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Well a non-conference game and hopefully something to light a fire under a team that has struggled since their their break.

 

To be fair to Daboll I like how he has Allen progressing. Throwing receivers open, touch on screens and wheel routes, etc...have all been trending the right way.

 

In a game where Allen would normally make a bad situation, by bad meaning where both sides of the ball are struggling, worse - he threw it away several times when I expected the hero ball to emerge.

 

The flip side of this is I am not a fan of the designed QB runs when we are not in the red zone, or sans receiving options. I also think he struggles adjusting his plays to take advantage of personnel and game conditions during games.

 

We will see, we won't hear anything resembling a public beating in Mcd's pressers, but I expect it will be an interesting week at OBD.

 

 

 

 

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Coaching cost us this game in my opinion. The eagles are weak at corner on the outside so we attack the middle of their defense. They struggle with blitzes so we sit back and try to cover

 

Someone please convince me I'm wrong

 

Also is this being blown out in the middle of the season becoming a pattern for McDermott? Its only one game but very similar to the past 2 years mid season games where we got absolutely killed

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3 minutes ago, 32ABBA said:

Meh, I think people are blowing this loss out of proportion. They are still on track for an 11-5 season, my prediction going into this year.

 

They will be fine.

Just out of curiosity which of their remaining games do you have as the 3 remaining losses?  

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5 minutes ago, Bangarang said:

Poor game all around. Pushed around in the trenches. Defense couldn’t stop anything and the offense couldn’t get much going. There are obvious weakness that I’ve been harping on all season.

Physical team. Bills are a finesse team

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1 minute ago, Johnnycage46 said:

Just out of curiosity which of their remaining games do you have as the 3 remaining losses?  

 

 

I don't have any circled. Any team can be beat, any week, I don't look at a schedule and think "That's a loss...that's a win". I look at how well the team is progressing, and what stage of development the QB is in, how old the players are, how the rookies coming might enhance the team...etc.

 

 

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8 minutes ago, 32ABBA said:

Meh, I think people are blowing this loss out of proportion. They are still on track for an 11-5 season, my prediction going into this year.

 

They will be fine.

 

I want a Super Bowl champion. Not a team that squeaks into the playoffs thanks to an easy schedule and is eliminated before the prime time game on Saturday of Wild Card weekend. 

 

Is this a Super Bowl contender? No? Ok then spare us the “they will be fine” bullspit.

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Just now, Wayne Arnold said:

 

I want a Super Bowl champion. Not a team that squeaks into the playoffs thanks to an easy schedule and is eliminated before the prime time game on Saturday of Wild Card weekend. 

 

Is this a Super Bowl contender? No? Ok then spare us the “they will be fine” bullspit.

 

 

Hahaha...if you were expecting that this season, you are a dreamer. I expected an 11-5 record, hopefully a playoff win. Next season I'm hoping they can make the step up to real contenders.

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2 hours ago, CaptnCoke11 said:

they’ll win more than 6.  I think 9-7 is more likely 

I think you're right, which will be a huge disappointment, even in they edge into the playoffs. This year's easy schedule is one you pray for each year and it not often repeated. You have to take the fullest advantage of it. It's possible, however, that the Bills simply aren't ready with a QB who clearly needs a lot of work, a WR corp that is at best mediocre and another lousy OL. The defense is quite a bit ahead of the offense, but not good enough to compensate for the offense's ineptness.

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We all really have to come to the realization that this team is not very good. Very inconsistent and still very young. And as much as we all love number 17. He needs to improve... ALOT! The Offense daboll is calling is anemic and slow. The run plays are stale. We need a strong exciting offensive playbook.  Not a predictable one which is what we have now. This team is still not ready to compete on a high level consistently and when you lose to a ***** team like the eagles who are all but lost? Says a lot.... this team just isn’t that good. Their record is very deceiving.... just keeping it honest. 

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Every game has been ugly and sloppy. We were exposed today. Officially overrated. 

Just now, RaoulDuke79 said:

Look on the bright side folks......we could be the Browns (pre-season superbowl contenders) according to some experts. 

