Big Turk

Apparently Frazier's contract is up and would need to resigned? I would vote not do that.

and week 2 against the Titans.

I did not know that...will be interesting to see what happens.

No...what I am saying is it took 12 years for Reid to have an offense as good as the one Dorsey ran this year.

And look how we played them in the regular season. We won both times against KC the last 2 years and gave up 20 points in both games

Exactly what I said with so many people trying to say that isn't it. You could simply see it from the first drive on both sides of the ball. They had nothing.

To put in perspective how bad the defense has underperformed in the playoffs, in our one AFCCG appearance under McD we allowed 38 points. In the 4 AFCCG games under Levy we allowed a combined 33 points!! They increased in each game but never went above 13. They were 3, 7, 10, 13.

I would be much stronger on the Fire Frazier bandwagon than Fire Dorsey. Dorsey is a rookie that will likely learn a lot and adapt over the offseason once he does some self scouting. Frazier has shown no ability to stop a good offense in the playoffs. Regular season, he does OK. Postseason? No way...plays scared and timid and allows way too much. All 3 losses in the playoffs our D has gotten smoked. 38, 42 and 27(could have been 50) is simply dreadful.

Or have mental breakdowns and turn to drugs/alcohol to try and cope or commit suicide. But in your world that likely doesn't happen either. Must be a great world you live in. But it isn't the one called reality. When you choose to join the rest of us in it let me know. Until then you can go on ignore.

You'll understand someday when it happens to you.

No. You simply sound clueless. Direct quote from John Wawrow's article in the AP from a guy as connected as anyone in the local media: https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-bills-cincinnati-bengals-von-miller-nfl-super-bowl-184cba878a8cc0a3168231096f6aab1e "Adversity finally caught up to the Buffalo Bills, who were left depleted and defeated while closing an emotionally draining season two wins short of their Super Bowl aspirations. Unable to draw on the motivational inspiration of injured teammate Von Miller displaying the Super Bowl trophy he won last year in the locker room this week or injured safety Damar Hamlin’s surprise appearance at the stadium Sunday, the Bills delivered a dud in a 27-10 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals in a divisional playoff game. “Keep their head up,” coach Sean McDermott said he told his players afterward. “Even though this hurts, I’m proud of them in the way that they handled themselves with class this year in the ups and downs and the adversity they faced. “They’ll take that with them, but for right now, this stings. I wish it were a different result.” The Bills were flat from the beginning, seemingly spent from a two-month stretch in which they watched in stunned horror as Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated on the field in Cincinnati on Jan. 2, had their schedule disrupted by two winter storms, and showed signs of fatigue in a sloppy 34-31 playoff-opening win over Miami last week." But yeah, you must be right.

Oh it's certainly valid. Well...let's see. Tops Shooting in the summer Massive injuries to the secondary seemingly the entire 1st half of the year(Hyde out/Poyer hurt/PS corner starting most of the Miami game) Heat Exhaustion game in Miami Snowvember game moved to Detroit followed by a short week again for Thanksgiving back in Detroit Loss of Von(who was talked about as the "final piece on D") 3 games in 12 days Second massive snowstorm/blizzard that killed 40+ people and having to leave early and come back to a crazy scene after missing Christmas with their family Damar Hamlin situation and the emotional energy that it took to come play the next week It's been a really tough 6 months for WNY. Maybe the toughest I have ever experienced here in totality. There are times *I* felt drained this year from going thru all of this. With a team that connects and feels as part of the community more than any other perhaps in all of sports would it be any wonder they felt that heaviness and the emotional and mental toll it took? Trying to win and play for all of WNY? Let alone them having to go thru all of the stuff with the football aspects and trying to keep it together(which they did a better job than I think any could reasonably have expected). They are humans...eventually you simply run out of gas when you don't get a chance to refuel.

If I have to tell you, you obviously don't live here. If you do, you are too clueless to bother with.

Oh...I think you should probably count better then. No team dealt with anything close to what we had to deal with starting with the offseason.

Yes, if they were robots maybe. Unfortunately with human beings that is often not how it works.

But yet during the season with the same players they play relatively well?

If you have ever had a series of events that repeatedly cause you to have to "dip into the tank" mentally and emotionally over a long period of time, at some point you simply run out. There is only so much left in there and that tank doesn't get refilled during a season. When it runs out, you see what happened yesterday. It eventually exerts itself physically. They had to dip into the tank against the Fins last week again and that seemed like it emptied the tank. Honestly, the tank was far bigger and deeper than I expected, but even that ran out at some point. I can't even really be mad, these are people, not robots.

You don't draft RBs in the 1st round if you want to not waste draft picks.

No, you just saw a team that was mentally and emotionally drained from having to climb countless mountains during the year and it finally exerted a physical toll on them.

Then what explains the 3 playoff losses then? It's the same story in ALL of them. Timid defensive scheme that allows the other team to do whatever the hell they want all game long. 38,42 and 27(could have been 50) points. There is no way that is simply on players when they were one of the top D's in the NFL in terms of points allowed all 3 years. That is being afraid and giving up way too much soft stuff underneath while trying to prevent deep balls over the top.

That's not necessarily true...they led the NFL in stuffs this year by a wide margin...that didn't have anything to do with making mistakes, that is simply playing on the other side of the LOS. The issue is in big games against good offenses they play timid.

We saw the impact DaQuan had all year. Missing him hurt badly, but we weren't winning that game even with him. They just had nothing on either side of the ball yesterday.

How many good players do you need? The answer isn't the players, it is the timid schemes giving up easy throws to wide open receivers without any Bills within 5 yards of them all too often. I am willing to bet other DC's would have a much better plan in those games.

KC doesn't rely on the deep ball very much either tho...Mahomes has a ton of short stuff, taking what they give you. My biggest issue is the defense doesn't stop anyone in the playoffs when they lose. They are a good to great regular season defense that gets bludgeoned in the playoffs against good offenses. 38, 42 and 27(going on 50) in their last 3 playoff losses. That simply isn't good enough. Look at the SB Bills teams defense in the playoffs in big games. They performed far better than their rankings during the year(at least in the AFCCG). In the 4 AFC Championship games they played, the defense allowed 3, 7, 10 and 13 points. They didn't need the offense to do much to win those games, they held it down. Bills allowed more points to KC in their lone AFC Championship game(38) than that era's teams allowed in all 4 combined(33 points)! It's unacceptable and if McD REALLY wants to take a look in the mirror, he can't keep trotting Frazier out there on D in the playoffs. He needs to trade some regular season success for playoff success.

No Schottenheimer lost in the first round most years. Eventually they will fire on all cylinders and make it. Likely will rely on some bounces to go their way but in the playoffs who doesn't get bounces in a SB run? He looked exhausted too honestly. Hell, I texted my friend that *I* at times was exhausted this year with all the crazy stuff that happened during the year. This team desperately could have used a bye more than any team in NFL history most likely to reset and take a breather but they didn't get it. I think the extra energy they had to expend last week was probably energy that completely emptied the tank.