colin

and they walked teller out of town, and they signed spain, who then quit, and they signed williams, who fell off. motivation issue? blocking scheme? the results suck poop, so it's time for the coaches to get replaced.

yes, that is a random assortment of plays that if they went better for us we are in a much better position to win. but you'll get those anywhere, and in any different way. the thing about the redzone issue is 1) it is consistent. it is a repeating thing, and it goes back to some of our games last season too 2) it is not a random occurrence, or a random situation or play, it's a basic element of football 3) we got to the red zone calling and executing plays to beat the opponents on D. it's not a fluke, its not unexpected, and you don't pull a card out of a deck and just line up in the redzone. you have to make plays to get there, and in that area, you have more pressure cuz a play results in a TD with much more likely hood than in another part of the field, and it is a compressed space so you need to run your O a little differently. the point of our red zone woes is that even with your list of broken and bad plays above, if we had scored one, or maybe two, tds in those games with multiple redzone trips that all came up short, we win the freaking game. it's just inexcusable for us to be this bad in the redzone. yes we have a bad oline, and they've been injuried, yes our running backs are dirty cheeks. i get that. but as far as i am concerned, if you have the weapons we have, the qb we have, and most of all, a qb who can run and get it done all on his own (which he has, consistently throughout his career) then a good OC will scheme up some kind of way to make scores in the redzone happen. not on every drive, but not 0 for 3, 0 for 4, and so on. frankly, if we look back to the houston playoff game, where we had way less talent (that 37 year old RT, and ford at RG were holding down our line, and we had gore and motor at RB, and no knox, and no diggs, we had just trash), it was the same story. i think this is simply a fundamental flaw of our O, and that's on the coaches.

funny but sad, more than any other coaching staff that gets celebrated, the bills staff really don't adapt, it's a my way or the high way approach. after this loss, i was thinking of who this team reminds me of. this team reminds me of the ATL team of about 5 years ago. they had a great record, and a massive lead in the super bowl, but their inability (and really, it came down to not being willing to) run the ball a little bit and kill some clock lost them the worst come back in super bowl history. top flight qb, skill position talent (they beat us all to hell w the rbs tho) and speed on d, but not big and strong. to me that's our ceiling at the moment, and those coaches had a rigid our plan is the best plan approach, and our guys do that to a fault.

every game we lost, with the exception of the indy blow out, could have been won with a conversion of one of our multiple fruitless redzone trips. exact same story (pittz, jax, tenn, and ne). w josh allen and who we have on O, to me an OC who can't get 1 td a game out of these trips (ignore tenn, just the other 3 listed) is just not good.

lol, you said it. he's huge, super fast, athletic, moves around well. he looks like an all pro like half the time, and he makes just plain old errors the other half.

so first of all, yes 100% the buck stops at the head man in charge, and that's the clappy one. i think the case for daboll being good, or even above average, as an nfl OC is simply flimsy. he had trash numbers his first couple of years, and good numbers last year and this year, but that's on the back of allen and diggs just being much better than other players. he can't scheme up something creative to get us tds with multiple trips in the redzone, and every fan and the entire d of the opponents knows exactly what trash gut run or obvious forced short pass we are doing on way way too many downs. we put ourselves behind the sticks, and beg allen to cast a magic spell. so ya, mcclaps leaves me with a lot to be desired, but daboll is the weakest link (honorable mention to our just bottom of the barrel dirty cheeks trash OL coaching too).

we have plenty of talent issues, we are not balanced, that's for certain, but no one is perfect. the pats had a freaking rookie qb who they didn't even ask to throw the ball. we have the highest paid d and dline in the nfl, and the qb with the most guaranteed money in the history of the game. 1/4 in the redzone, 3 filthy points, is disgusting. that's on coaching, that's on not being prepared. yeah, our OL is not good, our RBs are cheeks, and our WRs are too small, but we have josh freaking allen on the field, and no one else does, and we simply couldn't figure out a way to set him up ONE BLOODY TIME for a TD is entirely on coaching. everything we run on O is either known by the d ahead of time, or it is simply asking allen to be super man and just will us some points. our front office is our biggest problem right now, and our coaching on offense is not good.

we have played like wimps for like half of the season, last night was no exception to that. beyond the weather tho, it is true that we simply don't have a home field advantage. we don't play better at home than on the road. 3 afc losses at home so far this season. our offense didn't show up for any of them, and our d got physically trucked in all of them (although actually overall fought hard and played well enough to win in two of them, indy was a run for the bus shart fest). a team that doesn't play better at home, who crushes cans, and who can't score in the redzone is simply an team without confidence who is poorly prepared. that's who we are.