The low-esteemed would’ve loved that!!!

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As far as the run defense is concerned, I think we should start Star and Phillips and bring in Oliver on obvious passing downs. Right now Oliver is a passing down "specialist" who gets swallowed up in the run game. Use him to create penetration on obvious passing downs. Phillips brings more size, strength and bulk on early downs. Peko is worse that JAG. Losing Harrison really hurts.

Offensively, I hate excuses but, we're still young and figuring things out. We should be able to pound the ball more to avoid turnovers. Aside from Josh's 7 ints. he has fumbled quite a bit. Need to limit his chances of turnovers. Allen does need to start hitting his deep ball opportunities when they present themselves. He's getting 2-3 good opportunities per game and just not hitting on them. My main concern is the following stat: IMO, we've played two good teams and Josh's completion percentage in those games are 46.4%(Pats) and 47.1% today. If we're going to beat good teams, Josh has to do better in those games. We have the Skins, Browns, Dolphins and Broncos upcoming. I am not taking these games for granted, but hopefully we can get the run game (offense and defense) fixed before the 4 games that follow. Just my take.

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3 minutes ago, Wayne Arnold said:

 

Progress is so rarely linear. We will never see a schedule this easy ever again. If McDermott and Allen were legit and capable of taking this franchise to the promised land some day then they’d win 13 games this season. This team isn’t any better than they were a year ago. McDermott is a dope and Allen stinks.

 

 

Hahahaha...they are gonna lose some games, you know. This was one of them. Big ***** deal.

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17 minutes ago, Wayne Arnold said:

 

I want a Super Bowl champion. Not a team that squeaks into the playoffs thanks to an easy schedule and is eliminated before the prime time game on Saturday of Wild Card weekend. 

 

Is this a Super Bowl contender? No? Ok then spare us the “they will be fine” bullspit.

They were never going to be a SB contender this year so spare us the self pity. This squad was ahead of schedule @5-1 

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22 minutes ago, Wayne Arnold said:

 

I want a Super Bowl champion. Not a team that squeaks into the playoffs thanks to an easy schedule and is eliminated before the prime time game on Saturday of Wild Card weekend. 

 

Is this a Super Bowl contender? No? Ok then spare us the “they will be fine” bullspit.

They will be fine.

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Just now, row_33 said:

Tough fully deserved loss

 

regroup and learn and come out witht your best next Sunday 

 

 

Yeah, they stunk today.  You get killed up front you get beat.  They need to figure out how to solidify the interior D line and have the O line step up.

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2 minutes ago, GoBills808 said:

They were never going to be a SB contender this year so spare us the self pity. This squad was ahead of schedule @5-1 

 

What schedule are you talking about? It’s year three of McDermott, second year under Allen. The time to strike is when the QB is on his rookie contract. And yet this team looks exactly like they did a year ago. The only difference has been crappy opponents. There is no progress.

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Just now, GoBills808 said:

They were never going to be a SB contender this year so spare us the self pity. This squad was ahead of schedule @5-1 

Have to disagree. The 5 wins are against teams that are a combined 7-30 at this point, and none of the wins were dominating. In fact, I'd argue the Bills' best game was the loss to the Patriots. Fortunately, their next four games are against bad to awful teams, but the last 5 will pose some problems. In any event, if the Bills are ahead of schedule, being a SB contender must be scheduled quite a ways in the future.

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1 minute ago, Wayne Arnold said:

 

What schedule are you talking about? It’s year three of McDermott, second year under Allen. The time to strike is when the QB is on his rookie contract. And yet this team looks exactly like they did a year ago. The only difference has been crappy opponents. There is no progress.

5-2.  Take a breath.

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4 minutes ago, IronyAbounds said:

Have to disagree. The 5 wins are against teams that are a combined 7-30 at this point, and none of the wins were dominating. In fact, I'd argue the Bills' best game was the loss to the Patriots. Fortunately, their next four games are against bad to awful teams, but the last 5 will pose some problems. In any event, if the Bills are ahead of schedule, being a SB contender must be scheduled quite a ways in the future.


it was a solid effort in the win at Tennessee

 

 

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