Big Turk

I think most of what has gone wrong this year stems from McD taking on double duty as DC and HC. This kinda stuff was not the norm under him. In fact, this is kinda like the anti-McD. Think it's obvious some things are being overlooked and slipping thru the cracks in terms of preparation, attention to details and just general oversight that he can't have anymore because of him being heavily invested in creating defensive gameplans and calling plays. Personally, I think McD needs to pick someone to hand off DC duties to and go back to just being a HC full time. Clearly this is not working out the way we had hoped, and it's no coincidence this sloppiness that has pervaded this team throughout the year started the first year McD attempted to pull double duty. Even most HC's that run one side of the ball still have coordinator's that do most of the heavy lifting on that side of the ball during the week.

McD said they practiced running off the field on dime defense to FG unit 2 to 3 times this week and failed to execute it properly in the game. Said he was "not real happy" with this game.

Tyler Boyd declined an interview after the Bengals loss where he dropped a TD pass that hit him right in the hands in the end zone on 3rd down and forced a FG to tie it, which allowed the Texans to win by kicking their own FG. Have seen it happen a bunch of other places as well. Agree, not a good look but not uncommon either. Only players that are required to speak to the media are the ones the Bills send out after the game. Everyone else can if they feel like it but it's like a bonus if they choose to, they are not required to.

Seems like if its close late in the game other than on Hail Mary's where anything goes still, a flag is coming. Have seen more game altering flags late in games this year than I have in the last 10 years combined I think. All over the league. The Browns-Colts game was a travesty...basically handed the game to the Browns with like 4 defensive penalties on the Colts in the last 40 seconds. 2 of them were absolutely ridiculous calls.

Not to mention the average drivestart for the Broncos in the game was their own 41!! That's inexcusable. Broncos scored on 6 points off 4 TO's, the Bills scored 7 off of their 1. Anyone blaming the defense is barking up the wrong tree. This game should have been a runaway victory for the Bills if they stopped turning the ball over. They averaged 7.1 yards per play on offense! Just stop turning it over and they win by 2 scores.

Ran it and ran it well...192 yards rushing. More yards rushing than passing. Cook averaged 9.1 YPC. Murray averaged 7.6 YPC. Yet he stopped running for a while and kept having Allen dropping back...why??? If the run is working keep sticking to it.

Murray had some big runs during that time so it's not like the Bills didn't do anything without him.

Cook fumbles on the first play of the game. Davis has a ball literally hit him perfectly in stride right around his face and go straight thru his hands for an INT inside the Bronco 15 yard line. Kincaid has a ball hit him right in the hands perfectly in stride up by his face and go straight thru his hands on 3rd down that would have been a nice conversion and forced a punt. Diggs has a drop on a nicely thrown ball that would have set up a 3rd and 2 and made Kincaid's 8 yard catch a first down instead of 4th and 2 and they punt again---or was that when they go for it on 4th down and he airmailed Shakir who was open? Either way, should never have happened and only did because Diggs dropped an easily catchable pass. Bills were great on 3rd down D the whole game until the last 2 drives when those flip passes right past Dorian Williams happened 2 times too many. 12 men on the field on a missed FG that would have won the game...like WTF was that? That was some Chan Gailey or Rex Ryan or Dick Jauron era stuff right there. Like c'mon man. Inexcusable.

Cook averaged 10 yards a carry(even with the fumble) and Murray had a few big runs also. Inexplicable why Dorsey sees the offense hum whenever they actually run the ball and commit to it versus Allen dropping back and passing every play but yet he continuously treats the running game like it's the red headed step-child of the offense.

IMO, him pulling double duty as DC has caused his oversight in other areas to wane and it's hurting them in terms of situational awareness and details.

No words. I feel like I am watching the Dick Jauron or Chan Gailey or Rex Ryan era Bills losing games in new and inexplicable ways every week. McDermott obviously CANNOT effectively manage both the DC and HC jobs. This season has basically turned into a crap show in terms of details and preparedness in situations, etc where they were mostly buttoned up before(at least during the regular season). He used to be the Anti-Ryan or Anti-Jauron in that he would make the other teams make those mistakes against us in key situations. IMO, the first thing that needs to happen TONIGHT is McD needs to hand over play calling responsibilities to a defensive coach and have him audition for DC the rest of the year. Too much stuff is going awry and it's not a coincidence it's all happening the year he tries to pull double duty.