obviously i want my team to win it all, but at this juncture i can't say the bills deserve to be in the playoffs. we are just can crushers who fold hard when it gets tough. mcd bills teams have had this every season, every season we get just trashed in a game or two where it all falls apart. we don't make adjustments (in fact, the coaches have said they don't really plan them, lest it lowers confidence in what the game plan was) and we make dumb mistakes. the drops last night, 49 and even poyer getting the gap wrong, running backs who might be blind just running into their own linemen. this is not a prepared team on a week to week basis. this isn't good football.

he has a ton of talent, he just makes way way too many mistakes. simple as

lol, 40% pats mush us, 35% we mush them, 25% is left. 20% of that is us getting the win by some kind of struggle, 5% is them getting the win by some kind of struggle. 40 + 35 + 25 (bifurcated into 20 and 5 in my post) = 100 I'll write it in reverse polish notation 40 35+ 25+ see?!?!

a close game is of course possible, but my gut tells us we will know in the first quarter which way this will end up. i expect the winner to kind of dominate the loser. i have it 40% the pats just truck us and we get pushed around, 35% we show improve, body them up, and allen just makes super man plays to dominate the pats. of the 25% in the middle, i see us grinding out a win at 20%, and the pats sneaking one at 5%. so, i have us winning 55% of the time, but getting dominated 40% of the time. this will be the biggest statement game of the season.

for some reason i think we can always spank the fins, we just match up well and allen feels zero pressure against them. they do have a pretty nasty top to bottom d though, keeps them in a lot of games.

this is as close to a playoff game as a regular season game gets.

I think you are right. we have the horses, we are at home, big stage. if we fold like we did vs indy, it's a reflection on the culture and coaching. this is the kind of game that champions live for, and if we run and falter, well it means we are no champs. tbh, im not sure im a championship level fan! im just so nervous in these big games. sad!

a good finisher would make our pass D simply insane (it's pretty great already). more physically consistent play from our DTs and LBs (Star, zimmer, and edmunds being out against Indy made us worthless against the run) would really complete us into a super D (if that's possible in the modern NFL). i always bay hatch about our D having a schematic flaw whereby small shortcomings at specific positions on specific plays sort of folds the whole thing like a house of cards, but it's pretty clear they are overall a top unit (the money we spend on them they should be) and we are small upgrades at a couple of positions from being as dominant as we can be in today's game.

with tre out the d will have some challenges, but star and 49 being in means we have who we need to be fast and physical up front. on O we need to set the tone, and a healthy top 5 guys on the field OL is the key to that. brown brings so much juice it makes the whole line better. we need dabol to forget his own tendencies and mix it up and instead of the "hit the open man" O, we need to scheme ways to get bease and most of all diggs the ball. if Diggs goes off NE is toast. aaaaand of course we have to avoid the billsiest way to lose, which is our special teams getting kicks/punts blocked or just swimming in laundry all day. as a matter of fact, the O and D need to have a good fear of the color yellow.

obviously happy w a good road win vs a mash unit O, but a solid D. we need brown back so bad (tre too obv, but not sure his status yet). The biggest thing to me watching dawkins and ford closely is they look like fat body slobs, way more so than 1 and 2 years ago. ford looks like a bloated goon, dawkins looks saggier and less stout than last season. williams is bit tubby and doesn't move his feet to well, but he's a hoss when he gets into someone. Brown is some kind of man child super athlete. i don't know if it's the S&C, the injuries, the rehap, covid, or what, but our prior starting two OTs (remember ford was our RT for a while in his rookie season?) looking sloppy and playing it really bothers me. dawkins was never a pro bowler i don't think, but he used to play w some pep and get on guys.

I'm surprised that didn't work, good use of a time out tho

After the run back of what wasn't a fumble, that was simply an emotional let down drive. No Tre and up big after like 65 yards allowed in the first half, lotta stress hormones dumping

Ok, so I know this isn't how it works, but I feel like 91 plays better when 49 is behind him. Also, 49 erases a lot of our run d gap issues. Way more than I thought he did before

The fact that we haven't scored 38 is embarrassing. How are we not up 45? A playoff team would have 52 right now

Just a nasty disgusting play by diggs. Borderline showboating before he even cought the ball!!

Oliver might be that today so far.

D is just balling out so far. 3rd 4th down they've gone for it on. If Tre can't come back that's gonna hurt tho, so the I had better show improve and punch one on here to help put it out of reach