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Nah, it's me, but this team is incredibly frustrating. They ARE fragile, or at least mentally lazy, in that they disappear for quarters at a time with Allen moping by himself on the bench. Then they realize they're in a football game and furiously come back, but that trick is wearing thin and frankly, not working. The record speaks for itself. They're a team with a ton of talent and a mediocre record. You can say what you like but they're not a great team or even a good one at this point.

What I assume will happen is the Bills will get a couple quick scores, then Dorsey will get cute and cost us the game. There's zero killer instinct anywhere on this team, and when faced with an opponent who will hang around and pick at the edges until something gives, I do not like our chances. Our best hope is that the Broncos hearts arent in it for whatever reason and we can slip by them

When I'm looking at the remaining schedule, the biggest factor I see is if the other team needs the win to stay in the hunt for the playoffs or get homefield. With that in mind, the list of winnable games gets a lot smaller because the Bills don't have any fight in them, and even a 'lesser' team like the Chargers comes in needing a win, they're going to pull out all the stops while Dorsey experiments with playcalling leading to a bunch of 3 and out drives. The Bills just seem really fragile right now and the slightest disappointment causes them to disappear for long stretches of games. I've never seen anything like it. At the end of the day, a team is a reflection of it's leadership, both players and coaches. Right now, the Bills are poorly led

We'll learn a lot about this team over the next month but sometimes you are what your record says you are, and in this case I think the Bills are basically a .500 team, we'll win (most) of our games against bad teams, and lose against anyone over .500. We'll steal one against one of the good teams if the ball bounces a certain way, we get some mercy calls from the refs, and the other team has a bad day

We need infinity blocking TEs and RBs to stand around spencer brown

For real but this is a hobby for me, not a vocation. you're allowed to suck at your hobby Denver will look like the 72 dolphins this weekend. 3rd at 19? no problem, just run off tackle for 25. I just hope they throw in some super ridiculous trick plays that completely befuddle our statistically dominant defense. Like, a quadruple reverse followed by a double statue of liberty play followed by a flea flicker but using the center as QB, with only 10 players on the field

Current bills team not capable of dealing with adversity. Folding like a cheap suit is so much easier

beane attempts to build a team that can field an offense more modern than the Carter administration Coach McDoofus and his lapdog Dorkey craft an offense that would be right at home in the era where the forward pass had just been legalized but is still frowned upon. i bet he has a rotary phone in his house

My hot take is the season is already over, but losing to Denver would probably be the wood stake in the heart of this version of the team. Unless there is a miraculous turnaround, but I just don't see how that happens, especially with coach McDoofus saying that everything is fine.

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Like i just said in another thread, at least this iteration of the Buffalo Bills provide the courtesy of letting the fans know pretty quickly weather they're going to give it a go, or just go through the motions. having these zany schedule games kind of makes it easier to walk away. A friend of mine who is a big pats fan, during their glory era when they would lose the rare game, and he would be in a foul mood, his wife would say "Tom Brady isn't going to shovel our driveway tomorrow"

Yup, for the first time in decades I've chosen to clean the basement rather than finish watching a game a couple times this year. It's unwatchable. The worst part is how predictable they've become both at the micro level (worst possible play calling at any given moment) and the macro level (by end of Q1, can tell if the Bills' heart is in it, or if they will just lollygag through the game)

Yeah i mean, ideally josh would not stare down gabe davis then underthrow him. that pretty much set the tone for the rest of the game. let's find some receivers who can get open or a OC that can scheme guys open becuase outside of Diggs we have none of that

Yeah lets see if we can beat Denver and the Jets before we start anointing ourselves playoff contenders quite yet. It doesn't seem like there is any urgency in the coaching ranks to change anything so not sure why results would be any different

The real issue I have with this season is that management (looks like McD with an able assist by Beane) have wrecked what could have been a very fun team to watch. For a team with a pretension to a championship, they appear to have come into the season with no plan beyond MAKE SURE JOSH DOESNT RUN THE BALL

Thanks Dr Phil i feel a lot better now. I think i'll clean my room and do a pushup

Yeah well the plan on offense certainly isn't to score at will, or even with any regularity because the coach thinks we should try alternative style offenses. It's very post modern of him, dont you think? who says that scoring more than the other team is the win condition thats your rules man

If the Bills are going to win any more games this year, they are going to have to get much tougher. They're getting manhandled every game now, they are soft mentally and physically. The coach is a dunce who thinks he is a genius, but can't answer simple questions in a press conference. It's the Rex Ryan show without any of the amusing aspects. If we're going to be clowns lets at least have the whole circus

Davis has certainly been a disappointment but it's hard to figure out if he just sucks or our amateur hour Offensive philosophy is making a #2 WR an afterthought. Given our penchant of 3 and out against good teams, we'll never know

Yeah the officiating sucked. In the end it didn't make a difference. Cinci could have kept the pressure on and scored 40 while we went 3 and out over and over. THere really isn't a version of events where a McD led team wins that game, we have reached his plateau as a coach and either we recognize that and come to terms with it, or we'll just continue as fans to be shocked and upset every time the Bills have to play a winning team

I can't argue against any of that - it would make the most sense. Control freak ruins team dynamic.

Same. I'm willing to be it's not Diggs, i feel like him and Milano show up every game with the same intensity. There's only so many guys it could be that would have the sort of impact that results in the Bills barely showing up for 4 games this year

It's true. I was home for the first time in years, my parents still get a BN delivered to their house. It's like 20 pages long now, like barely worth opening.

"If the coaches don't want Josh Allen taking risks, why should I?" they're not stupid. Like i said, there's a cancer in the locker room. It'll be interesting when we finally find out who it is.

Thanks, Chaos. It would seem that a lot of posters here are seeing the final score and deluding themselves into thinking the game was actually that close. It was not. Even my 24 year old daughter said when we couldnt answer the second Cinci TD "This is going to be one of those games, isn't it?" Yes honey, it sure will be. We can whine all we like about injuries and referees but the reality is that Cinci manhandled the Bills AGAIN. We're not tough enough to beat Cinci, or skilled enough to beat KC