Going to likely be without Higgins again and now Trey Hendrickson who will miss at least a few weeks with a hyperextended knee and waiting on MRI results to ensure it's not anything more than that. That's a tall order...but as we've seen, these inter-division games can really go any which way. EDIT: MRI came back clean, no other damage.

Fins signed WR Anthony Schwartz to their PS, ran a 4.27 second 40 yard dash time and was the world record holder of the fastest 100 meter dash of any person under 18 years old. Not saying the Bills need to build a track team but they need to start getting faster...seems every team is adding speed first and the Bills are still looking at other things with speed a distant requirement. Speed without the ability to play football well doesn't help much, but more speed when you already have a ton of players who are super fast and can play football well really puts stress on a defense. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/dolphins-sign-wr-anthony-schwartz-144526230.html

Yup, but Cincinnati is in the same boat...they only have one conference win(against us unfortunately)

Yup...typically it's a person the HC really trusts and they likely are being "trained" to become a HC at some point and assists the head coach in some of the more "grunt work" duties of a HC.

The truth is the Bills margin for error is at it's slimmest margin since 2020. Teams no longer even have to play their best game or have the Bills make tons of stupid mistakes/penalties/etc to be able to beat us. Now the Bills can actually play decent enough without TO's and still just lose.

CJ Stroud is going to be a problem sooner rather than later. He already has leapfrogged Trevor Lawrence in that division. They are a lot of fun to watch...kinda like the Bills were in 2020. Throwing the ball all over the place, tons of people involved. Likely will slow down once teams get a better read on him and the offense by middle of next year, but he is for real.

Not a chance in the bloody pit of Hades a team is going to hire a guy and pay him $6-8 million a year and then hire a "Nanny" for him on top of that because he is incompetent at 90% of the job.

You cannot be serious with that. That's not how things work in life or any other job that I have ever been a part of.

He doesn't, but it must be really miserable to have to work with him and people are likely waiting for him to be gone at this point. His style works when you are winning, not so well when you aren't. All the other great coaches in that style found that same thing, Parcells, Knox, Noll etc. Nobody wants to listen to that crap when they are getting their heads bashed in every game and you don't have the answers to fix the problems.

Look. I don't care how good his offense is, being a coordinator and being a head coach are almost 2 completely different jobs. One is 90% fully X's and O's and the other is maybe 5% X's and O's and the rest people, off-field issues, holding others accountable, delegating properly with knowing when to hand tasks off and knowing when you need to step in and take charge and other management related issues. It's why so many coordinators are great at what they do but can't manage all the other parts of what they need to do as a head coach. It's like going from running a single store to being a CEO of a 5,000 store chain. No different than how there are a lot of really great assistant managers who are awesome running the store for a few days while a manager is gone but then they get promoted to run their own store and all the other things like doing P&L's, inventory, ordering, etc that they never really had to be fully responsible for as an assistant or only did bits and pieces of it and they fail miserably. He HAS to have the skills required as a HC first and foremost. No matter how good he is as an OC, he will fail miserably if he doesn't have the needed skills.

Belichick's leash with things must be almost non-existent at this point. He must be taking out his frustrations on everyone around him constantly. Think he knows it's only a matter of time now.

They are also still 7-2 and leading the AFC because they now have an elite defense. Basically they have become what we were last year although slightly less good on offense.

The title does not accurately depict the topic of this thread, you should probably change it to make it reflect that.

They are showing what is happening in this specific game against the Bengals. But it seems the issue is that Dorsey does not evolve as the season goes on and so once teams start determining what the Bills are doing, there isn't much else that he has "up his sleeve" so to speak to counter that. What worked a few games ago is not going to work as well over the next few games if you don't have anything else other the same type of route combos without any window dressing to at least make them think it's something else.