multiple guys in zone ready to tackle. you have a good chance of even preventing a first down on the first play, and it still burns 5+ seconds. do that twice, and it's all over w the win. huge huge coaching failure, and for my taste, it's one too many for the coaching staff we have. we need some changes.

highest or second highest paid dl and d in the nfl, way more top picks on d than on O. (tre, edmunds, oliver, groot, star, houghs, not to mention 2nd rounders). coaching on game day, preporation, scheme, team construction, all of it just does not fit together over all. number one we need to change the coaching. frazier isn't about to wake up creative. two, we need a play maker. one single real pass rusher on this squad and we are talking about the home afc chip game. sad!

our D is a percentage game, stop long plays, rush the passer w fresh legs, expect your safeties and LBs to run up and make plays. it works well over a long number of plays (like the season), but is reliant on the DL to get some kind of rush with vanilla concepts and needs the LBs to make tackles and not mistakes. the problem is, and i dunno if it is mccorch or frazier, but there is simply no creativity, and almost no surprise. the secondary does a good job most of the time taking stuff away, and disguising, but the front 7 really looks like letting the computer play for you on a video game. no surprises ever. whichever coach is responsible for the deep kick off and sidelines alignment w 13 seconds left needs to be fired or (if its mcd and we wanna keep him) kept well away from that aspect of the game. we need an upgrade on edmunds (i know we are gonna pay him large for next season, maybe change his role or something), could use one more corner (tre white back sort of solves all of that) and most of all we need one single guy who can wreak havoc on the edge. give this team a real pass rusher, and we winning it all.

How do von Miller and ingram get singed and make impacts on playoff wins for teams, but we keep trotting out our old over paid trash and no impact young guys? Getting a guy, or a replacement corner or both and even with these Moron losers coaching we are hosting the afc chip game. Bad coaching and no play makers on d. Need a pass rusher, replace Edmunds he's just not good, and corner upgrade would help

It's true we have zero play makers on d, maybe white but he was hurt. That said, the coaching on d is bad. No creativity, in the wrong situational d formations, no pressure. Just worthless

He's trash. Slightly above replacement level, which would be a disappointment for a 3rd round pick in his 4th season

The strategic coaching on this team is cheeks. Just a long series of bad decisions. No squib or short kick to end it, and the d calls at the end were laughable

Sad to see it go down like this. We deserved to lose. Scared coaching and the most over rated d I think I've ever seen. Couldn't make one stop, couldn't stop a fg w 13 seconds left Dabol got too cute, Frazer is actually worthless, and our whole d is cheeks. Number one issue is dL, number two is mlb, number 3 is corner depth.

So now we need the d to make a stop they failed to on the last what, 3 possessions? My god this team will be the death of me

This is a bad situation for the d. Tired, got a middling kinda stop allowing 3pts, and they got no rest and kc has the ball at the 40. Horrible stuff from dabol so far today. He must have zero confidence in our OL to pass block. Sad

Our d needs some rest, they gotta be gassed. Gotta hope we can get down, td, and stop em quick or get the ball back. This sequence can set us up for victory

Edmunds is always close but never there

Ok nervous, but not twitchy. We need to mix it up better on O, score and control the ball On d, we seem to be getting killed in space, 49 in particular. Need to clean that up and get turnovers.